A New Dawn
chapter 1 remembering
Ravenpaw smiled to himself as he walked back to the barn carrying a bunch of mice that might even impress barley! As he trotted in he saw barley in the
loft "hey! Ravenpaw did you manage to catch something for you old mate barley?" Barley called Ravenpaw smiled. Barley was always thinking about food and mice in particular. Ravenpaw had nothing against mice but these had run straight from the forest and the smells reminded him of his friends and his clan. He sometimes wondered about Thunderclan and Graystripe and his friend Firestar. And he wanted to visit them. Even though someone needed to feed Barley since he was getting older and was almost completely deaf in one ear "here you go Barley one tasty mouse for you and one for me"
then sitting down with his mouse he remembered his time in the forest.
"Ravenkit come forward" Bluestar called from her high perch atop highrock.
Ravenkit pricked his ears and scampered forward almost tripping in his excitement "today is your sixth moon and I'm happy to introduce you to the clan" Bluestar continued smiling at his excitement "from this day forward you will be known as Ravenpaw till you have received your warrior name" Bluestar yowled "Tigerclaw come forward. You have had an excellent mentor and we all honor his death" the rest of the clan murmured and nodded their heads "I wish you to pass these skills to Ravenpaw so that he maybe as strong as you" Ravenpaw ran over and pressed his nose to Tigerclaw. The strong tabby looked happy and smiled as he looked down on his apprentice.
But there was something deeper down in those eyes something that made Ravenpaw want to shiver. It was a seed of evil, it didn't look as if it would sprout but something deep inside Ravenpaw told him that it would.
"Ravenpaw!" meowed Tigerclaw "battle stance!" Ravenpaw immediately took it and launched himself at his opponent fluffy Graypaw which took on a sturdy stance and took Ravenpaws attack then dodging a flurry of paw swipes knocked Ravenpaw over. Ravenpaw relaxed and let his body relax like in defeat and then as Graypaw relaxed launched himself at him.
At the end of the fight Ravenpaw had pinned Graypaw and held him to the ground. Both looked expectantly at Tigerclaw and he smiled and mewed "what are you looking at me for?" He asked as he licked his paw and flicked it across his ear. Ravenpaw thought he looked strangely uncomfortable so he tried to cheer him up "the same reason your looking at us" he answered jokingly at his mentor "quiet! There something going on over there" he said quietly. Sure enough there was a yowling coming from sunning rocks and it sounded like Riverclan was up to there old tricks. "Ravenpaw Graypaw follow me" Tigerclaw said flicking his tail.
Later they were on the edge of sunning rocks looking at the triumphant Riverclan cats who were calling more cats to the their territory. Tigerclaw looked stunned. And strangely happy "Graypaw go back to thunderclan camp and get reinforcements" Tigerclaw commanded. Ravenpaw looked nervously at his mentor. This was his first battle and it was nerve wracking thinking about all the things that could go wrong in one. When he thought about battles before hand he had thought he could handle hundreds of Riverclan but now that he saw how big and tough the Riverclan warriors he couldn't help but notice that all of them were bigger than him. He barely had time to notice this though because as soon as Graypaw, Redtail and mousefur was here (they was the only warriors at camp at the time) they charged in "THUNDERCLAN ATTACK!" yowled Tigerclaw as he charged into the scene.
