come from Badgerfur. She turned around to look at him. He was still standing, but his blue eyes were set on his paws, and his tail was drooping.

"Is something wrong?" She asked him from where she stood, half way across the clearing. "Well..." He bagan, then hesitatd. "It's just not...It's just not the same anymore...Since you've left RiverClan..."

Wolfheart felt a pang of sympathy for him. Badgerfur had been the only apprentice and kit that she had ever actually spent time with. They played in the nursery together, Wolfheart would often find him picking herbs when she was training with her mentor, every day after hunting practice, she would go to his den and share tounges- until Wolfheart had befriended Hazelheart. Wolfheart had known that she had practically left Badgerfur all alone once she had met Hazelheart, and then on the very night that she became a warrior, she was forced to join ThunderClan. Wolfheart now knew how he felt- lonley. He didn't even have an apprentice.

Wolfheart padded back up to him and put her muzzle to his. "I know it isn't...But it was my foolish self that got me stuck in ThunderClan by not washing off my pelt..."

Badgerfur sighed again as the sun became to creep up above Highstones.

"I hate that you have to leave...But you must, and so must I. Good-bye, Wolfheart."

His tail drooping, Badgerfur walked out of the clearing, and Wolfheart felt as guilty as she ever could. Looking just like Badgerfur, her tail drooping also, she left the clearing in the opposite direction.

Wolfheart was sure to clean her pelt and catch a piece of fresh-kill before she dared enter the ThunderClan camp. She wanted to cover her tracks well enough so that no cat knew where she had been. She hoped that Badgerfur had done the same.

When she entered the camp, the entire Clan was gathered around the Highrock, Treekit and Sharpkit at the base of it.

Looks as if they're being made into apprentices... she thought to herself. She quickly put her mouse on the fresh-kill pile and hurried to join the mingle of ThunderClan and LeafClan cats.

Wolfheart wasn't too surprised to see that Wolfstar was on the top of the Highrock- it wouldn't be right if Firestar was appointing Treekit and Sharpkit apprentices.

Wolfheart had practically missed all of the ceremony- Sharpkit had already been named Sharppaw (mentored by Scratchedface), and Wolfstar was just then naming Treekit to Treepaw. All of the LeafClan cats stood on their toes to starin and listen to who would mentor Treepaw. "There is a bit of a surprise for Treepaw." Announced Wolfstar before she named a mentor. "Treepaw has made the decision to become a medicine cat apprentice- but there is a problem...LeafClan already  has a medicine cat apprentice."

All of the mingled cats looked at each other, confused- espeacially the ThunderClan cats- Wolfheart included.

"So," continued Wolfstar, "Ripplepool, medicine cat of ThunderClan, will mentor Treepaw. They have already spoke, and Treepaw feels that joining ThunderClan will be the destiny that she will follow."

Ripplepool stepped foward and touched noses with Treepaw, her new apprentice. Over with the other elders, Wolfheart spotted Bluewater, her eyes filled with pride.

When Treepaw and Ripplepool stepped back, all of the cats from both clans started cheering: "Treepaw! Sharppaw! Treepaw! Sharppaw!"

Wolfheart was eating the mouse that she had caught when she spotted her son, Creasedpaw, looking down on his vole, dissapointed. Wolfheart gobbled up the last two bites and went to sit with him.

"Is something bothering you, Creasedpaw?" She asked him, concerned. "Well..." He hesitated. "I...Mom, I was kind of wanting to become Ripplepool's aprentice...I have noticed that my destiny is not to be a warrior, but a medicine cat, and..."

He cut off. Wolfheart figured that he had thought that he had said enough.

Wolfheart thought for a moment. Medicine cat apprentice...Ripplepool has one... And then the perfect thought popped into her head, "But Badgerfur dosen't!" She yowled aloud.

Creasedpaw looked up at her, confused. "What?" He asked. Wolfheart whispered into his ear: "How would you like to become RiverClan's next medicine cat?"

Creasedpaw's ears twitched, and Wolfheart saw a smile stretch across his face. "You mean it?" He whispred excitedly. Wolfheart nodded. "Would you like to become Badgerfur's apprentice, Creasedpaw?"

"Yes, oh, yes!" He yowled. "Could I go and talk to Firestar?" He asked. "Of course." Purred Wolfheart. "Go right ahead."

Creasedpaw stood up very fast, and sped across the clearing- almost bumping into Redpaw- and into Firestar's den.