Chapter 20
Mousepelt sat on the stone wall that seperated ShadowClan and Twoleg place. What was she going to tell everyone? She was feared, even by the cat she knew her whole life. She didn't blame them either. Silversol was getting closer and closer to controlling her that she almost killed Amberheart in her sleep.
Images of the Dark Forest, Silversol, the terrified face of Amberheart, the sad solemn look of Ravenclaw, and the ShadowClan and ThunderClan kits being killed by her own paws. Their mewls filled her ears. Moonkit begging Mousepelt to stop. Ashkit crying for Turtlefur. The last two ThunderClan kits trying to survive the scratches.
"Mousepelt!" A familiar voice yowled. "Wake up!" Mousepelt shut her eyes to block the blood of kits spilling. "Would you stop thrashing and wake up!" A sudden pain shot through her face and Mousepelt opened her eyes to see Ravenclaw glare down at her.
"R-Ravenclaw?" Mousepelt shook.
"Sorry I scratched you, but you were thrashing around like a dying fish," Ravenclaw sat down and Mousepelt saw that she had fallen off the stone wall on to the ground. The feeling of something warm slithered down her cheek and she could smell blood.
"I'm sorry," Mousepelt got to her paws, "but... But I think I should go..."
"You're not going anywhere!" Ravenclaw hopped over to stand between Mousepelt and the stone wall. "Just 'cause that ThunderClan she-cat fears you doesn't mean ShadowClan does! In fact that's what a Clan cat does, we make cats fear each other when they're in different Clans!"
"That's different!" Mousepelt shot. "She fears me because I am Silversol!"
"No you're not!" Ravenclaw snapped. "You're Mousepelt, the she-cat who saved all those kits even when no one treated her like she belonged, the she-cat who became a respected warrior, and you're the she-cat who will kill Silversol and avenge all the kits who died!"
"How can I when... When I'm afraid of her?" Mousepelt lowered herself.
"It's okay," Ravenclaw reassured, putting his tail on her brown back, "everyone's afraid of her, but we're all counting on you and that ThunderClan cat, we believe you can defeat her!"
"How?" Mousepelt pressed. "She always sends me foreboding dreams."
"I'll help you concur your fears and defeat Silversol!" Ravenclaw announced.
"Are you sure?" Mousepelt stood up straight.
"If she's trying to scare you off with dreams, then we'll just have to go in to your dreams and help you face them!" Ravenclaw explained.
Mousepelt ran through the Dark Forest, trying to out run a whole Clan of them. All of them spat at her and tried clawing her face off. Faces of cats in ShadowClan slipped by her, their eyes empty eye sockets and blood running down their chins. Kits were crying in the distance and it seemed like, the farther she went, the darker and longer the forest seemed.
"Mousepelt!" Ravenclaw's voice yowled. "You can't running! You have to fight!"
Mousepelt wanted to keep running, but Ravenclaw was right. She had to fight. She spun around and prepared herself. The Dark Forest cats stopped and looked at Mousepelt.
"Run!" One of them ordered.
"Never again!" Mousepelt stood her ground as she swiped her paws at them They vanished in a black smoke, leaving a pile of bloody kits. "No!" Mousepelt cried.
"How sad!" Silversol's voice mrrowed with laughter. "Serves them all right!"
"Evil fox dung!" Mousepelt wailed.
"How can you cherish the kin of those who resented you?" Silversol's voice rang. "How can you not hate them? How can you not hate them all?"
"They're only kits!" Mousepelt yowled. She suddenly found herself in the ShadowClan nursery looking down at Moonkit and Ashkit, sleeping peacefully.
"Kill them!" Silversol whispered in Mousepelt's ear. "You'll see that it's not that bad!"
"I will never be you!" Mousepelt shouted. "You may say we're the same, but I will never become you! Me and Amberheart will kill you, you're nothing to anyone!"
"Fool!" Silversol pounced from the darkness and pinned Mousepelt down. "You will regret ever coming to these woods!"
Mousepelt snarled as she scratched at Silversol's face. The white warrior let out a painful yowl and jumped off the brown speckled she-cat. Mousepelt then jumped at Silversol, but she dodged Mousepelt and sent a swipe at her side. Mousepelt flinched at the pain, but refused to give up.
"That's it Mousepelt!" Ravenclaw appeared and Mousepelt found herself in a starry space with starry cats all around him. Mousepelt recognized Tawnypelt amongst them. "No matter where you go, we'll help you, we still have a lot to do."
Mousepelt pounced at every single Dark Forest cat, killing them with a deathly bite to the neck. She saved kits from deadly blows from bloody paws. She would pin Silversol down, wanting to kill her then and there, but something held her back and she stopped her paw in mid air.
It had been moons after Ravenclaw had decided help Mousepelt fight Silversol and defeat her fears. Mousepelt felt like she was on top of the world with Ravenclaw by her side. She didn't care if Amberheart feared her, Mousepelt wasn't going to fall under Silversol's control, she was going to save the forest and its future.
Suddenly, Mousepelt woke up to the sound of a shriek coming from the island. She looked up to see a full moon. Ravenclaw was looking at her worryingly and they both ran off to the island. The shriek sounded familiar. And Mousepelt suddenly realized, the shriek belonged to Amberheart!
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