That night Longpaw had the weirdest dream. Longpaw dreamed that he was in another cats body but what was weirdest part of all was the fact that this cat looked exactly like him.
" Longtail, we need you to patrol our borders," a sleek, white tom told him.
" Who is this Longtail he is talking about ... is that ... is that me?"Longstripe thought creepily.
" Sure thing, Whitestorm", Longtail said.
The next thing he knew he heard a crack and something fell on Longtail. Longstripe couldn't move, the ground around him kept him in place as he watched in horror. It was as if he could feel the pain of the yellow and black tom.
" Help! Whitestorm Help!", Longpaw ( Longtail ) said but no one listened to him. Instead all the cats watched as Longtail was being crushed under the tree trunk but one cat looked at Longtail with sorrowful eyes.
" Mousefur ... save our kits!", Longtail screeched with one last breath and then went limp.
Everything went dark and Longpaw woke up trying to breath.
" Longpaw are ... are you ok!", Mousefur said worried.
Longpaw looked at his mother with wide scared eyes and finally spoke up.
" Just ... just a nightmare", Longstripe said taking a big gulp of air in his lungs.
Longpaw looked around his den and found out that his brothers had left already for their first day of training.
" Longpaw, Firestar wants to see you, hes in his den", Mousefur said.
Longpaw nodded and got to his paws, running to the leaders den, still a little shaken up after the strange dream.
" Longpaw, you may come in", said Firestar calmly. Longstripe entered cautiously and was greeted by a large, black tom with a few yellow dots around his head.
" Hello there, youngster", the strange tom said.
Longpaw looked at the tom with wide scared eyes, his claws were twice as big as Firestars own claws.
" Don't be scared Longpaw before you attract unwanted attention", Firestar said," This is Duskstripe, a Thunderclan senior warrior.
" Whats ... whats he doing here", Longpaw asked relaxing his muscles.
" You still haven't been assigned a mentor, so just for now Duskstripe will be your mentor, remember that you don't have to fear him", Firestar meowed.
Duskstripe looked at the little apprentice and nodded.
" What are we going to do today", Longpaw asked excitedly as they both left Firestars den.
" Today, I'm just going to show you around our borders", Duskstripe said seeing that the young tom looked happily now.
" OK, Race out the entrance!", Longpaw yelled and both cats sped out for another days adventure.
" Wait!", Duskstripe said amused, he could see that Longpaw was a clever apprentice and a swift one too.
" I can't wait ... I'm going to be the strongest warrior any cat has ever saw!", Longpaw thought as they both took off in the forest.