A/N: Okay, so obviously I'm a worse speller than I thought. -_- Sorry, guys. I promise I'm going to get a beta! By the way, most chapters are going to be Tigress POV. ^^

I don't own Warriors, CCs, Clans, blah blah blah. You get the point. The plot, the gang, and OCs are all mine, though!

Pain shot through her left hind leg, where a long gash was bleeding. Tigress had to limp, keeping weight off of said leg so the injury wouldn't worsen on their way back to camp. She turned to look at her brother; he was in a worse state.

Bear's dusky brown fur was matted with blood and clumped with dirt. He was limping heavily, a clawed front leg and right shoulder, along with a long wound across his flank. Thankfully, that wound wasn't too deep and wasn't bleeding very much. The normally-proud tom had to lean on his sister as she lead him slowly back to their camp.

Needless to say, all had not gone according to plan. Normally, the patrols Thunderclan sent out would only have three cats, two warriors and an apprentice. They thought they'd be able to handle that, apprentices being easy kills for skilled assassins.

They did not, however, predict the five-cat patrol group that happened upon them. They also did not predict that said patrol group would consist of three warriors and two apprentices.

They'd put up a good fight, but in the end had to retreat, bearing wounds that would surely leave behind nasty scars.

They reached camp, and after a few moments of hesitation, Tigress began to lead her bleeding brother carefully down the rocky path into their safe, sheltered camp.

Lion was waiting for them, sitting proudly in the center of the clearing with a half-eaten rabbit beside him.

"Lion..." She began, but he had already gotten up and crossed the clearing. Tigress had never really thought about it, but the tom was truly huge. He was a good couple mouse-lengths-or heights-taller than she, and had much more muscle. His claws were the worst. They were twice as long as normal claws, and thicker, probably to be in proportion with the rest of him. Those things could rip you apart in seconds.

Surprisingly, the huge tom also had a good knowledge of herbs and such, and usually cared for their wounds. Now, he roughly shove Bear to his feet, Tigress saw her brother wince, and then he was ushered into Lion's dug-out den. She felt a pang of sympathy for her brother. If the past was any consolation, Lion would do the bare minimum to treat Bear's wounds and then shove him back into a fight.

And she knew the same would go for her, but her assignments were usually so much easier. Bear did the dirty work, so he was the one who battled. Tigress was a spy, the brains of the group. Her jobs were usually more secretive, and almost always safer. Unless she got caught, but that was rare.

Tigress lay down, wincing at the pain before sighing as she got into a comfortable position that kept all weight off of her injured leg. The sun had gone down, and again the moon had come out. She yawned, worn out from her day's activities. But it was difficult to rest when she was worrying about her brother and had a hurt leg, but she must have drifted off at some point, because she then felt a large paw shaking her out of a sleepy haze.

"Yeah, what?" She asked, slowly getting to her paws, only to remember with a jolt of pain that her leg was hurt. She turned to look at it; the blood had dried and was now caked to her fur, and looked positively disgusting. Had she been laying on it? It was covered with dust and dirt.

"Come on." Lion ordered impatiently, glaring at her. "I'll treat your wounds now."

There was no sympathy in his voice, only coldness. It was as if he didn't want to treat her wounds, but he knew he had to. Like an apprentice indignantly changing the elder's bedding even though they hated the chore.

She shakily followed him into his den, forcing a smile at her brother as she went. He smiled back nervously, sitting by the entrance to the den, watching her but not following.

Tigress didn't like Lion's den. She had been in it only a few times before, and it still looked exactly the same. A dirty, dug-out cavern that smelled of rotten leaves and dead things mixed with a spicy herbal scent. It made her nose hurt, and not because of the cut that ran across it.

Lion lead her over to a corner where a stock of herbs lay. She spotted piles of marigold, horsetail, and was that catnip? She almost leaned closer to inspect it, but stopped herself.

Lion instructed her to sit and show him the wound, and she obeyed. She plopped down on a pile of moss nearby and let him examine her leg before he applied marigold. That keeps it from getting infected, She thought absently.

Since the bleeding had already stopped, Lion didn't need to do much and then quickly shooed her out of his den. She didn't waste time quickly limping out of the den to see a very worried looking Bear crouched with a starling in front of him.

She limped over and nudged him with her nose. "You okay?" She asked, settling down beside him and taking a bite out of the starling, which he had barely started.

"Yeah, fine. Just tired, ya know?" He asked, smiling. Tigress could tell it was forced. He began to munch half-heartedly on the starling.

Tigress joined him, then sat back when they had finished it.

"I am so tired." Bear stated blatantly, yawning. Tigress copied him.

"Me too." She looked over at her brother. His wounds looked worse than hers; she hoped they didn't hurt too much. "You go to sleep, I'll watch tonight."

He looked as if he were going to oppose, then changed his mind and just nodded sleepily. He curled into a tight ball, with care for his injuries, and closed his eyes. Tigress heard him snoring within a few moments.

She got to her paws carefully and padded over to the familiar spot at the center of camp. She sat down and gazed around through half-lidded amber eyes.

It wasn't long before the 'guard' had fallen fast asleep, sprawled out on the dusty ground with her paws in the air. That night, the only dreams she had were of silence and blackness; the dreams of deep, uninterrupted slumber.

A/N: Yeah, that was a useless chapter. WHY DID I WRITE THIS? I don't know. Honestly.

So anyway, a couple announcements.

1] The next chapter has already been started, but I won't post it until I get, say, four more reviews [eight all together]. Does that sound fair?

2] The next chapter will the tom's POV, so very little of Bear and Lion. [Sorry for all you Bear fans ^^]

3]I promise I am looking for a beta, okay? 'Cause I'm a terrible speller and this computer doesn't have spellcheck. So, so, so, SO sorry for all the typos and any words I misspelled. Bear [bare? Idk] with me, peoples!

And thank you thank you thank you thank you to everyone who reviewed, or is going to review. You guys are like the reason I was too excited to sleep last night and ended up taking a nap this morning, which lead to me writing this so late. xD Love you all!