Hello! Rabbit's back and she brought Chapter 4 with her! Thank you for your wonderful reviews! They really helped me and I'll try hard to do what the readers want me to write.
A flash of gold streaked down from the sky and landed in front of Heathertail with a dull thud. She shrieked and skidded to a stop.
The "thing" moaned in pain and Heathertail saw that one of its paws was twisted. She stared at it for a few heartbeats before realizing that it was Lionblaze.
"Lionblaze!" she gasped and quickly ran to him. "Lionblaze are you okay?" she mewed with worry. Lionblaze moaned again and Heathertail immediately knew the answer to her question.
"Come on, we have to get you to your camp," she mewed. Once again the ever so helpful Lionblaze just moaned and Heathertail let out an angry huff.
"I can't carry you! So get up!" she hissed. This time Lionblaze slowly got up onto his three good paws. He stumbled and fell onto Heathertail.
"Gerroff me! I can't breathe!" Heathertail screeched. She pushed the ThunderClan warrior off with her paws. "Sorry," mumbled Lionblaze.
He tried again. Lionblaze stumbled again but this time Heathertail was ready. She had Lionblaze lean on her shoulder and they started towards the ThunderClan camp at a painstakingly slow rate.
Heathertail glanced at the horizon and saw that the sun was starting to appear. Mousedung she hissed to herself. Half of WindClan would be searching for her by now. Not to mention Lionblaze she thought as she looked at the golden tom.
The two cats soon entered ThunderClan territory and Heathertail started to panic. What if the ThunderClan warriors thought that she had attacked Lionblaze and attacked her?
The tabby warrior pushed away the thought and concentrated on finding the camp. If a patrol found us that would be a lot easier she thought. But then again, she wanted to spend as much time as possible with the golden warrior. Heathertail liked Lionblaze although she didn't want to admit it.
"Thank StarClan," she whispered out loud as she saw the bramble entrance of the ThunderClan camp. She pushed through the bush and was met by pandemonium.
"Look! There he is! With that WindClan warrior!" "Thank StarClan she found him!" "Lionblaze! What happened?" The yowls of the ThunderClan cats rang through the camp.
Heathertail saw Firestar padding towards her with the deputy, Brambleclaw, right behind him. "Greetings Heathertail. I see that you found Lionblaze," mewed Firestar.
Heathertail dipped her head respectfully. "Yes, I found him while I was on a walk," she replied as coolly as she could.
A gray tabby tom ran towards them and Heathertail remembered that the tom was Jayfeather, Lionblaze's brother.
"What in StarClan happened?" Jayfeather meowed as he sniffed Lionblaze's paw. "Why don't you ask the idiot that thinks that he can fly?" snapped Heathertail.
There was silence in the camp. "You mean…?" "Yes, he jumped off a tree!" spat Heathertail. "He's just really lucky that I was nearby to hear his moans."
"How do we know that you didn't attack him?" yowled a pale gray tom. Heathertail started to bristle. She was about to spit back a retort when Brambleclaw interrupted her.
"If she did attack him, she wouldn't have brought him back, Bumbleflight!" the dark tabby growled. Heathertail nodded her thanks to the deputy.
"Thank you for bringing our warrior back. You may leave now," meowed Firestar. Heathertail was startled that the leader would send her back before she got a chance to speak with Lionblaze.
"But-," Heathertail paused. "But?" Firestar repeated. A few ThunderClan cats snickered. "Ooh does Lionblaze have a WindClan warrior padding after him?" whispered a cat from the crowd.
Laughter erupted in the camp of ThunderClan. Heathertail grew hot. "Enough!" yowled Firestar. The camp grew quiet but there were still some snickers from the ThunderClan cats.
"Was there anything you wanted to say, Heathertail?" asked Firestar. "No," hissed Heathertail and padded stiffly out of the ThunderClan camp as the laughter started again.
(Enough time passes for Heathertail to reach the WindClan camp entrance)
"There you are! I found her!" yowled Crowfeather and ran down hill towards her. "Where were you? I thought that you were just going for a walk!" he hissed.
"I'm sorry. I guess I lost track of time," replied Heathertail, although she knew that it was a lame excuse. Crowfeather's eyes narrowed and it was clear that he didn't buy her excuse. But soon the look of suspicion fluttered by and Heathertail relaxed.
"Fine. But you better get that nasty scratch get treated by Leafpool before it gets infected," meowed Crowfeather. Heathertail glanced backwards at her back and saw a large bloody scratch.
"I-I didn't realize that it was there," she stammered. "Well, don't just stand there. Go to Leafpool!" mewed Crowfeather.
Heathertail padded to the medicine cat den. She remembered how the former ThunderClan warrior had joined WindClan after Nightcloud and Breezepelt perished in the battle between StarClan and the Dark Forest. Leafpool had then trained Kestrelflight until the tom lost his own battle with greencough.
"Hi Leafpool. Could you have a look at this scratch? Crowfeather thinks that it might get infected," meowed Heathertail. The tabby medicine cat whipped around. "Of course! Let's see," Leafpool looked at the scratch for a few heartbeats.
"I'll just get some marigold for you. That would make sure that there is no infection," Leafpool decided. Leafpool padded towards the herb storage but then jumped back as two kits, one a light brown tom and the other a dark gray she-cat.
"We're the greatest WindClan warriors ever born! We will defeat you!" yowled the tom. The she-cat pounced on Leafpool.
"Sandkit! Windkit! I'm treating Heathertail right now! What if I accidentally gave her the wrong herb?" Leafpool scolded. The two kits hung their heads. "We're sorry. You won't tell Onestar about this right? He might not make us apprentices!" pleaded the two kits.
Heathertail laughed inwardly as she saw Leafpool soften at the sight of her two beloved kits. Leafpool was the only medicine cat with kits that everyone accepted.
"It's okay, Leafpool. I'm sure they didn't know that," Heathertail mewed. Sandkit and Windkit bobbed their heads up and down quickly. "We didn't!" they agreed.
Leafpool stared into the large pairs of amber eyes. "Okay, but play outside now and don't get under the warriors' paws!" she called as the kits scrambled out.
"You're kits are adorable," purred Heathertail. The medicine cat sighed. "Sometimes a little too adorable. I can't believe that I fell for that large eyes trick again!" Leafpool mewed. She quickly put the marigold on Heathertail and sent her out as Crowfeather padded in.
As Heathertail padded towards the warriors den, she couldn't help wondering: Could I have kits one day?