Scrappaw padded up to Riverstar a little nervous about what she was gonna ask her leader.
"Um Riverstar?" She asks.
Riverstar was talking to Stonegaze in a low voice but pricked his ears up when he heard Scrappaw.
"What is it Scrappaw?" He meows warily.
"Um...you um said that if I er ever wanted to change my name….you would do that for me. Um so will you?"
Riverstar tilts his head thoughtfully.
"Of course Scrappaw." He meows.
"A promises is a promise. I'll ask Burntail to remind me of the ceremony, he should remember."
Scrappaw twitched her ear nervously as she opened her jaw.
"W-would it be alright….if I chose my name?" She asked.
Riverstar gave Scrappaw a narrowed look but shrugged.
"We have never had a mother give her kit such a horrible name." He mumbles.
"I suppose…..you could."
Scrappaw dipped her head relieved. She whispered the name she wanted into Riverstar's ear so no one could hear.
"All those old enough to hunt gather before the Great Oak Tree for a clan meeting!" Riverstar's meow calls out across the clearing.
"Finally!" Bearpaw hissed in his sister's ear.
"He's making a meeting to decide what to do with Treecloud."
Scrappaw flashed her eyes around camp until they came upon a huddled form away from all the other cats. She spotted Soothsoul making her way over to Treecloud and nudged his head with hers.
"Sibling loyalty." Wishpaw mumbled looking at Treecloud and Soothsoul.
They were brother and sister? Scrappaw hadn't known.
"I wonder if Bearpaw would be loyal to me if something like this ever happened?" She meowed quietly.
"Scrappaw please step forward on the Low Branch."
Scrappaw jumped to her paws and lightly jumped up to the Low Branch where Riverstar was waiting for her.
"Spirits of StarClan, you know every cat by name. I ask you now to take away the name from the cat you see before you, for it no longer stands for what she is."
The now nameless she-cat flicked her ear when she heard cats mumbling around her.
"By my authority as Clan leader, and with the approval of our warrior ancestors, I give this cat a new name. From this moment on she will be known as Banditpaw, for it is what she wishes to be called."
The newly named Banditpaw looked around at her clanmates tilting her head slightly. No one called out her new name like she thought they would.
"Banditpaw!" Wishpaw leaped to her paws eyes shining.
"Banditpaw!" Stonegaze yowled.
"Banditpaw! Banditpaw!"
Her heart swelled as her clanmates called out her name. She saw that Bearpaw refused to but that didn't bother her to much.
"Cool new name!" Shinepaw meows coming to sit by Wishpaw as Banditpaw pad over to her.
She's notice that Shinepaw and Wishpaw had been spending a lot of time together.
"Thank you." Banditpaw mumbled dipping her head.
"Ready to head out Scr- Banditpaw?" Bloodtail meowed over her friends.
"Sure! Can Wishpaw and Shinepaw go with?"
"Sure but Wishpaw will have to ask Treecloud." He meowed.
"But don't bother Sealight." He told Shinepaw.
"He's with his kit at the moment."
Wishpaw padded back with Treecloud behind her.
"So we're going hunting or patroling the border?" He asked eyes wary as he looked from the apprentices to Bloodtail.
"You are the elder Warrior out of us." Bloodtail mumbled.
"So I'm guessing you should decided."
Treecloud nodded curtly.
"We should be out hunting."
Treecloud mumbled smelling the warm air. Banditpaw nodded and looked at Shinepaw and Wishpaw.
"I hope we catch something good for Flowerwind." Shinepaw mumbled to Wishpaw.
"That should put Sealight in a good mood." He purred.
So they headed off to hunt.