Ice: Hi again! I haven't posted in a while, but I'm back with the next chapter. Once again, no Sage, although I talked to her today so that I could post this chapter.

Special thanks to Streamheart, who was awesome enough to review again. YOU ROCK, STREAMHEART! (air hugs Streamheart)

It is very wise to read a book; it is even wiser to learn from one.

-Sage

POTTERCAT WARZ

CHAPTER THREE

AN UNFAMILIAR RESCUER

Everything was cold. So cold. However, nothing was as cold as the nose that was insistently poking Amberkit in the chest.

"Okay, okay, I'm up, I'm up," she grumbled, sitting and taking in her surroundings.

Amberkit was on the Thunderpath, but everything else, the forest, the undergrowth, was blurry, except for the cat that had been poking her in the side for the past half-hour or so.

The cat in question was little more than a kit, about Amberkit's age, with a pelt that was a mixture of different shades of orange and glowing green eyes. The she-kit also had something else:

"You smell like a RiverClan fish!" spat Amberkit, hissing, as she leapt away from the kitten.

"So?"

"So-so-you're the enemy!" said Amberkit.

"Whaddya mean, the enemy? I'm trying to rescue you!" growled the RiverClan kit.

"Rescue me from what?" asked Amberkit, caught completely off guard.

"You got hit by that monster. I'm trying to keep you from dying."

"From DYING? But, but," stammered Amberkit, "what about Lionkit? He was standing right in front of the monster, that idiot, he's probably squished. If he dies I'll kill him," growled Amberkit, tears welling up in her eyes.

"I don't know what happened to Lionkit," the other kit said quietly. "I didn't see him. I only saw you."

There was an awkward silence.

"Who the heck are you, anyway?" mewed Amberkit finally.

"My name's Starkit. I'll be an apprentice in about half a moon. You were right," Starkit added, giggling, "I am a RiverClan fish. So, are you coming?" she asked, standing up and stretching her legs.

"Coming where?" asked Amberkit, puzzled.

Starkit giggled again.

"Back to the living world, silly. Where else, the Bahamas?" she asked, still giggling as the headed toward a patch of bushes that were glowing slightly. "This is the portal," Starkit added, nodding toward the green, glowing bushes.

"Creepy," said Amberkit raising her eyebrows and sniffing them warily. "Oh, well," she said, sighing, "I guess walking straight into a bunch of creepy, glowing, weird smelling bushes with a RiverClan fish isn't too high of a price to pay if doing it means I'll live." She sighed again, then stepped through the portal into the Living World, where she was torn, bleeding, and barely conscious, lying on a hard, cold Thunderpath on the edge of enemy territory.

Starkit paused before she, too, went through the portal, glancing back at the peaceful undergrowth and thinking,

Oh, StarClan, let me have done the right thing.

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Icey