Zodiac (warrior cats)

Chapter 40

Rummaging through the snow covered forest, the gray and white Medicine Cat was searching for any sign of herbs. Rushfall had found a patch of Burnet, but whenever he went to look for any other herbs, more snow kept falling on top of them.
"This is why I need an apprentice" he groaned, biting down onto a Murdock root and yanking it as hard as he could.
But before he could get a firm hold on it, the root snapped and Rushfall came crashing backwards onto the ground.
"Fox-dung!" he spat as mud and snow splattered his gray and white pelt, Rushfall really needed an apprentice. He had become full Medicine Cat since Whiteleopard retired half a moon ago, at least nothing had gone terribly wrong since then.
"At least Pricklepelt's kitting went well" he muttered, it was his first birthing queen and she gave birth to two healthy kits.
Rushfall did have one minor incident with the only tom, Howlkit, he had something stuck in his throat. But luckily with Rushfall's quick thinking, he was able to get it out just in time, and now Howlkit was completely healthy!
Grabbing the remaining snow covered burnet leaves, along with the Murdock Root, Rushfall turned to return to RiverClan camp. The sky was dark and threatening, more snow was most certainly on the way.
As a kit Rushfall had always loved snow, but back then he hadn't realized the harships Leaf-Bare caused, death and sickness. Padding through the thorn wreaths near the clan entrance, Rushfall swerved to avoid a fighting Sleetpaw and Rainpaw.
"Are you two still kits?" he hissed while letting the herbs down, "I swear to StarClan you apprentices think you're leader of RiverClan, you need to learn some respect."
But the Medicine Cat doubted the two siblings even heard what he said, apprentices usually had a way of tuning lectures out. Leaping across the small stream surrounding his den,
Rushfall padded into the warm earthy enclosure. He dropped the burnet near the back of the Medicine Den, Whiteleopard had made a small bowl like dent to store the herbs inside.
"Well that's enough gathering for today" he sighed, pacing in circles until Rushfall finally found a comfortable spot in his moss nest.
Large snow flakes fell outside the entrance, and for a long while the small Medicine Cat watched them fall to the pure white ground.
"Mother?" a voice jarred Rushfall, it was coming from the back of the den.
"Weaselkit!" he meowed in surprise, Rushfall had totally forgotten Pricklepelt's other kit had stayed the night, she had a bit of a cough.
"Where's my mother?" she asked groggily, rubbing his eyes with his small fluffy paw.
Rushfall sighed, "She's in the nursery with your brother, you can see her soon. Let's give you some honey though for your throat, is it still bothering you?".
Weaselkit nodded tiredly, flicking her fluffy ears as another cough erupted from her throat. Seeing the pain the half-moon old kit was in, Rushfall knew he had to help her and padded away to gather honey.
He found a small twig outside, and dipped it inside of a honeycomb Otterpool and his sister Thunderstripe had found the previous day. Getting a quite a bit of the sticky golden liquid on the twig, Rushfall gave it to Weaselkit to lick off.
Warily she padded forward and sniffed it, but after tasting the sweet golden stuff, Weaselkit devoured it like a fox to a rabbit.
"Mmm...Can I have more?" she asked, almost entirely forgetting about her cough.
Rushfall smiled, "Maybe later, let's get you back to Pricklepelt first. I'm sure shes worried about you." Herding the kit out of the den, Rushfall turned to follow, but stopped abruptly as a large burning sensation erupted from his paw.
"What in StarClan's name?" he cursed in pain, lifting his burning pad to examine it. His pure white pad was almost completely different, it had eight black stars glowing on it.
"How...." Rushfall couldn't even finish his sentence, the stars were glowing brightly.
And then all at once the burning sensation died down, and at the same time four of the stars died and faded away, almost as if they turned to dust.
"These eight stars are all of the Zodiacs" but how was it possible?
Rushfall didn't know, but he did know that four of the Zodiac's were going to be joining StarClan soon, turned to dust like the stars Rushfall had seen. emnly, "The Full Moon is approaching."