Touch the Sky

Season One, Episode Four of Fire and Ice: Touch the Sky
"The prey's frozen!" That was the first thing Rabbitfrost heard when she awoke. She had been thinking about retiring to the elders' den soon, but decided not to. She wanted to milk the rest of her abilities as a warrior until they were gone. Only then she would retire.

She padded over to the fresh-kill pile to see the frozen prey. Maybe she could salvage some of it. She had been through many cold leafbares, with sickness and despair included.

Rabbitfrost sighed, looking at the prey. It was all encased in ice and would taste gross when it melted. She turned over a crow at the bottom of the pile, hoping to find any sign of why the prey froze. Then she saw it.

A rabbit. Not much, you might say. But to her, it meant the world. It was the only piece of prey without frost on it. A rabbit without frost.

Rabbitfrost. She contemplated the idea of letting some other young cat go on the quest and eating the prey. But she let it go.

She jogged the short distance to the leaders den in a few heartbeats.

"Firestar," she began softly. "I'm going on the quest." She shoved the rabbit at his feet.

"Really? Wow. You may tell your friends and family. I have interpreted this as your sign." Firestar bowed his tabby head.

Rabbitfrost beamed. She moved to go outside, and then opened her gray-tinged muzzle. She thought she smelled.....

"Fire!" Her eyes widened and she raced outside. "Evacuate the camp!"

She glanced behind her, watching Firestar pelt outside.

Then she felt a burning flame lick the tip of her paw. She was trapped in front of the leader's den!

"Firestar..." She began uncertainly. Rabbitfrost and Firestar then proceeded to look for places to come out of the fire. They glanced at each other. They looked at the fire, whose flame tongues reached the sky. Then they jumped over the fire and ran for safety.

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"Your warrior name will be Smokefoot," Blueflame drowsily mumbled. He was dreaming about a kit that was made of smoke, and smelled like it too.

He turned over, grunting. His foot landed on something sharp, a thorn, maybe, and he sat up. He still smelled some smoke.

Blueflame blinked and stepped outside to get some fresh air. It still smelled like smoke. Smoke!

Where was every cat? He turned around. Then he saw it. The giant wall of flames blocking his way. He gulped. Maybe his friends couldn't find him, so they ran to safety?

Blueflame shook his head and ran into the forest. But not before he glanced upward and saw that the flames had touched the sky.

The sky's blue. He thought. The fire's made of flames. The flames touched the blue. I wish they'd turn blue. Blue flames! Ha! Blueflame! That' s me. Wait. No, it can't be! I've been chosen!

All this conversation happened inside Blueflame's head, but it meant a lot to him. He knew it was true, though. Fires never happen in leaf-bare, unless Twolegs start them.

He took a shuddering breath and came to a stop, panting. He could hear faint voices in the distance. They seemed to be getting closer. They also seemed to be calling his name.

"Blueflame! Blueflame! There you are,"Ashstar smiled. "We thought you got lost in the fire!"

"I didn't. But I did discover something. The sky's blue. The fire's made of flames..." Blueflame started to quote his thoughts to Ashstar who nodded in agreement.

"Yes. I will announce it to the Clan once they get over the shock- oh. You don't know. The Clans, we lost our territory. The camp-" Ashstar looked behind Blueflame. "it's been obliterated. DayClan too." He sighed.

"We're going to relocate all our territory. Yes, everything."

"Everything?" Blueflame's eyes widened, and then he looked up, praying to StarClan that everything would be okay. And then he saw the flames again, the ones that touched the sky.