Chapter 38
Umbershade's jaw dropped open in hysteria, was what he was hearing even accurate?My own sister is going to be used as a weapon against ThunderClan! And Scorchstar's just going to use her like its nothing. His mind buzzing with the events that just occurred, Umbershade realized he had to warn Bluecloud.
Making sure no one was watching, the pitch black tom backed up into the shadows, and disappeared without a trace. Bounding along through the snow, the young tom felt anger rising inside his soul.
"Hollowsong was the evil one the whole time!" he couldn't wrap his mind around how that was possible, "My own sister... A weapon...".
A branch lay a fox-length ahead of Umbershade, but he quickly leapt over it, and landed in a heap of snow. His breath quickening as he increased his speed, Umbershade just hoped ThunderClan would be able to do something if they knew about Hollowsong's power.
The rocky enclosure was only fox-lengths ahead, but Umbershade skidded to a halt as moonlight lay in front of him.
Fox-Dung, he swore silently, eyeing the warrior Scorchcloud and her apprentice Fierypaw who were on guard duty. Now what? If Umbershade moved in either direction, the moonlight would expose his pelt, and then he would be caught!
Thinking of ideas, the black tom barely noticed as a large cloud drifted across the moon, blacking out any light that flooded down onto the snow ridden floor.
"Thank you StarClan" he whispered quietly, quickly racing across the snow until he was out of the two cats sight.
The break in the rock wall just happened to be right near the Medicine Cats den, hopefully Bluecloud would be there right now. Creeping to the edge, Umbershade outstretched his head to look through the v-shaped hole.
At first he only saw a few cats near the fresh-kill pile, sharing prey and sharing tongues.
"Bluecloud!" he mewed slightly louder as the apprentice Medicine Cat walked in front of his gaze.
Instantly she stopped, ears perked and eyes glowing. Hopefully she was the only one alerted to Umbershade's presence, thank StarClan no one else heard him.
"What's wrong?" she whispered into the darkness as Umbershade still stood invisible, "Is everything alright?".
He flexed his claws, "No, its not alright, everything's wrong now." Deep down Umbershade knew he shouldn't be betraying his clan like this, but he felt a sense of loyalty to tell the innocent cats in this what they would be facing.
He soon told Bluecloud of how Hollowsong revealed her power to the clan, and how Scorchstar's greed was going to turn her into a vicious weapon against ThunderClan.
"It's just as StarClan predicted" Bluecloud lowered her beryl gaze onto the speckled moonlit snow.
Umbershade didn't know what to say, but the one thing he did know, was that the prophecy was going to come true. Without another word, the black warrior turned to leave back to his home, as Bluecloud meowed for him to stop
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