Author's Note: Well fisrt off, I have to say "I AM SO SORRY! I HAVEN'T UPDATED IN FOREVER! I AM SOOOOOOO SOOOOOOO SOOOOOOO SORRY! I DON'T DESERVE READERS! I DOUBT ANYONE IS READING THIS! I'M SOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRYYYYYY! I FEEL SOO BAD! I AM UNWORTHY OF READERS! T.T" I feel sad.
~Also, I'd like to send very special "Thank you!"'s to my sis, Starlight Warrior 1092, for encouraging me to continue, and to Technician Fan , whose PM told me that I really might have some readers left. Thanks guys, I owe you the rest of my story.
"Moonpaw? Moonpaw, where are you?" Fallingheart's voice called.
"Coming!" stupid mouse!
"This is burdock." the plants that Fallingheart pointed to was tall and had large leaves, "We need the root. Carefully you need to dig around the plant and pull up the root. Ok?"
I swallowed hard, "Ok."
Fallingheart began scraping away the dirt at the base of one plant. I padded over to another. Ok, don't harm the root. Ok. I started scraping carefully at the ground. A root snapped under my claws. Oh noo! Oh no oh no oh noo! I continued, slower this time. The root came up. Whew!
"Got one! I snapped a root though..." I guess I sounded disappointed, I was though.
"One snapped root? That's great! I snapped almost all of them on my first try!" Fallingheart looked up, dirt covering her claws, "Why don't we gather some more, then maybe we can get some dock, too."
"Yay!" I was suprisingly happy.
We continued digging at the roots, I snapped at laeast three more, sadly. But Fallingheart overlooked that too. I think she's being too nice to me. Wonder why.
"Ok, that looks good. Never take all of the plants, you want them to grow back. Let's head to the stream and wash these off. Then we can gather dock."
The stream was farther than I thought. We were walking for a while, I guess. I kept being distracted by the forest. I ran into two more trees, and three brambles! Whoo hoo!
"Fallingheart! I can still feel a thorn in my fur!" I complained most of the way.
"Will you be quiet? Look we're here. This is the StormClan border. Smell them?" she dipped her head to the river in frount of us.
Whoa. That's a stream? Looks like a river! Oh smell.I sniffed the air. StormClan smelled like water, and marsh, and...fish.
"There are some dock leaves around here, will you gather them? Just put them in a pile. I'll wash the dirt off the roots." Fallingheart picked up a root and walked toward the 'stream'. I began collecting leaves.
Ooo! This is a cool shaped leaf! Oh another dock leaf! Cool shaped oak leaf! This maple leaf is huge!I placed the dock in a pile, but the other leaves were scattered. The birch flew farthest when I jumped on them. I glanced back. Good, Fallingheart was still washing roots.
I sat down, tired from chasing leaves. A sound from the other side of the river startled me. Squinting I made out a shape in the shadows on the other side of the river. A cat! They hadn't seen us yet. And Fallingheart hadn't seen them either. I squinted harder. Oh no! I recognized a black pelt, unkept and scraggly. Clawtooth! He's RavenClan!
Panic hit me. I'm a medicine cat, I can't fight a warrior. I'm a new apprentice, too! The panic strengthened when I realized that if I moved to warn Fallingheart, I'd step on one of my leaves and alert Clawtooth. I thought harder. Can I jump the leaves? No. Can I fight? No. I can yowl...Maybe I'll scare him? No, no, no!...Yes. Now.
I yowled. At the top of my lungs, I yowled. Fallingheart shot up. Clawtooth jumped. Somewhere upstream a cat started running.
"Moonpaw?" Fallingheart hadn't sen Clawtooth yet.
"Fallingheart! Look it's Clawtooth!" she had to know!
"Yes kit! I am here. What are you, a tiny healing kit, gonna do about it? You can't fight. And by crossing the border you'd be in trouble too." Clawtooth was taunting me, I hate him!
"True words. We cannot cross the border without reason, and you aren't much of a reason." Fallingheart seemed so calm...What is she thinking?
"Heh you Sandclan cats are too soft to even dare break the warrior code! What fools!" even the sound of his voice drives me crazy!
"The only fool here is you, intruder." a deep mew came from behind Clawtooth.
Cats skirted out of the background, StormClan cats. They surrounded Clawtooth, blocking off any hope of escape. The RavenClan cat hissed.
"Why are you within our borders?" a dark gray tom asked Clawtooth.
"I would like to speak to Otterstar." the scummy black tom announced. Yeah, right!
I watched the StormClan cats flow into a formation. How did they all know what to do? Cats stepped onto all sides of Clawtooth, and one nodded forward. The group walked away.
"So, Fallingheart." You're still here? the dark gray tom mewed.
"Yes?" my mentor had an edge to her voice, sharp as ice. What wrong? Do they know each other?
"This is your new apprentice, is it not?" IT? I'm not an it! :P
"Yes, Fringefall, she is." Booyah! Go mentor!
Fringefall nodded. He tuened and walked away. Jerk! I just saved you from an invasion! What knid of a name is Fringefall anyway? Fringey, fringey, fringey!
Author's Note: I still feel bad. If anyone is even reading this, THANK YOU ALL! I AM UNWORTHY! I feel guilty. I don't deserve reviews, so there's no point in asking for them. Thank you those who are reading this. You are truly kind people to pity an unworthy soul like me. ~.~
~Also, this is all I have. STARLIGHT! You need to tell me to type a paragraph each day. EACH DAY! EVERY SINGLE ONE! NOW UNTIL I UPDATE!
~.~ I am guilty...
