The gathering had taken forever it seemed to Russetpaw, her paws were aching very badly. As the ThunderClan warriors returned to their camp she noticed Squirrelflight, and Brightheart were sitting infront of the warriors den, smiling at their tired apprentices. "Welcome home." They said together. Honeypaw padded over to her mentor, they shared tounges and Brightheart dismissed her young apprentice to the den for a well deserved rest. "Russetpaw, come with me." Squirrelflight mewed. As tired as she was, the young apprentice knew she had to follow her mentors orders, silently Russetpaw followed Squirrelflight to Firestar's den. Sandstorm was sitting in her mates den, her pale green eyes gazed at the apprentice before her. Firestar licked his chest fur, as if he hadn't noticed his daughter, and her apprentice inside the leaders den. Finally Firestar lifed his head from his chest fur, "Graystripe says you're shoulder was injuried when you escaped the twolegs." Her shoulder hadn't been in pain as much, so she'd just ignored it but, she did know that her shoulder could but cut. Even so she didn't see the big deal about an injuried shoulder. "Go see Jayfeather, he'll help you're shoulder heal." Firestar's order was nice. He did care about Russetpaw more then she'd expected.
The apprentice was too tired to really care about her shoulder, even if it was an order Russetpaw had just wished she could go to sleep already, popping her head inside the den she noticed a silky gray tabby tom with blind, brilliant pale blue eyes stareing at her, even though the tom couldn't see her, he acted as if he knew she was with him. "Um. . Jayfeather?" She mewed lightly, the gray tabby tom nodded and flicked his tail for her to come over to join him inside his den. "I'm R-Russetpaw," She begun. "Firestar said you could tend to my injuried shoulder. . ." The blind medicine cat was tired too, Russetpaw could tell he was in the mood to fall asleep. He turned and grabbed some herbs for her, He mustn't talk often. . She thought, the gray tabby placed the herbs on the ground, and dipped his head to respect her, "Eat these and you'll be fine, but they don't taste very good." he mewed sitting down licking his left paw and running it over his ears, Russetpaw licked on herb, and yuck! Jayfeather was right. These herbs tasted bad, never before had she tasted something like this. A purr of amusement arose in Jayfeathers throat, "Finish you're poppy seeds Russetpaw, then go rest." Jayfeather may be mean looking but hes nice to his clanmates, and like most cats of ThunderClan he had a kind heart, she felt safe here.
Russetpaw had awoken ealier then her denmates, she and Squirrelflight had left for more fight training, she had been proud to learn how to defend herself against other warriors. She had still been pretty tired from the poppyseed Jayfeather had given her last night thought, Squirrelflight even knew that her apprentice was tired but, that didnt stop her training today, her mentor had been pushing Russetpaw for the past few days after the gathering, and now it had been about two moons since Russetpaw, Honeypaw, and Graystripe came to ThunderClan. Her former denmates, Dovepaw, and Ivypaw had been made warriors about four days ago, Ivypool, and Doveheart, their mentors Cinderheart, and Lionblaze were proud of their former apprentices, "Russetpaw, are you okay?" Squirrelflight mewed. The she-cats voice was serious, but nodding she dismissed Russetpaw to take care of the elders for the rest of the day. Maybe even Squirrelflight was tired from all the hours and days of none stop training each had done together, she knew Honeypaw couldnt have been training as hard as she was because Brightheart was being easy on her apprentice. Sometimes Russetpaw wished Squirrelflight would be as easy on her, instead of all the training they'd been doing.
Firestar called this final clan meeting, he was giving Jayfeather a new apprentice, since Icecloud's kits, including her foster kit Moonkit were six moons old now, the queen had been proud of all the kits she'd taken care of even though only one wasn't her true blood after all. Moonpaw was the apprentice of Leafpool, Jayfeathers apprentice was Redpaw, and Leopardpaw was the apprentice of Graystripe.
"We have a lot of apprentices now," Honeypaw mewed, she was looking at the new apprentices with wide green eyes, she acted as if she'd never seen so many apprentices before.
Maybe she'd find new friends in these apprentices too, and Moonpaw will be told the truth.
The tiny kit had been to young to understand anything of the past, so maybe Moonpaw thought Icecloud was her true clan cat by blood when the apprentice probally was a kittypet when they found her in that shack, after the twolegs had captured them. Russetpaw sighed, what she hadn't expected was Jayfeather padding over to her, a serious look on his face "Russetpaw I wish to talk to you alone in my den." The blind medicine cat didnt seem to have any troubles getting around anywhere, in or even outside the camp without a cat to guide him. She followed the medicine cat into his den, it was dark inside the medicine den, how could this not bother any cat? The gray tabby sat in his nest, gazing at her as if he were acting as if he could see like a normal cat could, "Four will become five, and the Crystals will over take the Thunder in the Forest."
Four will become five, and the Crystals will over take the Thunder in the forest. . What did it mean?
