You Are A Shadow....2

[**Liz**]

Theforest-
Those damned humans! they did this to me, they killed me.
The dark apprentice's sides burned with every fiery inhale, and shuddered down with the following exhale. Her eyes were wide and her pupils large as she purred in pain, instinctively insisting on rising to her paws.
Something was keeping her down, a pressure on her chest forced her back, her head collecting so much pressure it felt as if it it might burst.
The matted fur was stingy, greasy and covered in mud and dirt.
Her little ears were hot with fever, she remembered vomiting twice before and once again just before the camp entrance, the poison was definitely out, but she had contracted some foreboding illness, like a chill.
Her tail was fluffed out with fear, as her eyes clutched themselves shut.
" uh-"
Was that her? Doompaw couldn't tell as she lay her head done for a fitful snooze.

[~T.o.x.i.c]

Toxicshadow looked down at her apprentice, hoping that Talonwing was in. She looked around the den. He wasn't here. Panic was starting to set in, but Toxic kept it down hidden just below the surface. If Talonwing isn't here Scarletpaw has to be. She whispered to herself. Scarletpaw are you here? Doompaw is sick. Toxic's voice barely shook, she was doing good at keeping her calm. She would need Scarletpaw too take care of Doompaw before Talonwing came back.

[TYPICAL RED]

Scarletpaw jumped as she heared her name. It had been quit all day, so she had deicided to take a nap, but now it seemed that she couldnt.
"Right wh-" Scarletpaw stopped dead.
"What happened?!" She gasped, hurrying over to Doompaw's side. She winced as her scar throbbed, but she tried hard not to let it show.
"How long has she been a sleep?" Scarletpaw asked, her voice quivering a little. Talonwing wasnt there. What was she supposed to do if she gave Doompaw the wrong herbs? Scarletpaw shook her head, and tried to think positive.

[~T.o.x.i.c]

Toxicshadow didn't know why her young apprentice had vomited twice, but then again she was not a medicine-cat so why should she know. Doompaw vomited three times, twice just before we were going to train, and again outside the camp entrance. After the first time I started to get her here. Toxicshadow recited as if she was in a play. She had been going over what had happed, because she knew that she would have to get everything straight when Talonwing, or in this case Scarletpaw, came. She hasn't been asleep that long a few minutes really. Toxic told the young medicine-cat, worried on if she should have kept Doompaw awake.

[TYPICAL RED]

Scarletpaw began sniffing/nuzzeling Doompaw's pelt, as Toxicshadow kept talking.
"You did the right thing on taking her here after the first time, if you hadnt, It might have been harder to get her here." Scarletpaw spoke with more appreciation then ever.
"Did she eat something before training?" Scarlet asked, giving Doompaw a small prod.

[~T.o.x.i.c]

Toxicshadow was proud that she had done the right thing. She was also worried, because she really hadn't payed attention to see if Doompaw had eaten anything before. I'm not sure... I really don't know. She hoped that they could wake up Doompaw to ask her, but she didn't look so good. If something happened to Doompaw because of her she would never forgive herself.

[**Liz**]

Doompaw's pathetic mewls shook her tiny little body, her fever making her wince with the very sound of it.
The fever.
It was rising, rising fast.
Her mewling became increasingly louder, until she was basically screaming with a bloody curtailing squawk.
Then, everything was quiet.
So quiet...
She was in the forest again, her parents and her siblings were with her.
" Mom...dad?"
Her heart fluttered happily (although in real life, her heart rate was rising dangerously) as she bounded enthusiastically forward.
" Doom! Doom! Come play with us..." Her brother and sister beckoned her forward, she happily complied.
They smiled, holding a mouse in their small little mouths for her to toss about with them.
But, no matter how she ran, she couldn't get to them-
That sound.
The creaking, sighing sound of ultimate death. The stench of the monsters paws reached her and she stopped.
No!
" WAIT-"
It rolled over her family, crushing them into the moss covered ground and leaving her in the forest. Alone.
" NO!"
Her pulse had risen and fallen.
Her fever however, was reaching a dangerous temperature, and she succumbed to a nasty fit of epileptic seizures...

[~T.o.x.i.c]

Toxic looked worriedly at her apprentice. Doompaw! She whispered in a panicked voice. Toxic rested a paw on her forehead, it Doompaw was burning up. Her head whipped around to look at Scarletpaw. What's happening to her! She almost shouted. Toxicshadow wanted to scream at Scarletpaw to do something, but she held her tongue panicking wouldn't help her apprentice at all. Toxic could do nothing but sit and wait.

[TYPICAL RED]

Scarletpaw was starting to recite the herbs when Toxicshadow began to panick. When Scarletpaw first heard Toxicshadow yelling, she felt angry, but then it melted. Toxic had the right to worry, Doompaw was her apprentice.
"Calm down, just let me get some... uhhh..." Scarletpaw shut her eyes tight and thought.
"Just let me get some Nettle." Scarlet dashed into the med cat den, and started to sift through the many piles of herb. When she finally got some, she rushed out and began rubbing them on Doom's head. She was really burning up.
"Come on Doompaw, dont leave me..." Scarlet muttered. She didnt want to be a bad medicine cat, and she sure didnt want Dommpaw to die.

Suddenly, the fever began to rise, and the seizures started.
"No!" Scarletpaw shouted. Looking up at the clear sky, Scarletpaw snarled, "How can you let this poor apprentice die?! You cant do this to her!" Scarletpaw was mad, and no one could say different.
"Keep rubbing these on her forehead. i'm going to go get some poppy seeds, it might help calm her seizures." The order was directed at Toxicshadow, but Scarletpaw couldnt meet her gaze.

[~T.o.x.i.c]

Toxic was starting to calm down. Scarletpaw was a medicine cat, and she would know what to do. Her heart was slowing down to a spaced thump. Toxicshadow heard Scarletpaw's intruction and quickly took up rubbing the nettle on Doompaw's forehead. It saddened Toxic to see her young apprentice so close to death, but she wouldn't let herself see that death was an option the StarClan could look at. Come on Doompaw fight it. I know your stronger than this. You can't die... Not now. Toxic said to herself almost an attempt at telapathy.

[D.e.a.t.h]

[ If she ate something wouldn't you use Yarrow or Snakeroot? Suggestion don't eat me]

A rush of black paws hurled through the camp. Its dark eyes narrowed and jaw clenched. Heart beating fast as lungs asked for air. The black shape skidded to the Medicine cat's den. There was a spark of panic in thoughs blue eyes.

"What happened" she snapped her eyes hard on Toxicshadow. The stared at the she-cat named Doompaw. Talonwing where are you? . She sniffed lightly and she felt anger at the words she had heard Scarletpaw cry almost moments ago. Starclan do not care if we suffer. Her eyes flashed and she whispered to Doompaw. "Don't leave us remember we love you" . Then she looked up the anger not go from her eyes.Starclan if you let her die .... what? what in the world could she possibly do to the dead, she would find something.

[TYPICAL RED]

((It says i am logged in, but it will not actually let me be logged in, you know? And, i said Nettle, for fever, poppy seeds to calm her. It might be a better idea to make sure that she DID eat something before i give her something to make her throw up, and she already did too. I'm not going to eat you, your suggestions had good intentions.))

Scarletpaw rushed into the medicine cat den again. Delicately, she took a dock leaf and placed a few poppy seeds on it. Trying hard not to bite to deep into the tangy herb, she picked up the rap and hurried back outside.

When Scarletpaw did get out of the den, Deathstar was standing over Doompaw. Scarletpaw cought the accused glance that Deathstar flashed at Toxicshadow, and she quickened her pace.
"It wasnt her fault," She said placing the bundle beside Doompaw. "Toxicshadow was actually a big help for Doompaw. If she hadnt gotten her here, then it would be a lot harder to take herbs back and forth." Scarletpaw's deep husky voice was a bit squicker then usual.
"I'm going to get some water to make it easier for her to swallow the poppy seeds..." Scarletpaw said more to herself then anybody else.

Rushing back into the medicine cat den, Scarletpaw wondered if she could actually save Doompaw's life. If she couldnt, then she was bound to be mamed of her medicine cat apprentice status.
"Please let Doompaw live!" She mummbled, thinking not just for herself, but for Doompaw too.

[~T.o.x.i.c]

Every muscle in Toxic's body was tense when Deathstar stormed into the medicine cat den. A flash of pain and hurt found it's way into the normally cold hearted she-cat when Deathstar glared at her. To know that her leader had thought she had done something to her apprentice hit her hard. She was glad when Scarletpaw told her leader that it wasn't her fault. I'm sorry Deathstar. Toxic's head was hanging in shame. Deep down Toxicshadow felt that somehow she could have stopped this. I don't know what happened. I was giving a simple lesson about stealth to Doompaw when she just collapsed and vomited. I rushed her back to camp as fast as I could carry her, but she vomited two other times before we got here.
The young she-cat was furious with herself. How could I have not seen that Doompaw was sick. She wasn't paying attention, or doing what I had asked. How could I have not come up with it wasn't her being stubborn, she was ill and needed immediate attention. I was so stupid and now Doompaw is paying for it, maybe with her life. If that happened... Toxicshadow couldn't even fathom her life without her apprentice, who was so much like her. Now she might not even get to be a warrior because of her. Toxic felt like this was all her fault, and would stay with Doompaw the entire time. She would not die, Toxicshadow wouldn't let her. Even if it meant taking on all of StarClan, this apprentice would not pass on.

[**Liz**]

Inside the dark apprentices mind, deep in the sub conscious, she felt the tugging claw of death beckoning her forward.
She almost went to it, it was so warm and comforting, and it seemed painless and so easy...
We love you...
Don't leave us...
Doompaw, Doompaw, Doompaw...
All these voices seemed to jump into her conscious mind and, if the conscious mind is aware and working, the sub conscious one will submit.
Her body was now sure that everything was out of her system, and her breathing became normal once more, although her fever was still high, but not like it was. Her body ached wretchedly. Her eyes moved around under their lids, every little movement pained her.
But she could breathe more easily. She was opening her eyes.
She was recovering.

[D.e.a.t.h]

Deathstar let out a deep breath as she saw hurt in toxics eyes. "Sorry,forgive me" she said as she glanced at Toxicshadow. She did not mean to take her anger out on the she-cat. They where both worried about the apprentice. She wondered what had happened to Doompaw and what she had done. Could it have been prevented or was that just the way it was. Thank the starclan. She breathed as she saw Doompaw opening her eyes. "Don't ever pull a stunt like that again" there was more love and releaf than anger.