Sorry for not updating! Don't hurt me... Avolowolf, protect me?
Edit: Man, it's really hard to update these chapters since I lost the original files. I gotta copy and paste and then there's weird text.
Thornsnag nudged his way into the apprentice den. "Hawkpaw, up and at 'em lazy butt. First day of training. Let's get a move on." He ordered rudely. She growled sleepily, and got up, stretching. She scoffed to herself. If Thornsnag is so impatient on going, I'll take my sweet time.
She began grooming her paw and slowly going over her ears and muzzle. Just who did I see yesterday? I'm Chosen? For what? This is insane. I probably imagined it.
Thornsnag poked his head through the vine and moss hanging over the entrance. He narrowed his blue-green eyes at Hawkpaw, who was lightly purring at her grooming. "C'mon!" He snarled, startling Hawkpaw. She groaned loudly but obeyed and padded out of the den. Maybe Chosen for a rude mentor, that's for sure.
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"No! Not like that! Try again!" Thornsnag snapped at Hawkpaw for getting the leap and hold move wrong again.
Hawkpaw twitched her nose in anger, but tried again. She pounced on Thornsnag, gripping him with sheathed paws and battered his sides with her hind paws. He wriggled free and shook his pelt. I wish I could've used my claws, but with his thick fur that must have cut off the connection to his brain, I figure he won't even have had felt it.
"I guess that's alright." He snorted halfheartedly. She moaned angrily. Her mentor didn't appreciate her at all, did he?!
"Next you'll learn how to hunt birds, then take a break I guess," her mentor decided. Hawkpaw scented the air, smelling sparrow and mouse. She glanced around, seeing the mouse, but not the sparrow. Suddenly a bird's call sounded above. The sparrow was high up in a tree.
"Go on, catch it! Maybe I'll let you have the rest of the day off." He taunted, knowing Hawkpaw never refused a dare. Hawkpaw looked at the huge oak. The bark was peeling.
Hawkpaw smirked. She leaped high in the air, snagging her claws on the bark and scaling it. A thick branch was a little ways away and she reached out for it. She jumped at the branch, landing wobbly.
Hawkpaw gazed down at the small shape of her mentor. Her gaze hazed and her felt herself get dizzy. She shook her head, trying to get rid if her growing fear. She still had her eyes on the fat bird. She kept her paws light but strong enough to grip the trunk.
She leapt on another branch, but it was a skinnier one. She wobbled for a while and gasped at Thornsnag. He was itty-bitty! She realized she was softly hyperventilating. She held her breath and kept working her way up.
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Jaypaw was getting worried. Hawkpaw still wasn't back from training yet. He dashed out of camp and found Thornsnag staring up at a tree. He followed his gaze at see a black she cat with a fluffy white chest and heather red eyes very high up the oak. He gaped at them. She was up the tree?
Hawkpaw saw the sparrow, so close, yet, so far. She shivered. Falling would be scary. She carefully placed one paw in front of the other, softly and lightly. She pounced with all her force, chomping in the sparrow's neck. She grinned pridefully down at Thornsnag, to see Jaypaw next to him, a look of terror on his face. She was confused for a heartbeat but a crack interrupted her thoughts. The branch had broke. She yelped and a dull force hit her head and the last thing she felt was a scorching pain in her right hind leg.
Hawkpaw struggled to stay conscious, but the pain seemed pull her into a sleep. Hawkpaw's eyes fluttered closed and she could've sworn she saw the red outline of a white tom with a tortoiseshell tail, ears, paws and a black splotch over terrifying amber eyes. But before she could do anything, darkness engulfed her.
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"Will she be ok? Well?" Came an irritatingly familiar voice. C'mon, Mintpaw! Tell me if Hawkpaw is alright? I'm worried!" He hissed. He was worried about her? Wait, but who was he? He sounded familiar, but she couldn't remember. Questions raced through her mind and one really scared her.
Who am I?
She blinked her eyes open and saw four cats looking down at her. "Hawkpaw?! Thank StarClan!" A white tom with a smooth black chest and jay-blue eyes cried happily, racing to her. She backed up, leaping in her paws but immediately lied back down as shooting pain surged through her right leg.
"Dear, your right leg is broken." A ginger she cat with honey colored eyes told her sadly. The small, white tom looked taken aback from her reaction. A muscular tom with a chocolate pelt, pale hazel stripes, white chest and paws with blue-green eyes slowly stepped to Hawkpaw.
"Hawkpaw?" He asked slowly. Hawkpaw's red eyes were narrowed, her night black fur was bristling in confusion. "Wh-where am I? Who-who, am I?" She questioned, fearfully glaring at all the cats. The white tom with the blue eyes had a sad look in his eyes. He looked at the other cat, a pale grey she cat with pale brown paws. She shrugged and looked at Hawkpaw.
"How much do you remember?" Asked the lithe, gray she cat. The she cat thought for a heartbeat.
"Um, I don't know a lot. Just that there are four clans, ThunderClan-this one, ShadowClan, WindClan and RiverClan. I know the code, and nothing else. Wait," she came like the rush of a river. A sandy striped she cat, three kits, stolen, by a dusky brown tom, from RiverClan, never seen again.
"N-nothing," she muttered. The cats stared at her. The muscular tom gently bumped noses with her. "Hello, name's Thornsnag," he smiled, while the others gaped. The ginger she cat nodded, while mixing some herbs.
"I'm called Redbreeze, and my apprentice is, Mintpaw," Redbreeze showed her to the grey she cat with the brown paws, and she dipped her head. "Yep, name's Mintpaw."
Lastly was the white tom with the shiny blue eyes. "I'm, uhm, Jaypaw," he murmured sadly. She tilted her head, puzzled, but ignored it. He wasn't her problem.
"C'mon, the apprentice den is this way," Thornsnag was giving her a tour, helping her walk. Hawkpaw was a little out of it. All this she couldn't remember? Jaypaw was sitting alone in a far left corner of the den, another nest near him, but it was empty and a faint smell was drifting from it. The faint scent was familiar. Then, Hawkpaw figured it out. The smell coming from the nest next to Jaypaw, was her own. She shook herself. It was nothing. Thornsnag licked behind Hawkpaw's ears, and began leaving. "I'll go get you some prey," he offered and soon came back with a fat bird. A sparrow.
He nosed it towards her. "This was the bird you tried to catch before the branch snapped from under your paws. Take a bite," he insisted. Hawkpaw leaned forward, nibbling on it. She gave a soft 'yum', and kept munching, pausing so Thornsnag could eat.
Redbreeze stormed into the apprentice den, just as the two unlikely new friends were finishing up with the bird. She marched right up to Thornsnag a snarl suppressed, shown by the twitch if her nose.
"Thornsnag, Hawkpaw needs to stay off her paws! Her leg is broken! C'mon, dear," she padded over to Hawkpaw and picked her up by her scruff and lightly dragged her to the medicine den. Cardinalpaw, Pinepaw, and Rainpaw were waiting in the den. They jumped up at the sight of their sister. Hawkpaw startledly flailed her front paws from being in Redbreeze's grasp. Redbreeze set her down on a moss bedding and hushed her siblings outside.
"Now, Cardinalpaw, Pinepaw, Rainpaw, your sister fell from a tree. Hard. She doesn't remember anyone. Just introduce yourselves then let her sleep." Redbreeze told the three apprentices. They gave a sad nod and entered the medicine den.
Mintpaw was patching up her leg, fastening sticks to Hawkpaw's leg with bindweed and rush. Mintpaw applied an already made poultice and placed it on her leg. It was slightly bleeding and a twig was lodged in her hind paw. She said something faint to Cardinalpaw and the gingery apprentice carefully clamped her jaws on the stick and yanked it from the paw pad, causing Hawkpaw to yelp.
She stared rudely at her sister but her odd gaze softened for a heartbeat, like she remembered. Then she blinked and she was still glaring. "Cardinalpaw," she mewed, dipping her head. Rainpaw and Pinepaw introduced themselves and left. Thornsnag was still in Redbreeze's den. "I'll leave you to sleep," he gave her forehead a few licks and began trotting out.
"Wa-wait," Hawkpaw called after him. "Will you stay? You seem to be the only one I can trust," she gave him a pleading look. He sighed and playfully rolled his eyes, but a look of hurt and regret flooded his strong, blue-green eyes. She barely noticed, too distracted by the beautiful shade of his eyes.
He let Hawkpaw bury her muzzle in his soft, thickly furred chest. She breathed in his musky bittersweet scent. "Shh, just sleep, maybe your leg will feel better." He hushed kindly, which was odd to his character. She raised her head, her heather red eyes meeting his blue-green eyes.
"One more thing," she asked, and he flicked his tail for her to go on. "There's something no one told me. I have an idea, but I'm unsure." She took a deep breath. "What's my name, Thornsnag?" She asked, burying her head back in his chest.
"Your name is Hawkpaw, and you're the most special apprentice ever," he encouraged her, and lied his head on hers.
Nooooooo, why is Thornsnag being so nicey-nice to Hawkpaw? Will she ever remember? Why is he being so kind to her? Was this chapter too short? Should they be longer?
Edit: I'm gonna take a break from updating these chapters, it's a bit too exhausting sorry.