"What you saw was a wolf." Yarrowpaw and Rosepaw were in the Leader's Den, being confronted by Timberstar. "They are basically dogs that aren't controlled by Twolegs. They are extremely dangerous, yo apprentices are lucky he only got Greenpaw." "He hurt Lakepaw pretty bad." Rosepaw mewed. "Precisely. You two are gonna be punished greatly." "What about Lakepaw?" Yarrowpaw meowed. "Lakepaw... I think he has gone through enough, don't you think?" The apprentices nodded. "Now leave me, while I decide your punishment." The two apprentices padded out into camp.
"HuhRah! HuhRah!" Yarrowpaw turned her head. "I-I got to go. Bye Rosepaw." Yarrowpaw ran out if camp before Rosepaw could react.
Yarrowpaw ran into the cave. "Marsh? Whats up?" Marshpaw was there, with another, younger, golden she-cat. "Yarrowpaw, I want you to meet my little sister, Bloompaw. She is the medicine apprentice for Skyclan." Bloompaw bowed her head in a greeting. Yarrowpaw frowned. "You ringed the emergency code. There's something more." Marshpaw, looking ashamed, nodded. "Yes. Bloompaw, tell her what you saw." "Yarrowpaw, I saw your brother.
"Not in real life, in a dream. He was being chased by a really big black thing, in a forest I didn't reconize." Yarrowpaw looked taken aback. "But the warriors said you took Hawthornpaw!" Marshpaw shook his head. "We saw something behind them, a big grey dog, and were taking the apprentice to bring the other cats out of his range. Afterwards the apprentice ran off after them but from what you are saying, he didn't return to camp..."
Yarrowpaw nodded. "Thank you for telling me. I should return to camp now. Bye Marsh, nice meeting you Bloompaw." She padded out of the cave and back towards camp. "Yarrowpaw! I was looking for you, thought we could do a training session!" Yarrowpaw turned around to see her mentor Smallgaze there. "Where were you? Why are you out here alone?" Kinkspots and Mary followed him. "Uhhh... Hunting?" "Did you catch anything?" Mary purred. Mary was a snow white kittypet with blue eyes kittypet who had joined the clan. "N-No. All the rabbits ran away." Smallgaze shot her a glance but said nothing. "C'mon let's get back to camp."
Yarrowpaw woke up in the apprentice den. Rosepaw was sleeping too, and Lakepaw was napping in a corner. Burntpaw and Buzzardpaw nuzzled together. They had been apprenticed while Yarrowpaw was gone, or so she heard. Tearpaw and Onepaw were in there too, sleeping after their assessment. Yarrowpaw padded outside. The moon was high, full tomorrow. She wondered if she was going to the Gathering.
She sighed. "Am I gonna go look for my brother?" She asked herself. "No. You are not." Her father padded out of the Leader Den. "Yarrowpaw, you are forbidden from leaving camp. The wolf could have hurt you, or worse!" Yarrowpaw looked up at Timberstar. "Don't you care about Hawthornpaw?" "He was captured by Skyclan, and we will bring it up at The Gathering. Which you will not be attending." The apprentice looked up at her father. "No they didn't!" Timberstar frowned. "Go back to sleep its late."He padded back into the Leader Den, leaving Yarrowpaw alone in the clearing.
She was about to go back to bed when she heard faint mewing. She turned her head and followed the noise. She found a four moon old kit, cream with a white tipped tail, white ears, a white muzzle and white paws. She was mewing helplessly, Yarrowpaw knew she couldn't just leave her. She looked around to make sure no one was around and ran for the cave. She called the alarm, and Marshpaw came looking tired.
"What is it Yarrow?" He yawned. "Its late-" He froze when he saw the kit in Yarrowpaw's mouth. "Is that-" His eyes went wide. Yarrowpaw set it down. I found it in the woods. What do you think we should do with it? I just couldn't leave it out there..." She looked up. "Marsh?" Marshpaw was staring at the kit, who had started to wail silently, with open eyes. "Snowstar..." Yarrowpaw's eyes grew wide with his. "Do you think it is?" "It must be, she has all the same markings..."
Snowstar had been the past leader of Skyclan, when Marshpaw and Yarrowpaw had been new apprentices. He had died 3 moons ago, but from what Yarrowpaw had saw of her from gatherings, she did have all the white spots in the markings, the same creamy pelt... Yarrowpaw looked Marshpaw in the eyes. "We have to care for her. We can't let anyone know." And so they made Snowkit a nest, brought her fresh kill, (she was old enough to not need milk), brought her water, and came to visit her whenever possible.
A moon passed. Marshpaw, Yarrowpaw and Bloompaw (who came to visit and feed when the other two were busy) were the only ones who knew about the kit. One day, Yarrowpaw was leaving, and she met with Mary and Kinkspots. Mary cocked her head. "Where did that kit come from?" Yarrowpaw turned around, to see in horror, Snowkit behind her, following her to the camp.