Chapter 1
Ravenkit woke up to her sibling Pinkkit grooming, and it was not Ravenkit's favorite way to wake up in the morning. "Get off of me you furball!" she hissed. "You need to look presentable for our apprentice ceremony! And I am not having my sister looking like a hedgehog!" Pinkkit huffed. Ravenkit sprinted away just in time, she had a bit more time left before the ceremony. It was dawn for Starclan's sake!
She saw Starpaw, her closest friend in the clan, come out of the medicine cat fuming in anger. She tilted her head in confusion, he rarley ever got angry! He was usually calm and collected. She rushed to him, "Wait up!" Starpaw looked back, and his expression softened. "Hi," he said gloomily. "What do you want?" "I want you tell me what is going on, you don't usually start fuming in the morning, unless Nightpool's kits wreck the herb piles," Ravenkit demanded. Starpaw looked away, "Are you excited for your apprentice ceremony?" She knew he was trying to distract her, and she sighed. If he wanted to change the subject, then there was no stopping him. "Pinkkit was giving a full grooming session when I woke up. It was a nice... surprise," Ravenkit ended awkwardly. She wondered if Icekit woke up to Pinkkit grooming her.
"I hope my mentor is Lionscar, he knows a lot of fighting moves!" she said. The golden tom was the best fighter in all of the clan! "With his fighting skills, I would be unstoppable!" she sighed. She noticed Starpaw shake his head in disaproval. "Power isn't everything," he whispered. Anger was bubbling inside her, she was only joking! She didn't want power, all she wanted to be was a loyal warrior! He can't say anything about that, he was a medicine cat! "You wouldn't know the glory of defending your clan! If I was unstoppable I would help protect my clanmates not use it!" she hissed. "Well being unstoppable can lead to disasters! You havn't even been in a battle yet, so how would you know defending your clan is an honor? It might lead to more death!" He snorted angrily. Ravenkit spun around, and stalked off before he could say anymore.
Ravenkit calmed herself down, she wasn't going to let Starpaw get in her way today. Today was on her and her sisters becoming apprentices. She still wanted Lionscar to be her mentor. She walked into the nursery and breathed in the scents. She wasn't going to sleep in hear tonight, she was sleeping in the apprentices den. She saw that Icekit did get Pinkkit's grooming of terror, but Icekit's fur was more sleek and easy to untangle. "Ravenkit come here," she heard Sweetfern's voice come from across the nursery. Ravenkit was sure that Sweetfern didn't like her kits, and she loathed Ravenkit the most. Ravenkit dragged her feet, and sat down obediently. Her mother liked order and discipline. Ravenkit was hard to control, and she had a free spirit that was hard to wrangle with. While her mother groomed her, Ravenkit still hoped that her mentor was going to be Lionscar.
When the sun just barely started to sink, Willowstar called for everyone. This is it, Ravenkit thought. This is the day I am going to start to make my way up to being the best warrior anyone has ever seen! She wriggled with excitement, not really paying attention to anything. "Icekit from now on you will be called Icepaw, your mentor will be Clawfire. Clawfire, pass all you know to this apprentice," Willowstar called. "Pinkkit you're now Pinkpaw, your mentor will be Sweetfern." Pinkpaw drooped her her head in dissapointment, she got her mother who didn't love kits. Pinkpaw touched noses, and sat beside her mom. "Finally Ravenkit," Willowstar said finally. Yes! thought Ravenkit excitedly. "You are from now on you are known as Ravenpaw, your mentor will be..." Willowstar paused. Please let it be Lionscar! Ravenpaw thought desperatley. "It will be Amberpool," she said finally. Ravenpaw stared in horror at her leader, Amberpool was nothing like her brother, Lionscar. She was cheerful, kind, not rough, always worried, enthusiastic, and is better at hunting! HUNTING! Ravenpaw sulked to Amberpool, and touched noses with her. "We are going to have so much fun!" Amberpool squealed in excitement. She was also optimistic, Ravenpaw was doomed.
Ravenpaw walked to the fresh kill pile, and sat beside Starpaw. "You don't seem very happy, you were hoping for Lionscar as your mentor weren't you?" he said. Ravenpaw didn't want to talk about it, but she knew he was going to pester her about it. "Yeah, instead I got Sparkle Positive as a mentor," she growled so nobody could hear except Starpaw. "I mean, honestly, she talks and gossips all day. Believe me, Iv'e heard her. She just doesn't take her mentorship seriously!" Ravenpaw sighed in distress. Starpaw looked at the troubled she-cat, she noticed how he wanted to comfort her, but had no words. He padded away, leaving her miserable about her mentor. Ravenpaw could hear him cursing under his breath. "What could I have said to her? I'm not a warrior apprentice! UHH! I never make a good impression in front of her!" Ravenpaw giggled slightly, it was a\true he was terrible at comforting people and made a mousebrain if he tried.
"Oh well," Ravenpaw sighed sadly. She wondered what was going to happen tomorrow with her slap happy mentor.