Disclaimer: I don't own the Warriors series. They belong to Erin Hunter. I've been thinking about doing this story for a while, so I hope everyone enjoys it.
Leafpaw:
It had been a quarter moon since they had arrived around the lake, Leafpaw reflected. Her sister had received her warrior name, and it wouldn't be long until there were patrols scouting around the lake to see if they could live there.
"Leafpaw!" called her mentor, Cinderpelt.
She jolted out of her thoughts. She had been sitting in silence with Littlecloud, Barkface, and Mothwing, the other medicine cats. They also looked up.
"Here's some juniper that a patrol found yesterday. Sandstorm was complaining of a bellyache, I want you to check her out."
Leafpaw nodded and took the juniper, before running over to her mother, who was lying in the grass with her father.
"Hi," she mewed, and walked over to her mother. "Cinderpelt told me your belly was bothering you. She wanted me to check you out."
Sandstorm nodded and let her daughter lightly prod her with a paw.
"Everything seems-" Leafpaw gasped as she felt a nudge against her paw.
"What is it?" her parents asked.
"I don't know," Leafpaw mewed. " I'm going to ask Cinderpelt, I'll be right back. Um, Sandstorm, eat the juniper, you'll feel better."
She raced off to where the medicine cats were sitting and nearly collided with her mentor.
"Whoa," the she-cat laughed. "Slow down there. Is something wrong with Sandstorm?"
"I don't know," Leafpaw sighed. "It looked like she was totally okay, but something nudged my paw."
"Ah," Cinderpelt meowed. "I think I know what's wrong. Do we have any borage?"
She directed the last question at Mothwing, who nodded and got some from their makeshift herb store.
Cinderpelt led Leafpaw back to Sandstorm and Firestar, who now had Blackstar, Leopardstar, Onewhisker, Russetfur, Mistyfoot and Ashfoot with them. The leaders and deputies appeared to be discussing something something, presumably Tallstar who had died only a few days ago. Sandstorm looked up as they came.
"Now," meowed Cinderpelt. "I'm sure you recognize this."
"That's borage," Sandstorm replied. "You had me have it when I was- oh."
"Leafpaw," Cinderpelt meowed. "Come here."
The apprentice padded over.
"Place your paw on her belly, like you had before," Cinderpelt continued.
She did, and felt the same nudge as before. She gasped, and started to retract her paw, but a look from her mentor told her no to.
"Did you feel that?" she asked the ginger queen in front of her.
Sandstorm nodded.
"Shift your paw a little," Cinderpelt instructed Leafpaw, who complied.
She did and felt another nudge, she looked at her mentor, who nodded for her to repeat the previous step. Another nudge. Again her mentor nodded. She moved her paw, and felt another nudge. She moved her paw again but felt nothing.
"Nothing," she told her mentor.
"That's quite alright," Cinderpelt replied, and looked at Sandstorm who was purring. "Leafpaw, I just taught you how to tell if a she-cat is expecting kits and how many."
"You're expecting kits!" Leafpaw whispered.
"Believe me, I didn't know until Cinderpelt brought borage," her mother meowed.
Leafpaw nodded.
"Go get your father," Cinderpelt told her and continued to talk with Sandstorm.
She padded over to the leaders and deputies.
"What can we do for you, Leafpaw?" Onewhisker asked her politely.
She smiled at him, then turned to her father.
"Cinderpelt wants to talk to you," she nodded to where her mentor was sitting with her mother.
Firestar nodded, then turned to the rest of the circle.
"Please excuse me, I'll be back."
Leafpaw caught her mentor's eye and motioned towards her sister Squirrelflight, and Cinderpelt nodded. She dipped her head to the leaders and raced over to where her sister was sitting with Crowfeather, Tawnypelt and Brambleclaw. Squirrelflight looked at her normally calm sister like she was crazy.
"What's gotten into your fur?" she asked.
"Cinderpelt taught me how to tell if a she-cat is expecting today. On a ThunderClan queen."
"Really?" asked her sister. "Who's expecting kits?"
"We're going to be sisters!" Leafpaw squealed.
"Sandstorm?!" Squirrelflight gasped and raced over to her mother, knocking her father over, who was on his way back to the circle of leaders and deputies in the process.
"Sorry," she mewed apologetically.
He purred.
"I take it you know, that you're not the youngest anymore," he meowed.
She nodded.
"How many is she going to have?" she asked her father.
"Four," he replied. "You can continue now."
Squirrelflight ran over to her mother with her sister at her side.
Please review. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. On another note, this is the first story I will do with alternating POVs so, it will be kind of a mix between 3rd person and one of the cats, so this was an example of 3rd person directed from what Leafpaw was seeing. Next chapter will be mostly the same events, only directed by Firestar's point of view.
