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

Chapter 24

Silverstar's P.O.V:

"Silverstar! Silverstar! Come quickly, it's Waterfly!! She's fainted!" Silverstar woke up to the sound of Nutwhiskers shrill voice. She sat upright and quickly rushed after Nutwhisker to the medicine den.

Waterfly lay on the ground. Her fur seemed to be turning white, weirdly. She was deathly still. If it wasn't for her faint breathing, Silverstar would've thought she was dead.

"How did this happen?" Silverstar demanded Nutwhisker.

The brown tom shrugged in fear, "I-I don't know... Her- her eyes suddenly turned green and her fur started turning white and then she fainted!"

Silverstar narrowed her eyes, "White fur and green eyes... hm.. Could it be?"

Nutwhisker narrowed his wide green eyes, "What?"

Silverstar meowed, "It could be a Starclan cat trying to communicate with her. Most likely Skystar because of the white fur and green eyes." She glanced again at Waterfly. "Yup. Definitely that."

Nutwhisker padded closer to Waterfly. "Will she wake up?"

"I hope so." Silverstar meowed softly.

Suddenly, Waterfly flew to her paws and sent Nutwhisker tumbling away with a yowl of surprise. Silverstar felt her fur bristle slightly as well but it quickly went flat.

Waterfly blinked her eyes that were now back to their normal dark blue colour. Her fur was back to blue-grey as well. The medicine cat stared at Silverstar, "Skystar came to me. She told me to prapare the clan for battle. Apparently, an evil is coming and it is so powerful it has blocked Starclan from us."

"What?!" Silverstar heard Nutwhisker screech. She glanced at the brown medicine cat apprentice and saw him crouched in the corner of the medicine den. He was clearly terrified so Silverstar carefully nudged him out of the den, telling him to have something to eat and to not mention what had happened to anyone.

Once Nutwhisker left, Waterfly meowed, "We need to prepare the clan. Starclan cannot help us this time."

Silverstar felt her blood run cold and stared at Waterfly in astonishment, "Wait.. If Starclan is blocked from us... and a cat dies during that time... what happens to them? Can they reach Starclan?"

"I wouldn't know." Waterfly whispered softly. Worry edged her voice and she faltered slightly as she mumbled, "Let's get the clan prepared then shall we?"

Silverstar nodded grimly and followed her medicine cat out of the den.

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Stormflame's P.O.V:

"Put more strength into your swipe, it will confuse your enemy enough that you'll be able to deal some more lethal blows." Stormflame advised Ashpaw as his apprentice practiced the Front paw swipe move.

Ashpaw sighed, "I know. But I'm just so tired..." his shoulders sagged slightly and he frowned at Stormflame, "I'm sorry Stormflame.."

Stormflame blinked, "Why didn't you tell me? I could've stopped training way back! Oh Ashpaw, what am I going to do with you?" He smiled and nudged Ashpaw back towards camp, "Come on, let's go back to camp. Get some rest and we'll train more tomorrow."

Ashpaw nodded sleepily,  "Ok Storm..flame." his eyes drooped slightly as they padded sluggishly back to camp.

Stormflame sighed with a chuckled and scooped Ashpaw up onto his back, "How about a ride back to camp?" He started trotting.

Ashpaw smiled, "Thanks." He mumbled sleepily. Stormflame chuckled softly and continued to trot back to camp while Ashpaw dozed off on his back.

Once they reached camp, Stormflame saw Silverstar explaining something to the clan. It seemed to be quite important so Stormflame quickly woke Ashpaw up and looked up at Silverstar.