They walked through the forest in silence, even though Leafpelt wanted to hear what the herb looked like.
"Leafpelt," Squirreltail said, "She can tell everyone when we get to the camp."
"Whitefur." Marshpaw began, "Is Robinpaw doing better in his training?"
"You can ask him when as soon as you see him." Whitefur replied.
"Ebony, your pretty quite." Squirreltail said "Have you always been that way?"
"Every since I was seperated from my family." Ebony responded.
They walked a little farther and soon came to an old tree house. It was pretty big and high up in the tree, and a few floor boards were covered with moss. From the ground to the tree house was a staircase that wrapped around the trunk.
"Here we are." Leafpelt said, "Come on."
Leafpelt jumped onto the first step and walked up to the first platform. The others caught up to her and they continued up. They soon came to the top of the stairs.
A door was in front of them and there was a hole at the bottom. Whitefur slipped through, followed by Squirreltail and Leafpelt, Marshpaw went next then Ebony came last.
Inside the tree house were over turned chairs and a table. Vines and moss were draped over them to make them small caves. There was no one in site and it seemed to be too quite.
"ThunderClan!" Squirreltail called, "It's only us!"
Many cats stuck their heads out of the caves' and looked towards the door.
"Squirreltail!" called a large brown tom, "Any luck?"
"Brambleclaw!" Marshpaw yeowled, running towards the cat, "I'm back!"
Marshpaw and Brambleclaw gave each other a quick lick, then looked towards Ebony.
"Who is that?" Brambleclaw snarled, "A rough?"
"Mabye she's a kittypet!" hissed a tall black tom.
"This is Ebony." Whitefur said, "She saved Marshpaw from a towleg nest."
All the cats looked shocked, none of them spoke for a long moment.
"Why should we believe what she says?" asked a young pale gray tom, "For all we know she could be a spy for ShadowClan!"
"Be quite, Sootpaw." Leafpelt said to the cat, "She also knows a cure for green cough."
"A cure for green cough?" asked a dark gray she-cat, "Come on, Leafpelt. I taught you there was no such thing a long time ago."
"I know that, Cinderpelt." Leafpelt said, "But she is sure about herself."
"Leafpelt!" called a voice from behind one of the chairs, "What is that noise?"
Leafpelt ran to the other side of the chair and came back a moment later with a ginger tom leaning on her shoulder.
"Who are you?" the ginger tom asked Ebony, "I've never seen you before."
"Her name is, Ebony." Whitefur replied, "She saved Marshpaw from a twoleg house."
"You don't look like any kittypet I ever met." the ginger tom said, "I'm Firestar, leader of ThunderClan. What do you want here?"
"She knows a cure for green cough, father." Squirreltail said.
"A cure?" Firestar asked. "Is that true?"
"Yes, it-" Marshpaw began.
"She doesn't need you to answer for her, Marshpaw." Firestar snapped at the cat. "Ebony?"
"Yes, it's true, Firestar." Ebony said.
"How good are you at hunting?" Firestar asked.
"I've never done it before." Ebony said.
"Then how did you eat?"
"I, dug through trash cans."
"Trash cans?" A blue and brown she-cat said, "What's that?"
"There are trash cans all over the place," Ebony replied, "I found them behind towleg nests mostly."
"That doesn't matter right now!" A small red tom shouted from the other side of the room. "Sandstorm is getting worse and if we don't do something soon, she'll catch black cough!"
"Ebony," Firestar said, "If I made you a cat of ThunderClan would you show Leafpelt the cure?"
"I'd do it anyway." Ebony said, "Leafpelt come on, I'll show you the herb!"
Leafpelt shook her head and said. "I've got to try and keep Sandstorm's fever from going any higher." She looked towards the red cat, "Redpaw, get the other apprentices and go with Ebony."
"Yes, Leafpelt." Redpaw replied running towards one of the chairs.
A moment later Redpaw returned with two other cats. Marshpaw had gotten three others and was standing next to Ebony.
"Come on." Marshpaw said, leading the way back through the door. "Where do we need to go?"
"The closest, pond, river or stream." Ebony said.
They jumped down the stairs and soon came to the bottom to wait for the others.
"What's an apprentice?" Ebony asked.
"I'll tell you later." Marshpaw said, "Come on you have to run."
The other cats ran ahead and Ebony ran as fast as she could to keep up.