BraveClan's touching story/(3): Rediscovering Wonders from Darkness/13

## Part 13: New warriors, and old Minnowkit, and light

Exactly at DarkClan and SunClan's story: Rainingpaw's mentor became Sootmist, since there were more warriors to mentor now. Emberpaw's mentor became Fierylight. Cloudpaw's mentor became Hazecrest. Lynxpaw and Specklepaw's mentors were the same, Shadowcreek and Bravestar.

Soon enough, it was time for kits to become apprentices. Burntpaw's mentor became Fallingspines, and Tawnypaw's mentor became Destinyflower. Cloudpaw and his siblings and Lynxpaw and Specklepaw were almost warriors.

A moon later, everybody became warriors and apprentices (except for Leafpaw obviously), and Bravestar did the ceremony. He made all of them into warriors, Rainingclaw, Emberheart, Cloudflames, Lynxdaisy, and Specklewhisker. Leafpaw smiled at his siblings and Lynxdaisy and Specklewhisker.

Sunkit and Yarrowkit became apprentices, too. Sunpaw's mentor was Sootmist, strangely, and Yarrowpaw's mentor was Warmtail. Since Destinyflower was expecting, she did basic stuff with Tawnypaw, such as teaching him the warrior code and StarClan. She also told him about the prophecies with herself and other cats in the Clan. He did not understand apparently.

Destinyflower then gave birth to Owlkit, Crescentkit, and Minnowkit. Rainingclaw looked strangely at Minnowkit. Bravestar knew it reminded her of her lost kit in her old life.

Then a cat came up to the Clan, along with two others. They looked ragged and skinny, and they begged to be in the Clan. Bravestar looked them up and down. "How do I trust you?" he asked. But before anyone breathed after Bravestar's words, Warmtail went running into the more older cat's arms. "AUNT!" he was saying. "Warmkit!" she said happily.

Everyone froze what they were doing, looking quite startled, except for Sootmist and Hazecrest, who mouthed, "Marigoldstar?" "Everyone, this is Marigoldstar, my dad's sister and third leader of SunClan!" Warmtail seemed to be announcing. Then he whispered to her, "I'm Warmtail now."

Then the other two cats were like, "What happened to all of you?!" "Diamondpaw and Thunderpaw?" looked Warmtail confused.

"Diamondhare and Thunderflames," one of them corrected. The rest of the Clan still stared at them. Then Marigoldstar looked at Sootmist and Hazecrest and said, "I remember you two. Did you also run off into this Clan?" They both nodded.

She told the Clan about the prophecy, and it was confirmed. "We four are the light prophecy cats!" announced Destinyflower. Marigoldstar nodded. She became an assistant leader for BraveClan, and Bravestar became an assistant leader for SunClan. They believed that since some SunClan people were already in this Clan, they wanted to partner up, to also fulfill both prophecies they had.

### ~~Another moon later~~

Another moon later, Lynxdaisy and Cloudflames were found to be teasing each other in a not-really-a-friendly-way-but-a-more-um-weird-way. Diamondhare had taken a liking to Specklewhisker, and Thunderflames had been going into Rainingclaw's business. Parents were shocked.

Bravestar didn’t care negatively about this, though. If it led to having kits, then it was always good. They had a huge surplus of supplies and prey so he thought bringing more kits and outsiders into this Clan was an excellent idea.

So Diamondhare and Specklewhisker became mates, but didn’t become pregnant yet as she wanted to do more warrior duties first, as she had only been in BraveClan for a moon. Emberheart had said he didn’t necessarily want to have a mate or kits right now, either, since he wanted to be a good warrior, too.

One day, Diamondhare, Rainingclaw and Lynxdaisy were on a border patrol together. But then they saw two cats’ silhouettes somewhere just right outside the border. Then they saw two more. The three were very confused, indeed, but Diamondhare had suggested that they wait intently for something to happen. Lynxdaisy, however, wanted to get help in case this was a serious attack.

“Then that’ll make us two, since one of us will have to go and tell Bravestar and Marigoldstar. And we can’t just all run to tell them either, since that’ll be an open invitation to some disgusting cats,” explained Diamondhare.

“What if we get hurt though?” replied Lynxdaisy, worried. “It’s better to go tell Bravestar, even means “inviting” them in and fighting them head-on rather than get killed and then have them barge into the Clan without preparations!”

Rainingclaw just said, “Calm down, before we try anything, watch what’s happening and what they’re doing.”

The she-cats decided to agree with Rainingclaw and wait. After all, she was a reincarnation of Rainleaf, so she was more wiser.

The cats walked out of the bushes and were about to step onto the border until Diamondhare gasped. “Flameheart, Flowermoon, Desertkit and Jumpkit?”

Rainingclaw and Lynxdaisy looked confused when Diamondhare said those names. “Who?” they asked. “They’re from SunClan,” Diamondhare replied excitedly, quite relieved that more people from SunClan had survived. “Desertkit and Jumpkit were one moon old when it disbanded. Now I think they’re six moons old. But Flameheart and Flowermoon were pretty young as well, they were only twenty moons old when it disbanded. I was only eleven moons old but now I’m sixteen moons old.”

“Oh,” Rainingclaw said, quite relieved as well. Flameheart asked weakly, “We heard about BraveClan and how Marigoldstar joined this Clan, too. We want to join.” “Yes, please,” agreed Flowermoon. “We’re barely even making it. Desertkit and Jumpkit were depressed this entire experience, and we can’t do anything about it. They’re going to be apprentices, too, so they’ll help the Clan.”

Lynxdaisy told them in a welcoming but formal way, “Don’t worry, we’ll tell Bravestar. Please come back with us.” Rainingclaw and Diamondhare nodded in agreement. All their eyes lit up with happiness and a lot of relief.

They told Bravestar, and Marigoldstar, Thunderflames, Hazecrest, Sootmist and Warmtail all were happy that more of their old Clanmates were entering the Clan. There were now more SunClan cats than BraveClan cats seemingly.

Desertkit became Desertpaw and his mentor was Thunderflames. His brother, now Jumppaw's mentor was Diamondhare. Jumppaw and Desertpaw were really happy to touch their mentors' noses.

### ~~A moon and a half later~~

A moon and a half later, Greenmoon took Leafpaw to the Moonstone and he got his medicine cat name, Leaffeather. A few cats also happened to be expecting. Diamondhare was expecting Specklewhisker's kits, and Lynxdaisy was expecting Cloudflames' kits. Flowermoon and Fierylight were also expecting their second litters. Bravestar and Marigoldstar were really happy that they would be grandparents and there would be more future warriors. Bravestar would be a grandfather through Cloudflames, and Marigoldstar through Diamondhare. Greenmoon was happy to be a grandmother through both kits, too. So was Fallingspines.

Then they gave birth all around the same time, a couple more moons later. Diamondhare decided to name her kits after her fallen SunClan Clanmates, including her brother Spotface. She named the tom-kits Spotkit, Silverkit (after Silversun) and she-kits Fenikkit (after Fenikfight) and Pollenkit (after Pollenhaze). Specklewhisker approved of the names. Lynxdaisy and Cloudflames saw this and did the same with their BraveClan Clanmates. They named their tom-kit Orangekit (after Orangestripe), and she-kits Bluekit (after Bluetail), Heatherkit (after Heatherfern) and Daisykit (after Daisyfox). Cloudflames thought it would be good to name them after his uncle, mother, sister and kit's mother (and apparently cousin, too) in his former life, since they had died violently.

Flowermoon had she-kits Moonkit and Redkit, the latter named after her mother. Fierylight gave birth to she-kit Hopekit, as a hope that BraveClan would survive.

Everyone was happy that the Clan was increasing drastically, especially with Diamondhare and Lynxdaisy each having four kits in their first litters, especially Greenmoon who had eight new grandchildren to play with. The nursery was very full and Destinyflower's kits, Owlkit, Crescentkit and Minnowkit were very excited to have kit friends.

But they became apprentices in another half-moon. They were apprenticed to Rainingclaw, Emberheart and Cloudflames respectively. Destinyflower and Warmtail were very proud of them three and Destinyflower got to move out of the nursery.

Bravestar, Shadowcreek and Greenmoon all were proud of BraveClan and they remembered many moons ago when that terrible battle happened, and they three were the only refugees, with Fierylight and Destinyflower running away. Now the Clan seemed like it was way past them now.

Owlpaw and Desertpaw were teasing each other, as Flowermoon and Destinyflower had noticed. They joked about their affections for their mates when they were apprentices. Destinyflower talked about Warmtail and how he was the only one nice to her in DarkClan. Flowermoon understood and said that she had thought the same thing in SunClan when her mentor, Treelight (who was also Marigoldstar's father), kept treating her strictly during training and so did other warriors and apprentices except for Flameheart. But Flowermoon said that SunClan had a better reason than DarkClan, of course.

Leaffeather was also very happy for his family, and that the families were starting to join together. Then he wondered about the Legacy Prophecy and his daughter in his first life, Bluetail. Emberheart taught him and Greenmoon a ton about StarClan, and he knew that it would be necessary to learn. He wondered if he should mate, since he would be given leeway like Cinderpelt did. But he wondered about Bluetail and Bronzeroot and what they did. *Was it necessary to have Skysoar, a Legacy Prophecy cat be born?* he wondered. Bluetail went to StarClan, he knew, and so did Bronzeroot.

Then he remembered the dark civil battle. He thought it was darker than DarkClan coming because they were fighting against themselves over Reedstar and he was only a kit in his second life at the time, Autumnkit. *Did DarkClan do something to cause it somehow? Or the Dark Forest?* he wondered. He wondered how it could be true but he was really distressed by the civil battle even happening ever *since* it happened, even while being dead in StarClan as Autumnthorn. He was also the one of the first cats of the Legacy Prophecy to witness the dark era, the greencough problem. Not even Bravestar the first had. He was only a young warrior named Fallseed and his deputy and leader (who was also his mentor), Vinespeckle and Goldstar had died from the greencough. The latter knew something about the prophecy and so made an omen for Fallseed to be the leader. But then again, he wondered if the dark era was caused by the Dark Forest or DarkClan. But Darkstar was about twenty moons younger than Fallstar.

Leaffeather just shrugged it off and thought about something else, such as who would be the successor of him and probably Greenmoon's new apprentice, as there were a ton of new kits. He thought it would be very good to have four medicine cats at the same time such as when he was leader, Tremblesplash, Bluetail, Bronzeroot and Cinderpelt, especially with the danger of DarkClan looming.

When he went to bed in the medicine cat den that night, he saw he was floating in some mist. *StarClan,* he recalled, as he remembered floating above the stars while being dead as Fallstar and Autumnthorn. Then he looked around for a StarClan cat but he didn't have to look for long for one.

His daughter in his first life, medicine cat and mother to a prophecy cat walked over to him. Then she spoke in a starry voice, "Fallstar, Autumnthorn, Leaffeather. I am glad that you chose the path of a medicine cat, so that we can be closer to each other."

Leaffeather just nodded and replied, "I remember your enthusiasm for medicine, Bluetail. In this life I felt like I had to try it out."

Bluetail nodded in response and flicked her tail towards something. Leaffeather gazed in that direction and saw an image of Minnowkit and Hazykit, who were Orangestripe and Rainleaf's kits in her first litter, and his lost grandchildren. Only Sparksoar was left of that litter. Except they looked much different than before. They were grown up and living in a Twoleghouse together. Leaffeather didn't think he would find anything more surprising than that civil battle but he was lost for words with this one.

"Their names are Hailey and Kitty Spots now, respectively," Bluetail explained. "Even StarClan couldn't locate them originally as they were taken far away from our camp, but once we travelled farther, we finally found them somewhere close to a mountain."

Leaffeather was still wide-eyed. "So they are still alive?" he breathed in surprise. Bluetail nodded. "They probably got lucky as you might have been thinking. Swiftsand, Thymegrass and their daughter, Destinyflower, were also safe while living in their Twoleghouse, until they went back to BraveClan.

"But!" Bluetail continued in a drastic tone. "Like I said, they are really far away, far enough that StarClan couldn't reach them, and it would take countless moons to reach them finally. And since they live in a Twoleghouse it would be hard to track them. Ever since the DarkClan battle you moved even farther away from them."

Leaffeather said nothing but continued to watch that image in much shock and appall. He remembered Tremblesplash telling him about Twolegs near the camp when Minnowkit and Hazykit got taken away.

"But if you were wondering why I showed you this, then let me tell you a secret... they did have kits with other cats. Those kits... may have travelled far away from their Twoleghouse, and interacted with us."

Leaffeather looked back at Bluetail in surprise. "What? Really?" He wondered how that was possible.

Bluetail nodded. "I didn't tell any other cat except for you since you were the closest to them, and a leader in your first life, and medicine cat in this one. But remember Highjump?"

Leaffeather blinked. Then he remembered when he was Fallstar and remembered Minnowkit, Hazykit and Sparkkit all playing together in the nursery. Then he remembered that fire and the Twolegs. Then he remembered when Cinderpelt told him about Skysoar kissing Highjump. And as Autumnthorn he remembered what Highjump looked like when his aunt in that life, Heatherfern, got attacked by her. Minnowkit and Highjump looked similar indeed.

"Do you think... that?" Leaffeather asked Bluetail very indirectly. Then Bluetail just nodded. "If it is true, then it is way, way more dire than we ever thought, even for StarClan."

Leaffeather did not know what to say or do so he looked back at the image of Minnowkit and Hazykit grown up and hanging out with Twolegs. It made him nostalgic for something he couldn't place his finger on. *Maybe I just want Minnowkit and Hazykit to be back with us...* he thought. He wondered if they even remembered a flash of BraveClan, or what the cats there did, or even the name of the group they used to live in before being kitnapped.

"Oh, and I apologized to every StarClan member for starting this entire mess, including you, Fallstar," said Bluetail. Leaffeather remembered that, of course. But then she continued, "But then the StarClan members told me about DarkClan, and how they somehow inserted darkness into our Clan, especially through Highjump. The situation was very awful indeed, and it will continue to be, until DarkClan is utterly and absolutely destroyed. Only then may the dark era end."

Leaffeather was about to speak but then he woke up in a sweat next to Greenmoon. Greenmoon was already awake and noticed him jitter in his sleep. Leaffeather decided to tell his mentor about his dream and Bluetail, which made her very shocked. She said that they should tell the prophecy cats but no one else as they wouldn't understand very well about Highjump, Minnowkit or Bluetail. Leaffeather said that they should also tell Marigoldstar and the other light prophecy cats and Greenmoon agreed.

Leaffeather's father and siblings and Fierylight, Destinyflower, Warmtail and Marigoldstar were all very alarmed by the news of Minnowkit, her brother, Highjump and Bluetail, especially Rainingclaw since that used to be her kit. "Is she a mother or grandmother of a DarkClan cat?" she asked in disbelief. Leaffeather shrugged as he didn't know. Bravestar just told everyone to keep it in mind, and that they would discuss it once they got more details.

Later on, while Destinyflower and Warmtail were thinking of it while sitting next to each other, something strange happened. Destinyflower worried about DarkClan, but then she felt like she had a vision of something. She saw a vision of... DarkClan. But also BraveClan. But they were facing off against each other. She saw most of the cats as adults now. Then she noticed Warmtail in the battle. Then she saw his neck get slashed by a DarkClan cat. Then he fell. And died.

Destinyflower gasped and lurched away from Warmtail and blinked, then the vision was gone. Then she looked at him. Warmtail looked at her back and he was confused.

"Warm.. Warmtail, you're gonna die!" Destinyflower yelped. "I got a vision! I-I-I can't even-"

"What?" Warmtail replied in shock. "That is- what?"

Destinyflower nodded. "I know! I have no idea what happened!" Warmtail just stared at her in confusion. Then he just simply said, "Well, we have to think about it. It's... too drastic for us. But... we can try not to think about it for now. Maybe... it was just a vision that means something else."

Destinyflower just nodded and replied, "Yes, hopefully, that is true." Then she sat next to him again. Then she felt a sensation and saw that she felt more warm and confident than before. It was strange, but she wondered if StarClan gave her this sensation somehow. Almost like a huge beam of light hitting her heart, and DarkClan escaped her thoughts.

Then Warmtail also noticed and said, "What happened? You seem confident all of a sudden."

Destinyflower shrugged. "I don't know. Did you do something? I never felt this before." But then she remembered other times she felt confident while being with Warmtail. *Wait... is it our powers?* Destinyflower realized all of a sudden.

She told Warmtail about this and he was surprised but he agreed with her explanation, since it made sense, especially since it matched their prefixes, somewhat.

"I do suppose these powers come from the prophecy. And StarClan," said Destinyflower with inspiration. "After all, the destiny of others comes from within, so why would it not be my power?"

Warmtail nodded. "It does. And making others confident is a good power to have as a light prophecy cat, too. With a touch of a tail, cats shall be proud. It's good."

They told Bravestar, Marigoldstar and Fierylight, and they were fascinated about this. Fierylight also explained while on guard duty at nighttime, she was glowing and other cats noticed it too. And Marigoldstar explained that while touching her sad daughter's pelt (she was sad about Spotface and her cousins as she wished they would be here to see their namesakes), she became happy, suddenly. Marigoldstar had also explained to her that Spotface, Fenikfight and Firerain were certainly watching from StarClan and so were Silversun and Pollenhaze.

Bravestar concluded that the prophecy was discovered and soon, he told the entire Clan about the Light and Dark Prophecy and the Clan was convinced that they could defeat DarkClan. And Leaffeather thought he heard Bluetail from StarClan whisper something into his ears. *Soon, DarkClan will get its justice... and all of us StarClan cats will finally be avenged... from the horrors that the Dark Forest gave us while we were alive.*