When Midnight Strikes
Thank you, GreeceXCats527, Cinderfire16, LeafpoolandCrowfeather4ever, and Pumpkinfur for reviewing! And Leafpool, I'll try to make the chapter longer, but this is honestly the best I can do ever since the original of this… -shiver- It had 14 chapters… with 4,000 words… And Pumpkinfur: I honestly don't know, although it's the plot for the story xD… Well, anyways, here's the next chapter of the story!
Chapter 2
Midnightkit frowned slightly as Kestrelstar pressed his nose against Snowkit's, or should she say, Snowpaw's, head. Now she was officially the leader's apprentice. This seriously couldn't get any worse.
When Kestrelstar turned to her, she stood up straight, trying not to show she was weak. She didn't want to believe she was weak, either. "Midnightkit, you will know be known as Midnightpaw. Your mentor is Yellowgaze."
Midnightpaw just frowned even more at that statement. I stand corrected. Mumbling curses under her breath, the fluffy black she-cat padded on the sandy floor towards the yellow-cream warrior, a smug look on her face. Yellowgaze leaned her head down like she was about to press her nose against her's, but instead, bit her ear.
Holding back a yowl of pain, Midnightpaw just pretended Yellowgaze had done the right thing and turned back to the Clan. "Snowpaw! Snowpaw!" They cheered.
The black she-cat muttered more curses and then turned to Yellowgaze. "Well, what are we doing today?" she asked, a bored look on her face.
"Battle training. But not at the Sandy Hollow."
...Crap.
Midnightpaw collapsed in a heap of midnight black fur when they arrived at the training spot, gasping for breath. "W-why did that take so much out of me… and you're f-fine?" she asked Yellowgaze, who just stood over her with a blank look on her face.
"Sweetie, I'm a warrior, and you're the apprentice," Yellowgaze said icily, her blank look immediately transforming into a glare. "Of course you're tired."
Midnightpaw just rolled her eyes and pushed herself to her paws. "So why are we here? What's so special about this place?" She observed her surroundings more carefully. They seemed to be in a dim place in the forest. Tall trees towered towards the sky, blocking the sunlight, although its rays still made it through just barely. This seems like a nice place for a midnight ambush if a Clan was here…
"This is a perfect place for a midnight ambush," Yellowgaze explained sternly, as if repeating Midnightpaw's thoughts. "Therefore a great training place for apprentices. If we can excel your skills as a warrior, we could ambush ShadowClan, as well as WindClan."
"Ambush ShadowClan?" she murmured quietly so her fluffy cream-yellow mentor couldn't hear. Midnightpaw thought back to her kit days with Snowpaw, whenever they played Leader of the Clans, the snow-white apprentice would always choose ShadowClan… She shook the thought away, seeing as there wasn't any importance to it.
"Well, let me teach you some moves, and then we can spar," Yellowgaze suggested with a weird tone in her voice. It sounded almost… taunting. Is she taunting me?!
Midnightpaw glared at her mentor. "Alright," she meowed slowly. She sat back as Yellowgaze started to demonstrate a battle move, jumping into the air and blocking the sun to blind the enemy. And then she came down with so much force a monster could've been scared away.
"That is the Blinding Pounce," her mentor meowed coldly. "If you can't learn it, there will be consequences."
Midnightpaw just huffed as if she was expecting that. "Like you could do anything to me without getting in trouble," she muttered under her breath, leaping towards the sun with outstretched paws. When she plummeted towards the ground, she targeted Yellowgaze, heading straight for her. What Midnightpaw didn't expect was for her to sidestep and the black she-cat landed face-first in the ground.
Suddenly, she felt teeth grip her scruff and she was pulled upwards. "You should really think before going against an experienced warrior," Yellowgaze said scathingly, licking her paw before rubbing it over her ear.
"If you're so tough, why don't you show me?" Midnightpaw challenged, taking a step forward.
"Bring it on, puny apprentice! But that fight's for another time. It's getting late, so let's go," the warrior hissed before turning away, padding through the forest.
For some reason, on the rest of the way to camp, the black apprentice felt lightheaded. Midnightpaw pushed the feeling out of her head when she padded into camp. Yellowgaze immediately left her side for a thrush at the fresh-kill pile, leaving her trailing through the sand in camp.
"Midnightpaw!" Snowpaw's voice echoed through her thoughts and the said apprentice whipped around to see her snow-white sister running towards her. "Midnightpaw," she breathed when she reached her, "how was training?"
"Yellowgaze doesn't really like me, but I proved I was good at battle training," the black apprentice said proudly, but she slumped slightly.
"Are you okay?" Snowpaw asked, concerned as Midnightpaw continued to slump.
"Huh? Oh, I'm fine!" the black she-cat purred, immediately standing up straight, but a sharp pain flowed through her head, making her wince.
"Are you sure?" The snow-white cat nudged her sister.
"Of course, why wouldn't I b-be…" More pain started to envelop in her head and she collapsed. The last thing she saw before blacking out was Snowpaw rushing towards the medicine den.
I enjoyed writing this chapter, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! Please review! And also, don't worry people who read the original of this, Snowpaw will become what you thought she was soon, and a certain gray tom will come in soon, too! So stay tuned until the next chapter, folks!