AN. Uh... darn, I don't know what to say. Here's chapter one!

Chapter One

Broad daylight lit up the forest shinning straight down in a hollow with no clouds to threat the sun's rays. A light orange tom cat was pinning down a larger dark brown tom, panting. The dark brown tom smiled, "Alright! Get of me you lump of fur! You're getting to be nearly a better warrior than myself Sunpaw!"

Sunpaw shared his mentor's grin then unpinned him. His mentor heaved himself up and saw his apprentice puffing out his chest in pride. "Looks like I'm already a warrior aren't I Dawnglow?" He said proudly to his mentor. Dawnglow chuckled, "Don't get too confident Sunpaw; you may have pinned me once but just because you're a natural fighter doesn't mean you're just as good on your hunting skills."

Sunpaw flattened his ears a little embarrassed as he remembered that he still had a lot of work to do on his hunting abilities.

At the end of the training hollow the three other apprentices and their mentors watching. They're mentors had all decided to have the apprentices train and observe each other's sessions. Dovepaw stared happily at Sunpaw cheering! "Great job Sunpaw!" Sunpaw's pride seemed to have returned. Next to Sunpaw was Dreampaw, who was giving Sunpaw a gentle smile saying, "You're really coming along!" Shadowpaw, who was sitting right next to Dreampaw, just stared admiringly at Sunpaw shyly.

Dovepaw glanced in Shadowpaw's direction; she knew that Shadowpaw had a crush on Sunpaw same as her. The thought made her shiver. She liked Shadowpaw, she was friendly and all and it made Dovepaw uncomfortable that she and Shadowpaw had a slight rivalry going on over Sunpaw.

Dawnglow padded over to the others with Sunpaw trailing close behind. "Well, we've shown you guy's great fighting moves, but why not take a look at our best hunter's hunting moves?" Dawnglow said staring in the direction of Dovepaw and her mentor Cloverwing. She noticed her mentor twitch her ears shyly, then nodded. The black she-cat raised her dark brown paw and nudged Dovepaw, "Come on Dovepaw, let's show them." She told her softly.

The white she-cat padded eagerly towards the center with her mentor close behind. This was her chance to show off to Sunpaw! Dovepaw turned around and saw Sunpaw staring directly at her from between Dreampaw and Shadowpaw- who seemed to be blushing with Sunpaw sitting next to her.

Dovepaw was blushing herself with Sunpaw having his full attention on her. Cloverwing was standing next to her, obviously not very fond of being in the path of attention at all. "Alright Dovepaw, show them your best position for hunting a mouse and try to sneak up on me."

She obeyed her mentor, going to hide somewhere in the tall grass. She got into her couch, making sure her paw remained light and nothing made a sound. Slowly, she crept up to Cloverwing making sure the wind was on her side; it was. Grinning to herself, he crept closer, and closer. She came to a halt when she saw her mentor's ears twitch. No, she was not going to make a mistake now! Not in front of Sunpaw! Dovepaw can't make a mistake, she never makes a mistake when it comes to hunting, and it wasn't going to break now. After her brief pause she continued undetected. Until at last…..Thump! Dovepaw pounced quickly and got onto her mentor's back before she even had the chance to move.

"Why, Cloverwing! You surely passed on your talented hunting skills to her! That was excellent!" Praised Dawnglow as he padded up to Cloverwing. Cloverwing gave him a small smile. "Well I think part of it was natural talent. Dovepaw definitely has natural hunting abilities."

Dawnglow shook his head. "Nonsense, you're a great mentor and Dovepaw, you're a great and quick learner. You should both be proud of yourselves!" Cloverwing blushed a little, but none of the apprentices really noticed.

Dovepaw wasn't really paying much attention to Dawnglow, but instead to his apprentice. She saw Sunpaw looking at her in awe, but then he tried to cover it up with a straight face. It made Dovepaw giggle to herself and blushed.

Shadowpaw's mentor, Greyheart, nudged his apprentice saying, "Come on Shadowpaw, why don't we go hunting now and get first dibs on prey tonight? That is, after the queens and elders are fed." Shadowpaw nodded, then turned to Sunpaw, "Well, I'll see you at camp later today okay? Great job at fighting! You and I should battle each other sometime maybe," she suggested timidly.

Sunpaw grinned, "Alright Shadowpaw, but I'm warning you that just because you're a she-cat don't mean I'm going to go easy on you!"

Shadowpaw giggled a little as Greyheart padded up from behind her, "Are you going to lazily sit on your tail all day waiting for the prey to come to your jays?" he asked with a chuckle. His apprentice got up on her paws and followed her mentor deeper into their territory. Shadowpaw called back from over her shoulder, "Perhaps I'll catch us a squirrel to eat!" Then she ran out of sight with a small smile on her timid face at the thought of sharing prey she caught with Sunpaw.

Dovepaw flattened her ears disappointingly at the sight; she wished she had thought of that before, perhaps she'll ask them if she could join. Ravenflight got up from where he was sitting as he said, "I must say Dawnglow that you and Cloverwing have quite skilled apprentices!"

Dawnglow smiled, "They are coming along fast! But not fast enough to beat Dreampaw to the warrior name."

Ravenflight nodded, "That'd be true," then turning to his apprentice said, "Come, Dreampaw, you have your assessment tomorrow, you best get rest."

Dreampaw nodded "Alright, Ravenflight," she followed her mentor back to camp.

Dawnglow gave in to a tired sigh, "Hope Greyheart and Shadowpaw don't spend too much time hunting, its way past sunhigh and if they don't hurry they'll hardly get any prey at all."

"Uh, well I think we better get back to camp then, shall we?" Cloverwing suggested. Dawnglow nodded, "Good idea Cloverwing, I think our apprentices can use the rest- and ourselves." The two mentors shared a smile until Dawnglow called out, "Come on Dovepaw and Sunpaw! Let's head back to camp!"

The apprentices hurried after their mentors to follow them to camp. Dovepaw considered herself lucky; she got to at least walk back to camp with Sunpaw! "So Sunpaw, perhaps you and I could grab a bite to eat when we get back," she suggested, knowing that Shadowpaw had already asked. Sunpaw shrugged, "I guess we could once Shadowpaw gets back; she said she'd catch a squirrel for us to share. You could join us."

Dovepaw smiled and nodded; at least she was going to eat with him!

While Dovepaw and Sunpaw were arranging their dinner, Cloverwing and Dawnglow were having their own conversation, "I really think your apprentice is a brilliant hunter; and it surely comes from her mentor. Perhaps you and I could have a session together and teach each other the moves instead of just showing," Dawnglow recommended. "Yes! I think that'll be very beneficial for them." Cloverwing agreed. They shared another smile as they arrived back at camp. They were greeted by their red pelt deputy Phoenixfeather, "I hope you guys had a valuable training session! Rouges are starting to pop up more often like prey."

"Sunpaw just showed us excellent hunting moves!" Dovepaw piped up. Phoenixfeather gave her and Sunpaw a smile, "That's good to know, but I hope you guys learn more than show next time."

"Don't worry about that Phoenixfeather," assured Cloverwing, "Dawnglow and I are already arranging a session for Sunpaw and Dovepaw to exchange their skills." Dovepaw's hopes rose at her mentor's news; just she and Sunpaw for a training session? What luck!

Just as Dovepaw was feeling better than she felt all day, Shadowpaw and Greyheart burst through the entrance, both of then didn't look badly hurt, but you could tell they were in a brawl with their ruffed up fur and visible scratches. "Shadestar! There are rouges settling dangerously close to our territory; many of them! Rouges!" At once their dark grey and black leader burst from his den under the tree, "What!? Tell me what happened!" He demanded.

"We were hunting when they just popped out and attacked us! They said that they were claiming that part of our territory!" Greyheart said in a hurry, but Shadestar seemed to understand enough, he snarled in rage, "Fox dung! Go to where this happened! Phoenixfeather, Cloverwing, Dawnglow and you apprentices come with me, we're settling this now!"

"Wait Shadestar, should we take more? They said there were a lot." Phoenixfeather suggested to her leader.

Shadestar gave an annoyed growl but nodded, "Yes, you get more cats and catch up with us!"

Then the HiddenClan leader led his patrol quickly out of camp allowing Greyheart to show them the place of attack. Dovepaw struggled a little to keep up with Shadestar; he was running very fast and she rarely ever runs so fast for more than a few seconds when she's hunting. Greyheart, who was supposed to be leading, was also struggling to meet Shadestar's speed.

When Dovepaw thought she was going to collapse from exhaustion, a voice halted them, she gazed up to see a dark brown tom on a high branch of one of the trees from the Cloudtrees; one of their clan's best hunting sources.

The brown tom wasn't alone, many eyes gleamed from the shadows of the Cloudtrees, their eyes fixed on them. The brown tom spoke out loudly to them, "I, Mud, claim these lands under the name of Bone! Now that you are aware of our presence; I'll let you know that from here on forth, whoever puts a claw over to our territory, will be killed on spot! So, do you wish to stay?"

AN. Huh, made that longer than I was planning on. Ohwell. I got two submissions who had a crush on Sunpaw so I thought it'd make a good rivalry but I'm not sure who I'm going to have Sunpaw go with...

I also didn't get to include more cats like I hoped for, butI'll be sure to update as soon as I can. And tell me of any grammer issues, incorrect descriptions, or incorrect personalities. Don't forget to review!