BraveClan's touching story/(3): Rediscovering Wonders from Darkness/9

## Part 9: Destinyflower and Warmtail

DarkClan story continued: Destinypaw was taking a breath. She was fifteen moons old, but she didn't become a warrior yet. She became a DarkClan apprentice at seven moons, and she was a kittypet since birth. She was kind of annoyed that apprentices exactly her age were warriors a moon ago, and apprentices a moon younger than her, like Warmpaw, were becoming apprentices now. She almost wished their time was delayed. Destinypaw said nothing as she came up to the front. She became Destinyflower and Warmpaw became Warmtail. Darkstar didn't seem to be pleased in Destinyflower's ceremony, though. He wasn't smiling like he was with Warmtail.

Warmtail grinned at Destinyflower as he came back into the crowd. A few hours later, while Destinyflower was eating lunch, she got tapped on the shoulder by Warmtail. He said, "Take your rabbit with me. We have to talk." Destinyflower was confused, and followed him. They went inside the elder's den. The elders were sleeping. Warmtail was saying, "You have to learn about DarkClan and its history." Destinyflower thought she knew everything about it. It's weird.

"So?" she asked. Warmtail explained about Darkstar being a rogue his entire life, until he made the Clan. Purpleslash was his mate before that happened, and his kits were old enough to be apprentices. Except he wanted his Clan to be like his rogue lifestyle. So he didn't follow all the rules of the Warrior Code. Cats were allowed to cross others territory without permission and eat prey that is caught immediately, and even hunt for fun. They aren't believers of StarClan at all. Everyone that dies in this Clan will go to the Dark Forest. Destinyflower almost vomited while hearing this. *Not following the Warrior code in almost any way?!*

"And get this. All the medicine cats have mates and kits and nobody expels them or pays special attention to them!" Warmtail almost exclaimed.

"But-but-" Destinyflower couldn't speak. She regretted even following this Clan to its camp. Why had this Clan been so disgusting? She wanted to go back to BraveClan, but it didn't exist (which it did). She missed it greatly.

Then she thought about Warmtail. "What about you? Why are you saying this to me, anyway?" she asked.

Warmtail sighed and responded in a melancholy way, "Destinyflower, you see, most of the cats in this Clan were from other Clans, too. The Clans that got destroyed by DarkClan. The only original members of this Clan are members of Darkstar's family and rogues, loners and kittypets." He stopped to take a breath and continued.

"I am one of those people who HAD to move Clans. I was afraid to die, like you were. I was only a kit! My entire family got murdered, my littermates, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins..." he looked teary.

"Don't cry," was all Destinyflower could say. "My entire family got murdered, too."

Warmtail nodded. "The Clan was named SunClan. Cats say it disbanded. It disbanded BECAUSE DarkClan threatened to kill them. Only the leader knew that… and me! I don't know how, but..." Destinyflower looked confused. "What, really?"

Then suddenly Warmtail started glowing. He looked like he was in a trance. "WARMTAIL?! WARMTAIL?!" Destinyflower's shrieks were so loud the elders woke up. They were startled. Darkstar ran in. His face grew dark. "STARCLAN IS TAKING WARMTAIL AWAY!" he yelled. He looked frightened, as if he didn't know anything about StarClan.

Finally Warmtail stopped glowing and fainted. Everybody stared at him. Some other warriors and one med. cat had come in, too and stared. Finally Darkstar looked at Destinyflower and snarled, "What did you do?!" "I don't know! NOTHING!" she screamed, still scared for Warmtail. Darkstar still looked at Warmtail in fright as he walked out the den.

The other cats had went away, the elders had gone back to sleep, but the medicine cat stayed, and tried to see if Warmtail was hurt. "You'd better help me, Destinyflower," he said. "Warmtail might need serious attention. Help carry him, too."

Destinyflower nodded, and they carried him into the medicine cat's den. She saw a whole other world in here, almost. "My name is Smoothdash, if you want to know. New, right?"

Destinyflower did a little nod. "Cool," he said. "Warmtail your mate?"

Destinyflower almost gagged. "No! He's-he's just my friend!"

"Oh, sorry," was all Smoothdash said to Destinyflower. He muttered to himself, "Getting hurt by StarClan on his first day as warrior, hm."

After some time, Smoothdash couldn't figure out anything. "Well, this can't be solved by a medicine cat for sure," Smoothdash said.

"I'm going to tend to Oakbush, she has whitecough, ooh." Destinyflower remembered it was leaf-bare, the time greencough spreads, so she nodded.

Then she sat beside Warmtail miserably. "Warmtail... Warmtail... You're the only one that has even spoken very nicely to me... Warmtail..." At that moment, she realized Warmtail's stupid words as an apprentice were actually romantic teasing. She sobbed even more.

Then suddenly Warmtail's lips moved as if he was saying something. Then his voice came out. He said, "Dark may wield the gift of claws, but light inherits the gift of intelligence, and strategy. May dark end."

Destinyflower stopped crying and looked confused. "Warmtail?" No answer. "Warmtail, what happened?!" Still no answer.

She checked his heartbeat. It was slow. Very slow. Suddenly, it became very fast. Then normal. Destinyflower didn't know what to make of this until Warmtail woke up. Warmtail said, "I just had a vision from StarClan. I believe in it. I saw... your friend, Fierylight... me, and you... and someone else. We were all glowing white. Then I saw Darkstar, Purpleslash and a few of his kin. They were glowing dark. Then I woke up."

Finally Destinyflower knew what it meant. She mouthed, "A prophecy." Warmtail looked puzzled and asked her to say it a little louder.

"A prophecy, Warmtail, it's something from StarClan that can give benefits and such if fulfilled!" she said, rather gleefully.

Warmtail, not knowing what a prophecy ever was, asked, "But how do we fulfill it?" Destinyflower explained to Warmtail the prophecy that happened back in BraveClan, and that the prophecy cats had to do something about it, and that Warmtail was a prophecy cat. They would get visions from StarClan, and maybe even special powers. To fulfill it, they had to do a test of such. They would be explained by cats from StarClan. She explained that the Legacy Prophecy cats can reincarnate as their descendants, as long as they could until it is fulfilled. She was sad that the descendants couldn't survive (which they did).

"So since you got the vision, you must have some knowing of it," finished Destinyflower. Warmtail thought about it for a minute. *If this is a prophecy, and I got a vision, I must be one of the prophecy cats,* he thought. *But I don't think I have any special powers or anything. I just... got it.*

Then he realized what Dark means. "Dark means DarkClan," he said. Destinyflower nodded as if that was very obvious. "I can't imagine what else Dark means. Dark Forest?" she said. They both laughed.

Then suddenly Smoothdash came, and said, "Oh, Warmtail, you're so very awake. What were you talking about, a pro... fess, ee?" Destinyflower and Warmtail dropped their smiles and shut up immediately. Warmtail said, "We were joking about StarClan about how it's... dumb." Destinyflower nodded.

Smoothdash was relieved. Then both of them went on patrol together, and talked. They both talked about the prophecy and their lives in their previous Clans. Then Warmtail said, "To fulfill it, we need to go into the light!" Destinyflower said, "Wait, really?" Then she explained how they mostly need to be asleep to get a vision. "Let's go to sleep tonight and think about this." Warmtail agreed.

That night, Destinyflower and Warmtail slept together. Warmtail slept easily. Destinyflower didn't know if he was having a vision, it didn't always happen. Destinyflower, however, couldn't sleep easily. She kept thinking about this. Then she said quietly, "Light, we will come for you. Dark, say good-bye to us..."