I was excited. It had been a quarter-moon since I became Palepaw. Now, Cinderflake, my mentor, said she had a surprise lesson! Yipee!

"Hurry up Palepaw," Cinderflake warned, "Or we'll be late meeting up with your denmate."

I growned, "Do we have to bring Mudpaw? He is so annoying!"

Cinderflake looked like she wanted to argue, or at least scold me, but she didn't. Everyone in RiverClan knew it was true. Maybe even all four clans.

"Let's hurry." the calico she grumbled as she ran out of camp, "Follow me."

I ran after her. My heart beating faster. Was it a surprise battle session? Or maybe a hunting patrol? What if it was a super secret mission that even Galestar didn't know about! That would be fun, or at least if Mudpaw wasn't there.

I noticed that we were running to the border of ThunderClan. Maybe we were going to spy? We could find out if Blizzardstar was planning to take Sunningrocks back! She had her eye on the territory before she was even a warrior! Still though, Mudpaw would be too loud to spy.

Maybe we were to murder-

"We're here!" Cinderflake called to Mudpaw and Feathersky.

"Where is 'here'?" I asked. We were across the river from sunningrocks. Maybe we were to cross together?

"The river, duh." Mudpaw sneered, "Did you think we were going to ThunderClan?"

"Did not!" I lied.

"Did to!"

"Mudpaw," Feathersky hit him on the muzzle, "Bad."

I sneared at my enemy before listening to what Cinderflake had to say.

"We are at the river to learn to fish," Cinderflake proclaimed, "Not to kill each other with words."

"Dang it," Both me and Mudpaw said at the same time.

He turned and glared at me, "Don't copy me!"

"I didn't!" I turned to him, "We said it at the same time!"

"Not uh," he 'argued'.

I rammed into him slightly, and hissed, "Stop it!"

To my surprise, he slipped at the edge and started to fall into the river.

"Help!" he cried, "I can't swim!"

What?

"Yes you can!" his own mentor yelled, with that Feathersky pushed him into the river all the way.

Cinderflake sighed, "I guess we have to fish upstream. That scared the fish away if the yelling didn't."

"Meet you there!" Feathersky called to Mudpaw, not going to help him at all.

I guess this wasn't a huge disappointment after all.