Sunstep lightly padded into the clearing of Fourtrees and leapt onto Great Rock and sighed,
StarClan, please help me figure out my prophecy! She laid down and stared down at the clearing thinking about her prophecy
‘Befreind the cat with strange eyes! It is him who will save you!’ she dug her claws into the rock with frustration. “Why do I get a prophecy and not Speckledfeather? I’m no medicine cat” she cried to the stars. In the bushes a huge rust colored tom with strange greenish-blue eyes lurked smirking at the she-cat.
ThunderClan cat, easy prey for me… he thought. The tom was about to leap at the cat when he stepped on a twig snapping it. Sunstep swiftly jumped up teeth bared and neck fur raised, “Who’s there?!” she exclaimed. The tom just stood in the bushes with a sly smile,
If I get her in the bushes she’ll be easy prey. Sunstep leapt down from the rock claws unsheathed and hissed “Come out or I’ll go get help to force you out!” The tom chuckled and stepped out “Now we wouldn’t want to do that now would we?” Sunstep stared at his eyes for a moment “Who are you?” she snarled. “My name is Flame, what’s yours ThunderClanner?” Sunstep looked shocked “How did you know I was ThunderClan!?” she asked still staring at his eyes. “That’s not important, answer my question!” Flame snarled bared his yellow teeth. Sunstep meowed not taking her eyes off him “My name isn’t important” Flames slashed his claws at her “ANSWER ME!!” he snarled. Sunstep dodged his claws and simply replied “Nope.” Flame snarled and leapt at Sunstep, she just dodged and bolted up a nearby tree. “Now you answer me and I might answer you” she hissed just staring down at him. “Didn’t you ever learn that it’s impolite to stare?” he snarled, his tail was swishing the dust below him showing his irritation. “I see your irritated, come and get me!” she laughed slashing a stick full of leaves down onto him. Flame sneezed when the stick fell on him and snarled and quickly ripped the leaves off of it then bolted up the tree. Sunstep giggled and she leapt from branch to branch getting higher each branch. Flame just kept thinking
Why is this ThunderClanner, so…so…so annoying? Sunstep reached the top and slowly peeked her head out of the leaves and meowed in triumph then looked down for Flame “You comin’ slow poke?” she asked sarcastically. Flame snarled and leapt onto the branch below her and snarled “Come down here you wimp of a she-cat and fight!” Sunstep laughed “Or what?” Flame growled and reared up on his back legs and smacked the branch, the branch snapped and fell. Sunstep screamed and leapt from the falling branch and dug her front claws into the branch Flame was on. “Or I’ll throw you down” he growled slyly digging his front claws into her front paws. “Okay! Okay, I’ll fight you just help me up!” Sunstep begged. Flame smiled and pulled her up, and as soon as she was up she slashed his face and bolted down the tree. Flame roared when he felt blood pour down his face and bolted down after Sunstep. Once the two cats were back in the clearing, they unsheathed their claws and bared their teeth at each other. They started circling each other and Flame thought Finally what I came for! While Flame was distracted thinking Sunstep leapt at him and dug her claws into his sides and reared her head back to bite his shoulder when, Flame rolled on to his back crushing the she-cat. Flame rose and circled her teeth bared waiting for an open spot. Sunstep swiftly got back up and followed the cat with her head, Flame snarled and leapt when she let her guard down and dug his claws deep into her sides and sunk his fangs into her shoulder
Why not torture her before I kill her? he asked himself. Sunstep screamed and rolled onto her back and swiftly rose and sliced with her claws and cut Flames shoulder. “What are you doing trying to kill me?!” she yowled. Flames smiled slyly “Precisely” Sunstep eyes widened
He wants to kill me! She snarled and leapt back onto Great Rock. Flame growled and leapt onto Great Rock with her and slashed at her face. Sunstep duck and slid under Flame cutting his belly, and jumped up when she got back behind him. Flame yowled and sliced straight at her throat, all his mind was thinking was
Kill, kill, kill! Sunstep ducked and sliced straight at his strange eyes, Flame screamed as pain rushed through his face. Flame leapt at Sunstep going straight for the neck but Sunstep ducked and pounced on him pinning him to the ground. “You never answered my question, how did you know I was ThunderClan?” Flame bare his teeth “Don’t you remember me? I’m Flameeyes!” Sunstep widened her eyes “You were my mentor!” Flame widened his eye as well “Sunstep?!” Sunstep leapt back “Yep” Flame rose and sat down and licked his paw and started cleaning his wound “So how have you been?” Sunstep sat as well “Good, Eaglefeather, is now Eaglestar” she meowed. “Wow, your brother is leader?” Flame asked looking up “Yeah…” Sunstep meowed. Flame asked “What’s wrong?” noticing her unhappiness, Sunstep looked up “Well, since he became leader, he acts different.” Flame perked his ears up “Like what?” Sunstep sighed “He doesn’t speak to me ever except when giving me orders…” Flame purred “Maybe he could be doing that to protect you?” Sunstep perked her ears up and looked at his eyes “What do you mean?” Flame started to speak “Well a gr-” then a small golden she-cat came running in to the clearing “Sunstep hurry, rouges are invading!” Sunstep quickly looked at the she-cat then to Flame. Flame eyes widened “Lets go!” and the three cat rushed back to ThunderClan camp. When they arrived the camp was full of blood and yowling cats. Flame immediately ran to a grey tom and the golden she-cat ran to a small black cat and Sunstep leapt to a huge white she-cat. Sunstep snarled and sliced the cats shoulder and sunk her fangs into it’s neck, she jumped back to let the she-cat bolt away through the gorse tunnel. Sunstep looked around to see that the ThunderClan cats were heavily outnumbered, she leapt back into battle. After making another cat flee she looked to see Flame standing in the middle of the clearing ripping a cat off of Eaglestar. Eaglestar roared and tore cats off of him and Flame and Eaglestar stood side by side battling. Flame yowled “Watch out Sunstep!” but it was too late a rouge had pinned her to the ground and had sunk her teeth into Sunstep throat. Sunstep clawed and the rouge belly but she would not release her grip. Sunstep was about to give up when she heard a tom yowl and a lash of orange and noticed the she-cat off of her. The groaned and looked in the direction the flash of orange went and saw Flame slamming his paw into the she-cats head then everything went black. Sunstep awoke in the medicine cat den with pain to her neck she sighed “Flame?...” Flame nuzzled her cheek “I’m here” Sunstep purred “You saved me” Flame laid beside her and licked her cheek “I had to” Just then a shadow blocked the sun “And a good thing he did” a deep voice said Flame stood up and nodded his head in respect. Eaglestar padded over to Sunstep and asked “How are you feeling?” Sunstep slowly stood up but Flame still quickly helped support her “I’m okay” Sunstep meowed. Eaglestar smiled “That’s good cause I do not want you to miss this” Flame helped Sunstep into the cleared and Sunstep laid back down and Flame sat down “Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here beneath Highrock for a Clan meeting!” Eaglestar yowl rang through the clearing and soon a crowd appeared beneath Highrock. Eaglestar spoke “As you all know the battle with the rouges yesterday nearly cost us one of our warriors-” Flame touched Sunsteps forehead with the tip of his tail basically saying he had to go “-but if it hadn’t been for Flame-” Flame yanked his head toward Highrock followed by a smile by Eaglestar “-I wish to give him my apology and a invitation to rejoin ThunderClan, not only as a warrior but as my deputy since I don’t have one” Flame gasped and looked at Sunstep and stuttered happily “Th-th-thank you Eaglestar, I gladly take your invitation” and Eaglestar meowed and raised his head to the sky "I say this before the spirits of Starclan, so they may hear and approve my choice. The deputy of Thunderclan will be, Flameeyes!” and followed by that was chants “Flameeyes! Flameeyes!”
THE END
