The Medicine Cat Code

Chapter Ten

   Coldleaf stepped onto the leader's Highrock and let out a yowl to call the cats of the Clan to gather. "All cats that are capable of chewing catmint by yourselves, gather around the Highrock!"

   "Oh, dang it," said Orangefluff, a she-cat who had a digestive problem and needed to be tube-fed. 

   The cats of ThunderClan all came to the rock, including the leader who didn't bother to wonder why the medicine cat was on the rock instead of him.

   "Why have we been called together?" an elder called out.

   "No reason. I just wanted to stand up here and see how it felt to be a leader. You can leave now." Coldleaf leaped off the rock and headed to his own den.

   The cats all grumbled and went their ways. 

   Coldleaf then promptly found Brightpaw, who was whispering with another apprentice in some bushes. "BRIGHTPAW!" he screamed. "TIME FOR US TO COLLECT SOME HERBS WE DON'T NEED!" 

   Brightpaw stumbled out of the bush, fur windswept and non-existant lipstick smeared. "Coming!" She managed to compose herself, gave a coy smile to the tom still in the bushes, and went after Coldleaf. 

   "We have a great and urgent need for catmint," Coldleaf stated in a low, dramatic tone.

   "Last I checked, that was the only herb that we had."

   "But there's too less of it!"

    "It fills up half of our den."

    "Do not question me, young apprentice!"

    Brightpaw shrugged and continued following him. They eventually came to the Thunderpath in front of the Twolegplace. 

   "We've got to cross the Thunderpath," Coldleaf said, standing strong in the random moonlight that showed up as he gaze swept over the blackened ground.

   "We've crossed it about a million times before when we were getting catmint, Coldleaf," Brightpaw responded, effortlessly running across the Thunderpath. "Come off of it! You get dramatic every time you get high on catmint!"

   "I do not!" he screeched indignantly as he followed her, causing a monster to swerve and crash as he did so. "Okay, maybe I do sometimes," he added as an afterthought when he caught up to her.

   "Whatever. There's the catmint. Let's grab it and go."

   "Onwards!"

   The two medicine cats made their way towards the patch of catmint and ripped up about a truckload of leafy green leaves and teleported back to the ThunderClan camp using their medicine cat powers. They dropped the catmint in their den, and then went their separate ways.

Ta-da! That's all for today. Duskie out.