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Chapter Three

Melodykit's POV

Suddenly, caught off guard, Splatterkit slips. His paw catches between a rock. He struggles against it, and it comes loose. In shock, I sit there, frozen. I hear yowls coming from my littermates of warning. Too stunned, I just sit there as a boulder rolls down towards me, gaining speed.

A million bolts of pain roll up my spine and around my body. I lay there, eyes open but darkened. Things moved in slow motion. My littermates bound down to me, slowly, as it seems. Seaforest runs at full speed from the top of the ravine where her den is. Daisyfur is almost immediately at my side, covering me in licks. I am lifted by my scuff up to the Medicine Cat's Den. As I'm laid in the fresh moss, I try to move my body, but it doesn't work. I try to make a noise, but nothing comes out.

Am I dead?

I am fed something that makes me go into a deep, dark sleep.


Seaforest's POV

As I work, my heart pounds.

Starclan, how could you let this happen! Kill me, not her!

I try to mend the tiny body, but the best I can do is just leave it alone.

She was paralyzed.

Never would she be able to hunt or run, to bound through the trees and feel the wind in her fur. Oh, how her life would be a pit of depression and humiliation.

Once I was sure the kit was alright, I found another problem. She had infected her burr wound.

I quickly cleaned it out. Then I went outside the den. It was already night. I stared up at the moon and the stars.

Please watch over Melodykit. Let her live.


Meldoykit's POV

I open my eyes weakly. I try to stretch out, thinking it was all a dream. But immediately I knew it wasn't.

Nothing below my waist would move. I look up, my eyes blurry, to Seaforest.

"What happened?" I ask flatly. Seaforest's eyes drift to mine.

"Melodykit, the boulder rolled over you, and you have broken your spine. You will never walk again."

I feel like I had been crushed by the same boulder, only this time, worse. "W-what?" I stammer. Seaforest's eyes are depressed.

"You will never walk again. It has been five moon rises since your accident. I am sorry, but you will never be able to hunt or run, to bound past the trees and feel the wind in your fur."

I cough. "Then I can't be a Warrior! What will I be then?" Seaforest's eyes look up.

"You will be a Medicine Cat. You have to be."

I blink my eyes to expel the hot tears. "I'm fine, watch!" I sniffle. I try to move, but all I can manage are my front paws. I fall, defeated. "I...I have to be a medicine cat? I can't have kits, or hunt, or be leader?" This time I do cry. Oh, how I wanted to just be having a nightmare.

Seaforest's thick tail rests on my shoulders. "I know this must be hard for you, dear Melodykit. But it is the only way. Look to the positive aspects, why don't you?" I close my eyelids and try to imagine the good parts, but in my mind there are none. But maybe being a Medicine Cat would be okay. Maybe I would enjoy it. I lifted my head and pointed my nose to my paw. I don't ask out of wonder, or out of wanting to know, but I ask my question in a way that I think will make the deep rock of pity crawling inside of me go away.

"What herb is that?"


I stretch my brown splattered paws out in front of me. Seaforest's deep blue orbs drift onto my dull rock colored ones. "Awake so early?" She stretches, black patched back arching. "Well, I guess you can try to move around a bit." I grit my teeth and pushed up on my thick, chubby kit paws and moved one forward. Exhaustion shoots through me, sending me sprawling out on the floor. My head slams into a pile of herbs. Seaforest lets out a soft but stern growl. I quickly roll off, in danger of being scolded.

"Sorry Seaforest!" I yelp apologetically. Seaforest nods slowly, night sky eyes still narrowed. I shiver at her cold glare and decide today to try to make it to the puddle where Seaforest lets patients drink. It's only a few tail lengths away, but it would take me days to get there. I scrunch up my face like I smelled some dirt and pushed up on my paws unstably. I drag myself inch by inch to the shimmering puddle. Seaforest's stern gaze drifts onto my exercise. A gleam of pride shines in her deep, dark eyes. One more step to go. I drag my feet and fall face first into the puddle. I snap my head up and snarl.

"Yuck!" My paws wipe my face as Seaforest grins.

"Like to get wet?" She snickers. I growl and start to drag myself back to my nest.

"It's not my fault. I thought you'd be proud I made it that far." I sprawl out in my mossy nest. Seaforest groans.

"You always over react. Ever since your fall, you've been dramatic towards every little thing. You'll be my apprentice is a quarter moon. Which reminds me, today is your littermates' ceremony."

A stone of depression seems to drop it's weight on me. "W-what?" I stammer.

Seaforest nods, and suddenly waves of depression roll off of her. I tilt my head. She snaps her head back up and grins wider than ever. I shrink back. "Let's go down there." She picks me up by my scruff.

"Hey!" I protest. Once Blizzardpaw spots me, he points at me and laughs. My ears start to burn with humiliation. Once she sets me down next to her, my dull, dusty irises lock with Splatterkit's bright green ones. Envy fills me up. Seaforest looks down at me ad sighs.

"Go join them. You can be apprenticed early." I grin up at her and quickly drag myself to my brothers and sister. Leafkit presses up against me, and my broad shouldered brothers cover my face in licks. Pondstar rises from her rock and looks down at me.

"Melodykit has recently had a fall, and Seaforest will become her mentor." She looks down at Seaforest. Seaforest ruffles her fur.

"Cats of Thunderclan, as you know, I cannot live forever, so it is time I chose an apprentice. I have chosen a cat that has shown strength even though she was injured greatly. Your next Medicine Cat will be Melodypaw."

Cheers sound behind me as I drag myself up to Pondstar. "Melodypaw, do you accept the post of Seaforest's apprentice?" I gulp.

Do I? Do I really want to heal cats? But what other choice do I have?

"I do." Waves of happiness and depression mix through me. I'd never be a warrior. But I'm okay with that... right?

"Then you must travel to the Light Pool at half moon to be accepted with Starclan before the other Medicine Cats." Seaforest meows flatly. I nod quickly, happy to be accepted. After Seaforest's words, the clan disbands. Probably for one final assessment of my littermates. I drag myself up the steep hill and place myself by some herbs. Seaforest smiles down at me, and shows me an herb. It is round and purple.

"This is the juniper berry. It soothes bellyaches, gives strength, helps troubled breathing, and is also sometimes used to calm cats. It is chewed and eaten." I nod quickly.

Juniper berry, purple, bellyaches, strength, troubled breathing, calming. Eaten. Okay. Juniper berry.

Next Seaforest takes out a tall, bristly stemmed plant. "This is horsetail. It treats infection and stops bleeding. It is chewed to a poultice and applied to wounds."

Horsetail, tall and bristly, infection, bleeding, poultice. Okay, horsetail.

Seaforest puts the horsetail back and takes out a flower that looks like a daisy. A sharp tangy smell hits my nose. "This is feverfew. It reduces body temperature for cats with fever or chills. It also heals aches and pains, especially headaches. It is eaten"

Feverfew, for fevers, headaches and aches. Eaten. Okay. Feverfew.

Seaforest puts the feverfew away and sits, tail curling around her black paws. "You've done good, Melodypaw. I'm looking forward to having you as an apprentice." I smile up at my mentor.

I hope I will look forward to it too, soon.


Pokes in my side tell me it's time to awake. I yawn, stretching out my front paws. Once I open my eyelids, heavy with sleep, Seaforest sits there, ocean blue eyes staring in on me. I drag myself in an upright position. "Yes?" Seaforest hisses and swats my ear.

"Hold these herbs and follow me to the elder's den." She shoves a bundle of leaves and berries in between my teeth. I stare at her in shock, gray eyes bulging. But I don't argue as I drag myself behind her to the old bush that is the elder's den. When I pull myself through the scratchy bush, dropping the herbs on the ground in doing so. Seaforest growls as I tilt my head down to pick it up. Once they are back in my jaws, I drag myself closer to the four elders. Bluefrost, Longfur, Streamdusk, and Featherscratch. Bluefrost lifts her head, staring blindly at the wall.

"Who's there? If it's one of those Dark Forest kits, tell 'em I've had enough!" Seaforest taps Bluefrost's back.

"It's just me and Melodypaw. Just giving you herbs." Seaforest's words seem to have an edge, but they are soothing in a way. Longfur rests his wiry tail on Bluefrost's shoulders.

"All is well, my dear." He explains hoarsely. Bluefrost nods in his direction and waits for the herbs to arrive by her. Seaforest deals out the herbs. I wonder what they're called.

All in good time, Melodypaw.

Bluefrost laps up the herbs. She blinks her sightless white eyes a couple of times. Longfur and the others swallow theirs quite unceremoniously. I shrug and shake out my fur. Once Seaforest is finished, she turns back to me.

"We better go out looking for herbs. Why don't you go get a head start- look for some of the herbs I've shown you." I want to jump up and down, except, well, I can't.

"Okay!" I drag myself out of the bush and up the ravine's side. I pull through the entrance and head towards the creek. When I spot a patch of feverfew, I praise Starclan. I pull it apart, and then I hear a pitiful mewl. Then another, and another.

I look down, and there, squirming and wiggling around on top of dead flowers, were three tiny tabby kits. Newborns, to be precise. I gasp.

What do I do? Do I take them to camp? OF COURSE! What are you, stupid?

As I bent my head down to pick the gray tabby up, it mewls loudly. I put it down quickly, afraid. The kit squirms to my belly. My heart breaks. Poor kits. Abandon.

I sigh, pushing the kit away. Then it squirms back over and curls up against my chest. I purr loudly and lick it's head. I immediately knew I couldn't take this kit back to camp. I could keep it in the forest is a nest, and heavily guard it. I could visit it every day, and I would be like it's mother. I can never be a real mother, so maybe the caving inside of me would end. I picked up the gray tabby and ran towards a bush. I set it by me and found some thorns.

I wrapped the outside of the bush with the thorns and I put some strong smelling onion grass inside and I rolled the kit in it. Then I wove a nest of moss, rabbit fur, feathers, and more onion grass. I lay the kit in it. It had enough room for me to curl up in it as well. I left the bush and found some fresh killed rabbit that was dug by a tree. Warriors had probably killed it.

I take the rabbit back to the bush and find some leaves. I place them in front of the kit and chew up some rabbit. Once it was like liquid, I spat it out on the leaf. Once all the rabbit was gone, I quickly licked the kit and ran to the feverfew.

Seaforest was there, watching the kits. She looked up at me sternly. "Have you seen these kits already?" I swallow. My ears burn as I shake my head.

"Nope. Never in my life." As I lie, I feel my soul dampen. She picks up the orange tabby, and I pick up the brown tabby. They mewl loudly and flail their paws in the air, as if they know I took their littermate. I sigh.

Once we reach camp, Deerwatch takes them in. Her unborn kits were due any day now. As I left the Nursery, I feel very bad, but good too. Once they're older, they will become friends. I will bring their littermate back, even though they will never know they are related.

Unless I tell them.


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