Chapter

The sun was shining, the birds were chirping everything seemed perfect.

A brown she-cat named Briarlight was walking in the forest next to her old mentor, Thornclaw.

She was walking? On all four legs?

Briarlight woke. Her green eyes blurry with sleep. She opened her jaws in a loud wide yawn.

"Looks like someone is still sleepy," a sharp voice meowed in the herb smelling den.

Briarlight turned her head toward the voice. Jayfeather was sitting with his tail over his paws.

Briarlight rolled her eyes, "Well at least I'm not always the grumpy one around here," she retorted.

Jayfeather just flicked his ear. "Whatever," he growled.

"See your grumpy right now," Briarlight pointed out.

Jayfaether turned to the medicine store and started to organize the herbs into two piles. One old herbs one fresh herbs.

Brairlight rolled her eyes once more and dragged herself toward Jayfeather.

"Don't be too reckless," meowed Jayfeather.

"Wow, I sure am reckless, today I think I'll go climb a tree then jump off," Brarlight responded in a sarcastic voice.

Jayfeather snorted.

Briarlight ignored him and dragged herself out of the den into the camp. Right away Briarlight spotted Lilykit and Seedkit play fighting, and Amberkit and Dewkit chasing each other around in a circle.

Amberkit and Dewkit had lost their brother, Snowkit to an adder about a moon ago. The whole clan was sad, but not as much as Brightheart and Cloudtail.

Briarlight sighed, she hated seeing kits die. Since the time when she was an apprentice and broke her back legs trying to save Longtail, she always looked forward to new kits.

As the kits joined each other for a group game, Briarlight decided to join them too.

"All right Brairlight you can on our clan," mewed Dewkit pointing his tail at "his clan" which the members were Lilykit and him.

"No, I want Brarlight in my clan!" growled Seedkit pointing to "her clan" with her tail, which the members were Amberkit and her.

"I called her first!," growled Dewkit

"Did not!" hissed Seedkit

"Did too!"

Did not!"

Briarlight giggled at the kits way of fighing. She glanced to the left and her eyes widened at what was there.

An adder, slithering towards the kits.

Brarlight was to frozen to do anything, but finally she was snapped back.

"Look out!" she screamed.

Using all her might to push off and push the kits out of the way.

When the kits were safe she tried to get away, but it was to late the adder had suck it's teeth into her shoulder.

Brarlight screamed and collapsed to the ground, remembering the time Honeyfern had saved her when she was just a tiny kit, dieing the same way.

Brarlight felt her body slamming against the ground. She could hear muffled meows, but her eyesight blurred.

Brarlight knew she had done the best she could to protect her clan.

But it was time for her to depart, all she could hear now was the sharp loud sound of her heartbeat. Finally sinking into black inky darkness.

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