Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27804437-20160216194037/@comment-27804437-20160302185042

Chapter 6

Lionstar padded through the thick bramble entrance and entered the camp. All his muscles ached and his ear throbbed. Beside him Fawnpelt was leaning on his shoulder, taking some of the weight off his paws. Around the clearing, cats were whispering in close huddles. Suntail was the first to notice that they were back.

"Lionstar," Suntail's urgent meow made all the cats turn their heads towards the entrance. Suntail got up to from where he was sitting and rushed towards him.

Fawnpelt dipped her head to Lionstar and padded away towards the fresh-kill pile.

"I need to check your wounds," Suntail meowed, resting his tail on Lionstar's back and led him to his den.

Lionstar entered Suntail's den and let his eyes adjust to the darkness, before he continued further in.

"Lay here," Suntail instructed, pointing to a bed of moss with his tail.

Lionstar flopped into the nest, glad to be off his paws. He watched Suntail move to back of his den,  reach his paw through the crack of a stone and pole out some herbs. Lionstar turned his head to the side and noticed another nest, with a small blue-gray tom in it.

"How is Stonepaw?" He asked, after Suntail returned from getting the herbs.

"He has a few minor scratches, but nothing that won't heal," Suntail assured him, as he began to smear some herbs on Lionstar's ear.

"I lost a life," Lionstar whispered, not wanting to wake up his apprentice.

"I know, but it was only your first one," Suntail meowed, not taking his eyes from his work.

"How did you know?"

"Medicine cats just know. Now eat this and get some sleep," Suntail meowed, pushing a poppy seed towards him.

Lionstar licked it up, and curled into the nest, wrapping his tail over his nose. He fell asleep right away, and dreamed.

He was chasing after a cat, one he didn't recognise, through the forest. However much he tried to get closer, the cat would always be just out of reach. He tried calling out to it, but nothing came.

Suddenly the cat stopped. Lionstar could now see that it was a small, brown, she-cat. It looked him in the straight in the eyes and after a moment meowed, "There will be one that comes from Thunder, who faces a challenge that only a lion could overcome."

Lionstar woke, dawn light seeped through the entrance to the Medicine cat den. His ear still hurt, but now it was only a dull pain. He got out of the nest and stretched. He remebered only parts of his dream, and what he remembered only confused him.

"Wha?" Stonepaw meowed, looking up from where he was sleeping, snapping Lionstar from his thoughts.

"Lionstar, you're okay!" Stonepaw meowed, getting up from his nest and pressing his head into Lionstar's shoulder. Lionstar purred.

"I wouldn't be, if you hadn't gotten back to camp so soon," Lionstar praised.

Stonepaw dipped his head to Lionstar, and padded out of the den, Lionstar followed. The dawn patrol just returned and padded up to Lionstar, Dustfur in the lead, followed closely by Icepaw, Lightningstrike, and Rosestem.

"We checked the Windclan border. There was no fresh fox scent," Dustfur reported.

"Good, we'll just have to make sure it stays that way," Lionstar meowed.

Dustfur dipped his head to Lionstar and the patrol broke up.

"How are you feeling?"

Lionstar heard a familiar meow, and turned to see Fawnpelt padding up from the bottom of the Highledge.

"I'm okay, but my ear still hurts a bit."

"Do you want me to get a poppy seed from Suntail?" Fawnpelt asked.

"No, I just want to sleep," Lionstar meowed, thinking longingly about his soft nest.

"Of course, let me know if you need anything." Fawnpelt dipped her head and padded away.

Lionstar headed up the rocky cliff towards his den, he ducked inside and curled in his nest. His talk with Fawnpelt had reminded him about his dream.

Was is Fawnpelt that he has seen?