A few cats lingered around the entrance to the leaders den trying to drop in on their conversation but they were quickly dismissed by BeeStripe who had been guarding the door. All that could be heard were distinct murmers and and every so often a word when someone raised their voice only to have it quickly go back to murmers.
Willowpaw and blazepaw waited patiently for Robinpaw to come back with information. She was sent because of her hunting skill. Which left them sitting in ackward silence until Robinpaw came trotting back.
"I have news but it's not too good...". Robinpaw began slowly " well firstly I heard something about a half moon...".
"That's not to bad" blazepaw interupted.
Robinpaw have him a Stern look. " And secondly..." She began " I heard something about driving someone out...".
"Well, we don't know if there talking about driving us out..." willowpaw suggested.
"Yeah, they could be talking about how they got driven out?". Blazepaw questioned.
Robinpaw began to speak before cutting herself off as everyone's attention was drawn towards the leaders den. The five leaders emerged one at a time.
Volestar leaped onto a boulder in the center of camp and called for a clan meeting while the other leaders sat beneath the rock.
There was a moment of silence before he called out to his clan. " There are going to be some changes around here ".
" Four new clans will be moving into this area and since they out number is we have no choice but to let them" he began
A few cats gasped in the crowd
"However we will not be leaving, instead they will each take small portions of the surrounding forest areas and we will keep our boundary's as they are " he continued
Willowpaw glaced around at her clan mates. A few of them looked worried while others took on a confused expression.
"We will have to learn to respect our borders and not to cross our borders" he continued. " And one other thing.. we will have a new tradition".
"Every half moon we will be meeting with there clans near boulder rock, which means it no longer belongs to our clan..." Volestar looked down at his clan.
A few cats started whispering and a small grey Apprentice whispered to his mentor "don't we train there?".
Volestar spoke again " I know this will be hard to get used to, and I ask the leaders to be patient with my clan while they get used to their new life style".
With that he bounded off the boulder and silently showed the other leaders to the clan exit.
The clan burst out with chatter as soon as they left. Willowpaw could hear someone say " what's going to happen to the order?" and another person say " how can we trust the other clans!?". MouseTail a sweet natured she-cat said "I can't wait for this half moon thing!".
Milkkit, AlderKit, And Leafkit came scrambling towards willowpaw.
"Whats going on!" Squeaked Leafkit.
"Yeah who where those cats!" Milkkit ran in circles excitedly.
"They were leaders, weren't you listening?" AlderKit complained
" There's going to be new clans moving into the forest" willowpaw told them
"Wow!" Leafkit cheered " like in Raspwhiskers story!"
"But in Raspwhiskers story the fought a lot!" AlderKit squeaked.
"That was just to make it interesting," Leafkit argued.
The two kits started pouncing on each other while they argued which peaked the near by rubblekits interest. Milkkit started climbing on willowpaws back and asking her questions.
"Aren't you worried about the clans?" He asked.
" A little bit " willowpaw admitted " mostly about Stormclan... There's something off about viperstar...".
"Do you think there gonna come kill us?" Milkkit asked bluntly.
" What? What makes you think that!" Willowpaw looked at Milkkit shocked.
"RaspWhisker said that other clans could attack us!" Milkkit whined.
" You shouldn't listen to her tales" willowpaw frowned " she's just trying to frighten you".
Milkkit got distracted by a passing moth ignoring willowpaws last comment. He pounced on the moth before sitting down and cleaning the white powdery substance off of his paws.
Willowpaw let her gaze wander to where splashpetal, StormCloud, CloudGaze, LilyFrond, and DewGrass where talking.
LiluFrond was a white she-cat with one blue eye and one green eye, she mentored the grey Apprentice. DewGrass was a blue-grey she-cat with bright green eyes who mentored riverpaw.
Willowpaw figured since they where all mentors they were discussing where they would train from then on.
Near the elders den a black elder named SpiderBite was complaining to the clan medicine cat, a ginger tabby called gingerLeaf.
Rubblekit had joined the fight between AlderKit and Leafkit and Milkkit was now boasting about his moth to GleamKit who then stole it and began a game of chase.
Robinpaw was chatting with blazepaw and the grey Apprentice while riverpaw snorted a bitter comment as he passed by.
Willowpaw padded over to the group.
"Hey what you guys doing?" She asked
" oh hey willowpaw, we were just gonna go check out the whole border ideal wanna come?".purred blazepaw.
"Why not" willowpaw shrugged.
"Oh this is ash paw by the way" blazepaw nodded to the to the grey apprentice.
"Hey I'm willowpaw" willowpaw gave a friendly purr.
" I'm ashpaw..." He replied quietly.
"So shall we go?" Robinpaw urged
"Yeah let's head out" blazepaw agreed
The four apprentices headed towards the clan entrance shifting out one by one until they emerged on the other side. It was a sunny day with a few clouds floating up in the sky. Even in the mountains they could here birds calling.
Once they got into the forest they saw a few mice and Robinpaw caught a small shrew. As they approached the border leading to the swamp area they could clearly tell it carries the scent of viperstar from Stormclan.
"Why would a cat want to live in the marsh" Robinpaw wrinkled her nose.
" It's probably how there used to living" ashpaw replied quietly.
The group then made there way to the South border where the trees grew more spread out and the grass grew long and yellow. This border clearly held the scent of silverstar from breezeclan.
Willowpaw saw a rabbits ears sticking out and dashed after it completely forgetting the meaning of borders. She pounced on the rabbit killing it swiftly before dashing back towards the group with a smile.
"Hey! You can't take that!" Came a voice from behind them
Willowpaw turned to see a black tuxedo cat bounding over to them. " That's breeze clan prey!"
Two more cats appeared behind him, a white Tom and a calico she-cat, they both looked much bigger and mature then him.
" Who says we can't take this?" Robinpaw snorted defiantly.
"Anyone who's ever heard of the warrior code" the calico cat spoke.
"The what now? Blazepaw tilted his head in confushion.
The tuxedo cat started laughing while the calico cat sighed.
"You Fireclan cats really don't know a lot do you?" The tuxedo cat laughed.
"Nightpaw don't be rude" the white Tom spoke
Nightpaw quieted.
The white Tom stepped forward " well let you go this time since your not used to the whole clan thing, but next time you cross the border we won't be so forgiving".
The breezeclan patrol turned around and started off in the opposite direction. Willowpaw picked up her rabbit and there group started home while blazepaw and Robinpaw teased her playfully.
On the way back Robinpaw caught two voles, ashpaw caught a thrush, and blazepaw a small lizard. The group never did visit the north border but they did catch a number of prey.
Willowpaw headed towards the nursery with her rabbit while the other places there's on the fresh kill pile.
"Hey MeadowSong I brought you a rabbit" willowpaw called out as she entered the nursery.
Willowpaw set the rabbit down in front of MeadowSong.
"Where's the kits?" She asked
" They should be around, maybe in the elders den? Could you fetch them?" MeadowSong asked.
"Sure thing" willowpaw said leaving the nursery.
Willowpaw looked around the camp some before going to the elders den and poking her head inside. Sure enough they were gathered around SpiderBite listening to a tale.
"Hey kits there's a rabbit in the nursery!" Willowpaw called out
A few seconds later the kits all stampeded out of the elders den and headed towards the nursery.
"Yay! Rabbit!" Rubblekit squeaked as he past by.
Willowpaw yawned. The sky started to grow darker and cats started heading towards their soft beds. Willowpaw slept next to Robinpaw and blazepaw while ashpaw slept in the other side of blazepaw and riverpaw slept in his own corner.
Willowpaw slowly drifted off to sleep..
Willowpaw awoke to a distressed caterwaul throughout the camp.
" RaspWhisker is dead!" Came the distressed voice of Robinpaws mother, MistFlight.
By now half the camp was awake and looking around in confushion. Then out of the elders den they pulled the body of RaspWhisker. There was no wounds so she must of died peacefully in her sleep.
Then a thought occurred to willowpaw.
wasnt RaspWhisker Robinpaws grandmother?
she looked at the nest next to her where miraculously Robinpaw still slept. Willowpaw gulped before nudging Robinpaw lightly with her paw.
" Robinpaw wake up" willowpaw whispered
" What?" Robinpaw replied sleepily while lifting her head to look at willowpaw. " What's with all the noise outside?".
" I think.. you should see for yourself..." Willowpaw frowned as she watched her friend leave the den. Willowpaw didn't follow her out she didn't want to see how sad Robinpaw would be.
After all the chaos calmed down RaspWhisker was moved to a more secluded part of camp where her loved ones would begin there vigil.
Willowpaw didn't join since she hadn't know RaspWhisker that well but a few of the kits did for a little while before there mother's called them back to the nursery.
Willowpaw picked a piece of prey of the kill pile and ate with blazepaw and ashpaw.
"I hope Robinpaws feeling ok..." Blazepaw mummbled.
"Yeah me too..." Willowpaw frowned
"It is a shame losing a loved one" ashpaw sighed.
"Maybe we should choose a better subject?" Blazepaw suggested.
"Yeah" willowpaw agreed. " So uh.. ashpaw who's your parents?"
"Me? Oh well, my father is StormCloud and my mother is ForestTail" ashpaw responded.
"Your father is StormCloud?" Blazepaw asked
"Yeah" ashpaw replied
"Cool, and your what nine moons?" Willowpaw asked.
"Ten moons, I became an apprentice a moon before you" he replied
"Oh yeah because you and blazepaw became apprentices together right?" Willowpaw asked
"Yep" blazepaw replied
Splashpetal exited the warriors den and started padding over to willowpaw.
"Hey Willowpaw! You up for some hunting practice before the days over? She asked.
"Sure" replied willowpaw getting up to follow splashpetal out of camp.
Once in the forest splashpetal began going over the hunting basics again,. Willowpaw did pretty good following these examples as she was getting better at hunting. She watched patiently as splashpetal showed her how to scent for the ten millionth time and even caught a mouse.
It was enough to take her mind off of the busy day she had had and remind her to appreciate the little things.
Willowpaw laid down on the forest floor. A small red lizard scurried accrossed the dirt in front of her and a red-winged black bird cawed as it landed in a juniper bush. When the sky darkened once more willowpaw made her way back to camp.
In the apprentice den everyone slept in their usual spots. A soft shiver ran over Robinpaws pelt and willowpaw settled down besides her. A peaceful silence hummed over the camp as the crickets began there nightly song...
Willowpaw drifted of to sleep once more...
well.. that wasn't as good as I hoped it would be... But hey you could have liked it anyways I think next chapter will be a gathering and it'll be about two moons later.
There were lots of clan cat I mentioned who won't be anything important. Ashpaw will be mentioned more and I want to do something with nightpaw. You'll hear more of the medicine cat too of course.
And for next time since ashpaw and blazepaw will be warriors I want good names for them so any creative minds wanna help out that would be amazing.
And yeah again I'm gonna need more charecters ideas for the new clans at the gathering so you can list names and what they look like in a review and ill definitely altleast mention them. Just make sure you put the following:
Name
Clan( can't be fire clan)
Rank( can't be leader but I need deps and meds)
Age( optional)
And if you want additude
Ok bye bye °w°
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