The story Ravenpaw: A redo of Into the Wild
Chapter 4: The Apprenticing
Ravenkit awoke the next morning to Graykit playfully batting Ravenkit's tail. Ravenkit turned to look at his gray friend saying, "Can I help you?"
Graykit stopped and sat up straight, "Have you already forgotten what day it is?"
"Of course I haven't………err….it's the day……where…..um," Ravenkit answered stumbling over his own words.
"It's the day we're being apprenticed, you fur-ball," mewed Graykit playfully.
"I knew that," remarked Ravenkit a little embarrassed. He glanced at Graykit, who has hopping up and down, "Uh, Graykit are you feeling okay?"
"I'm fine," Graykit said stopping to play with a moss-ball.
"What are you doing?" asked the ebon kit.
"We're going to an apprentice soon that means no more kit-stuff!" He explained quickly turning to roll around, "I need to get all my kits play in before apprenticing, and my kit fun is lost FOREVER!"
"Don't you think your taking the phrase: You're not young forever, a little too seriously?"
"No."
Ravenkit looked at Graykit once more before saying, "I think I'll see what Pantherkit's doing." Then he turned to walk near the Elders Den.
Pantherkit was lining the Elders Den with moss, when Ravenkit walked in. "Pantherkit, you're not an apprentice yet! What are you doing?"
"I'm lining the den with fresh moss, what does it look like I'm doing?" She hissed with the furiousness of a tiger.
Ravenkit walked over to the moss and touched it, his eyes opened wide it was damp; "This moss is soaked! You'll give the elders achy joints!"
"Well aren't you the expert!" Pantherkit hissed, "Like I care if they get a few aches and pains, we warriors go though more pain then those slugs!"
"Your so lucky no one but me around to hear that!" hissed Ravenkit, "Your no warrior Pantherkit!"
"Says who? A pint size kit, like you!" growled Pantherkit. Her black and white fur standing on end.
"Look who's talking!" hissed Ravenkit, "You're a kit just like me."
Pantherkit unsheathed her claws and leaped at Ravenkit knocking them out of the Elders Den. Ravenkit, infuriated, threw Pantherkit off him, and then he ran over hissing and spitting.
Pantherkit smirked at Ravenkit hovering above her, "Help, help! Ravenkit's trying to hurt me!"
"What, no, that's not true!" Ravenkit tried to explain as the crowd gathered around them. Bluestar walked over, her eyes burned angrily.
"Ravenkit! What do you think you're doing?" growled Bluestar, "I have half a mind not to make you an apprentice!"
"Pantherkit's lying! I'm innocent," Ravenkit mewed back.
"I have no choice, you need a strict mentor," growled Bluestar jumping up on highrock, "May all cats old enough to catch their own prey please gather at the highrock for a clan meeting." Bluestar signaled the kits forward, "From now on, until they received their warrior names, they will be called," she walked over to the kits, "Graykit, will become Graypaw. Lionheart you are brave and strong, pass these traits onto Graypaw." Graypaw touched noses with his mentor before walking down, "Pantherkit, you will become Pantherpaw. Longtail you are ready for an apprentice, teach young Pantherpaw well." Pantherpaw touched noses with Longtail before sitting down next to Tigerclaw.
'One of Tigerclaw's closest friends,' Ravenkit thought to himself looking down at the two. Bluestar walked over to him after giving it a lot of thought.
"Ravenkit, you will be Ravenpaw. Tigerclaw you are strict with apprentices take this one and set him straight," said Bluestar. Ravenpaw's eyes became really big as the mighty warrior strode over.
Tigerclaw looked down at Ravenpaw; a murmur of evil laughter escaped his lips. It was too low for Bluestar to hear, yet high enough for Ravenpaw to hear. Tigerclaw touched noses with Ravenpaw, who shrunk back in his seat, terrified.
This was it, the one thing he always wanted to be, was a warrior. Now he wishes he was still a kit. It's all because Pantherpaw, that black and white shrew! Now Tigerclaw's his mentor, and there's nothing he could do to stop him.