A.N.: I'm glad everyone is excited for this story. To the reader SparrowBruh, yes that is a great question and I was actually going to address it in this chapter! Hope you guys like it! Leave some feedback, I always love seeing that! ~12HockeyChick21


P.O.V. Of Moonshadow

Moonshadow padded out of the warriors' den to go get his apprentice. He was completely excited for his first day out with Softpaw, yet he had no idea what it was he had to do. He sat down for a second to try and remember back to his first day as an apprentice. Luckily he was saved as a familiar cat approached.

"Hey Moonshadow, where's your apprentice?" Fuzzytail emerged from the warriors' den himself with a teasing smile on his face.

"Oh, hello Fuzzytail I was just-"

"Trying to figure out what to do?" Fuzzytail replied before Moonshadow could finish. The younger tom ducked his head embarrassedly.

"Yeah..." He admitted.

"We have to show them the territory. Remember?" Fuzzytail purred.

"Oh! Right..." Moonshadow sat up again, looking at his old mentor. "C-can we go as a group?"

"Together? Of course. And I also wanted to take along one of the newest warriors so they could talk to Sootpaw and Softpaw about their experiences since I was never an apprentice and you are apparently too old to remember a thing."

"Hey, I remember some stuff..." Moonshadow laughed.

"Fuzzytail! Moonshadow!" Sootpaw and Softpaw came running from their den.

"Flypaw and Branchpaw were already gone when we woke up." Softpaw meowed.

"Do we get to do anything exciting?" Sootpaw bounced around.

"We're going to show you the territories first and foremost." Fuzzytail told them. "Just give me a moment."

Fuzzytail disappeared back into the warriors' den and reemerged a few moments later with Sorrelbriar and Mistdrop.

"Stonetooth just got off dawn patrol, so we're going to let him sleep, but Sorrelbriar and Mistdrop are going to come with us to tell you all about their apprenticehood." Fuzzytail told the two young cats.

"Awesome! How long have you guys been warriors?" Sootpaw asked.

"About six moons." Mistdrop replied.

"Ready to go?" Fuzzytail asked. The cats all nodded and the group headed out.


"So this here is the LightClan border with ThunderClan. I assume you all heard the LightClan story as kits from the elders." Fuzzytail meowed to the apprentices. Softpaw seemed to want to stay really close to Moonshadow, while her brother was excitedly trying to lead the way.

"Yes! Leafpool used to be ThunderClan's medicine cat and has a really strong connection with StarClan. Light, the first leader of LightClan came to her and told her all about the band of rogue cats that were LightClan's ancestors." Sootpaw mewed.

"Our mother Jaysong being one of those cats and also a descendant of Leafpool because our mother's mother is Leafpool's daughter." Softpaw put in.

"Yes, my sister Hollyleaf was a ThunderClan cat once too." Moonshadow meowed.

"Yeah, so Leafpool and her mate Spiderstar and their kits Dustcloud, Larchbreeze and Stormheart went off to find the cats and the bad cat Dark was the leader so you all had a battle. You were there, weren't you Fuzzytail?" Sootpaw asked his mentor excitedly. Fuzzytail nodded.

"Yes, I was part of the first ambush group that was led by Spiderstar and also had the current deputy Fallen Leaves in it."

"And my mother and father Ripplesplash and Owleyes." Mistdrop smiled.

"And your father Whitehawk was part of the second group." Moonshadow put in.

"Cool..." Softpaw mewed quietly.

"Now come on, we'll show you where the battle took place." Fuzzytail meowed, motioning for the apprentices to follow. Softpaw actually broke away from Moonshadow's side to follow her brother with a bit more enthusiasm as before. Even Mistdrop hurried ahead, so Moonshadow fell back with Sorrelbriar, who had been quiet the whole time.

"You alright?" Moonshadow asked. Sorrelbriar sighed, but nodded.

"Yeah, it's just... watching Sootpaw and Softpaw this young and excited reminds me of the day Splotchface and Brookwater took my brother and I out for our first glance around the territory. Sootpaw is so much like Firepaw was..." Sorrelbriar's tail fell and she dragged it in the dirt slightly as they walked a few foxlengths behind the rest of them. Moonshadow nodded understandingly and put his tail tip on her shoulder comfortingly. Moonshadow remembered her brother Firepaw. He was very energetic like Sootpaw, that was until he convinced his sister to go out of camp with her at night and the two had been playing on the halfbridge and Firepaw had fallen off and drown in the lake. Their father Pinefall had found his body on the shores a bit farther away the next day.

"I'm sorry..."

"Don't be. Maybe this is why Fuzzytail wanted me to come. You think I should tell them the story?" She asked, looking up into Moonshadow's eyes. Moonshadow stared into her forest green eyes and shrugged.

"Maybe... just don't scare him too badly." Moonshadow laughed a bit to try and lighten the mood. It seemed to work a bit, because Sorrelbriar smiled.

"Alright, let's hurry." And she padded a little faster to catch up.

"Come on Moonshadow!" He heard Softpaw call. He chuckled and hurried himself.


P.O.V. Of Otterstrike

"Look what I caught Otterstrike!" His friend Spottedfern appeared with a squirrel.

"Awesome job sis!" Redsplash said from beside Otterstrike.

"Hey where are Feathermist and Clearwhisker?" Otterstrike asked.

"Here we are." Clearwhisker's muffled voice came and he and his sister appeared, both with prey of their own.

"I'm still so amazed that you can do all this. You're like the best warrior I know..." Spottedfern grinned once she put her squirrel down. Clearwhisker smiled and put his finch down.

"I was taught by my mother's mother, your mother Otterstrike, Leafpool. She has a son in ThunderClan, the medicine cat Jayfeather who's blind as well. Well Jayfeather had tried to train as a warrior with a ThunderClan warrior named Brightheart who'd been in an accident when she was younger that made her lose one of her eyes, but she was still a warrior for a really long time. I was Leafpool's last apprentice before she retired, but she taught me everything I know. That and I met Jayfeather at a Gathering and he helped me some too."

"So how do you do it?" Redsplash asked.

"Leafpool taught me how to feel every movement with my paws. She showed me that all my other senses are heightened since I don't have my sight. I can hear the prey moving in the grass and I've been in battles a few times where I can feel, hear, and even smell the enemies coming at me. As you know Otterstrike, your mother was Jayfeather's mentor as a medicine cat, but then when ThunderClan found out she was Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Hollyleaf's mother, she was demoted to being a warrior. She had to learn how to be a warrior all by herself, so I think she was a great mentor." Clearwhisker explained.

"Well I think it's really cool." Otterstrike smiled.

"Yeah, I'm really proud of him." Feathermist flicked her brother's ear with her tail.

"I really should go see Leafpool and my father." Clearwhisker meowed. His father Adderstrike had once been clan deputy, but had been made to retire due to an immune system problem.

"Let me know when you do, I'll come with you." Otterstrike told him. His friend nodded.

"Oh, do you know who's going to the Gathering tonight, Otterstrike?" Spottedfern asked.

"Why would I know?"

"Your father is the clan leader! You could totally ask him."

"You'd be more lucky asking Moonshadow to get you in if that's what you want." Otterstrike sighed, a slight growl in his tone. Spottedfern seemed kind of taken aback.

"Ohhh here we go." Redsplash sighed.

"Excuse me?" Otterstrike glared.

"Otterstrike, we all know you have daddy and brother issues. So Spiderstar gave Moonshadow an apprentice before you, get over it."

"Redsplash-" Spottedfern tried to speak but Otterstrike didn't let her finish.

"How dare you?!" Otterstrike spat, his tail lashing from side to side.

"Oh what? Did I hurt your little feelings like Daddy did?" Redsplash meowed.

"Oh that is it!" Otterstrike yowled, throwing himself at the calico tom.

"OTTERSTRIKE NO!" he heard Spottedfern shriek, but he and Redsplash tussled in a pile of hissing fur for a few seconds before Otterstrike felt himself being pulled off the smaller tom.

"Stop it! Stop it right now!" Clearwhisker tossed Otterstrike to the dirt, his white fur covered in dust himself. Otterstrike glared up at the cats surrounding him.

"Whatever." He spat, then got to his paws and raced off.