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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