I have written up to chapter 14, I just need to edit them before I post them so please be patient with me. Also, I am thinking of a prequel to this story. It would be Snowpaw's life in Winterclan. Would anyone be interested?
-Chapter 10-
"Snowpaw?"
Brightheart's voice was coming from the entrance of the
medicine
den. Snowpaw woke up and walked out of the den. "Ready to
train?" Snowpaw nodded her head and followed Brightheart out
of camp.
She remembered that this was the direction of
Shadowclan border and the
training hallow. "Lets battle
train first." Brightheart mewed as she
followed the path to
the training hallow.
"Battle train? But I'm so hungry.
Can I learn to hunt first?" she
pleaded. Brightheart stopped
and turned around to face her apprentice.
"Lesson number
1: always be prepared to fight." Brightheart mewed.
"Snowpaw,
do you remember the fight with the rouges?" Snowpaw nodded.
"Well, it happened in the morning. No one had eaten, yet
they all
fought their hardest even though their stomachs were
empty."
"That's true. I guess I see your point."
Snowpaw mewed with her head
down.
"Come on. I promise we'll hunt soon"
Brightheart and Snowpaw made it
to the training hallow a few fox-lengths
later. Whitewing and
Icepaw were already practicing. They stopped as
Brightheart and
Snowpaw appeared.
"Hello Brightheart, Snowpaw." Mewed Whitewing.
"Want to practice with me Snowpaw?" asked Icepaw.
"Well, I haven't had any battle training yet." Replied Snowpaw.
"Actually, lets have a play
fight." Mewed Brightheart. Snowpaw jaw
nearly hit the
ground. "This way I can see how good you are Snowpaw."
What! I haven't eaten. I haven't had any battle training.
Now you want me
to fight someone more experienced. Wow, she's
tuff.
The warriors stepped back, giving the apprentices
the clearing. They
circled each other, hissing and spitting.
Icepaw broke the circle and
charged after her. She jumped high as
she could and landed on Snowpaw's
back. Snowpaw attempted to bite
her but couldn't reach. Icepaw proceeded
to scratch her back with
sheathed claws.
A memory of her previous life flashed before
Snowpaw's eyes. A light brown
tabby tom had just jumped onto her
back. Snowpaw saw how much older and
wiser she was. The
snow-white cat smiled, making the tom nervous. She
jumped high
into the air and landed on the ground. The tom was losing
his
balance but had not fallen off yet. This didn't seem to bother her.
As soon as she landed, she jumped diagonally. The tom lost his
footing and
slipped off. She quickly jumped on top of him,
pinning him to the ground.
Snowpaw smiled. I know what to
do. She jumped up as high as she could
and landed hard onto
the ground. Icepaw started to lose her balance, her
heart
pounding hard. Snowpaw jump diagonally this time and Icepaw was
thrown off her back. The warriors' mouths dropped in amazement.
Icepaw
had landed a foxlength away on her back. Snowpaw ran as
fast as she
could and pounced the white she-cat. Icepaw squealed
in pain and Snowpaw
got up quickly.
"Sorry!" she cried. "I didn't mean to hurt you."
"It's fine." Replied Icepaw, coughing a bit. "That was a great move."
"Thank you!" Snowpaw said smiling.
"Well done you two." Mewed Brightheart as she padded up to them.
"Yes, that was fun to watch." Mewed Whitewing.
"Lets go hunting now, Snowpaw." Said
Brightheart, pride written all over
her face.
Brightheart
and Snowpaw nodded a farewell and headed next to Skyoak to
hunt.
Brightheart demonstrated the hunter's crouch and Snowpaw copied it
perfectly. She was a natural at everything. Hunting was easy for
her.
She got two mice within seconds of each other. Her fighting
wasn't that
bad either. She had easily defeated Icepaw.
Snowpaw proudly padded in with three mice in her mouth. She
dropped it
onto the fresh-kill pile while Brightheart dropped two
mice. "Go ahead
and eat. After words, you can change the
bedding for the elders." Mewed
Brightheart smiling.
"Sure, no problem Brightheart." Snowpaw grabbed a
squirrel. She had
never tasted one before.
"Snowpaw,
come eat with me." Called Icepaw near the warriors den.
Snowpaw
padded to her, laid down, and ate it up with seconds.
"I
have to change the elders bedding. Sorry that I can't stay longer."
Snowpaw mewed sadly.
"I don't mind helping." Icepaw said with a smile.
"Okay. How 'bout you get the fresh bedding and I'll clean out the old."
"Okay." Icepaw mewed, running out into the forest.
Snowpaw went into
the elders den. Both of them welcomed her as she
entered.
"Hello," she mewed "I'm here to change your
bedding."
"About time." Mousefur said with a
smile. Snowpaw started to change
Mousefur's bedding.
"I really need to talk about my dream." Mousefur complained.
"Fine, I'll listen." Longtail mewed with a smile.
"Well, it was about a clan that use to live here before us.
They called
themselves Winterclan." Snowpaw dropped the moss
she was holding.
Winterclan? No way! "They were
ruthless, just like Bloodclan. They would
kill anything just
because they felt like it." Snowpaw continued to work
so the
elders would not yell at her. I'm finally going to learn about my
clan! "Anyway, I saw them kill and it was just horrible. How
could a
living cat do such horrible things?"
"That's a very interesting dream." Longtail mewed very intrigued.
"That's not all. One of the elders yelled to his clan mates
saying that
they would have to repent for their sins. Then a fire
engulfed their
clan, and everyone died. Before the elder died he
said to me that they
would be reborn to help those in need, to
repent for the destruction
they caused." Snowpaw's jaw
almost hit the ground. Was that why I was
reborn? Did I really
kill for fun? No, not me. I wouldn't...would I?
"Something wrong Snowpaw?" asked Longtail.
"No...no. I'm
done Mousefur. Icepaw is bringing the new moss." Snowpaw
mewed
with her head down.
"Thank you Snowpaw." Mousefur replied.
"Let me move." Longtail mewed. He moved off the moss so Snowpaw could take
the dirty moss away.
Snowpaw began working on his when Icepaw came and put the new
moss on
Mousefur's nest. Snowpaw backed away from Longtail's
nest, nodding that
she was done. Icepaw put in the new moss and
both of them carried out
the old moss together. They put the moss
in the dirt place and went back
to camp.
"I think
I'm going to head to bed." Mewed Icepaw. "It's getting
dark."
Snowpaw looked up. She didn't notice that sun was
falling.
"Wow. I didn't even know it was so late. I'll
join you." The apprentices
went to their nests and fell
asleep. That day, they had become best
friends.
