Hello once again to anybody who is reading this! Chapter two is complete. I am sorry that it came out in weird code the first time that I posted it.
Flickeringpaw lifted her head and looked blearily at her surroundings. All the other apprentices were still sleeping, and she could barely just make out the first rays of the sun. She sat up and started grooming her orange and white fur, enjoying the feeling of the fresh breeze which carried a frozen water scent and stirred the branches that made up the apprentice den, mingling with the sweet smell of heather and lavender that decorated the camp and moor.
At that point the rest of the apprentices were stirring, and Flammingpaw could hear the approaching paw-steps of their mentors. Flammingpaw fluffed out her fur as she exited into the crisp leaf-fall air, and was immediately greeted by Darklight.
"You can have the day off, I have things to do." She said, briskly padding away without giving her the time to reply.
After grabbing herself a finch to eat, she sat down at the edge of the camp and beckoned to her friend to come and join her. Sunpaw hauled a scrawny rabbit from the bottom of the fresh-kill pile and padded over to join her.
"What was that all about?" She questioned, "Darklight never gives days off."
"I'm guessing she has something of major importance." Flammingpaw suggested.
" Talking about mentors,did Darklight tell you that our assessments are in a quarter moon?" Sunpaw commented.
" Well, if she didn't then I know now!" Flammingpaw replied, doubts edging her thoughts as she wondered if her mentor had told her while she wasn't listening.
"Anyways, talking about her it looks like she's on patrol with Crowstar and-
"Sunpaw! Hunting patrol!" Foxtail called from the other side of the clearing.
" Seems like you're on duty." Flammingpaw said, disappointed.
" Sunpaw!" Rang a warning yowl.
" I'll see you later!" Sunpaw meowed before dragging herself to where her mentor was waiting.
Before she could do anything, Flickeringpaw was beckoned to by Clawmoon, the apprentice medicine cat.
"Could you please check the elders for ticks?" She asked politely.
"Sure." she answered, knowing that this was not so much a question as an order.
Armed with a stick and a pice of mouse-bile covered moss, she entered the elders' den, stepping through the heather and ivy curtain and into the hollowed out space underneath am overhanging rock.
" A'm here chew chek your tchiks." She tried to articulate through the stick as she entered the den
" Oh thank you kit! I've been trying to bite this one off all morning and I just can't seem to reach it!" complained Oakfoot.
She edged her way closer to his nest and dabbed the moss onto his shoulder until the tick fell off and Oakfoot crushed it with his brown paw. The black tom then lifted his head and offered, " Since nobody else seems to be complaining shall we tell this kit a story?" He offered.
Flickeringpaw bit back the retort that she was no longer a kit and angled her ears towards Oakfoot, signalling that he should continue.
"Wha 'bout Dawnmist's." Snaketooth's voice could be heard as the black striped brown tom lifted himself from the nest.
"Snaketooth!" Scolded Yellowleaf while Oakfoot sent him a sharp glance. The three elders exchanged a look before Yellowleaf spoke again.
" Come on kit, you should go get your paws cleaned and rid yourself of that hindering stick she said while gently but clearly shoving Flickeringpaw out of the den, and orienting her to a nearby stream.
At the stream she sat down and thought to herself, what was that all about? First this "Leafkit" then whoever Dawnmist is-
"Dawnmist, you are hereby exiled from Windclan in consequence of your crimes. Nobody is to ever speak your name again and if we find you in our territory by sunrise my warriors have the right to attack you."
"I'll come back!" screeched an orange tabby she-cat. "Then you'll be sorry! Curse all of you here present!" Her infuriated voice rang through the moor as the dumbfounded Winclan cats stared at the spot where she had been standing a moment ago.
Flickeringpaw heard a gasp as she was brought back to her reality by the stream near the edge of the territory. She took a defensive stance and looked up to see the strangest she-cat she had ever seen.
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