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Let's get fighting! Go, TreeClan! -oh wait, I'm writing it...-

Chapter 18: Rising Action

Frecklepaw looked at the herbs in front of him with confusion. He had drawn a blank on what does what.

Let's see, Owlwing has sore joints. So there are poppy seeds to chew on, but what about the poultice? There should be yarrow…and what else? I think it was juniper…or does that help with colds?

Crazyeyes walked with herbs stuffing his mud brown muzzle to it's brim. He and plopped a couple of other strong-smelling herbs near the pile, then looked at the very confused Frecklepaw and let out a purr of amusement. "Need some help?"

Frecklepaw looked down at his paws. "I can't remember anything!"

"Cheer up. You're new at this. And besides, there isn't a medicine cat in history of TreeClan or StarClan that hasn't had at least a smidgen of trouble or confusion at some point, let alone while being an apprentice."

Frecklepaw seemed unsatisfied still and disappointed in himself. He opened his mouth to say something in reply to Crazyeyes, but they both heard a commotion going on outside.

"Hey, hey, what's going on?" Crazyeyes demanded. Redpelt, looking flustered, ran up to Crazyeyes. "Tawnythorn and Badgerpaw! They say they discovered a whole clan of cats coming to invade! They just made it back from training!"

Thinstar was on top of the tall, dead, tree. It was the oldest one in the camp, mostly a stump, and it was wherever Thinstar gathered up her cats or make announcements.

"May all cats old enough to climb up a tree meet under Deadtree!" Thinstar declared. All cats promptly gathered in a cluster under Thinstar.

"All the elders take refuge in their den! All queens stay inside their dens to protect the kits! I think we may soon be under attack by FlowerClan" Thinstar did a quick once-over of her clan.

"Goldenlash and Rainclaw! You two stay by the elders' den! And I want Darkbranch and Redfur to protect the nursery!"

Frecklepaw looked at the other apprentices. Yellowpaw was standing by Stripedtail. They both looked alert and ready to fight. Midnightpaw was looking around nervously. She seemed worried now that her mentor had gone off to protect the nursery, away from her side.

Before Thinstar could say anything else, there were loud snapping and crunching sounds as part of RockClan broke through the wall at the back of camp. Sharpear let out a battle cry and she and her group of cats came running into the clan, ready to attack.

"Sharpear? Of RockClan!" Thinstar said in disbelief.

Immediately prior to that, Windstar led the rest of RockClan into the TreeClan camp entrance. A yowl of fear could be heard from a kit inside the nursery.

Frecklepaw whirled around and searched the flurry of fur, a mix of the leaner, nimble TreeClan cats and slightly more bulky RockClan cats, with more muscle from climbing on their wide and hard territory, mostly made up large boulders and a few patches of grass.

Frecklepaw had lost sight of Crazyeyes. His sister Puddlemist was nowhere to be found. He couldn't see Yellowpaw anywhere. Frecklepaw was getting nervous when he spotted Midnightpaw pinned under a tabby she-cat, Frecklepaw guessed she was also an apprentice by her size.

Frecklepaw took a deep breath. "Okay, here you go…" Frecklepaw summoned all of his strength into his thin legs and charged with all his might into the tabby apprentice. She went flying a few feet back off of Midnightpaw and fell down. The tabby hissed at Frecklepaw and got up to fight back. Midnightpaw stood up quickly, and looked at Frecklepaw.

"Um…thank you! But I can take care of it from here on out!" The dark-furred, long-limbed she-cat stood up to face her opponent and jumped at her with her claws unsheathed.

Frecklepaw heard a cat yowl and turned around in time to see a RockClan tabby running out of the camp.

Frecklepaw felt afraid of what was going on. He ran towards three RockClan cats attacking Puddlemist and Spikefur, and prayed to StarClan that his clan would make it through this okay.

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More fighting next chapter! Oh yeah, and the chapter titles are gonna be pretty boring for the next couple of chapters. Just thought I'd give you the heads up.

Prepare yourself. I think you know what I'll be writing and...what? Oh...you mean you actually thought I'd go through a whole story without one single tragedy or death? Aw, that's so sweet!