Mudwhisker stared up at the coldrock, beside him sat his mate Meadow. Her eyes shind with excitement, he wished he could share her excitement but it was a hard to knowing that his clan was staring at him with great anger. He had heard one of the clan elders Waspclaw gossiping about how much shame and bad luck he had given the clan to another elder Splashfern, all Splashfern did was stare at her paws and shake her head.
"All cats old enough to walk in the deepest of snow gather beneath the coldrock" yowled Rainstar looking at the apprentice den. A silver furred apprentice scurried out of the den with a look of pure excitement and turned around as if thinking someone was behind him and scurried back to the den and poked his head inside. After a long pause the apprentice stook his head out of the den and two smaller apprentices followed,
Leaf and Nettle he thought as the small apprentices followed the silver furred one next to another apprentice a honey colored she-cat. Leaf looked drowsy tripping on every loose pebble while Nettle looked puzzled as he sat down.
"Cats of the clans these young cats are no longer rogues but apprentices" Rainstar yowled. Murmurs of disapproval spread throughout the clan like a wildfire, but out of all the cats he spotted Splashfern looking at her paws not joining in on the murmurs disapproval. "These young cats need their apprentice names if they are going to be warriors" Rainstar continued over the murmurs that were getting louder and louder. "So I will give them each a apprentice name, he continued Nettle you shall now be known as Nettlepaw". "Leaf, you shall be known as Leafpaw". Mudwhisker peered at Meadow next to him she stared at their kits with wide round proud eyes.
"I wonder who their mentors are going to be" she whispered to him, he nodded his head and twitched his tail. He hoped Rainstar would chose good mentors for his two kits,
"Nettlepaw your mentor will be Smokefur and Leafpaw your mentor will be Speckledfoot" yowled Rainstar. Nettlepaw and Leafpaw padded over to their mentors, and touched noses, Mudwhisker nodded his head in approval. Smokefur looked at Mudwhisker, his eyes unreadable. All the cats were walking into their dens but before Mudwhisker could follow a loud booming yowl echoed around the clearing.
"Meadow step forward"...