(Warrior Cats)SmokeTrail's fire

Chapter 12- Survived

We managed to construct a den large enough for all of us plus some extra space. Thankfully we had found food and Vixen had found a few herbs.

I laid curled up with goldeneyes happily.

"Uughhh.." freckleface groaned.

"Vixenpaw....." she continued endlessly.

I got up "freckleface? Is something wrong?" I frantically asked.

Freckleface nodded "I need vixenpaw...I feel...I feel sick....where is she..?"
I flinched and looked around the large den. "I....don't know..."

She shrieked in agony "find her!"

I ran for the entrebce of the den, and stumbled and looked down. I had forgotten for those few moments of panic about the toms.

All of them were curled up together, with the one month pregnant queen- Aceclaw.

Then there was the empty spot between her and silentnose where Vixenpaw had been sleeping the night before.

I growled as the apprentice entered the den.

I spun on my paws to face her, and she stepped back and dropped the bundle of herbs, immideately taking the hint " I'm so sorry!"

"Why would you leave without us knowing!? Or on your own?! You could have gotten hurt,  attacked,  or what if frecklewish had her kits? We don't know what to do!"

"I said I'm sorry!"

"Sorry doesn't fix anything! We needed you and you weren't Here!" I snapped.

I raised my paw and slashed at her face,  she instinctively crouched when I raised my paw again.

I sliced up her back and sides and face as if it were nothing.

She shrieked and cried until the Tom's woke up. It took both of my brothers and goldeneyes to pull me backwards with enough force to keep me back. I felt  someones tongue on my cheek but relaxed when I realized it was goldeneyes.

I calmed down slowly and then looked up at him.

Vixenpaw was cowering in fear in the corner.

Goldeneyes' tail brushed up against my body, and I sighed.

I finally fully relaxed into him, allowing him to take me over, just enough to keep me calm.

"I love you." Goldeneyes purred softly into my ear.

I purred back at him.

"You cool now?"

I nodded, and he loosened his grip on me. " Why did you hurt her?" He asked.

"She worried the hell out of me, when I couldn't find her. And Freckleface started to get stomach pains, and I was scared....it just pissed me off..."

I heard redtail sigh "luckily, Aceclaw is still asleep. But her leg seems to be getting worse."

On the journey to where we were now, Aceclaw got caught in a small rock slide and her leg got hurt.

We weren't able to do anything but put it in a weak sling that gave out after just A few days, so that she now was forced to walk with a fractured leg.

She would cry all night when we traveled,  but now that we were pretty settled down, she seemed to be In less pain thanks to vixenpaw, who practically nearly over dosed her with stuff for the pain, just so that she wouldn't complain and cry all night.

So Aceclaw no longer cried or complained at night. She was mostly sleeping or eating or something, not wanting to be very active.

There was nothing right or good about drugging the queen into oblivion but it kept everyone in place.