Poisoned Fangs, Scenes 33-36

Summary: (none written yet)
A white tom hit the ground with a oof a small white and brown tom on top of him "ya got me" Milkstar said Bravepaw jumped off of his father and laughed. a pair of Brown eyes watched the toms from the apprentices den before hearing their name being called "Kookaburrapaw!" he looked and saw Bravepaw waving at him

Bravepaw bounded up to the cat. "Hey Kookaburrapaw! We're going on a hunting patrol, wanna come?"

"sure" they said doing his best to sound excited and followed Bravepaw to the rest of the patrol Milkstar, Sweetwhisker and, Hootflower were joining. Kookaburrapaw hated the thought of the soft leader'We're hunting at the Crooked Ledge, Milkstar says that there is lots of rocks there that prey like to hide under in the winter!" Bravepaw mewed with excitement. "I'm gonna catch so much prey that it'll take the entire patrol to carry it all!"

"I'm sure you will" milkstar said sarcsam edged his voice "but be careful you don't want to take a tumble down you won't make it back up even if you survive" he added

Bravepaw nodded. "I know! You've told me like a million times! I won't fall!"

“Hehe my apprentice is strong don’t ever doubt him!” Loudstrike bursted up with pride

Kookaburrapaw jumped at the loud noise "stupid kittypet" they thought

“Come on kookaburrapaw” loudstrike purred “you don’t want to be left behind do you?”Kookaburrapaw snapped back into reality and saw the patrol was leaving without him "No I don't" he said and ran back up to the group out of breath

Bravepaw bounced with excitement then stopped, knowing that he would scare away any prey. He stared in wonder at the huge ledge that seemed to stretch on forever. He leaned down toward the ledge, trying to see how far it goes

"Be careful!" milkstar said before pulling Bravepaw back "I said you don't want to fall that's how we lost daisystar" Kookaburrapaw leaned over the ledge looking down he could barely see the bottom he of course didn't expect to be warned to be careful Milkstar only cared for his kin

Bravepaw looked down at his paws with embarrassment. "y-yeah, sorry Milkstar." He backed away from the ledge

Kookaburrapaw waled over to Bravepaw "how many times has that happened?" he asked doing his best not to laugh

Bravepaw puffed up his fur. "I'm not mousebrained! I-I just wanted to see how deep it was!"

"Every apprentice makes the mistake" Milkstar replied "I-..." Kookaburrapaw looked away "I wasn't asking him!" he thought

“One thing is for sure, it’s extremely deep and it would kill a cat if they fell down” loudstrike interrupted “so be careful”

Milkstar nodded his head "you never knew him but that's what happened to Daisystar" Milkstar said "he lost 8th life after sliping last leaf bare and.....you can guess how he lost his 9th one"  the tom said

Bravepaw swallowed. "That's terrible. I wouldn't want to end up down there... Sorry for being so reckless..."

"it's alright bravepaw" loudstrike stroked his head "we make mistakes to learn from them! don't be so gloomly now" she purred

Bravepaw headbutted his mentor's chin softly with a purr. "You're right! Now I know to be extra careful."

Kookaburrapaw watched the cats with disgust "I hope milkstar falls so I don't have to see his stupid face" he thought

Suddenly he had a idea "the snows pretty easy to slip on" he thought "maybe...just maybe" he smiled

“let's spilt up" Loudstrike mewed "Bravepaw and I will go that way" She pointed with her tail in the direction near snakeclan's border. "Kookaburrapaw, Milkstar, and Sweetwhisker should stay together"

Sweetwhisker followed them quickly, her paws cold in the snow, she saw a squirrel and wanted to take advantage of the leafbare prey. She looked back at Kookaburapaw and Milkstar to make sure they were alright and started dashing after the fast squirrel, desperately clawing at the air trying to stop it. Finally, she held it down halfway up a tree and bit its neck, killing it. Sweetwhisker carefully scaled down the tree with the squirrel in her mouth and started to head back.

Kookaburrapaw looked over at milkstar he wasn't paying attention he had been by the crooked ledge more times then he could count. Kookaburrapaw inched closer to the time "what's that?" He asked  putting on a confused face "what?" Milkstar looked to the trees. Kookaburrapaw quickly unsheathed his claws and hit the leader unbalancing him Kookaburrapaw proceeded to push the white tom over the ledge and watched him fall

Bravepaw turned with a mouse in his jaws. "Milkstar?" He ran over. "Milkstar!" He screamed as he noticed that he must have fallen

Kookaburrapaw turned to the apprentice "I... I couldn't do anything he slipped I tried to grab him but it was too late!" Tears begin to fall from the cats eyes "I'm useless I know"

Loudstrike jerked at the tiny apprentice's scream and dashed over to see Kookaburrapaw stand over the ledge and Milkstar gone missing "w-what happened?!" she demanded her voice was trembling

Sweetwhisker returned just after Milkstar fell but didn't see Kookaburapaw push him, she was staring in shock at everyone, pleading to Starclan that the leader survived.

Loudstike trotted over the edge of the ledge, where she saw milkstar's body. Blood spattered everywhere, she began to tear up as she saw her brother dead before her eyes. "you guys, stay back- I'll go check on him myself"

"No!" Hootflower called and grabbed the she-cats tail

"what are you doing?" she snarled "he's bleeding to death down there!"

Bravepaw looked at his mentor, tears flowing down his face. "It's too slippery! You'll fall too! I can't loose both of you!"

"then what do we do?" she cried.

Kookaburrapaw stared at the patrol hoping they wouldn't turn to him and ask why. Why he didn't help

Bravepaw collapsed and laid in the snow with his limbs sprawled out. "I-I should've been there. I shouldn't have went to catch that stupid mouse!!"

Máni walked down a small slope to the bottom of the ledge "Oh my stars!" He called a white toms body laid motionless not far from the entrance "I need to get him help" he ran over "he's still alive thank goodness" he grabbed the toms scruff and pulled him up the slope and continued the way up to his cave

“What’s that?” A voice came from behind Máni. “Oh my stars it’s a cat!” Mantis ran up his eyes wide. He sniffed the cat’s pelt. “I-It’s fogclan... Milkstar.” Mantis looked at his mate. “We need to get him to the cave as soon as possible!”

Máni nodded and followed mantis  to the cave. When they reached the cave every cat turned "Milkwhisker?" Snowhare asked "what happened?”

"how did this happen?" Polarstar asked

"I don't know!" Máni said "but I think it's milkstar not milkwhisker" he said "look he has the mark of a leader"

Winter peeped out of the cave to see the cats gathering around the white body. She padded up to them “really? But look! He’s dead! What can you even do about that?”

"no he's not" snowhare said "leaders have 9 lives"

Mantis nodded. “He won’t die but he still needs help.”

“Hpmh, I think there’s more cats somewhere near here though. I can hear the cries of a she-cat some where” winter looked around to see where the cries were coming from

Mantis sighed. “Probably his clanmates. We can heal him while he’s unconscious and leave him near where Winter heard them. I don’t want to get mixed up with MORE clans, they’ll deal with him after he’s healed.”

"good idea" máni said "I wouldn't expect less from you"

Mantis let out a purr and rubbed against him. “I was always the wiser of us~” “Umm eww.” Tide walked into the cave with Snowpaw bouncing beside her with a leaf in his mouth. “Bwe bot da berbs!” Snowpaw’s mew was muffled

Máni liked at the small fluffy cat "can you take care of this?* He asked "I don't know really know what I'm doing"

"well, OK then" polarstar said and rushed away to get another medicine cat

He nodded aggressively and set down the bundle. “Me and my mentor can handle it!”

Tide rolled her eyes. “Then maybe you should help the dying cat instead of running your little mouth.” She batted him on the ear softly

Winter let out a purr of gratitude “it’s nice to have cats who have enough brains to heal cats”

Suddenly the white cat moved "I..where am I?" He tried to sit up

Mantis jumped, “Ahh! He’s alive!”

Milkstar turned to see a tiny white fluff ball massaging ointment into his wounds

"polarstar?” He looked up

Leopardstorm stayed by him and gave him a mixture of herbs to eat, "this will help ease the pain and give you your strength back, if you don't mind me asking what happened?"

Milkstar paused to think "I can't remember" he admitted "I was by the crooked ledge one moment and then I woke up here"

"Hello Milkf-Milkstar"Said polarstar

"milkstar" he said "we lost daisystar about 7 moons ago" he said "wait?" He looked at máni "have you seen a cream colored tom with green eyes? He's blind in his right eye?" Máni thought "ya know actually I think I have" he said

"where is he?" Milkstar asked desperately "we need to find him" máni looked at the white cat with surprise "I don't know he hasn't been here in moons he left about 6 moons ago"