Chapter 1
Breezepaw's POV
I walked around the camps clearing chasing Heatherkit as I began to get tired, so as I headed into the nursery I heard my father and mother talking I didn't want to interrupt them so I waited outside for them to finish talking. Although I over heard some of the things that made me realize why my dad had never really spent time around me and tried to teach me battle moves before I was an apprentice as Heatherkit's father had.
"Do you really think I love you Nightcloud?" I heard my father say I flinched away from his words. Surely they wouldn't be together if he didn't love her.
"This was a mistake, you, us, Breezekit. Everything was a mistake." As I heard that I about died inside. Then Heatherkit ran over to me and bowled me over. She landed on top of me
"ha, that's the new battle move my dad just showed me. I hissed at her and said "get away from me." Through gritted teeth. I saw the hurt expression form on her face as she walked away. I will talk to her later. I went back to listening in on my mother and father.
"How dare you say that our soon is a mistake. He will be one of the greatest warriors of this clan." My mother hissed at my father.
"Okay you can keep in denial, but you also knows yourself that he was a mistake." My father said and walked out of the nursery I heard my mother sobbing I wanted to rush in and tell my mom that it was fine that my father hadn't meant a word he said, that he was probably just mad at one of our clan mates and that he would apologize later. But I had to hold myself back due to the fact that I wasn't exactly supposed to hear that anyway.
So I walked over to my mother who had tears running down her face. And I licked her cheek with my tiny tongue and said "mother what you are crying about?" she looked down at me and started crying harder, but when she composed herself she spoke.
"Nothing is wrong sweetie it's nothing. Now you just curl up and get some rest." I curled up close to her stomach and fell asleep.
5 moons later….
I walked into camp with my first fresh kill and it was my first day of hunting and I had already caught two mice and a vole. I walked over to my father to let him know ho well my hunting went today.
"Crowfeather!" I yelled to my father as I walked up to him.
He looked down at me and in an irritable tone he said
"what do you want?" "I had my first hunting training today; I caught two mice and a vole."
He snorted and said "was that it? That's pathetic." He stood and had me stand as well.
"How is your fighting going? With any luck it's a lot better than your hunting." The words stung as it brought back the memory of when I was a kit and he talked to my mother. I shook it out of my head ready to prove to my father once and for all that I wasn't a mistake, my father and I circled in the clearing of our camp and I was tensed and ready for any move that came my way.
But I ran at him at full speed and I went to bite his ankles as he stood on his hind paws. But I didn't get the timing right and he came crashing down on my whole body and knocked the air out of me for a moment. I wailed in pain as my mother and our leader Onestar rushed over to Crowfeather and I.
"oh my Breezepaw! Are you okay?" my mother yelled as I tried to stand up but fell back down under the pain that coursed through my whole body.
"What do you think you are doing Crowfeather he is just an apprentice and still a young one at that." I heard Onestar growling at my father. "I was teaching my son to fight, he is pathetic." Crowfeather hissed back at Onestar.
"He is six and a half moons old; he hasn't had much battle training yet. And you know better than to ever be that rough on an apprentice. So if you're going to act like that then you can go and take over Breezepaw's duties while he is recovering."
Crowfeather hissed but walked off with out saying anything more. As I lay there for a moment while Onestar went to get a couple of warriors to take me to Barkface Heatherpaw came over to me as my mother rushed over to tell Barkface that I was going to need attention as soon as I got in there.
"Breezepaw, I am so sorry, your father tor should never have done that to you. He has never been that rough with me as you know" I tried once again to sit up but the pain made me collapse back on to the floor. I looked up at her and said
"Well not much I can do about that now huh?" Her mentor who sadly was my father called her over, as I got picked up by Harespring and Leaftail to get checked by Bark face in the Medicine den.