First story and there might be mistakes and I'm sorry for that
I do not own warriors
"By the powers of Star Clan. I give you your warrior name, Darkpaw, from this moment on you will be known as Darkstorm," Thistlestar, a big black tom with white paws and ear tufts rumbled out thickly his gaze resting on the newly named warrior dark pelt before he hopped down from the hazel branch. Standing in front of Darkstorm he touched his nose to the new warrior forehead and pulled away when his shoulder was licked.
"Darkstorm! Darkstorm!" The clan called out for their clanmate before a couple cats went up to congratulate him with purrs before Darkstorm was nudged towards the fresh kill pile by his old mentor, Nightpath.
"Eat something before your vigil," Nightpath stated lightly with a small smile, "I'll be the one to release you in the morning too" He added as Darkstorm picked up a thrush from the filled fresh-kill pile.
"That's good, hopefully you'll make me a nest too" Darkstorm mumbled around the thrush moving to the side of the warrior den to eat by himself since Nightpath was called by Snaketooth for a quick border patrol, though it didn't bother him since he didn't really wasn't one to talk about nothing.
Once he had finished off his thrush and buried the bones, Darkstorm gathered the feathers up in a pile before leaving them and entering the shaded warrior den, his tail tip twitching before he glanced around sighing at there being a already freshly gathered large ball of moss collected probably by Nightpath for him.
Setting to work Darkstorm grabbed the ball of moss with a claw and moved it to an open spot for his nest, moving on top of it and pushing the moss apart slightly and spreading it out so it would fit his body nicely and without his fur touching the dirt below it. He rushed outside and picked his feathers up and went back to his nest and carefully started to bite the sharp end off before placing them around his newly made nest.
Darkstorm purred to himself pleased with his work before he headed out of the warriors den and over to the thorn tunnel, standing to the side of it so he wouldn't be in the way of cats coming and going but be able to see if anyone from the outside would be coming through. He sat down shifted himself before he sighed and began his vigil.
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A yawn escaped Darkstorm's jaws as the night rolled on, he blinked his eyes quickly and focused on watching the camp and listening out for anything that wasn't his sleeping clanmates. He gave a low sleepily chuckle to himself and slumped a bit yawning once more and shifting his weight from paw to paw, swiping one over his right ear and eye to make himself feel more awake though it barely worked.
Darkstorm gave up on being still and soon started to pace around the camp though he kept his pawsteps quiet and stayed a couple mouse lengths from the dens to keep his shadow from passing over the dens entrances knowing it would wake up a few cats, "Can't wait to sleep" He muttered under his breath ears flicking back at having spoken but since no one was around he just shrugged and continued his pacing.
He stopped pacing once his muscles started to ache in protest though he glanced up to the sky and sighed at it finally showing signs of dawn and he hurried to the thorn tunnel and sat back down. Darkstorm groaned to himself at the edge of sleep gripping him as soon has his heartbeat and body relaxed though he blinked at seeing Nightpath rushing over to him with a sleepily smile, "Come on.. vigil over" The tom mumbled out helping Darkstorm get to the warrior den since he was now half asleep and he was stumbling.
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Darkstorm jerked awake with a hiss at someone jabbing him in the side, he glared at the cat that had done it earning a snort from Reedblaze, "It's time to wake up, you have a hunting patrol to go on with me, Mudpuddle, and Sootpaw" The older tom grunted out before disappearing out of the den.
Darkstorm scowled for a second wanting to sleep more but deciding he needed to hunt so he could eat for today he got to his paws and left the den, blinking slightly at the change in brightness from the sun. He shook it off and quickly headed over to the group of three giving a light greeting to Mudpuddle and the toms apprentice.
"We'll be hunting near that twoleg nest" Reedblaze stated suddenly when they had exited the camp since he had been put in charge though it didn't stop Mudpuddle from questioning him within seconds.
"Is that safe? Sootpaw is a young cat, those kittypets that those twolegs are always targeting the apprentices and lone warriors" Mudpuddle pointed out eyes narrowing slightly, "I'll take Sootpaw to the other end of our territory for hunting. It's safer" He added with a shrug before flicking his tail and leading his apprentice off.
Darkstorm glanced at Reedblaze hiding his smirk at the other tom looking angry at having been disobeyed so quickly but Mudpuddle had been correct about those kittypets the twolegs kept in that nest of their, though they were living with the twolegs they used dirty tricks and killed their cats. It happened almost every few seasons one of the apprentices or older warriors would go missing and be found dead somewhere close to that twoleg nest. Nothing seemed to put those kittypets off from seriously harming and killing their cats.
"Come on! Stop daydreaming!" Reedblaze snapped making Darkstorm blink and growl lowly at the other tom but when watching the brown tom trot off in a quick pace he followed. He broke apart when Reedblaze angrily told him to start hunting, which he was more than happy to do to get away from the angry tom.
Darkstorm padded quietly along the pine needled covered ground, keeping his steps light and quiet before he paused ears twitching at the sound of something scrambling up one of the pine trees and easily placing it as a squirrel when picking up the weird sounds they made. He quickly stalked forward eyes glancing up at the pine trees every few steps before he saw the fluffy body of the reddish brown squirrel and he stilled.
Watching it for a moment he waited for the squirrel to come down from the pine tree his claws unsheathing when finally the brown body touched the ground and hopped away digging into the dirt, he pounced quickly landing on top of it when it had its head stuffed into the ground stopping it from screeching out. He bit its spine killing it quickly and pulling it up from the hole purring at having caught such a large squirrel so soon but being new-leaf prey was fat and plentiful.
Darkstorm placed his squirrel near the showing root of the pine tree covering it with some pine needles to stop hawks from spotting it, he quickly padded off once more sniffing the air for anything else that would be out before he stilled and gave a grin at the scent of an adder. They had become scarce in Shadow clan's territory since they were very tender and made very fulfilling meals if they were big enough.
He licked his muzzle as he quickened his pace and hopped forward hissing at the adder that jerked its head up and gave its own angry hiss in reply and coiled its body tightly its head dipping to get ready for a quick strike. Darkstorm dodged from the adder's strike and quickly turned his body and slammed his paws into the adder's large head pleased its head was almost the size of his two forepaws to together meaning the adder was big and going to make a nice meal.
Darkstorm growled and finally unsheathed his claws jumping a good distance away from the adder and crouched down waiting for the adder to side forward and try to strike at him once more before he lashed out a paw letting his claws catch the adder on the return. He watched the adder writhe and quickly start to make a retreat but be leaped and pinned the adder down and claw its head till it stopped struggling.
He smirked and played with the adder's head a bit making sure it was dead before he decided the squirrel and this adder would be enough for his share of prey to bring to the camp. Darkstorm picked his adder up and dragged its long body to where his squirrel was having to pick it up by the tip of its fuzzy tail, he had a slow trot to camp not wanting to stumble over himself or drop the two pieces of prey.
Though once in camp he gained a lot of attention before a small light brown tabby she-cat bounded up to him brown amber eyes wide with surprise, "You caught an adder!? How did you do that!?" She asked voice high pitched and trying to grab at the adder from him. Darkstorm hissed and jerked back from her narrowing his eyes in a glare, "Did it bite you?" She asked bouncing forward closer to him.
Darkstorm sighed heavily and moved to drop his prey into the fresh-kill pile before he blinked at Graymist the almost blind elderly medicine she-cat trotting up to him, "You were bit?" She grunted out making him sigh and shake his head and huff.
"I wasn't bit, Starlingpaw is just over excited 'bout seeing an adder" Darkstorm explained for her sighing and giving a small grunt at Graymist snapping angrily at him for wasting her time when he hadn't done a thing to waste her time. He watched her go and rolled his eyes before he stretched out a bit and glanced around the camp guessing he could turn in early since he wasn't hungry nor in the mood to deal with Starlingpaw who was seeming to try and get pass her mentor to ask him more about the adder he killed.