Deep Dark Secrets

Summary
Aquapaw is an apprentice to ThunderClan, seems normal right? Well it isn't, there are a lot of issues going on with Aquapaw right now. First of all, their's a tom in her clan named Archtail that's mad because he didn't get to mentor him, and he's just always mad and being unexplainably rude to her. Second, there's yet another tom named Rapidclaw who can't get it through his bee filled head that she want's nothing to do with him, he's arrogant and he thinks everyone loves him. Then on top of all of that, her father, Blazestar, is becoming more distant and careful with her and her siblings. He's holding some sort of secret, and Aquapaw knows it, but what is it? And what does this normal ThunderCan apprentice have to do with it?

ThunderClan
Leader: Blazestar: huge smoky, dark gray tom with odd orange colored eyes

Deputy: Nettleclaw: dark golden tabby tom with bright blue eyes and black paws

Medicine Cat:

Warriors

Strongblaze: huge dark ginger tabby tom with gray eyes and a scar over his nose and a half torn ear

Duskflower: dark gray she-cat with amber eyes

Nightfrost: handsome black tom with amber eyes and one white ear

Apprentice: Rootpaw

Thrashfoot: brown-and-white tom with green eyes

Rabbitnose: small light gray tom with dark amber eyes

Flakefur: small but swift light gray she-cat with spots of white all over her pelt and lightt blue eyes

Apprentice: Aquapaw

Thistlefang: dark gray tom with spiky fur and yellow eyes

Snowstorm: huge pale white tom with dark blue eyes and black flecks under his eye

Apprentice: Blitzpaw

Quickwind: light ginger-golden tabby tom with bright blue eyes

Apprentice: Pazpaw

Archtail: darker golden tabby tom with bright blue eyes

Ebonyflight: dark brown, almost black, she-cat with dark amber eyes

Apprentice: Maplepaw

Rapidclaw: dark brown, almost black, tabby tom with bright green eyes

Furzeflash: brown-and-white tabby she-cat with golden colored eyes

Apprentices

Aquapaw: silvery-blue tabby she-cat with dark blue-gray eyes and one white paw

Pazpaw: small light golden tabby she-light with light blue eyes

Blitzpaw: dark gray tom with golden colored ears and orange eyes

Rootpaw: light brown tabby tom with a lighter chest, underbelly, muzzle, and paws, with dark green eyes

Maplepaw: pretty and slender lighter orange/gold she-cat with gray eyes and black paws and underbelly

Queens

Honeywhisker: light golden tabby she-cat with green eyes (mother to Nightfrost's kits: Midnightkit: dark gray she-cat with light amber colored eyes, Lilykit: dark gray-and-white she-cat with blue-green eyes, and Warriorkit: black tom with one golden ear and amber eyes)

Mintbelly: light brown tabby she-cat with light blue eyes (mother to Thrashfoot's kits: Bramblekit: light brown tabby she-cat with green eyes, Spiderkit: dark brown tabby tom with light blue eyes and long legs, Frecklekit: white-and-tortoiseshell she-cat with light brown eyes, and Serpentkit: big black-and-brown tom with yellow eyes)

Elders

Duskpelt: dark gray tabby she-cat with amber eyes

Prologue
"You don't belong here!" Hissed the light gray she-cat at the light golden one "You're a loner, a rogue, an outsider! I'm giving you a fair warning because I'm a sincere cat, but if you don't get off our territory, some other cats are going to take action, and it's going to be very messy."

The light gray she-cat was bristling at the lighter golden one. The golden she-cat had a bored look on her face, she didn't seem concerned by the gray she-cats warnings. She simply waved her tail from her belly, and that made the gray she-cat gasp.

"You have kits!" she gasped in horror looking down at the small bundles "Why did you bring them here! You should know it's unsafe!"

The golden she-cat looked away and replied calmly "Take them to live with their father."

The gray she-cat was confused, their father? Who could that be? Not anyone from her clan she hoped. Instead she shook her head and replied.

"Who is the father?" She asked eyeing the kits "I would, but I don't know who he is."

The golden she-cat blinked at the gray one and replied in an eerily cool voice "Blazestar, yes, Blazestar. He called himself Blaze in front of me,but I wasn't stupid. Much I know about your clans, and from his authorities I could tell he was a leader."

The golden she-cats eyes widened. Blazestar? Her leader? No, it couldn't be him. Blazestar was the most loyal cat to the clan, he would never seem like a cat to mate outside the clan. It was a shock.

"Don't think I'm lying either." Says the golden she-cat quickly before the gray one can respond "Because I'm not, look at these kits and try to tell me they're not his."

She backed away from her tiny kits and looked up at the gray she-cat. The light gray she-cat took precautions steps towards the kits, her eyes narrowed. When she arrived by them,she sniffed each carefully to make sure they were healthy. The gray she-cat was a mother herself and she knew how to care for kits easily. Then. she scanned over them, taking over their shapes and fur colors.

The first kit had dark gray fur, the exact shade of Blazestar's, but he had golden colored ears, that came from mom, obviously. The next kit was a golden tabby. just like her mother, but her pelt was a bit darker and very pretty, she knew the kit would grow up with toms mooning over her. Then, the last kit was quite the sight. No fur color from the parents, but in shape, she looked just like Blazestar. Her fur color was a silvery-blue, and she was a tabby.

"The silver kit is-" The gray she-cat began.

"My sister has the same colored fur as her, that comes from me." Replied the golden she-cat "but she looks like her father though, right?"

The gray she-cat just nodded and kept her gaze down. The gray tom let out a cry and immediately, the golden she-cat was over in hurry, licking him and calming him down. The gray she-cat couldn't help but soften a bit, maybe this she-cat wasn't so bad.

Suddenly, a rustle in the bushes beside them sounded, and both pairs of cats snapped their heads towards it. Out leapt a golden tabby, his brilliant bright blue eyes ablaze. The golden she-cat looked at him confused, but the gray she-cat stepped forward before the golden she-cat could say a word.

"This is my son, Archpaw." She said quietly to the other she-cat, then she turned to face her son "Archpaw? Why did you follow me out here? I thought Snowstorm was taking you out to hunt and-"

"Why are you talking to her?" Archpaw snapped at the golden she-cat and she recoiled a bit to his harsh words "And those kits, they're Blazestar's aren't they? He broke the warrior code he!-"

"Archpaw!" Snapped the gray she-cat "Hush, and calm down, we're trying to figure this out like civil cats."

"Civil cats? Civil cats Gentlebreeze," exclaimed her son "isn't going to work, Strongblaze is leading a patrol out here, and you know how he is with random cats on our territory."

The light gray she-cat, Gentlebreeze stared hollow eyed at Archpaw. He was right, Strongblaze despised, no that wasn't the right word, hated stray cats on his territory. The last time he caught a stray cat on their territory, he cut off half its ear and ripped open it's flank, the poor cat ran off screaming in pain. Gentlebreeze herself was there to watch.

The golden she-cat stepped forward and said quickly "Look, I'm going to go," she said "but take my kits with you, I cannot care for them anymore, I will leave." Her gaze flickered downward and she smiled a little "The tom is Blitz, the golden she-kit is Paz, and the silver she-kit is Aqua. Name them as you will."

Archpaw opened his mouth to detest, but Gentlebreeze got there first.

"Thank you," she said "I will take them to Blazestar and explain it to him. They will be cared for."

"Thank you Gentlebreeze," said the stray she-cat backing away from her kits and starting to turn her back "thank you so much, I really should get going-"

"You're not going anywhere"

The familiar snarl made Gentlebreeze's eyes widen. She turned and saw Strongblaze stalk from the bushes, he had a snarl perched on his face and his eyes were narrowed into gray stripes. Gentlebreeze almost fainted at the sight, this wouldn't go down cleanly.

Strongblaze stalked over to the stray and circled her menacingly, Gentlebreeze gulped,oh no.

"So you just wanted to dump your kits on us?" Strongblaze hissed and Gentlebreeze heard one of the kits whimper, she ran over to them and tried to calm them but to no avail.

Strongblaze whipped around and eyed Gentlebreeze,

"Will you shut those things up!" He snarled then turned back to the stray.

Gentlebreeze wrapped her tail around them and licked them, and they quieted down. Gentlebreeze then looked up and saw Strongblaze looking directly at her.

"Now Gentlebreeze," he hissed "Step away from the kits and come over here. If you attack her, then we will bring the kits to the camp, if you don't we push them away and send them off with their mother and god knows who or where their father is."

Phew! thought Gentlebreeze He hadn't heard the stray talk about their real dad, that's a relief

But then it dawned on Gentlebreeze that if she were to save these kits, she would have to attack their mother. Her ears flattened and she looked at Strongblaze with a look of horror on her face.

"Y-you can't be serious!" She said in a hushed tone "W-we don't have t-to attack her, we can j-just let her be-"

"Do it know!" hissed Strongblaze "or the kits go with her."

Gentlebreeze gulped and looked at the golden she-cat, she nodded very slightly, and Gentlebreeze knew that she would have to attack.

Leaping from her place, she attached herself to the strays back, the stray lost balance and both rolled down the shore they were standing on and into the lake. Gentlebreeze got up and shook off her pelt, she saw the golden she-cat do the same. When she met they stray's eyes she was prepared for another attack, but didn't move when the stray attempted an attack. When the golden she-cat barreled her over she could hear Strongblaze howl from the shore.

"Lame! Lame, Gentlebreeze! You're a full grown warrior, how come your getting knocked over by a puny stray cat! You're not fit to be a warrior!"

The words echoed in Gentlebreeze's head.

You're not fit to be a warrior!

You're not fit to be a warrior!

You're not fit to be a warrior!

Gentlebreeze closed her eyes and clenched her jaw, then she opened her eyes and her sight was blurry. It was blurry from anger. With the anger she held from Strongblaze she piled over the golden rogue and they both tumbled deeper into the lake. When Gentlebreeze's paws couldn't touch the bottom, she began to panic.

There were cats scrambling from shore to help her and the golden she-cat, but the golden she-cat had already gone under, and so was she. She could feel herself sinking.

''Oh dear StarClan! Please don't let me go down like this!''

But she couldn't help but sink, and she sank further into the lake, until the water swallowed her whole and she swallowed enough water to stop her breathing, permanently.

Chapter 1
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