"Jaypaw!" Firestar yowled.

"What the heck do you want?" Jaypaw snapped.

Firestar ignored his remark. "I'm going to raid your herb storage to get high on catmint while you go out on a super-secret perilous adventure. Sound good to you?"

"Don't you have a patrol to do?" Jaypaw asked, trying to find a way out of his situation.

"You dare disobey your leader?!" Firestar snapped.

Jaypaw glared at him. "Yes, actually I do. Why do you want to live your life in hangovers?"

Firestar waved his tail. "Oh, this and that." His expression hardened. "This an order from your leader, Jaypaw. I can do whatever I want to you because I'm awesome and I have a lot of power. I practically control your life, so it would be best to obey."

The moron. Does he want to lose his dignity? Jaypaw thought about this for a moment. Well, in case he dies early from catmint, any leader is better than this jerk. "Okay, fine. Gosh," Jaypaw muttered as Firestar dived into his den.

At that moment, Jaypaw heard Hollypaw and Lionpaw come back from a patrol with their mentors. "Hey! Guys!" He bounded over.

"Yeah, what?" Lionpaw asked.

"We're going on a super-secret perilous adventure while Firestar raids my storage for catmint. Firestar's orders. And no, Hollypaw," Jaypaw meowed as she opened her mouth, "It's not against the warrior code.

"Well, fine, then," she mewed, annoyed.

"Come on," Jaypaw beckoned with his tail, "We're going to go to the tunnels that Lionpaw used to see some WindClan chic."

"He WHAT?" Hollypaw yowled.

"Hey! I told you not to tell her!" Lionpaw protested.

Jaypaw shrugged, "She'll get over it."

Hollypaw rounded on Lionpaw, "You broke the warrior code!"

Lionpaw rolled his eyes. "Are you just going to stand here yelling at me for the rest of the day, or are you going to obey Firestar's order?"

Hollypaw glared at him but didn't say anything.

"I thought so," Lionpaw mewed.

Jaypaw stood by impatiently, "Are we going or what?"

Hollypaw held up her tail, "Just one more question."

"What?"

"What are we going to say when the clan finds our that Firestar's drunk?" Hollypaw asked.

"Nothing. Now let's go!" Jaypaw bounded away.

Hollypaw glanced at Lionpaw. "What's he so enthusiastic about?"

Lionpaw shrugged. "Beats me. Maybe he just wanted to see the tunnels."

"But he can't see-"

"I'm trying to think of a good reason, okay?" Lionpaw interrupted. Then he realized how rude he sounded. "Oh. Sorry."

Hollypaw sighed. "Come on. We need to make sure Jaypaw doesn't bump in to something." At that moment, Hollypaw heard a screech that sounded a lot like Jaypaw.

"Sounds like he already did," Lionpaw meowed.

…

Jaypaw stood up and shook himself. While running, he had bumped into a tree. Stupid! he thought. Jaypaw sensed that Hollypaw and Lionpaw hadn't caught up yet, so he took advantage of the time to think.

The idiot that they had to call leader was raiding his storage of catmint. Again. Firestar had been lucky last time not to go high, but his supply of catmint had been low that time. Oh, well. Let the retard suffer for his choices. He deserves it. Jaypaw couldn't care less about what happened to Firestar. What he was really worried about was that Firestar would mess up his storage of herbs that he had been collecting, and the catmint would surely be out by the time he got back from his "super-secret perilous adventure".

Jaypaw growled. Why the heck did he have to be medicine cat? It was basically just a bunch of time nursing sick and complaining cats. Plus, many things he did not want to be a part of. Like when queens gave birth. Disgusting. All these medicine cat duties dumped on him all the time because he was blind, and StarClan was always confusing him with these stupid prophecies. Seriously, they never made sense. And then there was those dumb rules about how medicine cats can't do blah, blah, blah. What was the point of making those useless rules? More drama? Yeah, right. Jaypaw thought, They probably just-

"Jaypaw!" Lionpaw burst through a bush, panting. "You… you scared us!

"Yeah," Hollypaw appeared next to Lionpaw, "The least you could do was wait."

"Well, the least you two could do is stop bickering!" Jaypaw snapped and padded away.

"Hey, wait up!" Lionpaw called, but Jaypaw ignored him.

I don't need them! Jaypaw thought. But then he realized; he did need them.

Jaypaw swerved around. "Come on!" he spat.

Hollypaw and Lionpaw caught up.

Suddenly Lionpaw snorted.

"What?" Jaypaw asked.

"Just think of what Firestar would be like when he's high," Lionpaw snickered.

Jaypaw found this somewhat funny, but Hollypaw seemed to be disgusted. "Eww, that's wrong!"

Lionpaw shrugged. "He's going to be like that when we get back anyways. We'll probably find him going crazy and claiming that everyone was his mate."

Hollypaw's eyes widened in horror. "He can't do that!"

Jaypaw snorted in contempt. "Well, the last time I checked, going high on catmint wasn't against the warrior code." But if only it was, Jaypaw silently thought.

The sun was sinking by the time they arrived at the tunnels. All three littermates stood in front of the narrow tunnel. It was so… normal. Too normal. It was just a hole in the side of the hill.

Jaypaw was the first to react. "Well, are you two just going to stand there gaping at it? Let's go in!"

"B-but we might find something bad down there!" Hollypaw stuttered.

"What, are you a scaredy-cat?" Lionpaw teased.

"I am not!" Hollypaw retorted, "I'm just… taking cautions."

Jaypaw snorted. "Yeah, right."

He tensed and stepped inside. Immediately, he felt a sinister coolness, and there were weird echoey sounds coming from every direction, like whispering. Well, that's strange, he thought. He stepped back outside. Everything turned back to normal. He stepped back inside. Weird. He stepped back out again. Normal. He repeated this process multiple times. Why's that?

Then he noticed his littermate's prickling stares on his pelt. They must've thought he'd gone crazy!

Jaypaw's mind whirled, thinking of an excuse. "I… uh… don't know… where to put my paws…?" he stuttered.

Lionpaw and Hollypaw glanced at each other. "Uh, that's fine, Jaypaw, we understand," Lionpaw mewed.

Jaypaw was surprised. They fell for that junk? He pushed that to the back of his mind. That wasn't their main focus. Right now, they needed to follow Firestar's orders, no matter how stupid, idiotic, or dumb they sounded. Plus, he wanted to explore the tunnels that Lionpaw had often talked about.

As Jaypaw padded inside, he realized that Hollypaw was right to worry. What would they find down there?