All I could see was soggy dead leaves and a lot of dirt, it was raining and at first I was scared and confused, then remembered. I was chasing a rabbit and my paw slipped into a hole causing me to topple to the ground, head slamming into a rock, knocking me out. When I awoke there were clouds that covered the sky that made everything dim, it had only just started to rain but in those few moments it seemed everything was soaked already. I stood feeling all my muscles strain, head throbbing, the rabbit was long gone. I looked around trying to figure out where my feet had taken me, I was near Rabbitcreek by Windclan. That'll teach me to hunt alone, I thought to myself. I am Robinpaw of Thunderclan and it is just my luck that its raining when i'm so far from camp. As I made my way back to camp, the rain pounded down and it was incredibly hard to see but in the moon it takes me I finally crawl into my nest at the back of the apprentices den to wash my fur and nap. Not long after I fall asleep a paw pokes me in my bruised ribs, I cringe and slowly open my eyes to see jaggedpaw staring down at me with disgust on his face. "What jaggedpaw i'm trying to sleep," I meow and curl back up with my tail on my nose. " I just thought that maybe you would like to know that you head is bleeding all over your and wolfpaws nest?" he meows so loud that I shrink into my nest further. I decide to stand and it takes a time or two before i'm successful, the good thing is that wolfpaw, my sister, is not in her nest and it's just me and jaggedpaw in the den. "do you want me to help you to the medicine den?" he politely asks but clearly doesn't give a fox dung. "No!" I snap back, walking as best I can manage leaving the den only to fall right as I reach the rain outside. I quickly stand and glance around to make sure nobody noticed, luckily not many cats are around and I slowly pad the rest of the way to Copperberry's den. A bright flash of lightning leaps across the sky signaling that the storm is getting worse. I sit down on the cold stony floor and wait for Copperberry to finish her conversation with Tigerspirit, my mother. Tigerspirit glances at my arrival and gasps at my appearance, soaked all the way through my fur, cuts and scrapes all throughout my body a large gash on my head spilling blood everywhere, and old blood matted in my coat. I catch Copperberry's attention and she meows, "now why are you just sitting there pipe up if your gushing blood, my starclan!" I sit in a nest because that's we're copperberry told me to sit and Tigerspirit begins to lick my wounds, I'm way to tired and dizzy to get things straight. Lightning and thunder is coming from outside, a horrible blood curdling sound comes from outside camp. It is a tree breaking off its stump and the thump of it hitting the ground makes all the cats jump. "the storm is bad and I hope it doesn't get worse." copperberry comments as she begins to mix herbs for my wounds. I end up eating a hole sort of different things and I drowsily mention that cats eat meat and not leaves before I fall asleep with pulp and cobwebs all over my fur.
When I woke the next time the cats in my camp were very uneasy so I asked copperberry what was going on and she said that there is a fire across the river near Riverclan camp. Most of the cats scrambled to get out of there and some found their way to us. There was a queen with her kits in the nursery from riverclan along with a few warriors and apprentices one elder. Later I was told they had left while I was asleep. For the next few days I slept on and off, on the third day I was walking around camp and copperberry said my wounds would heal very well. On the fourth day I started my training again, I was hunting with my mentor Goldenfleck it was very unfortunate to get my paw stuck in the one of the few holes in the forest. We started near shadowclan and worked our way to windclan by then it was getting dark but I wanted to catch one more thing before we left. It was a blackbird and I crept toward it belly to the ground tail flat paws light as feathers and then I pounced misjudged and landed about one tail length away I tried to land softly and take another tiny pounce to reach the bird but by then the bird was in the air so I leaped barely touching the bird but to my and Goldenfleck's amazement I felt myself falling with the bird and I twisted just in time to land safely on the bird killing it in the process. I held my pray up with pride as we padded home, by the time we got there my neck hurt because it weighed so much, I had to make two trips out and back to get all the fresh kill to camp. "your hunting skills are getting better every day," Goldenfleck praised. I nodded and replied "I hope my fighting skills are as well because thats what a true warrior needs to know most."
"thats not all a warriors needs to know Robinpaw," Goldenfleck meowed dropping her mouse, sparrow, and squirrel in the pile.
"Well that's what Lostpaw told me," I meowed stretching the truth a little bit.
"No it's more there's bravery, intelligence, speed, cleverness, and much more." she meowed.
"that sounds like a lot of work." I meow.
" It is and that's why us mentors make you apprentices work so hard because it really is tough when you get older and become a warrior. You and every other apprentice in camp has to learn the ways of being a warrior before you can truly become one."
She pads away to lay next to Splashfur and Bramblecreek. I think to myself, why do all warriors have to be so wise all the time? Why can't they have fun every once and awhile? I drop the subject and take a vole from the pile, I sit next to Lostpaw and Wolfpaw. "Hey how did hunting go this time?" Lostpaw meows and Wolfpaw almost chokes on her black bird with laughter.
"Well considering you and wolfpaw are both eating my catches I think I did pretty good."
"This is the best black bird I have ever tasted but it's a little flat." Wolfpaw meows.
" I was just teasing, your the best hunter in the clan, behind me and wolfpaw of course." Lostpaw meows shouldering wolfpaw who nods in agreement.
I dig into my vole and its about half gone when flamepaw decides to join us.
"Shouldn't you be with Jaggedpaw and Breezepaw?" Lostpaw sneers. Wolfpaw sneezes and flamepaw laughs, "At least im not allergic to birds!"
"Dont worry about it Wolfpaw he only teases you because he likes you." I meow
Flamepaw stands and turns "accidently" steps on Lostpaw's tail. Lostpaw stands and meows, "if you wanna fight me do it like a tom! you she-kit!" and then sits back down. " But Lostpaw thats offensive to she-cats! and kits!" I meow loud enough for only him to hear. He stops dead and spins around. "Oh look now the she-kits mad!" Lostpaw meows taunting flamepaw once again.
"Guys I don't know if you should yell at him like that he's a really good fighter and has a really bad temper." Wolfpaw meows.
we look at wolfpaw who is the only one still sitting.
"Stand up and help us defeat this bully once and for all!" Lostpaw meows.
It's really dark now and there's really only flamepaw, breezepaw, jaggedpaw, and the she-cats. flamepaw is digging his claws into the ground trying not to get into a fight. "But-" wolfpaw is cut off by breezepaws yowl, he stomps over and meows, "if you kits want to fight take it outside camp your gonna wake all the cats up!" Lostpaw looks at me and wolfpaw.
"Well I guess it's up to flamekit if he really wants to get his pelt ripped off or go sleep next to his mother's belly," Lostpaw sneers. Flamepaw had had enough he leaped at Lostpaw who then pelted out the entrance to camp with flamepaw right behind her. Wolfpaw and I bolted after them, Breezepaw and Jaggedpaw behind us.
When we reached the end of the tunnel Lostpaw and Flamepaw were in a mass ball of fur already, looks like Flamepaw was to fast for Lostpaw point Flamepaw. I was just standing there one second and the next Breezepaw was on top of me claws digging into my pelt his weight squishing me flat to the ground.
"Now i know how my black bird felt!" I managed to meow.
I started to wiggle making breezepaw wonder what I was trying to do catching him off guard and knocking him to the side. Then twisting to the side so I could catch his leg and hold on piercing my claws into his back. The way I had him he couldn't really do much until he realized the mistake I had made giving him a direct path to the throat he bit down but not enough to hurt me. I could tell he didn't really want to fight me a fellow clan mate and I didn't want to fight him either but I was more loyal to Lostpaw then Flamepaw so I had to help her or she'd be finished. Finally I bit his ear and he yelped in pain fleeing into the darkened forest. I looked around to see what was going on Wolfpaw was pinning Jaggedpaw to the ground and keeping him there for as long as possible but the real fight was happening with Flamepaw and Lostpaw. Lostpaw didn't look so good and Flamepaw looked almost untouched, I caught her eyes for one second and she looked pleading for help so I crept into the bushes staying down wind of them. I waited until the time was right time which wasn't long after because Lostpaw was losing, I sprang and landed straight on Flamepaws upper body flinging him off Lostpaw and leaving us in the bushes I bit down hard into his shoulder and scraped up his ears pretty good the thorns from the bushes snagging our fur. It didn't take long for me to beat flamepaw putting all my strength into my blows him pinned to the ground he could have easily flung me off but he didn't i'll never know why. I let him slide away and I returned to Lostpaw and Wolfpaw, we didn't speak because there was nothing to say they had defeated Flamepaw Breezepaw, and Jaggedpaw. Before we returned to camp we tried to clean and hide our wounds as much as possible when we got back six nests were empty we all fell asleep knowing tomorrow wasn't going to be a good day.