Ravenpaw's Past - Chapter 4

     Greenleaf padded into the Medicine Cats den. "Rainstorm, I'm-" she spat out her herbs onto the ground, staring in shock and terror at Rainstorms body lying just in front of her. "Wha-What...!" Green leaf rushed over and put her paw on Rainstorms chest, there was no breathing nor a pulse. She looked at the ground in front of Rainstorm, it was splattered with sicky white foam dyed pink in areas where blood was seeping into it. 

     Greenleaf glanced around, but there was nothing around that could have done this to her patient. She began sniffing around the clearing, trying to pick up any scent.

     Ravenpaw turned from the entrance, snickering. She carefully buried the mouse, making sure that there was no trace of it. She turned around and padded over to the Apprentices den. Curling up in her nest, she was soon asleep. 

     Ravenpaw flicked her ear, meows of shock and horror could be heard from the clearing. Obviously Greenleaf must have just brought Rainstorms body out to tell the rest of SkyClan. Glancing around Ravenpaw sat up, Mosspaw and Stormpaw had already excited the den and were in the clearing with the rest of the cats. 

     Ravenpaw padded out of the den, sitting down at the edge of the clearing. She could just see a bit of Rainstorms fur behind the cats in front of her, a sly smile slinking across her face. 

     When one of the cats in front of her turned around, Ravenpaw looked away, pretending as if she couldn't stand the sight of her former Deputy like this. 

     Sparkleleaf joined her at the edge of the clearing, he rested his tail on Ravenpaws shoulder. "It's so sad, I wonder how this could have happened? Greenleaf said she was getting better!"

      Ravenpaw nodded, "Yeah, I know. She seemed perfectly fine earlier too." She glanced in the direction of Rainstorms body, there were still many cats around it. They didn't appear to be leaving anytime soon, either. 

     Sparkleleaf looked over also, "I'm going to go send my farewells to Rainstorm now. Come and join us when you are feeling up to it." 

     Ravenpaw nodded, "I will."

     Sparkleleaf padded towards the middle of the clearing, but not getting far because of the other cats in the way. Soon he managed to get past the cats, dissapearing into the crowd. 

     Ravenpaw noticed something weird, something seemed to be going on. Why have none of the cats left? They all looked restless. Maybe she should be listening to what they were saying. 

     Sparkleleaf padded out of the crowd, grumbling to himself. 

     "Did you get to say farewell to Rainstorm?" Ravenpaw meowed, wondering why everyone was so ruffled and nothing seemed to be happening. 

     "No, Spottedstar and Greenleaf won't let anyone near her body. They're just whispering to themselves, and they won't even tell us why we can't say our farewells." Sparkleleaf continued across the clearing and sat outside of the Warriors den, continuing to mumble under his breath. 

     Ravenpaw looked towards the center of the camp, wondering what was going on. She couldn't hear what they were saying, because too many cats were mumbling and protesting. Greenleaf called something from the middle, and all the cats suddenly stopped talking and looked at her. Cats all started talking at once again, it was hard to pick anything out individually. "Are you serious?" "But it can't be true!" "You have to admit, it makes more sense." "But why would anybody do that?"

     Ravenpaw pricked her ears, trying to hear an actual conversation and not just a sentence or two. Shinespot and Hailsplash were talking nearby, Ravenpaw was straining to hear what they were saying.

     "...So somebody killed Rainstorm? But who would do that!" "I don't know, but they're trying to pick up any scent on her or anything. That's why they don't want us to touch her yet." "I guess that makes sense... I hope they find out who did it, no cat deserves to just be killed like that." "Yeah, me too..."

     Ravenpaw toned out the conversation, So, they found out someone killed her? Well, they won't be finding any scent on her though, cuz I used berries, not claws and teeth. Ravenpaw glanced from side to side, everyone was talking about the murder. Nobody seemed to really know who had done it though, and nobody was guessing either. They probably won't ever figure out it was me. Ravenpaw smiled ever so slightly, not big enough to be noticed though. 

     Greenleaf tried to scent anything on Rainstorm, but she couldn't smell anything other than the horrid scent of Death Berries. So she decided to use her eyes instead of her nose for once. She gently moved Rainstorms tail, nothing. Her face and ears, nothing. Back and belly, still nothing. She picked up one of Rainstorms front legs, nothing there either. She let out a sigh, What if we never find out who killed Rainstorm? 

     Scooting back, she let the leg gently plop back onto the ground. She was about to turn away to talk to Spottedstar about it, when something caught her attention. A few scraps of dark fur was lodged in between Rainstorms claws, it didn't match her own fur, it was too dark. 

     Greenleaf bent down and pried the fur out from her claws, setting it down nearby and trying to scent it over the stench of Death Berries and all the other nearby cats. She could just barely pick up the scent, but it was defenately familiar and defenately from SkyClan. 

     She picked up the scrap of fur with her claws, padding over to Spottedstar she set it in front of her Leader. She leaned over and murmured something in her ear. Spottedstars ear flicked and she bent down, scenting the fur. She nodded, agreeing. 

     Greenleaf looked over at the edge of the clearing where Ravenpaw was sitting by the entrance to her den all alone. She seemed not to be phased at all by the Deputy's death, not sad or shocked in the least. Spottedstar looked over also, finding Ravenpaw by picking up her scent rather than by seeing her. Greenleaf looked over at Spottedstar, waiting for her to say something.