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Okay! Chapter TWO! :3

Chapter Two

Infinity's POV

Agh. Burr. Oomph. Stone. Ugh. Hunger.

It has been a moon since I recovered from the storm. My mother was gone, when I awoke. I was now seven moons.

What's that smell? Other cats?! Suddenly, a ginger tom, not too much older than me, jumped out of a bush and pinned me to the ground. I grit my teeth and hissed.

"What the-" I started.

"Who are you?" The ginger tom asked, bewildered. I shrugged.

"Uh, Infinity?"

"Don't play around."

"No! My name is Infinity! I promise!"

He groans. "Great. A kittypet."

"No! I'm a wild cat!"

The ginger tom gets up and pushes me along. Growling, I allow him.

The hollow the tom brings me to is gigantic. There were so many cats! So much prey! I looked up and saw a golden she-cat with violet eyes gazing down at me with interest. I feel my heart beating faster as I grow nervous.

The golden she-cat walks down elegantly and licks the ginger tom's head. He smiles and steps aside. The golden she-cat must be the ginger tom's mother.

A gray tom with amber eyes joins the golden she-cat.

"What's your name, little one?" The golden she-cat said with a voice like honey. I bristled a bit. I wasn't little!

"My name's Infinity. I was living in the forest until I lost my mother about a moon ago, and now- well, now I'm here." Once I'm done, the golden she-cat nods.

"Well, this is Thunderclan. I am Aspenstar." The gray tom with amber eyes looks at Aspenstar a little uneasily.

"Aspenstar, you're leading her to believe that she's going to live here-" He starts.

"Shadetail, I am leader of Thunderclan. If I want her to stay, that is perfectly fine. She is not a kittypet- maybe even her mother is-" The golden leader falters. Shadetail rests his tail across Aspenstar's shoulders reassuringly.

"Am I going to live here?" I blurt out. I had so many questions! What were everyone's names? How did this place run? Were there other orphans? Did any of these cats even like me?

Aspenstar laughs lightheartedly. "Infinity, if you wish to change your name to Infinitypaw and start training as an apprentice, we will allow you. But if you betray Thunderclan just once, you will be banned. Okay?"

"Okay." I confirm. Aspenstar nudges me toward a random den.

"We will assign you a mentor by tomorrow."

I enter a den with other cats around my age sitting around. The ginger tom was there, along with a cream she-cat, a golden she-cat, and a light gray she-cat. The ginger tom seems to sneer at me, like I'm just a tiny pebble.

But the cream she-cat immediately opened up.

"Hi! I'm Tansypaw, and this is my brother, Bravepaw, you know, the ginger one. Then there's Soulpaw, the gray she-cat, and Goldenpaw, the- well, golden she-cat. We're all siblings, and our parents are Aspenstar and Shadetail. Shadetail's the-"

"Tansypaw!" Bravepaw growls sternly. "Why don't you just tell her all our weaknesses while you're telling her our life story?"

Tansypaw groans. "Bravepaw, open up. C'mon, it'll be fun to finally have a friend my age!"

The pretty she-cat called Goldenpaw steps forward. "Bravepaw, I agree with Tansypaw. It's not like she's going to kill us all in our sleep!" The gray she-cat called Soulpaw tenses.

"I think Bravepaw's right." A timid voice whispers. I look towards the voice and find that it came from Soulpaw. Bravepaw nods at her.

Four warriors- I caught that in some cats' speech- entered the den. One had brown fur and had spots in his green eyes. Another had a eerie shade of blue as her fur color, and amber orbs that caught the light. Then there was a smoky-kind-of-gray she-cat with chilling blue eyes, and a brown tom with gray eyes. Tansypaw leaps up.

"OH, these are our mentors. Serpenteye is the one with odd eyes, no offense, and is Bravepaw's mentor, then the blue one is Poolfoot, Soulpaw's mentor, then the smoky gray she-cat with awesome eyes is my mentor, Ravenleap, and the brown one with gray eyes is Hickorynose, Goldenpaw's mentor. So yeah!" Tansypaw grins happily, and I can't help but smile back.

Then another warrior enters the den. He was light brown with green eyes, and his fur was very... well, there was a lot, especially around the nape of his neck.

"Hello, Infinitypaw. My name is Shrewfur, and I will be your mentor. I'm sorry you won't be receiving a proper ceremony. Now, let's go and find out what you know, because you are currently a moon behind the other apprentices, even though you are the same age. And let's not forget that you don't know the territory, even though you have been living in it for one moon. I will have to teach you everything about the entire way we live here, four clans by the lake. I will have to teach you some history, because it is very important how we got here. I will have to teach you the warrior code, though all apprentices learn that. And, on top of all of that, hunting and battle training.

"So, Infinitypaw, let's get moving, because this is going to be a long five moons of your apprenticeship, and we still have to get through moon one, which is going to be the hardest with you."

I follow Shrewfur, feeling my ears burn with humiliation. He had just told all my fellow apprentices that I'm stupid, compared to them. My muscles ache with exhaustion. I had been moving all day, and yet again, I would be having to move. I need to pay attention, and if I learn everything quickly, I will be on the same level as Aspenstar's kits.

Aspenstar. Why did she stammer and stop when she was saying that I wasn't a kittypet? Did she know someone who had kits, and maybe I was one?

My thinking was cut off when Shrewfur sat down by a clump of ferns and stared over to me.

"You have absolutely no muscle, which will be hard to work with. I actually thought you'd have some, living alone for a moon. Tell me, what did you eat?"

I gulped. I could immediately tell that this mentor would be unsympathetic towards me. I didn't know if I liked that or not.

"I ate whatever I could find. I stole freshly caught birds that were buried under some dirt. They were easy to smell out, actually."

Shrewfur looked surprised. "Okay, your smelling is good." He pauses. "How did you avoid other cats so well?"

"Wait!" I blurt out. "How did you know I avoided other cats well? And earlier, how did you know I was living here for one moon?"

Shrewfur gives the weakest hint of a smile. "We've been tracking you. And I have to say, that was some good work, avoiding that dog. He was vicious!"

Anger burns through me like a wildfire. "You saw me getting chased by a dog and you didn't help me?"

"That is correct." Shrewfur responds. I hold in a growl.

"So, Infinitypaw, I think that we will start with hunting today."

And we did. I actually caught a mouse, and I saw pride in Shrewfur's expression. Maybe I could break through his tough shell and get him to open up to me.

Once we were back at camp, I shared a vole with Tansypaw and headed to the Apprentice's den. I had much to learn, but I would learn fast.

Geez. I didn't know how much really happened until I thought about it.

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