It was just another day for Cinderheart. Get up, go hunting, patrol the borders, spend time with Lionblaze, same old stuff. She had just finished hunting and was taking the mouse she caught back to camp. It was getting late, and it was only her first week of being a full warrior. When she got to the camp. She decided to drop off the food she had caught and go talk to her friend Hollyleaf.

"Hi Hollyleaf!" She said happily as she walked up to her friend. Hollyleaf looked up from the robin she was eating and smiled.

"Hi Cinderheart!" Hollyleaf said and stood up walking over to her friend. "You're just the cat I wanted to see!" she said.

"Really?" She replied.

"Yeah, Thornclaw wanted me to tell you that he found something interesting out by the training hollow. He wanted you to come see it with him. He already headed down there." Hollyleaf said.

Cinderheart looked confused. "Really? Just me? He does realise I'm with Lionblaze, doesn't he?"

"I don't think it's like that." Hollyleaf replied, "I think he thinks you're the only one who will believe it or something." She shrugged and then spoke again, " I think you should go check it out."

"Ok." Cinderheart said. She started heading for the camp entrance. Maybe what Thornclaw found was important, and he needed her help. She hoped he wasn't in trouble.

(Time skip)

Cinderheart wandered around the training hollow for a while, but Thornclaw was nowhere to be found. "Hello?" She called, "Thornclaw? Are you here?" No one responded. "Where are you?" She shouted. Cinderheart was starting to feel a bit on edge. It was dark, and she had the strangest feeling that she was being watched. "This isn't funny! Get out here Thornclaw!" She shouted. She heard a twig snap and a bush shake. She turned around but no one was there. Then, she noticed something. The bramble bush looked closer than it was before. "Hello?" She said, her voice getting shaky. Suddenly the bush moved forward. Cinderheart looked at the bush in shock. Then, the bush next to it moved, and the one next to that. Slowly, the bushes and shrubs around her started to close in on her, cornering her against a rock. She slashed at one of them, but they just kept moving forward. They began lashing thorny whip-like branches towards her.

She thought all hope was lost as her back hit the rock. One was about to lash her when suddenly, she felt a paw on her back. She turned her head to see a lean silver-blue tabby tom with large light blue eyes and a white underbelly. He had a small brown drawstring bag slung around his back and a bow tie. "Run!" he said and then dragged her away from the killer plants. The shrubs and bushes began chasing them. "Come on slowpoke! Keep up!" the silver-blue tom said with a wild smile on his face and a sparkle in his eye.

"What's going on?! What are they?!" Cinderheart questioned the cat as they ran. "Where's Thornclaw?" She questioned him again.

The tom didn't answer her questions. He veered another direction and yelled, "This way!" Cinderheart followed him even though she didn't know anything about him. They ran into a small tunnel, and the bushes tried to follow, but were too big to fit in the hole. One was lashing a thorny branch at them, but the strange tom slashed it off with one of his claws, grabbed it, and dashed down the tunnel with her.

"What is going on? Were those cats in disguise? Did you plan this attack? Are you from Shadow Clan? Answer me!" She said blocking the tom when they came to a stop.

"1, We were attacked by psychically controlled foliage. 2, No, don't be stupid. 3, Why would I plan an attack on you and then save you? Z...no 4, No, do I look like one or something?" The tom replied.

"You're lying! is this some kind of joke?! Where's Thornclaw?" She shouted at him.

"You almost got killed and you thought that was a joke? Jeez! You earth cats are thick!" He replied smirking at the last bit but the smirk faded when he asked, "Who's Thornclaw?"

"He's a clan mate of mine! He's a golden tabby." She said.

"Him? Yeah, he's dead." the tom said.

Cinderheart stared at him in shock. "WHAT?!" She yelled at him, "You KILLED him?!"

"No! I'd never do that! What kind of a cat do you think I am?" the tom responded indignantly, "Now come on, let's get out of here." When they got to the end of the tunnel, the odd tom dumped the thorny branch on Cinderheart and started reaching into his drawstring bag. He pulled out an odd device that was blinking.

"What's that?" Cinderheart asked.

"It's a bomb. I'm going to use it to destroy those nasty shrubs." He explained, " And unless you want to get destroyed too, you better get out of here. And don't tell anyone about me, you'll only get yourself and everyone else in big trouble, got it?" She nodded, wondering if this cat was threatening her. "Good." he said as he ran down the tunnel. Cinderpelt only had a moment to contemplate what had just happened, when the tom came back. "Oh by the way, I'm the Medicine Cat, what's your name?" he asked with a friendly grin.

"C-Cinderheart." she said fairly confused. Didn't he still have that bomb, or whatever it was?

"Nice name! Well it was nice meeting you Cinderheart, now run for your life!" He said the last part holding up the bomb with a wild look on his face. he then turned and ran down the tunnel again. Cinderheart nodded and ran as fast as she could away from the crazy cat. She was so caught up in running, she didn't even notice she still had the branch. Suddenly, she heard a loud booming noise and turned around to see an explosion. She stared at it for a few minutes until she heard a voice.

"Cinderheart!" The voice said. Cinderheart turned to see Hollyleaf, Lionblaze, her sister, her dad, and her mom all running towards her, looks of worry on their faces.

"Oh my kit! are you alright?" her mother said covering her in licks.

"I-I'm fine!" she said, a bit embarrassed.

"Cinderheart, you're shaking! What happened?!" Lionblaze looked at Cinderheart with worry. She was shaking, but not from fear, from adrenalin.

She thought about what had just happened that night. she turned to Lionblaze and said, "I'm not sure..."

"Don't worry sweetheart, everything is going to be fine. Let's get back to camp, and everything will be back to normal." her father said to comfort her. She nodded and followed him, but deep down, she knew nothing would ever be the same again.

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to be continued...

I decided to do a little fic based off this picture: art/Medicine-Cat-Who-356467521
I know the storyline for this part of the story is a lot like the episode "rose" from Doctor who, because I did base this first part on that episode. I'll have different adventures in the future, but I liked the Idea of the Medicine cat (who is Jayfeather for those of you who don't know) and Cinderheart meeting up like the doctor and rose. I will change some things up so it's not exactly the same.
Hope you guys like it. Please comment!