Dawnstream's

Bravery

Mossdawn

Chapter 1

It was a green leaf morning where all the birds sang a song the wind blowing swiftly. Dawnpaw was excited for her ceremony. Her assesment was today along with her brothers and sister. Flowerpaw's paws wouldn't stop moving. "I am too excited! You know Briarpaw and Lightpaw are apprentinces for 1 moon only. So we are like, senior apprentinces! Am I right? I am of course!" Dawnpaw rolled her eyes at Flowerpaw. " Oh sure." Crowpaw and Flamepaw walked towards their sisters. "Is it just me or is Flowerpaw about to burst?" Crowpaw asked with a mrrow of amusement. Dawnpaw nodded. " It's more than bursting Crowpaw. She's going to explode everywhere. The whole forest!" Flowerpaw smiled. "Aww, thanks Dawnpaw." Dawnpaw shrugged. "Anything for you sis'"
Echostar, Dappleflower, Wildfur and Sharpclaw padded to the four apprentinces. " Are you ready for your assesments?" Dappleflower asked. They all nodded. Echostar chuckled. " Okay then. Your first assesment is as always the hunting assesment. We'll be watching you as you hunt. If you can't get at least two prey you might fail. We always do this at Newleaf or when a good weather so no excuses for no prey. Understood?" The apprentinces nodded again. "Okay then, off we go. Dawnpaw you will hunt near the twolegplace." Echostar told her. Wildfur stood up. " Flowerpaw, you will hunt near the EarthClan border. Not ON the border, NEAR the border." Flowerpaw nodded with excitement. Dappleflower smiled. " And you Crowpaw, hunt near the WaterClan border. OK?" Crowpaw nodded not surprised at his hunting place. Sharpclaw blinked. " Flamepaw you will hunt around the big Oak tree. Let's go." They all headed out.
When Dawnpaw reached her hunting area, she spotted a small squirrel heading for a tree. The squirrel launched up the tree onto the branch eating an acorn quickly. The branch was high and Dawnpaw quietly crept up the tree onto the branch. The squirrel chose the wrong branch. It was too high for the squirrel so he was cornered. Dawnpaw swiped at the squirrel even when it tried to escape. The squirrel went limp and almost fell but Dawnpaw leaped down and caught it with her jaw. She dug up a hole and dropped the squirrel. Then she saw a shrew crawling around. Oh, little one. You shouldn't be crawling around when you have predators. She got into the hunter's crouch and creeped up on the shrew and started stalking it. She swiftly clawed it and dropped the shrew along with the squirrel. A pigeon wasn't looking at where it was going. It was heading towards Dawnpaw and she hid behind a boulder and leaped in the air and grabbed it hard. Hah! You might be an idiot but you are delicious! You're my key to being a warrior. I should be grateful to you. She heard a meow of approval. She spun around to see Echostar nodding.

"Very nice, Dawnpaw. I have taught you much. I'm afraid your time is up but you still passed- the hunting assesment. Tomorrow, battling. You will then do your last border and hunting patrols and maybe a ceremony will be here! I am so proud of my clan." she flicked her tail towards camp and they bounded away.

Dawnpaw was exhausted as she entered camp. She padded to her den to sleep. As she entered she expected to be first, instead she was last. Briarpaw and Lightpaw were wiggling their tails like they were going to die if they couldn't gossip. Briarpaw was the first to blurt out. " What happened? Did you pass? Wow! You look so tired, you must've caught a whole lot of prey! Tell us what happened! We've been waiting for you!" Dawnpaw looked around. Briarpaw was right. All eyes were on hers but she looked away. " Sorry but I'm too tired. I caught a squirrel, shrew and a pigeon. OK?" She dragged her nest far away from the others. She wished the only cat was here next to her who understood her. Nightfall. He wouldn't like the others excitement and their constant questions. Them both would hang out together. But Nightfall became a warrior and everything changed. She would become a warrior in two days and she would hope her littermates would be mature.

"Come on! Tell us what happened. Exactly what happened?" Lightpaw jumped up and down. Dawnpaw couldn't tolerate it anymore. Everynight, questions and questions. Dawnpaw growled harshly. " You want to know what happened? Well, too bad! Because I am never going to like you and you!" She glanced both at Briarpaw and Lightpaw. " I've had enough with your mews and questions! If you want to be warriors, act mature! This goes for you too!" She hissed at her littermates. "Just leave me alone. I've had to put up with this for a whole moon everyday. Not even a moon. Since I was born! " She puffed and crawled into her nest. Maybe she went too far. She heard Lightpaw whimper. "I'm sorry you felt this way. We just wanted to be like you." She flattened her ears and went to her nest. Flowerpaw's eyes were wide and teary. " Yeah, I'm sorry you were born, too." She slashed her way into her nest. Briarpaw didn't say anything and cuddled into his own nest. Crowpaw shrugged. " We aren't warriors yet, so we can still be immature." He sat down on his nest. Flamepaw shook his head. " She's right. We shouldn't be like this. Then we won't deserve to be real warriors." He slept in his nest tears in his eyes.