BraveClan's touching story/(3): Rediscovering Wonders from Darkness/18

### ~~BraveClan, day later~~

Leaffeather was happy. Just a day after Dewflower came, Destinyflower and Rainingclaw both started kitting, and Greenmoon and Leaffeather and the fathers immediately rushed to the nursery and helped them, with Heatherkit and Hopekit watching. The other queens and kits were also very excited.

The former queen gave birth to a she-kit and a tom. Destinyflower and Warmtail decided to name them rhyming names, the she-kit Shinekit and the tom Vinekit. Leaffeather remembered the deputy who died of greencough, Vinespeckle, a very long time ago, so he thought it was good to have another warrior with "Vine-" as his prefix.

The latter queen, Rainingclaw, also gave birth to a she-kit, whom she named Mosskit, and a tom-kit, whom she named after her brother, Leafkit. Leaffeather was very honored to be a namesake of a future warrior and thanked Rainingclaw. And most of all, he was very much delighted that there were more kits, and later warriors or medicine cats now. He thought about DarkClan and how they would fare against their destructive forces now. Before, there were less than average amount of warriors, but now there were much more to fight back against them, and Leaffeather was confident they could defend themselves now.

After the kitting, Destinyflower and Leaffeather noticed Marigoldstar, Shadowcreek and Bravestar rush in to see their new grandchildren, and so did Owlpaw, Crescentpaw and Minnowpaw, to see their new siblings. Shadowcreek was the most delighted as she was becoming a maternal grandmother for the first time through her only daughter, of which it was her first time ever becoming grandmother through Cloudflames. It was also Bravestar's first time being a maternal grandfather, and Marigoldstar's first time being a paternal grandmother. Since Mosskit and Leafkit were Rainingclaw and Thunderflames' first litter, they were the happiest new parents of all.

Rainingclaw remembered giving birth to her first litter for the first time in her old life, and she was a little sad for them as they had either been kitnapped or died, and the same with her second litter.

Destinyflower was thinking if she should use her power on her Clanmates as the first time she had used it on her mate, it was very scary, indeed. She didn't want to discover any more dark destinies, but she wondered if it would be necessary. So she tried using it on Shinekit and Vinekit and thought about DarkClan. She saw them as brave apprentices fighting hard against DarkClan, and they didn't get hurt, so she was happy, but she thought it meant that the DarkClan battle was looming closer. She thought about Frozenbreeze telling Darkstar about where BraveClan was but she shook it away.

Then she used it on Shadowcreek, and she saw the new grandmother and deputy looking slightly older, but standing on Highrock instead of Bravestar. Bravestar was nowhere to be seen and Destinyflower was shocked, and she was fearful that he might have died. Marigoldstar was also nowhere to be seen. Destinyflower was happy for Shadowcreek being leader, but sad about Bravestar and Marigoldstar's death somehow. She wondered if they would die in the DarkClan battle.

Then she used it on Heatherkit and Hopekit and saw them working with Leaffeather, Greenmoon and Emberheart as good medicine cats and the five of them were urgently hopping over to different injured cats and working in a exceptionally quick fashion to save them from death or other loss, which made her happy. Then she used it on Mosskit and Leafkit and saw they were also fighting against DarkClan as apprentices, too, without much injury.

Then she used the power on her other three kits and they were full-blown warriors fighting hard against DarkClan, with the exception of Owlpaw who was in the nursery with a small bum and Fierylight and Tawnyclaw were guarding the nursery. Destinyflower was happy to be a grandmother and remembered when she was having kits for the first time, and dared to guess who the father was, and thought about what Flowermoon said about Desertpaw and Owlpaw teasing each other. But she was worried about how Owlpaw would fare as a queen during the DarkClan battle, especially when she was expecting, even if another light prophecy cat and her former apprentice were guarding the nursery with sharpened eyes and claws.

Destinyflower also used it on Thunderflames and saw him fighting with extreme anger against Highjump and she saw him do a serious move, saying that it was for slaughtering his only brother and the only kit in his mother's first litter and also the last deputy of Sunclan, Spotface, in cold blood.

She wondered if she should tell Bravestar and Shadowcreek about her visions while she was nursing her newborn kits, but she thought she should relax and try to make out what the future of BraveClan during the DarkClan battle would be like before telling them about it.

Then she noticed Dewflower come into the nursery looking slightly confused until she figured out what happened. Then she congratulated the new parents, grandparents and older siblings enthusiastically. Destinyflower thanked her and said that she hoped Shinekit and Vinekit would make enormous contributions to the Clan as apprentices and warriors, thinking about the vision about her two youngest kits. Crescentpaw said that he wanted to mentor Vinekit in a humorous fashion, which made Destinyflower smile, as she remembered that they would become warriors before Shinekit and Vinekit became apprentices. Minnowpaw joked that she wanted to mentor Shinekit, too. Moonkit said she wondered if they will have the same suffix as warriors.

Destinyflower said that she wanted Shinekit's suffix to be the same as Emberheart's, as it would mean "shining heart" and Warmtail added that he wanted them to both have "-heart" as Moonkit suggested. Then Dewflower said that she wondered what having kits would like. But then, Destinyflower accidentally touched Dewflower and she got a vision which she didn't expect at all, and it didn't seem to have to do anything with DarkClan.

She saw Dewflower sitting with her and Rainingclaw in the nursery, and she had a medium-sized belly. Fierylight, Flowermoon, Diamondhare, Lynxdaisy and all their kits were gone, and only Rainingclaw, Shinekit, Vinekit, Mosskit and Leafkit and her were there, and the kits were a little bigger. Destinyflower realized that it was two moons into the future, and most of the kits had become apprentices and their mothers had moved out. But looking at Dewflower made her wonder about something, and she was very surprised, too.

Due to her surprise, she exclaimed, *"Dewflower!* You're expecting?!" She hadn't realized that the vision wasn't reality so everyone heard her and looked at her with a confused expression. Then she was a little embarrassed, but continued, "I had a vision about Dewflower being in the nursery, and all the kits were apprentices except for mine and Rainingclaw's kits. And her belly was bigger."

The kits didn't understand about the Light and Dark Prophecy, but the apprentices and adult cats did. Tawnyclaw and Burntfur also rushed into the nursery to see the kits until they heard what Destinyflower said. Tawnyclaw hadn't understood the prophecies that well as an apprentice since he didn't know how it could work, but after his former mentor's words, he had some sort of idea now. The kits were sort of confused what Destinyflower meant by vision, but the apprentices knew.

Then everybody looked at Dewflower and the young silver tabby she-cat suddenly became self-conscious of herself and she was very perplexed, too.

Leaffeather thought about Destinyflower's vision and remembered he had a dream about kits running around in the nursery. He just figured that those kits were Destinyflower's and Rainingclaw's. But then he paid more attention and remembered the season and the kits in the dream and he saw they looked different. The number of kits and queens in the nursery had dropped substantially and there were only four bigger kits, and two young kits, which looked oddly like Dewflower... and another cat he recognized. One had silver fur and the other white. And the season was mid leaf-bare. And right now, there were many kits and four newborn kits. And the season was currently late leaf-fall.

He decided to tell about this, which made everyone even more surprised. Thunderflames inquired curiously who Dewflower would have mated with, and in a joking fashion, Tawnyclaw suggested Frozenbreeze and Burntfur, Owlpaw, Crescentpaw, Minnowpaw, Hopekit, Moonkit, Redkit and Silverkit all chuckled humorously. But Dewflower became more nervous and self-conscious at the second as she shrunk into the nursery floor with a lot of embarrassment on her face.

Destinyflower decided to console the younger she-cat and said it was wonderful to be having kits, regardless of who the father was, since the Clan can grow and have more warriors. She added that if Frozenbreeze was the father, that was excellent, since he was a pure soul for saving three cats for nothing in return, which was why StarClan accepted him and that his kits would be proud of him and always look up to him. Leaffeather and Emberheart both agreed, nodding excitedly and Hopekit added that he got hurt to save foreign cats who he didn't know and died to save Dewflower and everyone quickly agreed with their wonderful explanations. Dewflower relaxed substantially, to Destinyflower's relief and delight.

Leaffeather added that he figured that Frozenbreeze may have sent the vision as the kits seemed to look like his, especially the white-colored pelt of one kit and the facial similarity, and Destinyflower agreed with him with her visions.

Destinyflower only wanted to tell about the other visions to the light prophecy cats, legacy prophecy cats and Shadowcreek and Greenmoon, however, as they predicted about the DarkClan battle and how it would be. She also had an idea how soon it would be, as Shinekit and Vinekit were fighting hard, but they were still a lot smaller than the other warriors, and she didn't want to worry the rest of the Clan just yet, especially the kits and apprentices, until they came to a good conclusion and made a good plan of what they should do, and the decisions they should make during the battle. She also thought about her daughter being a queen and Destinyflower wondered what she would do at that time when Owlpaw was expecting, probably Desertpaw's kits. Destinyflower had no idea if she could avert a disaster or change the future for the better, however, since she could only see the future.

Leaffeather thought that having more kits was wonderful, but he was still confused about Frozenbreeze, DarkClan, the rogues, and the future. He also wondered how Frozenbreeze would play a part in this, as he had been from DarkClan, and still had to follow Darkstar's rules, and be a "strong" warrior and contribute. Destinyflower and Warmtail *did* tell the Clan about how the white tom was sent on a patrol to catch them, but he smashed into a tree at high speed due to him running fast and not focusing too much. And he probably got injured and had to be treated afterwards.

But he was sure that the StarClan cat did no wrong on purpose.

### ~~Another day later~~

Hopekit was sitting on the grass next to all of the kits and apprentices and most warriors, as Destinyflower, one of the queens who just gave birth to two of the younger kits, was telling a story about her family tree.

Destinyflower had said, "Did you know that Fierylight is my first cousin?" Which made everyone intrigued, especially Tawnyclaw, Burntfur and Hopekit, because they were the kits of Fierylight, and Warmtail and their three older kits, because they were her mate and kits. Fierylight and Greenmoon both agreed, and everyone sat down to hear the tale. Destinyflower had also remembered that Greenmoon was her cousin, too, and told everyone, which made even Specklewhisker and Lynxdaisy interested, so they also listened in with their kits.

Destinyflower explained about her parents, Swiftsand and Thymegrass who ran away from BraveClan to become kittypets due to a grave reason (which she didn't tell, which made Hopekit wonder what it could be). She said that Greenmoon and Fierylight's fathers were Eveningtower and Vixenpetal respectively, and the brothers of Swiftsand. She also told them about Honeyjump. Fierylight and Greenmoon agreed with her explanation.

Destinyflower said that she was born much later than Greenmoon, Fierylight and Maizelight, Bravestar's mother, and she was even born later than Bravestar and Shadowcreek, but not too much later. She joked about her being older or as old as all of the Clan members by generation which made some Clanmates laugh. She also said that her kits, Owlpaw, Crescentpaw, Minnowpaw, Shinekit and Vinekit, and Greenmoon's kits, Specklewhisker and Lynxdaisy, Maizelight's kit, Bravestar, and Fierylight's kits, Tawnyclaw, Burntfur and Hopekit were all second cousins through their great-grandmother, Nectarfern, which Hopekit and probably a lot of other cats thought was very interesting. Fierylight also talked about Nectarfern's parents and grandparents, of which one of the grandparents was Goldstar, which was even more interesting to everyone, especially Hopekit because she was a descendant of Goldstar.

Bravestar also seemed interested, which made Hopekit wonder if he didn't know. Bravestar hadn't thought much about the family tree, but he thought it would be good to know.

Pollenkit asked about how she and her siblings were related to Bravestar and Destinyflower replied that they were second cousins once removed due to their father being Specklewhisker. Then she also said that Lynxdaisy and Cloudflames were second cousins once removed too, as the latter was one of Bravestar's children, and their four kits were surprised, but still in wonder about this fact. Hopekit wondered how *she* was related to Pollenkit and Heatherkit, so she decided to ask the queen this.

Destinyflower said that she was glad that Hopekit asked and said that since she and her siblings were the kits of Fierylight and much younger cousins of Bravestar, it made Heatherkit their first cousin twice removed. And Pollenkit was also her second cousin once removed, too.

Emberheart remembered his father in his first life, Barktuft, who was the brother of Logclaw, the father of Eveningtower, Vixenpetal, Swiftsand, and Honeyjump, which meant that he was their first cousin. Brownwool, their other brother, was the father of Thymegrass and also Destinyflower's grandfather. He also jumped into the conversation and explained about the three brothers and their mother, Fawnstripe. Destinyflower seemed surprised to learn that her parents were cousins, and Hopekit never knew about them. But she figured they were also her ancestors, well, Logclaw, anyway, since Brownwool and Barktuft were only the ancestors of Destinyflower and Shadowcreek and their descendants.

Shadowcreek also thought that Barktuft was her ancestor through Gardenflower then Cinderpelt. Leaffeather also talked about them and how they joined after a severe era of greencough happened on his invitation. Being the only cat who was an adult during that time (Skysoar or his parents and Cinderpelt weren't even born and Rainleaf was only a kit), he remembered them the most vividly and talked about how Barktuft and Waterrock died protecting the Clan when a fire struck.

Hopekit was surprised about these stories and she didn't know that the history of BraveClan was this vast. But she was really fascinatedi.

Flowermoon, Flameheart, Sootmist, Hazecrest and Marigoldstar all started talking about the SunClan family tree, right then, and Hopekit and her siblings were intrigued to see what their father and the other SunClan cats would say. Dewflower, Diamondhare and Thunderflames also piped up about their family since they remembered SunClan, of course.

Hazecrest explained that SunClan was a connected family and that they were all the descendants of an original group who were afraid of foxes and wolves, and they happened to meet each other for protection and company. But they frequently got injured and even killed sometimes, and they didn't know what to do until Sunny and his sister, Dawn, later Sunstar and Dawntail, came after running away due to a ferocious dog their Twolegs got. Sunny met with Sea, the unofficial leader of the group and a very tough she-cat, and wanted them to be strong enough to fight back. Her brother, Furry, also agreed with Sunny and told Sea to follow his ideas to fight back. Eventually, Sunny's ideas worked and they managed to scare off the foxes and wolves. Sometime later they became a Clan and Sunstar mated with Searose, previously Sea, and Dawntail with a cat named Stormycloud, previously Stormy. They mated and had kits.

There were also medicine cats named Sky and Tree, later Skypelt and Treestorm, who mated before SunClan and the warrior code was created, and they had a daughter, Waterclaw (who mated with Searose and Sunstar's son, Tallclaw, and Skyhigh) a son. Dawntail and Stormycloud had she-cats Frostfight and Lightmoon and tom Littlehail. Furry, now Furrypelt, already had two kits named Flea and Rose, the former a tom and the latter a she-cat. Flea was named Fleatail but Rose's name didn't get changed as she later became a kittypet, but she left her two kits, Mottledfur (tom) and Greenear (she-cat) with the Clan.

Mottledfur mated with Waterclaw and Tallclaw's daughter, Finchheart and had Birdlight, a daughter, and Stormear and Sunpelt, who were toms. Warmtail remembered his grandmother, Birdlight, who was the mother of his mother, Lakepool, and added onto Hazecrest and the other SunClan cats' explanations. The three older kits and mate of Warmtail were positively surprised. Sootmist explained about how Stormear was her father who mated with Robinflight, her mother. And Hazecrest explained about how Sunpelt was *his* father who mated with *his* mother, Dapplemoon. Dapplemoon was the daughter of Greenear, and she had a brother, Liontail.

Sootmist and Marigoldstar also talked about Frostfight's descendants. Frostfight's daughter was Moonstar, previously Moonstream, and her son was Mintleap. Mintleap's son was Treelight, who was Marigoldstar, Silversun and Auburnfur's father (and Flowermoon's mentor). Mintleap's daughter was Goldenmoon, who later gave birth to Goldensparrow, Sootmist's dead mate and Sunstrike and Yarrowlight's father. Robinflight's mother was Moonstar, making Sootmist her granddaughter. Flameheart also said that one of Moonstar's sons was Flamingstorm, *his* father, which meant he was also her grandson. Desertpaw and Jumppaw seemed happy to be descendants of a leader. Sootmist and Flameheart also mentioned Desertclaw, who was their uncle, and he was a warrior before but after breaking his leg, became a medicine cat. Flowermoon had said that he was Desertpaw's namesake.

Marigoldstar remembered that Desertclaw helped birth her and her siblings and told Pollenhaze that there was an evil aura coming off of Auburnkit. He also came with her to get her nine lives, so she was fond of him. But somehow Moonstar didn't seem to like him that much, despite him being her son, for reasons that she would only take to StarClan, so Marigoldstar had no idea why her great-aunt felt that about him.

They talked about Littlehail, and his grandchildren through different kits were Redlight and Hailstorm, Flowermoon and Flameheart's mothers respectively. Redkit asked if Redlight was her namesake and Flowermoon nodded excitedly. Flowermoon also talked about Tallclaw and Waterclaw's daughter and Finchheart's sister, Riverlight, who was Pollenhaze and Palestream's mother, of which Palestream was her father. Dustclaw was Pollenhaze and Palestream's father, and he was the son of Lightmoon. Dewflower quipped about how Lightmoon was her ancestor through the maternal line, which meant she was her female ancestor through only Dewflower's mother and *her* mother and so on. Dustclaw's sister and Lightmoon's daughter was Swiftdawn, which reminded everyone of Swiftsand. Their daughter was Sandwind who mated with Liontail, the brother of Greenear and had Stormwind, Dewflower's mother. Dewflower and Marigoldstar said that the former and Lakepool's father was a loner named Ice.

Warmtail, Diamondhare and Thunderflames were surprised to learn this. They hadn't learned about it because they were too young at the time, but Dewflower was as old as Fenikfight and Firerain. Warmtail thought the idea of Lakepool and Dewflower's father being the same cat and mating with Stormwind and Birdlight was weird, since Dewflower was much younger than Lakepool. But he thought it was like Bravestar and Hopekit or something. Or Fierylight and Destinyflower. Or *Bravestar* and Destinyflower. Or Hopekit and Heatherkit. Or Fallstar and Reedstar.

Dewflower sadly mentioned that Lakepool had two siblings, Hailpaw, a sister, and Reedpaw, a brother, but they both died when they were all apprentices together, leaving only Lakepaw as the last one standing. Warmtail was very surprised and asked when it happened. Dewflower replied when Stormwind was an apprentice along with Lakepool when they died, and they died from leaf-bare's harshness, but she was told this story as a kit, when it happened much later.

Owlpaw asked who Warmtail's father was and Marigoldstar said that it was Silversun, her brother. Warmtail, Diamondhare and Thunderflames nodded and the latter last one added that the three of them were cousins. Owlpaw and her siblings and Spotkit and his siblings were fascinated by this. Spotkit asked if they were second cousins, and they nodded. Then Dewflower said she was sort of a half-great-aunt of Owlpaw, Crescentpaw and Minnowpaw and Minnowpaw said that was funny because she was as old as Fenikfight and Firerain, her aunt and uncle, and Dewflower agreed.

Hopekit was very interested by this fact. She thought about her grandparents, Sunpelt and Dapplemoon, and Heatherfern and Vixenpetal. She knew that her father was younger than her mother, probably due to the generation discrepancy. She thought she learned a lot of facts today, especially about SunClan and BraveClan's family trees. But then she remembered that they mentioned a cat named Auburnfur who was Marigoldstar and Silversun's sister. *Who was she?* she wondered since she never heard of her before. She wondered if she died or ran away. So Hopekit decided to ask. She didn't anticipate negative reactions, though, but neither did the other kits.

The adults and apprentices frowned a little, including Tawnyclaw and Burntfur, and especially the four light prophecy cats, and Hopekit remembered the tale they told about them being in DarkClan (with the exception of Marigoldstar) before she and the other ten kits and even Owlpaw, Crescentpaw and Minnowpaw were born. She wondered if they saw Auburnfur in DarkClan. But Hopekit wondered how the sister of Marigoldstar be her own enemy and be in DarkClan, as she thought sisters should be friends with each other, not enemies.

Marigoldstar sighed in a bit of a gloomy way. "You know DarkClan?" The kits nodded, but in a puzzled way. The SunClan leader continued, "Well, you see, she didn't like the warrior code for some reason, and then when DarkClan started threatening me and my Clan, I had to disband it in order to prevent mass genocide of our Clan. Relocation would have been very hard, too. But you see, Auburnfur, she wanted to join DarkClan willingly. Right before I disbanded it, she bragged about how DarkClan was the perfect Clan for her. She had taken custody of Warmtail, then Warmkit, and entered DarkClan. She said that, 'This Clan is trash. The Clan I'm joining will be perfect for me!' I was devastated, but I remembered the medicine cat, Desertclaw's words to our mother, Pollenhaze, about Auburnfur being evil when we were born, and I knew she would go to the Dark Forest when she died. Later on, when we discovered the Light and Dark Prophecy, Auburnfur was discovered to be one of those four dark prophecy cats, and my thoughts were confirmed that she was surely evil."

The kits were surprised, and so were the apprentices. Marigoldstar thought they were old enough to learn, four and a half moons old, but she wondered if they could handle or even understand the info. She didn't include info that was *too* dark, but she did mention genocide. So she quickly just nodded, and told the entire Clan as a distraction, "Speaking of which, it is dinner time."

The Clan members were just a little fazed by the subject change, but they probably seemed to understand why she abruptly ended this intriguing and educational story session. Hopekit, however, didn't really understand at all. *So Auburnfur was born evil,* Hopekit remembered, *and she is a prophecy cat. And she also kitnapped Warmtail as a kit.* It made no sense to her why this was so, because she had never heard of it happening before.

She also remembered when her mother and other kits' mothers mentioned there were bad reasons that BraveClan shrunk for but they refused to tell. While going to the prey pile with the many other BraveClan warriors, apprentices and kits, some of which had joined the Clan from SunClan, as she now fully knew after listening to the SunClan cats' stories, including her father, she wondered if the bad reasons had to do with... *DarkClan.*

### ~~An hour later~~

Hopekit was going to the nursery to sleep. Emberheart and Marigoldstar followed her in to talk to their queen sister or daughter, Rainingclaw and Diamondhare.

Hopekit curled up in her moss bed next to Fierylight, the only kit out of the eleven kits to be born single, and out of the apprentices and most warriors, too, so she was the only kit next to her mother, probably the last single being Warmtail. She remembered wanting to be a medicine cat while going to sleep and thought about StarClan.

She thought that she would get to play with the butterflies again, but she found herself in an unrecognizable place. She looked around and she seemed to be floating. She saw starry mist and wondered if she was in StarClan.

Then suddenly, the starry mist started turning dark and she heard a frightening hiss coming from behind her and she screamed in great fright, and instinctively jumped forward to dodge whatever was coming. Then she turned around and saw a huge tom cat looking ferociously and murderously at her.

She learned about the history of BraveClan and SunClan, but even then she could not figure out who it was, and she fearfully thought it was a DarkClan cat. Trembling in great distress and fear she stepped back more. The dark tom tried to step into the starry mist, but he seemed to be blocked.

*StarClan cats can traverse into the Dark Forest, albeit not recommended as it is too dangerous,* Fierylight, a light prophecy cat, and her mother, had taught her and the other kits. *But Dark Forest cats cannot go in, as StarClan will never allow them in. If they* can *enter... well, I will not continue.*

Hopekit was glad he couldn't go into StarClan, but she was still afraid since he was a Dark Forest cat. Then she heard a voice which she thought she heard before. *"Hey! If you attack this kit, Bloodkiller, I won't leave you!"* said a starry voice that sounded like a tom.

Bloodkiller, the tom, growled at the StarClan cat behind her, and just hissed, "Beware soon, StarClan and BraveClan. I *will* finally get my wish. To defeat you."

"Whatever," the StarClan cat said dismissively. "BraveClan, SunClan and StarClan are very strong. Together you are no match. And I will help. And it is only my duty to protect this kit, as she wanted to help me heal from my wound." Hopekit was a little confused about who he could be but then she had an idea.

"Being DarkClan, you joined StarClan. That is the most shameful, I must say. I was watching you all the way. I already told my Dark Forest pupil, Darkstar, about this, although you already died, otherwise *he would have slaughtered you!"* yowled the huge Dark Forest tom with an awful name. Hopekit went behind the StarClan cat in hope that the tom would disappear immediately. The tom continued very loudly, "If it only weren't for StarClan *holding me back to tell Darkstar about your dumb deed of saving those two immature warrior siblings of this kit and going to BraveClan happily! Including YOU!"*

Frozenbreeze, the StarClan cat as Hopekit realized from the Dark Forest tom's story, just shrugged and led Hopekit away from the violent Dark Forest tom named Bloodkiller and they both walked on the starry terrain in silence. Hopekit was still in shock about what just happened and why she was here, but Frozenbreeze finally stopped when the violent tom was both out of sight and earshot and turned towards her, with a gentle expression on his face.

"Hopekit, we decided to bring you here in order to tell some very grave secrets to BraveClan," the white StarClan tom started. "Through you."

Hopekit couldn't be more puzzled. "Why me?" she asked abruptly and in great confusion, but Frozenbreeze simply said, "We have discovered a special destiny for you and we need to make sure it is fulfilled, especially since you are planning on becoming a medicine cat. Even if you don't understand, give this message to Bravestar and Marigoldstar and they will try to interpret it. And I need to start from the least dire secrets, to the most. I could tell Leaffeather but even he can't handle too much information and he won't be able to understand everything."

Hopekit remembered she wanted to become a medicine cat but she hadn't thought about the StarClan aspect that much, except that she would accept it if it came to her. But she didn't know it would come to her as only a kit, albeit being one moon and a half away from being an apprentice of a medicine cat. She wondered what her special destiny was, and she didn't think it was only becoming a medicine cat. She thought it would be way more special, so she just nodded in response.

"The first one is a prophecy: Through hope comes wisdom, destiny and purity," started Frozenbreeze. "You will remember easily."

Hopekit just nodded and tried to figure out what it meant. She thought it would have to do with her and Destinyflower.

He continued, "Secondly, I gave the vision about Dewflower's pregnancy to Destinyflower and Leaffeather. They did not see me give the vision.

"Thirdly, I fathered Dewflower's kits.

"Fourthly, I also saved an apprentice, Airpaw, from a dog. She is a kit of Auburnfur, along with her sisters Lightpaw and Brownfur, who are also DarkClan. Welcome Airpaw and Lightpaw, but beware of Brownfur as she will bring death upon two of your Clan members.

"And fifth, beware of Bloodkiller, too. He is one of your many ancestors, but surely evil. He will lead mass destruction through his armies.

"And finally, learn about Purefur. And try to connect with her, as she was a wonderful and exceptional BraveClan warrior."

Hopekit had no idea if she followed anything but she nodded in response nonetheless. She couldn't imagine the last three secrets could be true and was in a state of disbelief and shock. The first one was a simple prophecy, and Leaffeather said that he thought Frozenbreeze sent the vision and Destinyflower agreed with him and they also suggested that he fathered Dewflower's kits, but the last three were completely unexpected and uncalled for. *I guess this is what he means by least to most dire,* Hopekit thought distressfully. She also had no idea about Purefur, or who she was.

Frozenbreeze noticed this and tried to console her, "You don't have to try and understand it yet, being a kit, but you are a mature and kind one as you tried to help me innocently without knowing who I was, along with Heatherkit. But try to remember the six secrets so you can tell your Clan when you wake up. I will repeat them again in case you forgot."

He said them again in the same starry voice as before, and Hopekit wasn't sure if she still could remember them all but she said she would try. Then Frozenbreeze smiled at her and then she felt like she was floating upwards until she woke up.

Then she saw everyone sleeping, except for Marigoldstar and Emberheart who were about to leave. Until Hopekit yelped, *"I got a prophecy!"*

The two adult cats immediately froze and spun towards her in confusion at what she just said. Hopekit repeated, *"I got a prophecy!"* over and over again as she tried to alert everyone. The entire Clan got up sooner or later as they were about to go to sleep when they heard what they said, and they were too shocked to fall asleep again. The entire Clan, kits, apprentices, warriors, medicine cats and even Bravestar, Marigoldstar and Shadowcreek were staring at her in great and unbelievable surprise, as if they thought it was almost incredible that Hopekit could get a prophecy, of all cats. Fierylight looked at her for an explanation and Hazecrest seemed to wonder how his kit could be really special.

Hopekit wasn't shy or soft-spoken, though, so she tried to remember the six secrets Frozenbreeze relayed to her and told them to everyone. Leaffeather, Emberheart and Greenmoon and the other prophecy cats seemed to be making a note of the prophecy, "Through hope comes wisdom, destiny and purity." But when she continued speaking, some of the Clan members gasped and were in awe. When she said that Frozenbreeze fathered the kits of Dewflower, Dewflower couldn't be more embarrassed. When she mentioned Airpaw being the kit of Auburnfur, Warmtail and Marigoldstar's tails went up and straight in shock as they remembered Auburnfur in a bad light.

When mentioning Bloodkiller, everyone was confused, even the legacy prophecy cats, and even Leaffeather, since they were supposed to know everything but Hopekit realized they didn't. She explained that Bloodkiller was a Dark Forest cat who tried to attack her before Frozenbreeze saved her and gave her the secrets. And when she mentioned Purefur, the four legacy prophecy cats who were the kits of Bravestar seemed to recognize her in a fright.

"Purefur... she died in a rogue battle long ago to save Cloudflames' previous life, Skysoar," Leaffeather said in astonishment.

"She also got a vision that I was a prophecy cat!" Cloudflames added in fascination.

"Does this mean she is special?" Rainingclaw said in great wonder.

Emberheart looked grim. "We did try to save her, since she did avenge Fallstar by killing that rogue but her injuries were too grave."

The other Clan members seemed to have had no idea who she was, including Hopekit and Bravestar, except for the four legacy prophecy cats.

Leaffeather added, "She was also my niece in my first life. My sister, Ashthistle, died to give birth to her and Purefur's father, Tansywood, became a theoretical queen because he didn't want his kits to be alone but he still had to do warrior duties. Purefur didn't have any kits of her own, though." He looked sad.

Emberheart, Bravestar, Shadowcreek, Greenmoon and Marigoldstar still seemed to be in deep thought about these six secrets, but especially the first and the fourth, fifth and sixth secrets, as the second and third were minimal compared to the rest.

Marigoldstar wondered if Hopekit had a special destiny which was why she got these six secrets so young. Emberheart recalled getting prophecies like this as the medicine cat apprentice Cinderpaw, since he would eventually be a prophecy cat, but he still wasn't a kit, so he was surprised StarClan could do this with a kit, even if she was going to be a medicine cat as an apprentice, especially the recently dead DarkClan but also StarClan warrior Frozenbreeze.

Fierylight seemed to be only a little surprised that her daughter got a prophecy from StarClan so young, but she still seemed to be confused. Hazecrest was still very surprised, however.

The entire Clan was still wondering about StarClan and DarkClan's secrets, including the kits and apprentices, and Hopekit herself.