"Sweet as sugar, hard as ice, hurt me once and I'll kill you twice. "
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Froststar. Leader of ThunderClan. He stopped at nothing, and will continue to, to be in power. Don't get in his way.... he won't hesitate to kill you. Embrace his few...
Frostheart sprinted back to ThunderClan, so he was exhausted by the time he got to back. He forced himself to catch a pigeon and a squirrel, so he didn't look suspicious when he trotted back to camp. Before he returned, though, he cleaned himself off at the stream, and took a long drink. Finally, he sunk onto the ground with a sigh. "There you are!" He picked his head up at Mistfeather's voice. She bounded towards him.
"Were you looking for me? Sorry, this spot looked so tempting after a hunt," he said. Mistfeather purred and sat next to him.
"Well, I'll help you carry your prey back to camp, lazy," she teased.
"Who are you calling lazy?" He challenged with a mock growl. She danced around on her paws, tail kinked happily over her back.
"You!" Frostheart leaped, and she shot off into the bushes. He followed, fatigue forgotten. He finally tackled her, and he purred. "I love you, Frostheart," she purred.
"I love you too, Mistfeather."
They trotted back to camp, Frostheart holding his squirrel, and Mistfeather his pigeon. "Looks like hunting was good for you," Thrushfeather commented as they entered camp.
"It was," Frostheart responded, shooting an affectionate glance at Mistfeather, who purred. Thrushfeather saw this and left them together. They placed their catch on the fresh-kill pile. That's when Frostheart heard a delightful yowl.
"Where is Stormlight?!"
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It was night fall, and grief hung over the cats like a cloud. Wishfeather had received a vision proving Stormlight was dead. She said she saw storm clouds, a flash of light, then the clouds turned a deep blood-red and seemed to shatter. The cats sat vigil, even though there was no body. Splashstar refused to leave his den. Everyone knew he would have to soon, though. To name a new deputy. "Oh, this is awful. I'm starting to believe there really is an assassin," Mistfeather murmured. Warriors nodded in agreement.
"I wonder who the deputy will be. Maybe Mossypelt? He's a senior warrior, but not as old as Creekwater," murmured Roseheart, who had come out of the nursery to sit vigil.
"What about Ivyclaw? She's Stormlight's kin," Pineshadow rasped.
"So is Frostheart," Firelily pointed out, the other queen. Frostheart pretended not to hear.
"I think Thrushfeather, he's young but experienced," said someone else.
"Stop talking about the next deputy," Robinflight snapped. "A cat is dead." That shut everyone up. Sageweed! There is too little of a chance Splashstar will choose me. I need your help.
All right, came her reply. I'll help. Splashstar leaped onto high ledge.
"Cats of ThunderClan! It is time I choose my deputy," he sighed. "I say these words before StarClan, so that the spirit of Stormlight may hear and approve of my choice. The new deputy of ThunderClan is-" he was cut off by Wishfeather.
"Wait! Splashstar, look!" She hurried over to the fresh-kill pile, and picked up the squirrel he had caught.
"Frostheart, it's the squirrel you caught!" Mistfeather whispered excitedly. Every cat leaned closer.
"Look!" Wishfeather pointed to the squirrel's chest. Right over it's heart, was a patch of frost. "It's a sign! Frostheart should be deputy!" She gasped. Cats murmured in excitement. Splashstar gaped, but quickly recover.
"Well, then, Frostheart is the new deputy of ThunderClan!"
"Frostheart! Frostheart! Frostheart!" His clan mates cheered. Mistfeather cheered the loudest, along with Fernclaw, who had been Frostheart's apprentice, and his mother Willowlight, her grief for her youngest son momentarily forgotten. Frostheart also noticed the cats Sageweed had chosen to be his most loyalist followers cheered loudly as well.
"This is a sign. Frostheart will save us, stop the deaths!" Yowled a cat Frostheart couldn't see. You made that sign, didn't you?
Of course I did.
I thought only StarClan could do that. Sageweed snorted.
Oh, no. Didn't I ever tell you about how Mapleshade made a sign to make Crookedstar leader? Frostheart wasn't listening, he was basking in the glory of his clan mates cheering his name. Now that I am on the path to power, nothing can stop me. I will kill Splashstar, and then make ThunderClan the most feared Clan in the forest! Everyone will bow to me.
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