Once I woke up and gaped my jaws in a yawn, Dustpaw was already outside the den, sunlight hitting her fur. "Cmon! Silverpaw and Darkclaw are waiting for us!" I shifted my paw then I padded out the den to the entrance. Silverpaw was sitting by the entrance, his chin high and his short tail barely managing to wrap around his paws. Darkclaw was standing next to him, looking overpowering to the young gray tabby tom.
"Let's go!" Silverpaw exclaimed, running out of the camp. Dustpaw panted, "Wait for me!" Me and Darkclaw walked out and blondes over the stream. I muttered, "Well this is going to be fun,""You bet." Darkclaw replied. Dustpaw eagerly asked, "Where are we going? This way? That way?Over there?" She turned her head wildly while saying 'this way' and 'that way' and nearly fell backwards from saying 'over there'.
"Let's go through the shadow forest. There is prey there."Darkclaw suggested. I nodded and we lead the two restless apprentices on the path. I stopped on a tiny hill and asked Dustpaw, "What do you smell?" The dusty brown she-cat lifted her dark brown muzzle and opened her jaws to taste the air. She replied, "Mouse!""Same." Silverpaw meowed.
"Very good." Darkclaw meowed, and told them to try to track the mouse. The silver tabby got into a hunter's crouch and started to scan the dark area. Dustpaw did the same, waving her tail in the air trying to break Silverpaw's concentration. The mouse came into the open and started to crawl towards a fallen nut.
Suprising, at the same time, the two apprentices crept up and sprang at the one mouse. Darkclaw turned his head, and I narrowed my eyes. Dustpaw and Silverpaw collided in the air and plopped onto the mouse. Silverpaw got up and he bit the mouse before it scrambled out of the way. "Dustpaw, are you okay?" I meowed, stepping closer.
Darkclaw sat there, and scolded, "You should know where the other is! Dustpaw could have broken her skull if you weren't as careful." She lifted her head and groaned, "What happened?" Silverpaw backed away and he dipped his head in embarrassment. Dustpaw got up and shook the dirt off of her pelt.
She meowed, "Well, that was suprising!" I lashed my tail and whispered, "Let's get moving." Once we all started to leave the shadowy area, I thought of the things me and the dusty she-cat had in common. We both are energetic, funny, maybe weird, and friendly. Cool.
We walked towards Tallplains, and the leaf fall had made the tall grass blades shrivel up. Silverpaw sniffed, and crept into the grass. Dustpaw went a different direction instead. I sat next to Darkclaw for a while, then we heard scuffling in the grass. Darkclaw shifted away from me as the two apprentices padded out with prey hanging from their jaws.
"Look at what we caught!" Silverpaw meowed through fresh-kill. Darkclaw looked down of him and his expression completely changed. His eyes grew wide and the fox cub the small tabby was dragging. Silverpaw made a happy and cute face, which made Dustpaw burst with laughter. She flung her vole at him, and he dropped the fox, grunting, "Ow!"
Darkclaw meowed, "Get up you two. It's time to go back to camp.""Already?" Dustpaw asked. He just nodded and trekked back to the camp through the jungle path. I followed, the apprentices hopping around, playing juggle with the fox and vole. "Stop that kit nonsense!" I meowed as we reached the camp entrance.
All the warriors were astonished at the fox Silverpaw caught, and praised him for a while. Dustpaw out the vole in the pile and went to the warriors and chanted his name. Darkclaw sat near the entrance, his congratulation gaze locked on the gray tabby tom. "You like him, don't you?" I asked, butting his foreleg with me paw. He replied, "I think he will be a great apprentice.
Im really sorry that this is a short chapter. I had things to do, people to see, places to go, blah blah blah. I hope you like it so far. I may ask for OCs to be added in later chapters, but you can start coming up with good warrior names for Dustpaw, Silverpaw, and Brightpaw. I promise Sprucekit and Dawnkit will be apprenticed in the next chapter.