Rising water

[breezeclaw]

breezepaw sat with her chin high, trying trying to look bigger "come" mewed stripefur. "ok!" breezepaw squeeked. when she got to the medicine clearing she perked her ears, she could just barely hear screeching out in the forest "can you hear that?" she asked her new mentor. stripfur looked at her confused and, too, perked her ears. stripfur gasped when she finally could hear the screeching. "breezepaw, hurry and grab some cob webs from inside the den and go get some warriors to go with you in the forest and look for the cats. im going to get some poppy seeds (and stuff XD). GO!" stripefur quickly meowed. breezepaw nodded and quickly dashed inside the den and grabbed some cob webs. she ran out of the clearing with cob webs in her jaws and ran to the nearest warriors she saw.

[Shadingsun]

Whitepelt groaned. He had seen and heard that the badgers were gone, but the aftermath was hectic. Whitepelts throat was clawed, and it was a miracle he had survived. He had massive cuts across his pelt, and whenever he breathed, he could feel the scratchs burst open with wild pain. But from what he could see, rushpaw was worse. He had his eyes closed, but one of them had a nasty , straight long scar. He had deep gorges on his pelt, and the spot were he hit the tree was bleeding. His whole face and muzzle was covered with blood from the scar and a small scratch that was just above his nose. Whitestorm knew the scratch would heal, but he wasnt sure about the scar. It could affect his sight too, thought whitepelt. Whitepelt gathered all the strength he could, and dragged himself to the young tom, his fur rising up on his shoulders as he looked out for any more badgers.

[breezeclaw]

breezepaw ran over to Mosspath, Snowtal, and Swiftmask. they were talking together. breezepaw stopped infront of them and dropped the cob webs so she could speak. "some cats are in trouble! follow me!" she yowled. she picked up the cob webs and dashed out of camp, not turning around to see if anyone was following her. as she was running, she heard paw steps behind her sighed with relef to know they were following soon she could her the screeching and yowling very clearly. Stripefur charged in front of her and jumped through a bush. she knew what law behind, whould not be good.

[Shadingsun]

Coalstorm looked proudly at his apprentice, tigerpaw. The striped she cat was young and strong, and she looked like she would learn quickly. Coalstorm thought for a minute, then said ''We will start our training tomorrow, but we cant do it right now. It is to late, and i think you would like a tour of the apprentices den.'' Coalstorm said, smiling. Then he pricked his ears and frowned. Were was that clump of fur rushpaw? He should have been back ages ago, with whitepelt. they were dropping dirty moss off, after all.

[breezeclaw]

breezepaw jupmed through the bush and flinched at what she saw. there was clumps of fur and blood every where. Rushpaw was being killed by a badger while whitepelt struggled to get back to his paws. Mosspath, Snowtail, and Swiftmask quickly jumped into battle shredding the badgers. the badger got off rushpaw to attack Swiftmask asfter he jumped on the large creatures back. Stripefur dashed over to whitepelt and breezepaw quickly followed. when they got there, he was clinging to life and was loseing blood fast. Stripefur took the cob webs from breezepaw and began holding some on the wounds to stop the bleeding. "quick! grab some cob webs and hold them on the wounds to stop the bleeding!" breezepaw nodded and quickly picked up some cob webs and did as her mentor told her to do.

[Shadingsun]

Rushpaw gasped and opened his eyes, flinching slightly at the pain in his left eye. He looked around and he tried to get up but couldnt and fell down. ''Rushpaw!'' came a faint cry, and whitepelt helped him get up.''W-we need to go.'' panted rushpaw, sheathing his claws and digging them into the ground for support. Whitepelt nodded then looked ahead, but his eyes widened. He knocked rushpaw to the side, and he fell down. Next he saw a flash of white fur, and a flash of red. Rushpaw struggled but got up, and flattened his ears as another badger leaped at him, and knocked him to the ground. The badger started tearing at his fur more, and Rushpaw started gasping and making feeble scratchs at the badgers face. He heard more cats enter the scene, and new scents wafted over, and the badgers ran toward the new arrivals. There were more yowls, and he felt a few cats crowd over him.

[breezeclaw]

breezepaw looked at rushpaw and gasped. she picked up more cob webs and tryed to soak up the blood coming from his eye. "dont worry, rushpaw!" she sqeeked

[Shadingsun]

Rushpaw closed his eyes, feeling as though he had clumps of bracken all over his pelt. Even though he knew he was still alive, he felt himself fading, until He could see a bright light and a group of cats. ''It is not your time.'' mewed one of the cats, its voice echoing strangely. Rushpaw opened his eyes, but was shocked to find himself not surrounded by trees, but by a river. The river was overflowing, its water now well over its sandy beaches. Then, across the shore, he saw a group of badgers, there small eyes filled with distaste and pleasure.''they are coming.They are coming.'' chanted thousands of whispers.''They are coming.'' they chanted again, and then everything shattered and he found himself in darkness.

[breezeclaw]

breezepaw was soaking up most of the blood on his eye and began soaking up blood on a horrible scratch on his shoulder. "rushpaw, dont go!" she mewed when she noticed his eyes fading. there were was so much blood, she did not know where all of it was coming from. suddenly a voice sounded beside her, "wrap the cob webs around the wounds" mewed the unknown cat. breezepaw looked over to see a white cat figure with stars in its pelt. it soon disapeared and breezepaw did what the cat had told her to do. she soon found out the method was working. "thanks..." she whispered under her breath, wondering if the cat had heard her.

[Shadingsun]

Rushpaw shook in the darkness,crouching. He yowled out of terror, and he woke up with a start. He looked around. The badgers were gone, all except for one which had swiftmask,snowtail, and mosspath crowded around it back. There was blood all over the clearing, and Rushpaw began to worry. Whitepelt was no were to be seen! Rushpaw looked up at Breezepaw, who was managing him with a worried look on her face. ''Wheres Whitepelt?!'' he mewed, a bit shocked at how weak his voice was.

[breezeclaw]

breezepaw looked at rushpaw, startled that he had spoken. "whitepelt is..u-uh..." breezepaw turned to look at whitepelt, he did not look good. Stripefur was struggling to keep him alive.

[Shadingsun]

Rushpaw felt panic swell up in his chest, and ignoring the stabbing pain all over him, he sat up and looked around. He opened his mouth to draw in scents, and he felt his panic grow stronger. He turned toward Breezepaw. ''Whitepelts not here!'' he said he tail twitching in panic.

[breezeclaw]

"u-u-uh...hes over- wait you need to rest! lay back down!" she mewed fearfuly. she did not want him to die on her first day!

[Shadingsun]

Rushpaw flattened his ears.''No! I wont let Whitepelt die! If he dies its my fault!'' hissed Rushpaw. He tryed to stand up, but he found that when he did, his whole pelt burned, and his legs felt like rabbit ear moss. He gasped and sat back down, His pelt and head throbbing painfully. He gripped the ground with his claws, and he felt terror rise up at the thought that the badgers could have killed the cranky elder.

[breezeclaw]

"no, rushpaw! you need to rest!" mewed breezepaw. she looked at stripefur. stripefur looked at rushpaw sadly and turned around to pick whitepelt up by the scruff. stripefur dragged the heavy elder over to rushpaw, whitepelt was barley alive. breezepaw closed her eyes, there was no hope for him now.