I added a poll on teh first post! please vote! Now I am not saying that the winner of the poll is the SURE name, but I just want to see how things rank up. ;D
Thrushpaw groaned as he entered the elders den. Patchfur, Bentear, and Proudsoul glared at him with uninviting pupils. Bentear grunted. "What do you need?" He snapped. Thrushpaw stepped back. "I-I brought some honey pulp to clean your fur for ticks." He stammered. "Get on with it." Proudsoul lay down on her belly. "I've been scratching like crazy for days." Thrushpaw picked up his herb and made his way over to the oldest grumpy elder. He crouched by Proudsoul's long, slender spine and gingerly massaged the tender pulp deep into her bluish-gray fur. Proudsoul purred. As he carefully picked out dead ticks, Thrushpaw examined the elders den. "I guess you're the only three living here?" Thrushpaw dared to say. "What does it look like?" Patchfur moaned. Thrushpaw fell silent.
"Well..." Bentear began. "Back in the old days, I remember when Bluegaze used to come in here and clean us for ticks. That was, before she had her kits." Thrushpaw snapped to atention. "Kits?" "Yes sir, their names were..." His voice cracked. "Do you remember their names Patchfur?" Patchfur pondered for a second. "I believe they were Shellkit and Petalkit." Thrushpaw then finished with Proudsoul and walked over to Patchfur. Bentear nodded. "That's it. Well, before she was a medicine cat, she was the apprentice of Canyonfall. He's obviously gone now, but he was charming one I tell ya'. I remember when he was just a kit. I would smack his nose when I was just Bentkit. Then we two brothers would gallop all of the queens. Got quite a scolding for that. Later on..."
Thrushpaw wnated to hear more about Bluegaze's kits. "What happened to Shellkit and Petalkit?" He questioned. Bentear paused. "Well..." He began, but stopped when he saw Thrushpaw coming to check him for ticks.
Patchfur continued. "When Bluegaze became a warrior, she mated with Redleaf and they had Shellkit and Petalkit. But in a dream, Bluegaze was told that she was not destined to be a warrior. She asked Starclan what would happen to her kits, and they simply replied that their future would come. With that, Bluegaze switched to a medicine cat with Molefoot, her mentor. It was odd because they were the same age. Meanwhile, Redleaf kept watch of the kits except for when a genrous queen fed them.
"A couple months later, Bluegaze's kits went missing, as the curious kittens they were. It was not long before a patrol found them, dead, in the shallow part of the sea. They had drowned." Patchfur dipped her head in sorrow.
At that moment, Thrushpaw realized he was done with Bentear's ticks. Sadly, he thanked the elders and clamped out of the elders den. Surprisingly, he was excited to go clean the elders den tomorrow so he could hear another story about the past.