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Rappidpaw's paws slid on the wet stone.
"How do we get there?" she asked.
"Starclan will lead us," Fernpaw replied.
"Yeah, well," Rappidpaw grumbled. "Do you know how to get there?" Fernpaw spun around.
"No, I don't," she growled. "We are being led by Starclan."
"Alright, alright," Rappidpaw mumbled. Rappidpaw followed Fernpaw, as they began to climb a steep mountain. Rappidpaw pushed herself to go farther. Finally they were half way there.
Her paws slipped on wet pebbles and she went crashing downward! Her claws caught on to a ledge but they were slipping too!
"Fernpaw!" she yowled. "Help me!"
"Rappidpaw!" Fernpaw spun around and saw Rappidpaw.
"Please," she whispered. Fernpaw stuck out a paw.
"I'm here," Fernpaw groaned, stretching her paw forward. Rappidpaw stretched the paw that wasn't clinging to the rock to her friend's paw. Both paws were unsheathed. "Come on. You can do it!" Rappidpaw's paw met Fernpaw's. They stuck their claws into each other's pads. Fernpaw began pulling Rappidpaw up. Rappidpaw pushed with her hind legs. With Fernpaw's help, she was finally at the top. She panted and gasped.
"Thanks," she breathed.
"No problem," Fernpaw panted. "Want to camp out here?" True enough, there was an overhanging ledge right above them and a ton of room.
"Sure," Rappidpaw replied. Fernpaw turned back to their shelter. Rappidpaw grinned.
"Thanks, again" she mewed.
"No problem," Fernpaw responded. They settled down to sleep.
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Rappidpaw was padding along the path again and she was following the bloody prints. There were Creamstar and Streamstar, dead, with Hollowfoot and Steepback over their bodies. Hollowfoot turned and saw Freepaw, gaping at his father. Freepaw tried to run but was blocked by Steepback! Hollowfoot killed Freepaw, right infront of her.
"FREEPAW!" Rappidpaw yowled. The murderers turned and saw her. She turned and ran, ran for Freepaw and her leaders.
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"Rappidpaw! Rappidpaw, wake up! You'll cause an avalanche!" Fernpaw yowled. Rappidpaw woke up and blinked. Fernpaw was standing above her. "Let's go." Rappidpaw followed her friend, as she looked around. Maybe Freepaw would run to her.
No. It was impossible. If she didn't get to the path soon Freepaw would be dead on it. She couldn't have him follow her and die.
"Fernpaw, in your dream who was dead?"
Fernpaw felt something jolt inside her. She didn't know the cat.
"I don't know. It keeps coming back. Starclan say I can save her. She's a red tabby," Fernpaw replied. She looked at the ground. She knew a lot of she-cat red tabbies. She sighed.
Who was it doomed to the death? Could Fernpaw save her?
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Fernpaw's paws led her what seemed like all over the world. They were in a light meadow. Across form it a path wound its way into a dark forest where the sun wouldn't shine.
"Rappidpaw that's it," she whispered, hoarsely, pointing, with her tail at the dark forest path. "Even two-legs avoid it."
"You're right. Let's go," Rappidpaw murmured. They padded into the forest. Fernpaw noticed that the forest path got darker the farther they walked.
A wail of a cat startled Fernpaw and Rappidpaw. Fernpaw looked ahead. The dark path twisted in all directions.
"We have to go back," Rappidpaw mewed. Fernpaw nodded. A badger stumbled out of a bush. Fernpaw wasn't sure if it growled or its stomach growled.
"Defiantly. If we live this fight!" Fernpaw yowled. The badger launched at her. She slid, gracefully, to the side. It couldn't change paths in time and barreled into a tree.
"RUN!" Rappidpaw yowled. They pelted back to the meadow and didn't stop until they were past the meadow, back in the mountains.
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Rappidpaw was learning how to climb the mountains as the days went on.
"How do we get home?" she asked Fernpaw.
"We climb down," Fernpaw replied.
"Right. Yeah. We climb down. We couldn't even climb up!" Rappidpaw was getting increasingly annoyed with Fernpaw.
"Come on," Fernpaw growled, half-sliding, and half-climbing down a rock. Rappidpaw followed her. She couldn't wait to get back! The sooner the better! Anything to escape the annoying medicine cat apprentice.
"Come on," Fernpaw growled, again.
"I'm comin' I'm comin'," Rappidpaw grumbled.
"Hurry," Fernpaw urged. The two padded further and further yet without stopping, even to sleep. Finally they reached the bottom of the mountain. Fernpaw stopped when the moon was out 2 days later and looked at Rappidpaw.
"We'll sleep here," she mewed. Rappidpaw settled down thankfully. She was asleep in seconds.
Fernpaw woke with Rappidpaw above her. The sun was setting again!
"We have to go. It's been a day!" Rappidpaw mewed. They set off again and were back in the forest in a few minutes.
"See ya," Rappidpaw mewed. Rappidpaw padded into Thunderclan territory.
"Bye," Fernpaw responded. She padded back into her own territory. A paw hit her in the head. Fernpaw slid to the side and faced her attacker. It was Swiftpaw.
"Fernpaw! You're back! Come on!" Swiftpaw began padding back to camp. Fernpaw followed.
"How's Twigtooth?" she asked.
"Fine," Swiftpaw shrugged.
"You?" Fernpaw asked.
"I'm good. You?"
"Fine," Fernpaw sighed. Swiftpaw flicked her playfully with his tail.
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