echopaw's decision

by sparkflight

when a young rouge named echo and her mate, hawkstorm, die of greencough, then are both reincarnated into brother and sister, but as it turns out, her brother, is from thunderclan, while echopaw has been raised in shadowclan. oakfur, there father, hates thunderclan and all of it's cats. but when her father becomes ill, though, echopaw must choose between her brother and her father.

4. Chapter 4

chapter 4: training

hurry up, palepaw! wrenpaw cried. jeez, its like you've never hunted before! wrenpaw, that's the thing! palepaw replied. we never have hunted before! It's just practicing! wrenpaw rolled her amber eyes. so what? we've seen OTHER cats hunt, so it can't be that hard! come on, lets go find some prey!

(five minutes later)

palepaw! wrenpaw! I can't believe you ran off! and on your first day as apprentices! russetclaw meowed. now, go back to camp and pick off the elders ticks! okay, they mewed. I wonder what echopaw is doing? wrenpaw thought.

(in the medicine den)

and this is borage. do you know what that is for dappleheart asked. oh! it's for nursing queens and fever! echopaw replied. dappleheart nodded, and then held up a bunch of leafy plants. well, do you know what these are her mentor queried. those are catmint and they cure greencough, she answered. they are also used for- but before she could finish, echopaw was swept into a memory! suddenly, images and smells racked her brain... begging the clans, swearing that they would get there revenge on them, a sweet oder racking her brain the whole time. finally, she was snapped out of her daze by dappleheart, saying, echopaw! how did you sort all hose herbs in that time? echopaw looked down, and saw that somehow, she had organized all of the herbs in about three minutes! all when she was thinking about... wait, what was she thinking about again? she remembered... the brown tabby cat looked down, smelling the catmint. that was It! catmint! but.. why?