Silverstorm's Justice

by Silverpaw/storm

Allegiances:

WindClan:

Leader: Ivystar - yellow she-cat with light green eyes
Deputy: Pearlwhisker - gray tabby she-cat with amber eyes
Medicine cat: Fernstream - very dark gray she-cat with green eyes
Apprentice: Nightpaw - ginger tabby tom
Warriors:
Stormblaze - ginger tabby and white tom with amber eyes
Flurrypelt - very pale gray she-cat with blue eyes
Fallowtuft - dark ginger she-cat
Silverstorm - silver tabby she-cat with dark markings, light paws, and cerulean eyes
Raincloud - mottled gray tabby tom with bright amber eyes
Lilacwing - light ginger she-cat
Littlebird - dark ginger she-cat
Sparrowflight - dark tabby tom
Spottedpelt - white tom with very pale ginger splotches
Blizzardheart - white tom with gray flecks and blue eyes
Darkheart - dark gray tabby tom with amber eyes
Cloudfoot - white she-cat with amber eyes
Mountainlight - brown tom
Mistsong - sandy yellow she-cat with amber eyes
Queens:
Shimmersong - silver she-cat with amber eyes, mother to Vixenkit and Fawnkit
Kits:
Vixenkit - dark gray she-cat with hazel eyes
Fawnkit - fluffy ginger tom
Elders:
Darknight - black tom with dark blue eyes
Milkfur - cream and white she-cat

RiverClan:

Leader: Yarrowstar - dark ginger she-cat
Deputy: Icestone - white tom with green eyes
Medicine cat: Goldenstream - golden tabby tom
Warriors:
Moonstream - white she-cat
Darkfeather - gray tabby tom with green eyes
Lilacsky - ginger she-cat with lilac eyes, blind in left eye from a snake bite
Quailsong - brown mottled tabby tom with blue eyes (BY MARBLEROSE)
Dustwhirl - dark brown tabby tom
Cedarleaf - reddish-brown tabby tom with gray paws
Earthwhisper - brown tom
Pinesong - ginger tabby she-cat with blue eyes
Shimmerflight - gray she-cat
Streamlight - silver tabby she-cat with greenish-blue eyes

ThunderClan:

Leader: Mousestar - brown tom with white paws and belly
Deputy: Lightfern - tortoiseshell she-cat with amber eyes
Medicine cat: Snowpetal - white she-cat with bright amber eyes and a very short tail
Apprentice: Featherflight - dusky gray she-cat
Warriors:
Willowdew - golden tabby she-cat with thick fur and amber eyes (BY FLOWERPAW/SEED)
Fogheart - dark gray tabby she-cat with white splotches
Birchspeckle - white tom with brown speckles

ShadowClan:

Leader: Pigeonstar - dark ginger and brown calico tom
Deputy: Cheetahbreeze - dark ginger she-cat with long fluffy fur
Medicine cat: Flakesong - black tom
Apprentice: Flamingpaw - bright ginger tom
Warriors:
Aspenheart - brown she-cat
Dusktail - dusky brown tabby tom with amber-green eyes
Apprentice: Flashpaw - bright ginger tabby she-cat with dark brown markings and amber eyes
Leafcloud - ginger she-cat
Apprentice: Hollypaw - gray tabby she-cat with bright amber eyes
Dawnfern - yellow she-cat with green eyes
Apprentice: Sproutpaw - gray tabby tom with dark green eyes and a short tail
Mottlepelt - mottled gray tom with amber eyes
Solarwind - ginger she-cat with hazel eyes
Apprentice: Songpaw - brown she-cat with amber eyes
Queens:
Dewmist - misty gray she-cat, mother to Glowkit and Patchkit
Kits:
Glowkit - white she-cat
Patchkit - very pale gray and white tom
Elders:
Snowshimmer - snowy white she-cat with a gray tail-tip
Nightspeckle - dark gray tabby tom with a ripped ear and light gray paws

Prologue

Thunder rumbled, and rain crashed down from the dark gray clouds in the stormy sky. Two cats faced each other on the moor.
The first cat's features were unable to be made out from the rain, but the second cat was a ginger and white tom. He glared at the cat. "No. I'm not going to kill Ivystar- why would you ever think I would do that for you? I defend the warrior code with my life. You're a heartless monster who just wants to take over the Clan. I thought I knew you- you were a loyal clanmate."
The unknown cat's eyes sparkled with annoyance. "You're so annoying- Now, I will only give you this offer one more time. Kill Ivystar for us or die."
"I'll die before I'll break the warrior code." Stormblaze hissed, but he glanced warily at his opponent.
The cat's eyes glimmered with amusement. "Oh, well, I guess I'll have to do this the hard way, Stormblaze." And he leaped at the ginger and white tom and raised a paw above his throat, poised to slit it open. "Any last words?"
In reply to that, Stormblaze threw his attacker off, and stood up, shaking his fur off before he leaped at his enemy.
But Stormblaze's attacker whirled around and slashed his claws through Stormblaze's throat and blood spurted out in an unsteady stream, splashing on his attacker's paws but the rain washing it off and soaking into the grass, but the other cat did not even flinch at the sigh of blood.
Stormblaze writhed on the ground in pain as the other tom watched calmly. "This is what I will do to cats who do not do as I say," the cat hissed as Stormblaze gasped in one final breath and his eyes clouded.
The cat stood there stock still for a moment before tugging Stormblaze's body to the edge of the gorge, and he tossed it into the river, until he lost sight of it through the falling rain.
The tom stared down the gorge for a moment then turned around and padded back, his bloodstained paws leaving stains on the grass. "It is almost time." he murmured.

Chapter 1

Silverpaw was almost done with her warrior assessment and she had already caught three pieces of prey- a rabbit, and two small mice. Her siblings were somewhere out there on the moor finishing their own assessments. Silverpaw cocked her head and sized up the prey, calculating how much more she'd need to catch.
"So- one more piece of prey....?" Silverpaw murmured then she leapt to her paws as a rabbit raced past her and chased after it. "Get back here, you furry rabbitbrained meal!"
The rabbit glanced back and saw Silverpaw coming, and ran even faster. Overtaking it with a huge leap, Silverpaw tumbled it over and dispatched it with a swift bite to the neck.
Silverpaw started as her mentor padded from the tall grass. "Silverpaw, that was very good! Blizzardpaw, Littlepaw, and Cloudpaw are already done with their assessments, you're the last one and the one with the most prey. The Clan will eat well tonight."
Silverpaw nodded in agreement to her mentor, Fallowtuft, staying calm as her heart seemed to burst with excitement and happiness. Fallowtuft picked up the rabbit in her jaws. "Let's get on with it- your siblings are waiting. We don't have all day!"
Silverpaw padded along with Fallowtuft back to where she had dropped her other prey, and they collected it without saying a word, and they padded back to the WindClan camp entrance where Silverpaw's siblings were waiting eagerly for their return.

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"Silverpaw, Blizzardpaw, Cloudpaw, and Littlepaw, do you promise to uphold the warrior code and to protect and defend this Clan, even at the cost of your life?" Ivystar meowed to Silverpaw. Silverpaw's paw pads tingled with anticipation as she spoke. "I do." Silverpaw's littermates echoed her. "I do."
Ivystar spoke again. "Then, by the power of StarClan, I give you your warrior names- Silverpaw, from this day on you will be known as Silverstorm. StarClan honors your intelligence and compassion, and we welcome you as a full warrior of WindClan." Ivystar stepped forward and rested her muzzle on Silverstorm's head, and Silverstorm licked Ivystar's shoulder in return.
Silverstorm stepped back as her siblings received their own warrior names- Blizzardheart, Littlebird, and Cloudfoot. Flurrypelt, their mother, stood at the front of the Clan meeting, her eyes shining with pride as she called out their names. "Blizzardheart! Silverstorm! Littlebird! Cloudfoot!" Raincloud, Silverstorm's friend who had grown up in the nursery with her and the deputy's younger sibling yowled Silverstorm's name eagerly and Silverstorm caught his eye with happiness.
Silverstorm scanned the crowd eagerly for her father, Stormblaze, but her heart dropped as she did not see him anywhere. She glanced at Flurrypelt as if to say, "Where's Stormblaze?" and Flurrypelt's gaze widened in confusion. Silverstorm padded over to Flurrypelt. "Have you seen Stormblaze?"
Flurrypelt's gaze was worried. "He went out to hunt this morning when it was raining. I thought he would have been back already. Are you sure you haven't seen him?"
And just then, a RiverClan patrol padded into the camp, escorted by Mountainlight and Mistsong.

Chapter 2

Silverstorm glanced at the patrol slightly confused, then she spotted one of the RiverClan cats carrying a ginger tabby and white shape drenched in water. C-could that be? Then she recognized it and raced forward. "Stormblaze!!!" she wailed desperately as Flurrypelt tried to hold her back, and her siblings watching the RiverClan cats with horror.
Ivystar padded to the head of the patrol, who Silverstorm recognized to be Yarrowstar. "What in StarClan is the meaning of this?" Ivystar demanded. "Why have you brought us the body of one of our best warriors?"
Yarrowstar let Stormblaze's body slump to the ground. "Our warrior Darkfeather found him drowned in the river, washed there from the gorge. We wanted to return him." Silverstorm searched Yarrowstar's gaze before accusing her. "You killed Stormblaze! He'd never drown in a river like that. You killed him!"
Raincloud raced forward and nudged Silverstorm back, his gaze unreadable. "Silverstorm, don't! You'll only make this worse." he whispered in her ear, and gradually Silverstorm calmed down, but her eyes still flamed with hot anger.
Yarrowstar glanced at Silverstorm. "We will leave now, Ivystar." then she mewed more forcefully, "I can assure you that RiverClan would not kill a warrior like this. Did you notice the wounds on his throat?"
Ivystar's eyes widened with shock. "What did that?"
Yarrowstar shook her head. "The river had washed all traces of scent from him when we found him. I wish we could help you," she said genuinely, "but I can't do anything. Good luck."
Ivystar stared blankly before speaking again. "Fallowtuft, Mistsong, Raincloud, escort them to the border." Raincloud glanced at Silverstorm with worry in his gaze as he touched noses with Silverstorm. "I'll be back soon." and he padded over to where the RiverClan cats were waiting.
Ivystar padded over to Flurrypelt. "Go take Silverstorm to get some sleep. It's been a long day. Silverstorm will hold her vigil at sundown, and meanwhile we will have a quick vigil for Stormblaze and then bury him."
Silverstorm glanced up at Flurrypelt's stricken gaze. "I-I still can't believe he's dead..." Flurrypelt whispered. Silverstorm glanced up at her grieving mother. "We'll get through it somehow. We will. We can't disrespect his memory." Silverstorm snapped at Flurrypelt then slapped a paw over her own mouth.

Chapter 3

Silverstorm trotted along with the rest of her patrol- Fallowtuft, Lilacwing, and Raincloud, her head dropping from sleepiness. Raincloud padded beside her, energized after a long sleep. Silverstorm, on the other hand, was exhausted after her vigil- then of course Pearlwhisker had assigned her to a dawn patrol the very next day. Of course, Silverstorm thought sarcastically. Why does the entire world seem to be against me? Like what happened to Stormblaze. And OF COURSE there has to be a Gathering TONIGHT so I'm obviously NOT going to get much sleep... and then Silverstorm was so distracted by her thoughts that she crashed into a gorse bush. "OW- WHAT IN STARCLAN???"
Raincloud let out a huff of amusement. "The gorse bush caught you!" Silverstorm swiped at Raincloud with her claws sheathed. "Say that again and you'll find yourself missing your tail," Silverstorm mewed grumpily. Raincloud jumped back. "How scary!" he purred teasingly.
Lilacwing turned her head to glare at the two young cats. "Hey, this is a patrol, not time for practicing your battle moves. Get your tails over here before we leave you behind!" Silverstorm and Raincloud started with surprise, and Raincloud glanced at Silverstorm guiltily before he turned to race over to Lilacwing and Fallowtuft! "Sorry!" Silverstorm followed him, and soon the patrol had reached the border with ShadowClan and the Thunderpath.
Raincloud flinched away from the Thunderpath when Silverstorm could hear a monster coming, then as Silverstorm rested her tail on his back he relaxed. "Sorry. It's just that thunderpaths bring back so many bad memories."
Silverstorm had been very young when a WindClan patrol had found Pearlwhisker- then Pearl, and her younger sibling- Raincloud- who had then been Rain then, and Silverstorm and Raincloud had grown up together. "What happened?" Silverstorm asked curiously.
Raincloud replied. "A bunch of twolegs tried to kill me and my siblings. They killed one of us- Blossom- and my mother. Pearlwhisker pulled me away when they tried to capture us and we ran away. That was when Pearlwhisker found a WindClan patrol- and then on."

~~~

The patrol finished marking the border and then began to trek back to the camp. Dark clouds were gathering in the sky and a raindrop fell and splashed onto Silverstorm's nose, and the silver she-catshook it off. Ahead of her Fallowtuft had stopped. "I can feel a storm coming. Let's get back to camp- now." Raincloud nodded. "Yes, let's go." Lilacwing agreed with a nod and began to race to the WindClan camp as the rest of the patrol followed.
Then the rain came. Rain slashed across the moor, stinging Silverstorm's muzzle slightly, and she raced faster.
I'm not a fish, I'm a cat! she was thinking as she finally reached the WindClan camp and she darted inside, almost knocking her Clanmates over as she looked for cover, then she found a dry spot slightly under the Highrock to crouch away from the rain. The sky was beginning to grow dark despite the fact that it was at dawn.
Silverstorm spotted a gray figure beginning to climb out of the hollow. "Raincloud," she murmured to herself then glanced at the fresh-kill pile with nothing but a stale mouse and a few bones. He probably went to find some prey. He's such a mousebrain for going out in this rain! then she thought no more of it but saw her sister, Cloudfoot, following Raincloud out of camp. "Oh, they're going hunting," Silverstorm said out loud then thought no more of it as her eyelids began to droop and she fell asleep.

Chapter 4

Silverstorm awoke to a cat shaking her
"Silverstorm! Wake up! It's almost dusk and we're getting ready for the Gathering!" Silverstorm opened her eyes wearily. "Wha-?"
Flurrypelt was shaking Silverstorm awake. "Come on!"
Silverstorm leaped to her paws and then remembering Cloudfoot looked around. "Where's Cloudfoot?"
Flurrypelt sighed. "She came back a long time ago! She went hunting with Raincloud." Silverstorm shook her fur off and looked at the sky. It had stopped raining and the clouds were mostly gone, and a few stars were visible in the sunset. Flurrypelt followed her gaze. "I wonder if he's watching us from the stars?" Silverstorm glanced at Flurrypelt.
Flurrypelt stared at a single star that shone brighter than the others. "I'm sure Stormblaze is. He was a good cat- only truly evil cats go to the Dark Forest. You know, Silverleaf and Graykit, Stormblaze's siblings?"
Silverstorm perked her ears and sat down. "Yeah?"
Flurrypelt sighed. "When we all were kits- I was Flurrypaw. Graykit, Silverkit, and Stormkit. Then the Dark Forest attacked. They managed to kill your father's mother- Dawnleaf- and Graykit as well. Dawnleaf was murdered by her own brother who took the wrong path and walks in the darkness forever."
Silverstorm hung back, a question in her mind that she finally spoke. "Was I named after Silverleaf?"
Flurrypelt nodded. "Yes. Silverleaf was a great medicine cat- though very annoying at times," she muttered. "Silverleaf was killed by a Dark Forest cat, and the Dark Forest cat also maimed Darknight when he tried to save Silverleaf, and Darknight had to retire and let his apprentice Fernstream become a full medicine cat." Silverstorm listened to her mother tell the story for a little while more then got to her paws once again. "I see Ivystar!"