This story is based on my real life clan I have with my friends, so enjoy!
The harsh water lapped at swirlstar's paws her eyes content on the world around. She lashed out a paw as a sudden movement wiggled underwater, a fish came splashing onto the rough earth and she quickly finished it off. She lay down beside the creature, eating it in two quick bites before she got to her paws and shook the water droplets off her fur. Her light blue eyes and brown fur gleamed in the sunlight as she started to pad back to the camp through the forest.
As she got to the camp entrance she gazed down upon it, her deputy shadow heart was talking to their shared apprentice flame paw while tiger kit was pouncing around with a moss ball. Swirlstar smiled down at them, they were just a small clan but they have hearts like Lionclan.
Swirlstar padded down the camp entrance heading towards her deputy and apprentice. She nodded a quick welcome then meowed "Flamepaw shall we go and do a trainning session?" Flamepaw quickly sprung to her paws and quickly replied "Yes! What are we going to do!" Swirlstar stared at the apprentice delight filling her eyes that there apprentice was excited. "Calm down young Flamepaw wait and see. Also shadow heart stay here we cant leave tiger kit alone we don't know what trouble he will get into to!" Shadow heart nodded while swirlstar padded back out of camp with flame paw padding with excitement next to her.
As they padded deeper into the forest the scent of prey grew even stronger making flame paw squeal with delight as she tried to make sense of all the different scents around her. "We are going hunting aren't we!" Flamepaw jumped with excitement, her first hunting lesson, she had been waiting for this from when she was a tiny kit laying beside her mother in the nursery.
Swirlstar nodded her head and soon stopped as she caught the scent of a vole scuffling in the undergrowth beside her. She signalled with her tail for flame paw to be quiet however come forward silently. "Crouch low" she whispered "be light on your paws and when you are in reach of your prey pounce and quickly finish your prey off."
Flamepaw carefully crouched low her instincts all fixed on the vole. She moved along slowly placing her paws carefully down before she pounced and finished of the vole before it could escape. Flamepaws eyes filled with delight as she looked down at the prey she just caught. "Well done flame paw" swirlstar meowed "nearly stepped on the branch over there" she signalled with her tail. "could of lost you that prey."
Flamepaw saw the stick her mentor was signalling to and nodded understanding how lucky she was to catch the prey. Then sniffed the air to smell a mouse hidden in brambles a tail length away. She padded over and dropped into a hunters crouch and padded forward minding her stepping carefully. The wind blew her scent towards the mouse and it came out of hiding and ran deep into the forest.
Flamepaw sighed, she could of caught that! "Don't blame your self flame paw, not even warriors or leaders always have successful hunting. The wind changed so the prey could smell you, when hunting always try and make sure the wind is blowing towards you so you can smell the prey and not the other way round. The wind always changes so don't blame your self if that happens"
Flamepaw nodded and swirlstar signalled with her trail for flame paw to follow her back to camp as the sun began to set behind them leaving a orange glow on the horizon. Swirlstar let the wind flatted her fur as the scents of the forest surrounded her.
Flamepaw padded down the camp entrance and headed towards the fresh kill pile putting her catch proudly upon the pile. Shadowheart padded up to her and congratulated her at her first catch. Flamepaw smiled then padded towards the apprentices den yawning.
Swirlstar padded over to shadow heart who greeted her with a flick of her tail. Swirlstar crouched down beside her and meowed "She caught a good piece of prey today, quiet plump." Shadowheart nodded.