Bramblepaw woke up exhausted from last night's celebration, when he stood up and stretched his ears swiveled to the sound of cheerful squeals. All of a sudden Rushshine came rushing in to his den and almost yowled like a big dog in excitement. "What is it?," meowed Bramblepaw tilting his head to one side. "Forestberry is expecting another litter of kits! And Violetpool is also expecting kits!," said Rushshine bouncing around as excited as a kit. "That is great news, but can we go on the dawn patrol now?," meowed Bramblepaw grumpily. "Of course. Luckily they haven't left yet," Rushshine led Bramblepaw over to the selected cats, Firepaw, Heartpaw, Monkeypaw, Fangpaw, Tigerfur and Violetpool. The patrol remarked their daily borders and each apprentice caught a few pieces of prey. They paused briefly to rest before returning to camp for the sun-high patrol to go. All of a sudden Heartpaw stopped and noticed a hawk flying around the lower trees of the jungle they were near to. "I bet you I can catch it," boasted Heartpaw. "You probably wo--" Bramblepaw was interrupted by Heartpaw. "Shut up half-Clan kitty!," growled Heartpaw. The patrol was silent clearly taken aback by the apprentice's outburst. "Well fine! Jump off the edge of a cliff for all I care!," spat Bramblepaw. Heartpaw ignored him and immediately sprang towards the farther trees and managed to catch the giant hawk's left wing but as she then realised that she leaped too high, the hawk started pecking and scratching her until they managed to fly away with a slight difficulty and the apprentice dropped down. Violetpool's golden eyes stretched out in horror as she was about to run towards the short tree ravine, but her mate Tigerfur stopped her and nuzzled her telling her not to run because of their unborn kits. Violetpool nuzzled him back but sat down reluctantly hissing. Tigerfur and the apprentices with Rushshine ran towards Heartpaw's convulsing body. "Monkeypaw get Braveclaw immediately!," yowled Tigerfur desperately. "But-" meowed Monkeypaw but was cut off by Tigerfur. "Now," he growled. "Look at her legs, and the blood! What are we going to do?," meowed Bramblepaw freaking out that the apprentice would die, he didn't particularly like Heartpaw but he still cared for every cat in the Clan. "Luckily she is still breathing," said Violetpool from where she was sitting stiffly. Bramblepaw looked over and saw Heartpaw's chest rise rhythmically up and down, she was starting to sneeze slightly. All of a sudden Braveclaw appeared with Monkeypaw and Greypaw. "Pick her up," meowed Braveclaw insistently. Fangpaw helped Heartpaw onto his shoulder back to camp. "Braveclaw I hate to be the bearer of grief but I don't think she's going to make it I mean look at how much blood she's losing," meowed Greypaw hesitantly. "Yes she will!," Braveclaw spat. "Calm down," said Violetpool nosing her fur into the medicine cat's shoulder comforting her. And then when Bramblepaw looked back at Heartpaw he realised that her chest was no longer rising... it was still, the apprentice must have weakened over losing too much blood. "No!," wailed Braveclaw. Fangpaw quickened his pace as they carried the lifeless apprentice into the clearing. "Meadowstar," screeched Violetpool. Meadowstar immediately sprinted towards Heartpaw's body and was soon joined by the rest of the Clan. The whole Clan sat behind Meadowstar in silence staring at the motionless scrap of fur. "He would've been a great warrior," muttered Stonelight in Heartpaw's ear.

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This chapter is slightly shorter cause I was in a rush since I am trying to finish off the rest of the chapters. -Hexiverse