CHAPTER 18
Jayfeather paced along the edge ofthe Moonpool. The stone felt icy beneath his paws and a cold wind moaned above his head. Please, StarClan, let them come!Last night, the medicine cats had promised to meet him here.
It seemed a moon away now. When Lionblaze had revealed the prophecy that afternoon, it felt as though he’d shaken the world between his claws. Leafpool’s words echoed in his mind. You were born to save the Clans2.Hope had sparked from her pelt3, and the anger, which had been knotted around Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw for so long, finally began to unravel4.
“Watch out!” Kestrelflight snapped.
Jayfeather padded forward, feeling the rock dimpling underpaw. “Willowshine, is that you?”
“We’re here.” The RiverClan medicine cat followed the spiraling path toward the Moonpool. “Mothwing sends good wishes.”
“Why didn’t you wait for us by the stream?” Kestrelflight bounded down to join them.
“I wasn’t sure you’d come.” Jayfeather shifted his paws.
Littlecloud padded stiffly into the hollow, his old bones tired from the journey. “We told you we would be here.”
“I’ve had to leave a camp full of sneezing warriors10.” Kestrelflight fluffed out his pelt. “The first cold of leaf-bare has brought sickness.”
“Anything serious?” Littlecloud asked.
“Nothing more than runny noses and a cough or two,” Kestrelflight told him with obvious relief. “I’ve left Whitetail in charge of the herb store. She knows how to treat a sore throat.”
Jayfeather cut her off. “Kestrelflight won’t need an apprentice if the Dark Forest destroys us!”
Willowshine’s breath touched his nose. “What do you mean?”
“They’ve found a way of crossing over from the Place of No Stars,” Jayfeather announced.
“Into ourterritory?” Willowshine whispered.
Littlecloud’s claws scratched the rock. “It’s been them all along!” Fear edged his mew. “It’s been Dark Forest warriors sneaking13 into our territory!”
“Into all our territories,” Jayfeather corrected him. “They’re looking for the best places to fight. They could attack any day!”
Jayfeather leaned forward, his heart pounding. “It’s not just a few dead cats!” he hissed15. “They’ve been training our Clanmates.”
“In their dreams!” Jayfeather ignored the shock sparking from the pelts17 around him. They had to know the truth.
“Most of them don’t understand what they’re doing,” Jayfeather explained. “They believe they’re being loyal. They think Brokenstar and his Clanmates are teaching them to be better warriors so they can fight for their Clans.”
“Mostof them?” Willowshine echoed. “What about the others?”
Jayfeather faced her. “Some of them want the Dark Forest to win.”
“I hope you’re right,” Jayfeather muttered darkly. “But Brokenstar has threatened the worst punishment to any cat who betrays him. And in the chaos20 of battle—with all four Clans under attack—do you really think the battle lines will be so clearly drawn21?” Jayfeather stalked down to the water’s edge. “Blood will flow from every Clan1.” He turned, widening his sightless eyes. “It’s Tigerstar’s destiny to destroy us all.”
“What can we do?” Willowshine breathed.
“How?” Littlecloud padded closer.
Jayfeather hesitated. “I don’t know.” He’d warned the medicine cats. They could pass on his warning to their Clans. But would that be enough?
Willowshine shifted her paws. “StarClan will protect us.”
“StarClan is divided,” Kestrelflight reminded her.
Jayfeather gripped the rock with his claws, fighting back the fear that was turning his belly cold. “They’re more scared than we are,” he murmured.
Willowshine’s breath quickened. “How can we fight the Dark Forest alone?”
When all cats have closed eyes, we gave the gift of sight to the cat who is blind. You see more than most.Midnight’s words suddenly flooded back to him, and Brambleberry’s mew echoed in his ears: You already know the answer.
Jayfeather lifted his chin. “Flametail united us,” he declared. “Now I will unite StarClan.”
“How?” Littlecloud’s tail-tip whipped the stone.
“I’ll let them see the danger for themselves!” Jayfeather turned and touched his nose tip to the Moonpool.
At once, the world opened around him and his blindness lifted. He was on a grassy23 hilltop, dark clouds skimming overhead. Wind-battered meadows stretched below him. Trees huddled24 in the valleys, stripped of leaves. StarClan’s hunting grounds had slid deep into leaf-bare.
“Where’s the sun gone?” Willowshine shimmered25 into view beside Jayfeather, her nose sparkling with water from the Moonpool.
Kestrelflight stalked from the long grass, eyes round as he adjusted to the gloom.
“Now what?” Littlecloud’s pelt brushed his flank as the ShadowClan medicine cat joined them.
“Each of you must go to your own ancestors and bring them here.”
Willowshine stared down to a muddy river flowing between the fields. Littlecloud faced the swath of dark forest spreading beside it while Kestrelflight fixed26 his gaze on the rolling moorland beyond.
“Can you do it?” From here Jayfeather could see the tops of the mighty27 oaks where ThunderClan sheltered beneath.
“I’ll bring every cat that I find.” Littlecloud headed down the hillside.
“Willowshine?” Jayfeather saw the RiverClan medicine cat hesitate.
She whisked her tail. “Will the Dark Forest warriors come here, too?”
Willowshine flashed him an anxious look and began to trot32 toward the river. Jayfeather headed down the hill and into the woods.
A white pelt moved at the edge of his vision. He snapped his head around. Whitestorm!The ThunderClan warrior9 was stalking prey33. Tail down, muzzle34 low, he crept forward, his eyes fixed ahead. A mouse skittered over a tree root a tail-length away. Whitestorm sprang and landed on it squarely, killing36 it and sitting up with a purr rumbling37 in his throat.
Jayfeather padded out of the shadows. “I’m glad there’s still prey here.”
“Follow me, Whitestorm. Please, it’s important.” He stared into the white warrior’s eyes. “We need to gather StarClan.”
Whitestorm tipped his head. “Everyone?”
“As many as we can.” Jayfeather bounded forward and broke into a run.
Whitestorm chased after him. “But what about the boundaries?”
“The other medicine cats are helping39 me gather ShadowClan, WindClan, and RiverClan.” He ducked just in time to avoid the prickly stem of a bramble.
“Didn’t StarClan order you to stay away from the other medicine cats?”
“Yes.” Jayfeather caught sight of a matted old tom snoozing in the shelter of a fern. “Goosefeather!”
The old ThunderClan medicine cat lifted his head, then hauled himself to his paws. “Is it half-moon already?”
Goosefeather glanced at Whitestorm. “What’s going on?”
“Come on!” Jayfeather raced away. He crested44 a rise to find Sunstar picking his way along an ivy-choked trail.
Jayfeather caught him up. “Follow us!” He didn’t even pause. There wasn’t time to explain. The ground grew muddy underpaw and ferns gave way to bracken. “Frostfur!”
The white she-cat was reaching up into a cloud of tumbling leaves, batting at them with her paws. Her gaze widened as she saw Whitestorm, Goosefeather, and Sunstar on his tail. “Where are you going in such a hurry?”
“Bluestar!”
The old ThunderClan leader was eating a vole in the shade of a withering46 juniper. She looked up in surprise.
“Follow us!” Jayfeather told her.
Bluestar glanced down at the vole, then bounded toward them, her eyes shining with excitement. “Where are we going?”
“Wait and see!” Jayfeather led the cats down a ravine that cut through the middle of the woods.
As they scrambled47 up the other side, Jayfeather glanced over his shoulder, surprised by the long line of cats trailing in their wake. Tawnyspots, Frostfur, Swiftbreeze, and Adderfang had joined them. He reached the top of the ravine and caught sight of a thick, tangled48 pelt lurking49 in the shadows. “Yellowfang?” Her amber50 eyes narrowed as he called to her. “Come with us!” he urged.
She curled her lip. “What are you up to?”
Jayfeather stumbled to a halt. “I’m uniting StarClan!”
“Why would I follow fools?”
Jayfeather lashed31 his tail. “Don’tcome, then! Stay here in the dark. My words will be wasted on you anyway.” He bounded forward, his Clanmates scrambling51 after him.
Pale light showed ahead and he pelted52 for the edge of the forest, breaking from the trees, tail high. The hill rose before him. Charging through ferns, he led his Clanmates onto the grassy slope. Cats were swarming53 from every direction, racing for the hill. He spotted54 Willowshine’s gray pelt leading a horde55 of RiverClan warriors. Kestrelflight raced from the valley, warriors skimming over the grass behind him like a flock of starlings.
Jayfeather’s paws ached from running but hope was swelling57 in his chest. At the crest43 of the hill, he stopped and turned, amazed by the ranks of StarClan cats crowding over the slopes below him.
Kestrelflight halted beside him. “Word must have spread.”
Willowshine slowed, panting, and sat down.
As Jayfeather plucked at the grass, Littlecloud scrambled to the top of the hill and stopped beside him. His eyes stretched wide as an owl’s as he saw the cats amassed58 below.
“Yellowfang came,” Willowshine whispered in Jayfeather’s ear. The mangy, old she-cat stood apart from the other cats, eyeing them distrustfully.
“StarClan!” Jayfeather stepped forward and lifted his chin. “Listen!”
“Why?” Yellowfang yowled. “We have the wisdom of ages. You have the stupidity of youth!”
Sunstar jerked around and hissed at her. “You can leave if you want to!”
Yellowfang flattened her ears but didn’t move.
Jayfeather tried again. “You must listen to me!” he called. “Yellowfang’s right. I’m younger than any of you.”
Mosskit flicked her tail as she padded out from behind Snowfur.
“Younger than most of you,” Jayfeather corrected himself. He unsheathed his claws. “There is a terrible threat to you all! And to the Clans you once lived in. You know the Dark Forest is rising. You can see it in the dead leaves that litter your hunting grounds, and the clouds that block out your sun.” Jayfeather glanced up at the gray sky. “You must face the truth. And the truth is worse than you ever imagined.” He gazed around the raised faces, hoping they understood. “The Dark Forest must be met and fought. You will not win by huddling59 together like families of mice. You must stand together or fall divided!”
“But how can we beat an enemy that can bring leaf-bare to StarClan?” Raggedstar called.
Darkflower’s eyes glittered. “They have grown stronger than us.”
Sunstar padded forward. “When we sent you the Prophecy of the Three, we didn’t know the Dark Forest would grow so powerful.”
“But now they are Four!”Bluestar pushed past her old leader. “The Ancients gave them an ally to make them strong enough to fight any enemy.”
Bluestar tipped her head. “Isn’t it obvious?”
Jayfeather frowned.
“You are not the first cats guided by a prophecy,” Bluestar prompted. “I was promised long ago that fire would save the Clan. It has never needed saving as much as it does now.”
The fire in the reeds. Always fire.
Bluestar nodded, as if she could see into his thoughts. “Get him,” she mewed softly. “He needs to know what is happening.”
Jayfeather spun61 and darted62 away down the far side of the slope. Skidding63 to a halt, he closed his eyes. Forcing his thoughts into the minds of his Clanmates, tucked tight in their nests in the hollow, he searched their dreams for the cat who had always been destined64 to save his Clan.
“Surrender, you fox-hearts!”
“Never!”
Jayfeather crashed into a battle. He felt smooth rock beneath his paws. It stretched, flat and wide, toward a dark wall of pine trees. Jayfeather flinched65 as cats fought around him, throwing up dust from the sandstone as they reared and slashed66 at one another. A flame-colored pelt glowed at the heart of the battle.
“Firestar!”
The ThunderClan leader was wrestling with a dark-furred ShadowClan warrior. “Sunningrocks will never be yours!” With a sharp thrust of his hind56 paws, Firestar heaved the warrior away. His muscles flexed67 with the strength of a young cat, and his eyes were green and fierce.
Firestar froze, blinking at him.
Jayfeather halted in front of his leader. “Come with me.”
“The prophecy needs more than the Three. We need a fourth cat.”
“What do you mean?”
Jayfeather twitched70 his tail impatiently. “When I went to the mountains, the Tribe of Endless Hunting told me that the prophecy could only be fulfilled if we found another cat. Mothwing showed me an omen71, a fire in the reeds by RiverClan. It’s you,Firestar. You are the fourth cat.”
Firestar tipped his head to one side. “Yet again, fire will save the Clan,” he murmured. “Very well. What do you need me to do?”
“Follow me.” Jayfeather turned and dived between the battling cats, racing to the edge of the wide, flat rock.
Firestar quickly caught up. “Where are we going?”
“You’ll see.” Jayfeather drew in a breath and flung himself over the cliff, feeling a rush of air before his paws hit grass. Firestar landed beside him, eyes wide. They were on top of the hill beside the medicine cats. Below, StarClan was waiting.
“They needed to see you,” Jayfeather explained.
“Why?”
“Because the prophecy makes you part of this. The life you have left will save the Clans.” Jayfeather turned to face the ranks of StarClan. “You must follow me once more,” he yowled. “You need to see for yourselves.” Beckoning72 with his tail, he headed down the slope, not to Firestar’s dream battlescape, but into a dingy73 forest where slimy bushes choked the roots of the trees and the sunshine turned to eerie74 half-light. Firestar’s pelt brushed his as they crept deeper into the woods. Behind them, StarClan sparkled in the shadows, muttering.
“How can any warrior live in such darkness?”
Jayfeather heard a battle cry echo between the trees. “Look.” He flicked his muzzle toward the shadows ahead. Dark pelts flitted through the slippery undergrowth. Agonized76 cries rose and fell in the darkness. Then one voice rasped louder than the others.
“Hook your claws into her spine77 and go for her throat!” Mapleshade loomed78 suddenly in front of them. Blind to the watching StarClan cats, she aimed a heavy blow at the ear of a scrawny tom and sent him reeling away.
Brokenstar stalked from the trees. “Hasn’t Shredtail mastered the death blow yet?” He scowled79 at the tabby, who was wiping blood from his nose. Then he yanked the tortoiseshell to her paws, blood welling on her fur where his claws pierced her pelt. “If your opponent wasn’t so useless, you’d be ripped to shreds80 by now. I want as many Clan cats dead as there are birds in the forest!”
“Where’s the sun?” Mosskit’s frightened whisper echoed in the darkness.
Snowfur wrapped her tail over his back. “Hush, little one!”
Creeping like prey, the StarClan cats headed back along the trail. Firestar walked heavily beside Jayfeather, his head low. “How can we fight such evil?” he murmured.
“The prophecy says we can win.” Jayfeather felt daylight dapple his pelt. The trees had thinned and StarClan were flooding back into their hunting grounds.
“We’re back!” Mosskit scampered81 onto the grassy slope. He turned, blinking, as StarClan streamed past him and stared at Jayfeather. “Why did you take us to see those horrible cats?”
Firestar lifted his voice to the whole of StarClan. “Now that you have seen them, have heard what they are threatening our Clans with, are you afraid to fight?”
Jayfeather saw determination hardening the gazes of the StarClan warriors. “But will you fight together?” he questioned.
Bluestar swished her tail. “We can’t fight such cruelty while we’re divided.”
Yellowfang stepped forward. “How will we know who to trust?”
“You can trust me.” Firestar straightened up, his pelt bright. “And one another.”
Raggedstar padded forward. “How could such horror have thrived?” he growled. “We should have been able to crush it before it grew so strong. After all, we have the power of the stars in our paws.”
Jayfeather met his solemn gaze. “No,” he meowed. “That is my destiny. Mine and Firestar’s.”
Beside him, Firestar nodded. “I am the fourth cat,” he declared. “The prophecy has come true.”
Jayfeather opened his eyes into blackness. The Moonpool rippled83 at his nose. Kestrelflight, Littlecloud, and Willowshine were waking, their pelts brushing the stone as they clambered to their paws.
Jayfeather felt blood welling on his pads. The long journey had left him grazed and aching. “StarClan is united. Now we must gather the Clans.” He pushed himself up. “We must tell them everything.”
Littlecloud’s claws scraped the rock. “Let’s bring them to the island.”
“But we don’t know which warriors to trust.” Worry edged Willowshine’s mew.
“We can trust the leaders, surely?” Kestrelflight’s tail swished.
Jayfeather nodded. “I’ll bring Firestar.”
“And I’ll bring Blackstar,” Littlecloud promised.
“I’ll bring Mistystar.”
“I’ll bring Onestar.”
Jayfeather felt determination harden beneath their pelts. “Let’s meet at sunhigh,” he decided84. “We have to make them realize that the only way to win this battle is to unite the Clans.”
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| adj.怪诞的；奇异的；可怕的；胆怯的 | |
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| v.蹦蹦跳跳地跑，惊惶奔跑( scamper的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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