Emberpaw awoke. Oh no! It was long past sunrise.

She rushed out of the den, running into Darktail.

Emberpaw realized he must have been waiting for her.

"Hello, Emberpaw." he mewed pleasantly. "Hawkwing wrenched his paw, so I'm giving you battle training."

"Okay." she said hesitantly. Something about Darktail unnerved her, even though he had been here for at least a moon.

They made their way towards the training clearing.

"Has Hawkwing shown you this one yet?" he asked, pulling off an extremely advanced move.

"No."

"Then watch me," he directed. He did it again slower. "And then you scrape your claws down their belly." he added, demonstrating it. It was a particularly vicious move for a Clan cat.

Emberpaw tried it out, and let Darktail critique her.

"Your balance is exceptionally good," he complimented. "Try hitting harder, though." Though he wasn't her mentor, Emberpaw felt a great deal of satisfaction when she finally perfected it.

"Thank you." she said at the end of the session, completely heartfelt. He said easily, "No problem."


A bit short but it's mostly a filler, so it doesn't matter. Most of it is just supposed to show how Emberpaw is getting influenced by Darktail, which, (if you've read a Vision of Shadows) is a complete *spoiler* who *spoiler* and *spoiler* all *spoiler* he can *spoiler*.

Anyway, Enjoy!