BraveClan's touching story/(3): Rediscovering Wonders from Darkness/11

## Part 11: SunClan

Introducing a new Clan story, it's SunClan (before DarkClan's threathenings): Marigoldclaw looked at her struggling great-aunt, Moonstar. She had taken her great-uncle's place, Sunstar. Marigoldclaw was the deputy. She looked at her kits, Diamondkit and Thunderkit, both looking very happy. *They were just born,* she thought, as she looked at her stomach. Then she looked at her brother, Silversun, and his mate, Lakepool, along with their three happy kits, Warmkit, Fenikpaw and Firepaw. She felt happy. She then looked at her son, Spotpaw. He was going to be a warrior soon. Fenikpaw and Firepaw recently became apprentices, whereas Warmkit was just born. Then she looked at her sister, Auburnfur in disgrace. The medicine cat at the time when she and her siblings were born said, "Silverkit and Marigoldkit are fine, Pollenhaze, but... there's something strange about Auburnkit... an evil aura." Marigoldclaw heard those words, and remembered them. Auburnfur was surely evil. She'd go to the Dark Forest someday.

One day, Moonstar drank some dirty water, and got sick. It was green-leaf. Marigoldclaw was devastated, because later, Moonstar died. Marigoldclaw went with the medicine cat to get her nine lives. One of them was surely Moonstar, but after the normal lives thing, her voice went eerie, and she moved closer to whisper into Marigoldstar's ear, "Make sure your Clan is safe, there is too much danger on the way." The medicine cat didn't seem to notice, really. Then she was taken back. She had chosen Spotface as the deputy.

She then realized what it meant. Two DarkClan cats went and murdered her mother, Pollenhaze. She started crying. Fenikfight and Firerain, her niece and nephew tried to defend their grandmother, but it didn't work. *At least they scared them off,* thought Marigoldstar. Then a DarkClan cat sent them a message, "Your Clan is doomed." She was horrified, and thought about what to do, especially when Auburnfur had taken custody of Warmkit and entered DarkClan. "This Clan is trash. The Clan I'm joining will be perfect for me!" were her last words to Marigoldstar. She had begged Auburnfur to stay, but to no luck. This left Marigoldstar in tears. Finally, she came to the horrific choice of disbanding her Clan. She wasn't sure what else to do, the Clan simply couldn't fight them off. When she did, however, she regretted it.

She was also sad over the death of her son, Spotface. She had taken Diamondpaw and Thunderpaw with her on her leaving. SunClan was a connected family. She missed it so. All the cats left with some herbs and the amount of prey they could carry. The prey that was left behind was the amount that couldn't. DarkClan had come along really confused. They saw only little prey and no herbs. *"WE CAME HERE FOR NOTHING?!"* yowled one of the cats. *Hey, you have some prey left for you to steal,* thought Marigoldstar, groaning. Those cats were too greedy.

So, now, moons later, she was living like a loner with her two children, Diamondpaw and Thunderpaw. "Mom, what happened? Can we go back now?" complained Diamondpaw. She was definitely not used to this life at all.

"I wish Spotface was here," added Thunderpaw. Neither was him.

"No," groaned Marigoldstar. She was simply too weak.

"Thunderpaw, don't you think we're fourteen moons old?" Diamondpaw asked her brother.

"Yup, we're fully fourteen moons," was his answer.

"Hey, mom, you're still a leader, ri-i-ight?" said Diamondpaw sarcastically.

"What in StarClan do you want?! Let me think!" yowled Marigoldstar. She had never remembered herself being so cranky, especially in her own Clan life.

"Well, at least make us full warriors!" said Diamondpaw angrily. "Fine, if that's what you want. Since nobody's here, I'll do a private ceremony," replied Marigoldstar grumpily. She made Diamondpaw and Thunderpaw into warriors. Diamondhare and Thunderflames seemed like perfect names to Marigoldstar.

Marigoldstar felt sleepy, but suddenly, she felt like she was falling into some weird mist. "Hello," was the voice of her dead mother. "Mother?" asked Marigoldstar. "Where are you?"

Pollenhaze looked happy. "So happy you came. I have to deliver a prophecy. It is..."

To Diamondhare and Thunderflames, it sounded like she was saying, "Dark may wield the gift of claws, but light inherits the gift of intelligence, and strategy. May dark end." They started screaming.

Marigoldstar also saw three other cats. She didn't recognize the other two, but she saw her nephew, Warmkit, probably a warrior now. She and them were all glowing perfectly.

"Look at those other four," pointed her mother. Marigoldstar turned. She saw four cats who were glowing in a very dark way, almost as if they were sucking the light out. She only recognized the infamous Darkstar and her sister Auburnfur, but not the other two. She was sure the other two were also from DarkClan.

"Avoid them perfectly, until you join up with the other three light prophecy cats," said her mother, who started fading away. Everything started fading away, and Marigoldstar was back in reality. She woke up, and saw her two children with tears in their eyes. They were terrified.

"I'm back," said Marigoldstar. "And I got a prophecy."

"So great you're back!" said Thunderflames gleefully. "I don't want any more people dead!" Marigoldstar stood up, and replied, "I wasn't anywhere even close to a cause for death, my son. I got a prophecy. You heard it, right?"

They both looked confused. "What was it?" asked Diamondhare.

"Don't be *deaf,"* hissed Marigoldstar. "It was, 'Dark may wield the gift of claws, but light inherits the gift of intelligence, and strategy. May dark end.'"

"Oh, you *did* say that! But we didn't think that was a prophecy," both of them simply replied. Marigoldstar groaned. They weren't ever acquainted with StarClan-related things. As the leader, she had studied stuff like these, so she could be ready. She was sure that Dark meant DarkClan or Dark Forest, and Light meant SunClan, or StarClan. But she had no idea what the prophecy actually meant. *To defeat Dark,* she guessed.

Later on, Diamondhare and Thunderflames started hunting for some prey to eat, within close vicinity, of course.

Suddenly, bushes started rustling. "Eh?" said Marigoldstar. Then a cat leaped out of the bushes, and stuck its claws inside of Marigoldstar's chest. *No,* she thought, *I can't die now. Don't... please...*

Her killer had a pleasing smile while Marigoldstar closed her eyes. But a few minutes later, she woke up. She saw her "killer" searching for stuff, probably to steal. *Well, that done it,* thought Marigoldstar angrily, *you dirty dark cats are cats that belong in the undead Dark Forest!* She pounced on the cat immediately, and clawed the cat ferociously. "I had nine lives!" yowled Marigoldstar. The cat groaned, and tried to defend itself.

Marigoldstar got scratched on the face furiously, but to her satisfaction, when she sent her claws forward, they landed right in the neck. The cat seemed to be choking, and fell down. Marigoldstar sent a few more lashes its way.

But the cat managed to say, "Darkstar will come after you, just wait..." and it leaned over to the side. Marigoldstar started trembling after that. She was shocked a cat just came out of the bushes in the blue and would have definitely murdered her if she wasn't a leader with nine lives.

She was too shocked to think about much else, so she just retired to the soothing sound of the wind, and threw the dead body back into the bushes where it came from. She just sat down and made the wind flush out all bad thoughts. *If only life was so peaceful like the wind,* she was thinking, *maybe I wouldn't have been in a random spot in the forest in the first place...*