The hunting practice between the apprentices has begun. Flamepaw was stalking a vole. It was quite large in size. Oh how proud the clan would be of me if I caught that! he thought. He had to be extremely silent. Paw by paw, he was moving closer. He kept his belly skimming the ground with each movement. He now got into his hunting crouch stance. He leaped for the vole, but swiped to early! The vole noticed and began to sprint away.
"Darn!" Flamepaw cursed.
He began to chase after it. He needed to keep a steady acceleration so that he would be able to make sharp turns. This vole was pretty fast, that's for sure. He had eventually cornered it.
"You're not getting away," he growled.
The vole stared at Flamepaw. This made him confused. Why is it just staring at me? he thought. While he was wondering, the vole made a leap and began to run away. He had let it go again! Flamepaw let out a loud growl and began to chase it once more. This time, he had to be more witty.
Starclan had given Flamepaw a third chance to catch this vole. He made a more elegant leap, surely he would catch it, but in a blink of an eye it had disappeared. Flamepaw had landed on nothing.
"How is this possible?" He asked himself out loud.
He looked to his right and was immediately angry. It was Cloudpaw. She had stole his catch.
"Cloudpaw!"Flamepaw let out a warrior's growl.
"Oh! Quite intimidating. My my, this vole is huge! The clan will be amazed at this," Cloudpaw jeered.
"That was mine and you know it!"Flamepaw said.
"Well, it's not like I took it from you physically. I just... caught it really," Cloudpaw replied," You're just gonna have to catch something else I guess."
She snickered and padded away with the vole. Flamepaw was enraged. Now what will I bring the clan? They will all be impressed that Cloudpaw stole my catch! he thought. He began to scrounge around for something else.
The apprentices had returned to the clan. Everybody admired Flame- Cloudpaw's vole. Flamepaw had brought back a lousy pigeon. It wouldn't feed anybody.
"Congratulations Cloudpaw! That vole could feed the entire clan!" Darkflame praised.
Once again, the congratulating began. Flamepaw walked off to his best friend, Lightningpaw.
Lightning looked at him, "Well um...nice pigeon?"
"Ugh! All I brought back was actually the lousiest thing. It will not feed anybody. That's my vole," He growled.
Lightningpaw looked at him,"That's not hard to believe. Cloudpaw has always been annoying, but how exactly did she steal it?"
"She caught it before I did, but I was ready and everything! I was hunting it down for hours," Flamepaw responded.
"So, you had multiple chances and failed all of them?" Lightningpaw asked.
"I may not of failed the last one! Until Cloudpaw got in the way," Flamepaw ranted.
Lightningpaw put his tail over Flamepaw's mouth,"Quiet! Lionstar is speaking."
The leader hopped up onto the highledge. The highledge was a hill that laid in front of the clan.
"The days of alliance is coming. Earthclan will be fighting by our side!" He declared.
The clan cheered.
"The gathering will begin tomorrow," Lionstar finished.
Flamepaw walked off towards his den. He felt tired from all those hours spent on stalking a vole he didn't even catch. He thought about the alliance. A new alliance meant more warriors, and more warriors meant he might become a warrior soon. Now Flamepaw couldn't sleep because of his excitement. He decided to take a stroll in the forest.
Flamepaw was walking in the forest alone. He thought about being a warrior. But he didn't only want that, he wanted to be a leader. No, he wanted to rule the entire forest. While he was walking, he saw something. The figure looked like a cat. On his territory. Flamepaw was already burning up with energy. This was his chance to prove that he was to be leader of the clan. He began to move slowly forward. The cat seemed to just be wandering around. Idiot, Flamepaw thought. He leaped and landed flat on the cat. The cat flipped over and kicked him right in the stomach. Flamepaw groaned in pain. The shadowy figure then got into a defensive stance. Flamepaw began to attack from the side, but this cat was skillfully dodging every move. Flamepaw charged at this cat, but it countered him and he fell to the ground. This cat was definitely skilled in battling.
Flamepaw growled," Who are you?"
The cat did not respond. It simply lunged at Flamepaw, bowling him over. It went for a second hit, but Flamepaw was ready. He gasped on the cat's left leg and flipped it onto it's back. He had the cat pinned down.
"Answer my question before I let you go," Flamepaw said.
The shadowy figure disappeared. This confused Flamepaw. He looked around for the figure, and was then knocked unconscious. The shadowy figure began to run back to it's clan.
The next day, every Lightclan cat stood around Flamepaw. Flamepaw grew conscious again, and was confused to see everybody standing around him.
"Flamepaw, what happened?" Blazespark, his mentor, asked him.
"I have no idea," Flamepaw responded.
Blazespark looked around. The clan began to talk to each other about what might've happened. Flamepaw saw some fur left behind. It was gray.