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Sunclan's Apprentice

"Blessedpaw!" Brightmoon called into the apprentice den. Blessedpaw was the only cat in there, all the other had gone hunting or to train. Blessedpaw walked out, he looked tried, as though he had been up all night. "We're training with Treepaw and..." Brightmoon drifted off mid-sentence. Her apprentice had been through a horrible kit hood, and he was some what depressed. Brightmoon had tried to raise his spirits, but nothing worked. Today, she would make it work.

"Actually," She said, "Today I'm going to teach you about the warrior code." Blessedpaw sighed and fallowed his mentor out of the camp. Brightmoon smelled a vole in the ferns near by. She poked Blessedpaw with her tail hoping he would get it. The calico apprentice dropped into the worst hunter's crouch that Brightmoon had ever seen. He loudly stalked his prey, and Brightmoon was surprised that it hadn't run away already. Blessedpaw half-heartedly leaped toward the vole. He missed by two tail-lengths, and the vole dashed away into the forest.

"Why didn't you catch that?" Brightmoon asked, slightly annoyed because Blessedpaw never actually tried to do anything. "I don't know..." Blessedpaw stared off and looked at the piece of forest where the vole had run into. The apprenticed mumbled something about failure. "You know why you didn't catch that." Brightmoon said as calmly as she could, "You're not trying to catch the prey." The two walked on, and it didn't seem like Blessedpaw even knew his mentor was there. "Blessedpaw, you could do great things if you actually tried to do them."

The apprentice just shrugged. He thought about how he had failed he's mother, and how his step-mother had hated him. Everyone hates me... He thought. Brightmoon almost knew what he was thinking. She was so sick of him being so depressed! "Blessedpaw, nobody hates you! You're clan just wants you to try your hardest, but you never try at all. You are always so sad, but if you just tried to be happy, tried to make some friends, tried to have fun, you could actually be happy! Why do you always have to be miserable! It makes everyone around you miserable! Your lesson is over, you can go back to camp."

Brightmoon hadn't lost her temper like that in a long time. She was normally clam and sweet, but Blessedpaw brought out the worst in her. He was like a black hole, that just sucked all the joy away.

Blessedpaw walked back to the apprentice den. Bloodstar looked at him questioningly. Why isn't he out training. But the leader had to worry about his apprentice, Thunderpaw. There were so many apprentices, it was hard to feed them all!

Blessedpaw thought about what Brightmoon had told him that evening, when all the other apprentices were asleep. He also thought about how his mother killed herself, how his step-mother beat him... it was a sad life. But he also remembered how Brightmoon kept telling him "That's in the past now, I know it's hard, but you have to move on." He had failed his father, his sister, his mother and his step-mother, but he didn't want to fail Brightmoon. I have to do at least one thing right!

The next day, Blessedpaw got up as early as he could, and went to catch Brightmoon a mouse. When he came back, she saw him and said, "Oh Blessedpaw, I'm so proud of you." He hadn't heard those words in a long, long time. He was so happy, he smiled, another thing he hadn't done in a long time. "Could you please give it to Smallseed though?" Brightmoon asked, "You can listen to some of her stories if you like." Blessedpaw nodded to his mentor. She was right, if he just tried to be happy, it worked.

Yeah! Happy ending for Blessedpaw! But this isn't his really ending, dun, dun DUN! Up next, it's Frostclan's turn to shine!