The Peacemaker

Prologue
Hollykit stood fixed to her spot. The medicine cat, Webscar, was threatening her with deathberries. She had just been cured of whitecough, by Mottleivy of ThunderClan.

"I can tell Brackenstar," the RiverClan she-kit mewed proudly.

"After I'm done with you, they'll be no one to hear you. Accept your destiny! Accept the path of a medicine cat! Or, you may eat the deathberries." Webscar spat.

"Don't hurt her, please, Webscar," pleaded Cloudwhisker, his apprentice.

"I won't hurt her," Webscar rasped. "I'll simply poison her!"

Cloudwhisker could not contain himself. He flung himself at the old cat, and raked his claws through Webscar's back. Webscar wanted to yowl with pain and fury, but he kept quiet.

Webscar fought back, but he slipped on his on puddles of blood and slipped and fell onto his lame hind leg.

Hollykit ran to get Brackenstar, but she stopped in her tracks to listen to Webscar, who was speaking to her.

"You will walk the path of a medicine cat, no matter what," He mewed.

Hollykit continued running until she found Brackenstar, talking with the deputy, Stonebrook.

"Brackenstar!" Hollykit yowled.

"Yes, Hollykit?" the RiverClan leader answered.

"Webscar tried to poison me. With deathberries!"

"What?" Brackenstar yowled. "He couldn't! That's mouse-brained. He'd never hurt a kit!"

"Well he tried to hurt me!" Hollykit protested. "Come on, I'll show you!"

"No, Hollykit," Stonebrook told her. "You stay here. We can't have Webscar beat you up."

"But Cloudwhisker attacked him!" Hollykit cried. "I think he broke something."

"Let her come," Brackenstar demanded.

Hollykit led Brackenstar and Stonebrook into the medicine cat den, but something had gone wrong.

Cloudwhisker was moping over a dark gray motionless body. Webscar was dead.

Hollykit went back to the protection of her mother, Icepool, and curled up between her brothers, Ashkit and Eaglekit.

From her place, she saw the Clan holding a vigil for Webscar. She was glad her mother wasn't there. For some reason, she felt grief run through her.'

No. She wouldn't remember Webscar. Hollykit hated the medicine cat ever since the start. She knew he was crazy and dumb!

But Webscar's words to her pierced her through the side, that would haunt her for the rest of her life.

"You will walk the path of a medicine cat...."