Blackpaw leaped around Spiderpaw and gave him a quick blow on his shoulder with her left forepaw, claws sheathed of course. The gray apprentice leaped at her and rolled over her, letting her take all his weight. She rolled him over with all her strength and pinned him to the floor, her paws not missing any points in which she was to touch to make this move strong. Spiderpaw tried to push her over so he could leap onto her and pin HER down, but she stayed put and held him down tight.

"Do you give up, Spiderpaw?" she meowed, eyes narrowed.

The gray apprentice sighed. "Alright, you win again, Blackstar."

Blackpaw leaped away. "My name will not be Blackstar until I have an apprentice, mouse brain." then she added "And thats when I give you an apprentice and make you my new deputy."

"Hey, what about me?" Blackpaw and Spiderpaw looked over at the wall of the hollow to see Boldpaw sitting on the hard earth. "Am I going to be medicine cat while you two get all the glory?"

Blackpaw padded over to her sister, her best friend following. "Well, if you ever are a medicine cat, you would get the most respect AND you would be able to go to every gathering, no matter what. And you get to see your ancestors at the moonpool!" "

Boldpaw got to her paws. "Well, there's something I need to tell you, sis." she looked down at the ground, her eyes filled with sadness. "I'm not going to mend. My shoulder bone was broken when Birdpaw attacked me. I'm, I'm going to start medicine cat training."

"Wait, but isn't Nightpaw already training?" Spiderpaw mewed. "Cloudfang isn't going to die soon, anyway, unless he gets into a really big accident."

"Well, Cloudfang is almost an elder, and Goldenstar told me that he was going to give Nightpaw his full medicine cat name and then move to the elders den."

oh. Blackpaw thought. Now, back to the medicine cat part. She can run, so how is her shoulder broken?

Blackpaw looked at Spiderpaw, and he looked back at her. She looked back at her sister. "But you can stand, and I saw you play-fighting with the kits the other day."

"Well, thats the thing." she mewed softly. "I can't train with anyone except cats that aren't to heavy, 'cause then my shoulder would break again, and Cloudfang doesn't want that, neither does Shinningflower, or..." her voice trailed off, but Blackpaw knew who she meant.

"Or Oakstorm, huh," she meowed, bending her head low to meet the gaze of her sister, who avoided it.

Boldpaw lowered her eyes. "Y-yes, Oakstorm. He would have been so proud of me if I had become a warrior, like you will be, unless you become like me."

"Blackpaw's just like you already. She has a twisted paw. But, I guess I can see the problem." Spiderpaw answered for Blackpaw.

The black she-cat looked affectionatly at her best friend, her skin growing hot with embaresment. She shook the head off and padded over to the fresh-kill pile. As she got to the large pile of prey, pain scored straight into her stomach. She quickly ran to the medicine den, her pain growing along the way, and slipped inside.
"Cloudfang!" She called for the medicine cat and collapsed on one of the paitient nest.

Instead of seeing the white pelt of her normal medicine cat, a dark pelt wavered over her. It was Nightpaw. "Cloudfang's out on a walk to look for coltsfoot. What seems to be the problem?"

Blackpaw clenched her teeth with pain, but managed to speak through her teeth. "My belly, it hurts!" She let out a painful yowl, and Shinningflower rushed into the den and pushed to be beside her daughter.

"Move away, Shinningflower!" Nightpaw growled at the ginger she-cat, who quickly recoiled and hissed.

"This is MY daughter, not yours!" she growled, but the tom ignored her. He shooved some strange medicine down Blackpaw's throat and put his ear on her heaving belly.

He slowly lifted his head and looked at her mother. "Shinningflower, how old is she again?"

Shinningflower's eyes grew questioning. "Almost 12 moons old. Why?"

Nightpaw gulped with terror. "She's going to have kits."

Hi everyone. Sorry for not being able to update things lately, but I've had so much schoolwork and stuff like that, and I haven't had time to update things. If you have an idea for new characters in my story, or even in other stories, just tell me. Thanks!

-Goldmoonrider