₊˚ ⁀➴ kenzie ⠀❦ jacks’ version's Reviews > Wind

This wasn’t my favorite, as it was repetitive and a bit slow. I feel like Sunbeam didn’t play a big part at all other than her connection to Berryheart, and I wanted her to be apart of it more.

Summary: When Frostpaw and Nightheart get back to the Gathering, they confront Splashtail, who denies that he murdered their last deputy and left the Clan leaderless. The rest of the Clans don’t believe Frostpaw, so Splashtail is made temporary leader until he receives his nine lives. Splashtail also doesn’t want Frostpaw to undermine him anymore, so he exiles her and she goes to ShadowClan. Meanwhile, Nughtheart takes Wasp and Waffle, the park cats, to ThunderClan where they will stay as guests until they prove their loyalty. Sunbeam also hears from WindClan that her mother—the one who left ShadowClan with the rest of her family to be rogues—is sick. In ShadowClan, Frostpaw secretly spies on RiverClan and watches Splashtail battle train the cats. Later, Sunbeam goes to check on her mother, and brings her herbs. Then Sunbeam gets caught walking back through WindClan, and stays at their camp for the night. Frostpaw and the ShadowClan medicine cat, Puddleshine, go to the Moonpool to watch Splashtail at his nine lives ceremony, but nothing happens and Riverstae appears to them, confirming that Splashtail isn’t the true leader of RiverClan. Frostpaw goes to tell this to Squirrelstar, who agrees, while Harestar isn’t sure and Leafstar believes Splashtail. At the next Gathering, Harestar decides that he believes that RiverClan should decide their own leader, and if that’s enough for them, then it’s fine. Frostpaw also has a vision that something bad will happen to the WindClan nursery, so she goes to warn them. Meanwhile, Sunbeam returns to ThunderClan and is punished for getting caught, and Nightheart becomes the mentor of Wafflepaw. A big storm comes right after, and Frostpaw, Nightheart, and Sunbeam make it there just in time for lightning to strike a tree that falls onto the nursery like Frostpaw predicted. Sunbeam helps get a lot out from the wreckage, and when the storm blows over, Harestar tells them that he changed his mind and would help depose of Splashtail once RiverClan makes a decision. Back in ThinderCkan, Wasp, the park cat, decides to return to his old park home before Nightheart, Sunbeam, and Frostpaw go to spy on what RoverClan is up to. They find out that some of the cats who didn’t want Splashtail as leader ran away, and now Splashtail wants them to pay. They also find out that Sunbeam’s mother Berryheart went to join RiverClan and agrees with Splashtail. Splashtail’s deputy, Harelight makes an opposing comment to Splashtail’s plan, and Splashtail kills him right on the spot. Afterward, he makes Berryheart his new deputy, who agrees.