BraveClan's touching story/(3): Rediscovering Wonders from Darkness/8

## Part 8: The new BraveClan!

Continuation of BraveClan's story, I want to switch back and forth at points: Bravestar wasn't very fond of Fierylight somehow finding her way back. He just wanted her to leave if she wished to, and never bother with them again. Bravestar was wondering if she was going to send for them. As in DarkClan. That made him shiver; they were nowhere near ready to fight them. Greenmoon was the new medicine cat, she said she had picked up medicine from Cinderpelt and Bluetail. She was still shocked to see Emberkit at times.

Bravestar didn't have to explain to his kits what was going on, because they knew from their past lives (Rainleaf's second life was Gardenflower, but she showed no signs of it), but he did have to explain to Greenmoon's kits, Specklekit and Lynxkit. He thought it was going to be soon when the kits have to age up into apprentices. Shadowcreek would guard the entrance to where Fierylight was being kept. Soon enough it was time for the apprentice ceremonies. All six kits became apprentices. But since there could only be three mentors, work had to pile up.

Leafpaw (Fallstar) had said he wanted to explore being a med. cat. Emberpaw (Cinderpelt) had said he wanted to explore being a warrior. Bravestar was fine with that. His apprentices were Rainingpaw and Specklepaw. Emberpaw, Cloudpaw and Lynxpaw's mentor was Shadowcreek.Of course, Leafpaw's mentor was Greenmoon. At first, the pair of mentors didn't think it'd work, but then they realized they could have the apprentices duel. (Well, of course, Fierylight couldn't be a mentor, she's a prisoner.) Shadowcreek and Bravestar taught them how to do warrior moves. They all usually had a learning session with each other, while Greenmoon and Leafpaw quietly did their work with herbs.

Greenmoon was teaching Leafpaw the ways of the medicine cat. She joked about Emberpaw that if he became a med. cat app. he'd have to teach her instead of Greenmoon teaching him. She knew about some stuff, but she didn't know much about StarClan visions or most of the remedies. It was a fun time.

Fierylight was still stuck in her den. Bravestar assumed she thought she belonged to BraveClan now, but he wasn't very trusting of others, ever since the two battles, the civil battle that happened before he was born and the battle between DarkClan. He also thought about his old life that happened long ago. He shrugged that off. One day, Bravestar came up to her and asked, "Hello, aunt." She was his mother's sister (in his second life obviously). Fierylight looked scared.

Finally she burst, "No, don't hurt me! I'm sorry I ever quit! I've come back! I just didn't want to get murdered by DarkClan, please forgive me! I don't want to go to the Dark Forest!" She was sobbing by the end of her melancholy rant. Bravestar looked quite puzzled. "Well, if you want to know what happened, Shadowpaw, now Shadowcreek and I hid. Greenmoon played dead. You could have done either. So could have Desiree, whatever her name is now," he replied calmly.

"Destinypaw," Fierylight choked. "That's the name she was given." She was wiping off tears. Bravestar didn't want to give his aunt normal warrior privileges yet. He didn't know if she was faking misery or not. He was afraid Fierylight would go back to DarkClan and report BraveClan was here. And then she'd take them here and... he didn't want to continue.

But he allowed one thing. "You can see the sky, Fierylight, but you are still not trusted." Fierylight looked quite confused. Then she said, "I don't know where DarkClan is. I got lost! I don't know the way back at all! I don't want to go back anyway! I just want to see DESTINYPAW!" The last word came out in a screech. She was clearly miserable and gloomy. Bravestar wondered if this was the result of DarkClan's harmful ways. Then he said in a soothing voice, "Calm down, Fierylight. Don't be so nervous about us. You don't know the way back? Just stay here. As the leader, I'll see what works best for you. All right, Fierylight?"

Bravestar thought it was working. Then out of the blue, Fierylight scratched him to the skin. Fierylight's screams certainly attracted attention. Shadowcreek had come, and so had her three apprentices. Greenmoon and Leafpaw had come, too. The med. cat said, "Oh dear, what did Fierylight even do to you?!" Then she hastily put a cobweb on Bravestar's cut, who merely said it was a sign of a good Clan member. Fierylight was throwing a fit, and Shadowcreek and her apprentices had to stop her. But the situation got seriously intense. Fierylight was scratched a bunch of times, but she kicked her grandnephew, Emberpaw into the corner, and left a resounding cuff on Lynxpaw's ear. Shadowcreek didn't get hurt, but she fell over once. Cloudpaw didn't do much, however he held onto Fierylight's back. Finally, Bravestar did a frightening hiss at his aunt and she merely dropped.

Her eyes were still open, but she looked very much dead. Finally she groaned a few words, "I apologize to you all, my family. My loyalty was always BraveClan. I should never stop. Can I help? I want to lend a hand. Too much trouble it seems." Her speech was very much automated, as if StarClan was moving her lips.

Finally, everyone who got hurt glowed suddenly, and they healed. Fierylight didn't stop glowing though. She then said, "Dark may wield the gift of claws, but light inherits the gift of intelligence, and strategy. May dark end."

Greenmoon said, "A prophecy." Emberpaw said, "I can teach you what prophecies mean and how to deal with them." "That is helpful," Greenmoon replied. Fierylight stopped glowing, but she seemed renewed. Bravestar finally felt like Fierylight could be trusted, since StarClan had bestowed her with a prophecy, and healed her, too. But he wasn't sure what the prophecy meant exactly. He was sure "dark" meant DarkClan, but he didn't know what else it meant. After that, there were no disturbances. Fierylight was able to be a normal warrior, and she was being very loyal to the Clan.

One day, a cat approached the Clan. Naturally, from previous experiences, the Clan acted aggressive towards him. The cat smiled, and said, "Ah, my kits!" Specklepaw and Lynxpaw acted like he was a stranger. Then he said, "This girl right here is the same fur color is mine. Does that answer your question?" Greenmoon looked horrified. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" she yowled. The cat fully introduced himself as Falling Spines. He had followed the three cats to their new camp. He was happy it grew. He wanted to join, too. Bravestar let him join, and change his name.

But Greenmoon and her kits wouldn't go anywhere near him. Fallingspines didn't show any sort of sign where he opposed to the Clan, so they kept him. Greenmoon confessed to Fallingspines that she was the new medicine cat so that he wouldn't bother with having more kits. Fierylight said more cats should enter the Clan.

So they invited a tom cat named Hazecrest and a she-cat named Sootmist into the Clan. They said they were relieved to join a new Clan after their old one got disbanded. They said their old one was named SunClan, and the third leader of the Clan said that they were too poorly in shape to support a Clan, and everyone ran off. They ran off together. Bravestar had never heard of SunClan before, but he was happy the Clan was growing. Fierylight had mated with Hazecrest and had two kits, Tawnykit and Burntkit. She thought Burnt matches up with her prefix.

Bravestar thought it strange for Fierylight to be having kits when *his* kits were apprentices already. But he didn't mind. After all, he thought, everyone needs time to do anything. Sootmist had said she was having kits, too, she was already having Goldensparrow's kits, a SunClan cat. Her kits were named Sunkit after her Clan and Yarrowkit.

Bravestar thought this a happy time. *After a few generations,* he thought, *maybe someday the Clan will be normal... and maybe even teach justice to the Clan that had wronged us…*