This is the last chapter so I made it long!! I made it longer than I've made any chapter before and I struggled a bit-or a lot. I stayed up until 12:30 am to finish this when I was really tired. I hope you like it!!
Disclaimer-I do not own Warriors, but I own this completed story.
Chapter 15
Ivyflower paced anxiously back and forth in Leafpool's den even though Leafpool had told her to stop because she might reopen her wounds.
"Ivyflower! Stop and sit down, you're in here to rest and regain your strength, not walk off all your strength that you have!" Leafpool exclaimed, clearly getting annoyed.
"Sorry, Leafpool, I'm just worried about Nightsight and Greenpaw," Ivyflower meowed impatiently. Nightsight was wanted dead by Hawkfrost and Greenpaw was threatened to die along with herself. "I hope they're okay."
"I know, we all do," Leafpool meowed, trying to soothe Ivyflower. "Only you and Greenpaw really know what's going on." Ivyflower sighed. "Now come rest, you need to get your strength back so you can move onto warrior duties."
"Fine," Ivyflower sighed slowly padding over to her nest. She had just lain down in the mossy nest when there was the noise of a lot of commotion outside the den. Someone entered Leafpool's den and Ivyflower leaped to her paws. "Nightsight!" she cried.
Greenpaw was carrying in Nightsight's body that was bloodied.
"Oh StarClan!" Leafpool gasped rushing to get cobwebs.
"W-what happened?" Ivyflower stuttered as she looked at Nightsight.
Nightsight was covered in blood, some not even her own. She had a deep gash on her shoulder that went all the way down to her flank. Bright red blood was still coming out and then other scratches. You had to have very good eyes to catch Nightsight's faint breathing.
"I don't know. I was fighting beside Hollypaw then Hollypaw was murdered… I didn't see what happened," Greenpaw explained.
Ivyflower's eyes widened. Hollypaw was dead, the cat who had warned the Clan about Nightsight losing. She couldn't be dead, just couldn't.
Leafpool came rushing back with cobwebs on her paw to press on Nightsight's wounds. She gently pressed each one on the deep injury to stop the continuous bleeding. Nightsight was still struggling to stay alive. She had the very, very shallow breathing and Leafpool was surprised by the amount of blood loss she hadn't died yet, but there was still the possibility that she would.
Ivyflower watched with clouded eyes. She couldn't believe that her sister was trying to stay alive, even if she did survive, then she would be in a great deal of pain when she awoke. Ivyflower remember when she and Nightsight were kits, and how much Ivyflower helped Nightsight. And how much they meant to each other then, and how much they mean to each other now; just the same, but a lot different. StarClan, she just fought bravely for Greenpaw and me in a battle, so why does she have to fight another battle to stay alive? Why can't she just be okay? Ivyflower asked.
"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey, join beneath the Highledge for a Clan meeting." Ivyflower closed her eyes and then opened them. She stood up and padded slowly out of the den.
Ivyflower noticed that most of the cats had scratches, but nothing close to as serious as Nightsight. Ivyflower sat beside Greenpaw and Briarpaw. Ivyflower just realized that the sun had begun to rise above the horizon.
"Cats of ThunderClan," Firestar began. "Tonight there was a battle, that was suppose to be for one cat, but it didn't turn out that way. I have been told that Hawkfrost was the cat that attacked Ivyflower. He was the cause of all of this tonight."
One certain question was yowled out, but Ivyflower couldn't find out whom it was. "Is Hawkfrost dead?"
Firestar was silent for a moment then answered. "Yes, he is dead. He was killed by the cat that was prophesized to kill him, that cat was Nightsight."
"Firestar," Leafpool called from the entrance of her den. "I have some bad news." Ivyflower thought her heart was about to stop when she was about to hear the news she didn't want to hear. "I have tried everything I can, but she has lost too much blood, Nightsight isn't going to survive."
"No…" Ivyflower looked at her paws. She couldn't bare that her sister was going to die it couldn't be true. "It can't be…"
"Thank you, Leafpool for telling us," Firestar meowed.
Ivyflower noticed that Sorreltail and Brackenfur were crouching on the far side of the crowd.
"You can come and see her if you like," Leafpool offered to Ivyflower.
Ivyflower nodded a 'yes' and went into the dim den where here sister lay dying. Ivyflower looked at Nightsight. Nightsight's side was sliced open with the deep gash. And along the gash were other scratches that looked painful, but definitely much less painful than the major injury. It pained Ivyflower to see her sister like this. Her sister was in pain; she could tell by how uneven her breathing was. And her breathing, it was quite slow, slower than it was needed for a cat to survive.
Ivyflower sat down beside Nightsight, not wanting to leave her side. "I'm sorry, Nightsight, this is all my fault, I was the beginning of all of this. I'm sorry," Ivyflower apologized to the unconscious cat. She let her head drop with shame.
"It's not your fault, Ivyflower."
Ivyflower looked up and there she saw Brackenfur. Ivyflower shook her head telling her father that he was wrong, but he just walked over to her and put his tail on her shoulder.
"It's not your fault," Brackenfur meowed gently. "You knew there was a prophecy, just as well as Nightsight did. She knew what the prophecy meant."
"But she only went tonight because I was almost killed and Hawkfrost had threatened to kill me," Ivyflower cried in a whisper.
"That's because she loves you. You are her sister, and that's why she risked her life for you and Greenpaw," Brackenfur continued.
"How are you staying so calm?" Ivyflower asked her father.
"I don't know," Brackenfur whispered.
"She can't die. I don't know what I would do without her," Ivyflower meowed. "She doesn't deserve to die!"
"I know, but not all cats deserve to die when they die," Ivyflower's father meowed.
"You're okay with Nightsight dying?" Ivyflower asked. "She's your daughter, I thought you loved her."
"I'm not okay with Nightsight dying, but it is her fate if she dies," Brackenfur explained. "And I do love her, but I would rather see her safe in StarClan than in great pain here."
Is that how I feel? Is that why I'm making a big about this? Is it because I want her to be out of pain? Ivyflower asked herself.
"Come get something to eat, and then rest," Brackenfur meowed beginning to walk out of the den.
"No, I want to be here with Nightsight," Ivyflower meowed stubbornly.
"Then let me bring you something to eat," Brackenfur suggested.
"No, I'm not hungry," Ivyflower mumbled.
"Then rest," Brackenfur mewed.
It was more of an order than a suggestion, but Ivyflower replied as if it was a suggestion. "No, I want to stay here by Nightsight."
"Nothing I'm going to tell you to do you are going to do, are you?" Brackenfur asked.
"That's right."
Brackenfur let out a sigh heavily and mewed, "Alright, but you will be resting sometime today."
"Of course, just not now," Ivyflower answered matter-of-factly.
Brackenfur left quickly and quietly. Ivyflower knew that she was being rude and snappy to her father, but she didn't care at the moment.
"Night will cover the hawk, the wind will blow, the river will run, the shadows will join the river, and the thunder will rumble. The prophecy is over; you killed Hawkfrost, WindClan fought in the battle beside ThunderClan, RiverClan and ShadowClan fled when they saw you had killed Hawkfrost. It all makes sense," Ivyflower whispered.
Ivyflower put her nose softly into Nightsight's fur and closed her eyes. She lay there and then opened her eyes.
She saw a pair of dull ice blue eyes looking at her and then a raspy know-it-all meow. "I told you I would be okay."
Ok, was this confusing to anyone? I had tries to make a little confusing. Anyway, the last paragraph was Nightsight. Who thought at the point when I wrote "Nightsight won't survive" actually thought she was going to die? Well, she couldn't have died because she is the main character to the SEQUEL!! Yes, I said sequel. I didn't want to tell you about the sequel earlier because I didn't want to spoil these last few chapters for you. The sequel will be called "A Destiny Awaits: Never Alone." I put on my profile when I will update my stories in case you start to wonder, if I don't update in a while.
Swimstar was the person that was the closest to figuring out the prophecy, so her character she gave me will be in the sequel at some point.
Also, if you are a bit confused on the 'Ivyflower helping Nightsight thing' that has been going through their minds, it may be explained in the sequel, but I'm not sure. And the thing with Hawkfrost saying that Nightsight was clueless will definitely be explained in the sequel.
Review and I will post the prologue to the sequel faster!
