Chapter 27
Seeing Ferretpaw's limb body on the ground, Sprucepaw instantly ran forward. She didn't mean to hurt him so bad, but he was going to attack Otterpaw!She pressed a paw onto the cream-furred apprentices flank, and could faintly see his pelt rising up and down as he breathed.
"Thank StarClan" Sprucepaw breathed, "He's alive." At least Ferretpaw had blacked out for now, because if he was awake then he'd still most likely attack Otterpaw.
"It's safe" she called out towards the river, noticing a pair of ears peeking out of the waters surface.
Slowly Otterpaw looked up and saw Ferretpaw's body, and slowly exited the river.
"Thanks" she meowed, shaking her pelt of the droplets, "I thought he was going to kill me!".
Sprucepaw highly doubted Ferretpaw was capable of killing someone, he was most likely just looking for a fight. "He was just mad about the camp, although I don't know why everyone's blaming you. You were only trying to help!".
Otterpaw sighed, "Tell me about it. One of the queens in your clan almost bit my head off when I saved her kit. She called me a freak."
"That would be Yellowpoppy" Sprucepaw lowered her head, "And I really am sorry about all of this, maybe I can convince Thistlestar to stop blaming RiverClan."
Although her leader was more preoccupied with the ones who started the fire in the first place, ThunderClan.
"And I can drain it back into the lake, I tried actually but your deputy Sunstrike wouldn't let me anywhere near the camp" Otterpaw's gaze held guilt and depression, "I just want everything to go back to normal."
Sprucepaw felt exactly the same way, "I'll tell Thistlestar that, I'm sure he'll understand. But there's something else that trouble's me." Actually it had been troubling Sprucepaw ever since Kestrelflight told her about the prophecy StarClan sent the four Medicine Cats moons ago.
"When we were born, StarClan contacted each Medicine Cat. They said that by the first moon of Leaf-Bare, four of us will be dead." The prophecy still sent chills down the brown she-cats spine, and she could tell Otterpaw was disturbed by it as well.
The gray-blue cat shifted her paws, "But do you really think its true? I mean will four of us really be dead in three-moons?".
Honestly Sprucepaw didn't know how to answer her question, if StarClan saw it happening then it most likely was true.
"And if it is true then we have to at least meet each other, all eight of the Zodiac's need to meet" her muscles suddenly tingled with excitement, "We need to meet soon."
"But how?" Otterpaw meowed as she looked down at her tail.
"ThunderClan and WindClan hate each other. Most of your clan hates me, not to mention ShadowClan doesn't even talk with anyone anymore. How do we get each clan to meet each other?".
Sprucepaw already knew the answer. She had been thinking about this for a long time now, and had foreseen something bad like this happening to the clans.
"You can go to ShadowClan because your the closest. I think the Zodiac's names are Umberpaw and Hollowpaw, you just need to tell them when and where we're meeting."
Otterpaw perked her shiny ears, "And where and when are we meeting?".
Sprucepaw pondered the she-cats question for a moment, then a thought clicked in her mind.
"Down by the lake in between RiverClan and WindClan territory, there's a crevice where we can meet in private. Tell them to be there by Midnight."
This absolutely had to work, and maybe if the Zodiac's actually knew each other and became friends, then they wouldn't end up killing each other after all.
But how do I convince Ferretpaw to come?
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