Sorry this took me so long. My goat had babies and I could work on it that much. Again Sorry about the delay.

Breezefeather

Her pretty blue-grey tabby pelt gleamed in the sunlight. With the wind in her fur and her claws extended she cashed after the grey-brown creature. Finally she had caught up to the rabbit and caught it.

"Nice catch Breezefeather. Now how about we go back now?"

"Sounds good after all look how much prey we got", she swept her tail to the small mound of prey. They began to head back to their camp to deposit the prey. As they got closer the small hunting patrol began to hear frighten mews for kits.

"Come on there could be an attack." The cats dropped the prey and rushed into the camp.

"What's going on here?"

"Owlstar is having her kits and these seven are causing unneeded trouble!"

"Mistysong is with Frostfeather and their doing the best they can." Padding back and forth in front of the nursery was Breezefeather's father Sparrowfur.

"Father how is Owlstar doing?"

"I don't know I think that they'll be done soon though." As if on cue Mistysong and her apprentice, Frostfeather, appeared from the nursery.

"I have great news Owlstar had two kits; one tom and one she-cat." Sparrowfur rushed past Mistysong and Frostfeather and dove into the nursery. Behind him his kits, Darkpelt, Vixenclaw, Eaglewing, and Breezefeather followed.

"Sparrowfur and my kits come meet the newest members of our clan." At her stomach were two small figures. One was a white cat while the other had a grey-blue pelt like Breezefeather's.

"What should we name them?"

"The white tom Clearkit."

"I like that name Sparrowfur and the she-cat? How about Skykit?"

"They're perfect I love them."

"Hey what about us?!" The happy mates chuckled.

"You're perfect to."

"Thanks." For a moment they stood there happy and everything had felt perfect. But that was the thing nothing was perfect in the savage world where Breezefeather lived.

Maplewing

"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey join me here beneath the Leader's branch for a clan meeting." It had been three days after the gathering and Maplewing knew what that day was.

"As you know today we began our competition. First I want all the apprentices in one area." On order each of the apprentices moved to one corner and waited for Oakstar to finish.

"I want all the new warriors here." Maplewing, Farretwhisker, Blazeclaw, Spottedwing, Cindertail, Honeywing, Marshclaw, Icestorm, Cedarfur, Pinepelt, Swiftfoot, and Bluefeather moved near the apprentices.

"Now for the elders, medicine cats, queens and kits will not participate. With the rest of the warriors I want you to stay where you are. Now like I said there will be a few categories. First up is hunting! I want all the apprentices to catch as much prey as they can. You have until sun high. GO!" Maplewing watched as the apprentices bounded out of the clearing and into the forest without taking a second look.

"I want Icewhisker, Sherwfur, Poppyflight, Neetlefoot, Birchfeather, Willowsong, and Brackentail to all go keep an eye on the apprentices. Make sure they don't cheat please." After the warriors had left Maplewing waited in camp until sun-high.

"So now what?"

"Don't worry your turn will be soon enough." While waiting for the apprentices to return the warriors rested and waited. Finally sun-high had come and the apprentices had returned.

"Mosspaw good job you caught two squirrels and three mice. Brackenpaw, Sandpaw, and Leafpaw I see that you teamed and caught all together three squirrels, four frogs, two lizards and five snakes good job. Flamepaw and Snowpaw together you caught five frogs and three voles. Not bad not bad at all. Morningpaw, Sunpaw, Colverpaw, and Wolfpaw you caught three sparrows, two voles, and four shrews. Excellent. Foxpaw, Beepaw, and Mousepaw you caught three sparrows and one squirrel. You could've done better but, that's good enough for now. Ok next up are the newest warriors. You have until sunset to complete your hunting. Remember you can always team up if you have to. Go!" All twelve warriors bounded out of camp and into the forest.

Maplewing separated from the group and headed near ThunderClan's old camp. She stood at the entrance of her old home and prepared herself to go into the seemingly forgotten camp. Walking through the thorn tunnel memories flooded into Maplewing's mind. She gazed around the empty camp it was like they had left it. Faint traces of her clan mate's scents lingered in the air.

"Wow", she spoke aloud, "to think for generations we had lived here but, now we don't." She stayed a little longer before returning to her hunt. So far she had caught three sparrow and one squirrel. She was hunting another, slowly creeping up on it. The grey animal had scented her and it ran. She cashed it to the side of a hill and then the squirrel seemed to have had disappeared. Maplewing tasted the air looking for the prey. She found it but, not in a place she expected. Hidden carefully behind a bush was a hole big enough for a full grown warrior.

"What's this", she wondered aloud. She crept into the entrance cautiously. Immediately she couldn't see anything in front of herself. She backed away heading back to her hunt.

"Why good job Maplewing you found a tunnel!" His deep voice scared her.

"O-Oakstar what are you doing here?"

"Oh nothing I'd just thought I'd check up on one of my friends. So here we have a tunnel how about we go explore it together?"

"Ok I guess I have enough time…"

"Perfect now let's go." Slowly the two cats entered the tunnel with caution, hoping it wouldn't collapse on them. The pair of cats came across a tunnel that split in two different directions. Maplewing could smell squirrel veering off in one direction and in the other was a faint trace of milk. 'Milk', Maplewing thought confused.

"We're going this way", Oakstar said.

"In the tunnel that smells of milk?"

"Yes that one now follow me." As they got furthered into the tunnel the milk scent got stronger and a new scent swept into the tunnel.

"WindClan", Maplewing breathed.

"Your right. Stay here I'm going a little farther to check it out. Stay here." Maplewing waited for a while before Oakstar returned.

"What took you so long?"

"The tunnel went back farther than I thought. Let's get back before the deadline shall we?" Quickly the cats followed their trail back and headed on their ways.

"See you later Maplewing and good luck."

"Thank you Oakstar." The tom dipped his head and bounded off. The sun had set and Maplewing finished her hunting. She made her way back to ShadowClan camp to finish the competition.

Marshclaw

In a dazed state the mottled tom made his way through the forest searching for prey. He stalked a frog and then leaped on top of the green animal. So far he had caught two snakes, three squirrels and a vole. As he hunted on something caught his attention. It was a strange scent that he didn't know.

"It's fox…no wait…badger? Not that either it's…rabbit! No a cat? Wait…it's a clan cat….no…a loner or rouge?" Marshclaw couldn't identify the strange scent. He was about to follow it but, he couldn't.

"Marshclaw shouldn't you be hunting right now?" The tom spun around to meet the stern face of Icewhisker.

"Oh sorry Icewhisker I was just trying to track some prey you know like we're supposed to." As soon as the she-cat left Marshclaw continued to hunt. All day he thought of the strange scent letting his mind trail off from his task. After the sun had set he began to head back to camp. Maplewing, Bluefeather, Cedarfur, Icestorm, Swiftfoot, and Pinepelt were already at camp waiting to be scored. They were waiting for Ferretwhisker then they could begin.

"Sorry I'm late I just…ran into trouble."

"No worries you were just late. It wasn't that late anyway. Now time for the scores. Maplewing nice very nice. You caught four squirrels, three sparrows, five mice, and two shrews." Oakstar went through all the scores until he reached Marshclaw.

"Marshclaw you caught three frogs, four snakes, three squirrels, two voles, and one robin. Excellent." After they had finished they went to bed and rested waiting for the next event. As Marshclaw fell asleep all he could think about was that strange scent.

Dewfur

They stalked in the shadows quietly trying not to attract attention. The white tom led them across the ally checking the scents ever so often. Finally they came to a twoleg nest that smelled of crow-food and fox dung.

"It stinks here. I can't imagine anyone living at this place."

"Well try living here every day of your life", a new voice wailed in sadness.

"Apple! Is it you?"

"Phantom, Jasper?"

"No just Phantom…with a few friends." The cream she-cat looked over Phantom's shoulder.

"I see so where's Jasper?"

"She had our kits; Aspen, Snowy, and Sage. Now how have you been?"

"Good I just haven't been able to feed my own kits." Then out from behind Apple four tiny bouncing figures came into view.

"And well these are my own kits; Blossom, Lilac, Storm, and Oak."

"I happy for you now come on we came to free you but, it looks like you freed yourself." The she-cat looked down and sadness filled her eyes.

"No my owner tied me to this cold, silver thing and I can't escape but, my kits can. Please go and take them to safety. You can come back for me later I-I think I can take one more beating."

"No Apple we can't leave you in this state! You'll die!"

"So be it as long as my kits are safe I'm fine."

"Come on", Phantom said with the rope in his teeth, "I'm getting you out whether you like it or not." Phantom tore at the rope trying to break Apple free.

"It's no use Phantom. Go with your friends and at least save my kits I'll be fine…for now." All of the sudden an elderly twoleg appeared from his nest and began screaming.

"Go now save my kits!"

"We're not leaving you", Trout said matter of factly.

"I'm sorry go now save my kits!"

"She's right we have to go", then with the four kits with them the small recue group left. Quickly they had reached their home.

"How did it go", Sharp asked as soon as they got back.

"Not well. We couldn't get Apple out of there all we could do was get her kits to safety."

"I'm sorry that happened Dewfur. If that happened to you I don't know what I'd do. I love you."

"I love you to." Dewfur saw Ash climb on top of the great rock.

"Ash wants to announce something we better listen."

"As you all know our rescue mission for Apple didn't go as planned. We were able to rescue her kits though. In the next few days we will try again. We will save her one way or another." After he announcement they all went to sleep and waited for the next day.