Recovery Time Is Delayed
Mumblepaw turned and limped toward ravenpaw. She sniffed him and placed her ear on his chest. Relief flooded her when she heard a faint heartbeat. She lay down next to him and placed her head in her paws, Exhausted. She head a faint mew. Ravenpaw opened one eye "Did we beat him?"
she nodded. He closed his eye and purred. Mumblepaw smiled and giggled. "You stupid furball". She looked around to the rest of the patrol. "Mumblepaw! Are you ok?" Tigerfoot asked worridly while bounding toward her.
She grunted and stood on her paws "Yeah, but ravenpaw needs some help." Tigerfoot sighed and nodded. He padded over to ravenpaw and picked him up gently by the scruff. Ravenpaw mewled in pain.
Breezepelt padded to tigerfoot. "Tigerfoot, let me take care of him. Your already pushing yourself too far. Im surprised you can walk." Tigerfoot nodded and set ravenpaw down gently. Breezepelt dipped his head and picked ravenpaw up again and walked into the forest towards the camp. Tigerfoot sat down and mumblepaw finally noticed all of his wounds.
He had patches of fur missing from his pelt. He had a deep gash on his side and a cut across the top of his nose. One ear was bleeding heavily and he had raw scratches covering his flicked his tail for mumblepaw to join him. She silently padded up next to him. He smiled softly at her "Why dont you go with breezepelt? you obviously seem worried"
Mumblepaw hesitated "A-Are you sure? You dont want me to stay with you?" He nodded."We'll be fine. Go" Grunting he stood up and padded to the other injured cats. Pricklestorms ear was ragged and bloody and was leaning on echopaw. Echopaw had no visible injuries ~scaredy mouse didnt paticipate!Only hid behind a tree!~ mumblepaw yowled in her mind.
Taking one more glance at tigerfoot she sped off into the woods to catch up with breezepelt. She saw his black pelt passing over a fallen tree. "Breezepelt! wait up!" He turned his head and stopped. When she caught up he returned to his slow pace toward thunderclan camp. She glanced at ravenpaw.
" Is he gonna be ok?". breezepelt looked at her from the corner of his eye. He nodded. They arrived at the bramble entrance and pushed themselves through it. Frostjaw, who was guarding the entrance, let out a warning yowl "Injured clanmates! Make way!" Breezepelt rolled his eyes and padded across the clearing with mumblepaw following close behind. Wildstar amd several other cats bounded toward them " Breezepelt! Whats going on? What happened to you? Wheres the rest of your patrol?"
Breezepelt ignored him, heading straight for softhearts den. He flicked his tail for mumblepaw to take over. Wildstar turned his gaze toward his daughter. "What happened mumblepaw?" She looked at her confused clanmates. "We were attacked by a shadowclan patrol near their border. We made them retreat. The rest of the patrol is on their way here."
Wildstar wrapped his tortoishell tail around his paws. "why didnt anyone come ask for help?"Mumblepaw replied strongly "We needed everyone available. They had us outnumbered so we couldnt risk anycat leaving. But dont worry, we're all ok. " Wildstar sighed "alright. at least you're all ok" He waved his tail at the cats surrounding him "i need some warriors to go out there and help the dawn patrol." He looked at his deputy
"Brightfern, choose the warriors who are to go" The brown she-cat nodded and padded to the highrock. Wildstar turned to mumblepaw and nudged her with his head. "Go to softheart. Your wounds need to be tended to." She nodded and limped toward the medicine cats den. Skypaw saw her and immediatly ran inside. After a few heartbeats softheart came out with her.
"Mumblepaw " she said softly " Where are you hurt?" Mumblepaw padded into the den and layed down in a small nest. " My muzzle hurts and so does my back and paw." Softheart nodded and waved her tail to skypaw "Skypaw, go and grab some elder leaves,goldenrod, marigold, nettle leaves, oak leaves, and cobwebs. And hurry, ravenpaw needs them too, especially marigold."
Skypaw swiftly walked to the back of the den. Shuffling through the piles, she all of sudden turned toward softheart with fearful eyes.
