Prologue

"What?!" Yowled an entangled dark cream apprentice at their ceremony.

"Drizzlestar you can't be serious? I didn't want this!" She yowled, digging her claws into the ground with anger.

How could the tortoiseshell tom do this to her?

She didn't want to become a stinky, mangy medicine cat. She wanted to be a warrior, but the clan needed another medicine cat.

Their old medicine cat Spikeflame, a dark ginger-and-black tom with dark Amber eyes, was getting on in seasons. It was about time for him to go to starclan.

Apparently the old coot had a sign shown to him that a Salamander would take his place, therefore Salamanderpaw was forced to be his medicine cat apprentice.

What about my brother?! He's named after a lizard, and Basaliskpaw would make a better medicine cat than me! I dont even know what Coltsfoot is. Is it a horse?

"I know, I know, but WindClan needs another medicine cat soon enough. Spikeflame won't be here forever. This clan needs a cat like you, Salamanderpaw. It's written in the signs."

"Signs and prophecies are a load of Fox-dung!" She insulted, making half the clan gasp. "Not everything should be taken literally. Basiliskpaw could-"

"But it wasn't a Basilisk lizard Spikeflame saw. It was a Salamander." Drizzlestar meowed, his yellow eyes flashing with anger. "You can't just ignore the signs like this, Salamanderpaw. You're going to become a medicine cat apprentice whether or not you want to. Now go join your mentor." Drizzlestar growled.

Salamanderpaw huffed in anger. Her azure eyes ablaze. She stomped away, ignoring the custom to touch noses with her mentor.

She shoved past Spikeflame, making the dark ginger-black tom frown. His dark Amber eyes were alit with concern.

"I'm sorry." She heard the tom rasp as she stomped over to her parents.

Disappointment was all over their faces.

"How dare you talk back to the clan leader in such a way, Salamanderpaw. You're lucky to become a prestige medicine cat apprentice. Now be proud of who you are." A dark cream tom with blue eyes meowed. A similarly dark cream she-cat with white stripes nodded in agreement.

These were her parents, Skidtooth and Leerface.

Unfortunately they didn't understand. Not at least like Spikeflame did. He understood her better than her own parents.

At least her mentor seemed nice. She didn't want to be this kind of an apprentice, but she did have to appreciate how nice the old tom was.

She couldn't imagine losing such a cat, but it was bound to happen sometime after her full medicine cat name was gonna be given.

Maybe I can do this after all. She thought as she finally joined her mentor to begin her unwanted life.

Three moons passed and a couple kit ceremonies later, Salamanderpaw found herself in the middle of a battle between WindClan and RiverClan.

She had learned a lot, and she and Skidtooth were working hard to pull cats from the battle to heal their critical wounds and to help those who had minimum wounds before sending them back on the field.

They also fetched cats who could run to get the injured cats back to camp to get them away from all the fighting.

Right now Spikeflame was putting some ointment  on a cat named Ravenstone. The she cat had lost a claw during the fight and had a slight limp.

She would have to be sent back to the camp.

Suddenly, the yowl of a young calico cat with Amber eyes broke out. He was being cornered by a cat bigger than him.

Does he not know how to fight a cat bigger than him? Stupid fur ball, she thought with a huff as Spikeflame nudged her with his nose, indicating to the paw. He must want me to wrap up the paw.

She started wrapping the paw up, and out of the corner of her eyes she saw her brother's white stripped pelt, his cream pelt ruffled up from the fighting.

Worry sparked in her eyes as she turned her gaze up towards her brother. He was making his way across the battlefield towards the calico tom. His name was apparently Hibiscuspaw.

The RiverClan cat, a dark orange tom with blue eyes, Lifted his paw to land a blow to Hibiscusfern's pelt, but before he could land a hit, Basiliskpaw jumped out in front of the calico tom, taking the blow for him.

The RiverClan tom was obviously aiming for the pelt, and opened his eyes wide when his claws raked through soft throat flesh.

A cry from Basiliskpaw's throat before it was cut off by him falling limp, not moving.

Salamanderpaw's eyes widened.

No! She thought as she immediately ran over to her brother, pressing a paw against his chest.

Nothing.

He wasn't breathing.

Salamanderpaw choked on her own saliva.

He's dead. She thought plainly, glaring at the calico tom who seemed to be in shock at what happened.

The dark orange RiverClan tom was also in shock at what he had done.

It's not your fault this mouse-brained calico can't fight anything! He's so weak! She thought.

"Cats of RiverClan, retreat!" Yowled a dark gray tabby Tom with orange flecks surrounding his eyes. His eyes were green.

That tom was Beamstar. His old age made Spikeflame's age seem young in comparison.

The cats surrounding ran away.

Salamanderpaw was speechless as she stared down at her dead brother, blood soaking her paws as if he was still alive.

"This is all your fault! What kind of cat doesn't know how to fight?! Worthless!" Salamanderpaw screeched, grief clouding her gaze.

Hibiscuspaw shriveled, shrinking away from her. "I-I'm Sorry! I was made apprentice so I could fight in this battle, but I don't know any moves to throw off bigger opponents." Hibiscuspaw cried, backing away.

"Whatever! You're supposed to be able to fight, you little wimp! You're going to regret this one day! You killed my brother, and I will get you back for this!"

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Authors note: I just decided to publish this even though no one responded to my announcement about it.

So uh, anyways, that's the prologue. I'm not gonna keep the you know who a secret to you because I wanted you guys to see why she was doing what she is going to do.

If that's not a hint enough, yes the medicine cat is the sexual harasser. I find it more believable that the cats of the clan would just ignore and not banish the cat who did it if it was the medicine cat since she's the only medicine cat the clans got now.

So yeah. Anyways Salamanderpetal did it because she blames Hibiscusfern for her brother's death. She also did it to spite the medicine cat code that medicine cats don't get mates. (Or mate with other cats)

Anyways some fun facts about the cats in this prologue:

- Hibiscusfern is actually Bisexual.

- it is highly like that if Basiliskpaw didn't die, and was either fine or only severely wounded then Salamanderpetal wouldn't have done what she is going to do.

- it is highly likely that Basiliskpaw and Hibiscusfern had possible crushes on each other. (It's just too bad Basiliskpaw died)

-if Basiliskpaw survived he would have been called Basilisklight for the light white stripe on his pelt.

- it's highly likely that Basiliskpaw and Salamanderpetal's mother and father are neglectful of them, therefore giving Salamanderpetal another reason to hate someone who has good parents (Hibiscusfern)

- If there would be another reason that Salamanderpetal would have sexually harassed Hibiscusfern it would have been if Spikeflame had died during that same battle.

Anyways please do comment, vote, ect. I want to know who's reading this and what they think so far, so let me know what you think. Hope you enjoy.

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