Chapter 16

Lightpaw fluttered her eyes open to see Crowmia bending over her, about to tap her shoulder with her tail-tip. Lightpaw raised her head and yawned, stretching out her wings.

"So what did Thunderstar say?" Crowmia asked, her eyes alight.

"I didn't see Thunderstar," Lightpaw replied "I saw a WindClan cat."

"Who were they?" Crowmia mewed, tipping her head.

"His name is Emberpaw. He's Mapledusk's kit." Lightpaw answered.

Crowmia stared at her, puzzled, then turned around and meowed "Let's head to Sunningrocks and see if we can catch anything. The fresh-kill pile is only half full."

Lightpaw nodded and padded after her mentor, following the black and grey she-cat through the forest to the RiverClan border. They stopped on top of a large, flat boulder, watching and listening for any signs of prey. Lightpaw strained her ears, and heard what sounded like two voles digging underneath them.

"I can hear two voles down there." she whispered, pointing her tail to the gap between the boulder they were sitting on and the boulder on the other side. Crowmia nodded, and signalled with her tail to let Lightpaw crouch just above the gap.

She waited in silence as the scuffling sounds of tiny paws became louder and louder, filling her ears. Then a tiny snout poked out, and she reached her paws down to smash onto the vole's back. It let out a shriek, which was abruptly cut off as Lightpaw nipped it sharply on the back of its neck.

She watched as the second vole scrabbled on the stones while she reached in and slammed a paw on top of it, pulling the limp bodies back out.

"Great catch!" Crowmia mewed as Lightpaw buried her prey behind the rocks, away from RiverClan land.

Lightpaw only nodded. She wasn't satisfied enough with just this. She wanted her second hunt to end with her almost falling over from the weight of her prey. Her forehead creased into a scowl as she set her mind on her goal. She would do it no matter what.

Just as she relaxed her face again, the clear blue sky was suddenly swamped in shadows. Lightpaw glanced up, and saw that it was filled with all different kinds of birds.

Pigeons fluttered nervously, starlings sped wildly, and eagles glided high above. Lightpaw watched, puzzled, as each and every bird came to land at her paws, some of them dropping dead right then and there.

"Well, looks like we're going to have to make two trips back to camp!" Crowmia meowed cheerfully as the remaining birds all fled, as suddenly as they had come.

Lightpaw nodded, and the two cats started to gather up all the fresh-kill. By the time the sun had set, they were on their third trip back, and their jaws were still laden with prey. Lightpaw dropped her haul onto the overflowing fresh-kill pile, sending a few birds rolling down the sides.

Sparkstar had had noticed how much prey they had on the second trip, praising Lightpaw and Crowmia for their hard work. She'd said that they could store some of the prey underground, so it could stay fresh enough to eat all through the next quarter moon.

Lightpaw padded slowly to her den, her paws aching from walking to and from Sunningrocks so many times. Inside, Brokenpaw greeted her with a purr, and mewed "I heard about that massive catch you got today. Great job!"

Lightpaw could tell he was proud, but she could also see an underlying tone of something else, something that suggested Brokenpaw didn't feel worthy enough of his sister.

Lightpaw touched her nose to Brokenpaw's ear and mewed "I didn't actually catch them. They all flew over to Crowmia and I while we were hunting, and half of them just dropped down dead at my feet."

Brokenpaw only gazed at her like she was only making it up to make him feel better.

Lightpaw sighed to herself. She hoped desperately that her success wouldn't affect her littermates again. It was starting to bug her.

She padded to her nest, and curled up in it, wrapping her long, fluffy tail around her nose. She was asleep within heartbeats, exhausted from the day's work.

Hey there! So you know how Emberpaw and Lightpaw have powers? Yeah, so I'm going to make a separate book that's basically just going to be interviews for the characters in Moonfire. I'll let you all leave comments on who you want to interview and some questions you might want to ask.

Also, try to guess what Lightpaw's powers will be in the comments! I'd love to see what other people think! Also, this whole chapter is basically clues to what her powers are, so I've kind of helped, I guess.

Anyways, that's all from me!

- Lightfeather

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