Chapter 32
Batting a pebble across the ground, Rushpaw ignored the conversation that was currently taking place. He didn't realize when Otterpaw told him about this so called meeting, that it would be so boring, if he did then Rushpaw wouldn't even have come!"What's your power?" Rushpaw looked up to see Hollowpaw staring eagerly at him.
Groaning, he pushed himself up to face the rest of the Zodiacs. What was he supposed to tell them, that he can read auras? Rushpaw didn't even know the extent his powers reached to begin with, let alone to explain them to random strangers.
"He can read cats auras!" Otterpaw exclaimed, as Rushpaw only glared.
"I can tell them myself, thanks" he kneaded the ground nervously, then rose his head. "I can tell what cats emotions are by seeing the aura around them" it probably sounded stupid compared to Charredpaw's power.
"What's an aura?" Umberpaw looked confused.
The Medicine Apprentice sighed, "It's a light that forms around a cat, the color changes depending on their emotions or how they are feeling."
Instantly a few cats including Sprucepaw and Hollowpaw looked interested.
"What's my aura say?" the brown WindClan she-cat asked, as Hollowpaw meowed eagerly behind her. Focusing his eyes on Sprucepaw, Rushpaw could see a yellow-green light around her.
"Your closely bound to the earth" he meowed, feeling the pull she felt to the forest and animals around them. "You feel like everyone around you is destroying what should be kept sacred, and all you want is peace."
The devotion she felt to the earth was astounding, Rushpaw never felt such a pull! Sprucepaw seemed equally as shocked, her green eyes rounded as she backed away.
"What about me?" the brown ShadowClan cat asked eagerly, sitting in front of Rushpaw.
Suddenly Rushpaw felt a draining feeling erupt from the she-cat, and the brown light around her wreathed like smoke spirals.
"You're feeling like a victim of the world" he meowed while becoming absorbed with Hollowpaw's emotions. "You blame yourself for something that was out of your control, but the lack of understanding of your ability leaves you lost in the darkness."
Rushpaw could see an image of a body falling from a tree, and crashing onto the ground like a large stone. He could also feel the darkness enveloping him, it was so powerful Rushpaw almost couldn't control it!
He could tell Hollowpaw was horrified as well, her eyes were bleak with terror from what he said.
"That's enough" Umberpaw interrupted Rushpaw's reading and stood in front of Hollowpaw protectively.
Suddenly Rushpaw realized what he had said, and shook his vision to see clearly. Hollowpaw was visibly upset by what the apprentice had said, but he only did what she asked him to.
"Rushpaw can also tell the future!" Otterpaw yelped, seeming more excited then anyone else.
Will you just shut up? He wanted to cuff her over the ears, why did Otterpaw always have to blurt out personal information?
"Read my future" a solemn meow came from the Zodiac Charredpaw. Looking into the massive toms burning eyes, Rushpaw suddenly felt intimidated.
"Well I can't really see the future, I can just see an image of something that will happen" they didn't expect him to tell them anything important did they?
But still Charredpaw walked forward to face Rushpaw, and he knew he had to at least try.
"Give me your paw" the Medicine Cat apprentice sighed, closing his eyes.
Charredpaw put his paw onto Rushpaw's, and he turned it over to look onto the dark gray pad. It was quite a difference from Rushpaw's snow white skin, and already he could feel heat coming from Charredpaw.
"Your whole body is burning" he meowed, astounded. How could a cat be so hot, did he have a fever?
"It's part of my power" Charredpaw reassured him, "I can control fire after all."
"Yeah, you try to" Ferretpaw snorted, as Sprucepaw growled at him to shut up.
Focusing once more on the tom, Rushpaw looked at his pure white pad. Slowly a distorted image began to appear, forming like tiny particles of sand.
"I see nine stars" Rushpaw meowed, suddenly realizing what they were. "Your going to be leader of your clan someday, you'll be given nine lives" that was if Charredpaw survived after all.
"Really?" he looked astounded, "Me? Leader?".
Rushpaw didn't want to shatter the toms moment of excitement as he also saw a skull appear on his pad, there was death in this cats future. As he gazed at the cats around him,
Rushpaw realized each of them were marked with the symbol of death. Fate still hadn't made up its mind yet, any of them could live or die at this moment.
"Hey look at Sprucepaw!" Otterpaw exclaimed loudly, "She's making a cave."
Breaking his train of thought, Rushpaw looked forward to see the brown cat pushing the earth down and forming a large hollow cave. Everyone seemed pretty much content at this moment, even Ferretpaw was chasing Umberpaw through the darkness.
Maybe they didn't have to kill each other, maybe the Zodiac's could along after all. But in Rushpaw's opinion, that was a pretty big maybe
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