*I hope you liked my first chapter! Here's my second! Please review! Hope you like it! Yea! Oh, I was revising this and i wanted to tell you that it was written before The fourth Apprentice and before Skyclan's Destiny.
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Leafpool's body lay in the middle of the clearing, shredded by the claw and bite marks the fox had left. The dirt was kicked up in places where she was dragged to the spot she lay in. She had been attacked just outside the camp when she had gone for a night walk. Jayfeather's and Frostkit's noses lay in her fur. Frostkit had spent a lot of her time in the medicine cat den with Leafpool, and this came as a great shock to her. I think that in her heart she had wanted to be a medicene cat, but she didn't want her dream to come true by leafpool's death. Squirrelflight walked up to Leafpool's body. She crouched beside the other two and pressed her nose into Leafpool's fur.
"Why, why, why!" Jayfeather said in agony, her shut his eyes tightly, as if this would stop the pain this had brought him. even he had nothing other than words coated in sadness.
"Leafpool, oh, Leafpool," Frostkit cried.
Squirrelflight said nothing, but just kept her nose pressed firmly into Leafpool's fur. Her sister lay dead in front of her. What could she say or do that would make this an easier blow, not just for her but for the whole clan?
Nightkit walked up to Leafpool when it her was her turn and pressed her nose into her dead clanmate's fur. "Goodbye Leafpool."
She walked back into the nursery, sadness in her heart. Nightkit fell asleep uneasily. her dreams did not hold any happiness, but also did not frighten her. During these dreams she knew she was dreaming, but could do nothing about it, She was reliving the night when they heard leafpool call out in pain when her dreams were interrupted.
"Nightkit! Nightkit! Nightkit!" Nightkit woke up with Frostkit over her. "Did you hear?"
"Hear what?" Nightkit asked sleepily, trying to blink the sleep out of her eyes.
"We're becoming apprentices today!" Frostkit said while jumping up and down.
The thought just occurred in her mind. They were six moons old. she thought about all the exciting things she could do as an apprentice, but also all of the chores.
"I can't wait," Nightkit said to Frostkit, practically jumoing up and down.
"Oh, you four are a mess!" Squirrelflight said while licking Nightkit vigorously. She then went to Frostkit.
"Squirrelflight!" Frostkit complained.
Squirrelflight finished with Frostkit and moved on to Wolfkit. while all the kits were complaining.
"I can't believe you're six moons old already!" Squirrelflight fussed. She moved on to Badgerkit, trying to finish before the meeting was called.
"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here beneath Highledge for a Clan meeting!" The call sounded out across the clearing. By now Squirrelflight was done grooming them.
Nightkit bounded out of the nursery, excitement surging through her paws. She was closely followed by Badgerkit, then Frostkit, and finally Wolfkit. all of them tried to walk up to highledge looking semi-dignified.
"Why can't I be an apprentice," Stonekit whined, "I'm nearly six moons old."
"Nearly six moons isn't old enough," Ferncloud told him.
"Badgerkit, from this day on you will be known as Badgerpaw. Your mentor will be Lionblaze. Lionblaze, you were taught well by Ashfur, spread your knowledge to Badgerpaw. Wolfkit, from now on you will be known as Wolfpaw. Your mentor will be Poppyfrost. Poppyfrost, you were taught patience well. Please pass this on to Wolfpaw. Frostkit, from now on you will be known as Frostpaw. Your mentor will be Jayfeather. Jayfeather, I know that you will pass on everything Leafpool taught you. Nightkit from now on you will be known as Nightpaw. Your mentor will be Whitewing. Whitewing, I know that you'll do a good job mentoring Nightpaw." Brambleclaw said all of these words like a leader, pride etched into his every word.
"Yea! I'm a medicine cat apprentice!" Frostpaw whisperedexcitedly to Nightpaw.
"What are we doing today?" Nightpaw asked Whitewing.
"We're going to learn how to hunt," Whitewing replied. "Follow me."
Whitewing led Nightpaw out into the forest. Nightpaw followed close behind, staring at all the new and exciting things that the forest held.
"We'll hunt here," Whitewing stated.
"Where are we?" Nightpaw asked.
"We're at Sky Oak."
"Oh. I think I've heard of this place."
"Copy this." Whitewing crouched down, her tail lightly trailing over the earth. She lifted her paws lightly, making no noise. She kept her head forward, focused intently on her imaginary prey. She wiggled her haunches then pounced on the prey her mind had created. "Always keep your eyes on your prey and stay focused on it because it might run off while your distracted. Make no noise when you creep up on your prey or it will hear you coming. And keep your tail down so that you don't move anything or make anything rustle. And that's how you do the hunter's crouch."
"Let me try." Nightpaw crouched down, remembering to keep her tail down. She focused intently on her imaginary prey. Moving her paws carefully so that they made no noise. She wiggled her haunches and then pounced.
"How was that."
"Perfect!"
"Really?"
"Really. I've never seen anyone do it so well on their first try."
"Now let's try that on some real prey. See if you can find any."
Nightpaw listened intently. She heard a bird singing from far off, but thoguht that it was too far to reach. Nightpaw dimissed the bird and concentrated. She heard an acorn drop to the ground near her. Then she heard a faint rustle. She listened for it again. Sure enough she heard it again. It was coming from the base of the tree. She turned her head to look for it, she saw a squirrel with a nut in its paws. It was downwind. Nightpaw got into the hunter's crouch. She crept up on the squirrel. It was so busy chewing on the nut and didn't notice her until it was too late. Nightpaw wiggled her haunches and pounced. She caught the squirrel between her claws and gave it swift bite to the neck. She turned to whitewing with the squirrrel in her jaws.
"Very good, Nightpaw," Whitewing praised her. "You can take that to the elders when we get back to camp."
Nightpaw walked into camp proudly, her head held high as she walked into the elder's den. Nightpaw dropped her squirrel at Mousefur's paws.
"What's this?" asked Mousefur.
"My first catch," replied Nightpaw.
"It's huge!" exclaimed Mousefur.
"I know," Nightpaw said proudly.
"Thank you, Nightpaw," said Longtail gratefully.
"Your welcome," replied Nightpaw, "It was no big deal."
She walked out of the den convinced that her first day as an apprentice couldn't have been better.
*So what do you think? I hope you liked it because I think it's much better than the first chapter! Please review!