Disclamer: I DO NOT NOR EVER WILL OWN WARRIORS. I wish, but I am not as creative as Erin is haha!
Forgetmenot2451: Hee thank you, though I doubt its that good . I saw I made a few mistakes! D: btw I loves you ^-^ Um… -gives cookie- thanks for reviewing! :D
Chapter 2
Snakefire glared at the pair of apprentices. The calico she-cats' fur was fluffed up, making her look twice her size.
She looks like an angry badger!
"Well? Would you care to explain yourself, Jaypaw?" She snarled at the golden tom. Larkpaw was snapped back into reality and felt the blood in her veins boil.
"It wasn't all him! He asked me to hunt with him, that's all!" She snapped furiously at the warrior. Snakefire froze.
"Are you asking to end up in the nursery, Larkpaw?" The warrior turned on her. "Acting like this and you certainly will!"
Larkpaw felt fury rise in her throat. She wouldn't be talking to her that way if-
"Jaypaw, you go hunt near RiverClan. And you hunt here, Larkpaw. Return to camp by sundown." The calico sniffed at the two and stalked away. She was worse than a grumpy elder.
"I guess I have to go. See you later." Jaypaw sighed and began to walk towards the RiverClan border.
"See you." Larkpaw muttered. Of course Snakefire had to ruin her time with Jaypaw.
Larkpaw stopped her train of thought and froze as she heard a rustling noise behind her. She slowly turned around to face low bushes that dotted FireClan territory.
She kept her ears pricked for another sound but heard nothing.
"Who's there? Show yourself!" She snarled. She had enough nonsense with Snakefire and certainly wouldn't put up with another cat's tricks!
She heard more rustling for a heartbeat then it stopped.
A tom stepped out of the bushes close to ForestClan border. He had dark red fur with a lighter red underbelly and paws. He had light blue eyes that shown with much youth and even darker flecks of red on his cheeks. He probably was only a few moons younger than Larkpaw was.
"Who are you?" She questioned warily. The tom tilted his head to the side.
"My name is Briarpaw. And you are?" Briarpaw didn't even seem to be aware of Clan rivalry at all. But, in a weird way, she liked that. She couldn't stop herself being drawn to the tom's eyes...
"Hello?" The tom snapped Larkpaw out of her thoughts. She shook her head, trying to clear her mouse-brained kind of thoughts.
"I'm Larkpaw of ForestClan. What are you doing here?" she tried to distract herself by challenging his actions.
"Oh! I was curious when I saw you and that other tom earlier. So I came to see what you were doing." the tom chirped.
Larkpaw sighed. "I was supposed to be hunting with Jaypaw. Until Snakefire had to show up and ruin everything."
"Oh, is she a friend of yours?" As Larkpaw opened her mouth to reply, a voice carried over from the FireClan territory, and it wasn't Briarpaws'.
Briarpaw looked over his shoulder. "That is my mother, Redheart. I have to go." He abruptly fled back into the bushes. Then he popped back out.
"Meet me here tomorrow at sundown?" He asked excitedly.
Larkpaw hesitated. Would it be wrong to meet Briarpaw? Of course it is, you mouse-brain!
But before she knew it, she blurted out, "Sure!" Larkpaw instantly took another thought of her choice.
"Good!" Briarpaw's eyes brightened as he sped away from the bushes.
Larkpaw couldn't believe herself. I'm meeting a tom- no; I'm meeting a tom from FireClan!
She walked away shakily, in shock from her own decision.
"Just focus on hunting." Larkpaw muttered to herself, thinking of Snakefire's earlier actions.
She pin pointed a mouse's scent under trees in her own territory and dropped into the hunting crouch.
Four mice, three sparrows, and a squirrel later, Larkpaw returned to camp jaws full of mice. Jaypaw gaped at her when she scrambled up the trunk of the main part of camp.
"You caught all of that prey yourself?" He gasped. Larkpaw nodded proudly and set the mice down.
"Yeah...you should see Snakefire!" She pointed to the warrior who was glared down at Larkpaw's pile of fresh-kill with her mouth open.
"I will always remember this day!" Larkpaw and Jaypaw turned around. A pitch black she-cat padded up to them with a dark brown tom trailing behind her.
"Nice catch, isn't Nightpaw?" Larkpaw giggled. Nightpaw nodded vigorously.
"I've never seen her like this! I can't believe it!" Nightpaw exclaimed.
"She is always so grumpy! It's nice to see her like this." The dark brown tom grinned.
"Well of course, Eagleshadow. All of Snakefire's former apprentices hate her!" Silversnow piped up. She sat down in front of the group of apprentices and warrior as they all burst out into laughter.
"I'm going to take something to the elders. I'll-" Larkpaw began.
"No." Silversnow interrupted her. "I will have Snakefire take this to them and bring the rest of the catch up. You need your rest if you are going to the Gathering, young one." She grinned.
The others purred happily.
"Really? Thank you, Silversnow!" She licked her mentors' shoulder. The fluffy silver she-cat nodded.
"Go on." She purred. "You deserve it."
Larkpaw raced to the apprentices den. As she curled up in her nest, she smiled as her day turned better.