Yay! This chapter is finally here. For spring break I sort of jist chilled instead of working but now that it's my first day back I made sure to have this done. I made the cover art so please don't steal. I also forgot to say I don't own warrior cats but I do own my oc's. I noticed that since this is Bloodclan they have different terms for things and they know the names of things that a forest cat wouldn't know so keep that in mind. Thank your for the continued support and I'm always open too ways I can improve so tell me your thoughts. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 3: The Ceremony

Storm paced around the clearing. Claw, a close friend of hers watched. "If you keep this up your going to make a hole in the ground" he mused.

"I can't help it when I'm nervous!" She growled.

He looked down at his own claws. They were longer and sharper now that they had been replaced with the bone. "It wasn't that bad" he said in an unsure tone.

"Your not helping" she stopped pacing and glared at him.

"Oh, I'm sorry that I was trying to comfort you. If you didn't want my help than you should have just said so" he stormed off before she could say anything back.

Ugh! Who does he think he's talking to? He must have flies in his brain or something. Maybe he's just jealous that I'm a higher rank than him and I've only been a warrior for maybe...

She looked at the moons faint silhouette in the sky. A little more than one changing. That's not a long time. Still no reason for him to be a jerk to me.

Just then she saw Snake and Ice come out from behind a corner. "It's time" they meowed in unison.

Storm followed behind them slowly. It wasn't like she was in a hurry to go through the claw process. The cats who had their claws already nodded towards her respectfully. Storm had so many questions. She tapped Ice on the shoulder but both brothers turned around. "Are you sure the cats performing this process know what their doing?" She asked nervously.

"You'll be fine" Snake replied.

"But what if I bleed to death! Has that ever happened?".

"Many times. Many cats die when getting their claws. It's like a test of strength" Ice glanced her way.

Storm sighed. "That's really not helping".

"Who said I was trying to help".

The brothers laughed and padded ahead of her. "Stupid furballs" Storm grumbled to herself.

Snakes ear twitched in her direction but he said nothing. Storm glared at his back. Coward.

Scourge was waiting by a trash can when they arrived. "Your late" he growled to Storm.

"Its not my fault they took so long!" She grumbled.

She couldn't hide the disbelief in her expression. "I was just kidding, geez" he said with playfulness in his eyes.

"I know those blockheads can't do anything right".

Snake and Ice had been smiling until they realized the fault was on them. They turned their icy glares on Storm. "Let's go in, shall we" he pointed with his tail to a cracked window.

It was big enough for a cat to squeeze through. As Storm jumped down from the windowsill she got cut by the glass on her paw. She screeched in pain as her paws pad started to bleed. Scourge looked behind him. "Hurry up" he growled.

Storm tried to get up but she couldn't walk on three legs. Scourge didn't look worried at all. Now I'm really going to bleed to death. Storm stared at her paw, horrified of what was about to come. "If you think this will halt your clawing ceremony then you are surely mistaken... Now come before I make you come. I don't think you would like me very much if it comes to that but this is happening now".

Scourge glared at her. She sighed and crawled forward using her front paws. Her hind legs dragged behind her, leaving a trail of blood behind her. By the time they got to the place where the ceremony would happen Storm was exhausted. She didn't even struggle as cats held down all her legs. Maybe it's better this way. The less I move, the faster they get this over with. Scourge picked up a sharp bone and started to angle it so it would hit the spot where one of her claws came out. He pulled back to drive it in. Storm closed her eyes and waited for the pain to come.

"Wait!".

Claw raced over. Scourge looked up, dropping the bone. "What is the meaning of this Claw?! You better have a good reason to disrupt the ceremony".

"Brick tells me that we have a visitor coming with Boulder. He's brought a forest cat!" Claw exclaimed.

Scourges eyes flashed with hatred for a moment before he nodded. "Okay, I'm coming".

He looked back at Storm. "You stay here. Tend to your wounds".

He dashed away after Claw.

Storm was shaking, she was so scared. The bone had been so close to puncturing her skin. She still wasn't able to get up. "Can you fetch me some clear or perhaps some soft skin?" She asked Snipe, who had been holding down her right paw.

He glared at her her. "You still have three working legs. Get it yourself".

Storm started feeling lightheaded. "O-ok" she looked around and spotted some smooth skin.

I guess I'll just have to use that. As Storm crawled over to the smooth skin her paw started to hurt. The one she had hurt in the fight against the kit. This is just perfect! She looked back at Snipe. He was blurry. "Please".

He said something but she didn't hear him. He rushed over to the smooth skin and started wrapping it around her bleeding paw. "Whatever... don't... eep" he said but she only heard half of what he was saying.

She blinked slowly, her eyes closing for a while before he shook her. He yelled something at her. More cats crowded around. "I'm so..." she trailed off.

"Just... t..." his words were getting harder to understand.

Then she saw Scourge. He nuzzled her but then pulled away. Anger in his eyes. He started yelling at cats around her. Snipe had fear in his eyes. Scourge clawed at him and he fell to the ground. She looked out a window. Even though the sun was setting a few stars could be seen in the sky. Where do Bloodclan cats go when they die? But no... I can't die, I just became a warrior. I just... I just.