A/N- This is it! It's the end of the Children of the Storm! No! I'd just like to add that I won't be posting any new stories just yet, as i'd like to work on some of the others I am currently writing- I think the Tribe of the Sulit Mountain has had little attention recently. So I will not be putting up Life and Death just at the moment, not until i've finished another story first. So anyway, here's a cute little ending to the tale. Enjoy!

Disclaimer- How could Warriors possibly be mine? I'm not an evil story-stealing pixie! Or am I? Dun dun duuuun! (Nah, I'm not really!)

Epilogue

Stormstar was sat outside her den, eating a piece of fresh-kill. She was thinking about everything that had happened during the battle for her clan. How they had arrived, how Dawnsong had been leader, how Cloudpaw had died…

Stormstar shook her head and took another bite of her thrush. No, it would do her no good to dwell on it.

Just as the Skyclan leader had finished eating, and was going into her den, Riverheart padded up to her and meowed,

"Stormstar! Wait! I need to tell you the news!"

The leader stopped and turned around.

"What news?" she asked.

"Dawnsong's kits have come!" Riverheart answered. "Don't you want to see your kin?"

Stormstar nodded and began to pad after her brother and deputy, as he led her over to the nursery.

Stormstar was still grieving for Cloudpaw inside her heart, but she was troubled more than that by the fact that in the two moons since her daughter's death, Cloudpaw had not spoken to her once at all in her dreams, even though she'd had warnings about foxes and badgers from various other cats since then, just not her daughter.

Stormstar shook her whole body this time, and then followed Riverheart into the nursery. She stood before her sister's nest and Dawnsong greeted her happily.

"Stormstar! Have you come to see the kits? They're beautiful aren't they?"

The leader nodded and asked,

"What are their names?"

Dawnsong pointed to a small brown and white tabby tom.

"That's Hawkkit. I like to think of him as the Hawkkit who never got a chance to live."

Stormstar nodded understandingly, even though the name made her shudder. The kit even looked like Hawkpaw had.

"And this is Cloudkit."

Stormstar's eyes opened wide as she gazed upon a perfect copy of Cloudpaw, curled up in Dawnsong's nest. She was a grey she-cat with white tabby stripes, and when she opened her eyes and yawned, Stormstar saw that her eyes were the same ice-blue ones that Cloudpaw had had. The leader was in no doubt that Cloudpaw had returned from Starclan to live again.

And now, looking at Hawkkit, she saw that he had no signs of plotting or extraordinary skill that had marked out Hawkpaw, and Stormstar was sure that this was Hawkkit, the Hawkkit whom Dawnsong had killed to give Tigerstar a body, come to have a life again, just like Cloudpaw.

"They're beautiful," she commented.

Dawnsong's eyes were full of compassion and thankfulness, but then she asked,

"Stormstar, I know it sounds strange, but when I look at these cats, I have the feeling that they're Cloudpaw and Hawkkit, not my kits at all. What do you think?"

Stormstar gazed into her sister's eyes and saw that she honestly thought that was the case. Eventually she gave a nod, and responded,

"I think they are too, but that's not important. All that matters now is that you stay strong, and that you raise them to be the best that they can be, and nothing less."

Dawnsong nodded and Stormstar left her in piece. She had some serious decisions to make regarding the kits' futures.

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"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here beneath the highrock for a clan meeting!"

As the cats of Skyclan gathered, Stormstar announced,

"I have a couple of ceremonies to perform right now. The first is a pair of apprentice ceremonies. Come here, Greykit and Snowkit."

The two kits padded up to the highrock nervously. Greykit was a small bluish-grey tom, and Snowkit was a slender white she-cat. They were the second litter of Riverheart and Frostshimmer.

"We are gathered here to give these Skyclan kits their apprentice names. Greykit, from this moment on, until you have received your warrior name, you shall be known as Greypaw. Orangeflame, you have shown yourself to be a brave and noble warrior, you shall be mentor to this apprentice."

Orangeflame nodded and touched noses with her younger brother and apprentice, then led him away to stand with the other cats.

"Snowkit, from this moment on, until you have earned your warrior name, you shall be known as Snowpaw. Streameyes, you have shown yourself to be a cunning and agile warrior, you shall be mentor to Snowpaw."

Streameyes, sister of Orangeflame, bent and touched noses with Snowpaw, who was also her younger sister. As the two cats moved away, Stormstar continued,

"We now have two warrior ceremonies to perform. Come here Cloudpaw and Hawkpaw."

As the two soon-to-be-warriors stepped up to the base of the highrock, Cloudpaw shot a longing glance at her mentor, Thunderfang. She would miss being his apprentice, even though all her life she's been waiting for this moment, the moment when she became a warrior. She felt as if she'd been waiting for it for too long.

"I, Stormstar, leader of Skyclan, call upon my warrior ancestors to look down on these apprentices. They have trained hard to understand the ways of your noble code, and I commend them to you as warriors in their turn."

Stormstar began with Hawkpaw.

"Hawkpaw, do you promise to uphold the warrior code, and to protect and defend this clan, even at the cost of your life?"

"I do."

"Then by the powers of Starclan, I give you your warrior name. Hawkpaw, from this moment on, you will be known as Hawkfoot. Starclan honours your skill and strength, and we welcome you as a full warrior of Skyclan."

Then she moved onto Cloudpaw. Her eyes shone with pride as she said her next words.

"Cloudpaw, do you promise to uphold the warrior code, and to protect and defend this clan, even at the cost of your life?"

"I do."

"Then by the powers of Starclan, I give you your warrior name. Cloudpaw, from this moment on, you will be known as Cloudlight. Starclan honours your patience and intelligence, and we welcome you as a full warrior of Skyclan."