Here is chapter 7! Wow! Already! Thank you to Shiverdream of WindClan, Sunripple, and Spottedmist for reviewing! Thanks to Wish Upon A Warrior Cat for being my beta, and Ravenwing of ThunderClan and Sunripple for following! Before I start the next chapter, I have a forum called SunnyClan! The link is on my profile, if any of you would like to join. I would appreciate it so much! Anyway, here is chapter 7.

-Fernspirit

Chapter 7

Briarpaw's night training was going well with Blossompaw, and fortunately, her leg was healing. The day came, about half a moon later, when Jayfeather entered the den and mewed, "Briarpaw, you've been out of training for a long time, but I think your leg is fine! You can return to training!"

"Yay! Thank's Jayfeather!" Briarpaw danced out of Jayfeather's den, full of energy. "Watch out, I'm back in training!" she yowled. The Clans' newest members, Dovekit and Ivykit, poked their heads out of the nursery. The three-day old kits were obviously envious.

"I can't wait to be apprenticed!" Ivykit complained. Briarpaw shoved her way into the apprentices den. "Bumblepaw? Rosepaw? Toadpaw?" No one was in there. They must all be out doing battle moves, Briarpaw thought unhappily. I heard Blossompaw bragging about it to Dovekit yesterday. She dragged her paws on her way out of the den; she perked up, however, when Thornclaw called her.

"Briarpaw! What are you doing out of Jayfeather's den?"

"He said my leg was healed!" Briarpaw mewed brightly. "Is your own wound better?" More than a moon after the fox fight, Thornclaw's gash had stiffened him up, so Jayfeather confined him to his den.

"Much," Thornclaw replied. "What do you say we go practice with Blossompaw, Bumblepaw, Rosepaw, and Toadpaw?"

"Awesome!" Briarpaw practically pranced out of camp with Thornclaw, excited to show him how much she had improved. She didn't, however, forsee the tiny bit of trouble that would come when Thornclaw asked how she knew all these moves without him showing them to her.

"Umm..." Briarpaw glanced sideways at Blossompaw, to see if she would help. No such luck. Her sister's eyes read: You got yourself into this; you get yourself out of it!

"Briarpaw," Thornclaw reminded her sternly. "I'm waiting."

"Yes..um..well.." Toadpaw rescued her.

"We've been practicing moves together, and I, uh, taught her some more," he lied. "That's how she got such advanced moves."

"Ah." Thornclaw glanced from apprentice to apprentice, and Briarpaw knew that he didn't believe them, but he let it go. "Now! Let's try the badger attack..."


"Ugh Briarpaw!" Blossompaw stormed into the apprentices' den, where Toadpaw and Briarpaw were sitting. "You are so stupid! You just had to go and show Thornclaw the moves I taught you! I'm on dawn patrol for a moon!"

"Uh..I'm just gonna go out," Toadpaw muttered, sliding out, but Blossompaw took no notice of him.

"You complete idiot! Moron!" Briarpaw's fury welled up.

"Oh yeah, and when did you say I couldn't show them to him, huh? Don't you think he'd be impressed, that you took it up to help me while I was stuck in Jayfeather's den?"

"You just shouldn't have shown them to him at all!"

"And then, pray tell Blossompaw, what would've been the point of you teaching me those moves?" Briarpaw snapped. Blossompaw recoiled, ducking her head.

"Um."

"Exactly. Next time, don't accuse me of doing something that you did too!" Briarpaw stalked out of the den, leaving a very confused Blossompaw behind. She fumed by herself, sitting off by a corner of the nursery when Toadpaw approached her.

"Hey..."

"Hi."

"I couldn't help overhearing the..fight that you and Blossompaw had, and I'm sorry," he went on.

"Sorry for what?" Briarpaw muttered. "You didn't do anything!"

"Well, I made Thornclaw think it was me who taught you the moves, so both Blossompaw and I got in trouble."

"You didn't make Thornclaw think it was you who taught me the moves," Briarpaw pointed out. "You guys got in trouble because Thornclaw didn't believe you."

"Oh. Right." Toadpaw stared at his feet. "Well...I guess I'll go." He got up and headed away, but Briarpaw called him back.

"Toadpaw! Do you want to talk?"

"Talk about what?"

"Um..anything!" Briarpaw felt slightly awkward asking to talk to a tom, but he didn't look bashful at all.

"Sure!" He returned, and sat down back next to her. "So..what do you want to talk about?"

"I'm curious," Briarpaw mewed. "Do you actually like Blossompaw? Or were you just getting scared about telling me you liked me?"

"Um. I guess I maybe don't like Blossompaw."

"And you guess you maybe like me?" Briarpaw purred, and Toadpaw ducked his head.

"Yes."

"I like you too," Briarpaw assured him, and Toadpaw brightened up slightly at that.

"Cool! Rosepaw knows I like you, but if she knows we have like..a thing... she'll totally tease me. So let's just keep it between us, shall we?"

"Yes." Briarpaw brushed him gently, then got up. "I'll see you later."

"Later," he purred.


Briarpaw stepped quietly into the apprentices' den. Blossompaw was curled in her nest, staring at the wall at the back of the den.

"Blossompaw?" Briarpaw asked softly. The tortoiseshell she-cat gave a grunt, barely audible. "I'm sorry. About today. I know it wasn't your fault that Thornclaw put you on a moon of dawn patrols. It was mine." Blossompaw twisted in her nest.

"Yeah, right. It was mine fully. Don't try to take any of the blame, because I was the one who let you talk me into teaching you advanced battle moves." Briarpaw gave a little shrug, knowing that her sister was back, and purred.

"It was all my fault, Blossompaw. And don't you dare say otherwise." Blossompaw gave Briarpaw a sneaky grin.

"Then we're okay?" Briarpaw checked.

"We're great!" Blossompaw purred. Briarpaw stepped in and curled around Blossompaw. As she fell asleep, she could hear her sister's heart thumping in her chest, and Blossompaw's familiar scent.

So that may have been an un-exciting chapter, but oh well. How long would you guys like to see this story? Would you want a sequel, if I can think up a plot? What minor Warriors character would you like to see a story about?

I hope you liked the chapter, and please review! It means the world to me! :)

-Fernspirit