This'll probably be my last update in a few days. I need to write a few more chapters so I can get ahead.
So, Lynwood is making me tell my part of the story now? Even when she knows I'm not good at telling stories? Oh, well. Let's start at my favorite part.
When Lynwood said bye, I closed my laptop and went into the dining room, where my dad was sitting at the dinner table, along with a few plates with tacos sitting on them.
"Hey, Dad," I said, and sat in my usual place, across from him.
My twin sister walked in, yes, both Lyn and I have twin sisters. Quite a coincidence, isn't it?
Drew sat down next to me, texting to somebody on her cell phone. I rolled my eyes at her and bit into a taco, just as my mom came in and sat next to my dad.
"Hey, kids," Mom said, picking up her taco.
"Hi," I replied. Drew just kept texting on her cell phone.
After dinner, I went to bed. I was extremely tired for some reason.
When I woke up in the morning, I checked my clock on my nightstand. It said 6:12 AM. It was around the time Lyn and I agreed to get on! I opened my laptop and logged on, getting on Facebook.
"Hey," I typed. I waited for a response, and there was none. It said she'd seen it, but she wasn't replying.
I waited for probably half an hour for her, getting no reply. Was she purposely ignoring me?
I shut my laptop and got ready for school, kind of hurt. It obviously said she'd seen it, so why didn't she reply? Is she mad at me? What did I do? These questions went through my mind as I started walking to the bus stop.
When I got there, no one else was there, except someone with a hood covering his eyes. I just ignored him as I waited for the bus.
The person approached me slowly. I eyed him warily. He was grinning.
"800 miles is a long way, but thankfully I managed it in eight hours," he said, smirking. Then he took out a knife faster than I could react, and stabbed me in the chest, instantly making me fall unconscious, at least, I thought I had fallen unconscious.
When I next woke up, my chest kind of ached but that was it. I yawned, and accidentally bit my tongue, causing me to yowl in pain. My teeth were sharp! I started to put my hand in my mouth to feel my teeth, but I didn't have any hands! Instead, I had grey paws! What the heck is going on?!
I started panicking. "Mom! Dad! Drew!" I yowled.
"Who's there?" mewed a voice coming from behind the bracken. A golden brown tabby tom appeared from it. "Who're you?"
"Uh, Sky-" I was cut off as a black she-cat came through the bracken behind the tom.
"Brackenfur, we should go- another cat?!" The black cat mewed. "Do you want to join the clan too?"
I flicked an ear. "Did you say clan?"
"Yeah," the black she-cat replied.
"W-what's your name?" I asked hesitantly.
"Hollypaw."
"I'm in ThunderClan?!" I exclaimed.
"Um, yeah."
"Oh…" my brain was trying to process this information. "Yeah, I want to join. T-that's why I'm here."
"Yes! Another apprentice!" Hollypaw mewed.
Brackenfur flicked an ear. "I'm not sure that Firestar would let a second apprentice join after so little time. If he does let a second one in, the clan probably won't be happy."
Hollypaw frowned. "We should try anyway. What's your name?" she asked me.
"He said his name is Sky," Brackenfur mewed. I was about to protest, but decided not to.
Brackenfur and Hollypaw led me to the camp, where a bunch of cats were hanging out. Brackenfur jumped onto a rock and went inside a crack in the rock. A bit later he came out with a ginger tom that I had guessed to be Firestar.
"Hello, I am Firestar," he greeted.
"I-I'm Sky," I mewed.
"I'm very pleased to meet you. Brackenfur here says you'd like to join ThunderClan, is that so?"
"Yes."
"Two new apprentices in less than a moon," he murmured. "Okay, Sky, you can." Yes! I thought.
Firestar jumped onto the rock and yowled, "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey join here beneath the Highrock for a clan meeting!" The murmurs of cats could be heard as they padded over to the Highrock.
"StarClan has blessed us with yet another apprentice," he mewed. At this, several cats started protesting. Firestar ignored them. "Sky, please step forward." I hesitantly did so.
"Since you will be joining ThunderClan, you must have a ThunderClan name. From this day, until you receive your warrior name, you will be known as Skypaw. Stormfur will be you mentor." Stormfur? He was the one that used to be in RiverClan! The light grey tom touched noses with me.
Firestar dismissed the clan and went back into his den. The cats dispersed, but some looked at me weird.
"Hi, I'm Poppypaw!" I jumped, and turned around. There was a tortoiseshell she-cat smiling at me.
"Uh, hi. I guess you know that I'm Skypaw," I mewed.
She smiled at me again. "Yeah. Let's go find you a place in the den!" She started padding toward the apprentices' den with me following her. I went slowly, and looked at the cats around me, trying to figure out who was who by remembering their appearances from the books.
One cat, though, I didn't remember reading about in the books. She had long, feathery black fur with white paws and blue eyes. She was kind of pretty. Although I didn't remember her from the books, I still felt like I recognized her from somewhere.
She apparently noticed me staring at her and she looked my way. I quickly looked away, feeling my face heat up. What was it about her?
I quickly caught up with Poppypaw, who was at the entrance to the apprentices' den already.
"Okay, Lionpaw and Hollypaw sleep there, Berrypaw and Honeypaw sleep there… oh! Your nest can be between mine and Featherpaw's!" Poppypaw mewed.
"Okay," I mewed. "Sounds good."
"Let's go get some moss!" Poppypaw zoomed out of the den. I followed her a bit more slowly. Now that I thought about it, Poppypaw wasn't that energetic and friendly… if she was, she probably would've been named Poppyflight, not Poppyfrost. But whatever.
Thinking about what I read in the books reminded me about being a human. Especially Lynwood and Drew. I wonder what they would say if they found out that I was a cat.
By the end of the day, I knew most of the other apprentices. Jaypaw didn't like me, Hollypaw was pretty friendly, Berrypaw was the most annoying cat ever, Hazelpaw was okay, Honeypaw was okay, Mousepaw was okay, but I still hadn't met Lionpaw or that other cat that for some reason wasn't in the books. I think Poppypaw said her name was Featherpaw?
I yawned and padded to the apprentices' den and bumped into a cat who was coming out.
"Oh, sorry," I said.
"It's fine," she said. "Hey, you're Skypaw, right?"
"Uh, yeah."
"I'm Featherpaw."
"Nice to meet you."
"Have we… have we met before?" she asked me.
"I don't think so…" how could I, when I was a human less than 24 hours ago?
"…Okay, I thought so." She passed me and padded away.
I watched her go away for a second, then turned and went into the den and got into my newly-made nest next to Poppypaw, who was already asleep.
Okay, done. Is that enough for you? I really don't like telling stories. Come back tomorrow or something.
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