A brighter path

## Blurbe

After the battle with spiritclan the colony is at peace with their neighbor. But what about mistclan? And what happens when a group of rouges attacks, seeking revenge on tinyfang for the death of their mother.

## Chapter 1 peace?

rockfall has volunteered to go with the peace patrol to as mistclan to end the war.

rockfall had been suprised at mistclan a response.

rockfall walked into mistclan camp with the others. “We ask for permission to speak to mintstar” leafnose asked

“mintstar is sick, you may speak to me” Mossfur was well respected deputy And had been for many moons.

”we come on behalf of the colony of the caves and spiritclan, formerly flowerclan. To ask for peace under the new leader tinystar” leafnose replied, taking the leader initiative of the group. “What happened to flamestar?” Mossfur asked, stepping forward, rockfall could sense hatred in mossfurs eyes.

“she was killed by her own clanmates as she was unfit to be leader and was attacking innocent cats” smallfish told her “we have come to ask for peace, nothing more”

Mossfur thought for a second “your offer has been declined. FLowerclan has taken to many of us and has been to cruel to ask for peace. You will never find help from us and anybody allied with flowerclan will feel our claws” Mossfur hissed “now go before I make you”

rockfall turned to leafnose “let’s go. We can’t risk attack, not in there own camp” smallfish and shadowpaw nodded “I don’t want to fight anymore” shadowpaw whispered

leaf nose nodded “let’s go. We hope you change your mind Mossfur. Just know we came in peace and left no marks on your warriors today”

with that the cats left and headed back to the colony were tinystar was gathering her warriors to go home

*Let’s just hope mistclan learns some sense soon*

## Chapter 2

hazeltuft sat in the Medicean den. Who knew learning herbs would be so hard? She could tell the difference between good and bad herbs and she knew all the names but she couldn’t ever remember what they did or how to apply them.

Flowers’petal walked in to check on hazelnut tastes she organized the herbs. “Remember hazeltuft” she instructed “tansy goes in between the catmint and the cobwebs”

“and next to that is the dock leaves” hazeltuft responded

just then smokefur walked in “hi hazeltuft, darkcloud said we could take a break from training, do you think I can help with anything?” He asked

“yes smoke fur, that would be a big help, thanks” hazeltuft replied looking up to the bigger Young.

“How long do you think until Rainstorm gives you your hunter ceremony?” She asked. “Seems like you’ve been training forever”

smokefur laughed “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to be a real hunter. Not if these visions keep going”

“your still having visions?” Hazeltuft asked, turning to smokefur “I thought they stopped after the battle with spiritclan”

smokefur shook his head “they are different visions but they are still visions” smokefur replied, helping hazeltuft sort the herbs.

hazeltuft nodded. *Strange*

## Chapter 3

smokefur stretched and yawned, it had been a long day of training and helping hazeltuft.

afew spiritclan warriors had come to visit every now and then, and they were always friendly.

*If only oakstep where here to see it* smokefur thought.

remembering his brother was bittersweet. They had been quite close and his death was quite traumatic

if only he hadn’t insisted they come with the patrol.

if only smokefur had tried to talk him out of it.

smokefur shook his head to clear his thoughts.

changing the subject he remembered that tomorrow night him and his friends would receive their full ranking ceremony and they would no longer be Young.

smokefur smiled

*Oakstep would have made a fine Guard. So now I’m going to enjoy it for him while he cannot*

## chapter 4edit | edit source

rockfall stood in front of the cave entrance with Hazeltuft, and Smokefur.

Rockfall turned to the crowd, looking to embergaze and her friends.

they had become guards and hunters a moon or two ago and were very excited to see there friends become full fledged members of the colony.

Rainstorm jumped to the top of the cave entrance, the sun was setting and the fireflies had begun there dance.

"Rockfall, Smokefur, Hazeltuft. please step forward." he called out.

the three did, smokefur saw hazeltuft practically shaking with excitement.

"it is time you received your ceremonies, rockfall, you have chosen the path of a guard, correct?"

rockfall nodded "yes rainstorm"

the fireflies light up dimly

"then, from here on out, whether you stay or you leave, for better or for worse, your heart shall walk the path of a guard. my the colony of the skies guide your paws"

the fireflies light up the night brightly. the colony of the skies gave there blessing. Rockfall was now a full fledged colony member.

Rainstorm preformed the same ceremony for smokefur, but as a hunter instead of a guard.

rockfall purred with laughter as he watched the large tom jump in the air happily when the fireflies lit.

after hazeltuft received her ceremony for a healer it was obviouse she was trying to keep calm, but she was shaking so much rockfall thought she might explode!

after that, rockfall noticed the glow in Rainstorms eyes darken, if only slightly.

"i wish spiritfire and oakstep were here for their ceremonies, so, in honor of them and all they have and would have done for the colony, we shall feast." Rainstorm called out to the colony. who in returned gave three cheers for the new members and fallen friends.

rockfall joined there cheers excitedly. "for oakstep!" he whispered.

rockfalls nose twitched

did he smell, *smoke?*

## chapter 5

hazeltuft turned to look at the forest. "fire!" she yells, but the rest of the colony was looking to the forest as well.

"spiritclan is in trouble! there camp in in the middle of that forest!" Fernwish yowled

"we have to go and help them!" Embergaze turned to Rainstorm who nodded and jumped down from his place above the cave

"darkcloud, rockfall, strikeshade and softfoot, you will come with me to spiritclan to help, crystalblaze is in charge. hazeltuft and flowerspetal, be ready to help ashwing tend to injuries" Rainstorm called out to the colony, the group formed and headed towards spiritclan

Flowerspetal turned to hazeluft "come on, lets get the herbs ready" she said

hazeltuft nodded and followed, there gonna have a lot of cats to treat

## chapter 6

rockfall ran towards the smell of smoke, every instinct told him to run the other way but he had cats to save.

with the rest of the patrol behind him and Rainstorm in front of him the patrol entered the camp.

it was heavily ablaze and the whole clan was panicking

ashwing was trying his best to save the herbs but it was no used, the every herb was burnt to a crisp.

rockfall looked around. how had this started?

rainstorm ran to the nearest warrior, aka the deputy, Sharpfang as tinystar was nowhere to be seen.

"what happened!? come on! we need to get the clan outta here" he directed, Sharpfang could only nod and turn to his clan, they seemed to get the hint to follow rainstorm.

rockfall helped strikeshade and sootfoot get the kits and elders out as they where the most in danger.

along with the patrol was a spiritclan apprentice, Flarepaw.

rockfall remembered embergaze telling him how Flarepaw, then flarekit, was born early and on the flowerclan border. so flamestar forcefully took her from her mother.

*'poor thing*' rockfall thought simitheticly

rockfall grabbed a light blue she-kit, mistkit, and his jaws to cary her out.

sootfoot helped the elders and strikeshade grabbed a dark tabby kitten, lostkit.

rockfall turned to flarepaw who had grabbed the last kit, stonekit. the small thing resembled flarekit quite a bit, from its amber eyes down to the slimness of there tails.

the only difference being there size and fur color.

rockfall nodded to flarepaw and looked to the other cats he was with. sootfoot had successfully gotten the elders out, so rockfall, strikeshade and flarepaw ran towards the entrance to get the kits to the colony.