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Chapter 13
Dovewing's POV
My first dawn patrol as a warrior. "Hey Cloudtail and Bumblestripe to you guys want to come on dawn patrol with me?" "Sure" replied both of them. As they neared the Riverclan border Dovewing pricked her ears and sniffed the air. "I smell trespassers." All of the three of them dropped down into a defensive crouch and made their way closer to the smell, and at the right moment they sprung up and hissed. "Why are you here?" hissed Dovewing as the patrol stared face to face with a silver tabby cat. At the sight of them the she-cat crouched down and looked like she was going to attack when all of a sudden she let out a terrified screech and ran away. Cloudtail, Dovewing, and Bumblestripe stared at each other in confusion. Suddenly Bumblestripe whirled around and found himself face to face with a huge fox with slavering jaws. Cloudtail and Dovewing got into a defensive line. At once the fox lunged for Dovewing. She darted to the side just missing the fox's jaws. Bumblestripe leapt on the fox's back and tore through his flesh with his claws. Cloudtail jumped on the leapt at the fox's hind legs and slashed at them. Eventually the fox gave up and turned tail between its legs. Dovewing jumped up and gave out a victorious yowl and turned around. Looking she saw Cloudtail crouched over the body of Bumblestripe. Dovewing race over and asked Cloudtail "Is he alive?" Cloudtail only nodded. Suddenly Bumblestripe gasped "get Jayfeather!" at that Dovewing dashed off.
As she arrived back in camp she raced over to the medicine cat den and almost ran into Jayfeather who was carrying marigold leave and cobwebs. "Where is he?" Dovewing led Jayfeather through the forest to where Bumblestripe lie. Jayfeather began to mix up the leaves and pressed them on the gash in Bumblestripe's side. As the flow of blood ebbed Jayfeather began to relax and started placing cobwebs on the wound. Dovewing angled her ears to camp and could hear Millie's worried mew "where is the patrol they should be back by now!" Dovewing was snapped back to reality when Cloudtail called her name "Dovewing get the other side, so we can take him back to camp." Dovewing scampered over towards him and heaved with effort as she felt the weight of Bumblestripe. Cloudtail and Dovewing carried him back at a slow, but steady pace making sure that the cobwebs didn't come off. Jayfeather trailed ahead murmuring to himself on how he was going to keep Millie from freaking out. As the blind medicine cat went into camp Dovewing could hear the shrill voice of Millie, and the sound of her clanmates trying to calm her down and telling her things like: "At least he is still alive… and don't worry he'll be fine in a day or two." Dovewing and Cloudtail padded into camp holding up Bumblestripe and Millie rushed forwards, but was soon held back by Brackenfur and Brambleclaw. Once inside the medicine cat den Cloudtail and Dovewing set Bumblestripe down softly in a nest that Briarlight had gotten together once she had heard about her brother. Only one cat seemed happy to see Bumblestripe in the medicine cat den, and that was Briarlight, who lightened the mood by saying "At least I now have a friend?" That seemed to cheer everyone up.
- One moon later-
Jayfeather's POV
Jayfeather sniffed Bumblestripe's wound which had healed fairly well during the past moon. Bumblestripe had managed to give Briarlight a job to do: caring for her brother everyday: checking his wound, getting him prey (even though he could get his own), and making her happy. That morning he had asked if he could go back to his warrior duties. "Okay you can go on hunting patrols and border patrols, but to fighting… understand?" mewed Jayfeather. "Yes!" replied Bumblestripe eagerly and with a mew of thanks and good-bye to Briarlight and Jayfeather he left the den and padded over to the warrior den to sleep the night away.
Jayfeather lay down in his nest next to Briarlight whom had moved her nest from where sick cat's sleep to where medicine cats sleep. At least the ordeal with Bumblestripe is over and now I can get back to thinking about the prophecy. And with that Jayfeather shut his sightless blue eyes and fell to sleep listening to the rhythmic sound of Briarlight's breath as she slept.
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