Cometkit jumped. Moonclan was attacking? Why? She turned around to wake her sister and mother, when she heard a rustle at the base of the tree. Basilstar had woken and now was questioning Greynight. The warrior had a long scratch along her flank, and she was panting hard. After a few questions, the leader nodded and disapeared to the warriors den, which was inside a hollowed log that had fallen many moons ago.
Cometkit spun around and leaped to her nest. "Jadekit. Jadekit wake up!" she whispered to her sister, shaking her. "Wha..." her sister mumbled turning away from Cometkit. She shook her again. "Moonclan is attacking! Get up!" Jadekit immediatly sat up. "What?" she exclaimed. "Not here, we'll wake the others up. Follow me." Cometkit led her sister out of the nursery and onto one of the braches that hung above the camp. As they sat down, she told her sister what she had heard and saw when she had woke up. "Shadow-whisker's hurt! We have to help him!" Jadekit said, worried about their father. " I know, but we go charging into battle, we're only kits."
Her sister looked stunned. " We can't just sit around. We have to help the clan by fighting!" Cometkit shook her head. "I agree, we can't just sit around, but we can't go charging into battle with the warriors." She motioned with her tail to the jumble of cats forming plans, and moving off into groups.
Jadekit looked stunned. "Well, you can stay, but I'm going." her sister announced as she jumped off of the brach and into the leaves below. She cast a look up at Cometkit before running off into the forest. Going unnoticed to the warriors, who were now charging out the tunnel and to the sound of battle.
What was she going to do? Jadekit was bound to be killed by a Moonclan warrior. Cometkit knew what she had to do. Although there was another solution, she needed to go after her sister so Jadekit wouldn't be killed.
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Cometkit was panting by the time she caught sight of her sister. "Jadekit! Jadekit stop!" She yelled. Thankfully her sister came to a stop after she had hopped over a root. "Thank Starclan you stoped!" She called to Jadekit. Cometkit had jumped over the root, when she saw why her sister had stopped.
A badger was digging at the roots of the tree infront of them, nosing through the dirt. "Is that what I think it is?" Jadekit mumbled under her breath. Cometkit nodded. "If we back up slowly, we can get to camp and tell whoever is guarding the camp." As they started to back up, she stepped on a twig. Snap! The creature in front of them stopped digging and turned around to face them. It's beady eyes felt like they were staring into Cometkit and freezing her in place. "Run!" Her sister's voice snapped her out of the spell and she scampered on her paws, trying to turn around. Finally, she managed to turn around as she and her sister pelted as the badger charged them.
"We can't lead it to camp!" She yelled to her sister. Jadekit glanced sideways at her. "What if we both climb a seperate tree to confuse it?" Cometkit nodded. Maybe her sister's plan would work. Before she could open her mouth to ask Jadekit what two trees should they climb, she heard a yelp. Cometkit spun around to see the badger had bitten Jadekit's tail. Her sister was still running, but her injury was slowing her down. The horrible creature chasing them had blood on it's face and was gaining on Jadekit.
Cometkit's mind was racing a million pawsteps a second. Jadekit Can you climb?" "I think so..." her sister replied. The badger now had fallen back a few steps because of a fortunate dip in the ground. Cometkit stopped beside a small tree. She motioned with her tail and shouted encourgement to her sister. When Jadekit reached the tree, she helped her sister badger was closing in now. Just a few more steps and it would be on top of them. At the last moment she scrambled up the bark. She found Jadekit perched on the lowest brach. Her blue pelt shining easily in the night sky.
As she heaved herself onto the branch she glared down at the black and white creature staring up at them. "Mousebrain!" Jadekit spat down at the badger. "Your tail..." Her sister seemed to have forgotten about her injury until now. "It's fine. It doesn't hurt very badly." The badger had only managed to bite the tip of her tail. Thank Starclan it wasn't her whole tail. But the injury was still severe.
After severeal minutes had passed, the badger seemed to loose intrest in them. The creature turned and walked away into the shadows. Cometkit turned to her sister. The blue kit was licking her tail. She had successfully removed all the dirt as far as Cometkit could see. But infection could set in. "C'mon let's go back to camp." Jadekit nodded. Exaustion cramped their bones but they continued on, following the path they used first came into forest. By the time they had reached the clearing they were stumbling over their paws, ready to collapse.
Somehow Cometkit managed to get to Cloudcall's den at the bottom of the tree. The medicine cat had already been woken and he was now sorting herbs and mixes for the warriors. He turned when he heard them come in. Probably expecting warriors Cometkit thought. The white cat looked surprised when he found them instead of warriors. She was so tired, she collapsed in one of the nests as she told the tom what had happened. He began treating Jadekit's tail immediatly. Her sister was already asleep. Cloudcall looked up from treating the wound when she got to the part about the badger. "A badger? I'll have toreport that to Basilstar when he gets back." Cometkit got nervous. "Do you think he'll punish us? Will he delay our cermony? We'll never become apprentices!" She mewed. "Basilstar will have to do something. But he is a fair leader and I'm sure he wouldn't delay your cermony over that. Get some rest now."
Cometkit closed her eyes and let sleep take over her exausted body.
Yay! Longer Chapter! I think I went Coma Happy on this one. But thats ok. Tell me if you loved it or hate it. As I have said before, it makes the little smurfs running my brain extremely happy and work harder so chapters are uploaded faster!