Spying On The Enemy {Invite/Breezy}

i luv cloudleap hes my baby

Cloudleap shuffled around the dead foliage and rotting wood of the twoleg place. It was late in the morning, but still relatively cold. Not that was a suprise, with leaffall casting its grip on the clans. The sun poked slightly through the clouds, but it was hazy and gloomy and Cloudleap expected rain. Better to collect herbs before cats started getting sick. And also to get out of the rain.

Cloudleap didn't like the rain very much.

The white tom purred happily after scouring the remains of the abandoned twoleg nest; finding a small collection of dock leaves bundled underneath the shade of overhanging boards. Cloudleap plucked a few; leaving a little under half of the leaves alone until leafbare was closer; they would need them more then. Deciding he had enough, Cloudleap bundled the large leaves into his mouth. He perked his ears for signs of Cherrybranch; the cat he had accompanied on his trek out into the forest. Nerves got the better of him when he tried to go out into the forest alone. With no sign of Cherrybranch nearby, Cloudleap felt his heart catch in this throat-  what if something happened to her?

She promised she'd stay nearby.

Taking in a shaky breath, the tom ventured further into the territory in search of his clanmate. His paws were shaking, and his fur was stood on end. The medicine cat halted in his search, stopping to set down his collection of herbs and just breathe. It would be okay. And if things weren't okay he could make them okay.  He was the medicine cat, and he's good at what he does. Cloudleap nodded curtly to himself, picked up his herbs and began his search again, getting farther and farther away from the twoleg place. Eventually, Cloudleap picked up a trace of the missing clanmate. Feeling hopeful, lighter on his paws, Cloudleap trotted urgently, - didn't run; he could trip - following the scent. It didn't take long before the medicine cat caught the scent of blood, and felt his paws grow heavy.

Oh no no no no no.

Cloudleap picked up his speed- running now, trying desperately to control his erratic breathing, until he finally found Cherrybranch, thank Starclan. The medicine cat set down his bundle of herbs, panting, "C-cherryb-branch!". Eyes wide and voice shaking, the white tom frantically scanned the warrior. "W-where d-did you go? Are yo-" He stopped, realizing at what exactly Cherrybranch and the other warrior were looking at. "What happened?" His voice was too high and shaky and unstable like the rest of him felt, and yet he managed to approach the cat- identifying them as Breezepaw. Pressing a nose to the wounded cats fur, Cloudleap murmured to the two warriors, "Nevermind that," He pulled back, a slight tone down in his anxiety flashed across his face. "He's still breathing, but he won't last long if we can't stop the bleeding." Addressing the two warriors, Cloudleap tried to steady his voice. "Go fetch cobwebs, lots of them. Hurry."

Cherrybranch turned and let out a sigh of relief as she saw Cloudleap. "Thank Starclan, I'm sorry I left you but I didn't have time to get you and get here before that rogue finished him. If I had come to get your first she might have finished him off before we got here." Willow saw Dovesong take off in search of cobwebs at the medicinecat's order. "Is there anything I can do?" It only took one person to collect cobwebs. While Breezepaw's mom did that maybe she could do something else. "Did you collect any dock or maybe Goldenrod or anything that could help him?" She only knew of a few things that healed scratched. Only because of all the times she or someone she knew had them applied. She had always been curious about healing herbs.

Cherrybranch shivered, she couldn't believe one rogue cat could do this to an apprentice barely out of the nursery. And what the cat said scared her eve/b]n more. She had said Breezepaw would be the first of many lives she killed. She had also said Shadowclan had killed her kits and mate. But that couldn't be true, Shadowclan would never ham a kit it was against the warrior code. This rogue was crazy maybe she had found her kits and mate near the border dead and blamed it on them but it was probably some rogue. Yea that had to be it. "Shadowclan has to be warned. No apprentice should go out with out a warrior with them. That rogue threatened to kill everyone of us." She turned to face Breezepaw. "He's going to survive isn't he Cloudleap?"


WC: 278
Tagged: Breezy, jay