A/N: YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! I FINALLY UPDATED!!!! Sorry…middle school a LOT of tests and a LOT of homework. Luckily it's Friday so I have a lot of time.

Disclaimer: Erin Hunter……..nope, no one in my family with that name……

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Chapter 7: Enemies and Friends

As the sun set, so did Firepaw's energy. He slowly walked to the apprentice den half asleep, and was woken up when Mistpaw came rushing towards him with the greatest energy he had ever seen.

"You are the luckiest cat in ThunderClan!!!!" She greeted him.

"Why, what did I do?" Firepaw answered in the most sarcastic voice and face he could find.

"What did you do?" Mistpaw asked too excited for her brother to notice his sarcasm. "You mousebrain! You are only following in the footsteps of Firestar, and your mentor is Hazlestar!!!!"

Firepaw just nodded blankly and kept on walking. When he got to the apprentice den he looked around for a place to sleep and saw a spot next to Morningpaw

Morningpaw was a light ginger she-cat with white paws and tip-of-the-tail. She had beautiful hazel eyes that pulled her beauty together so she looked like a ray of sunshine.

"Um…is this nest taken?" Firepaw asked her.

"Yeah, sorry. This is Tigerpaw's nest. But it looks like there's one next to Jaypaw." Morningpaw answered him with a sweet tender voice, the way a Queen would greet a newly born kit.

As Firepaw walked to the other side of the den, he just faintly remembered Morningpaw and Tigerpaw as kits. Memory showed him a pale ginger kit hovering over him at birth, asking so many questions to his mother, but then pulled away somewhere else by her brother (Tigerpaw). About a moon later they were taken away (well that's how it seemed to the moon-old triplets) to be apprentices. Back then Firepaw was not old enough to actually think something of her, but now he was.

Looking back for just one more glance he spotted Tigerpaw coming up to his sister. He was an orange tabby with hazel eyes like his sister, but not a pretty and feminine. They had the look of a powerful warrior, even though he had about a moon more to go. His body was muscular and sleek, the perfect traits for a strong warrior. If the scrabby thin Firepaw met him in battle, he would be no match.

"Why were you speaking to him Morningpaw?"

"Who?" Answered Morningpaw's content voice, her face scrunched in confusion.

"You know who!" Tigerpaw shot back at her. "Firepaw!"

"Tigerpaw not so loudly he'll here you!" she answered. "and what's wrong with him? He seemed nice."

"That's his plan!" The tabby whispered to his sister getting his nose right in front of hers. "He acts all nice and then dumps all of his friends and starts becoming incredibly bigheaded!"

"Just because he's the new 'Firestar'?" The ginger cat asked, her hazel eyes rolling in disbelief. "And anyway, that sounds nothing like the Firepaw I know."

"Morning paw just listen to m-"

"Who told you thing anyway?"

Tigerstar hesitated, knowing the reaction if he told the truth. "Taw-No one."

"Tawneypelt? You can't believe everything she says just because she's your mentor."

Tigerpaw slowly lowered his head. "I know"

Morningpaw let out a long sigh and walked away muttering things like "When will he learn" and "He has to stop believing these things."

Tigerpaw looked back at Firepaw and caught his gaze for a moment, and then they both quickly turned their heads and walked away.

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Jaypaw turned out to be very welcoming. He was a bluish- grey cat with long limbs making him the tallest apprentice, but still not the eldest. He was only apprenticed two moons ago. He told Firepaw all there is to know about being an apprentice. Firepaw now new; What elders not to play tricks on, which warriors got annoyed easily, how to get on even the most strict warriors good side, where NOT to make dirt, and many other good things like that. It might not have been the most helpful thing in the world, but Jaypaw said it would get him far. Firepaw thought they would become good friends.

But even the amusement of his blue-grey friend could not take his mind off his first enemy.

Tigerpaw

The orange tabby had been talking about him like no other had talked about him before. Was that what most cats were gossiping about these days? Sure Morningpaw didn't believe her brother, but not all cats think the same. Surely Tawneypelt had spread the rumor on to many warriors by now, but who would believe her lies? Hopefully none. Of course not! Who could believe such a thing? Well, maybe….

And that was the debate going on in Firepaw's mind as he slowly argued himself to sleep.

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"Firepaw,"

"Firestar! I here you but where are you?"

"I…I cannot be seen now, but I am here," Firepaw looked around his location a noticed it was Fourtrees, or, at least it looked like the Fourtrees he had been to in other dreams. Something was different though, he was still a little drowsy so he didn't notice it at first, but soon saw that the "Four trees" for Fourtrees were accompanied by a fifth tree.

"Where it the trees go Firestar?"

"We, well, you are at StarClan's gathering place. We are the fifth clan, so an extra tree is added for us."

Then Firepaw noticed that there were no stars in the sky, it had to be StarClan. "Wait, why won't you come here? So I can see you?"

Firestar's voice sounded nervous. "I just….I just can't be seen now, and that's that." Now Firestar sounded demanding and Firepaw knew to ask no more about why he would not come to him.

"I just came to see how you are coping. Congratulations on your apprenticeship and your mentor. I remember how I felt when Bluestar assigned herself as mine. I see a lot of myself in you. Well, I guess that's obvious.." Firepaw looked up and laid his shoulders back with pride as the great leader was comparing himself to a disabled apprentice.

"Firestar, I have a question. What was it like when..when you knew Sandstorm was the cat for you?"

"It….it was…..well, you would know it when you feel it. Firepaw…are you in love? Is it Morningpaw?

"I think so."

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A/N: Yeah, basically this is the chapter where all of other characters in the series come in. but don't let their attitude now deceive you.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL!!!!