Chapter 1
Rusty looked over the fence at the woods. He kept thinking to himself "Do I dare jump over the fence? No, not tonight."Rusty jumped down from the fence and padded threw the flap in his house folks den. He ate a few mouthfuls of the hard, tasteless pellets they put in his bowl. When he was done he jumped onto his house folk's bed. They greeted him with petting and weird rumbling noises. Rusty curled up on the edge of the bed and went to sleep.
The next morning rusty decided to jump the fence. As he leaped a cat hurtled out of the under growth and bowled him over. This cat was a tom, a much bigger tom then he was. He was a dark brown tabby tom. As rusty struggled to brake free he noticed that the other cat had claws big enough to kill rusty with one blow. This made rusty think faster. Then he had an idea. He went limp under the bigger cats grasp. The tom lunged forward and clamped his jaws on rusty's shoulder. Rusty needed to wait until the tom bit down. A few hearts beats later rusty felt teeth pierce his shoulder. Quick as lightning rusty kicked out with his back legs to make contact with the exposed soft part of the tomes belly. It worked the only part the tabby was able to grab was fur. As rusty backed towards his house folks fence he heard the tom say "mangy kittypet go run back to your twolegs."
"What is a kittypet and a twoleg?" rusty thought to himself.
Rusty forced himself to stay where he was. He had an idea. Without saying anything rusty jumped over the fence and waited for the tom to leave. When he was gone rusty jumped back over the fence and followed the tabby's trail. Eventually he watched as the tom squeezed his way through a thorn bush. Rusty followed. At once he was overwhelmed with cat sent. Cats of all sizes were gathering around rusty. A blue-gray she-cat spoke first.
"Tigerclaw, why have you brought this kittypet to our camp?"
The dark brown tabby tom he had fought with replied "I didn't, he must have followed me here.
"well now that he's here … how did he fight?" Asked bluestar.
"Pretty good for a kittypet, but instead of fighting back he ran as soon as he got the chance." Tigerclaw replied.
"Hmmm,"said bluestar "we'll have to fix that. Graypaw do your worst.
A gray tom tried to charge him but rusty jumped up and landed neatly on his shoulders. Graypaw let out a huff of surprise but quickly rolled onto his back and crushed rusty beneath him. Rusty scrapped his hind claws down graypaws spine. Graypaw turned around and bit down on rusty's shoulder. Rusty went limp and as soon as gray paw let go rusty pounced on him. He bit graypaws neck, not hard enough to kill him but just enough to draw blood.
"STOP," yowled bluestar.
Both cats broke away. The kittypet has one and lost his collar. Rusty didn't notice before but he could now fell wind in his neck fur where his collar used to be.
"What is your name kittypet?" asked bluestar.
"R-rusty," he replied.
"Rusty would you like to become an apprentice of thunderclan?"
"Yes," replied rusty.
"Ok then," bluestar leaped on top of a tall rock. "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather beneath highrock for a clan meeting," she yowled though there was really no need for most of the clan was already gathered.
"Rusty, do you promise to train in the ways of a warrior and to learn the warrior code?" asked bluestar.
"I do," said rusty.
" then by the powers of starclan I give you your apprentice name until you earn your warrior name you will be called firepaw, tigerclaw will be your mentor." She said.
Cheers erupted from the crowed "firepaw! Firepaw! Firepaw!"
Firepaw padded over to graypaw,"sorry about hurting you," firepaw apologized.
"That's ok,"said graypaw, "it was worth it."
ok this is my first story so tell me how I did, yeah I know its probably really bad, but just comment and tell me what you think.
-Frostheart
