Chapter 1, exactly

Ravenflight peeled open her eyes. She stretched

her four black-striped legs in turn, then left the warriors den.

She was met by a crowd of bored looking warriors.

"What's going on here?" the deputy asked, giving Cloudtail a confused look.

"We're waiting you," Ashfur complained, "Who's going to lead the morning patrol?"

"Er…you can, Ashfur and you can take…er…are Rainwhisker and Sootfur around?"

"Their hunting," Cloudtail told her.

Ravenflight growled. "Then you can take Cloudtail and Whitefrost."

"She's sleeping," Cloudtail mewed.

"Then wake her up," Ravenflight growled, walking over to Firestar's den.

She peeked inside. "Firestar?" she called.

"Ah, Ravenflight," came the cheery mew from the shadows.

Ravenflight crawled inside. "I set out the patrol."

Firestar looked up. "Good. Ravenflight, know that this deputy thing is hard, but Hollypaw has told me in person that you haven't been taking her out. She's quite smart, you know."

"Yes," agreed Ravenflight, mentally running the days schedule in her head. Morning patrol, take out Hollypaw, come back, set out hunting patrol. Hunt with Squirreltalon, set out evening patrol, and prepare dawn patrol. Ravenflight rolled her eyes. What a day!

Firestar was looking up at her. "Is that all clear?"

"Yes," Ravenflight nodded heavily.

She padded out of the den when Firestar dismissed her. She looked over at the apprentices den. Hollypaw was watching her with her head raised and her yellow eyes bright.

"Hollypaw," Ravenflight mewed, padding over.

Hollypaw stood up very quicklyRavenflight led the way out of the camp.

Ravenflight circled Hollypaw when they reached the training hollow. "Let's do some fighting practice, then let's hunt."

Hollypaw nodded silently.

"Attack me," Ravenflight mewed. Her tabby apprentice crouched low in the sand.

Hollypaw leapt at Ravenflight. Ravenflight moved her head to the side easily. Hollypaw sailed over her.

Ravenflight turned to face her. "Hollypaw, you need to try something a bit more complicated. You aimed for the shoulders, which is a very common technique."

Hollypaw fixed her with a hard yellow stare. Ravenflight looked at her.

Hollypaw jumped again. She aimed for Ravenflight's paws. Ravenflight jumped up and her apprentice sailed under her.

Hollypaw growled under her breath.

"Try something unexpected," Ravenflight told her.

"Can we just go hunting?" Hollypaw asked, rolling over onto her back.

"Alright," Ravenflight grumbled, "But tomorrow we will do this and no complaining!"

"Fine," Hollypaw meowed, padding out of the training hollow.

Ravenflight followed her with a tired sigh.

When she reached her apprentice, Hollypaw was stalking a bird, she killed it quickly.

Ravenflight didn't praise her. She didn't like the way Hollypaw was acting.

Hollypaw caught a squirrel and a shrew, then carried her prey back to camp without even checking with Ravenflight.

Ravenflight padded in later with a mouse. Hollypaw was sitting by the apprentices den. Her head was raised and cocked to one side. She stared at her mentor intently.

Ravenflight turned as Cloudtail approached her. "I patrolled the RiverClan border. There was nothing. We just smelled an old patrol on their side of the border."

"Good," Ravenflight mewed. She called to Brackenfur to take a hunting patrol to Snakerocks, then padded over to Squirreltalon.

"Want to hunt?" she asked.

Her friend nodded. "Sure."

They both charged out of the camp.

Squirreltalon caught a squirrel and Ravenflight caught two mice.

Ravenflight scented the air. Rabbit was fresh in the air. She stalked foreword until she could see it, then jumped and caught it quickly.

They both dragged their catches back to camp. Ravenflight by now was exhausted.

The hunting patrol returned with a lot of prey and dropped it onto the fresh-kill pile.

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"So!" Surveillance paced slowly, her long white tail swishing and the three cuts on her left cheek glowing. Her blue eyes were bright and clear.

"So, Mistyfoot, I'm talking to you seriously now. You agreed to help me with my plot to take over ThunderClan if I made you RiverClan leader. And of course, I think you will know the new opponent best."

Mistyfoot nodded.

"Going in Greystripe was a good idea, but it didn't work. Ravenflight didn't have enough sympathy for the old ThunderClan deputy to spare his life. So I need to go in someone she won't kill at all. Someone she loves as a friend."

Mistyfoot looked up, her mouth open to speak. "That means-,"

Surveillance raised her eyebrows.

"Exactly."

Did you like this? Please review! Who do you think Surveillance and Mistyfoot were talking about? Sorry this was so late, Christmas came whizzing around the bend…no time to type…And we run on solar energy from the sun and there was a huge storm and I couldn't use the computer because it hogs to much power…