Zodiac (warrior cats)

Chapter 39

Staring at an enraged Mallowstar,Otterpool soon decided this wasn't the best time to be in camp. Turning her gray paws towards the lake, the newly made warrior nodded to her new deputy Silversmoke.
The silvery-gray she-cat didn't respond to Otterpool's greeting, she simply kept on padding over to speak with Mallowstar.
"I wish Petalfur was still deputy" she whispered under her breath, it was quite a shock when Petalfur was killed by that fox.
Having to clear her mind from all the craziness of RiverClan camp, Otterpool broke through the shrubs near the tiny streams, and onto the shore of the lake.
In the distance she could see an image of the island, nothing more than a black shadow behind the waves of snow pouring onto the ground. For some reason Otterpool didn't feel the cold as intense as other cats did, it simply felt normal to her fluffy fur.
The water at the edge of the shore was frozen solid, newly formed snow already piling on top of its icy surface. Otterpool still didn't know what Mallowstar was talking about at the gathering, there were still fish in the lake.
At least she could catch some. Padding onto the shiny ice, the gray warrior walked carefully until she came to a hole in its surface.
"I can fit through that" slowly Otterpool pushed back some of the snow near the surface.
With one swift movement, the lithe she-cat slipped into the black abyss of the lake. At first the extreme cold of the water shocked Otterpool, and she soon began shivering and chattering her teeth.
Soon tough the young Zodiac began to adjust to the freezing temperatures, and before she knew it, Otterpool was twirling down to the bottom. A few streams of sunlight shone through, allowing just enough light for the Zodiac to see where she was swimming.
Well Mallowstar was right about one thing, Otterpool thought as only a fish or two swam past her like a blur, there were fish, just not many.
Kicking with her back paws, Otterpool came to the bottom of the lake. Plants of various sizes and colors grew out of the sandy bottom, shells even scattered the dark beige surface.
Rummaging through the tiny particles for any sign of minnows or other fish, Otterpool noticed a thin black line running through the bottom of the ground.
That's weird, she told herself while swimming alongside it, It looks like there's a crevice here.
Swimming down a ways until the thin crevice opened up into a large hole, Otterpool checked to see if there was anything inside. She didn't want to surprise an angry eel, that's how the elder Eelscar got his name, it took his tail clean off!
Well, I guess there's nothing inside there. Maybe I should just go inside and see, maybe there's some prey for the clan!
Otterpool's sister Dawnlight was already expecting her first litter of kits, Dawnlight was made to be a queen since the moment she was born.
Here goes nothing, the gray Zodiac bubbled through the opening, and into complete and utter darkness. The walls of the ground edged along Otterpool's sides, making her feel closed in and blocked off from the outside world.
But after swimming through a long narrow tunnel for quite awhile, Otterpool soon found herself in a wide chamber. And not only was this place large enough for her to swim around, there was also air at the top.
Breaking through the surface, Otterpool felt the change inside her body as she breathed in the oxygen of the moist cave.
"What is this place?" an underwater cave? Otterpool had never heard of such a thing!
Swimming towards a narrow bank of rock, Otterpool climbed unto the cold ground and looked around. It was almost completely dark except for a few rays of light that streamed through the water, it felt like night time!
Trailing along the edge of the bank, Otterpool examined the wall all around her, it looked so....so ancient!
"Wait a second..." Otterpool gasped as she saw carvings inside the stone, "No...It can't be!".
Symbols were carved on the wall nearest to the Zodiac, eight symbols to be exact. And all eight of them were wrapped like a circle around a carving that looked somewhat like the sun.
"What are these?" she asked out loud, peering closer at the small claw-made images. That was when Otterpool became really freaked out, all eight images soon began to glow and eery bright white light.
"These...These are all our powers" she realized, seeing a leaf symbol and a lightning symbol.
That leaf symbol must mean Sprucefrost! And the lightning bolt was most certainly Ferretleap, he was as fast as lightning! Her interest peaking, Otterpool turned onto the rest of the images, her sapphire eyes round with awe.
The next two were what appeared to be a skull, and a bat. The bat must be Umbershade, Otterpool realized, bats lived in the darkness. But was the skull Hollowsong? I thought her power was to control cats minds and tell them what to do, not to... kill them.
Shaking her head of the dark thoughts, Otterpool soon squeaked with excitement as she saw a rain drop and a symbol of light.
The water symbol has to be me! And the light symbol has to be Rushpaw, his power is to read aura's! This was starting to get both eery and exhilarating for the young Zodiac as she identified a fire symbol and a crescent moon symbol, obviously Charredsoul and Bluecloud.
"But why are these here?" Otterpool most certainly had no idea why, or how anyone would know these were each of the Zodiac's powers.
"And whoever carved these had to be ancient, this cave hasn't been touched in...." well Otterpool couldn't think of a number big enough, but not in awhile! Knowing the sun was going to be setting soon,
Otterpool turned to slink back into the water. But as she did, the young she-cat noticed two more drawings above the eight symbols, what were these?
Peering more closely, Otterpool could faintly see the images, though neither were lit.
This one looks like some sort of big animal with spots, and the other one is a large jagged rock! But why were these here? There were only eight Zodiacs, and they all already had symbols.
Whatever they did mean, Otterpool just knew something ancient had to have known StarClan was going to give these powers to eight cats. But why, and most importantly, who?