Okay so before you read the chapter just a fair warning.
Since I'm still new to writing and stuff I want to test a lot out and so I decided to try to test romance, Well, Not exactly romance in here it's... Well you'll understand what I mean when you read. XD I put this together in like 2 hours total maybe? I'm so so so sorry for rarely updating, But I seem to have absolute constant writers block.
hopefully I can update again soon! I kind of post as I write and stuff, So, Sorry if there are typo's and mistakes or something in there, (i did proof read, But don't be surprised if things passed my mind with out me noticing.)
Feel free to point out any mistakes! I'll try to fix them if I can... If i stop been too lazy about editing. xD I seriously need an editor or something.
Okay, Enough of my talking, Go ahead and read now.
Chapter Four :
~3 days after the prophecy~
I woke up to silence, Which was a miracle with the apprentices here...
Icepaw is a pure white she-cat who's is so hyper I swear she moves at the speed of light.
Her sister, Lightpaw, is a bit calmer and a great fighter so I hear, Icepaw's a good hunter so they make a great team apparently.
And then there's Skypaw, he is kind of... full of himself? Yeah I guess that works.
If you praise him or just mention him at all it goes to his head... I kind of try my best to avoid him after I realized that.
Sadly it doesn't always work...
"Wolf! Wake up!" Mintspot yells through the door. "Moonstar wants you to come hunting with us, We're hunting in pairs right now, You'll be hunting with Skypaw." Oh joy, I think as I stand up and shake the moss off of my pelt.
"I'm up I'm up..." I yawn as I sleepily trot out of the apprentices den and walk over towards Lightpaw and Icepaw and are talking excitedly.
"Oh hey Wolf!" Icepaw says to me. She's been completely accepting of me being here, I think she's one of the few who likes me being here so far, Lightpaw and Oakpaw are both fine with it, I steer clear of Skypaw to really know what he thinks, Other than that the only ones I know like me that much are Mintspot, Moonstar, and the medicine cat Tansyleaf.
I spent all of yesterday trying to meet everyone and remember all of their names...
"Hey Icepaw, Hey Lightpaw." I greet, trying to resist yawning again.
"Are you excited about going hunting?" Icepaw asks, excitement flashing in her eyes.
"I guess so." I reply, Still being shy an weary of clan life somewhat. Lightpaw seems to see that and says "I'm sure you'll do fine Wolf, You shouldn't worry so much." She smiles at me as her mentor, Sunwillow, calls her over to talk. "Oh, Talk to you later!" She says as she runs off to her mentor.
"I swear she's never out of Sunwillows sight lately, It's like she's her shadow." Icepaw jokes before Mintspot calls us over for hunting.
Icepaw goes and stand next to Lightpaw to pair up with her, And Skypaw walks over towards me.
I wonder where Oakpaw is but I decide not to ask.
"So, We're pairing up together huh?" Skypaw asks as he stops in front of me, A goofy grin on his face.
Oh great, This is going to end so well... I think sarcastically.
"Mhmm..." Is all I reply, Keeping my focus on Mintspot as we go off into the forest to hunt.
I take a deep breath, taking in the scents of the forest as we walk on.
"Aww come on, Too shy to say anything?" Skypaw says, playfully nudging me.
I roll my eyes and pick up my pace a bit, But he matches my pace and stays next to me.
Oh come on... I think as I lightly flick my tail in annoyance, But otherwise pretend I don't care.
"Alright now." Mintspot says at she stops beneath tree and turns around to face us, Along with Sunwillow, Stripeheart, Skypaws mentor. and Snowfur, Icepaws mentor. Since I'm not a paw and don't have a mentor, so Mintspot came along for me. So far she's always been there for me and always asking if I need help with anything since I've got here.
"So as you all already know, We're doing team hunting here, To see how well you guys can work together." She explains, I can practically feel excitement rolling off of Icepaw and Lightpaw.
One side of me wants to do good to show the clan I'm not useless,
The other side of me? It wants to fail just to deflate Skypaws head a bit...
"Skypaw, Wolf, I want you two to hunt closer to the Windclan border, Don't get too close though okay? Windclan's been a bit extra territorial lately and won't take kindly to you being near the border." Mintspot says, Snapping my attention back to earth.
"And Icepaw and Lightpaw." Somehow those two manage to look even MORE excited than before. "You two are going to be hunting by the lake, Okay?" Mistspot says, Clearly giving them a look to tell them to contain their excitement. "Okay!" They both mew.
I'm started to get impatient cause I want to get this over with so I can get away from Skypaw, Who's been slowly inching closer to me this entire time.
Mintspot looks at the mentors, They nod and she signals with her tail for us to start.
I take off immediately with all my speed and rush off towards the boarder. I can hear Skypaw trying to keep pace, but I'm just a bit faster than him. As I run I try my best to take in the scenery, How beautiful this forest is, But I'm moving too fast to focus on any of that.
I suddenly skid to a stop and Skypaw, not being able to control his stop, slams into me knocking us both over. "Ugh seriously Skypaw?" I mutter while spitting out some dirt since his crash had face planted me in the dirt. Skypaw just chuckles sheepishly and takes a step closer.
Maybe if I ignore him, He'll stop after a while... I think to myself, Strongly hoping I'm right.
I close my eyes and try to scent for prey, But I can feel Skypaws emotions change the moment I close my eyes. I've always been good at sensing emotions, Not perfect, But I've usually been good at getting simpler emotions pretty easily, More complicated ones are harder for me to understand...
And I tilt my head in confusion for a moment before I realize what changed in his emotions.
He went from the sheepish and... ego? To anger and... I can't place the second one.
I open my eyes and I only see him like that for a flash of a second and it's back to that prideful full of himself Skypaw, If I couldn't tell that behind that mask, the other emotions were still there, I'd think I'd just been imagining things.
I turn around and quietly walk up to where I scented mouse, When I get close I look at Skypaw and tilt my head, asking him what he thinks we should do. At first he seemed surprised I was asking him, Really I was too, But I figured since this was about teamwork, and since Mintspot and Stripeheart are probably watching somewhere, We should make this work... somehow.
In the end we have five pieces of prey, He killed two and I killed three, Technically he was supposed to get the last one, But the squirrel noticed him (He'd been too busy trying to look cool to run effectively) and it bolted in my direction, I quickly ran to meet it and killed it as fast as I could.
Mintspot and Stripeheart haven't said anything about our hunting together yet.
Just before we enter the camp Lightpaw, Icepaw, Sunwillow, and Snowfur come up, Icepaw and Lightpaw carrying two pieces of prey each, Both looking slightly crestfallen. I catch Lightpaws eye and give her a questioning look, She just shakes her head in a "I'll tell you later." Kind of way.
As we enter camp the scents of cats floods my nose again. I've been trying but I still can't pick out every cats scent yet.
I sigh as I realize I've been trying hard to fit into camp, I've started to think we aren't going to find my mother and the rest of the group, So I'm hoping if I prove myself Moonstar will let me join the clans.
I'm not really optimistic about it since I'm not the best fighter or anything, I'm an okay hunter I guess, But I panic in a fight. I've told Mintpost that, When she noticed me looking worried yesterday, She says I'll be fine, I'm just over thinking it. I hope she's right.
As I go and drop my three pieces of prey on the fresh kill pile Mintspot and Stripeheart come over and Mintspot looks extremely happy. "Well done both of you! You did better than we thought Wolf, though you told us you weren't that good at hunting." Mintspot says. "Though you always seem to say you are much worse at something than you really are." And abruptly Mintspot just turns around and leaves.
Stripeheart chuckles and says "Don't worry, She always does that." To me, Noticing the look of confusion on my face. "And you two did really well." He says before nodding a goodbye and leaving himself. I glanced over to Skypaw and saw him watch Stripeheart and then for just a moment in his eyes I can see his emotions switch again, but this time I realize what the second one was.
Jealousy.
It shocked me for a moment because I couldn't think of why he felt that earlier, But as fast as it appeared in his eyes it was gone.
And then my day gets worse.
Skypaw glances over to me and finds me staring at him, And unfortunately, specifically at his eyes. since that shows the most emotion for me when I'm trying to read someones emotions.
He obviously takes it the wrong way.
His eyes light up and he takes a few steps forward so that our pelts almost brush and I see him open his mouth to say something but before he can I bolt out of the entrance and into the forest.
I run as fast as I can knowing that I'm faster than him and I end up by the lake again, For some reason my paws keep taking me here.
After a while of just sitting there I return to camp and see Skypaw chatting with Lightpaw and Icepaw.
He glances over to me with a questioning look in his eyes but I just ignore it and go back to the apprentices den to take a nap.
Ugh I have no idea how I'm going to handle Skypaw...
I think before I drift off to sleep.