Warriors: Omen of the Stars: Night Whispers (my version) Chapter 4

Chapter 4 (Jayfeather's point of view)

"Longtail!" Jayfeather cried. "How nice to see you!" He leaned forward curiously. "Can you see?" The brown tabby, lithe and young again, turned to look at Jayfeather. "Jayfeather! It's you!" Longtail padded toward him and smoothed a patch of fur between Jayfeather's ears. "You are quite a handsome young cat, Jayfeather."
Jayfeather's heart leaped for joy. "So you can see!" he exclaimed. "I'm so glad!""Of course," Longtail replied. He bounded away into the ferns. Jayfeather jumped in after him.
"Wait!" he yowled, pursuing Longtail through the lovely green forest where StarClan lived. "I want to talk to you!" But as much as he ran after the swift cat, Longtail always seemed to stay ahead of him. He runs like WindClan! Jayfeather thought as he sat down to catch his breath. As he sat on a tussock of grass, cleaning himself, Jayfeather heard voices over a ridge. He slipped quietly around the trees, silent as a mouse, and came quickly to the place where the voices were speaking.
Yellowfang, Longtail, Bluestar, Whitestorm, Tallstar, Lionheart, and Spottedleaf sat around a small spring of water, talking in hushed, worried voices. Jayfeather hid beneath a fern frond and listened.
"But we can't leave them to their own devices," Whitestorm was saying. "Tigerstar and Hawkfrost are already training Ivypaw." His eyes darkened. "Lionblaze was being trained before, and Jayfeather knows about the Dark Forest, but Dovepaw does not know of Tigerstar's wily abilities. Could she be targeted for training? After all, she is one of the Three."
Spottedleaf stood, her mottled fur bristling in anger. "If Dovepaw ever does go to the Dark Forest, I'll go and get her like I did with Jayfeather when he was an apprentice." She let her fur lie flat against her backbone again.
Yellowfang was the next to speak. "We must not let Tigerstar recruit anymore Clan cats. If we can stop that, I don't think we'll have any more problems."
"But remember, Yellowfang," Bluestar said. "This battle is not to be prevented. It needs to happen, for the good of all the Clans."
Yellowfang shrugged. "I'm worried, Bluestar."
"We're all worried." Feathertail's quiet voice sounded directly behind Jayfeather. She padded down the slope, and clearly Jayfeather had not been spotted. "Even in the skies I walk."
"Feathertail." Tallstar nodded to the two-sky walker. "You walk in both our skies, the Tribe of Endless Hunting's, and StarClan's."
Feathertail sat. "I have just come from Hol-" She broke off as Jayfeather came tumbling down the slope. He had recieved a playful shove from behind and was sent tumbling out of his protective hiding place. All the cats turned to look at him, but he wasn't worried. Excitement had made his fur stand on end.
"Were you about to say Hollyleaf?"
But before any of the StarClan cats could answer, Jayfeather was flung out of his dream and back into darkness.
"Jayfeather!" Whitewing was saying, nudging his pelt with a soft paw. "Wake up, Jayfeather!"
With a grunt, Jayfeather heaved himself to his paws and flattened his pelt, which felt charged with excitement. Was Hollyleaf still alive? Where was she? "Hollyleaf?"
Pity flashed from Brackenfur's pelt. "You were asleep." he said quickly and trotted off toward the WindClan border, with Jayfeather and Whitewing following after him.
But Jayfeather was thinking. If Hollyleaf is dead, is she in StarClan or the Dark Forest? Could she still be alive, trapped under the surface of the earth, in the tunnels? Jayfeather shook his head in disgust. I'd hate myself if her beautiful fur fell out like Rock's and she looked like him. In his mind, Jayfeather formed a picture of Rock: bulging, gray, sightless eyes, huge, curved claws, a rat-like tail and skin that had no fur. For a moment, Jayfeather wondered how the cat came to be down in the earth and why he had never come back up.
"Watch out for the water, Jayfeather." Whitewing's gentle voice snapped Jayfeather out of his thoughts. As he trudged through the freezing water, Jayfeather wondered,
Is Hollyleaf still alive?