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After recently showing Starpaw the territories, Firestar brought her to the training hollow. "Where's all da bodies of dead cats dat trained?" Starpaw mewed curiously. Firestar gave her a look. "We don't kill cats in training..." He replied, but Starpaw didn't seem to listen. "Alright, Starpaw. Are you ready to train?" Asked Firestar. "Come on, thas too easy!" Starpaw boasted. Firestar stared at her in confusion. "What's too easy?" He thought to himself. "Alright. We'll learn a technique that I've done as an apprentice myself.. A technique that helped-" He was cut off by a battle cry from Starpaw as she leaped into the air and raked her claws across his side. Firestar stared at her, stunned. "Smallpaw, you're not supposed to train with claws! That can severely injure people! Yellowfang once told me that was how one kit was killed in Shadowclan, back when BrokenStar reigned as leader!" He hissed sternly. Starpaw stared at him blankly. "Agh, I forgot to say Starpaw." He muttered to himself. He took calm breaths and spoke again. "Like I said, you should learn this technique. It was a technique I used to defeat Scourge."
"SCORG? SCORG?!" Starpaw shrieked in horror. "I'M LIKE SCORG?!"
"No, you're not like Scourge!" Firestar replied immediately. "I said I USED this technique to defeat Scourge."
"Oh, ok thanks." Starpaw calmed down. Firestar let out an exasperated sigh and gave her a puzzled look.
They both continued to train, and Starpaw kept clawing Firestar 8 times, and each time, Firestar had to tell her not to do that. They took a trip to Jayfeather, who applied cobwebs to Firestar's wounds. "It's not too deep of a gash, but we don't need an infection." Jayfeather explained, as he pressed the cobwebs on the clawmarks. "You sure you should be training Smallpaw?" Jayfeather whispered loudly to Firestar. "She needs a chance. I don't want her feeling like an outsider." He replied. They both looked at Starpaw, who stared blankly into space and murmured, her eyes rolling about her head. Firestar stood up. "Starpaw and I will get back to the training hollow now." He meowed. The kit and her mentor left, leaving the blind medicine cat back to sorting out herbs.
Firestar decided to take a break and talk to Starpaw about why they don't claw others during training, although she didn't seem to listen. "Firestar, can we hunt now? I'm kinda hungry.." Complained the little kit. "Oh, ok then. The clan could use some fresh kill." He replied. They both ventured around, catching prey. Starpaw was continuously chasing the prey around, scaring off the others, and by the time she catches it, the prey slips out of her paws and takes cover in a bush or in the tree's roots. Firestar gave her kind words of encouragement, and they brought back a few pieces of prey, while Starpaw carried back the only prey she was able to catch, but the best; a plump vole.
When they got back, most of the clan gave Starpaw words of encouragement, while some did their best to avoid her, but she didn't seem to mind. She made her way to the apprentice den, and greeted Jazzpaw. Starpaw poked her head outside the den and looked up at the sky, dotted with their ancestors. "Do you think well ever be up there?" Starpaw asked her friend. "Yeah, totally!" Jazzpaw replied with enthusiasm. "I mean, I'm sure one day you'll become leader, and I might become deputy. But either way, if we don't, we'll still be able to be up there, unless if one of us takes a dark path!" Jazzpaw mewed, encouraging her friend. "Yeah..." Starpaw replied, before slowly lowering her head into sleep, her ears twitching as if she heard voices.
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