Chapter 2
At SunsetClan camp.
"Some of you may know this but, I will be moving in to the nursery today. I am expecting kits soon. Butterflyhope will be in charge of camp." Lightstar meowed.
Cats below began to cheer and give congradulations.
"Ribbonpaw, come over here!" Ribbonpaw's mentor Echosong yowled.
"Coming!" Ribbonpaw yowled.
"Don't you feel bad for Echosong? Her fist apprentice is the most useless. She would die if we were attacked." A gray tom whispered.
"I know. Echosong should ask for a new apprentice. Her old mentor Silverwing got rid of her for Dawnpaw." A brown tom whispered back.
Most of the clan says that. They say I'm useless. I remember when Silverwing left me and got Dawnpaw… Why won't Echosong give up on me? Ribbonpaw thought.
The cats turned their heads the other way when Ribbonpaw walked past them.
It started to rain.
"Today we are going to work on tracking prey." Echosong meowed.
"I… I'll do my best." Ribbonpaw meowed sulkily.
"Put some spirit in your words. You just need practice." Echosong meowed cheerfully.
"Go spirit. Go pep. Go me." Ribbonpaw meowed sulkily.
"That didn't have much spirit. Well… let's start." Echosong meowed.
Three cats ran towards them, from the bushes.
"Echosong!" Marshpaw meowed.
"Lightpelt, Birdwing, Marshpaw what's wrong?" Echosong asked.
"Two of Silverwing's kits are missing! Lightstar told us to look for them, she told us to get you and Ribbonpaw too." Lightpelt meowed.
The rain began to get heavy.
If their Silverwing's kits then I will use my maximum tracking skills to find them. Ribbonpaw vowed.
"Where and when?" Echosong demanded.
"A while ago. They were last scented in the nursery." Lightpelt meowed.
I think I scent one… Wait! I scent two. Ribbonpaw thought.
"We can't search in the rain we have to go back to camp." Birdwing meowed.
"I suppose. We all should go back." Lightpelt meowed.
"Um..." Ribbonpaw meowed.
No one paid attention to her.
"No, I am looking for them. Ribbonpaw go back with them." Echosong meowed.
"No, I'm searching for them with you." Ribbonpaw meowed.
"Go back to camp! You'll just be dead weight." Birdwing snapped.
I can find them! I won't lose to you, Birdwing! Thought Ribbonpaw.
Ribbonpaw ran away from the search party.
"Ribbonpaw, Wait!" Echosong yowled.
"We have to back to camp, leave her! If we stay here any longer we will get hyperemia!" Lightpelt snapped.
"I'm sorry Ribbonpaw!" Echosong meowed.
The cats headed back to camp.
Where are they? They're around here. Ribbonpaw thought.
Ribbonpaw turned her head to a small hole.
There they are! Ribbonpaw thought
"Skykit! Sunkit! Come here!" Ribbonpaw yowled.
The kits climbed out of the hole and headed towards Ribbonpaw.
Ribbonpaw picked Sunkit up by the scruff of her neck; she let Skykit climb on her back.
The rain stopped.
"I'm cold." Skykit meowed.
"We're almost at camp." Ribbonpaw mumbled through Sunkit in her mouth.
"Ribbonpaw1" Echosong yowled.
Everything looks blurry… I'm so cold… I'm tired… Ribbonpaw thought.
Ribbonpaw collapsed.
"Uh.. Where am I?" Ribbonpaw asked.
"At camp, in the medicine cat's den." The medicine cat's apprentice Honeypaw answered.
"How are the kits?!" Ribbonpaw demanded.
"Thanks to you they both survived. If we found them the next day they would have died." Honeypaw purred. "Silverwing said that she wants to talk to you when you wake up." Honeypaw meowed.
"Can I go to the nursery?" Ribbonpaw asked.
"You're not well enough to go yet." Honeypaw meowed.
"Where's Oakheart?" Ribbonpaw asked.
"She went to get more herbs." Honeypaw answered.
"Aw… She would let me go. I'll be really quick." Ribbonpaw pleaded.
"If you be quick you can go." Honeypaw meowed.
Ribbonpaw raced out of the den.
"Silverwing, I'm here." Ribbonpaw meowed.
Sunkit and Skykit playfully bounced on her.
"Hi, big sis!" Sunkit meowed.
"HI, big sis!" Skykit meowed.
"Big sis?" Ribbonpaw meowed confused.
"We decided to call you that, because the way you saved us was in a big sisterly way." Sunkit meowed.
"I see they like you, Ribbonpaw." Silverwing purred.
"Can big sis visit us tomorrow?" Skykit asked.
"It's up to her." Silverwing meowed.
"I'll visit you both when I have free time." Ribbonpaw meowed.
"Yeah!" Skykit meowed.
"Yay!" Sunkit meowed.
"Ribbonpaw thank you for saving my kits. You may visit them whenever you want. I think you are the best tracker in the clan, not even Lightstar could scent them." Silverwing meowed.
"Thank you." Ribbonpaw meowed.
"Let's play together big sis!" Skykit and Sunkit meowed in unison.
"Let's play." Ribbonpaw meowed.