Foxfullytail woke to warm sunlight. She remeberd her dream but pushed it aside she would talk to Rockclaw later. She stretched and got up. She had just taken a bite of a mouse when Rockclaw, Grapplelight and the other clan killer cats all sat around and chatted. Foxtail ate the rest of the mouse and was grooming herself.
"Come on gang, I got us a hunting party together." Grapplelight whispered. Foxtail finished grooming her tail and stood up. They all dashed joyfully out of the camp. But when they were out of earshot they turned serious. They all walked over to the clan border that lead to unknown territory. Before the crossed they all bathed themselves in dirt, to cover their scent.
"Aww, Blackear's body is gone." Grapplelight meowed. "Probably a fox." Rockclaw shot me a look.
The group chatted until all the cats were there.
"Excuse me." Grapplelight said. "I would like to welcome Foxtail fully to our group." The cats murmured to each other and nodded at her. Foxtail tried to force a grin onto her face but couldn't. Instead she just stared at her paws.
"Ok, ok." Grapplelight said. "Today is fighting and dexterity training. We will start with dexterity." Grapplelight grinned. "You will race across the ravine, if you fall twice your out. There will be cats watching. They will attack you if you break the rules. No tripping each other, you may only fall twice, no scratching clawing or fighting." Someone huffed at that. "You have to run to the very top of that tree." She pointed her tail at a tree a ways off. It was high and sturdy.
"Now that you know the rules...GO!" Grapplelight shouted and dived away to watch.
Foxtail burst away. Quite a few cats were in front of her but most were either beside or behind her. She leaped off rocks and dodged the undergrowth. She skidded to a stop at a ravine. It was deep. One very young apprentice flew by. If Foxtail hadn't caught his tail he would have flown to his death.
Foxtail dashed away from the apprentice she had just saved. Some other cats were already climbing the tree. She needed a new path. She pulled away from a cat's side and leaped onto a tree trunk. She clawed her way up leaping past the watcher cats.
She never even misplaced a paw. She jumped from branch to branch with amazing accuracy. Then she got caught up. She was a tree away from the assigned tree. But the leap from one branch to another was too large.
Before she knew it she had leaped off the branch onto the ground. Her legs buckled from her jump and she skidded into the dirt. Great there goes one fall. She got to her paws, the cats were nearly at the top!
Quickly she started to climb the tall tree. She leaped past cats who were too heavy to take on the thin branches. Luckily she was light and nimble. She was so close to the top! Three fox lengths, two fox lengths, one fox length. She burst onto the one of the many top branches. But so did another cat who was light brown with dark blue eyes. He had white paws, a white tail tip, and one ear tip was white. His nose was light pink with one black circle in the middle. She recognized him he was another new warrior from ThunderClan called, Sparrowflight. He stood on a thicker branch. He was obviously light on his paws. But she knew he was not precise with his landings. She had seen him climb before, he usually underestimated his leaping and landing skills.
"Oh, a tie! Come down Foxer, and Sparrowflight!" It was Grapplelight. Sparrowflight glared at Foxtail before climbing down. She shrugged and leaped from branch to branch until she was on the ground.
"Well done, well done." Grapplelight said. "You two win, but we don't give out prizes. Now for the fighting-" Rockclaw whispered something to Grapplelight, she sighed.
"Sorry gang, we agreed we'd be back by sun high." It was nearly sun high. "We won't meet tomorrow because of the gathering. Your group leader will take you home!"
Foxtail, and the other ThunderClan cats caught some prey to make it look like they were hunting the whole time. She had just dropped it into the fresh kill pile when Rockclaw motioned to her to follow him.
"Come on" he whispered "we are going to report to the leader."
