Whiteclaw's Tale - Chapter 14

Longswoop and Hawkeye were crying out in pain. Lionstripe turned towards the elders' den, "Excuse me for a moment Whitepaw I need to go and check on the elders." She raced away. Suddenly an angry yowl errupted near the elders' den. It was Darkfinch, Russa padded towards the den to see what had caused her brother to yowl in such anger with Whitepaw at her side the two cats pushed their way  into the den. "Who was in charge of feeding the elders" asked Cinderstar. "It was my apprentice, I told him to feed the elders' before we went out for training this morning." Spat Darkfinch. "What is wrong?" Called Olivia padding into the den. "It is the mice that Hawkeye and Longswoop ate," said Lionstripe from the side of the nest. "The mice had been tampered with, there were death berries or no star feed as we call it in the mices' belly. Hawkeye and Longswoop started to eat the mice without a second thought when they realized something was wrong with the mice." Lionstripe pawed the mice over to show the cats the bright red berries hidden in the mices fur. "There is no known cure for the no star feed, as soon as a cat eats the berries the cat is sent into the air its spirit gone forever  and the cat will never see the stars above its head again." Said Cinderstar sadly. "What usually happens to the cat who gives the prey out or gives the berry to the other cat." asked Olivia. "Well it depends, if the cat themselves ate the berry then nothing would happen but if another cat fed the other cat then that cat would be banished from the clan never to return." said Cattail. "So you are going to banish Whitepaw from the clans forever just because he just made a mistake?" asked Princess who had just come up on the scene a few moments ago. "Well that mistake took the lives of 2 of his own clan mates, it doesn't matter if it was an accident or not." said Darkfinch. "What if you could save the cats would Whitepaw be allowed to stay in the clan?" asked Rissa. "Well yes, but there is no cure for the no star feed," said Frozenmint the medicine cat apprentice. "Just by looking at the two cats they might have only a few more moments, to live here." said Cinderstar slowly. Suddenly Rissa had a great idea. "Olivia remember when you ate that weird mushroom?" Olivia considered before nodding, "I remember that mushroom turned out to be poisonous, but we found the cure for it, maybe that cure will work for these cats." "We can try it," said Lionstripe doubtfully.  "Princess remember the clump of herbs that we saw on the way here, we gave that to Olivia when she was sick." Princess nodded, "I will go and get some." "Lionstripe I will come to your den to create something out of the herbs that you have here," said Rissa. "Hurry," called Frozenmint "you may have less then an half of an hour to try to save them."