Chapter 1
Beautifulpaw
Beautifulpaw slowly blinked open her eyes. Her mentor, Honeyfoot, was on top of her.
"Wake up already! The dawn patrol's waiting on you!" meowed Honeyfoot.
"Okay, okay! Honeyfoot, get off of me!" replied Beautifulpaw.
Honeyfoot let out a small mrroww of amusement and jumped off. Beautifulpaw got up and shook herself. She gave her chest fur a couple of licks and ran out the apprentice den. She ran straight into Skybreeze, who was leading the patrol and toppled her over.
"Well, what have we got here. A giant mossball!" mewed Skybreeze.
That was when Beatifulpaw noticed she was covered in scraps of moss. She grew hot under her fur and gave her pelt a good shake.
"Sorry Skybreeze!" she replied.
"It's okay." Then added a little louder, "Well then, now lets go on the patrol!" Skybreeze announced.
Beautifulpaw nodded her head vigorously and Skybreeze whispered, "Let's make this our little secret."
Beautifulpaw let out a small sigh of relief. "Thanks Skybreeze."
"No problem!" Skybreeze smiled.
They trotted to the camp entrance and while Beautifulpaw weaved through the trees, she thought: why was I so clumsy today? Usually I'm up before dawn and ready to go! It's so weird. Just as she thought that, they arrived at the border of Darkclan.
They started setting the scent marks and a Darkclan patrol came up and Daggerfang said, "Why are you so close to the border?" Skybreeze answered, "We're just setting the scent marks! Let us go and finish."
"Fine. Only this once. But if I see you in the border, we're ready to fight." Daggerfang answered. The Darkclan patrol trotted into the marshes and disappeared.
Honeyfoot muttered to Beautifulpaw, "Those Darkclan cats think they're so great."
Beautifulpaw twitched her ears in surprise. How could her mentor say such an immature thing? Then reminded herself, she recently got her warrior name. Why am I so smart? She purred.
