CHAPTER 1

"Wake up, it time." A white queen was budgeting her kit awake, she had had four, but a bout of green cough took three. She looked at her surviving kit, she was a tabby, with white paws and a splash of white on her chest. She looked like her father, if it weren't for her pink nose and blue eyes.

"Really, today?" The kit woke up, blinking sleep from her eyes. finally, I'm going to be an apprentice!. She let her mother, whose name was snowleaf, groom her. "I hope papa and my siblings are watching!" The kit stayed hopefully.

"I'm sure they are watching right now." snowleaf purred, nudge ing her kit to pad twords the tall oak where roanstar gatherd the clan.

"Today, we have a ceremony that will make us stronger!" roanstar, a tabby tom, was announcing to the whole of shadowclan. "Lilykit will become an apprentice. She will now be known as lilypaw, I will mentor her." Roanstar ended the meeting, and waited for lilyPaw. "I'm going to give you a tour of the territory. Tawnypelt, and weaselpaw are coming too." He finished.

great! She is just a peace of frog dung, that apprentice finds it fun, to tease me and say starclan didn't want me. To say I'm going to end up in the dark forest. well, I'm not going to let her get to me, no anymore!. Lily paw thought as the two padded up. "Hello, tawnypelt, weaselpaw." she greeted happily. Tawnypelt was her mother's mother. So roanstar was her grandfather.

"Hello, happy to be an apprentice?" Tawny pelt replied. Drawing a paw over her ear.

"Hey, darkforestpaw! Going to kill any one today?" Weaselpaw retorted quiet as to not make the older warriors mad. She laughed, it sounded like claws scraping rocks.

"Listen, I know you don't like me. and I don't know why, but I'm just trying to be nice." Lily papaw said calmly. Then padded after her mentor.

"This is the riverclan border, they are easy to regonize because they smell of water, and fish. " tawny pelt was explaining to lilypaw while roanstarr had decided to assess weaselpaw. Then a group of five cats padded up to the border.

"Hello, tawnypelt. Hunting on our territory?" The first, a black tom, sneerd.

"no, reedwhisker. I'm showing lilypaw here the territory. She was apprenticed this morning." tawnypelt retorted. Sitting on a rock.

"Hi, I'm redpaw, reedwhisker's apprentice." a ginger tom was sitting on the edge of the border, while the others augured. He had a welcoming gleam in his amber eyes.

"Uh, I'm lilypaw, roanstar's apprentice. Did you just become an apprentice?" Lilypaw asked him, settling down on a patch of moss.

"Yea. Can you swim?" Red paw asked.

"No, can you climb a tree?" Lily paw replied.

"No, can you teach me?"

"Isn't that against the warrior code?"

"So? I can teach you to swim in exchange."

"No thanks. I like,to keep dry." Lilypaw got up and walked to the edge of the lake. Redraw follows on his side of the border. "Why are you following me?" She asked.

"I don't know?" He replied. Red paw saw movement the lily paw flew out into the lake. oh no! She cant swim!. "Lilypaw!" Red paw yowled and jumped into the lake after her. Reedwhiskerr's and tawny pelt saw, and ran over shouting for them.

what happend? I-I saw weaselpaw, she pushed me, but I can't swim. How can't I get out of this?. Lily paw was sinking in the water. She saw the light fading slowly. "Lilypaw!" She thought she heard her name. redpaw? Did he get pushed too?. She saw redpaw coming to her, he grabbed her scruff and swam to the surface. He was almost there, when he ran out of air. Reedwhisker had jumped in, and got both of them to the surface.

"Lily paw!" Tawmy pelt and roanstar were beside her now, she looked over to see the riverclan cats there too. Weaselpaw was sitting beside tawnypelt, her eyes gleaming with anger. RedpawWw was there,too. He was coughing up water. "Your going to be fine. Reedwhisker is getting their medicine cat. Just stay awake." Roanstar was saying,over and over.

but, I'm so tired. I want to sleep. Just a little bit. . Lily paw started to close her eyes. She was so tired. She would just sleep a little bit. She saw redpaw beside her, then she fell asleep.

Lily paw woke to see snow leaf beside her. She sat up her head slightly hurting. "What happend?"

"you nearly drowned. But that frog-brained apprentice saved you. You will be fine. Just a slight headache" silverbark the medicinecat said. Then shooed the cats out.

"Go rest. I will bring you something to eat." snow leaf said, then went to the freshkill pile. Lily paw slept that night, her dreams disturbed by pictures of, redpaw..

reveiws please.