Starclan's Chosen

*+* Missing *+*

*+* Third POV *+*

The morning sun tickled the apprentices eyes, forcing her to open them. Littlepaw blinked tiredly, and yawned deeply. 

Leafpaw was sleeping on her back. Her brown and white head resting against Littlepaws side. Littlepaw purred and licked her cheek to wake her up. "Wake up, Leafpaw." She whispered. 

Leafpaw complained with a low growl, but turned around. Littlepaw chuckled, and forced her paws to lift her up. Leafpaw stood up groggily after her, then shook the dirt off her coat. The two she cats approached their mentors, who were just starting to move.

MossWhisker opened here mouth to speak, but QuietHearts tail was swished to cover it. 

MossWhisker grumbled, but remembered she wasn't allowed to speak after sharing tongues with StarClan. The group of medicine cats left the clearing the pond was in, and headed uphill, back into ForestClan territory.

"I see RabbitTail has not yet arrived." MossWhisker was the first to speak when they got passed the ForestClan border marks. The others nodded. 

QuietHeart was the next to speak, and her words gave word to Littlepaws fears. "Something might have happened that couldn't let him leave his camp." The ForestClan medicine cat said. Littlepaw glanced at Leafpaw, who was standing against her. 

The DarkClan she cat was looking down. She seemed to be dozed off in her thoughts. 'What is she thinking about?' Littlepaw thought. She couldn't help but wonder.  

"All we can do is pray to StarClan, and hope nothing bad happened to RabbitTail and AirClan." FrogLeap bowed his head with a silent prayer, to which the others nodded. 

"Let's go Littlepaw. We should head back to camp." QuietHeart meowed, as they walked downhill again. Littlepaw nodded and walked towards her mentors side. She licked Leafpaw's cheek as a goodbye, and smiled at her. 

Leafpaw smiled back and purred. "See you soon." She purred and left towards where FrogLeap was. 'Yeah.' Littlepaw thought with a smile, as she saw the she cat and her mentor leave towards their territory.

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Littlepaw felt her paws as heavy as boulders, and QuietHeart noticed. "You seem tired." The medicine cat spoke, breaking the silence. 

"Yeah." Littlepaw sighed. "How come? Didn't you sleep well?" QuietHeart asked. "No, I did. I was just...wondering about RabbitTail." Littlepaw lied. QuietHeart sighed. "He'll be alright. Him and AirClan are strong." QuietHeart said with a reassuring smile. 

"I guess." Littlepaw said, looking away.

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The two she cats arrived to their camp by sun high. Camp was busy already, which gave Littlepaw a small ray of energy. 

She saw a couple warriors fixing the nursery, her brother and his friends sharing prey, SunFlower's kits playing under her soft vigilant eyes and WillowStar talking to RavenFeather. Littlepaw's first instinct was to run to greet her brother, but her paws guided her into the medicine cat den. 

"I'll take a small nap." Littlepaw said sleepily as she made her way to the back of the medicine cat den. "Alright." QuietHeart headed to the herb wall and sniffed into one of the holes. 

Littlepaw dropped herself with a sigh into her moss bed. It was cool thanks to the shade and the cold rock walls of the back cave, which she was thankful for. Littlepaw rested her head on her paws, and closed her eyes, letting the sweet unconsciousness of sleep devour her. 

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"Sure. Send me to search for herbs." Littlepaw cursed under her breath as she left camp. 

QuietHeart had woken her up, demanding dock and heather flowers. Littlepaw tried talking her way out of it, but QuietHeart used the excuse of "It's you job as a medicine cat. Now go." 

Littlepaw loved being a medicine cat, but hated when she had to be waken up, specially if it was to search for herbs and after a long trip. She approached a bush of what seemed to be dock, but to her disappointment, it wasn't. 

Littlepaw was close to DarkClan border when she was finally able to find dock, close to an abandoned dirt thunder path. 

She smiled at her finding, and padded to it. The ForestClan apprentice hurriedly pulled its leaves one by one until there were only couple left. Littlepaw got ready to leave when a small shuffling called her attention.

The shuffling came from the bushes behind her. Startled, Littlepaw dropped the leaves and jolted around, to face the bushes. Her heart was pounding so hard against her chest that she started to think the thing behind the bushes could hear it. 

"W-who's there?" Littlepaw demanded, but received no answer. 

There was shuffling again, and Littlepaw was about to turn around and run as fast as she could, when a pretty and familiar face poked out of it. "Leafpaw?" Littlepaw asked as she squinted her eyes. "What are you doing here?" Littlepaw asked, worry and relief in her voice. 

"Littlepaw! I'm so glad it's you." Leafpaw gasped smiling and pounced at Littlepaw, before nuzzling her. "It's good to see you but, what are you doing here?" Littlepaw licked Leafpaw's neck and asked.

"Listen. I know we are not supposed to but, I want to make sure RabbitTail's alright. I know he probably is, and I know that we shouldn't do anything without telling our mentors. We weren't going to do anything about it, but then SkyStar and MoonShine came to our camp looking for him. WolfStar wanted to help but for some reason didn't. FrogLeap wasn't allowed to go look for him, so he sent me here to find you!" The DarkClan medicine cat apprentice started rambling and quickly telling what happened. "W-wait. WolfStar ignored the fact that a medicine cat went missing?!" Littlepaw gasped. 

"Well, SkyStar never said he went missing. She said that he left to find watermint but he never came back-" Leafpaw explained, but her words started fainting as Littlepaw got carried away by her thoughts. Leafpaws wail caused Littlepaws attention to be shot out of her and to Leafpaw, and her heart to sink. She turned her head to Leafpaw and noticed how she was starting to cry. 

"No no no, don't cry. Everything's alright." Littlepaw said walking closer to Leafpaw to where their noses were touching. 

Leafpaw nodded slowly. "I'll help you find him. Why did you come all the way here, and alone?" Littlepaw asked. "Like I said. FrogLeap sent me to find you and QuietHeart." Leafpaw mumbled, taking a deep breath.

"And I knew you would help. I knew I could count on you." Leafpaw's words struck Littlepaw's heart, creating a smile on her muzzle. 

"Thank you for trusting me. Let's go tell QuietHeart." Littlepaw purred and pressed her side against Leafpaws. The two she cat smiled, and walked away towards ForestClan camp. 

Authors Note:

Hello everyone! Defected here. Chapter done! I'm so happy I got to finish it right before New Year. I'm sorry it's so short. Anyways, have a great New Year, and lets all hope 2021 isn't as shitty as 2020. Love you guys! Have a great year. Happy New Year!!!

🖤 Defected out 🖤