Fading Echoes - Erin Hunter

Fading Echoes is the second book, of the fourth series of Warriors by Erin Hunter. The second book of The Fourth Apprentice stars Lionblaze, Jayfeather and Dovepaw, three warriors (well, one's an apprentice) in Thunderclan with out of the ordinary powers, who have a prophecy to one day hold the power of the stars in their paws. Lionblaze is a fearless fighter, strong enough to beat any enemy, while his brother, Jayfeather is blind, but he can read other cats' feelings and thoughts, and can go into their dreams. Their distantly related friend Dovepaw (their grandfather's nephew's granddaughter) can hear, scent and sometimes see things at an amazing distance, which makes her a great hunter.

The three cat must hide their powers from Firestar and the rest of the clan, and Dovepaw finds it difficult to hide it from her sister, Ivypaw, because they were so close, until Jayfeather told her a story about how he was so close with his brother and sister, and when Hollyleaf found out she wasn't one of the three, she almost destroyed their place in the clan, and killed herself.

Meanwhile, Ivypaw is distraught because she knows her sister is hiding something from her. Tigerstar, a name feared by all the clans because of what he did when he was alive, who is now in the Dark Forest (sort of like hell), takes advantage of this, and sends his son Hawkfrost, who is also in the Dark Forest, to her in her dreams to teach her fighting skills, which makes her feel important as she thinks he is a Starclan cat, teaching her fighting. Things go wrong when he tells her Shadowclan is planning an invasion, and she tells Firestar, and he sends his warriors to Shadowclan to tell them an attack is not necessary, and they set their scent markings further up the territory to show they mean it. Shadowclan fights back, of course, because they really aren't planning an attack. Ivypaw, Dovepaw and Lionblaze fight fiercely with their clan mates, but Shadowclan still has the advantage, and their deputy, Russetfur, kills one of Firestar's nine lives as a leader. to stop her killing any more, Lionblaze tries to drag her away, but accidentally kills her. The book ends there with him realizing that Tigerstar had caused the battle, because in the books in The Power of Three he was taken advantage of by the Dark Forest cat, and he starts to wonder what other cats are as well, apart from Breezepelt (A windclan cat), Tigerheart (Tigerstar's grandson from Shadowclan) and Ivypaw.

~Gabby Cullen 8S :D