Chapter 9, new warriors
Ravenflight watched the bustle of the camp with large amber eyes, her tail curled neatly around her skinny body. She had nothing to do.
"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather beneath the Highrock for a Clan meeting!"
"I have a few things to say," Firestar began when the Clan had assembled, Ravenflight staying at the rear.
"First, Greystripe walked into camp late this evening very wounded. Cinderpelt and Leafpaw are healing him right now." Firestar dipped his head to the two medicine cats.
"Next, I would like to make two new warriors. Whitepaw and Shrewpaw."
"I, Firestar, leader of ThunderClan call upon my warrior ancestors to look down upon these apprentices. They have trained hard to understand your noble code, and I commend them to you as warriors, in their turns. Whitepaw, Shrewpaw, do you promise to protect and defend this Clan, even at the cost of your life?"
"I do," Whitepaw answered with a crack to her voice.
"I do," Shrewpaw echoed.
"Then by the powers of StarClan I give you your warrior names. Whitepaw, from this moment on you will be known as Whiteflower. StarClan honors you for your courage and confidence, and we welcome you as a full warrior of ThunderClan."
"Shrewpaw, from this moment on you will be known as Shrewtail. StarClan honors you for your courage and strength and we welcome you as a full warrior of ThunderClan."
Firestar licked both of the new warriors. Then he jumped down from the rock as the Clan chanted their names.
"Whiteflower! Shrewtail! Whiteflower! Shrewtail!"
Ravenflight didn't join in with the chants. Instead she turned around and snatched a shrew from the fresh-kill pile. She ate it quickly and neatly, wishing that a cat would come over to her. Squirreltalon was talking with Ashfur, Brambleclaw, Rainwhisker, and Sootfur. What was she? A tom lover?
Ravenflight sighed deeply. She would take Hollypaw hunting tomorrow. She had seen Squirreltalon take them both out to tour the forest earlier.
Ravenflight stood up suddenly and padded over to Squirrelflight.
"Hey? Want to take the apprentices hunting tomorrow? Together?"
Squirreltalon turned and gave her a mean look. "Why?"
"Well…I was just…er….wondering…."
She trailed away. "No." Squirreltalon said harshly.
At that same moment Firestar walked over. "Ravenflight I want to talk to you in my den."
Ravenflight followed quickly, her stomach churning with anxiety.
Firestar sat down on the moss, then motioned for her to sit in front of her.
"Ravenflight, Ferncloud told me that you tried to drown Larchkit."
Ravenflight mentally rolled her eyes. "I tried to save him!" she barked.
Firestar's fur rose. "That's not the way I heard it."
"Well it's not true!" Ravenflight hissed. "I tried to save him! Just like a tried to save you!"
Firestar's eyes widened and he toke a step back. "You…saved me? I thought it was Greystripe!"
Ravenflight took a silent breath of air and chose her words before speaking. "Surveillance…is back. I was going out of camp to hunt one day and Greystripe was there." Ravenflight began to talk faster until she was speeding along. "Surveillance was coming back in an innocent form and when I read her mind she was in his form something had-,"
"What?" Firestar's green eyes watched her, missingnothing."You…read….Surveillance's….mind?"
Ravenflight closed her mouth so fast that her teeth clacked together. "Well….well….no…." she tried desperately to think of a lie.
"Well, Spottedleaf told me that Surveillance would come back to life…" then Ravenflight stopped. Suddenly it didn't seem a good thing to tell Firestar that she thought Surveillance was coming back as Greystripe. What if he didn't believe her and chased her out?
Firestar looked at her. "Ravenflight, are you just lying to me?"
"Yes," Ravenflight muttered, looking at her paws. "Well…you know how much I hated Surveillance, so I thought that she was coming back, but now I realize that it was all just a…."
"Yes." Firestar nodded thoughtfully.
"You are dismissed," he told Ravenflight.
Ravenflight turned and rushed out of the den.
That was a boring chapter, I know. I want to thank midnightstreak for Whiteflower, Skyfeather123 for Shrewtail, and Silversong's loyalty gave me Snowpaw's name, but she doesn't become a warrior in this book. Now you can give me names for Hollypaw and Birchpaw, because I can't think of any.
Also, If you want to be in the story, tell me in a review of what your name is, (I mean, a cat character) your gender, and what you look like, your eye color, etc. Review:D
