Remember

Remember
Story & Poem
Special Explanation at End
by Featherstone
== Story ==
It was so quiet, but the bad kind of quiet.
Featherstone pressed her nose into her mother's cold fur. No. No, no, not this! she pleaded in her head. "Mom, please, come back, come back," she whispered. Her breath came in jagged gasps.
Creambird padded up to her, looking slightly traumatized. "I'm sorry," she murmured to the younger warrior. Featherstone backed away and shook her head. "Its o-okay," she stuttered in reply.
Lotus dipped her head. "We must bury her," she said.
Dawnleaf's eyes flashed angrily. "I should've done more to save her!" she wailed. "I could've, oh, then our mother would still be alive!" Her eyes blazed. "I'm a useless medicine cat!" 
Featherstone and Ambersky glanced up sharply. "You're the best medicine cat ever!" Featherstone protested, but she couldn't manage anything else to say in the grief of the old den. Dawnleaf shook her head and fled out of the den. "Don't go!" called Ambersky, but Dawnleaf had already run. With a sigh, Ambersky went to chase her. 
Featherstone turned back to Bay as Lotus picked up the limp body. With the help of Creambird, they carried the body to a river.  
"You may give her a gift before we send her off," murmured Lotus. Featherstone nodded in her state of grief, and bent down to her mother's ear.  
I wish Ambersky and Dawnleaf hadn't run off, thought Featherstone. 
"Mother," she whispered. "I never knew you long. I could tell, though, that you loved me. Don't worry about what has happened in the past. Rest in StarClan peacefully, mother, knowing that what you did was alright."
She stepped back. Lotus gave her a nod, and then grabbed ahold of a large rock floating down the fast water. Creambird stepped forward and they tugged it out. Featherstone lifted her mother onto the rock, and Lotus laid it in the water. 
Lotus grabbed a flower from the nearby bank and laid it on Bay. The elder muttered something, just loud enough so that Featherstone could hear. 
"Remember the Lotus and the Petal."
Confused, Featherstone flicked her tail. Nearly immediately, her gaze was once again on Bay, her mother's quiet, silent body floating down that lonely river. 
"I'm going back to camp," announced Creambird, and she slipped away. Lotus headed back along with her. 
Alone, Featherstone closed her eyes. 
The wind started to whistle softly. 
"Huh?" Featherstone pricked her ears. 
The song was louder, now, and she glanced up. 
Two starry cats were on the rocks next to her. 
"AHH!" Featherstone screeched, and the two cats smiled softly, in unison.  
"I'm Violettail, formerly of GrassClan," said one, a long-furred grey she-cat. 
"I'm Lilypaw, formerly of BrightClan," said the other, a young silver she-cat. 
"We are your ancestors, Bay's ancestors," they said together. 
"Long ago," began Violettail, "I was in GrassClan. I was the leader's, Owlstar's, apprentice. I became a warrior and earned my full name. I have been known by that name ever since. 
"GrassClan was taken over, by rogues. I and a few others fled, and became loners. We stayed together, us who fled, but we were attacked often by foxes. Where we lived, there were many. 
"I had fallen in love with a tom called Apricot, another fellow loner. We became close, and I soon discovered that I was to have his kits. I gave birth to them, and we named them Lily," she nodded at Lilypaw, "and Cardinal."  
Lilypaw took over. "Cardinal died, she didn't have strong lungs since birth," she explained. "Violettail was frailer then, and I wanted to stay with her and protect her.  
"But she disagreed. She showed me to a new Clan, one called BrightClan. I joined that Clan, and became a medicine cat apprentice to the medicine cat, Acornspots. I liked this Clan, but I missed Violettail everyday. I got word that she died one day, and it was terrible. 
"I got kicked out of that Clan, for reasons I won't say," the silver she-cat said quietly. "But, after that, I met a fellow rogue. We discovered, with the help of others, that we were kin. Cousins. The rogue had kits with another rogue, four kittens.The only one that survived was your mother, Bay," she mewed softly.  
"Remember us, young one," said Violettail. "Remember everything Bay had to give up. Everything we had to give up." 
"Remember." 
The air turned misty, and it swirled in a spiral of blue. The two cats padded, in the midst of it, back to StarClan. 
"Remember," echoed Featherstone. "I'll remember."  
The End
== Poem ==
When It Happenedby FeatherstoneI was young when it happened,I wasTorn away.I never knew that when it happened,It wasAll lies.I thought when it happened,That everything,Was right.But, though, when it happened,I losta family.On the night when it happened,I thought,Who? What?When I realized, that it happened,It's allGone wrong.But now, I know that thisExperience,Has made me stronger,And I do notRegretAny of it.
== Explanation ==
By Featherstone
I was thinking about GrassClan earlier, my very first Clan. I remembered my leader, by the username of Firestarrocks36, and how he hadn't been on for so long, and how the Clan had disbanded. I thought of my assessment, and all the good times I had the pleasure of experiencing.
I then thought about Lilypaw, my second OC that I had made when I joined the Clan my sister Willowsong was in, BrightClan. I thought about how I had become a traitor to that Clan, first, but then I remembered the other times.
I wanted a way to remember all the OCs that I would make.
This story, this whole thing, is a way for me to link my characters. Every time I make a new one, I'll link it to this story. You may know, if you are in SnowClan with me, that I have another OC, Fogkit. What I mean is that I will link my main and first OCs, and I created Featherstone first.
Thank you, to GrassClan, to BrightClan, to BlizzardClan, to SnowClan, for all the wonderful times that will always impact the future of any of my characters. StarClan light your paths, and remember both the good times and the bad.
-Sincerely, Violettail, Lilypaw, and Featherstone.
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