Tumblepaw pov

"The next level is, who can make Crowfeather, Breezepelt, and Jayfeather laugh the most?" Onestar shouted, Jayfeather yelled and charged at the tom.

"I've been through enough already!" he shouted, Lionblaze held his brother back.

"Don't," he mewed and put his bro down next to Breezepelt and Crowfeather. Bramblestar sighed.

"I've been practicing!" he mewed and did a cartwheel into the fake arena in front of Crowfeather, Breezepelt, and Jayfeather.

"haha," Jayfeather hissed rolling his sightless eyes. "WHATEVER YOU DID I CAN'T SEE SO YOU HAVE TO TALK!" he shouted at his leader, Bramblestar gulped and nodded. Tumblepaw sighed, Jayfeather could at least fake laugh for their leader

"knock knock?" Bramblestar mewed Breezepelt replied.

"Who is there?" he asked brightly, he loves knock-knock jokes.

"B-Bramble," he whimpered, Breezepelt grinned.

"B-Bramble who?" he asked with a sneer, Bramblestar sobbed and ran out of the arena into Squirrelflights arms. She rolled her eyes at Breezepelt as she patted the toms shoulder.

"Tigerstar," Onestar mewed and the tom jogged into the ring.

"BOOOO!" Tumblepaw shouted but shut up when Onestar glared at him.

Tigerstar grinned at Crowfeather and punched him in the shoulder, Crwofeather's eye twitched and he bit down on Tigerstar's hand making him scream, he darted away and Onestar turned to Mistystar, the she-cat smiled and padded forward. She sat down in front of the three toms and cleared her throat.

"poo," they started laughing their heads off, especially Jayfeather. THE TRAITOR! Tumblepaw thought, Brightheart also was scowling from beside him.

"MISTYSTAR HAS WON THIS LEVEL!" Onestar shouted brightly, "and the last level is..." he paused and glared at Windclan, Crowfeather sighed and started drumming the floor.

"RUNNING!"Onestar shouted then smirked, "three-legged race," he added, "chose a cat from your clan and get ready to race!" Onestar shouted. Tumblepaw smiled this was going to be funny to watch, he headed towards the starting line but was called back.

"Tumblepaw!" Bramblestar called, "you're my partner," he mewed and Sootpaw grabbed one of Tumblepaw's paws and one of Bramblestar's and tied them together. Tumblepaw felt confident, he was good at three-legged races he just hopped Bramblestar could keep up with him. he got to the start of the race and Mistystar had chosen the pretty apprentice Dewpaw to be her helper, Tigerstar had chosen Hawkpaw.

"GO!" Onestar shouted dropping his leaf, Tigerstar straight away was at the back, whoever had tied their paws together had done it wrong and Tigerstar was facing backward when Hawkpaw was looking forward. Tumblepaw grinned and realized he was betting Dewpaw, he saw her boyfriend glare at him from the crowd. Tumblepaw gulped and tripped Bramblestar, they fell to the floor and Riverclan ran ahead.

"MISTYSTAR WINS!" Onestar shouted.

"Again," Bramblestar added in a grumble, Onestar smiled.

"Whatever!" he chuckled and led the group back to the great oak. "AND THE WINNER OF THE WHO IS THE BEST LEADER IS MISTYSTAR!" he shouted. Riverclan cheered and carried the leader on their shoulders around the clearing. Tumblepaw sighed. At Least the pretty Riverclan cat would notice him! Then he remembered her boyfriend and edged closer to Sootpaw.

Honeypaw pov

Honeypaw smiled at Hawkpaw who smiled back. Why do we keep smiling?! She thought but she continued smiling.

"When do you want to meet up?" Hawkpaw asked. Honeypaw frowned and glanced at the sky.

"Moon high every third day," she said, Hawkpaw grinned and nodded.

"And, as the best leader, I call the gathering to a start," Mistystar called from the great oak. "Riverclan is doing wonderful! The prey is great, and we have three new apprentices, Dewpaw, Reedpaw, and Stormpaw!" she added. Honeypaw smiled. Dewpaw was the cat Tumblepaw had been staring at. What a fool! Seeing a Riverclan cat was against the warrior code! But as long as you share a border it's fine. She thought smiling up at Hawkpaw the taller apprentice.

"And Shadowclan is doing fine. We have had an apprentice injured but all will be better and the clan is dying under my rule!" Tigerstar said grinning. Dovewing shoved him off the tree.

"Uh no. the clan is great and way better than Thunderclan!" she said smiling and holding her mate's mouth closed. Onestar rolled his eyes at the young couple.

"and Windcl-" Onestar was abruptly cut of by Bramblestar.

"BEST LEADER FIRST, THEN YOUNGEST LEADER TO OLDEST, GOT IT, GRANDPA?" He yowled and pushed the Windclan leader of the branch.

"MY HIP!" Onestar shrieked. his hip was stuck out at an odd angle, and all the cats surrounding him collapsed, unconscious when he pushed it around.

"I think its dislocated!" Honeypaw gasped and rushed over with the Medicine cats.

"Go away, Honeypaw, you're in the way!" Kestrelflight snapped, pushing Honeypaw aside. Honeypaw! The amazing, beautiful, lovely, wonderful, adored by all, Honeypaw! The nerve! Honeypaw watched the medicine cats push Onestar's hip back in place. They're doing it wrong. she thought.

"Thunderclan is doing Wonderfully, now that Dovewing has finally left! The prey pile is always full, now, and four new apprentices have been named! Honeypaw, Frostpaw, Tumblepaw, and Scroogepaw!" Bramblestar yowled, apparently oblivious to the commotion going on beneath him.

"Gathering DISMISSED!" Bramblestar added, without letting Windclan do their announcement.

Sootpaw pov

Sootpaw padded alongside Mousewhisker and Blossomfall, listening to the latter complain about 'unworthy apprentices' and how unfair it was that only leaders were allowed to join the best leader competition. he nodded whenever she said something he agreed with. he'd nodded once the whole trip back. by the time the patrol got back to Thunderclan camp, Sootpaw was surprised by how boring the walk had been.

"Sootpaw! how was the gathering?" Smallkit mewed excitedly as she almost barreled into him.

"Yeah, did anything exciting happen?" Littlekit asked as she barreled into her sister. the two kits looked exactly alike. they both had fluffy white pelts, with light gray snouts and underbellies, and both of their eyes were the exact same shade of blue.

"no, the gathering was super lame." Sootpaw mewed and barged past them, entered the apprentice den, and flopped down in his nest. he stretched luxuriously and fell into a deep sleep.

Sootpaw woke the next day, a few minutes before dawn. he quickly groomed his fur and lapped up a mouthful of Y.F, from his secret ball of moss. he padded confidently out of the den, looking alert and very awake. The same couldn't be said about any other cat in the Thunderclan camp. Bumblestripe was leaning on the fresh-kill pile (Sootpaw couldn't tell if he was asleep or still depressed about Dovewing leaving Thunderclan), Squirrelflight's eyes were glazed as she sorted patrols, and Lionblaze seemed to have fallen asleep while leading the dawn patrol out of camp and walked into the wall. Sootpaw padded up to Squirrelflight.

"do you need me on any patrols?" he asked,

"actually, can you join the dawn patrol real quick? and when you get back, I need a hunting patrol out, so you can join that, and then the apprentices and their mentors are supposed to go battle training, but after sun high I need you to go on a border patrol, and then there will be another hunting patrol you can go on and then, tonight, you have to be on the moon-high patrol. Thanks for the offer!" Squirrelflight mewed. Sootpaw raised his eyebrows.

"is that all?" he said sarcastically.

"Oh! your right! Jayfeather also wanted some help with collecting moss, or whatever, so I guess we can fit that into your timetable!" Sootpaw grimaced and padded quickly to join the dawn patrol before Squirrelflight could assign him any more patrols.

Frostpaw pov

Frostpaw flopped down next to the fresh-kill pile and moaned, pathetically. She and her siblings had just gotten back from what had been probably the most exhausting battle training in the history of Thunderclan.

"Jeeze, Frostpaw, you act like it was hard!" Tumblepaw mewed as he flopped down beside her.

"OOOOOWW!" He shrieked, twisting his paws behind his back, trying, unsuccessfully, to clutch at it in pain.

"I think I re-dislocated it, from when Blossomfall made me do the Triple Ninja Tiger Back-spin Block." He mewed through clenched teeth.

"Jayfeather! Get your fat lazy butt out here, RIGHT NOW!" Sootpaw yowled, at top volume, in a perfect imitation of Frostpaws voice. A deadly gray bolt shot at lightning speed out of the medicine cat den and crashed into Frostpaw, who almost died right then and there.

"How DARE you speak in such a way to the great and all POWERFUL, JAYFEATHER?!" the medicine cat screeched, and Frostpaw could have sworn real fire was leaping out of his eyes.

"I...It wasn't me! I swear!" She squeaked heart racing a thousand miles an hour.

"Oh great and mighty Jayfeather, all powerful and all seeing, will thou cast thy thoughts away from this ungrateful worm and Bless Tumblepaw with thy unsurpassed healing?" Sootpaw mewed grandly, bowing low and sweeping one paw in Tumblepaws direction, who still appeared to be in pain. Jayfeather sniffed and hopped off of Frostpaw. Je stepped to Tumblepaws side, grabbed him roughly and jerked him violently. There was a Click, Tumblepaw screamed and Honeypaw said; "Oooh, do that again, the click was so nice…"