violetpaw looked for her mentor, hawkflight, who had dissapeared during hunting. she came to a small clearing where she saw a broad fox standing over hawkflight. she saw her mentor bleeding from her neck horribly so she jumped at the fox, knocking it sideways. the fox got up quickly and clawed at her eye. she hadn't closed her eye in time and she felt blood pour out of it. she cried in pain. she wrestled with the fox for a while, managing to get it away from hawkflight who couldnt stand up. her ripped ear wound from when forestclan attacked them was opened again. the fox managed to grip onto her neck and bit down hard on the back of it. luckily it hadn't caught her throat. she yelped in pain. the fox shook her until she was barely concious. she managed to weakly claw the fox's muzzle once before she was dropped on her head with a thud. out of the corner of her eye, she saw thornpaw and stemleap rush to her rescue. the fox clawed stemleap away and then pushed violetpaw's head into the ground, making it throb. everything turned black. she groaned in pain as she opened her eyes. she saw the medicine cat, lavendersky, place herbs on violetpaw's injured eye. snowfern, her mother and thornpaw, her brother were standing on top of her, worry printed on both of their faces. ''thank starclan you're okay!'' snowfern sighed in relief as she saw violetpaw stir, ''if thornpaw and stemleaf hadn't been there we would have lost you!'' thornpaw just shifted his paws. violetpaw still felt tired so she drifted off into an uneasy sleep. she woke up the next day with snowfern wrapped around her as if she were a kit. her head was still aching when lavendersky padded up the them,''lets check that eye'' she said as she took off the herbs. during the fight she thought she was closing her eyes because it hurt too much but her heart sank with realization, ''IM BLIND IN MY INJURED EYE'' she whimpered. ''you are missing the eye completely!'' snowfern whispered in shock that just made violetpaw sob even more. she just noticed hawkflight in the den with short, weazy breaths. ''his throat injury!'' lavendersky exclaimed. she told them that her patching had come off but when she got new cobwebs to patch with it was already too late. hawkflight was dead. that night violetpaw, petalsong, his mate and their kits were left there sitting vigil for the warrior. lavendersky came to violetpaw, ''come and sleep'' she instructed. ''But she won't be able to continue warrior training with half deathness and blindness!'' she heared the medicine cat's voice mutter as she woke up. she noticed she was talking to squirelstar, snowfern and thornpaw. ''ill help her. she will become leader like she wanted to.'' she heard thornpaw say ''she will be a warrior apprentice unless it doesn't work out.'' squirelstar's mewed gently then he left the den. violetpaw got to her paws and limped to the cats still in the den, ''when can i start training again?'' she asked ''when your leg injury is healed'' lavendersky said, ''do you think you will be able to continue warrior training?'' violetpaw nodded then limped back to her nest. ashpaw padded into the den with a dead mouse, held by the tail, in his jaws. he dropped it at violetpaw's nest and smiled. ashpaw was a usual visitor. he distracted her when lavendersky was treating her injuries and was a good friend. ''hi'' he said cheerfuly, ''my mentor said its time for my warrior assesment!'' ashpaw was two moons older than her and thornpaw. ''ASHPAW!'' shouted a voice from outside. ''my assesment!'' ashpaw gasped excitedly ''good luck'' violetpaw said. it was that day of her warrior assesment. the fighting part was outstanding said her new mentor, winterstep. she felt confident as they were about to start their hunting assesment. ''catch as much prey by sunhigh'' stemleap, thornpaw's mentor sent them off. violetpaw caught two squirels, a mouse that was half asleep and a vole. she tripped over a bramble that she couldn't see and fell into a stream. she couldn't tell where up was. she flailed her paws hoping to find the bank. instead she caught her claw on a small fish. violetpaw resurfaced, gasping. winterstep burst out of the bushes and jumped in to save her. winterstep was one of the only swimmers in the clan and she pulled them both out of the steam. the fish was still in violetpaw's claws. she coughed up some water and lay there panting. she was shivering as winterstep picked up her now dead fish and supported violetpaw. they got back to camp to see snowfern waiting for her and thornpaw. she gasped at the sight of violetpaw's damp body. she picked violetpaw up by the scruff and took her to the apprentice den. she stayed there a while to make sure she was warm and fine. finally, squirelstar sat on the rockhill and called for a clan meeting. she saw winteratep bringing the prey violetpaw had caught into camp. she saw ashheart's black fur already sitting by the rockhill. [continued in notes and credits]
the rest of the clan gathered at the rockhill and thornpaw and violetpaw finally padded up to it. ''we are here to make two new warriors. how did the apprentices do?'' squirelstar asked both their mentors. ''thornpaw caught a lot of prey but missed a squirel that was half asleep by falling of the branch. he does still deserve to become a warrior'' stemleap explained. ''voiletpaw caught every prey she stalked but she did fall into a stream which i had to rescue her from. whilst she was in there though, she caught a fish'' winterstep reported. violetpaw heared ashheart murmur, impressed. squirelstar continued, ''starclan, look down on these apprentices for they have learned your ways and of the warrior code. thornpaw, from this day forth you will be known as thornpelt. starclan honors your kindness and bravery. violetpaw, from this day forth you will be known as violetclaw. starclan honors your determination and courage and welcome you both as warriors of frostclan.'' ''thornpelt, violetclaw! thornpelt, violetclaw!'' the clan yowled, snowfern was the loudest. violetclaw saw ashheart's smiling face as he pushed his way into the nursery. two kits were feeding at the curve of her belly. the tom looked just like violetclaw, apart from her eye and ear. he also had ashheart's green eyes. the she-cat was black with small white lines all over her body like violetclaw's lines. she also had amber eyes like her. ''what should we name them?'' ashheart asked. ''the tom is owlkit and the she-cat is wolfkit'' violetclaw murmured happily and tiredly. she was still exausted from giving birth a moment before. ''congratulations'' snowfern whispered to her. lavendersky padded further away to give them space. thornpelt and willowbird's kit ran up to her. ''can I play with the new kits?'' hawkkit, the brown tom asked. he was named after hawkflight, violetclaw's former mentor. ''maybe when they open their eyes'' violetclaw replied. hawkkit padded back to his mother dissapointedly but willowpelt just giggled. violetclaw was tired and even though it was sunhigh, she was tired so violetclaw fell asleep. ------------------------------------------------------------------- this is the story of my OC, violetpaw[claw]
