Nightpaw

Nightpaw watched her brother walk away toward the Elder's den. She waited for his to turn his head and glare at her or mouth 'see you later'. But he did none of that, he just kept on walking. That made Nightpaw wonder. How much did he know? Of the truth at least. Had Tigerstar talked to him too, or was Tigerstar not the only cat from the past come to help us... but Tigerstar didn't help others so why was he helping her. That was what she wanted to know. She set her robin down on the fresh kill pile and made her way back to Mintwater.

"So," Nightpaw started, "what are we going to do now?"

Mintwater looked at her with loving sky blue eyes that made Nightpaw feel bad for lying to her and making her look bad in front of the clan, but she shook that feeling off.

"Um, we are going back to the Crooked Willow to see what you can do," Mintwater answered, making Nightpaw wonder if Mintwater thought she had been faking it and wanted to prove that she was lying.

Well, Nightpaw thought, if that's what she thinks then I guess she'll be in for a mighty surprise.

When Mintwater and Nightpaw finally got to the Crooked Willow a few minutes later, Nightpaw was right. Mintwater was very surprised. She watched Nightpaw hunt in amazement as she did things that Mintwater hadnt learned until her fourth moon of training.

"Very good," Mintwater praised, "But do you know any battle moves?" Nightpaw shook her head. Mintwater smiled at that, at least she got to train her on something. They spent the next few sunrises on battle moves, sense Nightpaw already had the hunting down. Nightpaw was very good at the battle moves, she learned quickly and mastered them overnight. That made Mintwater suspicious but she didn't say anything because she was getting all the credit and that was something that she had never gotten before.

Nightpaw watched her brother fall behind on his training because of Steeltail and Whiteleaf's new litter, but he didn't seem to care. He still learned new moves here and there.

Nightpaw didn't see Honeypaw very often though, she was always in the Medicine Cat den and she only saw her if she came out to get herbs. They still didn't apologize to Honeypaw, yet.

After another day of learning moves that she pretended not to know, nightpawfinally was able to go back to the Apprentices den to sleep.

"Hey," Buzzardpaw meowed once she entered the den. They said very few words to each other these days, mostly 'hi, 'hey', or 'goodbye'.

"Hey," she meowed back, laying down in her nest getting ready to sleep.

"You know that eventually someone besides me is going to catch on," Buzzardpaw whispered.

"I cover my tracks well," She meowed back then added, "and so do you."

"Wha-"

"I saw you practicing battle moves by the elder's den today, Steeltail hasn't even shown you those moves yet" She smiled, she had him cornered.

He huffed, "Just go to sleep Nightpaw"

She closed her eyes and instantly fell asleep. In the dream tigerstar came to her, like always did. Nightpaw looked around the dark forest and then at him. Broad shoulders and long claws, he reminded her of Hawkpaw from Adderclan, maybe he was a descendant of him.

"You are training well, and are almost ready but I must warn you that there is someone near you that will try and stop you," his voice boomed.

"Who?" Her voice seemed like a squeak compared to his.

"That I cannot tell you, but just be warned, not everyone is as they seem," He started to fade, and she was left alone in the dark forest.


Dun, Dun, Dunnnnnn. So who do you think the cat is? Review!