This is a fanfiction about how I felt after my Best Friend moved away. HollyleafOfThunderclan You have their friendship, and that is a loyalty that never dies 01:08, September 29, 2011 (UTC)
List of Characters-in order of appearence
(Warning-spoilers! Lists all cats and thier relationships)
Holly: Brown tabby and white she-cat with gray stripes and amber eyes. Krisber's best friend
Krisber: calico she-cat with blue eyes. Holly's best friend.
Mist: Pretty pale gray she-cat with soft blue eyes. Krisber's mother.
Fritz: Muscular black tom with peircing amber eyes. Krisber's brother.
Hawk: Muscular tabby tom with amber eyes. Krisber's father.
Peace: White she-cat with gray patches and Blue eyes. Holly's sister.
Flame: Ginger tom with green eyes. Holly's brother.
Ruby: beutiful ginger she-cat with amber eyes. Holly's mother.
Tiger: pale, almost ginger, tabby tom with green eyes. Holly's father. Formerly Tigerstripe.
Ashpaw: Smokey gray she-cat. ThunderClan apprentice.
Whitestar: Long-haired white tom. ThunderClan leader. Tiger's father
Chapter 1
My life fell apart that day. It was like any other day. Me and my best friend Krisber were hunting. The warm Green-leaf sun was shining through the trees, dappling the ground beneath our paws. We weren't littermates, our parents barely knew each other, but we had been friends since kithood, and I was closer to her than even my own littermates.
Life was good. There was always enough prey in our corner of the forest and even though there were some tough days, everything always turned out right. Krisber picked up the smell of squirrel, and flicked with her tail to signal me to stop. I paused, and watched as my best friend silently stalked up on the squirrel. She leaped when she was a few tail-lenths away and landed right on the squirrel, killing it with a quick clean bite.
"Want to share?" She meowed padding over to where I sat. "Sure!" I meowed happily. We bit into the squirrel and let the delicous flavor of the squirrel fill our mouths. Squirrel was Krisber's favorite type of prey. I liked it too, but my favorite was starling. I liked to use the feathers to line our nests.
Suddenly we heard a twig snap. We spun around to see a pretty pale gray she-cat and two muscular toms, one tabby and one black, walking towards us. "good. You've eaten." The tabby meowed in a gruff voice. I had never seen him before, but I reconized the other two cats. The She-cat was Krisber's mother, Mist, and the black tom was Krisber's brother, Fritz. "Come on. We don't have all day!" The tabby meowed. "What's happening?" Krisber meowed, suprised. "Who is this cat, and why does he want us to leave?"
Mist stepped forward "Krisber, this is your father, Hawk. He is the leader of a group of cats called The Mountain Cats." Mist's soft blue eyes clouded with sadness. "H-he want's you to go join his group. You don't have a choice. It was part of the deal when I decided to leave The Mountain cats. Any of his kits have to join his group after living with me for four seasons."
Krisber stared in dismay as Mist told her story. "S-so that means I have to leave Holly? My best friend! No I won't do it!" Hawk looked calmly at Krisber as she spoke "You're coming with me You don't have a choice. MIst and Fritz are coming too. Say good-bye to your friend. You'll meet plenty others in The Mountain Group.
Krisber sadly fixed her green eyes on me. "Good-bye Holly... I don't want to go. I'll be back some day, I promise." I rubbed my muzzle against Krisber's. "G-good-bye. I'll miss you. There will never be a friend like you. you will always be my best friend, and I will always be yours." We looked into each other's eyes for another heartbeat then she turned around and followed her family. I watched until she was gone, the last flick of her calico tail dissapeared behind a tree. That's when I felt the thorn of loss and loneliness peirce my heart.
Chapter 2
I wandered aimlessly through the forest. A starling was only a few foxlenths away, but I didn't care. I had too many thoughts running through my head to hunt. One moment Krisber was there, and the next...gone. I miss her more than anyone could ever imagine, more than anyone has ever felt. I don't see how anyone could have felt the way I felt. My heart twisted in pain at just the thought of Krisber's face, but I needed this image. I must cling to anyting connected to her.
I hear my sister, Peace, calling me. What now!' Can't you see I want to be alone! The only cat I want is Krisber! I thought with despair. Nothing could make me feel better. My family tried so hard, but nothing could work. My brother, Flame, tried joking around to make me laugh, which is normally quite easy, but his jokes didn't seem funny. Peace often caught me starlings to eat, seeing as I was too depressed to hunt, But now I only seemed to have an appitite for squirrels.
"What!" I almost growled, but even depressed and heartbroken, I would never growl at her. Peace's white and gray patched body appeared through the ferns. "Ruby wants you." Peace meowed. Ruby was my mother. She was born a kittypet, and never thought to change her name. She left her twolegs because she loved my father, Tiger so much. She likes the wild way more than she ever loved her twolegs.
"Tell her I'm coming." I meowed. Peace turned around and happily bounded away. I sighed. How could she be so happy? But then again, Her best friend didn't leave the forest. Her best friend still lived quite close and visited her almost every day. I dragged myself up and walked towards our camp. There were many small families of cats in this peaceful forest. They all had camps close to each other and There was enough prey for everyone so there was no need to fight. As I entered our camp in a ravine, a strange cat scent hit my nose.
Chapter 3
Ruby was crouched over a cat about my age. She was smokey gray had many scratches and scars. Tiger was sitting a little ways away. He had a few wounds on him too. "What happened?" I asked. Ruby looked up. "This cat was being attacked by a fox. Tiger drove it off, but she's badly hurt." She flicked her ginger tail towards the she-cat as she spoke. That's when I noticed the scent of herbs and saw the piles of cobwebs. Mouse-brain I thought to myself.
"Is that why you called me?" I asked. "Yes. When she gets better you can teach her about the places around here. Right now I need you to fetch me some marigold." My mother meowed. I dipped my head to show I understood and ran off. I knew all the best places in the forest to find herbs and prey, and I rushed off to the place where marigold grew best. When I saw the marigold I was struck by a memory of Krisber, when we were six moons old, and our mothers had been teaching us some basic healing herbs. I remembered Krisber goofing off, and she tumbled right into this patch of marigold. She looked so funny with all the petals clinging to her fur. My heart twisted in pain at the memory.
Sighing, I picked some marigold and ran off to my camp. I knew it wouldn't be good if the gray she-cat's wounds got infected. When I returned, the she-cat had woken up. My mother took the marigold from me and began to put it on the gray she-cat. "This is Ashpaw" Ruby explained. "She's a ThunderClan apprentice. She said she was having her assessment when a fox attacked her and dragged her away."
I had heard stories about the four clans who lived around a lake about about a day's journey from here. Aparently, My father had once been a ThunderClan warrior nemed Tigerstripe. He had left because the life of a warrior was not for him. The stories of the clans had always intrigued me, and I wondered why my father would ever leave that life. Krisber and I had always talked about leaving this forest and joining a clan when we were old enough. If we had left sooner she wouldn't had left, and we could be living the life we'd always dreamed of.
Chapter 4
Ashpaw had recovered and was almost ready to return to ThunderClan. I was struggling with a dicision. I wanted to go with Ashpaw and join her clan to live the life I had always wanted, but if I left, and Krisber returned, would she ever find me? I missed her so much, but living in a clan could help heal the pain. I would be away from all the painful memories. Sure, I wanted to cling to them, but I would remeber new memories there, and with less memories I wouldn't be depressed all the time.
Also, being around lots of other cats could help because I would make new friends who could help me through hard times. I would still miss Krisber, it would feel bad not to, but with new friends I could still feel happy. Patrols and warrior duties would distract me, and give me less time to mope. Maybe I did need to get away from it all. here there were all these memories and all this extra time on my paws leaving me more time to think and mope. With all these thoughts buzzing around in my head, I decided to talk to my family about this dicision.
First I talked Peace. "Just follow your heart!" Peace told me. "I don't know where my heart leads me though." I meowed sadly. "If I go, will you come with me?" I asked. I loved my sister and would never dream of leaving her. "Sure!" She replied. I was glad she made that decision. She is one of the closest friends I have. "I-I think I'll go." I meowed. "We should tell Ruby where leaving with Ashpaw." Peace dipped her head, and I saw excitement and sadness in her blue eyes.
We walked to the camp together. When we walked in, Ruby was giving Ashpaw traveling herbs. "She's leaving to go home to her clan now." She explained. Peace looked down at her paws. "You talk." She murmered. "Peace and I have decided, we want to go with Ashpaw, and join ThunderClan. If you see Krisber, can you point her in the right direction?" Ruby sadly looked up at us. "Your full grown now, you make the dicisions of where you want to go, and how you want to live your life." Our mother meowed sadly, as if admitting to herself she couldn't stop us. "Yes I will point Krisber in the right direction. I'll get you some traveling herbs.
Ruby walked out of the medicine den with herbs in her mouth. "Eat these." She meowed. Peace and I ate the herbs. "Bye Ruby! Bye Flame! Bye Tiger!" Peace and I meowed. After we said our good-byes, Ashpaw lead us out of the camp. As we left the forest, the only home I had ever known, I felt a thorn of grief piece my heart. I was leaving my family, and I might never see them again, just as I might never see Krisber again.
Chapter 5
After a day's travel, we reached the lake. Ashpaw lead us to the camp and I was amazed when I first walked in. It was in a stone hollow and there was a fallen tree in the middle of it. There were lots of dens, and I wondered where I would sleep. All the cats in the hollow were staring at us. I couldn't wait to meet all these cats. It was so exciting I almost forgot how much I missed Krisber.
A long-haired white tom strode majesticly towards us. "Ashpaw? who are these cats?" He asked curiously. "Whitestar, these are Holly and Peace. There family helped me recover after I was attacked by a fox, and their father, who you would know as Tigerstripe, was the one who saved me from the fox. Holly and Peace want to join ThunderClan." Ashpaw replied.
Whitestar's eyes lit up. "Tigerstripe? If these are Tigerstripe's kits they are welcome to stay. It's good to see that my son is doing well" I looked at Whitestar in awe. He was my father's father! "Thank you." Was all I could manage to say. Whitestar looked at me with a warm glow in his eyes. "I will call a clan meeting." He jumped onto a stone ledge.
"All cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here under the Highledge for a clan meeting!" Whitestar yowled. All the cats who were sitting around the camp got up and gathered around the Highledge. "These two cats are Tigerstripe's kits, and they want to join ThunderClan." Gasps went up around the camp and I heard a tabby she-cat whisper to a ginger tom, "I thought he was dead... Thank StarClan!"
Whitestar raised his tail for silence before he spoke again. " I will give them their warrior names because any kit of Tigerstripe is bound to be a good warrior! Peace and Holly, do you promise to uphold the warrior code, even at the cost of your lives?" "I do!" Both Peace and I meowed at the same time. I felt excitement tingling in my fur. I was becoming a warrior! "Then by the Powers of StarClan, Peace, your warrior name will be Moonshine. Holly, your warrior name will be Hollyleaf. Cloudsky, Hollyleaf, Welcome to the clan!"
"Moonshine! Hollyleaf!" The clan chanted. I couldn't wait to meet all these cats, and my dream had come true. I was a warrior! And I had a great warrior name, My father had told me clan legends he had been told as a kit, and Hollyleaf was a cat of the legends. Then a feeling swept in and swamped all my excitement. Krisber should be here beside us. I missed her more than anything.
Chapter 6
(Coming soon)