Note- Sorry about the big paragraphs in the first chapter I have fixed that in this one, please read and review. Thanks! :)
I woke early so I could get out of camp to hunt for awhile, Breezepaw, Jaggedpaw, and Flamepaw were all fast asleep in their nests. Wolfpaw and Lostpaw were asleep as well but Wolfpaw lifted her head as I walked by.
"Hunting?" she meows.
"Yes im getting out of here before the three mouseketeers wake up."
"Well then," she whispers, "i'm coming with you."
We leave camp with the thought that we are going out to hunt but of course our plans are foiled Goldenfleck and Whitebelly our mentors race out to find us, they catch up and tell us it's early training today remember? We look at each other then follow the warriors to the clearing were cats train for fights.
There is only one other apprentice there and it's Berrypaw, thank Starclan! "Today we are training together to switch things up a little bit and also to teach you that sometime you will have to fight your friends in other clans." Whitebelly meows
"Yeah in other clans," I whisper to Wolfpaw. She nods like she understands, we get to talk for a minute while the warriors decide what to do.
"That was not my fault!" Wolfpaw meows.
"Yeah it was mine and Lostpaw's we totally made him angry on purpose and in the end our pelts suffered."
Goldenfleck turns around and begin's the training by demonstrating with Whitebelly. They face each other like their fighting in a battle with a different clan then Whitebelly leaps at Goldenfleck and turns in mid air so fast that the victim underneath can't do much other then spend a few seconds trying to figure out what's going on. She pretends to dig her claws into Goldenflecks pelt and bites down into her shoulder carefully making sure not to draw blood.
She jumps off it is a very common move I don't think it will be very effective and also I think that the other clan will be expecting the attack in this fashion.
"I'll have to spice it up a little bit later," I meow to Wolfpaw.
Okay now you guys try. It was really easy I just stood there and wolfpaw leaped and I moved out of the way with moments to spare.
"You need to be faster Wolfpaw!" Whitebelly meows.
She tries again really focusing on being faster but this time I duck and she flies over landing awkwardly in the dirt. I have to stifle a laugh because she is obviously sore from last night.
"Oh yeah if you think it's so easy then why don't you try?!" Wolfpaw meows.
"Berrypaw is working on the same move with her mentor yes she older than you but maybe she can show you how it's done." Goldenfleck beckons Berrypaw over and tells me to stand in the spot i'm thinking to myself I know exactly what she's gonna do so what can I do to dodge? She leaps and then i'm on the ground squished. Wolfpaw laugh's at me and I stand up shaking the dust off.
"Well at least she can do it!" I meow.
"Okay now you guys try again and practice this move then we will move on to something more advanced," Whitebelly meows.
So this time I get to leap upon Wolfpaw and I glance to the right of her to make her wonder what i'm doing and then I pounce with all my speed and agility. Im a little off but I land half way on top of her because the spin came late but she goes down. We stand and look at our mentors who then flood us with comments about our forms and all this other stuff its hard to remember everything they tell us about this one move.
We move on the the next one right away, it's a lot harder to do then the last one. First Goldenfleck rears up and with all her strength falls back down on whitebelly, whitebelly becomes dazed and the Goldenfleck grips Whitebelly's tail in her teeth and yanks it putting her off balance then Goldenfleck backs away and whitebelly turns to face her Goldenfleck leaps backwards jumps off a tree flinging her into whitebelly pinning her to the ground.
"Woah how did you do that?!" I meow.
"With great practice, Thunderclan has to come up with new moves to throw their opponent off guard." Whitebelly meows.
"Lets try!" Wolfpaw meows.
"I bet I can do it better than you!" I boast.
"No you can't i'm faster!"
"Yeah but i'm stronger!"
"No your not!"
I leap on wolfpaw then raise my forelegs crash down on her and yank her tail, she falls over but quickly gets up and turns towards me gripping my scruff and shaking me violently. I quickly strike her with my front paw right in the face, then I rake her belly with my back claws pinning her to her ground.
She plays dead and I loosen my grip she throws me up into the air and I land hard on the ground. As soon as I am on my feet she's crashing into me, she must have bounced off a tree.
"Enough!" Goldenfleck yowls. "That was good you threw a little extra stuff in there that you didn't need, like for example the arguing."
"That will be all for the day, why is everyone so irritable today?" Whitebelly meowed as she and Goldenfleck started towards camp. They were too far away to listen any longer.
"That was fun!" I meow.
"Yeah we she train together more often."
We got back to camp just before dark ate and fell asleep.
I woke the next morning the air icy and the ground frozen, looks like leaf-fall is coming early. All my time as an apprentice, which has only been two moons but never has leaf-fall come early, weird. Ivystar is perched on her rock in a warm patch of sunlight and the deputy on the ground below giving warriors and apprentices their duties for the day.
Of course I get to go on sunhigh patrol which is just walking around sniffing things. Time fly's by and me Breezepaw, Splashfur, and Duskfire the deputy head for the shadowclan border. I end up walking beside Splashfur because their is no way i'm even looking at Breezepaw and he's probably thinking the same thing. We get there in no time flat and Duskfire starts to mark our territory showing Breezepaw how its done, he is his apprentice.
Me and Splashfur are sniffing around for other clans scents, and prey.
"Splashfur?" I meow
"Hm?"
"This morning was it cold to you?"
"Um no not this morning actually I woke up and the air was warm."
"Oh ok."
"Why was it cold in the apprentices den? are you getting sick?"
"No, no im fine just curious."
We advanced down the border and we passed a Shadowclan patrol they glanced at us swiftly and nodded their heads respectfully except one a little apprentice she looked at me and sneered.
Everything was right in the forest these days, not much to do it's kind of nice to get to relax and not fret over any threats. Of course there's always the calm before the storm with these clans thats what Vinejaw the camp elder always used to tell me as a kit. My thought's were cut off by Duskfire sniffing the air his pelt standing on end. I look over to my right to see Breezepaw and Splashfur doing the same, so I sniff the air and know instantly that were in danger.
"Foxdung!" Breezepaw curses.
There was a group of wild dogs near here and the smell was getting stronger.
"Head for that tree!" Duskfire ordered.
We all leap for the middle aged oak that was swaying in the wind about ten tail lengths away. We raced up the tree and just at that moment a dog three times the size of Duskfire, the biggest of all of us comes up snapping at Breezepaws feet. He moves faster and sits on a thick branch beside Splashfur above me and Duskfire. Then running after the huge slobbery mutt was a pack of five more dogs!
"How are we going to get out of this one?!" I meow.
There was a short pause not even Duskfire knew exactly what to do, finally Breezepaw meows, "I know i'll jump over to that tree climb down and lead the dogs away while you guys go back to camp!"
"No that is a bad idea," I meow.
"It could work though," Duskfire meows.
"I don't think he should do it alone," this time it was Splashfur.
"Okay Splashfur you go with him, me and Robinpaw will go back to camp for help, we'll meet at the base of Foxcliff." Duskfire commands. Foxcliff is now abandoned but used to be crawling with foxes. The dogs were barking loudly and scraping the bark off the tree.
"We better hurry before they learn how to climb," Splashfur meows.
"Ok go!" Duskfire yowls. There's a sharp yowl coming from above and I turn to look up at what's making the noise and all I see is a ball of brown fur hurtling downward toward the barking dogs below.
I reach my paw out to try and pull Splashfur into the tree once more but she weighs to much. Duskfire reaches out but misses and I look up at Breezepaw who is reaching down with a horrified look on his face.
"No Splashfur!" Duskfire yowls.
Below is Splashfur disappearing into the mass of fang and claw, after the dogs had ripped apart Splashfur they ran around with pieces of her and eventually ran off.
We climbed down and looked at the remains, it was not easy to look at. After we had scraped up the pieces we buried her and I know exactly what had happened but there was no way i'm telling Duskfire yet. We returned to camp with only three cats remaining it was dusk by the time we got back, cats were only just starting to notice our absence. Ivystar approached us sensing there was something wrong,
"Where's Splashfur?"
"She was mauled by a pack of dogs." Duskfire meows.
"When? Where? How many dogs were there? Where are the dogs now? Where's her body?" the crowd of cats that had gathered around started asking questions.
"We couldn't bring her body back with the state that it was in, so we buried her there." Every cat was shocked by the sudden loss except Jaggedpaw, Flamepaw and weirdest of all Breezepaw. I left the crowd to go talk to Wolfpaw and Lostpaw about what I found.
"Oh my starclan! Robinpaw that must have been horrible how did they get her?" Lostpaw meows walking alongside me to the apprentices den, passing the fresh kill pile, I wasn't really all that hungry.
"We were in a tree coming up with a plan of how to get rid of the dogs, we all heard a screech it was Splashfur "falling" off the tree branch."
"W-why did you say falling like that," Wolfpaw whispered.
"Because she didn't fall she's not that dumb or clumsy for that matter."
"You think she was pushed?!" Lostpaw gasps.
"I know she was, when I was burying her I saw that her paw had a clump of really light colored fur in her claws."
"Like she was trying to hold on to a cat, Breezepaw." Wolfpaw meows.
"He pushed her off so he could save his own hide." I meow showing them the light ball of fur that I had snagged from Splashfur's broken body