Chapter 7: Violet Blood

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Forgottenpaw's POV

I woke at dawn the morning after the gathering. Light began to streak the sky and turn it light pink and orange. I walked out of the apprentice den and Mellowpaw bumped into me from behind.

"Hi Forgottenpaw. Want to go hunting?" he asked, touching his tail tip to my nose.

"Sure! We haven't gone hunting since we became apprentices."

"Yeah, but you never had a mentor and-"

I cut him off by putting my tail tip in front of his mouth and flashed him a humoring look.

"Don't worry about me. I have my ways of learning." Batting his ear with a paw, I ran out of the bramble entrance and out into the forest, with Mellowpaw following close behind.

"That was a great! Where did you learn that?" I had just caught a rather swift rabbit, though it was sort of thin.

"I learned it from a hedgehog," I boasted sarcastically, scraping dirt over my prey.

"No, seriously," Mellowpaw persisted that I tell him.

"I'm serious. I learned my hunting techniques from a hedgehog that I saved from drowning in the lake. She taught me to hunt and fight, then flew up into the sky and disappeared." I gave my chest a couple of licks, and glanced at him to see his reaction.

"Yeah, and kittypets live on thunderpaths. Now tell me! Please!" He unsheathed and sheathed his claws.

"Duskpaw," I said softly, and started to follow the scent of a squirrel through the forest.

I padded back into camp at sunhigh with a scrawny mouse and an almost plump thrush and dropped them onto the fresh kill pile. Leafbare was ending, good riddance. The snow had melted and the sun was warming everything up.

"Forgottenpaw! Go take something to Wrenstar!" A voice yowled from behind me and I turned around to see Copperpelt staring at me before turning to join Rainingleaf and Hazelpaw on a hunting patrol. I picked up my thrush and bound up to the leader's den. A mewed a small greeting before entering. I entered, and saw Wrenstar lying in the far corner of his den; staring at something only he could see. His eyes were clouded, but when he looked up at me, the cloudiness disappeared.

"What do you want?" He said grumpily. Obviously, he hadn't got a very good sleep that night, or maybe he hadn't slept at all.

"Um, I brought you some fresh kill. Copperpelt told me to bring it to you." I murmured softly, dropping the thrush and pushing it toward him. "Leafbare is ending. It's such a nice day today." I stretched my hind legs briefly. He grunted and began picking at the thrush.

"You may go now," he said awkwardly, avoiding my gaze. I dipped my head respectfully and left the den to go collect the rest of my prey and maybe help Mellowpaw with his.

I padded through the forest in search of Mellowpaw. I had returned with my prey and there was still no sign of Mellowpaw. The forest was strangely quiet, no birds singing, water dripping, scrambling of prey. Something was wrong, very wrong. The smell hit the roof of my mouth and stung like claws raking across my chest. I raced toward the lake, and there I saw it. With the smell of salt was blood. Under that was the smell of Mellowpaw. He lay by the lake; blood covered his chest and poured around into a puddle around him. I ran up to him, sorrow flooded into me again, just like before when mother had died. Only this time, it was worse.

My paws and belly were covered in his blood as I lay next to him and buried my nose into his pelt.

"Why you? Why did you have to leave me?" I whispered to his cold body, tears welled up in my eyes, but I blinked them back. I felt a hostile glare burning into my pelt and turned my head to see Violetpaw by a tree in the forest, just in my sight of view. Her eyes glowed in fake horror, but underneath that I could see a look of sheer triumph in her eyes.

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