Taken

Prologue
"Good job" the cat muttered to that other tom "We had to dig you out of that hole"

The tom growled "Shush, I was the one that had to hold his breath, for who knows how long, I could have easily died."

The other tom growled "What's your plan Claw?" he looked around "You just can't walk into that camp, and get rid of the new carrier"

Claw growled "I know, she also suspects that i'm not all goody-goody" he flicked his tail "Come on Frost, I have an idea, and it's fool-proof"

Frost growled "Can i guess who the fool is?"

Claw ignored him "My plan is, there are tensions between Thunderclan and Shadowclan, if Shadowclan just happens to smell Thunderclan, they'll get angry"

Frost asked "So?"

"So... If you somehow manage to er... Persuade them, to take the carrier, I can take my chance and get rid of Lilypaw once and for all"

Frost growled "What's in it for Bloodclan?"

Claw circled him "Easy, if this plan go smoothly, You can hunt freely in Thunderclan territory, they can't do anything without the carrier"

Frost mewed "Your forgetting about the Tracker"

Claw shrugged "That's easy, send your most hardened warriors to the snowy mountains, get rid of the tracker and his apprentice, and we should be scott free"

Frost nodded "It's so crazy it just might work" he bowed "We will talk again Claw, I accept to your terms. Bloodclan will help you"

Frost padded away and Claw growled "Perfect, everythings going exactly as i planned, Lilypaw and her two little boy-friends don't stand a chance"

Claw watched the dark part of the sky "I'm doing what you have instructed me to do, without the stones, the clans will be destroyed."

Claw laughed into the night and ran off, not looking back at the clearing, where a strange cat had been spying on them.

The cat stood up "So the dark-forest thinks they can rule everything eh? Better go warn them" the cat dissapeared in a breath of wind.

Chapter 1
Lilypaw grumbled when a paw poked her "Wake up, Hollystar called a meeting" Bramblepaws serious voice sounded right next to her "I think it's about your new mentor"

Lilypaw opened one eye "Fine, i'm getting up" she got up slowly and padded out. She sat beside Goldenpaw, who looked a bit better from his fall.

Goldenpaw nodded and looked back up at Hollystar as she called "Clawheart, our past carrier, has died" She looked at Lilypaw "The tracker has chosen Lilypaw to be the new carrier!"

Everyone cheered and Lilypaw thought This only happened the other day, I'm still trying to get used to it she looked around and acknowledged the cheers.

Hollystar waited for the cheering to die down "Now Lilypaw, you are know without a mentor" she looked around "When i was young, a carriers training was different, but that was in ancient times, when the young could be carriers"

Rainbowdash mewed "A carriers training is very complicated, she can have a warrior mentor, but she needs an Eclipse Claw to train her about the stone"

Goldenpaw looked at Rainbowdash and asked "And how we gonna do that? We can't go up to the mountains"

Rainbowdashs eyes glittered "No, but they can come to us" she looked at Lilypaw "You must contact the tracker with the stone, tell him Rainbowdash said you need a mentor"

Lilypaw looked at her "What am I supposed to do?"

Rainbowdash mewed "Concentrate on Skys Cloud, and say in your mind, I need a mentor, for I am a young carrier, and i still have much to learn about the stones"

Lilypaw nodded and closed her eyes tight thinking about Skys Cloud Skys Cloud, I need help, I don't know anything about the stones, i need one of you to help me

Nothing happened through closed eyes, but she heard gasps of astonishment "What?" and "Is that supposed to happen Rainbowdash?"

She heard Rainbowdash murmur "Yes, but only in rare cases, the stone pushed everyone but those two away"

Lilypaw opened her eyes, there was a faint circle of light circling her, Goldenpaw and Bramblepaw. bramblepaw and Goldenpaw were equally surprised.

Rainbowdash mewed "Well, looks like Skys Cloud heard you, I have a feeling they are sending Broken Song, the Trackers mate, and the only wolf, to know alot about the stones, she knows more about them then Skys Cloud does."

Lilypaw looked at her "How do you know all this?"

Rainbowdash looked at her "I was once an Eclipse Claw"

Goldenpaw exclaimed "But that must mean you must have been a wolf!"

Rainbowdash "Correct, but it was a very spiritual process that turned me into a cat, legends say, when the Tracker takes away the carrier, they turn into a wolf"

Lilypaw mewed "But in this case, they turned you into a cat, so you can share knowledge about the stones" she was just guessing, but she was getting a feeling she was right.

Rainbowdash nodded "There's one cat in every clan that was a wolf turned into a cat" she looked at Hollystar "But i have been a cat such a long time, I barely remember the time when i was a wolf, i'm more used to being a cat"

Hollystar mewed "For your warrior training, I will be your mentor, and when Broken Song gets here, she will be your mentor for the stones"

Hollystar dismissed the meeting and Bramblepaw commented "That was interesting"

Lilypaw agreed. The white circle had dissapeared, and Goldenpaw and Bramblepaw were no longer enshrouded in golden mist.

Goldenpaw exclaimed "That gave me the best feeling ever!" he took a deep breath "It felt like I could take on anything"

Bramblepaw shrugged "That's normal, the stones power is amazing" he was nodding to the stone around Lilypaws neck.

Lilypaw flicked her tail uneasily "Why did the light circle push everyone back, but not you guys?" she looked at her friends especially Bramblepaw. Who seemed to know everything.

Bramblepaw tipped his head "Well, I think it's because our destinies are entwined the stones are powerful objects, it's hard to really understand them" he mewed with a matter-of-factly tone.

Goldenpaw rolled his eyes "I think there's more to it, I mean think about it, remember when we were kits, adn we'd always ask if magic was real. She'd always say yes" Goldenpaw added "If you willing to listen and see"

Bramblepaw shrugged "That too, but magic is like free-will, Clawheart practically used it for evil, and it eventually destroyed him"

Lilypaw looked at him "So that's why the Tracker protects the stones, so they aren't destroyed by the darkness in a cats heart" Lilypaw finally understood something. "He protects them, but he never really chooses, like you said Bramblepaw, Magic is like free-will"

Bramblepaw nodded twitching his whiskers "We all have free-will, it all matters what path we take" he looked at the stars "And I don't mean like Medicine cat or Warrior, or even queen, I mean by the stars, there are many paths to take"

Goldenpaw was listening intently. While Lilypaw thought Free-will can be dangerous, Clawheart proved that, he took a dark path, I'm going to stay on the path of good, to be true and good, no matter what gets thrown my way.

Goldenpaw mewed "Well, what else can they do?" he aimed the question at Bramblepaw, who was flicking his tail in thought.

"I'm not sure, from what i heard from the elders, amazing stuff" Bramblepaw shrugged then mewed "Lilypaw will figure it out"

Lilypaw nodded, feeling the stones warmth on her fur.