Chapter 16:

Buried Secrets, Part 2

A Prophecy Of Night And Sun


Autumnpaw kept running, until she crashed into the moonstone, and then passed out,

"AUTUMNPAW!" Dawnpaw screeched, then ran to her, trying to wake her up, and then hugged her sister, starting to cry because she thought her sister was dead.

Autumnpaw was in an unfamiliar den, and she was see-through, "W-where am I-I?" Autumnpaw asked herself, slightly panicked. A starry cat walked up to her,

"WH-WHO ARE Y-YOU!?!" Autumnpaw exclaimed, leaping onto her feet, and then paused, "Wait... am I... de-dea... dead...?" Autumnpaw pouted, "No, you are not dead..." The starry cat replied, "THEN WHO THE HECK ARE YOU!?! AND WHY AM I HE-" Autumnpaw said, before she was cut off, "I am- I mean WAS the past leader of TideClan..." The starry cat replied, 

"Wh-what...?" Autumnpaw asked, atonished.

"I...- I am your grandfather..." The starry cat admitted, then revealed himself to be Tidestar.

"WHAT THE HECK, MY MOM TOLD ME ABOUT YOU!?! WHY AM I HERE AND W-" Autumnpaw hissed, before Tidestar covered her mouth, 

"Oh my StarClan, you're just like your mother..." he muttered under his breath.

Autumnpaw giggled, "Kinda funny that we're in StarClan and you use 'Oh my StarClan'." Autumnpaw giggled, "Well, anyways, I have brought you here because of a prophecy..." Tidestar replied briskly, 

"WHAT." Autumnpaw said.

"Yes...-" Tidestar said, then cleared his throat, 

"The Tide will rest on the ocean bed, the gold will rule over the clan, and then the night will rise to be leader and the sun will rise to be third, the shadows from the caves will deceive the night, and the sun will stop shining, only the autumn can save the clan from the shadows of the caves, the autumn is TideClan's only hope, now. Their fate rests in her paws." Tidestar said, 

"WHAT THE- HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!?! DO I LOOK LIKE A MEDICINE CAT TO YOU!?!" Autumnpaw hissed at him, 

"Let me just show you." Tidestar said, then waved his tail in Autumnpaw's face, and then they appeared at a battle field, between the 4 clans... TideClan, SnowClan, SunClan, and DarkClan.

The clans were fighting, Autumnpaw saw her mother getting attacked by Darkstar, and Darkstar was about to kill her, "NO! STAY AWAY FROM MY MOTHER!" Autumnpaw hissed, then leapt at Darkstar, but went through her body, and fell onto the hard ground with a loud thud, "Ow..." Autumnpaw groaned quietly, then out of the corner of her eye, she saw a cat that looked very much like herself getting attacked by a few DarkClan cats, 

"AUTUMNFALL! DUSKFUR! DAWNPELT! RUN!" A black and white tom yelled and started attacking the cats who were attacking the she-cat, "Wait... IS THAT-!" Autumnpaw exclaimed, "Yes..." Tidestar said, hanging his head in hopelessness. "That... is your clan... and your kin... if you don't save the clan, TideClan will lie in ruins... and so will the rest of the clans..." Tidestar sighed, then Tidestar waved his tail in Autumnpaw's face again, then it was after the battle, a there were a lot of injured cats, and some even dead, Autumnpaw ran to her injured mother and tried to help her, but her paws went right through her mother's body, then Tidestar walked up to Autumnpaw's side and rested his tail on her shoulder, "There is nothing you can do right now... this is only a dream... but this WILL happen if you don't do anything about it..." Tidestar said, 

"I... I..." Autumnpaw stammered as she stared at the body of her dying mother in utter shock, then teared up, and then wiped away her tears and had a very serious expression, 

"I guarantee you; this will NOT happen..." Autumnpaw hissed lowly, Tidestar smiled, 

"I am VERY impressed that you aren't pessimistic right away." Tidestar muttered, then touched noses with Autumnpaw, "Farewell Autumnpaw, for now." Tidestar said, as Autumnpaw's body started to fade, then she woke up.

She had completely forgotten about the moonstone and her sister. She saw her sister, Dawnpaw, crying, and as soon as Dawnpaw noticed she was awake, she hugged her so tight that Autumnpaw couldn't draw a single breath, "AUTUMNPAW!" Dawnpaw said, then started crying even harder, 

"CAN'T. BREATHE." Autumnpaw gasped for air, "Oh sorry..." Dawnpaw said, then loosened her grip a little for Autumnpaw to breathe, Autumnpaw took a very deep breath, and then said, 

"I... I got a prophecy..."