Tiger woke up, a throbbing pain in his head. He looked around, confused. He didn't remember anything. He let out a yelp when he saw a massive group of other cats surrounding him. He didn't know who they were.
"Seems like a little kit who hit his head on something. Let's put him out of his misery." A voice snarled.
"Stop! The poor thing needs help, not death Shadestrike!" Another voice declared. Tiger shuffled up to see a white she-cat with fiery orange eyes pushback a massive black tom.
"Hello. What's your name and where are you from? I'm Frostfire."The she-cat meowed.
"Uh, my name's Tiger and, I-I don't really remember where I'm from, actually." Tiger mumbled, the pain in his head intensifying to the point of extreme agony.
He let out a screech and stumbled over, collapsing onto a clump of moss. Everything went red as blood ran over his eyes. He felt something drag over his face and something being plastered onto his forehead. He clenched his teeth as his head started burningagain.
"Tiger, I'm going to have to ask you to keep still and eat these black seeds." Frostfire whispered.
He reached his head up and saw two, tiny black seeds laying on a leaf. Tiger lapped them up and laid his head back down, immediately overcome with drowsiness.
Tiger woke to the feel of a tail brushing his muzzle. He shook his head and looked up. A silver tabby she-cat, about his age, was standing with her tail tickling his muzzle as she was speaking with Frostfire.
"Frostfire, I'm here for the mousebile." The cat mumbled, obviously not happy with whatever that was.
"Nightflower's ticks have already been taken care of, Rainpaw. Can you help me with something else, though? Get me some Thyme for Tiger, and put some fresh cobwebs on his scratch. It's pretty much healed, but I want to be careful. I know you're tired
ofmedicine cat duties, but your leg won't be healed for another ten to twelve days. Be helpful while you can, Rainpaw."
Rainpaw grunted and walked out of sight. Tiger laid his head back down, his head still throbbing. He heard something drop next to him. He opened his eyes to a pair of dark brown ones. He felt something being pulled off his forehead and caught sight ofa
white clump of something with a few drops of blood on it laying on the ground. He felt another one of those things being put on his head.
"Eat the leaves." Rainpaw' voice said as she plopped down next to Tiger.
Tiger obeyed, licking up the leaves and grimacing at the taste.
"Yeah, I'm caught up in here while my friends are training, just because I hurt my stupid leg falling out of a tree. My fourthday training, and I fall out of a tree." She muttered, flicking a piece of moss off her ear.
"You might be training with us soon, if you stay with us. It's me, my name's Rainpaw by the way. I'm an other apprentices are named Pinepaw, he's my brother, and there's also Beetlepaw, Darkpaw, and Redpaw. Oh wait, you don't know anythingaboutclan
life, do you? Well, you start off in the nursery, where it's you and your siblings, if you have any, and some others, mothers with kits, mothers expecting kits, and such. Up until you're six moons old, you have the name 'kit'.Like, Rainkit,or
Pinekit. When you become an apprentice. Then you have the name paw, like Rainpaw, and you get a warrior mentor. When you become a Warrior, you have any name, like Blackmask lot whatever suffix. If you become a medicine cat, then youkeepthe
Warrior prefix and suffix. The medicine cat takes care of the clan, and heals their wounds and stuff. The next rank is anelder. You keep your Warriorname when you become an elder. Another rank is Deputy, and you keep the Warrior name.
/You're the second to the leader, and when they die you become leader, unless you die first. The final rank is leader. Any kit wants to be leader. You take the suffix 'star' too." She meowed at an extremely fast speed. She slapped her tail over her
mouth.
She flattened her ears and mumbled, "sorry."
"It's fine, I'm a good listener." Tiger meowed, trying not to laugh. She batted at him playfully and purred.
"Getting comfy with the new kitten, are we Rainpaw?" A voice hissed. There was a dark ginger tom with blue eyes standing in the entrance of the medicine den, his tail lashing.
"Redpaw, honestly. You expect me to not talk to anyone while my leg is hurt? C'mon." Rainpaw retorted, baring her teeth. Redpaw rolled his eyes and padded off.
"That piece of foxdung has had a thing for me since we were kits. He's so annoying!" Rainpaw exclaimed, her ears back.
Tiger nodded and looked around. "So, you live here. You eat here, you play here, you grow up here, and you die here." He said, half to himself.
"Yeah, it gets kinda boring sometimes, but there's always ways to have fun, even if you're sick or hurt." She said.
"Rainpaw! Tiger's been out for three days, his head shouldn't hurt too bad now. Give him a tour of the camp, and gather moss from the tallpine, okay?" Frostfire called.
"Fine!" Rainpaw called back. She helped Tiger up and they walked out of the medicine den.
Hello! This is my first story, and I hope you like it! This chapter is pretty short, as will the next few, but I'll try and update as much as I can. School just got out, so I'll be updating fairly often. Again, I hope you like it! Thanks,
-Tigerslash