AN: PEOPLE LIKE THIS. I'M AMAZED. Well, I'm definitely finishing this now!
Hope you enjoy Chapter 3! I'm a bit mean right now, you won't find out whether Cinderpaw is crippled until the next chapter. :3
Next up: YELLOWFANG'S POV!
Chapter 3
Cinderpaw's POV
Cinderpaw was floating.
She wasn't sure where she was, but pain flashed before all else.
Her paw, basically.
Enough dramatic thoughts, she thought.
The last thing she remembered was seeing Tigerclaw and Fireheart, then she passed out.
She heard faint, warbled speech, voices she could barely recognize.
The one voice she recognized was her brother's. Brackenpaw's.
She had other siblings, she knew. There was Brightkit and Thornkit.
But she was closest to Brackenpaw. She listened hard, trying to understand his words.
Cinderpaw!
Cinderpaw, come back! He was begging.
I'm okay, she wanted to tell him. I'll be fine! But all that happened was she floated farther away.
Please! Come back, Cinderpaw!
Cinderpaw did not come.
Fireheart's POV
Fireheart gritted his teeth. "Message, my foot," he muttered. It had only been a few seconds since they brought Cinderpaw into the medicine den. But already guilt was crawling around his belly like vines.
He remembered telling her to stay in camp. She was Cinderpaw, though. Of course she didn't listen.
And then, the bloodcurdling screech.
Bursting out of the forest to see Tigerclaw standing over Cinderpaw, who was shaking. As usual, there was no emotion in Tigerclaw's eyes.
Except for a bare trace of one. Anger, probably, that his trap failed.
Normally, in any other cat, it would look like failure, dejection, guilt.
But did those emotions even exist anymore in Tigerclaw?
Tigerclaw's POV
All that was in Tigerclaw right now was guilt.
He had TRIED to drive it out. Guilt made him look weak.
But he couldn't help feeling it. If only he had listened.
Fury overtook the guilt. Why even listen to StarClan?
But no matter what he did,
No matter how hard he tried,
He couldn't get the taste of Cinderpaw's blood out of his mouth.