Chapter 2
"Rainpaw, Eaglepaw, you need to get up!" Frostpaw hissed at us. Rainpaw groggily sat up and shook her fur then padded out of the den with Eaglepaw stumbling behind. She saw Wolfleap and Emberwhisker across the clearing beside the entrance to camp. She padded towards her mentor and when Wolfleap saw them he began to get up. "Were going to go to the Great Rock to practice hunting today." He swung his broad head and broke into a run into the forest; the others followed him outside of camp. They followed the trail to the Great Rock close to the stream that runs through their territory. Eaglepaw and Rainpaw ran excitedly ahead of their mentors. "Eaglepaw, Rainpaw get back here right now!" Wolfleap growled. Rainpaw and Eaglepaw skidded to a halt and realized that they had almost run into the stream. "You could've broken your neck if you fell in there!" Emberwhisker growled at his apprentice. Rainpaw hung her head in shame. I can't believe we were acting like kits! We could've been killed! " Well were here anyway but from now on you need to look where you're walking." Wolfleap meowed amusingly. The small clearing was surrounded by bushes and at the edge was the biggest rock she had ever seen. "Okay, so what do you know about hunting mice?" Rainpaw looked up at the sky to think. "They can feel the ground move before we see them." She suggested. "Great!" Wolfleap purred. "They're not as fast as rabbits." Eaglepaw murmured. Rainpaw glanced at her brother and Emberwhisker began to speak. "That's right Eaglepaw. So how can we get the mice if they can sense us before we even get there but not fast enough to get away." "Walk softly?" Rainpaw asked "And make sure that we don't scare it by moving anything." Eaglepaw nodded. "Great!" Emberwhisker said. "You always want to be downwind of any prey so that they don't scent you." "Right," Wolfleap meowed " Lets see your hunting crouches." Excitement ran down her spine as she got into the hunters crouch. She got as long as she could and moved forward carefully putting one paw in front of another. "You need to bring your tail down just a bit." Wolfleap observed. She brought her tail down just a bit as he had asked. "Eaglepaw, you need to go a bit slower." His mentor told him. He stopped when he heard his mentor and started again but slower then his original pace. "I think that's enough for know," Wolfleap told us," we need to head back to camp. Tomorrow you can try hunting real prey." Eaglepaw and Rainpaw began to run back to camp but then remembered what their mentors had told them earlier. They walked through below the trees and listened to the birds. When they reached camp, Lightningfang, their father, purred. "How was your second day out of camp?" "It was great!" Rainpaw blurted out in excitement. Lightningfang was not their real father and they knew that. Fernstripe had told them that their real father was a strong warrior called Lionfang, of MoonClan. Some cats glanced at us in suspicion sometimes but never harmed us. It was great to have the support of clanmates Even though they knew we were half clan. Eaglepaw was still talking to Lightningfang so she started to walk over to the other apprentices when Frogleap, a newly made warrior bounded up to her. "Hey Rainpaw!" he meowed "What did you do today?" "Well, me and Eaglepaw almost ran into a stream." She admitted. "Really? I fell down a hill on my first day out of camp." He replied in embarrassment. "I bet Russetfoot wasn't to happy about that." Rainpaw snorted amusingly. "I had to go straight back to camp because I dislodged my shoulder." Rainpaw flicked her tail in sympathy. "I have to go. I'm supposed to be going to patrol the border of IceClan." Frogleap replied hastily. Rainpaw watched him bound away and picked a squirrel and padded off to the regular spot where the apprentinces ate. I can't wait for tomorrow…