A/N
This little one-shot was inspired by a little short comic idea that has yet to be posted on my Deviantart, Pixeleve. Go and check me out, watch me, favorite my art ;)
"Hawkpaw! Hawkpaw!" Two voices yelling in sync quickly shook Hawkpaw from her slumber. She shot up, her eyes squinted. Who would wake her up this early on her day off?
She yawned and rubbed her eyes. The two blurry shapes before cleared into Rainpaw and Pinepaw. "Are we being invaded?" Hawkpool asked sleepily. Her brothers laughed.
"No, just come out of the den and look!" Rainpaw exclaimed, darting out of the den with Pinepaw trailing after him.
"Ugh, slow down!" Hawkpaw protested, stumbling as she shied away from the bright light. She flinched as something cold met her paw pads. She looked out at the clearing of camp, her jaw dropping. A light snow covered the whole camp.
"B-but, it's New-leaf! Th-this isn't supposed to happen!" Hawkpaw stuttered, padding up to Rainpaw and Pinepaw, in awe of the Leaf-fall colored leaves scattered about camp.
"Well, it's gone and happened!" Pinepaw exclaimed cheerfully, balling snow in his paws and chucking it at Rainpaw's face. The blue grey let out a surprised grunt and toppled over into the soft snow.
"Let's go to the Frog Pond," Rainpaw suggested, wiping the snow from his face. Hawkpaw chuckled to herself as she saw a tiny nick where the point of his ear should be, in the shape of a 'V'. He had snagged it on a thistle bush, and insisted to let it scar. Said it made him look cooler.
"We could slide across the ice and jump in the leaf piles!" Hawkpaw squealed in excitement. "We're apprentices now! We can leave camp whenever we want!"
"Yeah!" The three siblings exclaimed in unison, high fiving each other at the same time.
Pinepaw cocked his head. "Wait. What about Cardinalpaw?"
They shrugged. "She's got duties today with Snowwing. She slept in too late yesterday," Rainpaw pointed out.
Hawkpaw bopped them both on their noses and sped off. "C'mon! We're wasting daylight!" Rainpaw and Pinepaw were behind her within a heartbeat. They paused to catch their breath at the Thunder Tree, then continued on until they reached the vast, lake like pond. It was completely frozen over.
"Whoaaaa," the trio gasped in unison, staring at the icy, blue-white pond.
"First dibs!" Rainpaw cried out, leaping forward and spreading his paws and skidding aimlessly in circles across the ice.
Pinepaw and Hawkpaw burst out laugh as he lost his balance and landed on his belly, his four limbs spread out as he continued slowly drifting across the ice.
"My turn!" Pinepaw stated, gently placing his pads on the ice and gracefully skating towards Rainpaw. He offered a paw to help him up.
Rainpaw scoffed, ignoring Pinepaw's offer. "I bet you snuck out of camp to get this good at skating on the ice." There was obvious impressment and teasing in Rainpaw's voice.
"Come on, Hawkpaw!" Rainpaw called out once he'd gotten back on his paws. Hawkpaw looked timidly at them.
She gingerly pressed her paws to the ice, gasping at how slippery it felt. "Hurry it up, scaredy mouse!" Pinepaw hissed teasingly. Hawkpaw puffed out her cheeks crossly.
She leapt sprucely onto the frozen pond, gliding with ease. Hawkpaw smirked as she elegantly skated a circle around Rainpaw and Pinepaw. She blew a raspberry as she stuck out her tongue at her brothers
She let out a cry as one of her paws crumpled under her and she slipped, smacking her jaw on the cold, hard ice and spiraling into Rainpaw, the two of them flying into the tree trunk of a sturdy maple tree.
A faint cracking sound camp from the tree branches above them, and a large lump of snow collapsed onto Rainpaw's head.
At first, Pinepaw erupted into loud cackles as the snow covered Rainpaw's face, but as they groaned in pain, he hurried over to them in anxiousness.
"Owwww," Hawkpaw groaned, rubbing her jaw. Her eyes were wet from almost crying.
"Blbbbubbbbuhhh!" Rainpaw exclaimed, shaking his head and flinging snow off his face.
"Hey, are you two okay?" Pinepaw asked, glancing between the two of them back and forth worriedly.
Before either of them could answer, a whitish sliver of string descended from the tree and landing on Hawkpaw's nose. At first she was unfazed, until she realized what it was. A long legged, fat, brown spider.
Hawkpaw let out a shrill scream of terror, scuddling back into a burr bush. She whimpered, squeaking in pain as she staggered of the thicket, her fur covered in thorns and burrs.
Pinepaw and Rainpaw exploded in a fit of laughter, the two rolling on the ground. Hawkpaw's lip quivered in embarrassment. She sniffled, and let out a series of heart wrenching whines and soft wails. Her inhales sounded like pained hiccups.
Rainpaw stopped laughing. He gave Pinepaw a harsh nudge. They padded up to Hawkpaw, Pinepaw on the left and Rainpaw on the right. "We're sorry, Hawkpaw," they muttered, hugging her tightly. She stopped crying.
"I-I'm sorry!" Hawkpaw whimpered. They hugged her tighter as she trembled.
"No, we are," Pinepaw admitted.
"We shouldn't forgotten your fear of spiders," Rainpaw meowed.
(Flashback; four moons ago)
"You'll never catch me, Rainkit!" Hawkkit teased, zigzagging around camp and jumped onto a flat stone below the Tallrock.
Pinekit growled playfully, pouncing on her and tackling his sister to the ground. Hawkkit tossed him off her, standing up pridefully and puffing out her fluffy white chest.
Unbeknownst to Hawkkit, a skinny, long legged, dark brown spider had climbed its way up her leg. It swiftly bit her. Hawkkit squeaked in pain, and the spider scurried back into its home under the Tallrock.
"Hawkkit!" Rainkit cried out in terror as her legs buckled beneath her and she collapsed to the ground. Silverfoot emerged from the nursery, a frightful look in her eyes.
Silverfoot moved to grab Hawkkit scruff as she began convulsing, but Redbreeze stopped the queen.
"She could bite off her tongue or, if she retches, choke on her vomit," Redbreeze meowed, turning Hawkkit on her side. "This way, she won't bite her tongue or choke."
After several long seconds, Hawkkit's body went limp. Redbreeze made no hesitation to scoop her up and carry her into the medicine den.
"Hawkkit, are you okay?" Silverfoot asked worriedly as she followed Redbreeze into the den. Hawkkit's eyes opened halfway.
"I'm… cold," Hawkkit rasped, shivering. She squirmed in the moss nest, itching at the spot where the spider bit her. Redbreeze slapped her away with her tail.
"No itching it, Hawkkit. I need to get you medicine," Redbreeze ordered harshly. Hawkkit nodded absently, panting.
"She's really warm!" Silverfoot exclaimed as she placed a paw to Hawkkit's forehead.
"She will be. She's contracted a fever faster than I anticipated," Redbreeze growled. "Mintpaw! Fetch me some feverfew and comfrey!"
The lithe, grey she cat bowed her head obediently, her brown paws sifting through their storage of herbs until she returned with a fat, black root and green plant with small, soft leaves.
Redbreeze passed the feverfew to Silverfoot. "Have her eat this." The medicine cat ordered, placing a second herb by the kit. "Heather nectar will make it sweeter."
Mintpaw hurriedly chewed the comfrey into a poultice and dabbed it carefully onto the spider bite. "We need something in case it gets infected," Redbreeze turned to Mintpaw, testing her apprentice.
"We could use horsetail," Mintpaw suggested, dashing away to gather up the bristly stemmed plant from their storage. Redbreeze nodded her approval as Mintpaw made the poultice and coated it on the wound.
Hawkkit whined in protest as she swallowed down the feverfew. "I feel spinny…" Hawkkit coughed, her eyes glassy.
"Spinny?" Redbreeze and Silverfoot echoed in confusion. Mintpaw dashed over to Hawkkit, sliding a dock leaf under the she kit.
"I think she means nauseous," Mintpaw realized as Hawkkit leaned over and retched on the dock leaf Mintpaw had placed. "Thornsnag used to say spinny when he felt sick, too."
"Will she be okay?" Silverfoot squeaked in concern, licking Hawkkit's ears.
"She should be just fine," Redbreeze declared, gently patting Hawkkit's shoulders with her tail tip.
(Flashback end)
"You almost died that day!" Pinepaw exclaimed, refusing to let go of his sister in the hug.
"We're family," Pinepaw sighed.
"So we stick together," Rainpaw whispered.
A/N
I needed some siblings love. Also I hope everyone feels closer to the brothers. We didn't really get much speaking parts from them, or a look into their personality.
Based on this, tell me what you think Pinewhisker's and Rainstorm's personalities are in a review!