Chapter 25

The Ask Question (Aren't All Questions Asked?)

"No! Not Hawkfrost!" Starpaw cried. Jazzstar still hadn't named the tom her mentor, but she knew that's who it would be. She didn't know why, but for some reason this cat could not be her mentor!

Since the apprentice could apparently read minds, Jazzstar decided not to finish the ceremony. Starpaw already knew who her mentor would be, so what would be the point of announcing it?

"Hi, Starpaw," Hawkfrost meowed, padding up to her. He wrapped his tail around the purple she-cat's shoulders. "Shall we begin training tomorrow?"

"Okay," Starpaw sighed, still unhappy that the formerly dead, formerly evil tom was to be her mentor.

The apprentice padded over to Ashkit, who apparently hadn't been made an apprentice even though he was her age. "Hi," she mewed.

"Hi," Ashkit said back to her. "Do you want to go hunting in the forest with me? Just the two of us?" he asked, apparently forgetting that he was a kit and not allowed to leave camp.

Starpaw nodded, apparently also forgetting she was not allowed to leave camp either unless Hawkfrost was with her. The two kits then padded out of the ThunderClan camp, and absolutely no one tried to stop them for disobeying the rules. As they walked, Starpaw realized Ashkit was giving her funny looks. She wondered why.

Ashkit, who still had asthma, glanced at the purple protagonist. "Starpaw...I wanted to know...if you...would be my mate," he huffed, apparently thinking it was just fine for a kit to have a mate.

"Oh my StarClan! Yes!" Starpaw cried, having fallen in love for the fifth time this story. She was so happy the kit wanted to be her mate. Before she could tell him just how happy she was, Hawkfrost stormed up to them. He apparently had noticed the two young cats sneak out of the camp.

"What are you insolent fools doing?" Starpaw's mentor spat.

"She's my mate now," Ashkit meowed proudly.

Fury flooded into Hawkfrost's blue eyes. "No way!" he snarled. "I want her to be my mate!" Maybe Hawkfrost had realized the apprentice was actually Gleamstar reincarnated and wanted to be with his one true love again.

The two toms then began to fight! Starpaw watched in horror as Hawkfrost easily killed the tiny kit, being a much more experienced warrior. Ashkit had not had any training at all, and did not stand a chance fighting against the tabby warrior. Sadly, the narrator then realized that she was reporting what should have been happening, but not what was actually happening.

Suddenly the brutal fight, in which Ashkit was able to hold his own against the much larger, trained warrior, stopped. The kit and Hawkfrost suddenly began kissing! They had stopped trying to kill each other over a purple she-cat to kiss each other instead!

"No! Stop!" Starpaw cried. They were being gay! And they had stopped fighting over her! How could anyone stop fighting over her? Every tom was supposed to love Starpaw. They weren't supposed to love anyone else but the gorgeous, wonderful, talented, perfect purple protagonist.

Starpaw couldn't handle watching the two toms kiss each other when they were supposed to be kissing her, so she ran away into the forest!