Lost Stars

Chapter seventeen

Blizzardclaw and the other's padded into the camp around dawn. Adderfrost immediately went to Stormstar after sending Applepaw to the apprentice den. Eaglestripe and Blizzardclaw both waited outside their leaders' den while Redpaw and Antpaw shuffled over to the fresh-kill pile but seeing nothing they went to the apprentice den hungry.

Lilystream glanced at Eaglestripe before Gingerfoot, Dawnpool and Thunderheart padded out of camp. Then Sunstorm, Lightningfur and Whitepaw padded out behind them. Then Lilystream padded over to Blizzardclaw and Eaglestripe. "What happened?? Did you find her??"

Milo padded over after emerging from the medicine den. "Yes...but we found out how...Heronstar was murdered." Eaglestripe mewed lowly as he looked at the ground. Blizzardclaw layed his tail on his bestfriend's shoulder. 'He may not be my friend after what I do today.'

Lilystream glanced at Milo and Eaglestripe, curiosity all over her brown face. She then turned her head to the camp entrance as the ferns parted and Hailstar padded through with Foxtail, Stonepaw and Reedheart. Reedheart immediately went to Milo with concern in his green and gold eyes. "Milo! I must speak with you this instance! Come and let's go to your den. Is Blue here??"

"I haven't seen him since yesterday when he dropped that burdock and catmint off. Is everything okay??" She mewed as they walked away.

The brown tom nodded as his tail twitched and he gave his leader a nod.  Blizzardclaw glanced at Hailstar and Foxtail who were looking at Lilystream expectedly. "Come." Was all she mewed.

Blizzardclaw looked towards Stonepaw. "Redpaw is in the apprentice den." He then walked away and went to Weaselfur who were outside the elders den. Eaglestripe padded behind him.

Once he got there he heard Weaselfur purr lowly. "Haven't seen you in a while, young one."

Blizzardclaw sighed softly before rubbing his head on Weaselfur's and sitting down beside him. Eaglestripe looked between them and the warriors den some moments before sitting down beside his father's father.

"Change is coming and my birth Clan will be the cause of it all." Weaselfur mewed lowly and looked at Eaglestripe. The gray and white tom eyes grew wide. "Yes I am of FireClan heritage. And Hawkflight is my younger brother."

"What happened?? Why did you leave??"

"My father and mother thought I had drowned in the bogs or swamps should I say. I was an adventurous kit and the only kit of Nutclaw and Goldberry. But one day, I snuck out of camp and went to the bogs, a training place that FireClan used to use and wanted to see how my friend, Whitepaw, you may know him as Whitestar though, did at training. But when I got there, he wasn't there and I got mad and tried to jump away but slipped and fell inside the bog. I escaped after a while and once I found out that my parents thought I had died, I simply ran away. When I later returned to camp, many seasons later, I found out that Whitewing had became deputy. Whitewing was Whitestar's warrior name. And I saw that my parents had had one last litter and saw Hawkflight then Hawkkit. Didn't nobody recognize me so I explained that I was a loner that wanted to use the old two-leg den on their territory and Finchstar agreed to let me use it." His old wise voice sounding more sad by the moment.

"So Hawkflight is Nightwing's kin and Adderfrost's and my kits kin??" Blizzardclaw asked in astonishment. "Whiteheart and Nightwing aren't related??"

"Whiteheart was born into FireClan by Whitestar and a rouge. Same as Bumblestar. They both have the same mother but are from different litters. Whitestar brought Bumblestar into the Clan as a small kit because Whiteheart ran away."

How do you know all this??" Eaglestripe mewed questioningly.

"There was a battle between FireClan and rouges. A rouge she-cat had helped FireClan or Whitestar I should say. After the battle, they continued to meet up at the two-leg den I stayed at. She later died from infection and I buried her. Before I left to join CloudClan, I visited her one last time."