A/N: Fun fact: The reason Tarragonstrike isn't happy about Sagewind having his kits is because, he's secretly mates with Valleyfrost!
I'm totally kidding.
But that leads me to the question, how would you guys feel about an LGBT relationship in this fic?
No rude reviews please.
"Parsleypaw!" Parsleypaw looked up from the mouse he was eating, to look at Tarragonstrike.
"What does he want?" Fennelpaw meowed in his ear, he was laying beside him, eating a squirrel.
"I don't know, but I guess I should go find out before I make him mad," Parsleypaw sighed, getting up to his paws, and padding over to Tarragonstrike.
"Yes?"
"I need you to go with Duckpaw here to the twoleg place to help him collect catmint."
"It's Buckpaw, actually."
"The twoleg place?" Parsleypaw's eyes grew wide with shock, he had never been to the twoleg place before, in fact, the furthest he's gone outside his territory was to the gathering.
"Yes, and don't worry, I will be joining you."
"You? But what about Valleyfrost?" Parsleypaw asked, Valleyfrost was his mentor after all.
"He's not feeling well, and since Tansyheart has become a warrior, I have no apprentice of my own, and I told him that I'd be glad to escort you and Duckpaw there."
"My name is Buckpaw!"
Parsleypaw turned his attention to the fawn coloured tom, who was standing beside Tarragonstrike, with his fur slightly raised.
"Who is he?" he asked.
"Buckpaw, I just said that, are you deaf?" the tom shook his head, "If you mean, where did I come from, what am I doing here? I'm the FlowerClan medicine cat apprentice, I came here for catmint, and in case you forgot, my name is Buckpaw."
Parsleypaw flinched at the anger wafting off of the tom, and looked down at his paws.
"Can I come?"
He looked up, to see Fennelpaw standing there.
"No, we are going to work on some new fighting techniques," Araliaheart meowed, padding over to her apprentice.
"But I want to see the twoleg place!" Fennelpaw protested.
"You can go next time we need to collect catmint, but right now, we need to work on few fighting techniques," Araliaheart meowed sternly, in a no nonsense voice.
"Yes, Araliaheart," Fennelpaw meowed sadly, padding away with his tail dragging along the ground.
"Let's go now," Tarragonstrike meowed.
"Wait, won't it be better to go at night? Aren't all the twolegs out during the day?" Buckpaw asked once they were at the edge of the camp.
"That is true, but it will be night by the time we get there."
"Are you sure?" Buckpaw looked up, "The sun seems like it won't be going down for awhile."
"Yeah, and Sprigpaw nev-"
"We do not talk about Sprigpaw!" Tarragonstrike spat.
Parsleypaw shrank back under Tarragonstrike's piercing blue gaze.
He was going to say that Sprigpaw never took that long to go to and from the twoleg place to collect catmint, but he knew it was best not to bring it up.
"Who's Sprigpaw?" Buckpaw whispered in his ear.
"Shh," he hissed, nodding his head over at Tarragonstrike.
Buckpaw's eyes widened with understanding, and he didn't say anything else.
"Come on let's go, we're going to reach the twoleg place by nightfall, because we're going the long way around," Tarragonstrike meowed.
Buckpaw's fur bristled, and he glared at the warrior.
"The long way around? But why? My clan needs catmint as soon as possible, and I'm sure yours does too."
"Our clan is the furthest from WaterClan, the only clan who has been affected so far, it will hit us last, and I need to talk to Swirlingmist."
"But Swirlingmist is a DarkClan medicine cat."
Parsleypaw felt a shiver run down his spine at Buckpaw's words, why was Tarragonstrike wanting to talk to a cat from DarkClan? Didn't he learn his lesson the last time he tresspassed onto their territory?
"I-If you need to talk to her, you don't have to go to the twoleg place with us," Parsleypaw looked around, hoping to see another cat that he could suggest go with them, as luck would have it, Tansyheart was on her way out of the camp.
"Tansyheart can take us!"
She turned around to face him.
"Take you where?"
"To the twoleg place."
"I don't know," she narrowed her eyes, "I just became a warrior a couple of days ago, I'm not sure I'm prepared enough yet to take out two apprentices."
"It's okay, I'm a medicine cat apprentice, if we run into any trouble, I know what to do," Buckpaw meowed.
"You're also a FlowerClan cat which means your fighting skills are mediocre at best," Tarragonstrike meowed.
"I may not have the best fighting skills, but when a cat gets injured from a fight, or they get sick, or even when kits are born, their lives are in my paws, remember that."
Tarragonstrike stood there, silent for once, as Buckpaw stared at him, with his fur raised.
He shook his head, and turned to Tansyheart, if you want to take them, then fine, I have better things to do."
He tore out of the camp, like foxes were nipping at his heels.
"So?" Parsleypaw looked at Tansyheart.
"I guess I'll come with you," she relented with a sigh.
"I can't believe you said that to Tarragonstrike!" Parsleypaw told Buckpaw, as the three cats made their way through HerbClan territory.
"He doesn't scare me, FlowerClan is tougher than everyone gives us credit for, we just prefer not to put our pelts on the line, when talking works just as good as fighting for solving issues," Buckpaw meowed.
"That's exactly how I feel," Parsleypaw meowed, wondering if maybe his clanmates have been right the whole time in saying he needed to join FlowerClan.
He shook his head, no, he couldn't do that, then that would mean leaving Fennelpaw, and he would never leave his brother behind, no matter how mean his other clanmates were.
"How is Pansypaw doing?" Tansyheart meowed to Buckpaw.
"It's Pansystep now, and she's doing good."
"So, has she said anything about me?"
"Not that I've heard."
Tansyheart looked down at her paws,
"Oh."
"So," Parsleypaw meowed, eager to get his clanmate's mind off of her friend, "Should we rest here and wait until nightfall?"
Buckpaw looked up at the sky, and nodded.
"Yeah, sleep sounds like a good idea, that way we can be energized when we go."
Parsleypaw turned in circles, padding the grass down beneath his paws, before settling down in it, snuggling up close to Tansyheart.
"Buckpaw, you can come lay by us too," she meowed, as he started to lay a few fox-lengths away.
"Really?" he asked, his eyes going wide, as if he couldn't believe that a HerbClan cat had actually invited a FlowerClan cat to lay next to her.
"Of course."
Parsleypaw was awoken by the chirping of crickets, and he nudged Tansyheart.
"I think it's time to go."
"Yeah, it's dark," she nudged Buckpaw awake, "Come on, we're going."
Buckpaw stood up with a yawn, and the three cats continued their way out of the woods.
Parsleypaw's nose was soon hit with the stench of smoke, tar, and other smells that he couldn't explain; they had reached the thunderpath.
He swallowed a lump in his throat as he stared at it, he had never been this close to the thunderpath before. He hesitantely reached out one paw, and tapped it, jerking back quickly. It was hard and cold to the touch.
"Are you just going to stand there, or are you going to cross?"
Parsleypaw looked at Tansypaw, wondering if she was the one who had spoken, but she too was testing out to thunderpath.
"Who are you?" Buckpaw asked, looking across the road.
Parsleypaw followed his gaze, and his eyes landed on a black she-cat with white paws. Around her neck, she was wearing a dark pink collar, standing next to her, was a tom who looked exactly like her, except he was wearing a dark blue collar, and in the middle of them, was a smaller white tom with grey spots wearing a red collar with green leopard spots.
"Kittypets!" Tansypaw hissed, arching her back, noticing the three cats for the first time.
"Stupid forest cats!" the black and white she-cat spat.
"Yeah, just try to come closer, we dare you!" the white and grey tom hissed.
Parsleypaw growled at the kittypets, he didn't want to fight, but he would if he had to.
"We don't mean to offend any of you, we just came here to collect something to help our clans," Buckpaw meowed.
"Oh yeah? What's that?" the she-cat asked, narrowing her eyes.
"Catmint, it grows in some twoleg gardens around here," he answered.
"Oh, you mean cat nip? We have that in our garden, I'll let you have some, but first, you have to do something for me," the she-cat meowed.
Parsleypaw stared at her, wondering what on earth they had that she could want.
"What do you want?" Buckpaw meowed, asking the question that was on his mind.
"Cross over and I'll tell you!"
Buckpaw passed the thunderpath in two quick leaps, and Tansypaw ran across soon after.
"Come on Parsleypaw!" she called from the other side.
Parsleypaw took a deep breath, and closed his eyes, and ran, when he opened them again, he was standing next to the three kittypets, Tansypaw, and Buckpaw.
"So, what is it that you want?" Buckpaw asked.
"I think we should introduce ourselves first, I'm Mittens," the she-cat jerked her head over to her twin, "This is my brother Boots," she looked down at the smaller tom, "And this is my son Golfball."
"I'm Buckpaw, this is Tansyheart, and this is Parsleypaw," Buckpaw meowed, flicking his tail to each of them as he named them.
"Can you just tell us what you want so we can collect the catmint and get out of here?" Tansyheart spat.
"I'm getting to that, just be patient!" Mittens hissed.
Tansyheart put her ears back, and her fur started to raise.
"Don't," Buckpaw meowed, running his tail down her flank, "This isn't a fight worth getting into."
"Can you please tell us what you want?" Tansyheart sighed, letting her fur lay flat.
"This is my son Golfball, my twolegs took away my other kits, but he was hiding, so they didn't find him, but I'm afraid that it won't be long until they do find him, and now that he's getting so big, it's gotten so much harder to hide him," Mittens paused to take a breath, "I know you forest cats are good at taking care of your own, and I was wondering if you could take him in, that way, I will know he's safe."
"You want us to take in a kittypet? No way!" Tansyheart exclaimed.
"Yeah, I'm sorry, but HerbClan doesn't accept any cats that aren't clan born," Parsleypaw meowed, not meeting the she-cat's eyes.
"I'll take him in," Buckpaw meowed.
Mittens' green eyes widened, as though she couldn't believe what she had just heard.
"You will?"
"Yes, unlike HerbClan, FlowerClan takes in cats from all walks of life, not just clan born ones, the only thing that makes FlowerClan reject a cat, is if they've killed another cat that wasn't in self defence."
"Well, you don't have to worry about that, Golfball has never even killed a fly!"
"Looks like we have our work cut out for us then," Buckpaw meowed with a small purr of amusement.
Mittens turned to her twin.
"Golfball has a home! Isn't that great?"
He looked up from his paw that he was washing, and said something that Parsleypaw couldn't quite make out, before returning to his washing.
"Follow me," I'll take you to where the cat nip is," Mittens meowed.
She lead them down a dark alley, that sent shivers down Parsleypaw's spine.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't little Mitties and her dumb brother Boots!" a menacing voice meowed from the shadows.
Parsleypaw let out a small hiss and felt his fur rise.
"Oh, and I see she's brought little friends! I didn't know you had another kit Mitties, I thought they were all taken away except for Golfball, but I see two kits there."
Parsleypaw wanted to tell this cat, whom he couldn't even see, that he wasn't a kit, but he felt frozen in terror, this cat scared him almost as much as a DarkClan member!
"He's not a kit, he's a HerbClan apprentice!" Tansyheart spat.
Parsleypaw shot her a look of gratitude, before looking around, hoping to see this strange cat.
"Oh! So you're dumb forest cats, you think you're sooo great with all your rules, and yada yada yada, I bet you couldn't survive one day in the streets!"
"And I bet you couldn't survive one day in the forest!" Tansyheart spat.
"We'll see about that!"
The cat finally emerged from the shadows, and Parsleypaw let out a small gasp of surprise, when he saw how awful he looked.
He was nothing but skin and bones, with patches of his brown fur missing. One of his eyes, was milky and glazed over, and half of his ear was missing.
"What happened to your tail? Where did all the fur go? You look like a rat!" Tansyheart exclaimed.
"That wasn't very nice," the alley cat hissed, he then turned his head back to the shadows,
"Get them!"
"Run!" Mittens yowled, and she and Boots, who picked Golfball up by his scruff, tore out of there.
Parsleypaw followed them out, with Buckpaw, and Tansyheart behind him. Or at least he thought Tansyheart was behind him, until he heard her yowls of pain.
He froze on the spot, he knew he should go back and help his clanmate, but every muscle in his body was urging him to run, to save himself.
"Come on, we have to go help her!" Buckpaw meowed, butting him forward with his head, snapping Parsleypaw out of his trance.
Of course he had to help her! How could he have been so mouse-brained to think otherwise?
Pushing down all his fear, and only focusing on Tansyheart, he ran back to the alley, prepared to fight.
"Parsleypaw, we're too late."
Buckpaw's meow sounded choked with emotion.
"What do you mean we're too late? The fight just started!' Parsleypaw ran over to the where Buckpaw was standing.
"Where did everyone go?" he then asked, noticing that the alley was now empty, as though the vicious cats had never been there.
"Does it matter?" Buckpaw spat.
"Where's Tansyheart?" he demanded.
"There."
Buckpaw pointed with his tail, and Parsleypaw saw his clanmate lying there in a pool of her own blood, our eyes were glazed over, and she wasn't moving.
"No," he muttered, racing over to her, she couldn't be gone, she had just become a warrior, it wasn't possible.
"Isn't there anything you can do?" he hissed at Buckpaw.
"I'm sorry, but she's already gone, medicine cats can do a lot of things, but they can't revive the dead," he meowed softly.
"No, this can't be happening, I should have never asked her to go with me, if I didn't ask her to come, then she'd still be in the camp, she'd still be fine, she wouldn't be here, she-"
His words were cut off my Buckpaw's tail on his mouth.
"Come on, we still have a mission, I will help you carry her body back to your camp, and then I will take Golfball back to mine."
"Okay," Parsleypaw meowed, tearing himself away from Tansyheart's lifeless form.
What would he tell his clan? What would Tarragonstrike say? Would there even be a place for him after this?
He shook his head, none of that mattered, his clanmate, his friend, was dead, and it was his fault.
Character List!
HerbClan
Leader: HerbStar, Elderly brown and black striped tabby tom with amber eyes
Deputy: Araliaheart, small white she-cat with light blue eyes
(Apprentice: Fennelpaw)
Medicine Cat: Fadingspots, elderly short furred grey she cat with a thick neck ruff and grey spots that fade to white or that seem to, she has emerald eyes
Warrior: Tarragonstrike, lilac pointed Siamese tom with blue eyes
Warrior: Valleyfrost, pale ginger tabby tom with a paler underbelly, and green eyes
(Apprentice: Parsleypaw)
Queen: Sagewind, striped light brown tabby she-cat with greenish yellow eyes. (mates with Tarragonstrike)
Queen: Breezeclaw, dark brown she-cat with white paws and chest (mates with Valleyfrost, mother of Pebblekit)
Apprentice: Fennelpaw, white tom with black swirl stripes, and blue eyes
Apprentice: Parsleypaw, small silver tom with white paws, the white on his front paws coming up further than on his back paws, (kind of like evening gloves), a white chin/chest, underbelly, and light green eyes.
Kit: Pebblepaw, pale brown tabby she-kit with green eyes
FlowerClan
Leader: Flowerstar, eldery dark brown tabby she-cat with blue eyes
Deputy: Spottedtuft, spotted brown tabby with a cream belly and large blue eyes that have a hint of green and hazel
Medicine Cat: Flutterwing, light gold she-cat with green eyes
(Apprentice: Buckpaw)
Warrior: Cloverear, dark brown tom with one misshapen ear, and green eyes
Warrior: Dustmuzzle, grey tabby tom with darker flecks on muzzle and green eyes
Warrior: Dandelionpelt, long haired cream colored tom with blue eyes (Gladepaw's father)
(Apprentice: Fawnpaw)
Warrior: Sandyfawn, sandy coloured she cat with pale cream ears, belly and tail tip, and blue eyes
Warrior: Pansystep, orange and black spotted she-cat with orange-yellow eyes.
Queen: Doeleap, dark brown she-cat with golden eyes (mates with Cloverear, mother of Fawnpaw, Buckpaw, Elkkit, and Moosekit)
Queen: Sparkflame, dark red ginger spotted tabby with ginger spots and a pointed nose, thought to have Siamese ansestory due to her build and unusual blue almond shaped eyes (Mates with Spottedtuft, mother of Briarkit, Softkit and Silentkit)
Queen: Honeysucklenose, black she-cat with yellow eyes (mother of Pansystep, Gopherkit, and foster mother of Redkit)
Queen: Shadowtail, black she cat with a dark grey tabby tail, born a kittypet, formally a DarkClan warrior (Mates with Dustmuzzle, mother of Amberkit and Foalkit)
Apprentice: Fawnpaw, fawn colored she-cat with golden eyes
Apprentice: Buckpaw, fawn colored tom with a white underside, and golden eyes
Apprentice: Golfball, white tom with grey spots and green eyes, formally a kittypet
Elder: Gladepaw, a young long haired white tom with red paws, red ears, and blue eyes, he has moderate cerebellar hypoplasia
Kit: Redkit, red abyssinian cat she-kit with amber eyes
Kit: Gopherkit, small brownish grey tom with blue eyes
Kit: Briarkit, creamy brown she kit with a cream paw and a long furred face that usually hangs over her face when she doesn't groom it, blue eyes that become green when she is older
Kit: Silentkit, a Sparkflame look-a-like tom with Spottedtuft's eyes, is rumoured to be mute
Kit: Softkit, white she cat with one green eye and one blue eye, she deaf in ear below the blue ear, runt of the litter
Kit: Moosekit, dark brown tom with golden eyes
Kit: Elkkit, fawn colored tom with green eyes
Kit: Amberkit, pale ginger tabby with amber eyes
Kit: Foalkit, small and skinny brown tom with cream legs and brown eyes
DarkClan
Leader: Darkstar, elderly black tom with amber eyes
Deputy: Windsnout, large, Muscular Light grey tabby tom with a unusual darker splash on his snout
(Apprentice: Dawnpaw)
Medicine Cat: Swirlingmist, black she-cat with grey swirling stripes and blue eyes (Smokepelt's sister)
Warrior: Smokepelt, grey and black spotted tom with blue eyes
(Apprentice: Duskpaw)
Warrior: Briarback, white she-cat with a short brown tail and brown flecks on her back, and green eyes
(Apprentice: Beaverpaw)
Warrior: Tanglebriar, lanky black she-cat with a brown underbelly, and a nubbed tail
(Apprentice: Fadedpaw)
Queen: Spottedtuft, fawn colored she-cat with darker spots along her flank, White muzzle, Chest, Paws, Tailtip, and ears (mates with Smokepelt, mother of Fadedpaw, Shadekit, and Sprucekit)
Apprentice: Dawnpaw, white she-cat with black spots, and blue eyes
Apprentice: Duskpaw, black tom with white spots, and blue eyes
Apprentice: Beaverpaw, brown, bulky tom with a darker brown tail
Apprentice: Fadedpaw, grey tom with black ears, legs, tail, and light blue eyes.
Kit: Shadekit, fluffy white tom-kit with big black patches everywhere
Kit: Sprucekit, dark brown she-kit with darker paws, chest, forehead, tail tip, Face underside of belly, and along her spine
WaterClan
Leader: Waterstar, elderly dark grey striped tom with dark blue eyes
Deputy: Bassnose, a dark brown tom with amber eyes
Medicine Cat: Ripplestorm, small pretty white she-cat with gray spots and blue eyes
(Apprentice: Thornpaw)
Warrior: Darksun, slender, pitch-black she-cat with long legs, tufted ears, and golden eyes
(Apprentice: Thistlepaw)
Warrior: Blackfur, black tom with blue eyes
(Apprentice: Snakepaw)
Warrior: Driftdust, small light brown tom with golden eyes
(Apprentice: Bramblepaw)
Warrior: Cloudstream, white and silver tabby she-cat with grey eyes
(Apprentice: Splashpaw)
Queen: Morningmist, black and white she-cat with green eyes (mates with Blackfur, mother of Bramblepaw and Splashpaw)
Queen: Frogeyes, a small light brown tabby she-cat with large round green eyes (mother of Snakepaw, and unborn kits)
Apprentice: Thistlepaw, slightly light- grey she-cat, with white dapples and a light peach/brown coloring, and clear blue-green eyes
Apprentice: Snakepaw, skinny black tom with yellow/green eyes
Apprentice: Bramblepaw, brown tom with amber eyes
Apprentice: Splashpaw, blue she-cat with green eyes
Apprentice: Thornpaw, thick-furred blue tortoiseshell she-cat with amber eyes
Cats outside of clans:
Kittypet: Mittens, black she-cat with white paws, chest, and green eyes, wears a dark pink collar.
Kittypet: Boots, identical to Mittens, but a tom, wears a dark blue collar.
Alley Cats: Ugly and vicious cats that live in the alley
A/N: Thanks to DappledleafTheBootiful for submitting Sandyfawn, Golfball, Dustmuzzle, Shadowtail, Amberkit, and Foalkit.
I think FlowerClan might be the biggest clan now XD