p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"The white and Brown she-cat was sitting on her housefolks fence staring at the forest./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Shelly! Called a twoleg voice behind her and she leaped out of its grasp and ran into the woods like she thought she would never do. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"A few fox lengths away from the twoleg nest she decided to curl up in the decaying leaves and sleep./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" When she woke up, it was midnight, but she wasn't in the same leaves pile. Suddenly she heard a yowl from a rock. The yowl had came from a white tom with brown blotches. She saw a creature right behind her, it looked like a dog/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"but it had red sleek fur, black tips on its ears, and a big bushy tail. And Suddenly she realized what it was, it was a fox! But before she could run a golden tom leaped over her and drove the fox out of the forest./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Then he looked down and her and looked at her and said "You better be getting back to your twolegs" "Its almost sunrise." /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Thornfur! The white and brown warrior yelled./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Let her stay"/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Why would you let a kittypet stay?" Growled Thornfur. "I want to keep her" growled the white and brown Tom. "Whatever you say Mudstar" growled thornpaw /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Shelly could hear the aggression in Thornfurs voice. Slowly mudstar walked near Shelly. She felt scared of his emotionless blue gaze. "Hello there little one, I'm Mudstar, You?/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "S-Shelly" she stammered, while Mudstar stared at her with a amused gaze./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Nice to meet you Shelly" he meowed. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""N-Nice to meet you to" she stammered whilst trying to stay calm while Mudstar stared at her. "You seem to be freezing, let me help" He said. "O-Ok" Shelly stammered/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Mudstar gave a signal with his tail for her to follow. Eventually they reached a small tunnel that sunk into the ground. Mudstar walked in, but Shelly was too frightened of the dark tunnel. But after a minute Or so, she followed. She saw a ginger Tom with blazing red paws talking to Mudstar. Hoping for the ginger Tom to not notice her she stepped back. The Tom stared at her, as if he knew she was there the whole time./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "Hi there"Meowed the Tom. "I'm Firefoot, you must be Shelly, Mudstar was telling me about you"/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Slowly Firefoot crept over to Mudstar and silently meowed, "keep her, we need more warriors in these times." Mudstar nodded in agreement, but said nothing"/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Shelly didn't hear what Firefoot said, but acted like it didn't happen, she just stared at them with her beautiful blue gaze./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "Firefoot turned back to her. "Seems like you've gotten a chill from your arrival in leaf-bare" He calmly meowed. "Here, take this lavender" he meowed/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""O-Ok" Shelly stammered. She slowly chewed the leaves, Mudstar walked up to her./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Can you come to my den for a moment?" He meowed. "Sure" Meowed Shelly./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"They walked around the clearing for a moment, then reached another hole./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"The inside was bigger then the last den they were in./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Mudstar sat on a small propped rock and started to speak for only Shelly to hear. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Do you want to stay here and leave the luxury of a kittypet life?" He asked/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Shelly was silent for a moment but finally answered. "Yes, I have been trying to get in this forest for many moons now, this is where I belong." She meowed./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""If your staying here." He paused to lick his forelegs. "You'll need a new name, but I need to call a clan meeting for it, I'll show you where the tree stump Is."/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Ok." Shelly said calmly. Mudstar gave a signal with his tail for her to follow./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Finally they reached a big tree stump. "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here beneath the Great Stump for a Clan meeting" Mudstar meowed firmly./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Soon a small crowd of cats walked up to the stump. But gave a distance for any cat to walk between the stump and small crowd. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""As all of you may know, I have brought a kittypet into Iceclan" Mudstar meowed./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Two or three yowls of surprise raised upon the crowd, those yowls came from cats who didn't hear anything about it, even though the news spread like wildfire./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Shelly, come forward" he said calmly /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Shelly, you have joined the clan , and it is time for you to be apprenticed. From this day on, until you receive your warrior name, you will be known as, Willowpaw. Your mentor will be Ashface. I hope Ashface will pass down all he knows on to you" He meowed./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"After he finished, a ginger Tom stepped forward, it was Ashface./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Mudstar turned over to Ashface./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Ashface, you are ready to take on an apprentice. You have received excellent training from Hollyclaw and you have shown yourself to be strong and brave. You will be the mentor of Willowpaw and I expect you to pass on all you know to Willowpaw."/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Ashface bent down to touch noses with Willowpaw. Willowpaw had to adjust her height to touch noses with him though, she was pretty short. Everyone started calling her by her new name. Well, mostly everyone, except thornfur and a apprentice she didn't recognize. "He's probably teaching the apprentice to hate kittypets" Willowpaw thought. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Ashface walked up to her. "You better get some rest, tomorrows your first lesson on learning scents and borders. Let me lead you to the apprentices den" He said. After a moment he gave a signal for her to follow. They reached a small cave lined up beside three other small caves. Ashface told Willowpaw which caves were which. "The first cave is the apprentice den. The second cave is the warrior den. The third cave is the nursery. The forth cave is the elders den." Ashface told her. Willowpaw nodded and walked into the apprentice den. She spun around a few times on the moss to get herself comfortable. Then she laid down, and drifted into sleep./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" The next morning it was a small white tabby with green dye spread on her fur who woke her up. "Come on Willowpaw! Ashface is waiting for you" she said. "By the way, my name is leafypaw" Leafypaw explained. Willowpaw wanted to ask why she was dyed half green but was to much in a hurry to question it. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Ashface was waiting outside the apprentice den./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"He gave a signal with his tail for her to follow. They reached a small hollow which led to a border between Windclan and Iceclan. "What do you smell?" Ashface asked. "A sweet smelling scent." Willowpaw answered. "That's windclan" Ashface answered. "Fresh?" He asked. "Two or three days old" Willowpaw answered. Ashface had a amused look on his face./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" They walked to a nice river with some rocks. "What's this smell?" Ashface opened her mouth to let the scent go to her scent glands. "Two different clan smells but very different, one smells like a river, and the other smells like fresh kill." Willowpaw meowed. "The one that smells like a river is Riverclan, and the one that smells like fresh kill is Thunderclan. Fresh or stale?" Ashface meowed. Willowpaw sniffed again. "Five or six days old" Willowpaw meowed. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "I think it's time we head back, you /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"must be tired" Ashface meowed. Ashface was right, all Willowpaw wanted to do was curl up in some moss and sleep. They started walking towards the camp again, /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"eventually they reached it. "Let me show you where the fresh kill pile is, I forgot to show you last night" Ashface said. He gave a signal for her to follow. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" They reached a stocked up pile of fresh kill. "Have you ever tasted squirrel?" Asked Ashface. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""No." Willowpaw meowed. Ashface picked out a squirrel from the pile. "Try it" he said. Willowpaw took a bite out of the squirrel. "How's it taste?" Asked Ashface. "Amazing!"/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"yowled Willowpaw./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Later, Willowpaw was staring up at Silverpelt. Another apprentice leaped beside her./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""What are you doing?" The ginger Tom meowed. "Gah!" "Don't creep up on me like that!" Willowpaw yowled. "Sorry, I was just practicing my best crouch." The ginger Tom meowed./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Willowpaw looked amused over his kindness. "What's your name?" Meowed Willowpaw./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "Tigerpaw." Meowed the ginger Tom. "You?" Asked Tigerpaw. "Willowpaw" the beautiful white she-cat meowed back. "Have you started your practice on crouching yet or caught your first piece of fres-" Tigerpaw meowed, with the most excited voice ever. "No, but what was the last thing you said?" Willowpaw meowed. "Have you started on crouching?" Tigerpaw repeated. "I meant the other thing" Willowpaw meowed. "Have you caught your first piece of fresh-kill yet?" Tigerpaw finished. "No" answered Willowpaw. Tigerpaw was about to continue, but a brown battle scared she-cat walked up to them. "You two should be asleep, it's not like some cats gonna come and murder us all." The she-cat hissed. "Ok Brambleleaf." Meowed Tigerpaw./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Willowpaw was drifted into sleep. She knew she was dreaming, she was at fourtrees, she was only there once. She saw different cats from different clans..., fighting. Suddenly the moon was covered. Every cat was trying to calm down. The moon was uncovered now. But Mudstar climbed up on the highrock in fright as he had saw something in the small battle and meowed "Ashface is dead!"/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Yowls of horror rose above the crowd, even Willowpaw was yowling. She saw a pale figure of a Tom coming closer. "Ashface!" Willowpaw screamed in horror. She was staring at his ghost. "Careful, there is a cat you cannot trust." Ashface meowed. Slowly he and the dream started to fade. "Ashface don't go! I need to know what you mean!" Willowpaw yowled, but it was too late, Ashface was gone./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Willowpaw jolted awake in terror. She was scared. Who did Ashface mean? She repeated his words in her head. "Careful, there is a cat you cannot trust." She thought and thought, until she had a theory. Earlier in the dream she was walking to fourtrees with Ashface but then put beside the highrock. The whole gathering was just cats fighting, it went dark. She finally realized... Ashface would die at the gathering!/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"But who would kill the deputy of Iceclan?/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Again, Ashface was waiting outside the apprentices den. She couldn't warn him, and if she did he probably would not believe it. After all, she just joined the clan a moon or two ago, and still hadn't earned trust. Willowpaw said bye to Tigerpaw, Leafypaw, and spottedpaw. Then darted out the apprentices den to Ashface./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Ashface looked down at her. "Before we have our lessons, Mudstar would like to speak to you." Willowpaw was scared, after all, she's kinda a coward. After awhile she reached his den./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Mudstar was sitting on the propped small rock again, waiting for her. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Shelly! Called a twoleg voice behind her and she leaped out of its grasp and ran into the woods like she thought she would never do. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"A few fox lengths away from the twoleg nest she decided to curl up in the decaying leaves and sleep./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" When she woke up, it was midnight, but she wasn't in the same leaves pile. Suddenly she heard a yowl from a rock. The yowl had came from a white tom with brown blotches. She saw a creature right behind her, it looked like a dog/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"but it had red sleek fur, black tips on its ears, and a big bushy tail. And Suddenly she realized what it was, it was a fox! But before she could run a golden tom leaped over her and drove the fox out of the forest./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Then he looked down and her and looked at her and said "You better be getting back to your twolegs" "Its almost sunrise." /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Thornfur! The white and brown warrior yelled./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Let her stay"/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Why would you let a kittypet stay?" Growled Thornfur. "I want to keep her" growled the white and brown Tom. "Whatever you say Mudstar" growled thornpaw /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Shelly could hear the aggression in Thornfurs voice. Slowly mudstar walked near Shelly. She felt scared of his emotionless blue gaze. "Hello there little one, I'm Mudstar, You?/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "S-Shelly" she stammered, while Mudstar stared at her with a amused gaze./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Nice to meet you Shelly" he meowed. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""N-Nice to meet you to" she stammered whilst trying to stay calm while Mudstar stared at her. "You seem to be freezing, let me help" He said. "O-Ok" Shelly stammered/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Mudstar gave a signal with his tail for her to follow. Eventually they reached a small tunnel that sunk into the ground. Mudstar walked in, but Shelly was too frightened of the dark tunnel. But after a minute Or so, she followed. She saw a ginger Tom with blazing red paws talking to Mudstar. Hoping for the ginger Tom to not notice her she stepped back. The Tom stared at her, as if he knew she was there the whole time./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "Hi there"Meowed the Tom. "I'm Firefoot, you must be Shelly, Mudstar was telling me about you"/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Slowly Firefoot crept over to Mudstar and silently meowed, "keep her, we need more warriors in these times." Mudstar nodded in agreement, but said nothing"/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Shelly didn't hear what Firefoot said, but acted like it didn't happen, she just stared at them with her beautiful blue gaze./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "Firefoot turned back to her. "Seems like you've gotten a chill from your arrival in leaf-bare" He calmly meowed. "Here, take this lavender" he meowed/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""O-Ok" Shelly stammered. She slowly chewed the leaves, Mudstar walked up to her./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Can you come to my den for a moment?" He meowed. "Sure" Meowed Shelly./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"They walked around the clearing for a moment, then reached another hole./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"The inside was bigger then the last den they were in./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Mudstar sat on a small propped rock and started to speak for only Shelly to hear. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Do you want to stay here and leave the luxury of a kittypet life?" He asked/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Shelly was silent for a moment but finally answered. "Yes, I have been trying to get in this forest for many moons now, this is where I belong." She meowed./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""If your staying here." He paused to lick his forelegs. "You'll need a new name, but I need to call a clan meeting for it, I'll show you where the tree stump Is."/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Ok." Shelly said calmly. Mudstar gave a signal with his tail for her to follow./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Finally they reached a big tree stump. "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here beneath the Great Stump for a Clan meeting" Mudstar meowed firmly./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Soon a small crowd of cats walked up to the stump. But gave a distance for any cat to walk between the stump and small crowd. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""As all of you may know, I have brought a kittypet into Iceclan" Mudstar meowed./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Two or three yowls of surprise raised upon the crowd, those yowls came from cats who didn't hear anything about it, even though the news spread like wildfire./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Shelly, come forward" he said calmly /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Shelly, you have joined the clan , and it is time for you to be apprenticed. From this day on, until you receive your warrior name, you will be known as, Willowpaw. Your mentor will be Ashface. I hope Ashface will pass down all he knows on to you" He meowed./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"After he finished, a ginger Tom stepped forward, it was Ashface./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Mudstar turned over to Ashface./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Ashface, you are ready to take on an apprentice. You have received excellent training from Hollyclaw and you have shown yourself to be strong and brave. You will be the mentor of Willowpaw and I expect you to pass on all you know to Willowpaw."/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Ashface bent down to touch noses with Willowpaw. Willowpaw had to adjust her height to touch noses with him though, she was pretty short. Everyone started calling her by her new name. Well, mostly everyone, except thornfur and a apprentice she didn't recognize. "He's probably teaching the apprentice to hate kittypets" Willowpaw thought. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Ashface walked up to her. "You better get some rest, tomorrows your first lesson on learning scents and borders. Let me lead you to the apprentices den" He said. After a moment he gave a signal for her to follow. They reached a small cave lined up beside three other small caves. Ashface told Willowpaw which caves were which. "The first cave is the apprentice den. The second cave is the warrior den. The third cave is the nursery. The forth cave is the elders den." Ashface told her. Willowpaw nodded and walked into the apprentice den. She spun around a few times on the moss to get herself comfortable. Then she laid down, and drifted into sleep./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" The next morning it was a small white tabby with green dye spread on her fur who woke her up. "Come on Willowpaw! Ashface is waiting for you" she said. "By the way, my name is leafypaw" Leafypaw explained. Willowpaw wanted to ask why she was dyed half green but was to much in a hurry to question it. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Ashface was waiting outside the apprentice den./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"He gave a signal with his tail for her to follow. They reached a small hollow which led to a border between Windclan and Iceclan. "What do you smell?" Ashface asked. "A sweet smelling scent." Willowpaw answered. "That's windclan" Ashface answered. "Fresh?" He asked. "Two or three days old" Willowpaw answered. Ashface had a amused look on his face./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" They walked to a nice river with some rocks. "What's this smell?" Ashface opened her mouth to let the scent go to her scent glands. "Two different clan smells but very different, one smells like a river, and the other smells like fresh kill." Willowpaw meowed. "The one that smells like a river is Riverclan, and the one that smells like fresh kill is Thunderclan. Fresh or stale?" Ashface meowed. Willowpaw sniffed again. "Five or six days old" Willowpaw meowed. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "I think it's time we head back, you /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"must be tired" Ashface meowed. Ashface was right, all Willowpaw wanted to do was curl up in some moss and sleep. They started walking towards the camp again, /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"eventually they reached it. "Let me show you where the fresh kill pile is, I forgot to show you last night" Ashface said. He gave a signal for her to follow. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" They reached a stocked up pile of fresh kill. "Have you ever tasted squirrel?" Asked Ashface. /p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""No." Willowpaw meowed. Ashface picked out a squirrel from the pile. "Try it" he said. Willowpaw took a bite out of the squirrel. "How's it taste?" Asked Ashface. "Amazing!"/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"yowled Willowpaw./p
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p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Later, Willowpaw was staring up at Silverpelt. Another apprentice leaped beside her./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""What are you doing?" The ginger Tom meowed. "Gah!" "Don't creep up on me like that!" Willowpaw yowled. "Sorry, I was just practicing my best crouch." The ginger Tom meowed./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Willowpaw looked amused over his kindness. "What's your name?" Meowed Willowpaw./p
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p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "Tigerpaw." Meowed the ginger Tom. "You?" Asked Tigerpaw. "Willowpaw" the beautiful white she-cat meowed back. "Have you started your practice on crouching yet or caught your first piece of fres-" Tigerpaw meowed, with the most excited voice ever. "No, but what was the last thing you said?" Willowpaw meowed. "Have you started on crouching?" Tigerpaw repeated. "I meant the other thing" Willowpaw meowed. "Have you caught your first piece of fresh-kill yet?" Tigerpaw finished. "No" answered Willowpaw. Tigerpaw was about to continue, but a brown battle scared she-cat walked up to them. "You two should be asleep, it's not like some cats gonna come and murder us all." The she-cat hissed. "Ok Brambleleaf." Meowed Tigerpaw./p
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p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Willowpaw was drifted into sleep. She knew she was dreaming, she was at fourtrees, she was only there once. She saw different cats from different clans..., fighting. Suddenly the moon was covered. Every cat was trying to calm down. The moon was uncovered now. But Mudstar climbed up on the highrock in fright as he had saw something in the small battle and meowed "Ashface is dead!"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Yowls of horror rose above the crowd, even Willowpaw was yowling. She saw a pale figure of a Tom coming closer. "Ashface!" Willowpaw screamed in horror. She was staring at his ghost. "Careful, there is a cat you cannot trust." Ashface meowed. Slowly he and the dream started to fade. "Ashface don't go! I need to know what you mean!" Willowpaw yowled, but it was too late, Ashface was gone./p
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p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Willowpaw jolted awake in terror. She was scared. Who did Ashface mean? She repeated his words in her head. "Careful, there is a cat you cannot trust." She thought and thought, until she had a theory. Earlier in the dream she was walking to fourtrees with Ashface but then put beside the highrock. The whole gathering was just cats fighting, it went dark. She finally realized... Ashface would die at the gathering!/p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"But who would kill the deputy of Iceclan?/p
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p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Again, Ashface was waiting outside the apprentices den. She couldn't warn him, and if she did he probably would not believe it. After all, she just joined the clan a moon or two ago, and still hadn't earned trust. Willowpaw said bye to Tigerpaw, Leafypaw, and spottedpaw. Then darted out the apprentices den to Ashface./p
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p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Ashface looked down at her. "Before we have our lessons, Mudstar would like to speak to you." Willowpaw was scared, after all, she's kinda a coward. After awhile she reached his den./p
p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Mudstar was sitting on the propped small rock again, waiting for her. /p