Warriors: Battle of the Elements ~Series 1 Book 3~

Chapter 9

Clearlight's P.O.V:

"Wait.. so you three were all part of this 'prophecy' and saved your clan?" Cloud muttered, "And you all have different powers?"

Clearlight nodded, "Yup, that's about it." He, Silverstar and Waterfly left out the part about how Skystar used to be with them. It would cause too much heartbreak for Clearlight and it wouldn't change anything for the newcomers.

Storm was padding at the very back of the group. Clearlight had no idea why so he slowed his pace and came to Storm's side. "Hey, you ok?"

The black furred tom looked up, eyes startled. "Uh.. yeah. I'm fine." The two words 'I'm fine' sounded so strained it was obvious he wasn't fine so Clearlight persisted.

"You sure?" He glanced at Storm with warm eyes, "You can tell me anything, you know. I'm not an enemy."

Storm sighed and closed his blue eyes, "Ok, fine... The problem is..." he seemed to freeze, like he was regretting ever speaking to Clearlight. Then he shook his head, "Is it bad if I like Silverstar? Like more of a friend... If we even are friends." He murmured.

Clearlight was perplexed. How could a rogue, who had only just met them that day, fall in love with Silverstar? All she had done to him was capture him, interrogate him and chase him all over twolegplace. He didn't voice his thoughts, however. "You mean like mates?" He asked slowly. The topic of mates was a sensitive subject to him, Clearlight had fallen in love twice and both times the she cats died.

Storm stuttered, "N-no!!" He ears flattened and he glared at Clearlight, "Nothing like that!"

Clearlight wasn't convinced but he dropped the subject anyway. He trotted ahead and joined Silverstar, Waterfly and Cloud. They were having an animated conversation about hunting in the forest.

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Storm's P.O.V:

Storm stayed behind the group as they padded to the wild cats camp. He had overheard their chat earlier about the powers. I wish I had powers. He thought, It would be so much easier to beat other cats and hunt for food.

His mind drifted back to their short time in Lion's lair. When Lion said that he was Storm's father. Why him? Storm felt his fur begin to bristle. And Cloud knew all about it. He lied to me!!

No matter how much Storm thought about it, his mind couldn't compute with the fact that Lion, the mercilessly murderer, was his father. No wonder his mother didn't want Storm. She probably thought he would turn out like Lion.

However, a new thought popped, Lion said my mother wasn't ready for motherhood. Maybe she didn't want to be mates with Lion. Maybe... Storm shivered and shook his head before he thought of that scenario.

"Keep up, will you?" Storm heard Silverstar call and Storm looked up to see they had reached the camp entrance. He shook his head one final time to clear any weird thoughts from his head and trotted up to Cloud, Silverstar, Clearlight and Waterfly.

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Waterfly's P.O.V:

Once they had entered camp, they had been bombarded with questions so Waterfly excused herself to her den where she spoke with Nutwhisker.

"How was it?" Nutwhisker asked, "I hear you found them. Why'd it take so long?"

Waterfly settled herself on the dusty ground on the medicine den. The strong scents of herbs soothed her and she closed her eyes, "They were captured by a gang of rogues but we saved them. You want more information then go outside."

Nutwhisker watched Waterfly, "Are you ok?"

Waterfly nodded, "Yes, sorry, I'm just stressed from running around twolegplace all day." She opened her eyes again and stood up. "I'm going to the stream for a drink and a quick wash to get this twoleg stuff off me. You check the nursery and make sure Snowkit's cough hasn't worsened."

Nutwhisker nodded and padded briskly out of the den.

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The water was cool and made Waterfly shiver as it reached her stomach. She took a deep breath and let it out, feeling her mind calm down.

She waded a little deeper into the water to her paws were barely touching the bottom of the stream. Her thick blue-grey fur dragged her down but she had no fear of drowning. If she ended up losing control she would use her water powers to change the direction of the current and push her back to the bank.

Waterfly raised her paws up and let herself float in the stream. She closed her eyes and smiled, peace and quiet once again.

Most of her life had been troubled. She was born a loner, her parents had upset a resident rogue in the forest they were in at the time she was born and Waterfly was chased away from her home and family at three moons old. She had found her way to the twolegplace near Lightclan territory and when the old leader, Wildstar, had gone out on a patrol to search for new members for Lightclan they had found her.

She started out as a warrior apprentice but after Treefern was... killed by accident by Skystar, Skyheart at the time, Waterfly realised her destiny was to become a medicine cat. Then they discovered their powers along with a prophecy and Waterfly risked her life for her clan.

After the first prophecy came, yet another one that predicted a silver cat to appear and it turned out to be Silverstar who had been a Lightclan apprentice with Skystar but had been taken by twolegs. Silverstar returned and helped fulfill the second prophecy, and now, moons later, when Waterfly thought the seemingly endless cycle of prophecies was over, Storm and Cloud appear.

Waterfly sighed and floated to the river bank where she got up and shook out her wet pelt. Why did I even think about all of that? Now I'm all worked up again!

She started trotting back to camp, "Might as well make myself useful." She muttered.

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