A/N: Thank you for liking it and reviewing it A.L. Lin :)

Guest, do you mind if Blacktail is a future character? Because if so, I have a plan for him, if not, that's cool too


"I wonder if I'll get to mentor one of Spottedtuft's kits, they should be ready in about a moon, right?" Beaverpool meowed. Shortly after returning home after the alley cat battle, he received his warrior name.

"No way, if anyone is going to mentor one of Spottedtuft's kits, it's going to be me and Duskblaze, we're been warriors longer than you," Dawnwatcher pointed out.

"Well, I'm sure if I tell Duskblaze to let me mentor Shadekit, he will."

Dawnwatcher rolled her eyes, even after nearly dying, and seeing multiple cats die, Beaverpool was still the same immature brat that he had been before they left.

"What if they pick me to mentor Shadekit?" she asked.

"Ugh, then that means I'll have to mentor Sprucekit," Beaverpool grumbled.

"Thanks a lot! I didn't want you to be my mentor anyway!" Sprucekit spat, as she walked by with Fadedpaw and Shadekit, both of the toms glared at Beaverpool, but didn't say anything.

"Hello Fadedpaw," Dawnwatcher meowed.

"Hi Dawnwatcher, how are you?" Fadedpaw asked.

It didn't take long after the battle for them to become friends again, which Dawnwatcher was grateful for.

Two moons ago, she never would have admitted it, but she liked having Fadedpaw as a friend.

"I'm good, just trying to ignore this mouse-brain," Dawnwatcher muttered, rolling her eyes in Beaverpool's direction.

"What are you talking to him for?" Beaverpool spat, glaring at Fadedpaw.

"Um, he's my friend, ever since we made up, you've asked the same question, and I've given you the same answer," Dawnwatcher meowed evenly.
She was getting real tired of Beaverpool's jealousy issues, they weren't even mates, nor would they ever be.

"Whatever, don't come crawling to me when I find another mate!"

"Thank StarClan," Dawnwatcher muttered, when Beaverpool ran off.

"I'm going to take the kits back to the nursery," Fadedpaw meowed.

"Okay," Dawnwatcher licked his cheek, before padding over to the warrior's den.

"You have to make a choice Tanglebriar, it's been over a moon after all, it's either Foxfur or me," Brown-nose meowed.

"She shouldn't have to make a choice because you tell her to," Briarback spat.

"But she can't keep us waiting forever," Brown-nose protested.

Dawnwatcher sat down, and tucked her paws beneath her, watching the conversation unfold.

On one paw, Briarback was right, Tanglebriar shouldn't have to be forced to choose until she was ready, on the other paw, it wasn't fair for her to keep stringing them both on.

"I think whoever Tanglebriar doesn't choose, should be Dawnwatcher's mate," Duskblaze meowed.

"What?" Dawnwatcher spat, jumping up to her paws. She didn't know whether to be angry that he just offered her up like that, or surprised that he wasn't with Beaverpool, she didn't think she had ever seen them apart, not even when Beaverpool was an apprentice, and Duskblaze was a warrior.

"Well, it has to be better than Beaverpool," Briarback pointed out. Dawnwatcher sighed, she did have a point.

She didn't just want to be some cat's rebound mate though, she wanted someone to love her for her, some cat who wasn't Beaverpool.

"Beaverpool isn't so bad," Foxfur meowed.

Dawnwatcher snapped her attention to him, staring at him with surprise.

If it had been Duskblaze, she wouldn't have been surprised, after all, he was nearly as bad as Beaverpool, but this was coming from Foxfur.

"Are you serious? Try having that brat as an apprentice, he never listened to anything I told him to do, and when I tried to dole out punishments to him, he just pushed them onto another apprentice!" Briarback spat.

"That's not right, he should have never been made a warrior!" Tanglebriar exclaimed, she then looked down at her paws, "Though, I don't suppose I'm the best cat to talk about this stuff with, after all, I'm a failure as a mentor, today, my apprentice told me that he'd rather stay in the nursery, and spend time with the kits full time rather than be a warrior."

"It's not your fault, Fadedpaw's siblings are in there, I'm sure he'll change his mind after they get apprenticed," Foxfur meowed.

"Yeah, and he'll be a great warrior when his time comes," Dawnwatcher agreed.

He may not have been the strongest cat in the clan, or the fastest, but he was really good at coming up with plans. Not to mention, he had the guts to try and befriend a dog. She wasn't sure what the current status on that was though, and she was a bit afraid to know.

What if he wanted her to come meet the dog? She shuddered, feeling her fur prick, as she thought about it.

"Speaking of apprentices, I should take mine hunting," Foxfur meowed.

Brown-nose padded after him.

"Larkpaw and I will come with you."

"Let's hope they they don't claw each other's pelts off," Briarback meowed once they had left.

"Okay, so we talked about bad apprentices, let's talk about bad mentors now," Duskblaze meowed.

Dawnwatcher jumped slightly at the sound of his voice, she had forgotten that he was even there.

She half expected Beaverpool to make some snide remark, about how Briarback was the worst mentor, just to get under her fur, but he wasn't in there, thank StarClan.

"If I had to pick someone, it would be Marshstep, her apprentice, Steampaw, would always come to me for help, when it should be her job," Briarback grumbled.

"Oh yeah, I saw that, I always just thought that maybe you, Beaverpool, Marshstep, and Steampaw, were all just together in one big group, or something," Tanglebriar meowed.

"Well, I'm bored, so later," Duskblaze meowed, padding out of the warrior's den.

Dawnwatcher thought about going after him, and maybe inviting him to go out hunting without Beaverpool, but she couldn't be bothered, besides Duskblaze was probably going after Beaverpool at this very moment.

Instead, she turned to Tanglebriar.

"So, you have two toms fighting over your affection, any idea who you'll pick?" she asked.

"Well, Foxfur is very nice to me, though, I don't really care for his temper towards our other clanmates, and Brown-nose can be a bit overbearing, but he is extremely loyal to the clan, and I truly believe he has a good heart, honestly, I have no idea, part of me is saying to choose neither of them, but I don't know."

Tanglebriar looked down at her paws.

"Well, you know that no matter what happens, someone is going to get hurt," Briarback meowed.

"I know, who would you choose?" Tanglebriar asked, looking up at the other she-cat.

Briarback shook her head.

"That's not the life for me, I neither needed, nor ever wanted a mate."

"What about you Dawnwatcher?" Tanglebriar asked.

"I'm not sure, but after travelling with Foxfur, and seeing how bossy he was, I really don't think I'd choose him, plus, Brown-nose is the better looking one out of the two, Foxfur just looks odd," she answered honestly.

"You really shouldn't judge a cat by their appearance," Briarback meowed stiffly.

Dawnwatcher felt a pang of guilt, during pretty much all of her kit-hood, Briarback was teased because of her tail, or lack there of.

She didn't know the whole story, just that she lost it during an ordeal with WaterClan.

"Briarback, I'm sorry," she meowed softly, looking down at her paws.

"I think I'm going to sleep now, I want to do the dawn patrol," Briarback meowed, padding over to her nest.

Dawnwatcher let out a sigh, just when she thought she was becoming friends with some of her denmates, she had to go and say the wrong thing. She just hoped that she'd be able to make things right.


DarkClan

Leader: Darkstar, elderly black tom with amber eyes

Deputy: Windsnout, large, Muscular Light grey tabby tom with a unusual darker splash on his snout

Medicine Cat: Swirlingmist, black she-cat with grey swirling stripes and blue eyes (Smokepelt's sister)

Warriors:

Smokepelt - grey and black spotted tom with blue eyes

Dustmuzzle - grey tabby tom with darker flecks on muzzle and green eyes

Briarback - white she-cat with a short brown tail and brown flecks on her back, and green eyes

Tanglebriar - lanky black she-cat with a brown underbelly, and a nubbed tail

(Apprentice: Fadedpaw)

Marshstep - lithe pale brown she-cat with large black paws, and green eyes

(Apprentice: Steampaw)

Pinefrost - lithe dark brown she-cat with a white muzzle, belly, paws, and tail-tip; deep blue eyes

(Apprentice: Willowpaw)

Brown-nose - white tom with a brown nose, and green eyes

(Apprentice: Larkpaw)

Foxfur - reddish brown tom with black legs, and amber eyes

(Apprentice: Gullpaw)

Dawnwatcher - white she-cat with black spots, and blue eyes

Duskblaze - black tom with white spots, and blue eyes

Beaverpool - brown, bulky tom with a darker brown tail

Queens:

Spottedtuft, fawn colored she-cat with darker spots along her flank, White muzzle, Chest, Paws, Tailtip, and ears (mates with Smokepelt, mother of Fadedpaw, Shadekit, and Sprucekit)

Apprentices:

Fadedpaw - grey tom with black ears, legs, tail, and light blue eyes.

Steampaw - small, bright orange tom with darker orange ears, a dark orange fluffy tail tip, and blue eyes

Willowpaw - yellow and white tabby with green eyes

Larkpaw - reddish brown calico she-cat

Gullpaw - pale gray tabby tom

Kits:

Shadekit - fluffy white tom-kit with big black patches everywhere

Sprucekit - dark brown she-kit with darker paws, chest, forehead, tail tip, Face underside of belly, and along her spine


A/N: Thank you to Guest for submitting Blacktail, and James Kelly for submitting Flamestorm.