AN: Thanks everyone for the reviews! I love them! Everyone who has reviewed or viewed the story gets a cookie! Here they are magic cookies! No! They are not poisoness! This is Brambleheart, not Goldenmask! Goldenmask is evil! Well on with the stories. Oh and CandyBunnies does not own warriors!
THE XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO IS A SWITCHING POV. THE LINE IS A TIME SKIP OR MAKING A BREAK BETWEEN AUTHOR NOTES AND THE STORY!
IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS CHAPTER SWITCHES POV'S! IT GOES FROM FIREPAW'S TO BRAMBLESTAR'S TO FIREPAW'S TO BRAMBLESTAR'S. SO IT IS FIREPAW, BRAMBLESTAR, FIREPAW, BRAMBLESTAR.
Chapter 11
"Firepaw! Wake up!" Bramblepaw hissed softly. The ginger tom groaned and rolled over in his moss. "Wake up you lazy fur-ball!" Bramblepaw hissed a little louder. Stonepaw, on the other side of the den, moaned and flicked her tail. "Fine, I guess we will just leave you here. Us four will go on the journey all alone, without you."
The ginger tom's head popped out of his nest, "I coming. I'm coming." The muscles on the apprentice rippled as he stood up out of the nest and stretched. Bramblepaw muttered something under her breath that Firepaw didn't catch. "Let's go then! I'm going to miss everyone, but they will be worse." Firepaw mewed as they headed out of the den. Posionpaw, Goldenpaw, and Cinderpaw were sitting outside in the moonlight. Their were two bundles sitting in front of Poisonpaw.
"What are those?" Bramblepaw asked the white medicine cat apprentice. Posionpaw pushed the bundle toward the two cats. The leaf opened up and their was herbs in the bundle. "Do we have to eat these?" Poisonpaw nodded as Firepaw sighed. The two 'paws licked the dreadfull herbs up. Bramblepaw scrunched her face up and sighed. "Let's go then. Moleclaw is snoring on guard duty."
Firepaw purred and let Bramblepaw lead the way out. The moonlight on her fur makes her even more beautiful! What am I thinking?! We are only apprentices! Firepaw thought.
The ginger tom fell in step next to his brother after they climbed the camp wall and was heading through the forest, "You like Bramblepaw." Firepaw had to drop his gaze to the forest floor. "You are always mooning over her! We have a mission to accomplish. You can't be mooning over her the whole journey." Posionpaw looked at his brother.
"I'm not mooning over her! I... She... Oh nevermind! Don't mention it," Firepaw retorted. The cat's padded on in silence. Bramblepaw and Poisonpaw flicked their ears. The silver tabby she-cat stopped.
"Listen! It's a cat!" Poisonpaw hissed. He took the lead and the other apprentices raced after him. They reached a little open area in the trees. Firepaw looked down to see a she-cat sprawled across the leaves on the forest floor. Her white foot was stuck in the brambles, and a slender red creature with slavering jaws was towering over her.
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Bramblestar heard a shriek of she-cats. He got up and padded out of his den. The camp was lit by moonlight. Dovewing and Cinderheart were searching frantically. "What is it? What happened?" the brown tabby tom asked. Dovewing looked up at her leader, but was to distraut to reply.
"Five apprentices are missing!" Lionblaze called up to the leader. Bramblestar jumped down from Highledge. He padded over to the two she-cats.
He meowed the the two warriors, "We will find them. They might of gone out to hunt for the Clan. They seem to like to get out of camp. Squirrelflight, assign two patrols to go out. I will lead one. Let Brackenfur lead another." Squirrelflight dipped her head to Bramblestar.
"On Bramblestar's patrol, Cloudtail, Hazeltail, Lionblaze, Bumblestripe, Dovewing, and Cinderheart. On Brackenfur's patrol, Brightheart, Whitewing, Amberfrost, Dewfur, Snowstorm," Squirrelflight called. The cat's that were named hurried over to the patrol leader.
"Keep a watch out Squirrelflight!" Bramblestar ordered his mate and deputy. "Let's go now!"
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The creature was huge! It's red fur was glistening in the moonlight. The white she-cat on the ground was trembling. The she-cat is a RiverClan queen! Her kits are probably still in the nursery! Firepaw thought. A thought dawned on the apprentice. This was a fox! Firepaw gave a battle cry and crouched down to lauch himself at the fox. But a heavy weight fell on him. He hissed under his breath as Bramblepaw's voice was in his ear, "This is her fight. We don't need to be injured before we even get out of Clan territory."
Firepaw shook the silver tabby she-cat off of him and lauched himself at the fox. He was satifisfied as his claws ripped through the fox's flank. He realized Goldenpaw and Cinderpaw were next to him, slashing at the fox with thorn-sharp claws. The fox turned on the apprentices and slashed Goldenpaw over her eye. She hissed in pain, but was determined to continue. Firekit got angrier as the heartbeats passed. He slashed the fox in the stomach. The fox slashed Firepaw in the flank, and bit Cinderpaw in the tail. Firepaw bit the red fox's ear and tore a hole in it. The fox's amber eyes glowed with pain, it turned on the RiverClan queen and slashed the white cat in the stomach. The she-cat's eyes glazed over in pain as the fox ran away toward the ShadowClan border.
The ginger tom watched as Poisonpaw checked the RiverClan queen. The white tom listen to her heartbeat and then asked, "What is your name." The medicine cat apprentice continued to work as the she-cat's breathing slowed.
It took several heartbeats for her to reply, "My name is Icewing. I have a kit in RiverClan named Cloudkit. I am joining StarClan now little ones. Thank you for trying to help me." The white she-cat took her dying breathe as her eyes closed. Poisonpaw lowered his head.
"Poisonpaw! We need your help too! Goldenpaw has a cut down her face that is bleeding," Bramblepaw mewed. She and Poisonpaw were the only two cats that didn't participate in the battle. "Firepaw has a nasty cut down his flank, and Cinderpaw's tail is bleeding."
Poisonpaw got up and sniffed each wound, "Bramblepaw go find some cobwebs. Since Cinderpaw's tail just stopped bleeding, she can help you. I saw some celandine over there. There was a patch of horsetail in that direction and that way there was some marigold. If you can get the marigold and horsetail, I can get the celandine." The two she-cat's nodded their heads and raced off to get the herbs.
Firepaw started licking the wound on his flank. It was stinging and reminded him of the time he had gotten an infection on the pad of his paw. Goldenpaw was whimpering in pain. Her eye was swollen and blood was welling out of the scratch over her eye. Firepaw heaved himself up to his paws and limped over to the black she-cat. He licked her wound, trying to stop the blood. He saw a piece of moss on the ground and picked it up with his teeth. The ginger apprentice set it over her cut to help stop the bleeding, but it was soon soak with blood. Sighing he picked another piece up and tried it again.
Poisonpaw returned with a yellow herb in his Cinderpaw and Bramblepaw returned, Cinderpaw was carring two bundles of herbs. Bramblepaw's body was covered in cobwebs. Firekit's eyes opened wide. He had never seen so many cobwebs on one cat. "I hope these work." Cinderpaw mewed, setting her bundles down. Bramblepaw hobbled over to Goldenkit and tore some cobwebs off her foot. She wrapped them on Goldenpaw's cut and then hoppled over to Firepaw. She wrapped some cobwebs around his flank.
"That's good. Try to get all the cobwebs off of your body and bundle them up. I have to go help Goldenpaw. Can you make a poultice of marigold and horsetail on Firepaw's flank. The bleeding has stopped already. Cinderpaw, do you know where the stream is?" Poisonpaw asked. The black she-cat nodded, "Good, then go get some catchweed. It'll help keep the poutice on." Cinderpaw nodded and raced off.
"Now. Goldenpaw this might hurt, but in the end it will help and relieve your pain," the white apprentice mewed. The golden-faced apprentice nodded her head and braced herself for the pain. Poisonpaw took off the cobwebs and some of the celandine up. He trickled the juice into her eye and she yelped. Poisonpaw spit the remains of the herb up and grabbed the poultice Bramblepaw had made. He rubbed the herb mix on the scratch. The black apprentice yelped, but then sighed with relief.
Firepaw watched as Cinderpaw came rushing, breathless with catchweed in her jaws. She set it down, "Search patrols are heading this way! They are looking for us!" Poisonpaw nodded. He worked faster as he put the catchweed stems over the wounds, hooking the barbed parts onto their fur. Firepaw stood up and looked around for a hiding spot. He saw a hollow in a tree and pointed with his tail.
Bramblepaw nodded and nudged Goldenpaw toward the tree. The scared apprentice climbed the tree and sat in the hollow. Firepaw followed her up, and Cinderpaw climbed after. Poisonpaw climbed in. As soon as Bramblepaw's tail whisked in the tree, Bramblestar's patrol burst into the clearing.
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"They were here!" Cloudtail meowed. Bramblestar stared at all the blood in the clearing. His eyes fell upon the dead RiverClan queen. Dovewing was the third cat to come in the clearing. She sniffed around.
"My kits! Firepaw's fur is here! And some of the blood is his! Poisonpaw was here too!" Dovewing wailed. "Why StarClan!" Bumblestripe went over to confort his mate.
Cinderheart sniffed around the whole clearing and on the queen, "All five of the apprentices were here. A fox was here too! Let's follow it's trail!" Bramblestar nodded as Cloudtail took the lead. They followed the trail, but it stopped.
Bramblestar looked at Cinderheart and Dovewing, "I think they were killed. I'm sorry. I don't think we will ever find them." Dovewing and Cinderheart stared at him and then whimpered. They fell to the ground. Are they actually dead, or did they go on a journey? Has the time come that StarClan warned me of?
AN: DUN! DUN! DUN! What will happen next?! I'll try to post soon. The start to their journey wasn't very happy was it? XD Should this story be a trilogy or super edition? PM, review, or answer the poll on our profile. The reader's get to pick!
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