Laws & Consequences

Hello All, this is Mistystar,

I know I haven't been on a ton, but give me a break- I have a busy life. I recently was looking through some links from followers and noticed that there was another site called writtingwarriors. Naturally, this is awfully close to writing warrior.  When I got onto the site I found that my profile information has been completely plagiarized (as in copied and pasted) right into the other site owners profile. How do I know this? Well I seem to remember there only being one owner of Stars & Whiskers Graphics. Hunting further I found that she'd copied my subject matter as well: Warriors Fanfiction.

I have issued a warning to the owner already and I'm writing this as a warning to all other readers out there: I will not tolerate plagiarism of any type. It is against the law in the first place & any plagiarism that is not taken care of after my warning will be reported to Blogspot to be deleted. This is not a "three strikes your out" system. You get one warning & one warning only. I have posted this in the rules and all over the site. All perpetrators will be placed on the wall of shame.

Thank You,
Mistystar

here's a link to the site I am talking about if you wish to see for yourself: http://writtingwarriors.blogspot.com/

The Rise of the Tiger & the Hawk- by Silverstorm (part 1)

As Silverstorm padded on to the tree trunk where the cats had gathered on an Island, she picked up a swift scent that Windclan and Riverclan were already there, they just had to wait for Shadowclan now. Silverstorm had wondered if her friends Moonclaw, Moonsky, Ravenfrost, Icestorm, Silvermist, Iceclaw and Amberflame were here, they had been best friends since they were apprentices. Even if they were in differnt clans they were best friends. "Hi Silverstorm" came a familiar voice behind her, she whipped around and saw Moonclaw standing two mouse lengths away from her "I thought you weren't here! where‘s Moonsky and Ravenfrost and Icestorm and the rest?” Silverstorm meowed "well we don’t always go to every gathering you know, and Moonsky had a fight with Shadowclan today, she was unable to come cause of her bad wounds she’s staying with Ravenfrost until she heals, and I’m not quite sure where Icestorm and the others are" Moonclaw mewed "Poor Moonsky” said Icestorm as she padded over to join them. “Hi Icestorm!, Shadowclans late, I just feel like I want get the gathering over and done with, I’m so tired I could fall asleep now" she said as she changed the subject. "well its all right cause Shadowclans here now" Icestorm pointed with her tail to where some Shadowclan cats emerged from the tree trunk, Blackstar was already on the tree next to Firestar. Silvermist came over to join. When the cats fell silent the gathering started with the yowl of Onestar.

The gathering soon ended as Silverstorm said goodbye to Moonclaw and Icestorm and Silvermist, then she felt her neck fur rising. There was a strange scent what mingled in the air, nothing to do with any of the clans or even foxes or badgers. "What's wrong Silverstorm?" said a voice behind, she turned her head round and saw Firestar standing next to her, "theres some strange scent in the air" she answered as the scent started fading away, know the look in Firestars eyes when he sniffed the air she knew that he had scented it as well. "you’re right! we'll have to make note of it and send the message to the patrols to look out for what ever is out there" Firestar meowed "But shouldn’t we warn the other clans about it" she protested as she saw Moonclaw and Icestorm and Silvermist vanish behind a bush. "Well there'll just have to make do without the message" he mewed as he padded onto the tree trunk. Silverstorm still looked concerned even though Firestar was right, it was too late for them to warn the clans, Windclan were almost on the hills, while Riverclan and Shadowclan had already gone.

Silverstorm curled up in her mossy nest and soon drifted of into a deep sleep. Everything was dark, tree's were looming over her and Silverpelt didn't shimmer in the sky. Then she rolled over on her side, she felt claws and teeth sinking and griping into her. She closed her eyes and wondered if she was going to die, then it had suddenly stopped. She got on to her paws and shook her self, then yowling of cats rose getting louder and louder and wondered whether she should run, but it was as if her paws were stuck to the ground, as the noise started fading away she could hear a whisper of a voice in her ear, she turned her head round but saw no one there and then the voice spoke to her in a cunning, scary voice “the tiger and the hawk will return, all will be lost as the mountain will crumble and crash to destroy the four, death will take part in those who put their life at risk” Silverstorm’s heart had skipped a beat, was it true? That starclan had given the clans another prophecy for them to discover, a secret so dark and mysterious that they could solve it before time was up? She thought. Then she closed her eyes and all she could see was blackness…………

Silverstorm woke with a start and heard a hiss from Dustpelt who slept next to her “will you keep quite, were trying to get some sleep here!”

“Sorry” Silverstorm mumbled, Dustpelt gave a grunt of disgust but turned back and laid his head down again. “Are you all right?” Squirrleflight asked her from where she was sleeping with Brambleclaw, who was fast asleep, “yeah, just a bad dream” Silverstorm replied and gave a yawn of tiredness. Squirrelflight left her to it and started to go back to sleep again. No light was streaming in and yet it seemed that her dream lasted through the whole night. Silverstorm was tired but still couldn’t seem like she could just fall asleep with that horrible prophecy still buzzing in her head like hornet bee‘s. Then she got up from her nest and crept quietly out of the warriors den. Finally she was out and had a perfect idea for who she could talk to: Moonclaw! She knew Moonclaw would trust and understand her and say it wasn’t some stupid dream, it wasn’t like the others wouldn’t understand her, she just felt that she wanted to go to Riverclan and talk to her friend.

Silverstorm crossed the stream easily and was in Riverclan territory before sunhigh, I should disguise my scent she thought stopping in her tracks. She tasted the air and caught a tangy scent near the lake, she reached the waters edge and stood looking down, the water was dirty with mud, if she swam in it, sure enough it would disguise her Thunderclan scent.

As soon as she neared the Riverclan camp she looked hoping that dawn wasn’t breaking in through the clouds, the sky was growing pale but the sun wasn’t up yet, if she didn’t hurry up now the dawn patrol will be heading out soon. She padded curiously through Riverclan camp pausing when ever a sound in the camp rose. Where was Moonclaw? Where was the warriors den? “Who goes there?!” a voice sounded behind her, trying not to show her fear she turned round to see a sleek silver tabby she-cat standing in front of her, her eyes narrowed. “Hi Moonsky! Its just me, Silverstorm” she mumbled through gritted teeth. Moonsky stared at her for a few heartbeats before returning the reply “Hi Silverstorm! What are you doing here?”

“I need to talk to Moonclaw” Silverstorm mewed with impatience “Right” Moonsky mewed with uncertainty. Didn’t Moonsky trust her?

“how are you? Moonclaw told me you had a fight with Shadowclan”

“Oh, yeah I did, Shadowclan was crossing the border, we caught them and they said they were chasing a squirrel and didn’t realize they crossed the border, we had a argument and that’s how the fight started, and you wouldn’t want to wake Moonclaw, she’s been sleeping rough, Ravenfrost has told us not to disturb her, maybe you can talk to me and I’ll pass on the message” Silverstorm nodded, it was better to come here and talk to one of her friends and not come here to find it had been a wasted journey. The two she-cats padded into the medicine den, trying not to wake Ravenfrost as they slipped past her. Beechfur and Dapplenose were lying on their side, breathing in and out as they dreamed. “Over here!” whispered Moonsky where she slept on a mossy nest surrounded by a few shells.

Silverstorm started explaining her dream to Moonsky. “And that’s why I wanted to go to Riverclan to see Moonclaw” Silverstorm finished, Moonsky looked down at her paws and then looked back up again. “I don’t know what this Prophecy means, perhaps we should talk to Ravenfrost about it” Moonsky said leaning forward. “haven’t you talked to your own medecine cat or leader about it?” Moonsky meowed firmly.

“no”

“why?”

“because I felt like coming here that’s all”

“but you wouldn’t have to travel really far here when I don’t know anything about what your going on and besides it would be a lot easier if you told someone in your own clan-” Moonsky stopped still and Silverstorm wondered why she had just suddenly stopped, Silverstorm pricked her ears, she could hear small whispering sounds coming from the centre of the riverclan camp. “Keep an eye out for them shadow- clan warriors” a voice mewed to his clanmate. “Its Pouncetail, Rainstorm and Graymist” Silverstorm didn’t realize that Moonsky had took a peek to see the cats who were going on the dawn patrol my clanmates will be preparing for a dawn patrol now, what if they figure out that my scent goes right over the thunderclan border. Silverstorm thought suddenly “you’ve got to go, now!” Moonsky disturbed her thoughts. “How? the dawn patrol will clearly see and scent me, they’ll keep me here as prisoner” Silverstorm meowed desperately “we don’t keep cats as prisoner! and don’t worry I know a secret route they don’t know about, only the medecine cats know about it and It’ll be quicker.”

“How do you know about it then, when only the medecine cats know”

“I found it out yesterday, hurry!”

Moonsky lead her to where Ravenfrost kept her medecine cat supplies and she could just see a small tunnel big enough for only an apprentice to squeeze through. “Thank you Moonsky!” Silverstorm mewed through gritted teeth “that’s alright, now go!” Moonsky urged. Silverstorm hurled herself into the tunnel hoping that she could run through the prickly gorse faster as she had leaped into the gorse and reed escape route. The sharp gorse thorns were tugging at her pelt taking out small silver tabby hairs as she scrambled onward. Finally she was out, she turned around to see if Moonsky was still there, but her friend had already gone. Silverstorm raced away, getting rid of the foul smell out of her pelt in the River but as soon as she shook herself dry she heard a snap of a twig close by, she pricked up her ears, No sound anymore! must have been a squirrel. “Rrrrrooowww!!!!” a yowl sounded behind her, she turned around to see a mottled gray-blue tom charging at her. Before she new it Rainstorm had pinned her down, she let out a yowl of pain as he dug his claws into her shoulders, she tried to shake him off and scratch her hind claws across his belly but whatever she tried it wouldn’t get him off. Then just as she thought that he would bite down in her neck she felt that nothing was on pinning down on her anymore. She looked up to see a huge tabby tom with bright, fierce amber eyes, holding down Rainstorm as he marked a scratch on Rainstorms shoulder, a few tail lengths away from her was also another tabby tom with big broad shoulders like the other tom, except this cat had ice-blue eyes which made her shiver as it turned into small slits as he tackled with Graymist and Pouncetail. “I need a little help here!” the blue eyed tabby screeched over his shoulder. Silverstorm launched herself at Pouncetail, pinning him down she scratched her claws across his flank, he twisted over bringing all his weight pushing down on her, she didn’t expect that. She shook him while scratching him on his belly, he yowled with pain and let her go. Lips drawn back in a snarl, ears flat on her head, she made a leap in the air, he dodged the blow but Silverstorm turned to the side he was springing to and had just managed to scrape her claws across his flank and then she flew to the ground, her breath knocked out of her as she landed. Where was Pouncetail? She couldn’t see him anywhere but then she could just make out his ginger and white coat, tail between legs, ears flat on his head, as he raced away in among the reeds followed by Graymist. “I am going to tell Leopardstar about this, that a mouse-brained Thunderclan cat has stepped right into Riverclan territory, into our camp, and about these two tabby idiots!” Rainstorm hissed defiantly as he followed his clanmates back to there camp. Silverstorm sat panting with relief that she had been saved, but who were these cats who came to help her? And just as if her thoughts had been heard the amber eyed tabby looked at her and started to talk: “I am Lightning that strikes through cloud, Lightning. And this is my son, Thorn that prickles your fur, Thorn, we come from the tribe of Rushing Water. And who are you? What clan do you come from?” he demanded. So these were tribe cats who had saved her, but what were they doing here? “my name is Silverstorm, I come from Thunderclan”

“and why were you in another clans territory?”

“because I had a weird dream that’s all, not that its any of your business” Silverstorm looked at Lightning, he seemed to want to know more about the dream Silverstorm had mentioned “and what happened in your drea-” Thorn was cut off by his father “we’ll hear about this on our way to Thunderclan, by now a bigger patrol will be preparing to leave to track us, now lets go!”

Silverstorm told the tribe cats about her dream, they fell silent for a few heartbeats when she had finished, and then Lightning said: “We told the tribe of endless hunting to send a dream to a clan cat, we had heard the stories about the clans helping our tribe” he explained “and now we need to ask your clan to help our tribe again” Thorn added. “What’s going on with your tribe then?” she asked anxiously “we just need to talk to your leader about this” Lightning meowed as he waited for her to lead the way, she scampered off into the bushes followed by Lightning and then Thorn.

She could see the thorn tunnel, the entrance to the Thunderclan camp. What would I tell Firestar? she thought trying to imagine what her leader would tell her for why she had disappeared to Riverclan and found two tribe cats who had saved her life. She didn’t realize that Lightning and Thorn were waiting for her, she raced toward them and took the lead into the Thunderclan camp. As soon as they came in, every cat was gasping as they saw the newcomers walk in holding their heads high, as if they weren’t afraid of anyone who stepped forward to challenge them. Firestar was coming down from the Highledge with Brambleclaw at his heels. “Silverstorm, what happened last night? Birchfall was going to take you on the dawn patrol but you weren’t there, why?” Firestar exclaimed calmly and steadly “and who are these two cats?” Brambleclaw added staring from Lighting to thorn and back again with anxious and curios eyes. “Well…” Silverstorm started until she noticed that her clanmates were padding up to hear the conversation “I would like to talk to you about it in your den Firestar” she pleaded. Firestar gazed at her for a few heartbeats then said: “Very well, Jayfeather go fetch Leafpool and tell her to come to my den, Brambleclaw you can come with me as well, and so can the newcomers” Firstar’s ears were twitching with curiosity while he sent out the orders. “Firestar, would you like me to go at the back to make sure these newcomers don’t do anything wrong” Dustpelt broke in as he glared at the tribe cats “No, its quite alright Dustpelt” Firestar meowed gingerly as he padded off towards his den. Silverstorm followed, then Brambleclaw, then the tribe cats and then Leafpool and Jayfeather. As soon as they left the clearing the thunderclan cats started mumbling and whispering to each other as they went into her leaders den.

She started explaining her dream and about the tribe cats. Leafpool, Jayfeather, Brambleclaw and Firestar was listening carefully. “And we went back here” she finished with relief as she had thought that she would never get through about what had happened ages ago. “what do you think this dream means Leafpool and Jayfeather” Firestar asked turning towards them. “I’m not quite sure, it can mean a lot of things really but I just don’t kn-” Leafpool was interrupted by Jayfeather “It means that the tribe of rushing water needs help, the mountain will come crashing down to destroy the tribe, but I‘m not quite sure about: it will destroy the four” Jayfeather shifted his paws with embarrassment. “Well then, I suppose who ever got the dream from the tribe of endless hunting should go, I think the sun-drown cats should go as well” Firestar mewed. “But Firestar, I think all Thunderclan cats should stay here, after all the battle with Windclan would never be forgotten, and Windclan might attack us again once there properly healed, which would only take a few days” Brambleclaw meowed his eyes flashed with anger. A few moons ago Windclan had attacked them during the night which lead them to a battle between all four clans, until a shadow had covered the sun which plunged them into total darkness. “Your right, you’ll have to ask some other cats to go with you” Firestar said, his ears twitching, “well I’m not going to handle the whole tribe by myself, and I understand that you need to stay here to protect your clan in case something happens again” Silverstorm dipped her head to them. “Very well, I shall call a clan meeting at once” Firestar answered.

Firestar told his clan about what had happened with Silverstorm and everything and was soon on her way back again to seek the mountain of the tribe of rushing water, she couldn’t help thinking that it was all to soon that she was returning to the mountain again. And she knew who she should would take with her: Moonclaw, Moonsky, Ravenfrost, Amberflame, Silvermist, Icestorm and Iceclaw.