Go Warriors:

No, it's a spin-off from the sequel to VOTS! The reason Riftstar "hates" Blindpaw is because she sees this as weakness and she told everyone to ignore the fact. They live in ShadowClan, remember?

Enjoy another great chapter!

WE'LL NEVER FORGET:

Goosefeather

An old cat that could save a life if given a chance...

Blindpaw's P.O.V

I was shocked to hear the death of Sootpelt, the once pretty RiverClan medicine cat, now what would happen to her apprentice? Brightfeather had received his name during his mentor's death. It was said that Sootpelt had collapsed during the journey back home, she had been ill and was unable to return home. She was buried above the Moonpool to look over the lake and it's thriving clans.

When this happened, I had asked for Willowfern to take me on as her apprentice. At first she was surprised, but I had said that my time of being a warrior was not meant for me, and that this was my punishment for not realizing. I became a medicine cat, but Riftstar refused to talk to me, I had not seen Littletail since that night, and Heatherjay still visited me from time to time, playing moss-ball or something, talking about the forest. She said it hasn't been the same without me, I still thought that it had been.

I hope I get to see Silverflight, Gingerfeather, or Sootpelt on my way to the Moonpool. But I guess everything has changed, and that I actually might be on this path alone. But the prophecy didn't shake me, I knew I had to be brave to survive this journey of life...

"Blindpaw! We need some more of this."

Willowfern nudged something toward the said Blindpaw as he sniffed it confidently.

"Celandine!"

Willowfern nodded and gave a small hum of understanding.

"Tell me what it's good for?"

Blindpaw hesitated and thought for a heart-beat.

"The herb is used to ease pain, it can also be used to treat injuries of the eyes?"

Willowfern had used the herb on him after his eyes and started to hurt. "Correct! We need more, seeing as we used the last on you..."

Blindpaw snorted in disgust, Willowfern just smiled and made sure that he had a warrior to go with and a good amount of memory to know the herb and locate it.

"Before you go, can you also keep a lookout for Blackberry leaves?"

"Good for bee stings. Yes, I'll keep an eye out!"

Blindpaw called back over his shoulder and padded towards the centre of the camp to find a free warrior. "Blindpaw!" Firefur his father bounded over and flicked his tail on his son's uninjured shoulder. "What's up, little tom?"

Blindpaw smiled and purred in happiness at the joke. "I need some help fetching herbs for Willowfern, I need a warrior to guide me though..." His purred died down and his smiled faded. Right, someone to guide him because he was blind.

"That's okay, you can join my patrol!" Firefur padded up toward the entrance of the camp with his tail wrapped around his trailing son. Firefur's patrol included; Fallowbolt, Whispersong & Volepaw. Thank StarClan that Spottedpaw wasn't on this one!

They had travel around the territory sometime making sure that Blindpaw was keeping up. So far; Fallowbolt had spotted some marigold and offered to carry it, Whispersong had caught at least 2 birds, Volepaw had caught a shrew and was offering to carry some blackberry leaves, Firefur had caught 2 voles and 4 mice, while Blindpaw had finally found Celandine. Yep, everything seemed good so far, until a certain young hawk decided to eat him for lunch.

Yowling in rage, Blindpaw sliced his claws along the side-belly of the bird and kicked up dust to get away. Whispersong quickly and swiftly killed it before it could do anymore harm. "Thanks." Blindpaw panted as he hissed in rage at the bird, he had scattered all of the Celandine but thankfully no harm had been done, to the plant at least. Blindpaw had deep scratches from the hawk's talons and a faint scar down the left side of his face.

"Well, that's the third bird I've caught today!" Whispersong flicked her tail in satisfaction as Volepaw trotted up to the blind apprentice.

"Are you okay? That bird almost had you for lunch!" Blindpaw's eyes glinted in amusement.

"Well the tables have turned, we're going to have IT for lunch!" Volepaw sneered at the bird and pranced around happily. Unlike his litter-mates, Volepaw was the most easy-going out of the rest.

"Should we head back up to camp?" Firefur stood on a ledge watching out over the lake-side. Blindpaw sniffed his herb bundle and nodded.

"I'm good to go back but if you guys want to go ahead-"

"No! Stay with us! You're fun to hang around with!" Volepaw whined, Blindpaw trying to hide his amusement, sighed and picked up the herbs.

"Fine, I'll stay, but I need to go put these herbs away before they go dry."

Volepaw straightened up and flicked his ears as he whiskers quivered with bravery. "I'll go put them back!" Without warning, he rounded up the herbs and raced back to camp. Blindpaw himself was impressed.

"Okay... Well let's go down by the shore and see if anything's washed up." Firefur ordered and they all took off to wait for Volepaw by the camp entrance.

Sorry if it was short...

I've been busy updating stories like hell...

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