Up in the mountains, the Tribe of Rushing Water are getting bullied by three or four rude teenagers. They knew they can do nothing about it as they were wondering about what they could do. Stormfur and Brook had a plan but the tribe cats weren't speaking but sending it through code. They didn't want the rude teenagers to find out about this.

In modern times, Jaypaw and Leafpool were looking for herbs, specifically Mallow Leaves. Jaypaw was thinking about Mallow Leaves when he was suddenly thinking of the stick again. He knew the stick had the voice of ghost cats and he wanted to figure out what was up. Dustpelt and Hazelpaw were out doing an assessment as they were preparing her to be a full warrior. Jaypaw soon bumped into her as she was just finishing.

"Oh Jaypaw, how are you doing?" Hazelpaw asked wondering how Jaypaw was holding up. Jaypaw turned to her as he wanted to speak.

"I'm holding up well, it took a while for us to get over being cold and wet." Jaypaw responded. It was clear that he was right. The rain had been coming on and off for the past couple of days as it was clear it was going to rain again.

"That's great and I'm excited to being a full warrior. I wonder what Firestar will call me." Hazelpaw mewed excitedly. Jaypaw was wondering what kind of name Firestar will give them. Jaypaw thought it was exciting but he wanted more.

"Any other news? Jaypaw asked wondering if she had anything else to present. Hazelpaw thought about it before it snapped into her mind. She began excited to announce it.

"Oh yeah, Daisy just had some new kits. Their new names are Toadkit and Rosekit." Hazelpaw told Jaypaw as they started to walk back to camp. Jaypaw was happy that there were new kits in the camp but to his surprise, someone didn't bother to visit.

"When will Spiderleg visit his kits?" Jaypaw asked her. Hazelpaw shrugged as she had no idea when he will pay them a visit. Berrypaw was sneaking up on a thrush unaware to the apprentices that he pounced and missed the thrush. He turned back annoyed but the apprentices continued walking with their mentors. Berrypaw goes back to hunting.

Once the apprentices arrived back at camp, there was much excitement to be heard as Daisy's kits are being overshadowed by three apprentices that are ready to become warriors. Berrypaw was wondering about what his name would be.

"I wonder what my warrior name will be? I am wondering if I would be called something cool like Berrypelt or Berryclaw." Berrypaw mewed wondering what his name would be. Poppypaw doesn't seem to be too attached to him as she wanted to make fun of him.

"What if they call you Berrystumpytail?" Poppypaw asked, all the cats burst out in laughter as Berrypaw was annoyed.

"Who would call each other Berrystumpytail, that's a mouthful and plus it's too long of a name." Berrypaw retaliated. The other apprentices just laughed at him before Firestar decided to call for a clan meeting.

"Every cat old enough to catch their own prey gather under the high ledge for a clan meeting." He began. The apprentices turned their heads wondering what was going on. "Tonight I've decided that three apprentices are ready to become warriors, Berrypaw, Mousepaw and Hazelpaw come forth." Firestar began. The apprentices walked over as they were wondering what was going on but Firestar had a surprise for them. "Now do you promise to uphold the warrior code even if it means costing your own life?" Firestar asked the three cats. Berrypaw was nervous as he knew that he could receive a downright stupid name but he knew he had to pull through.

"I do." Berrypaw responded. Mousepaw was more excited as he responded too.

"I do." Mousepaw almost jumped into the air as Hazelpaw was the last to respond.

"I do as well." Hazelpaw wanted to make her sentence longer.

"Very well, Berrypaw from now on you will be known as Berrynose due to the stump on your tail. Mousepaw you will be known as Mousewhisker due to those long whiskers and Hazelpaw you will be known as Hazeltail since you have such a cute tail. You will vigil over the camp until dawn." All the cats chanted the new names as the three apprentices were finally moving on. Hollypaw was angry that she wasn't chosen even though she was a few moons behind them. Icekit and Foxkit were excited wondering when they will be apprentices next.

Lionpaw went on a patrol with Ashfur tomorrow morning as he wanted to speak to him. Ashfur however was starting to get worried about his apprentice as he thought Lionpaw had the possibility of outpacing him when it came to training, where was he learning these battle moves from and how was he doing this perfectly? He assumed he was practicing a lot. Later, he was up against Poppypaw who he was training with.

"Okay I was wondering if you can take it easy on my apprentice since he is like a butterfly." Thornclaw mewed to Ashfur. Ashfur ignored him as Poppypaw leaped at Lionpaw. Lionpaw soon turned as he kicked Poppypaw in the jaw. Poppypaw collapsed as she felt a stinging sensation in her jaw, she looked down as it was bleeding but none of her teeth were knocked out.

"That hurts." Poppypaw mewed as Thornclaw rushed over to her. He examined her as he soon felt around the apprentice's mouth.

"Thank Starclan her jaw isn't broken, we should take her to Leafpool wondering if we could patch up her wound." Thornclaw responded as he escorted Poppypaw away. Ashfur decided to talk to Lionpaw.

"Lionpaw, where did you get that strength? You nearly broke Poppypaw's jaw with that kick alone." Ashfur asked his apprentice. Lionpaw soon turned to Ashfur.

"That mentor in Windclan trained me just as hard as you did as he taught me some battle moves. I've been fighting ghost cats to get stronger." Lionpaw explained on how he got this strong. Ashfur turned to Lionpaw as he was impressed yet nervous thinking he might do something worse than break a limb.

"You know you need to watch your strength there, you might kill a warrior with that move." Ashfur warned him to keep his strength at a minimum. Lionpaw knew he had to be more careful when it came to fighting. Even though he was the strongest apprentice out of the bunch, Ashfur knew fighting wasn't the key to winning every battle. "Let's get you to camp, you need to relax." Ashfur soon leads Lionpaw back to camp. He knew that he didn't want to be mean with Lionpaw but he was getting nervous about his strength. Lionpaw was also uneasy since his mentor says nice things to him in the most disinterested way possible. Ashfur turned back to Lionpaw as the entered camp. "Great job Lionpaw." Says Ashfur sharpening his knife. Ashfur soon got up as he left.

Lionpaw soon went to the elders den to straighten it out as Longtail was telling Foxkit and Icekit about Tigerstar. Lionpaw overhears this as he went to Longtail, dropping everything he was doing to listen in. It was too late since Longtail was at the end of the story.

"What makes you say that? I want to hear more about Tigerstar." Lionpaw mewed as her was curious about this. Longtail decided to look at him as he knew that Lionpaw was completely crazy.

"Okay the only evil thing Tigerstar has ever done is when he goes to the bathroom he always leaves the toilet seat up." Longtail mewed to Lionpaw. Lionpaw wasn't unnerved by this as he told Longtail.

"Ahh but he's already dead so he can't leave the seat up now." Lionpaw replied. Suddenly two cats appeared as Lionpaw soon went outside wondering what all the commotion was about. The two cats that appeared were Stormfur and Brook.

"It's nice to see you again." Firestar mewed to them. Graystripe soon looked up as he recognized Stormfur.

"Stormfur my boy!" Graystripe called out as he tackled him down. He was happy to see Stormfur was still alive. Stormfur happily purred seeing his dad for the first time in moons. He soon lead him away as he wanted to talk to him since they have so much to catch up on. Lionpaw soon went to go get some fresh-kill trying to figure out who these strangers were. He decided to go speak to them.

Hollypaw was in the nursery as she was busy taking care of the kits. Daisy's new kits were sleeping while Ferncloud was busy getting Foxkit and Icekit prepared as Firestar had something good he promised to the kits and the nursery's new resident was Millie who was expecting Graystripe's kits. It was clear she hated romance but even more so, she hated babies.

"God these kits are smelly! They'll tear up the camp." Hollypaw hissed frustrated seeing the kits run around happily. Spiderleg hadn't even seen Toadkit and Rosekit at all. Squirrelflight was getting fresh moss in when Hollypaw slammed the moss down as she downright hated taking care of the kits. Squirrelflight looked at her as she followed her out.

"Hollypaw is there something wrong?" Squirrelflight asked Hollypaw. Hollypaw turned to her.

"I hate these kits and I don't want to have kits of my own. I don't want a mate nor do I want kits as they are all garbage!" Hollypaw hissed as it was clear she didn't want any of this. Squirrelflight knew she had to keep Hollypaw calm.

"Why do you think they are garbage?" Squirrelflight asked wondering why she would come up with a thought like this. Hollypaw turned to her as she soon spoke.

"It will hinder my progress to becoming the clan's greatest warrior. I just want to be a warrior and just a warrior." Hollypaw responded. Squirrelflight knew that Hollypaw was just frustrated and venting her anger out on the group. Squirrelflight thought what Hollypaw was saying was completely false as she didn't appreciate on what she was going to do next.

"You'll change your mind, trust me." Squirrelflight mewed to Hollypaw as Hollypaw stormed off, she didn't want to grow up. Soon Firestar noticed all the cats were outside as he thought now was a good time to announce a clan meeting.

"Every cat old enough to catch their own prey, gather under the high ledge for a clan meeting." Firestar began. All the cats were wondering what kind of news that he had. They knew this was the second meeting they had in a quarter moon so did Firestar have something important to say, the other cats gathered around wondering what he had to say. "Our lovely author Erin Hunter has already forgotten that she intended to give Brightheart an apprentice and will now never remember, so I will be assigning apprentices. Icekit, Foxkit, come forth please. Until you receive your warrior names you will be known as Icepaw and Foxpaw. Your mentors will be Whitewing for Icepaw and Squirrelflight for Foxpaw. Whitewing and Squirrelflight come get your apprentices." Firestar had already decided who their mentors would be as Brightheart was very upset again.

"Hey! I thought I was getting one of those?" Brightheart mewed as she thought Firestar had promised her Foxpaw or Icepaw. Firestar just looked at her.

"What? When?" Firestar asked Brightheart wondering when he said that. Brightheart knew she had to remind her leader for when he said that. She held up a copy of The Sight.

"Like, two books ago. Not even." Brightheart responded as Firestar knew he had to wrap this up so he and Brightheart don't get into an argument.

"Look when it takes for two books or three months to pass you forget things." Firestar responded as he had completely forgotten about that. He soon made a promise to Brightheart. "I'll get you next time." Brightheart hoped that was the case or else Firestar wouldn't give her an apprentice. "Meeting dismissed." He soon leaped off of the high ledge as he went to go talk to Stormfur and Brook as he had some important business to get to.

Meanwhile the Rude Teenagers were posting fake messages in their code as they wanted to get the prices of things in the Tribe inflated out of control as well as staring into their windows of their clan every night. This is what their messages said:

Friends, Romans, Countrymen

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Ykhf: Vanvdexgnml

Mh: Uhll

Lxxw atl uxxg ietgmxw lnvvxllyneer. Hibgbhg hy vnmx tbgftel atl lbzgbybvtgmer bfikhoxw, lnlibvbhg bl ehp. Kxvhffxgw px fhox mh gxqm iatlx.

Ykhf: Em. Ubmxl

Mh: Uhll

Xvhghfr bgyenxgvx mxlm vhfiexmx. Klxneml: lbzgbybvtgm. Uhma iktblx tgw vkbmbvblf lxxf mh wkbox ikbvxl ldrptkw, ehpxkbgz bl bfihllbuex. Vtg lmbee ux nlxw yhk zkxtm uxgbybm. Kxvhffxgw px xqitgw vbkvex hy bgyenxgvx uxrhgw xvhghfr tlti.

Ykhf: Venulr max Lxte

Mh: Uhll

Px atox t ikhuexf. Lnucxvm ukhdx ykxx hy vhgmkhe tgw mkbxw mh uehp max pablmex. Vhgmkhe atl lbgvx uxxg kx-xlmtueblaxw tgw fxmt chdx itktfxmxk atl uxxg wbtexw utvd mh fbgbfte exoxel. Px lahnew lmbee ux hg-mktvd yhk iatlx makxx, unm B kxvhffgw px fhgbmhk abf vehlxer yhk max mbfx uxbgz.

Ykhf: Uhll

Mh: Xoxkrhgx

Tefhlm maxkx. Venulr'l xkkhk atl uxxg vhlmer, unm vhkkxvmxw. Bgyenxgvx lxxfl mh ux ngtyyxvmxw ikhvxxw tl ietggxw. Matm bl tee.

[A/N]: That is it for now; I am beginning Outcast as it will be the last book in this fanfiction I get to cover. Also I am waiting on those reviews that will make this story interesting since we're bringing the tribe back.

Also what do you think the rude teenagers are trying to say? I know it must be a jumbled up group of letters but it's like they are trying to say something. I'll give you some hints to making this sound a little bit easier to read:

K=R

L=S

M=T

E=L

G=N

X=E

Leave a review if you know what the answer is and I'll give a shout out in the next chapter on whoever was able to decipher the message. Another thing to point out if I spoil anything is that this might have to do with some conspiracy against the tribe as they are getting out these ciphered messages. Either this chapter will have a bunch of 2's on it or a photo of the Spycrab. That is it for now as this chapter was one of the shorter ones but I feel like I wanted to get this out since the last one was like over 4k words. I'll see you next time with more tribe shenanigans. Cheers.