Second chapter of 'What if?' Featuring Cinderpelt/paw.

'What if Cinderpaw hadn't been in Tigerclaw's trap, but it was Dustpaw?
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"Then I'll go!" Cinderpaw mewed, her soft blue eyes showing determination. She kneaded the soft ground below her, and her tail flicked back and forth.

"No!" The darker gray she-cat hissed, "None off you will go!"

Dustpaw snarled, "Tigerclaw is gonna have someone get the message! But Bluestar won't come, but I will!" With that, he dashed off into the forest.

"Dustpaw, don't!" Sandpaw and Fireheart screeched with terror, and the pale ginger apprentice jumped forward to chase him, but was cut off by Fireheart's tail holding her back with Whitestorm, her mentor.

"We don't know if its a trap or not. Redtail wouldn't be happy if you'd join StarClan because of Tigerclaw." Whitestorm's white pelt ruffled.

Fireheart's eyes gre wide, "Whitestorm you believe...?"

"I've always had," Whitestorm mewed. "Let's go get Dustpaw, but we'd be better off together."

"I'll track him," Sandpaw flicked her tail tip with curiousity.

The patrol of three cats, came across a thunderpath with a fox trap on the road. It obvisouly that the thunderpath was closed, since no monsters were heard for fox-lengths. There, on the road, with his back left leg, twisted and broken with blood seeping out. Dustpaw.

"Dustpaw!" Sandpaw yowled in terror. Her pale ginger fur bristling as she noticed Tigerclaw looking at the apprentice, with a dull expression. His amber eyes showing anger and revenge in them. But before they even had a chance, Tigerclaw bounded into ShadowClan territory.

"Come on," Fireheart mewed, "Let's get him out of here." He took Dustpaw by the scruff, and started to drag him.

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Leafkit bounded into the medicine cat den, happily, with her amber eyes sparkling with joy. "Dustfoot?" She mewed.

"What is it Leafkit?" The brown tabby tom asked, his jaws full of herbs.

"Tomorrow, when I be an apprentice, I hope I could yours." Leafkit said, "I want to train as a medicine cat apprentice!"

"Very well, I'll ask Firestar later." Dustfoot set down the bundle of herbs and limped out of the den with the kit behind him.

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Leafpool looked at her dead mentor in front of her, "I'm sorry! I shouldn't went off Crowfeather!"

"He's gone now," Brackenfur whispered, pressing his pelt against his friend's, "Sorreltail, what are their names?"

"Our kits, yes their fine. This one is the first tom, I'll name him Molekit. This is Poppykiy and Honeykit. He is...Dustkit." Sorreltail rested her tail on a dark brown tabby tom that looked hauntingly rectonizable.

"Wonderful names," Cinderflower meowed, "He'd be grateful." Her kits; Smokekit, Silverkit, and Riverkit were pressed against her belly, suckling happily. Her mate, Mousetail, was close beside her.

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Yeah, change in it. Poor Dustpaw, he never got to be a warrior D8 I changed it, in this Cinderpelt's warrior name would've been Cinderflower to me and her mate would've been Mousetail, Ferncloud's and Thornclaw's kit, along with Shrewpelt. Yeah, they aren't mates in the stories, but this, Dustpelt becomes a medicine cat and Cinderpelt a warrior.
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