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Chapter 2: Apprentices
Redfur was rushing around her den. The sweet smell of the herbs refreshed Bluepaw. Her left eye was still faulty, but it was getting better. Redfur finally started to examine Bluepaw's left eye.
After a while, she stepped back.
"Did you eat any mouse that looked spoiled?" Redfur asked inquiringly.
"Well yes, I did eat one, because Lionpaw told me it was ok" Bluepaw replied. Redfur sighed.
"The mouse you ate was just poisioned by a twoleg I suppose" Redfur meowed.
"It'll go away in a few hours, but I strongly propose you rest," Redfur continued.
Bluepaw sighed. She thought that it was a one way ticket to not being a warrior!
Lionpaw struggled to keep up with Blackheart, his mentor. Blackheart looked back to see his apprentice struggling to keep up, and he stopped. Lionpaw padded towards Blackheart, breathing loudly.
"Where are we going?" Lionpaw asked breathlessly. Blackheart turned to his apprentice.
"We're going to the sunrocks" Blackheart replied to Lionpaw's question.
Blackheart's ears flicked as he saw a quiver in a nearby bush. Lionpaw watched his mentor jump into the bush. Blackheart looked around; there was no mouse, only a scent…not from his clan though! Soon a tom burst out of the left segment of the bush, and tackled Blackheart down to the ground.
Lionpaw heard growling from inside the bush, and he jumped inside to see what was causing the trouble. Lionpaw noticed that Blackheart was fighting Arrowtail, another Thunderclan warrior.
"What are you two doing?" Lionpaw asked caterwauling over the growls and hisses.
Arrowtail noticed it was Blackheart. Arrowtail's eyes grew wide. He jumped off Blackheart's body.
"Uh…sorry…" Arrowtail started.
"Why'd you do that?" Blackheart asked. Blackheart rolled back onto his belly and stood up.
"Uh…I thought you were another clan cat…" Arrowtail replied quietly.
"Why don't you use your smell!" Blackheart spat.
"Stop treating me like an apprentice!" Arrowtail caterwauled. "Then stop acting like one, and be a Warrior!" Blackheart spat. Arrowtail flexed his claws, ready for a fight.
Bluepaw woke up from her nap. Her left eye could only see grey fluff. The grey fluff moved, and a she-cat formed. Bluepaw glanced at the small she-cat.
"Fogpaw? What are you doing sleeping?" Bluepaw yawned as she stretched. She got up from the mossy bed.
"Well, I wanted to see how you were doing, and I fell asleep in a moment!" Fogpaw meowed.
Three toms entered the clan's home, and padded in different directions. One of them was Lionpaw, who headed towards the apprentice's den. Bluepaw popped out of the apprentice's den, and started to pad towards her brother. "How was the training?" She asked Lionpaw. Lionpaw didn't say anything, and just headed inside the apprentice's den. Bluepaw noticed his tail wasn't flicking in his usual way.
Blackheart padded through the mossy covering, and into the Leader's den. Whitestar was eating a small mouse, when Blackheart entered.
"Did something happen? We don't have enough patrols?" Whitestar asked paranoid.
"No, I just came here to say that, I don't think Arrowtail's mature enough to become stay warrior rank" Blackheart meowed suspiciously.
"Oh, what did he do to make you think that?" Whitestar asked quietly.
"First off all, he doesn't hunt much! He also attacked me inside a huge bush, because he didn't use his smell!" Blackheart caterwauled loudly.
"Well, I can't demote him…but I can punish him!" Whitestar meowed.
"I totally agree, but what is the punishment?" Asked Blackheart.
"He'll be sleeping inside the apprentices den, having to have permission from you to hunt, and loses all his warrior privileges" Whitestar snickered.
Arrowtail was outside the Leader's den, and overheard the conversation. Arrowtail looked at the only exit of the clan's home, and bounded towards it.
He ran through the forest, until he bumped into Sapplingpaw, who was looking for herbs.
"Where are you going?" Sapplingpaw asked squeaking at the last words.
"Going hunting" Arrowtail lied. He didn't want to be treated like an apprentice, again!
He ran off, looking back to were he had left Sapplingpaw.
Sneak preview of chapter 6: Bluepaw hung on with all her might, but it wasn't enought. She plunged right into the river! Lionpaw watched in dismay, unable to move. Reviews please!