Chapter 3: The Big Events!
I forgot to say, Bravepaw and Flamepaw did the tail thing in a friendly manner so not in a loving way. Also I stink at how Purdy talks! Alright! To the story!
After the feast: Bravepaw's mentor, Brightheart, came over.
"Hi, Bravepaw! Want to see the borders?" she asked.
"Yeah! I'll see you later in the apprentices den, Flamepaw." Bravepaw said to Flamepaw.
"Bye! Have fun!" Flamepaw replied.
When they got into the forest, they got to the WindClan border, Bravepaw could smell the stench.
"WindClan lives on the moor, where they chase rabbits easily," Brightheart commented.
Once they got near to the RiverClan border, Bravepaw legs got sore. 'How in StarClan can they walk so far?' she thought, 'My legs are going to fall off any minute now!'
"Ugh! What's that stench?!"
"That would be RiverClan, they eat fish." Brightheart sighed, "You'll soon get used to it." She doubted what Brightheart said. Bravepaw could see that even Brightheart wrinkled her nose.
They seemed to be walking for moons when they finally got to the ShadowClan border.
"This is ShadowClan, obviously," she said, but then when she smelled the border, her fur bristled, "ShadowClan crossed the border!"
"Is those feathers from us?" asked Bravepaw.
Brightheart gave it a sniff and shook her head, "ShadowClan's stench."
Bravepaw's heart began to pound excitedly, "Do we go into battle?"
She suppressed a mrrow of amusment, "You have a lot of energy, but you can't for 2 reasons. One: you just started your apprenticeship and two: we have to tell Firestar."
Bravepaw's tail drooped, but still was happy.
"We'll finish to tour tomorrow," she told Bravepaw, "Let's go tell Firestar."
When they got back Bravepaw was out of breath from the run. Brightheart called for Firestar. Firestar and Brambleclaw have been discussing the upcoming Gathering when she called. They walked over and Firestar asked, "What do you need Brightheart?"
"ShadowClan. They crossed the border!"
Dustpelt, who has been listening, pelt began to rise, "What?! We've got to stop them!"
Brambleclaw raised his tail to silence him and asked, "What do you propose we do, Firestar?"
Firestar thought for a moment and then replied, "Lets mention it at the Gathering, so right now, I will call a meeting on who's coming tomorrow." Brambleclaw and Dustpelt nodded in approval.
Firestar leapt on the Highrock, "All cats old enough to catch their prey, gather beneath the Highrock for a Clan meeting!" he yowled. Again, all the cats gathered.
"We have been notified that ShadowClan crossed the border." Yowls of anger came across the Clan. "So I'm going to say it at tomorrow's gathering! I have chosen who gets to go!"
'I wonder how he will bring all the apprentices. They're nine of them!" she shuffled her paws in anticipation.
"It will be: Brightheart, Lionblaze, Sandstorm, Cloudtail, and Greystripe. And I'll bring half of the apprentices, and they will be: Flamepaw, Rabbitpaw, and Bravepaw. Of course Leafpool and Jayfeather come." With that he strode back to his den.
Bravepaw's heart skipped with joy! 'I'm going! I'm going to my first Gathering!" She didn't hear Brightheart come up behind her.
"You'd better get some sleep, or you'll be more tired than a fox after a swim!" she said, laughing when Bravepaw fell over, "I'll also help you tomorrow with hearing cats come up to you!"
"Ok!" she skipped off to the nursery but then stopped because she remembered she was an apprentice! She crept to the apprentices den, nervously. She looked inside and saw Fernclouds kits sleeping, along with Silverpaw, with Spiritpaw next to her, Lightningpaw was next to Bluepaw, and Rabbitpaw was calling to her.
"Psst! Bravepaw! Come over here I saved you space!" he called to her.
"Thanks!" she replied gratefully.
"G'night, Rabbitpaw."
Good night Bravepaw," She fell asleep listening to Rabbitpaw's breathing.
She woke up in a big field. It was what any cat could ask for, the sun shining down on you, prey, everything!
"Hello, Bravepaw. Welcome to StarClan," a voice sounded behind her. When she turned around she saw a grey-blue she-cat, "I am Bluestar, I was leader of ThunderClan before Firestar, and this" –she pointed to a cat behind her- "is Spottedleaf."
"Am I dead?" Bravepaw asked, fearfully.
Spottedleaf let out an mrrow of laughter, "No you aren't, we're just welcoming you to the Clans as an apprentice."
"We will see you at Moonpool soon, young apprentice," Bluestar said before she and Spottedleaf faded away in the sunrise.
Bravepaw woke up to find the den empty except for Moonpaw, Rabbitpaw, and herself. When she got up, she stretched out her legs, that's when Brightheart came in.
"You're up! Want to finish the tour around the territory?" she asked.
"Yeah!"
Brightheart showed her the Thunderpath, best hunting spots, and the start of the path to the tree bridge (at least all the way to the WindClan border).
"Now it's time for some battle training," Brightheart said when the tour was over, "Let's start with the Leap-and-Hold. You just leap on the opponents back and keep a strong hold." She demonstrated it, "You try it on me!"
Bravepaw wiggled her hindquarters and leapt. She landed square on Brightheart's back, "That's good Bravepaw!"
She showed the Play Dead trick, Front paw blow/strike, and the belly rake. (A/N: I had the Secrets of the Clans book).
When they returned, Brightheart sent her to get fresh-kill before the Gathering. Bravepaw spotted Flamepaw and she started walking over there when she saw the older apprentice, Flowerpaw, the brown she-cat (part of my story, not in Warriors books), sitting by him. She was bossy and mean to her. Also Spiritpaw, being different and all. Flowerpaw looked at her and had an evil glint in her eyes.
"Hey Bravepaw!" a voice said near her. When she turned around, she saw Smokepaw, Flowerpaw's brother. He's a smoky grey tom with bright blue eyes. Bravepaw never talked to Smokepaw ever, so she was really nervous.
"Th-Thanks, Smokepaw," Bravepaw stammered. When she tucked her paws in she looked up to see Flowerpaw glaring at her brother. When she looked back down there was 2 mice for them.
"How'd your assessment go today?" Bravepaw asked.
"I caught these 2 mice, a thrush, and a vole!" Smokepaw boasted.
"How about her?" flicking her tail at Flowerpaw.
"Well she did well in the fighting part but I beat her in the hunting part!" he said, happily.
Bravepaw mrrowed in amusment. 'He's really nice! Nicer than his sister…"
After they finished Firestar called to the cats, "Maybe you'll get your warrior name!" Bravepaw said, excitedly.
"I hope so!" They went to the Highrock and sat next to each other.
Firestar was at the foot of Highrock and yowled, "This is a great honor for ThunderClan to have 2 new apprentices to become warriors!"
Yowls of approval went throughout the Clan, "Flowerpaw come forward!" She walked forward, "I, Firestar, leader of ThunderClan, call upon my warrior ancestors to look down upon this apprentice. She has trained hard to understand the ways of the warrior code, and I commend her to you as a warrior in her turn."
Flowerpaw puffed out her chest, to look stronger.
"Flowerpaw," Firestar went on, "do you promise to uphold the warrior code and protect this Clan even at the cost of your life?"
"I do."
"Then by the power of StarClan, I give you your warrior name. Flowerpaw, from this moment forward, you will be known as Flowerpetal! I give you this name for your courage and you personality."
"Flowerpetal! Flowerpetal!" She looked as if she had become leader.
Nightpaw was next to Bravepaw and said, "She is as arrogant as a fox."
"Yeah I agree." Since their apprenticeship they'd become friends.
She walked over to Flamepaw and touched noses with him. Her eyes clouded, but disappeared so she could hear Smokepaw's ceremony.
"Do you promise to uphold the warrior code, and protect your Clan, even at the cost of your life?"
"I do!" He couldn't hold in his excitement.
"Then by the power of StarClan, I give you your warrior name. Smokepaw, from this moment forward, you will be known as Smokeclaw! I give you this name for your loyalty, and for your helpfulness!"
"Smokeclaw! Smokeclaw!"
(A/N Flowerpetal's mentor was Whitwing and Smokeclaw's was Thornclaw)
Smokeclaw came over and sat by Bravepaw with their pelts touching. If Smokeclaw heard the hiss from Flowerpetal, he didn't show it.
"Can't wait until you become a warrior then we could sleep in the warriors den together!"
"Yeah," Bravepaw replied.
Firestar yowled, "Let's head to the Gathering! Flowerpetal and Smokeclaw, you come with too."
"Well it looks like we can do something together, that isn't patrols." He meowed.
On the way to the Gathering, Bravepaw was nervous, "Brightheart?"
"Yes?"
"Will the other cats like me?" she asked, solemnly.
"Of course! Why'd you think that?" she said, optimistically.
All Bravepaw did was wiggle her only ear and blink each eye.
"Oh. Well, I wasn't made fun of. All the cats looked at me weirdly, because of the accident," her eyes, or should I say, eye, flashed with fear and sadness. Bravepaw remembered the story of how Brightheart, Brightpaw at the time, was attacked by dogs along with Swiftpaw, and Swiftpaw lost his life but Brightpaw was scarred for life.
"I don't want that to happen to me…"
"Well, I won't tolerate it," she said, determinedly, "let's catch up!"
They got up to the tree bridge, and when Bravepaw saw the water she squealed and backed away.
"What? Are you scared? Just like a little kit?" Flowerpetal laughed. Smokeclaw came up behind her and pushed her in the shallow part of the river. She squeaked but was cut off when she fell in. When she popped back out, she had wide eyes but shook it off and glared at her brother. He just chuckled and walked up the tree bridge but stopped and said, "Who's scared now?"
She just hissed and went up the tree too. Bravepaw crept carefully up, she was the last one, with Brightheart behind her encouraging her, "A little closer, just keep going." Finally she got to the top, so she jumped off, still shaking of fear. She was still scared of the first impressions. They finally got to the clearing of the Gathering place. RiverClan, and WindClan were there except for ShadowClan. Bravepaw kept to the back of the group of ThunderClan cats.
"ThunderClan is here!" A cat yowled.
"Now we have to wait for ShadowClan." A WindClan cat said.
"They're always late," another cat hissed.
Rabbitpaw and Flamepaw ran off to the other apprentices, the warriors went to the other warriors, Brambleclaw went to the foot of where the leaders went, with Firestar leaping on top of the branch, and then Jayfeather and Leafpool went to the other medicine cats. Bravepaw felt out in the open where every cat could see her. In fact, she was out in the open where every cat could see her. She could hear all the cats talking.
"How's prey running, Mistyfoot?" Bramblestar aked.
"Perfect!" she responded.
"I caught a thrush today! Out of the sky!" Rabbitpaw said.
"Well, I caught a fish on my first try!" A RiverClan apprentice said.
'What do I do?' All of a sudden a snotty voice sounded behind her, "What happen to your head?"
Before she turned around she closed on eye and sniffed, 'ShadowClan'
When she did she saw black and white tom with amber eyes. "Great. We're fighting a weirdo."
"Hey, mouse-brain! Leave her alone!" a cat stepped in front of Bravepaw. When she looked up, she saw Smokeclaw. Immediately, she brightened up. "She is learning better than you ever could!"
All the apprentice did was hiss. "Don't worry about him, that's Darkpaw. He is moody," Smokeclaw said.
"Thanks, Smokeclaw!" Bravepaw said, happily.
"How about you come sit by me?" he asked.
"Yeah, sure!"
They sat by each other when it started. Leapordstar stepped forward.
"All is well in RiverClan. There is a good supply of fish. We have a new apprentice, Wavepaw, and a new warrior, Ripplefang!"
"Wavepaw! Ripplefang!" Leapordstar stepped back and replaced by Onestar.
"The rabbits are coming back and we also have a new apprentice, Swiftpaw!"
"Swiftpaw!" Onestar was replaced by Blackstar.
"ShadowClan is all good…" he was glaring at the ThunderClan cats, but said nothing more.
Firestar stepped up, "We are good, because ThunderClan has two new warriors, Flowerpetal and Smokeclaw!"
"Flowerpetal! Smokeclaw!"
"This new leaf was great! We have a great supply of apprentices: Nightpaw, Bluepaw, Moonpaw, Flamepaw, Lightningpaw, Rabbitpaw, Silverpaw, Spiritpaw, and Bravepaw! But only Bravepaw, Rabbitpaw, and Flamepaw are here." When the Clans finished calling the names of the new cats Firestar spoke again, "Also we have found ShadowClan scents inside our territory."
Yowls of protest ran through the ShadowClan cats.
"We have done no such thing!" Blackstar yowled. Bravepaw looked at Darkpaw, and she saw that he had an evil glint in his eyes. 'He's the one who did it! I heard stories about a… Tigerstar… he was a brave warrior but very evil. Because he nearly destroyed the forest and Clans. Is he the next Tigerstar?"
To Be Continued…
Longest one I did so far! Most of these character will be made by me… In about 1 or 2 chapters they'll get their warrior names, maybe 3 chapters. But I hope this wasn't so boring. But review, if you'd like! I'll still accept help! PEACE!
