Marigoldfrost's Quest to Uncover the Secrecy Surrounding the Clans

Identifying the curse

(The picture above is a picture of Applekit⬆)

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With pain searing through her back knee Marigoldkit tried to hold back her tears with all the might she had, but was inevitably unable to as her tears slowly fell and covered the rocky floor around her. Her father, Muddybrook, immediately stood up and rushed over to her and asked suddenly with pure worry lacing his voice, "Marigoldkit, are you okay?" Marigolpaw opened her mouth to speak, but was over spoken when her father told Lowpaw hurriedly, "Quick get Tinyfern!"

  "Im on it," answered Lowpaw urgently as she speed towards the medicine cat den without uttering a word more. Muddybrook looked back and forth at her and towards the medicine cat den almost like he was willing Tinyfern to hurry up. Suddenly her mother burst through the nursery entrance to see what the commotion was about, saw Marigolkit's knee sticking out of the side of her leg, and rushed over to Marigoldkit in a second yowling, "Oh no, Marigoldkit!!! My poor kit, you don't derseve to have to go through something like this! Though I-It's okay, Mom and Dad are here to help you through this until Tinyfern's comes and he should be here any moment." 

Lightningclan cats started crowding Marigoldkit in a instant, and some seemed to be whispering to one another, giving her weird glances at her knees, or just watching her worriedly. Embarrassment flooded over Marigoldkit and she tried to hide her face behind the comfort of her parents, but all she could hear was cats talking about her iinjury.

Applekit walked beside her with his tail on her front shoulder for comfort, and Marigoldkit felt a bit better knowing that at least her brother was by her side. A loud banging sound erupted from what seemed to be the medicine cat den randomly, to which puzzled Marigoldkit. She lifted her head and saw Tinyfern quickly putting some herbs that fell on the floor back on some shelfs and then running towards her with a mix of herbs in his mouth. 

As Tinyfern reached her surprise lit his eyes as he saw Marigoldkit's back knee, but he quickly covered his expression and spread out his herbs on the rocky floor. By the time Tinyfern was ready to check on her Marigoldkit's back knee slowly felt better and she felt emmence reliefe from the previous struggle with the strong shooting pain. She glanced once again at her back leg and saw it was mostly back in place, but it looked swollen and very irritated. Tinybush cautiously placed a paw on her knee and mutured quietly to himself, "Just like I thought... But I haven't seen this since I was an apprentice..." Grabbing a herb with a dark green stem and purple petals Tinyfern chewed it up thoroughly and spit it on his paw and carefully spreaded the poultice on Marigoldkit's knee. Marigoldkit felt relieved as the rest of the pain slowly faded away and then was given a herb Tinyfern warned might taste a bit disgusting, but Marigoldkit was desperate to get rid of her knee pain and ate it hurriedly. She tried her best to keep it down because she knew it would make her feel beter, but she wished she would have know beforehand that it would taste this bad.

Tinyfern smiled greatfully and praised, "Goodjob! Most cats, even some senior warrior, have trouble keeping this herb down on their first try". Turning his face towards Muddybrook and Amberglow Tinyfern explained, "She is good now, but she will need a day of rest so she should probably stay in the nursery for today". Muddybrook nodded her head and carefully picked Marigoldkit by the scruff and placed her in their mossy nest in the nursery as Applekit quickly followed her dad to their mossy nest as well.

Happy that it was all over Marigoldkit finaly relaxed ready to fall asleep from this tiring and scaring first day out of the nursery, and Marigolpaw watched her mom walking towards her. Amberglow saw the tired look in Marigoldkit's eyes and apologized too her and her brother, "Im sorry little ones I have too talk to Tinyfern real quick before we can go back to sleep. I promise I won't be gone long." 

"Okay," answered Marigoldkit disappointedly as she tried her best to fight her tired eyes from closing. As soon as her mom turned around the coner a familiar tom with light yellow fur walked up to her taunting, "Well, Well, Well. If it isnt the imatured mouse-brains." 

With his hackles raised Applekit retorted, "You cant say much knowing you are a mouse-brain yourself!". 

"Really, Im not the one faking that I was hurt!," Glowpaw shot back with a cocky grin. 

"I did none of the sort! I was realy in pain even if you were to mouse-brains to realize!," Marigoldkit retorted back defending herself. 

"Sure you were... Don't worry I totally beleive you, you piece of worthless crowfood~," Glowpaw awsered sarcastically as he walked out of the nursery with his tail disrespectfully raised in the air like he was better than her and her brother.

'Even though Glowpaw is a big show off and I shouldn't care what he thinks does that mean other cats feel the same way,' wondered Marigoldkit down heartedly resting her head on her paws. "Dont listen to that snake-heart! He has bees in his brains!," Applekit said trying to cheer up his sister but sadly failing to do so. Too deep in thought Marigoldkit said nothing in return, and didn't even get a chance to acknowledge his comforting words.

Out of the blue Marigoldkit could hear her mom talking to who she thinks was Tinyfern behind the nusery. Her mom whispered worriedly, "Do you think Marigoldkit has the same knee issue as Twistedstar. I never met him, but my mom, Honeysplash, knew him she said he had alot of trouble living the normal life of a warrior and leader, and lost the rest of of his 9 lives because his foot dislocated when he was crossing the thunderpath! I dont want my poor Marigoldkit to have to go through the same, please, please say she doesnt have the same problem!". 

After a little while of silence Tinyfern apologized with remorce shadowing his words, "Im so sorry Amberglow, but if my memory serves me right of how I used to heal Twistedstar when I was an early apprentice, I fear that Marigoldkit has the same problem with her knees..." 

Hearing that made Marigolkit flinch at the pure truth in his words.' Now I realize I'm gonna die the same death as Twistedstar and that I can never be a normal kit again...,' Marigolkit realized sadly while staring at the ground in defeat. 'W-W-What am I g-gonna to d-do now,' wondered Marigoldkit hopelessly.