MoonClan: WillowStar's prophecy

Chapter Five

                 SharpEye slowed down. He had been keeping it secret for so long. He couldn't say why he had to come, he had to come because he was destined to save them. He couldn't let them go alone and get hurt, or possibly die. He trotted up next to MapleLeaf's side as they started to near a two-leg nest. He had heard of kitty-pets being able to kill a warrior on their own, he knew the kitty-pets where he lived were soft, but he hoped that he would never meet one from here. The grass was growing thicker up where they were heading, the scent of mouse flew on the breeze, and his mouth started to water, " can we stop to hunt? The traveling herbs must have been old if they wore of on me so easily." he meowed. "You wouldn't dare!" a sleek furred she-cat padded out of a bush a couple of paw steps away. Her silver tabby fur on her neck bristled as she stepped forward, she wore a pink collar with a shiny yellow thing that hung down from it. She was only a whisker away from him, "Try to catch my prey and you'll be missing fur!" she spat at him. "You should run back to your two-leg KITTY-PET!" he mocked her, she jumped at him and knocked him to the ground, digging her claws into his thick fur, she tried to sink her teeth into his neck but he was too fast for her. He threw her off and ripped at her collar, it fell to the ground and she stopped. " I'm free." she meowed then jumped up like a happy kit. She padded up to him and dug her muzzle into his chest fur, "Thank you so much. I can finally go home." she said. "But your a kitty-pet. Don't you live with a two-leg?" he asked, he was very confused about what this kitty-pet was talking about. Her blue eyes lit up with excitement, "I'm not a kitty-pet. I was on a patrol for my clan, a two-leg came and threw me in a cage. Then it brought me here and gave me this collar," she poked at the pink thing that was around her neck on the ground," I thought that my clan would never let me come back because I wore that collar, the two-leg gave me the name of Sky. But my clan name is SilverHeart." she explained as though SharpEye knew everything. She jumped up, " I'M GOING HOME!" she raced for the field but halted when WillowStar said "MoonClan.". WillowStar continued," You belong to MoonClan. Your best friend was WillowHeart.", SilverHeart looked at WillowStar for a second and bounded over to her, stopping only a whisker away from her muzzle, "Could it be? Has StarClan let our paths cross each other once more? Have they led my best friend to find me?", but before WillowStar could answer, SilverHeart jumped at her. They tumbled to the ground laughing, " I missed you so much WillowHeart!" SilverHeart said as they stood back up and cleaned their ruffled fur, "You too SilverHeart. But I'm WillowStar now." the black and white leader said in return.                                                     It had only been a few sunrises when SilverHeart decided to come with them. SharpEye was starting to hang out with her more and more, sharing tongues and fresh kill. The moon was a sliver in the dark sky, the stars shown bright above them, " Do you think that StarClan is watching us right now?" SilverHeart asked SharpEye in a loving mew. SharpEye nodded and curled up with SilverHeart, as they drifted to sleep he could smell her sweet scent, then he jerked awake. He was standing in the MoonClan nursery, SilverHeart was laying down suckling four tiny kits, and an image of him was with her. Then the vision faded and darkness consumed him, he woke up to dawn  filtering through the trees that rustled overhead as a squirrel jumped from branch to branch. SilverHeart was gone, her scent wasn't stale so she must have left to go hunt, and WillowStar must have gone with her. She has been hanging out with the silver she-cat more and more often, but he didn't mind the alone time  with his father. "Dad? Can I ask you something? Or actually tell you something?" SharpEye sat down next to his father who was on watch at the edge of their make shift camp. "Sure. What is it you need son? Has it got to do with you hanging around SilverHeart? Is she expecting your kits?!" he jumped to his paws, his eyes wide with happiness and worry. SharpEye shook his head no, " No father. But I had a dream last night that she was in the MoonClan nursery and was suckling four kits. I was cuddling with her while she was laying their, I think that they were mine." he meowed honestly. ThornStar's eye didn't move, but the expression in them was a thinking glare. He sat back down and simply meowed, " StarClan might have sent you that dream to tell you where your heart lays. Be careful though." he got up and stalked away, his head and tail held high.                                                                                          The bushes beside him rattled and a silver blur tumbled into him, they rolled around until he laid on his back, SilverHeart was standing over him, her sweet scent drifting in the wind through his nose, her face had a big smile. "I heard what you said to ThornStar. I would love nothing more than to be your mate." she said in a loving mew, her smile never went away as she let him get up to shake dust off of his fur. The trees above them shook as a gust of wind blew on them nearly knocking SilverHeart off her paws, the air suddenly turned cold. Big gray clouds swirled above the trees as the booming sound of thunder shook the ground, a flash of light struck the sky casting a tree into bursts of red hot flames. "RUN!" he screeched as they tried to find a way through the thick undergrowth and to safety, but the fire was spreading fast and another burning tree fell in front of them. They were surrounded by the fire, "Over here!" came a yowl and SharpEye turned around to see ThornStar  moving branches from the one bush that wasn't on fire. They ran to the bush and jumped over it to safety, but a branch that was on fire fell only a whisker from SharpEye's tail, trapping SilverHeart behind it. "No!" SharpEye yowled trying frantically to find a way for his love to be safe, but he could see nothing that would help.                             His vision blurred in front of him until SilverHeart and the fire were gone, and only darkness filled his vision. He was confused as he realized he was back in the MoonClan nursery where SilverHeart and the kits were. Slowly they started to fade as smoke and heat took their place until all he could see was the faintest outline of his love and kits. "NO! YOU CAN'T TAKE HER OR THEM!" he yowled as though no one could hear him and his vision disappeared leaving him back at the fire and the danger of losing SilverHeart. He ran a few fox lengths back and sprinted as fast as he could, then he jumped as high and as far as his legs would take in over the blazing wood and into the spot where SilverHeart was crouching. As he landed he realized that she was shaking in fear, he could feel her pain of losing him. The fire grew bigger and bigger until the heat was overwhelming, it's red and orange flames as bright as the sun. SharpEye didn't know what to do, then a branch that wasn't on fire fell and created a safe way through, "This way!" he called to SilverHeart over the crackling of the fire. He sprinted to the branch and waited until the silver she-cat was safely on the branch, balancing as she crossed. Then it was his turn, he leaped onto it and ran to SilverHeart's side. Together they ran our to the open moor where the fire would not reach them, WillowStar and ThornStar bounded out of the bracken and to the spot where him and the other cat were.