GustClan: Loststar's Hope

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WARRIORS

THE LOST CLAN

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ALLEGIANCES

STEELCLAN

**Leader -** Loststar - Pale ginger she-cat with dark black tabby stripes

**Deputy -** Emberclaw - Orange tabby she-cat with leaf-green eyes

**Co-Deputy -** Coldfrost - Silver tabby tom with distinct amber-red eyes

**Elite Warriors -** Ivyclaw - Light brown she-cat with green eyes

Tigereye - Light brown tabby she-cat with blue eyes

**Medicine Cat -** Rainpool - Gray she-cat with blue eyes

**(Apprentice, Willowpaw)**

**Warriors -**Dawnsplash - Pale ginger she-cat with light brown patches

Ravenshade - smoky gray-black tom with green eyes

Spiderjaw - Silver tabby tom with green eyes

Hurricaneflight - Fluffy gray tabby she-cat with distinct pinkish eyes

Blackice - Pitch-black tom

**Apprentices -**Willowpaw - Gray she-cat

**Queens -**Mistcloud - blue gray she-cat with deep blue eyes, mother to Blackice's kits (Littlekit, white she-cat with blue eyes, and Sleetkit, dark gray-black tom with green eyes)

PROLOGUE

Frost speckled the cold stone floor of the cave. A pale ginger she-cat sat in the middle of the room, staring into a large puddle of water that shined like the stars.

Loststar sighed. "Why are you letting this happen to my clan, StarClan?" she wailed.

She looked outside. The clearing was empty, so she climbed out of her den. She noticed a shape moving in the shadows. She relaxed when she saw it was her deputy, Emberclaw.

"You should be resting, Loststar." mewed Emberclaw. "You lost two lives in the battle with the wolves." Loststar could see concern in her good friend's glowing leaf-green eyes. Emberclaw was her best friend, but Loststar didn't think she understood how old she made her feel.

"Oh, Emberclaw. StarClan hasn't told me anything! I don't know what to do! SteelClan is falling apart!"  she wailed in despair. " she sighed "Sometimes, I feel like the world is against me." she confessed.

The two she-cats looked at the stars. Was this the end?

Suddenly Rainpool came from her den and said "We must leave the mountains..."

Loststar leaped up onto Steelpoint. "All cats old enough to storm the mountains gather below Steelpoint for a clan meeting!" she called, her words echoing through the large cave. She saw Mistcloud pad out from the nursery, letting her kits Snapkit and Littlekit sit and watch. Dawnsplash emerged with Ravenshade, Coldfrost, and Hurricaneflight close behind. Ivyclaw and Emberclaw sat near eachother at the edge of the clearing.

"StarClan has sent Rainpool a sign!" yowled Loststar.

The clan errupted into exited yowls. She couldn't share their exitement. The sign had told Rainpool to leave the mountains, and she wasn't sure she was ready to tell them. She sighed. She was not about to tell her clan to leave their home. She was going to lie to them.

"StarClan said that we...should keep up hopes, because SteelClan would never die!" she yowled. Triumphant yowls split the silence. But she noticed some cats looked unsure. Dawnsplash looked uncertain, pulling her kit, Willowpaw closer with her tail. Ivyclaw and Hurricaneflight talked toger in hushed whispers, while Rainpool looked furious. She knew exactly why.

Later in her den, she saw the patrol come back. Spiderjaw and Ivyclaw put their catches in the pile while Emberclaw departed from the patrol. She realized with a jolt how small the patrol was, and became worried that her lie was not enough to keep her clan together.

CHAPTER 1

As Loststar left for the border patrol, she noticed Rainpool giver her dirty looks. After she had told the clan her lie, Rainpool had been angry at her ever since. She stepped out the cave, pushing her thoughts to the back of her mind. It wasn't time to think about that. Allk that mattered was that her clan was safe. As she, Ravenshade, Hurricaneflight, and Ivyclaw walked side by side in the cold, she saw an eagle circling their heads. It didn't stop for them, though. It flew right into the cave!

"Eagle Attack!" she yowled, running and sending grit and snow flying behind her. She didn't care how much the stone stung her pads, she kept running. As they entered camp, she saw Dawnsplash biting the eagle's wing and Coldfrost clawing it's chest. It flung them to the side, sending blood droplets showering onto the ground.

Suddenly, in horror, she saw Sleetkit come running with Mistcloud and Littlekit screeching for him to stop from the nursery. The kit reared up onto his hind paws and pounced on the eagle's toe. The eagle didn't even flinch, and it wrapped it's long, scaly golden toes around the helpless kit. Blood dripped from the eagle's talons as crimson soaked the kit's short gray-black fur. Sleetkit screamed as loud as he could, but the eagle was already lifting off the ground, despite the tiny kit's claws trying to penetrate it's skin.

"No!" screeched Mistcloud, running to the eagle. She clawed it's leg, trying to keep it down, but it flew up too high and Mistcloud hit the ground with a loud thump.

"Mistcloud!" yelled Blackice, looking horror-stricken. "Loststar! We can't stay in the mountains! Your being ridiculous!" her yowled with anger. "I don't care what StarClan told Rainpool! My kit is dead!"

Loststar's fur spiked up. "The will of StarClan must always be followed. No matter what." she meowed, trying to keep her voice calm and stop her tail from twitching.

"If StarClan told you to jump off Tall-ledge, would you!?" he hissed furiously while running his tail down Mistcloud's spine. Mistcloud looked far-off, deep in space. her back was arched in terror.

With a jolt, Loststar realized something. This was all her fault.

CHAPTER 2

Loststar slept restlessly in her den, tossing and turning as dark thoughts crept through her mind. She felt like she'd never sleep again, her mind whirling in a whirlpool of thoughts. Every time she tried to escape, another wave of doubt crashed over her. She got up, fur messy, and headed out of camp. She padded through the winding path of the mountains until she reached Tall-ledge. "*If StarClan told you to jump off Tall-ledge, would you?"*Blackice's words echoed in her ears, her heart swelling with greif that an innocent kit like Sleetkit was killed all because of her! She unsheathed her claws, feeling bare rock scrape against them.

"Loststar?" said a familiar voice. It was Ivyclaw. She turned her head to see the sleek-pelted brown she-cat's glowing green eyes shining through the mist. White flakes began to drift from the sky.

"Hello, Ivyclaw. What are you doing up? You need your strength after the..." she paused "...eagle attack..." she whispered half to herself. She could'nt shake the feeling that if she had'nt lied to her clan, Sleetkit might be alive. She killed him...

"I couldn't sleep." responded Ivyclaw. "I'd guess you're here for the same reason?" she questioned, looking concerned. "You need your rest. You need to admit that your aging, and you're on your last life, right?" Ivyclaw paused for a moment. "What's wrong? You've been off lately."

There was a long pause between the two cat before she finally burst out. She couldn't hold it any longer. "I killed him!" she yelled. 'It's all my fault! Just because of my hare-brained lie!" she screeched, lungs aching from yelling.

"L-Lie? What do you..." she gasped. "StarClan told Rainpool to leave the mountains, didn't they!?" she yelled in terror. "You lied, and now look at what you've done!" she screeched, and pelted off to the cave, sending snow and grit flying behind her outstretched legs and streaming tail.

Loststar sighed. What had she done?

As Loststar entered camp with a snow hare, she saw Ivyclaw, Rainpool, and Hurricaneflight giving her angry looks. Had Ivyclaw told Hurricaneflight? She knew the two had a close relationship. She dropped the hare into the prey mound and took a small and scrawny mouse. As she tore at the hard meat, she heard a loud screech tear through the silence, followed by a wail of despair. She sped across the cave, and reached the medicine cave. She pushed through the hanging ivy on the entrance and saw Dawnsplash sitting over Willowpaw, stroking her fur softly with her tail. Crimson dops dappled the floor near her mouth, and two shiny brown seeds lay right by her face.