Warriors- A New Era: The Lost Clans

Chapter Four

Here you go!!! Chapter number three! Back to Acornpaw!!!

Acornpaw took a step back from Bluestar. 

Have I heard correctly? 

"Me? You want me to find the lost clans? I'm only an apprentice!" Her voice came out unexpectedly high.

Bluestar dipped her head in understanding. "My words were challenged at first by others in StarClan. But cats have to learn to respect others choices and to believe in them. You will meet with the other chosen cats at the Moonpool at the full moon. That is all the information I can give you for now but I can promise you that StarClan will walk in your dreams during your journey, if you decide to go."

"Wait, tell me more!" Acornpaw begged but Bluestar was already fading away.

"Prove me right!" yowled Bluestar. "Prove to Starclan that I chose the right cat to find the lost clans!"

Acornpaw reached out to call Bluestar back but the dream was already melting away. "I can't abandon my training!" she called. Bluestar's scent washed over her and a wind ruffled her ear fur. 

"You will know what is right by the full moon. I guarantee it." 

Then there was a rustling noise and the dream melted away.

***

"ACORNPAW!"

Acornpaw jolted awake, panting as if she had been running through the forest. Her nest was shredded and rain dripped down from the roof of the den, splashing onto her back and head. A paw prodded her hard in her side. 

"OWW!" she yelped. The paw came again, harder than before.

"ACORNPAWACORNPAWACORNPAWACORNPAW!"

She hurled herself upwards, smacking into Petalpaw. "I'm fine!" she hissed and shifted her weight. "It was just a bad dream, that's all! Okay?"

"Oh." Petalpaw looked crestfallen. "I was just wondering if you were alright. You were yowling in your sleep and I didn't know what to do so I just woke you up."

Acornpaw immediately felt bad at her harsh words. "Sorry," she mewed guiltily. "I didn't mean to be so rude. I just am a bit grumpy, that's all."

Petalpaw sniffed and marched out of the den angrily though, refusing Acornpaw's apology. "I'm going to train with Stormclaw," she growled. "He promised to teach me some new battle moves today."

"Bye!" Acornpaw called but her sister was already gone. With a sinking feeling in her stomach, Acornpaw padded out of the Apprentice den and sat at the base of Highledge, where Yellowclaw was giving out orders and creating the morning patrols.

"Sparrowflight, take Shineheart and Leafstripe on a hunting patrol by the WindClan border," Yellowclaw ordered. "Oatlegs, bring Hawkeye, Yarrowlight, and Loudcloud to patrol the SkyClan border." His gaze swept the gathered cats one more time. "Fernbrook, go with Whitefern, Bluewhisker and Acornpaw to patrol the WindClan border." He waved his tail at the remaining cats that hadn't been chosen for the patrols. "The rest of you will join a patrol after Sunhigh."

Acornpaw padded over to her patrol, which was waiting for her by the Thorn Tunnel. She dipped her head in a respectful greeting to the older patrol members. The youngest cat there, other than Acornpaw, was Whitefern, who been made a warrior the same time Smallheart was apprenticed and Fernbrook and Bluewhisker were sisters, both of them senior warriors.

"Thank Starclan that your here now!" mewed Bluewhisker exasperatedly when she sat down beside Whitefern. "I thought that I'd be an elder before you got here!"