Chapter 7

A/N The updates will be less frequent for awhile until I have a few more chapters written, anyways onto the story

Disclaimer: I don't own the warriors series or any of its characters, but my own OC's

Dawnpaw was immediately greeted by the site of Nightstrike and a silver-grey tom his amber eyes narrowed and watching Dawnpaws every move "Ah Dawnpaw I was wondering where you were" Dawnpaw looked down at her paws embarrassed

"Oh sorry I was hunting" she muttered Nightstrike just chuckled making Dawnpaw look at her with wary eyes

"Don't worry Grayscar isn't here I'll let this one slide" Dawnpaw grinned happy to have escaped a punishment. The amber eyed tom hissed at Nightstrike

"You're too soft on this one" Dawnpaws eyes landed on him as she gazed at him nervously

"Don't mind Shredpond he's a little old fashioned" Shredpond just growled working his sheathed claws into the ground. Dawnpaw eyed the two warriors warily but was snapped back into reality by Nightstrikes voice "Tonight we're going to test how far your training has come Shredpond is going to be your opponent" Dawnpaw nervously swallowed as Shredpond smirked maliciously at the young apprentice

"This will be interesting" he growled not wasting anytime he leaped at Dawnpaw. she was caught by surprise and hit the ground hard knocking the air out of her as she tried to regain breath he leaped and pinned her raking his claws against her belly she yowled out and tried desperately to kick the tom off but to no avail he bared his fangs bringing them close to her neck. Dawnpaw closed her eyes waiting for her death.

"Shredpond stop, that's enough" Nightstrike shouted yanking the tom off by his tail he whirled around and slashed at Nightstrikes ear earning a painful hiss from the she-cat

"She needs to learn Nightstrike and this is the best way to do it" he growled stalking off. Dawnpaw just stayed on the ground frozen in fear I almost died he almost killed me she thought to herself Nightstrike padded over and nudged her to her paws

"Dawnpaw I think that's enough for tonight you I suggest you practice some more" Dawnpaw could only nodded as she slowly slipped into consciousness once again. Dawnpaw lay in her nest for most of the day. When Pinefern went to retrieve her she was asleep again whimpering softly. Pinefern frowned and noticed the dry blood on her belly fur maybe I should go get Doefire he thought walking back out of the den and towards the Medicine cat den where Doefire and Breezepaw were discussing what herb is best used for a bellyache when he padded in.

"Doefire I need you to come take a look at Dawnpaw I think something's wrong" he mewed softly Breezepaw glanced up as soon as Dawnpaw was mentioned. Doefire looked at him with concern

"What is it, what's wrong with her?" she questioned Pinefern did not speak just gestured for her to follow him. Once they entered the den Doefire quickly went up to the sleeping Dawnpaw and woke her up. She blinked away the sleep and tilted her head in confusion why is Doefire here and why is she looking at me like that.

"Dawnpaw what happened are you okay?" Breezepaw questioned anxiously Dawnpaw thought back and realized my wounds from my training session oh no she just chuckled nervously

"Oh yeah I found a thorn in my nest it might have scratched me in my sleep" Doefire and Pinefern shared a disbelieving glance Pinefern just shook his head. Doefire nodded in response and began to clean the wound once it was all on patched up Doefire shot her a pointed look

"Be careful" Dawnpaw nodded getting to her paws Pinefern just frowned

"Just stay in the nest we can train tomorrow"

"No no I'm okay lets go" Pinefern just shook his head giving her a curious look

"Your difficult you know that" Dawnpaw just laughed and smirked at her mentor "Of course it makes you job harder" Pinefern just huffed and led the way out of the den out into the forest.

Dawnpaw slowly made the way up to her father's den she was determined to get some answers today for all of the questions she had buzzing in her head. Flintpetal and Bettlefleck stood guard Dawnpaw smiled at the two "I need to speak with my father" Flintpetal nodded and lead her into the den

"Sir Dawnpaw wishes to speak with you"

"Thank you Flintpetal" Hawkstar padded to the entrance of the den and smiled at his youngest kit "What did you want to talk about Dawnpaw?" Dawnpaw just shook her head gesturing with her tail to the camp's entrance. Hawkstar took the hint and turned to Flintpetal "Come tell me if something happens" The silver tom nodded and with that Hawkstar lead the way out of camp. Once they were far enough from the camp Hawkstar stopped and faced Dawnpaw "So what is it you want to talk to me about"

Dawnpaw took in a calming breath before speaking "When we went to the Moonpool these to cats wanted to talk to me about something they said…" Hawkstar gestured for her to continue. She swallowed around the growing lump in her throat before continuing "They said I have a great destiny ahead of me... what does that mean?" Hawkstar tilted his head in thought. For a few heart beats there was silence, it was broken as Hawkstar sighed shaking his head

"That I don't know, StarClan is very cryptic in their messages to us, we have no way of knowing..." Dawnpaw looked away nervously afraid to say anything

"There is one more thing when I was there I- I saw mother" Hawkstar tensed eyes dropping to the ground sighing deeply.

"I thought she would find you" he chuckled sadly "Nothing could ever stop her" Dawnpaw gazed at her father sadly I didn't mean to make him sad she thought to herself guilty. Hawkstar shook his head scattering the painful memories he nodded for Dawnpaw to continue.

"She said she knew we would make great warriors one day but what did she mean us three when there's four of us" Hawkstar stiffened eyes wide Dawnpaw took note of the action what are they keeping from us she wondered. Hawkstar struggled to find the right words

"Well I...she-" he was cut off as a silver tom bounded out from a nearby bush. Hawkstar exhaled a sigh of relief, happy for a distraction until he noticed the panicked expression on his face "Flintpetal what is it?" Flintpetal panted heavily for a few moments before looking into his leader in the eyes a wild looking clouding them

"Badgers have attacked the camp" Dawnpaw froze eyes wide

"Oh no the Clan" she muttered. Hawkstars eyes hardened and he stepped towards the other tom

"Take me there quickly" Flintpetal nodded leading the way Hawkstar and Dawnpaw followed close behind running as fast as they could with only one thought in there mind what have I done?.

A/N I hope you guys liked this chapter leave a review also I'm looking for some ideas for how the story should progress so feel free to tell me your suggestions and thank you for reading :)

- PepperThePuma