Sunpaw woke up and looked around her. She was in the apprentices' den in her moss nest. I still can't believe that I'm an apprentice! She thought. Sunpaw got up and padded outside. She would start her training tomorrow and she needed to be ready.
She went to the fresh-kill pile and picked out a mouse. Suddenly she bumped into someone.
"I'm sorry. Oh Bluepaw it's you!" Sunpaw meowed happily. "Do you want to eat with me?"
"Sorry. My mom said that I couldn't." Bluepaw replied sadly.
"Why not?" Sunpaw asked.
"She says that you're not a pure cat." Bluepaw mewed and then padded off.
Sunpaw sadly watched him go. That's the eighth time someone has said that to me. She thought. They're just playing a joke on me. Yeah. I know that I am a pure cat, but I'm tired of that joke! She sighed and put her mouse back. Then she walked over to Pinkpaw
"Hello Pinkpaw!" She greeted.
"Hello Sunpaw! Do you want to pretend fight with me?" Pinkpaw asked. Before Sunpaw could answer a cat leaped between them.
"Stay away from my kit you….mutt!" The cat hissed as she tried to slash Sunpaw across her face, claws unsheathed. Luckily Sunpaw ducked just in time, but she was still hurt inside. With that Sunpaw ran off, her ginger pelt flashing.
"Mother, Are you in here?" She called.
"Sunpaw, yes I'm here. What's wrong?" A voice called. Sunpaw rushed over to her mother and lay down next to her.
"Is it true?" Sunpaw asked.
"Is what true?" Scarletface meowed watching her daughter's pelt turn yellow in the darkness of the warriors' den.
"That I'm a….mutt?" Sunpaw mewed sadly. He mother sighed and then said,
"Listen to me Sunpaw. I should have told you a long time ago."
"You see, I fell in love with a Windclan cat. That cat was your father. I know that it was against the warrior code, but we couldn't help ourselves. One night, as the sun was going down, I had you. On that same night Windclan found out about us. They attacked us.
Your father sacrificed himself to save us." Scarletface told her.
"What was his name?" Sunpaw asked.
"His name was Barktail. He was a golden tom with brown eyes. That is how you got your golden stripes. You got your yellow pelt and your blue eyes from me." She replied.
"But what about my ginger pelt? How did I get it?" Sunpaw asked.
"I don't know." Her mother answered.
"So it's true. I am a mutt. Why didn't you tell me sooner! I could have avoided all of the insults that the others say!" Sunpaw cried.
"I'm sorry Sunpaw! I didn't want you to get hurt!" Scarletface meowed.
"Well how do you think I feel now?" Sunpaw hissed and with that she ran out of the warriors' den.
"Oh Starclan, Did I do the right thing?" Scarletface asked herself as she fell asleep.