Chapter 34
Flakes of white fell from the dark depths of the sky. Bluecloud padded softly through the bundles of snow, her silver-blue paws numb from the frozen mass.Starlingsong padded along beside Bluecloud, her brown striped pelt thick from the swift approach of Leaf-Bare.
But its coming to quickly, it wasn't supposed to snow this early in the season, The first full moon was coming. Bluecloud knew it was only a moon and a half away, far to short for her to live her life to the fullest if in fact she was going to be taken away.
"What's wrong with you tonight?" the Medicine Cat apprentice looked into her mentors eyes, soon shaking her head of the dreary thoughts.
"Nothing" Bluecloud reassured her, "I'm...I'm just worried about Heathershine." The apprentices sister was expecting her first litter of kits, and on top of that, she had Green-Cough.
"She'll be fine" Starlingsong reassured her apprentice, "Queens have given birth with a sickness before, although I don't quite know why she chose to have kits during Leaf-Bare."
Probably because she and Snowspots were careless, Bluecloud thought with a silent sigh. Everyone knew these kits were an accident, Heathershine had to have been pregnant before she became a warrior.
"I see Tawnywing and Foxshadow" the brown Medicine Cat was looking through the snow infested forest, her eyes round from the darkness.
The golden-brown WindClan Medicine Cat soon became visible through the night air, padding alongside her was the ShadowClan apprentice Foxshadow.
"Where's Scarletshine?" Bluecloud's mentor meowed worriedly, probably because her friend Kestrelflight only died last moon.
Foxshadow lifted his head, "She's fine, just back at camp looking after Beaverkit. She had a nasty encounter with a bat."
"A bat?" a meow came from Whiteleopard as she joined through group, "What was a kit doing near a bat?".
Foxshadow only sighed, "Honestly I don't know. The reason Beaverkit is named Beaverkit, is because when she was only half a moon old, she led a patrol consisting of six kits to attack the beavers near the lake. They actually were able to injure two of them before we arrived."
A kit leading a patrol to attack beavers, now Bluecloud had heard everything. But what kit had the courage and the stupidity to attempt such a task?
As the group of Medicine Cats traveled on, Bluecloud noticed Rushpaw wasn't with Whiteleopard.
"Where's Rushpaw?" she asked casually, padding next to the black and white spotted she-cat.
Whiteleopard lifted her yellow gaze, "Back at camp helping Pricklepelt deliver her kits. He wasn't the happiest about the situation, but I knew he could handle it."
Bluecloud had never attempted such a task, she always had Starlingsong with her when a queen delivered her kits. What if something ever went wrong?
What if the mother bled out, or if one of the kits wasn't breathing? It was all to risky to attempt if you weren't completely confident with your abilities, and right now Bluecloud wasn't.
Realizing the others had already made it to the Moon Pool, Bluecloud hurriedly padded down the spiral stepping stones, and into the dark cavern.
Whiteleopard and Foxshadow already were beginning to sleep, as Tawnywing and Starlingsong drank from the water. Stepping forward, Bluecloud waited patiently until both were done, and then moved forward.
Lapping at the frozen moonlit water, the blue-gray she-cat could almost taste the stars. The crisp smell of snow wreathed through the Moon Pool, and as she lay down onto the cold stone ground, Bluecloud wished it was New-Leaf.
All the worries of Leaf-Bare approaching were far away then, she didn't need to worry about dieing or any of the clans harming each other, it was just pure serenity.
But she knew the Zodiac's had been doing everything they could to prevent this from happening. They had even been meeting every half-moon at the cave Sprucepaw made, they met in peace.
And if they could meet in peace for so long, then how was that in a moon and a half, they would kill each other? At this moment, Bluecloud only wanted to know one thing.
Who was going to survive?
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