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Friday, November 11, 2005

CHAPTER 17: the snowing herb

There I stood in the middle of nowhere in the forest. I tried looking for the herb that would save Snowleafs life. With out that plant there was no way in seeing her stand another day. As I was sniffing around I heard some rustling in the bushes that startled me. I decided that it was probably just a squirrel or something like that. I crouched into a hunting position and waited to hear the rustling sound again. The noise hit me and I stroked. Then I felt fur… it was cat fur. I jumped off and to my surprise it was a rouged. Guessing he was just in a battle. I can’t fight him I thought. I am no warrior. I need mudpaw or Rockfur or…Clawpaw. I still stood my ground, eyes wide lips drawn back and ears flattened against my head. He was frightened…he was injured and his tale between his legs…he reminded me of Clawpaw. I slowly let my guard slip away. He looked at me with helpless eyes. “ I can’t hurt you…” I finally said. He looked at me puzzled. “Look I can help you…” I pleaded. He still looked at me with weary eyes. “C’mon I can help…just wait here and I will bring you some herbs.” I said. I should be worrying about Snowleaf I thought. Then why was I helping this…this rouge. He was an outcast. I padded into the den and grabbed some herbs that would stop the bleeding. Then some marigold juice to help prevent infections. Then I made my way towards the spot I had left the injured cat. “I’m…back” I stood there wide-eyed. Lemurtail was hanging right over the cat, mudpaw was right behind spitting at the intruder. “Wait! It’s against the warrior code to kill any cat.” I said helplessly from the sidelines. “Snowleaf always told me to help a cat that was injured no matter what clan it is from.” I protested. “But…” lemurtail tried. “But he is not in any clan and should not be in our territory.” He swallowed. “Plus how do you know he wasn’t going to use you and get into camp and kill our kits and steal our food?” he spat. I haven’t really thought about that I thought. Man I’m a dope I said again to my self. How could I have been so stupid? What was I thinking? “ But I said I was going to treat his wounds out side of camp.” I said. “Yes I guess that’s true…well go a head and clean and disinfected his wounds…where going to keep him as a prisoner for a while.” He said looking at the cat as if he had seen him before. I cleaned and fixed his wounds. “Hey greenpaw…how did you know how to fix and clean his wounds like that?” “ It was easy…first…” I took a while explaining all this stuff about tiding-up-wounds. It was kind of fun to explain something to someone that was willing to listen. Well it wasn’t that long to explain. I guess it only took as much time as mudpaw eating mouse. I cleaned the cats deep wounded and headed to find that herb. I had asked mudpaw to help but she didn’t now what it looked like. So I was on my own on this one. “Who does she think she is, telling me that Snowleaf told her that we must treat every cat like they were one of us?” I said to myself. “Lemurtail…Lemurtail come here for a second…” the voice sounded weak it must have been Snowleaf. I trotted towards her den. There she lied helplessly in the dirt. “Stop snorting to yourself and help greenpaw with her mission…I feel that there is some rouges watching the area.” “so you expect me to help the fur ball?” “Well I expected you to watch over her why’ll she gets the medicine that will save my life!” I grunted in disagreement. “Fine…I’ll do it…” “Good now go!” I rushed out of her den and shoved my nose as close to the ground as I could get. “I hope she didn’t run into anything yet” I would have tracked her down in nothing flat…but I rained last night. And to top it off…it was starting to snow.

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Sunday, October 9, 2005

CHAPTER 16: "stay calm"

I didn't like it. i didn't like this feeling in my stomach, it was making me dizzy...i wobbled. "are you alright, mudpaw?" lemurtail asked. me and lemurtail were on our way to rock pool, rock pool was a a small pool of clean water surrounded by large grey rocks, hence the name rock pool. every full moon all four clans gather at rock pool for what was called 'a gathering'. it wasn't sundown yet, all the clans meet for a gathering around sundown, just before the moon rises. but right now it was just lemurtail and i. we were to meet Rainstar the leader of dustclan....i wondered why he wanted us to meet with him now, and not wait until the gathering. "mudpaw?" i looked up, "yeah I'm fine, just a bad feeling is all" lemurtail looked at me for awhile before replying, "me too" he mewed softly. I swallowed hard, something was about to happen. ........................................................ I didn't like it. i didn't like what was going on. Redpelt sat next to me, his fur was torn and he was wounded...badly wounded. his eyes were cloudy and unseeing, his breathing had slowed so much that i feared it would soon stop. I too was injured, but not as injured as my clan. i am Rainstar the leader of dustclan! oh why couldn't i prevent this! i shook my head and tried to sit tall, sticking my tail straight up in the air. lemurtail and those two apprentices would be here soon...i REALLY didn't like this feeling, it made me dizzy. "oh, lemur tail" i mewed softly "please don't come, please" it was a trap. as soon as the cats arrived they would be ambushed by the rouges. and i had set it all up. I had thought it was all to save my clan...i thought carrying out there will would save dust clan, but in truth there was no more dust clan, dust clan was gone. taken by the rouges. only Redpelt had stayed beside me. i glanced at him, and then i took a double take, his chest wasn't rising and falling as it should, he wasn't breathing! "n-no! r-r-redpelt!!!!!!!!"after that i could no longer speak. I'm freezing up, i thought, I'm freezing up like always do in tough situations! "What in starclan!" i snapped around, there stood lemurtail and the brown apprentice i had met earlier, where was the other apprentice? the whit-ish one. for some reason i was thinking that she could help redpelt...but, she wasn't there. "i......." i tried to make them stop, i really did, but in an ins tent the rouge cats were upon lemurtail and the apprentice...at that moment they were the closest cats i could call friends...friends, i would not lose anymore friends..."NO! IF YOU TOUCH THOSE CATS I'LL RIP OFF YOUR TAILS!" the yowl escaped me, i was unfrozen, and quite simply, furious! i dove at the rouges who were jumping on lemurtail and the apprentice, and batted them off easily. the rouges looked strong, but they also seemed unhealthy in a strange way. "rainstar what is going on?!" it was lemurtail, "I'll explain later, it's okay, stay calm" i yowled in reply. 'stay calm?' why did i say that?

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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

CHAPTER 15: sickness

Finally the battle was over with. And mudpaw came up to me and asked “hey greenpaw do you want to see Rainstar again?” “Sure…but tonight the gathering…how are-“ “where going to meet him at the gathering…lemurtail invited us…” she smiled as she said that. “Sure” I said with confusion. “Ok…I’ll go and tell lemurtail that you’re coming…and while your waiting, grab us something to eat! Ok?” she said smiling yet again. “Sure” I bounded over to the fresh-kill. I took one of the slimmest voles there. “I would choose that rabbit over their if I were you…it’s going to take a while to get to Rock Pool.” Lemurtail said. I looked up at him. He must of gotten mudpaws answer I though. “Good luck…oh you might want to carry some kill over to Snowleaf…she doesn’t seem her self.” “She’s probably still in shock from the battle” I mewed. “ I dunno…” I heard him yowl to himself. I looked at him weird. Why would he think that Snowleaf was sick…it didn’t make scents? I looked over at mudpaw then the medicine den. Then glanced back a mudpaw. “Hey mudpaw…I’m going to stay with Snowleaf until we leave…ok?” “Sure…can I come?” “No I prefer you not to…I think she might be getting sick…” I said with eyes that gleamed down at the grown. “Ok…” she winced as she said that. I ran towards the den of the medicine cat. I heard some coughing. That must be her I thought to myself. Then I saw a trail of blood. My eyes widened with fear. I walked in…one paw in front of the other. And pausing at every time she cough and I would wince. When I finally reached her she was lying on her side. “Oh…Greenpaw is that you…I scents that I will not live much longer without the proper care.” “Snowleaf?” I glanced down at her. “I will do my best.” I said licking her ruffled fur. She looked at me then fainted. I did my best to fight back the tears. “MUDPAW!” I yowled. She came rushing towards the entrance. “What?” She said with alarm. “I will have to past on the trip to Rock Pool.” “But-“ she started but noticed Snowleaf lying in the dust. “Ok… I will go and tell Lemurtail that you can’t make it…” “Thanks…” I said with passion. I padded up to her and slammed my body against hers. There, we both purred for, it seemed like an eternity. I was happy I had a sister like her I could count on. “So are you guys ready.” lemurtail poked his head through the weeds and vines leading to the entry. “Not yet” Mudpaw had begun. But I had to finish it. “Im not…I’m not going.” I said lowering my head. “I hope to Starclan your not…I was worried about Snowleaf as well. She didn’t seem herself yesterday.” I raised my head quickly to see that lemurtail looking strait into my eyes. My happy cheerful face now faced dread. He looked suspiciously in to my eyes as if I was planning something. Probably planning to tell his secret to Fallingstar. He then shot his glance over to Mudpaw who was looking at Snowleaf limp body. “Don’t worry lemurtail…I would tell anybody your secret…and Mudpaw, I don’t think you would like it if someone was watching you as you slept.” She quickly turned her gaze to me and smiled a haft smile, showing she knew that. Lemurtail shoved Mudpaw out the door and I got busy working on Snowleaf…lets see, she coughing up blood, fainting more than usual, and sleeping for long periods of time. I figured out that it was a dark blood. Snowleaf said you could get it during Green-leaf and Leaf-fall. And if you don’t treat it fast, you’ll die, a slow and painful death. I quickly recall the study of the plant that can cure this dieses. The plant was called ruffled flower. I can’t believe I had to miss the gathering from this. But I was glad that Snowleaf was in the hands of the becoming medicine cat. Her brave and loyal apprentice.

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Sunday, September 25, 2005

CHAPTER 14: the clearing

I gaped in amazement at Clawpaw. he had never been like that. but when i saw his eyes i quickly figured out why. "ARE YOU OKAY!!??" he yowled to Greenpaw. i watched as she bowed her head gratefully "yes, I'm fine" she replied. "hey, thanks clawpaw" i mewed quietly. at first i wasn't sure if any sound had left me at all. i guess it hadn't for i didn't hear a reply. it was just silence. i didn't hear the tusseling or yowls of battle it all seemed to be blocked out. the next thing i new i was spiraling through the air! i yowled in alarm. as soon as i hit the ground i rolled over to see a large white she cat. she was a rouge, but looked healthier then the rest. she had a sleek pelt and you could see her muscles ripple under her fur as she moved. For a moment i wondered if she had one been a clan cat, we were no match for her! Greenpaw and Clawpaw were standing close to where i was. i could tell by the looks on there faces that they were just as scared as i was! in another heartbeat the whole scene changed. The white she cat was now yowling in anger as she struggled with a ginger colored warrior. he had pop-ed out of no where!! i stood watching as the two cats fought, there moves were way out of my league. i couldn't even keep up! "CLAWPAW, GREENPAW, MUDPAW!!!" i jumped, looking around i saw lamurtail. he had called us. "help me protect the nursery!!" he yowled. all 3 of us ran to him as fast as we could, he lead us the nursery where mousefoot was clawing desperately at an angry rouge. lemurtail jumped into help him imeadiatly, greenpaw hissed and unsheathed her claws, both her and clawpaw dove into the frenzie. they had the old rouge out numbered, so i wasn't worried. i decided to go in the nursery, and help keep the kits calm. i pushed my way through the tightly in-twined twigs and leaves that made the entrance to the nursery. it was alot easier to go through when i was still a kit. inside i saw Dawnflower, a queen, and her recently born kits. Dawnflower looked up at me. "what are you doing!?" she spat "go help them outside!" "OK" i mewed softly "i just wanted to make sure everyone was okay" "and clam" i add hastily. she gave me a nod "were fine" The fighting was finally over. the moon had risen and set before it all had finally stopped though. I learned from lemurtail that the ginger tom cat who had rescued me, greenpaw, and clawpaw had been Rainstar. He had explained everything to lemurtail, and at sundown, right before the upcoming gathering, they were to meet and talk about what was happening. but what surprised me most was when lemurtail invited me and greenpaw to come along! it was now sunhigh, i couldn't wait until dusk!!

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