The Healing Touch

Silverfang's mind flashed to memories of the past. Being a rouge wasn't hard but it wasn't easy either. Unlike a Clan, you didn't have to feed anyone else but yourself. But when you grew old, no one was there to take care of your aching joints or tics. You had to deal with it. Yes. A Clan was much better. It provided safety and a home.

The gray tabby was waiting patiently for her apprentice at the camp entrance when she heard Blackpaw meowed, "Race you there!" Swiftpaw didn't have a chance to reply as Adderstrike came sprinting over almost colliding with her as she stepped by and meowed calmly, "Watch where your going." Toms. Does everything have to be a compition?

Soon Blackpaw and Swiftpaw ran over, Swiftpaw in a slight lead as he skidded to a halt at Silverfang's paws. "I win!" The black and white tom meowed.
"No! I did!" Blackpaw intervined. "You were behind me!"
"No," Swiftpaw countered.
But before the toms could get into an argument Adderstrike poked his head through the thorn barrier, he was panting, trying to catch his breath. "You coming?" The brown tabby asked.

"Yeah!" Swiftpaw meowed and raced out of the camp, closely followed by Blackpaw. Silverfang sprang after the toms.
Deeper they walked into the forest. Adderstrike in the lead, followed by Swiftpaw and Blackpaw, and Silverfang taking the back. She didn't know the territory as well as Adderstrike, therefore she let the immature tom lead.

Adderstrike suddenly stopped and scented the air, causing Swiftpaw running into him. "Oof! Watch where your going, Adderstrike!" The black and white tom complained.
"Sssh!" Adderstrike hissed, and covered Swiftpaw's mouth with his tail. "Cats."
Silverfang also scented the air. She could smell three different scents. Though it seemed one of them was going in a different direction. "Maybe it's a loner or kittypet just passing through." She suggested.
"Not on my territory!" Adderstrike hissed and crept forward. He flattened to the ground just enough that his belly fur barely brushed the forest floor.
Swiftpaw and Blackpaw crept up behind him, while Silverfang lingered at the back.
The brown tabby peered through the ferns, his brilliant green eyes narrowed into slits as he spotted a tom and a young she-cat walking towards the EmberClan camp.

Silverfang, seeing that the toms were occupied went to investigate the third scent.
She padded forward until the scent was strong. It was a tom. He didn't have any fear scent or anger and by the noise he was making it didn't seem as if he were trying to hide.
Silverfang stepped out from her hiding place and confronted the tom. His eyes widened, not with fear but with surprise. "EmberClan cat, right?" The brown tabby meowed.
"Yes. You are?" Silverfang challenged lightly.
"Brokenfeather. I'd like to talk to your leader-" Whatever he was going to say was cut short as Silverfang heard a screech and hissing.
"Come on, follow me!" She meowed and spun around, she didn't wait for the tom to reply.

"Get him, Adderstrike!" Swiftpaw encouraged as Silverfang burst through the bracken. She saw Adderstrike and the other tom struggling in a fight. Swiftpaw and Blackpaw were lashing out at the small she-cat. "Leave them be!" She shoved aside Swiftpaw who snarled in defiance.
Adderstrike broke away from the tom as Brokenfeather limped into the clearing. "What's going on?" He asked.
"Who's he?" Adderstrike hissed.
"A medicine cat." Brokenfeather awnered calmly, not afraid of the tom.
"And who are you?" Silverfang asked the tom and she-cat.
"Blackice, and this is my younger sister, Smallpaw. You won't hurt her will you?" He shot a glance at Adderstrike.
"Of course not," Silverfang meowed. "Let's try to get to camp without any arguments," and before anyone could say anything she turned around and guided the cats back to camp.
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When all seven cats reached the camp, Tanglestar was in camp sharing tounges with Thunderstrike and Nightwing. Blazepaw and Sweetpaw were playing with Sleetkit and Mistykit while Snowfall rested in the sun.
Her eyes flitted open as she called her kits over and hustled them into the nursery when she spotted Blackice and the new cats. Blazepaw and Sweetpaw's ears perked and the padded forward but were stopped by Thunderstrike.
"Who have we here?" Tanglestar asked as he got up and went to greet the cats.
"Blackice, and his younger sister Smallpaw," Silverfang awnsered before Adderstrike. "And Brokenfeather, who's trained in the ways of a medicine cat."
Tanglestar's eyes lit up. "Interesting." He than noticed the scratches on Smallpaw, Blackice, and Adderstrike. "What happend?" He demanded.
"This mouse-brain attacked us," Blackice meowed. "And these two apprentices ganged up on Smallpaw."
"Is this true?" Tanglestar's eyes blazed as Adderstrike reluctantly nodded. "Are you wanting to join EmberClan? Though I wouldn't blame you if you wouldn't anymore." Tanglestar added.
"Yes," Brokenfeather and Blackice meowed together.
"As soon as I am finished the ceremony I want you three to see Brokenfeather in the medicine cat's den. We didn't need anymore scratches after the fox attack but you proved this wrong.
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Tanglestar leaped onto the emberstone. "Let all cat's old enough to catch their own prey join beneath the emberstone for a clan meeting!" He yowled.
Snowfall poked her head out of the nursery as Sleetkit and Mistykit stumbled out, sitting near the entrance.
"I am honored to say that Brokenfeather will become EmberClan's first medicine cat. I put my trust in him as well as the trust of the rest of the clan."
"Also, I'd like to announce the arrival of Blackice, who'd ask to become my senior warrior. Knowing that I don't have a deputy I'd love to have him around. His younger sister, Smallpaw will remain as an apprentice, I'd like Thunderstrike to mentor her. Crescentpaw, since you don't yet have a mentor I want Blackice to mentor you. Blackice, Adderstrike, Smallpaw, go see Brokenfeather and ask him to treat your scratches. I don't want anymore fighting within the Clan.

That is all, Clan dismissed."