Zodiac (warrior cats)

Chapter 25

Fluffy clouds drifted across the blue dappled sky, as Bluepaw sat underneath a Fir Tree. ThunderClan had been riled up practically the entire day, all thanks to Charredpaw. The apprentice felt a sense of hurt for the young tom, he was only trying to master his power after all, a bit like Bluepaw.
But what was there to master about talking to StarClan?
"Unless..." Bluepaw trailed off as an idea sparked in her mind.
Unless I have another power! StarClan never said a Zodiac was only to be given one power, what if she had a mighty power like Charredpaw did?
But I don't want to be a powerful cat, Bluepaw lowered her suddenly saddened gaze. I want to help my clan and become a Medicine Cat. But that certainly wasn't going to happen any time soon, unless Jayfeather finally retired, or croaked.
Don't think that! She scolded herself for thinking ill of the old cat, but it was true in a way, things would be better if Jayfeather wasn't Medicine Cat anymore.
"Hey Bluepaw" the apprentice looked up to see her brother Timberpaw standing over her with a shrew.
"Hi" she groaned, plopping her shiny head onto her paws.
Timberpaw scrunched his face in confusion, and bent down to sit next to his sister. Bluepaw and her siblings were never particularly close, especially her and Heatherpaw. Bluepaw wanted to help her clan and dedicate herself to only that, no mate or kits.
But Heatherpaw on the other hand wanted to be a queen the day she earned her warrior name. In fact she already had a mate picked out, Sandpaw. The two had promised to be mates since they were a moon old, although most thought they would grow out of the phase.
"If StarClan wanted Jayfeather to retire" Timberpaw meowed as he bit into the shrew, "Then they'd have him retire. Obviously there's something keeping him as Medicine Cat, or else he'd let you be an apprentice."
"Yeah" Bluepaw snorted, "It's called his attitude."
Jayfeather must have had one of the most sour attitudes in the history of the clans. Not even the grumpy Rosepetal held a flame to Jayfeather, or the leader of ShadowClan for that matter!
As Alderfern walked by the two apprentices, Timberpaw immediately stared forward like a dumbstruck tortoise.
"Hello?" Bluepaw meowed to her brother, whose mouth was hanging open at the passing she-cat.
"Timberpaw!" she cuffed him over the ears, making him hiss in embarrassment. "For StarClan's sake could you be a little less discrete, it looked like you saw a cat mating with a porcupine!" Bluepaw rolled her eyes at the tom, toms were all alike.
"Who would want to mate with a porcupine?" Timberpaw asked seriously, squinting his face in confusion.
Honestly her brother wasn't the sharpest claw in the forest, far from it. As the day slowly went by, Bluepaw considered bounding up to Jayfeather and begging him to retire. But she had more dignity than that, at least Bluepaw thought she did.
"There's Starlingsong" Timberpaw who was half asleep meowed, "Why don't you go talk to her?".
The apprentice stood up and stretched, "I already have, she says I should ask StarClan to try and convince him and I already did! Nothing works!".
The dark brown tabby apprentice shrugged his large shoulders, "You never know, things change".
As she pondered her brothers idea, Bluepaw highly doubted it. Things rarely changed in ThunderClan, other than the fact that Charredpaw almost burnt down WindClan.
You know what? Bluepaw asked herself while puffing her chest out, I'm just going to demand that I be made a Medicine Cat. She had no other choice. Swiftly padded over to the Medicine Cat's den, Bluepaw took a deep breath and entered.
"Starlingsong I demand I be made a Medicine Cat this instant!" the apprentice yowled as Starlingsong jumped a mouse-length. "Jayfeather's old enough to be a member of StarClan by now" she whined, "And I have to sit here day after day dreading the thought of becoming a warrior, while he sleeps in the forest doing nothing!".
Starlingsong rose her tail to talk, but Bluepaw simply kept going on.
"And I would be the best Medicine Cat in the entire world, what do you think my power is? But no, it all has to be wasted just so Jayfeather can be one before he dies!".
"Bluepaw!" the brown Medicine Cat meowed loudly, breaking the apprentice off from her rambling session.
Suddenly she felt embarrassed, that wasn't the way to talk to a Medicine Cat.
"You don't have to worry about that anymore" Starlingsong told her with a smile, "Jayfeather retired this morning." At first Bluepaw thought she had imagined what the she-cat had said, and had to ask again.
"I said Jayfeather retired!" the young she-cat meowed happily, "Dovestar made you my apprentice this morning, I was just going to tell you when you came in."
"Oh..." Bluepaw meowed quietly, to excited to feel bad about what she had said! This had to be a miracle sent from StarClan, Bluepaw was finally on the path she knew she was meant to be on!
She was one step closer to her destiny!