Sorry about the dialogue format! And it is really difficult to update lately so forgive me.
Owlpaw's new friend backed off, leaving Lavenderpetal in his place.
"hi, Lavenderpetal."
"Owlpaw. What's wrong? Is Icicleheart okay?"
"She's fine. But I wanted to ask you something."
"this isn't about Riverclan is it?"
"no. it's about Greenmint."
"cant Icicleheart just tell you?"
"She won't."
"oh. Well, that's fine I guess. What do you want to know?"
"did Greenmint deliver you?"
"yes."
"that's why you became a medicine cat, isn't it?"
"maybe it influenced me."
"okay, great. I have a few more questions."
Lavenderpetal simply nodded.
"okay, is it true that she went wherever she wanted?"
"yes. And the strange part is that nobody stopped her. her Thunderclan friend was always in her shadow, it seemed. No other medicine cat could match up to Greenmint. Every cat was happy when Greenmint helped out. All she asked in return was to take some of the herbs she collected for her own clan."
"when did she start doing this?"
"long before I was born. Some say when her old mentor died, others say that when her brother died."
"she had a brother?"
"apparently. You'll have to ask one of your elders for that."
"did she ever interpret omens and prophecies?"
"on a daily basis. She visited a different clan each day, sometimes simply staying in her own clan. But when she had trained Icicleheart, she was mostly at Thunderclan while Darkberry was sick."
"what was wrong with Darkberry?"
"fevers and tumors that would not go away."
"poor Darkberry."
"anything else you need to know?"
"yes. Was she always right in her interpretation of prophecies and omens?"
"I can't answer that. But I will tell you something else. She never lost a cat, unless the cat was unavoidably going to die. It destroyed her when her friend died, maybe it reminded her of her brother or mentor, though she wasn't that close to her mentor. She would never, ever let a cat die and she only used deathberries on one occasion, when Darkberry was very ill and staying in ShadowClan."
"thank you so much."
"you're welcome."
Owlpaw raced back to camp, remembering to tell Deepstar about Riverclan's new deputy. She had made up her mind now: she wanted to be like Greenmint.
Icicleheart's Pov, many, many moons ago.
Iciclepaw sat outside the elders den very patiently. Greenmint was tending to Darkberry. The kind old cat had given her ceremony at the Moonpool when Greenmint, for some reason hadn't done so. Since the visit to the Moonpool Darkberry had stayed in Shadowclan.
Greenmint emerged, her head bent low so Iciclepaw couldn't see her face.
"Iciclepaw, th-these are deathberries. You use them to put a cat out of misery when suffering. Her daughter from before she became a medicine cat begged me to help her in the best way. That means I must give her death berries."
"okay, Greenmint."
"I want you to do it."
"why?"
"because I said so!" she wailed.
Iciclepaw took the shiny berries into the den and fed them to Darkberry. She didn't know what she would see. Darkberry was coughing and shaking violently.
"Greenmint!" Iciclepaw screeched. "what's going on?"
But Greenmint gave her no reply.
Owlpaw quickly told Deepstar of the new deputy and went to see if Runningpaw had waited for her to show up before eating.
"hey, Runningpaw."
he looked up, he was eating a squirrel.
"oh, sorry. I couldn't wait any longer. Where were you?"
"RiverClan border. Found out who the new deputy was and what Greenmint was like."
Dawnpaw looked her. "oh, I vaguely remember her. The old medicine cat, right? She treated my kitten-cough."
"she was apparently so awesome."
an idea leapt in her heart. The gathering. She would tell every cat what she would do.
"Excuse me."
Owlpaw backed out of the den and ran straight to her own. She rummaged through the herb stores and brought out poppy seeds. Gripping them in her teeth, she placed them between her pads.
"Owlpaw!" Goldenpaw purred.
"Hi, Goldenpaw."
"Check it out! My best friend fought a fox!"
"Okay."
"Yeah, Robinpaw is sooo awesome!"
"Okay."
"And he's going to be an amazing warrior one day."
"Okay."
"And Vixenpaw's going to be his mate."
"Okay.
"And you're going to be my mate."
"Okay. Wait what?!"
"Just to see if you were listening. He really is awesome though."
"Yeah, that's nice."
"They're both older than me."
"Okay!"
They both laughed.
"Why'd you become medicine cat?"
"I guess I Iiked it and I was already fiend switch Icicleheart."
"That's a good reason."
"And you?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Okay, if you don't want to."
"Thanks Owlpaw. You're a good friend."
"Thanks. My ambition is to be like Greenmint."
"Who?"
"Ask your mentor. That's not important though. The point was she had a really good medicine cat friend. And you could be mine."
"thanks Owlpaw! That's awesome!"
Her eyes shone "ginger is an awesome colour."
She watched her deputy friend being announced. Her caught her eye and smiled. She smiled back. Yes, her life was way better than she would've thought possible.
"Owlpaw, you're going hunting with the others today."
Frostpaw was outside with Dawnpw and Runningpaw, squealing like a bunch of kits.
"Owlpaw?" Frostpaw asked as she came out the den. "can you hunt birds?"
"Of course I can hunt birds!"
"Yeah, come on guys, just coz she's a medicine cat doesn't mean that she can't hunt." Runningpaw said.
"Thanks, Runningpaw."
In the forest they broke up into groups. Dawnpaw and Frostpaw in one, she and Runningpaw the other. The hunting was easy, though she only caught a single pigeon while Runningpaw caught three.
"How's life?" he asked.
"It's going great! I'm going to be like Greenmint, just nicer."
"I'm sure you will be."
"Thanks, Runningpaw. I am so grateful for your support."
"Yeah, I get my overly kind nature from my father."
Got that right, because you certainly didn't get it from your mother!
Reason for seldom updating: exams start on the 19th.