Okay new Chapter a lot sooner than I thought it would be but here it is

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In 5th place: Ravenstorm, Ravenlight, Ravenmist Ravenpelt Raventail

In 4th place: Ravenwind, Ravenheart, Ravenspirit, Ravenfoot

In 3rd place: Ravenclaw

In 2nd place: Ravenwing

In 1st place: Ravenfeather, Ravenflight

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Alright on with the Chapter.

Chapter 17

Firestorm looked at Sunpaw in concern and called her name softly. She snapped out of her daze and looked sadly up at Firestorm.

"Sunpaw are you alright? Do you need to see Fallowpelt?" he asked gently. She closed her eyes and shook her head slowly. Firestorm was about to ask her what was wrong, when Ravenpaw Runningstream, Dovefeather and Longclaw approached them.

"Congratulations to both of you," Runningstream meowed, Sunpaw meowed her thanks just as Redflower came up to lick her ears gently.

"I'm proud of you, follow Firestorm's instructions okay?" Sunpaw nodded to her mother. Redflower turned her sharp gaze onto Firestorm.

"You take care of her, you hear me? She's been through enough." Redflower murmured lowly. Firestorm nodded his head in understanding. With one last lick of Sunpaw's ears, she headed over to Sharppaw to congratulate him. Finchflight came up to Sunpaw and gave her a warm nuzzle purring gently to her.

'You'll do just fine." He murmured in her ears softly. She purred in response. Firestorm was pleased to see whatever had spooked Sunpaw, wasn't bothering her at the moment. He glanced over at the cat she was staring at and wondered what had freaked her out so much?

"Sunpaw, you go on to the apprentice den and pick your nest okay?" he told her gently. Sunpaw nodded and headed off for the apprentice den.

Once the clan's cries had died down Goldenstar spoke once more.

"As you can see Firestorm and SIlverwind were successful in finding WindClan, because of this we shall feast in their honor." Goldenstar spoke calmly. "They may have first pick from the fresh-kill pile."The Clan roared with excitement all the cats coming to congratulate them on their successful mission. Firestorm approached the fresh-kill pile and pulled out a bat and headed over to lie in front of the warrior's den, though he wasn't very hungry he was still worried for his new apprentice. Ravenpaw approached him suddenly looking around nervously.

"What's wrong Ravenpaw?" he asked with concern

"It's just, I was wondering how Scorchblaze and Graystripe are doing?" Ravenpaw asked softly, "I overheard Silverwind telling Smokecloud about what happened at the gorge."

"They were alright when I left them, physically at least." Firestorm explained, "Graystripe blames himself for not being able to grab that RiverClan warrior, before he fell into the gorge and Scorchblaze blames himself for suggesting we travel the way we went." Ravenpaw sighed sadly.

"I was worried about that, I hope they'll be okay by the next gathering." Ravenpaw murmured Firestorm agreed, nibbling at his bat. Ravenpaw had a sparrow clamped in his jaws and was eating it quickly. Firestorm decided to eat since he knew he would need his strength in the morning. After polishing off his bat and giving the wings to Fallowpelt, he made his way to the apprentice den, he called into the nest for Sunpaw. She came out moments later looking curiously at him.

"I want you ready to go by dawn, can you do that?"

"Yes I'll be ready," she meowed soflty. He purred to her and wished her a goodnight and let her get ready to sleep. He decided to question her tomorrow. With that thought in mind he headed into the warriors' den finding his nest and sleeping.

Firestorm awoke just before dawn and stretched carefully out of his nest. He padded out of the warrior's den taking in the early morning air. He bend down to wash himself quickly. He could see Mapletail, Oaktalon, Grayfeather and Sootpelt heading out for dawn patrol. He had just finished his wash when Icefeather emerged from the den and came straight toward him.

"Good morning Firestorm," she meowed softly. Firestorm returned the greeting just as warmly.

"Good morning Icefeather, Is there something you need?" he questioned

"No I just wanted to know if you wanted to explore the territory with Leafpaw and me, I know you and Sunpaw were probably going to do the same thing so I was wondering if you wanted to go together." Icefeather inquired. Firestorm thought about it for a moment. He had planned to question Sunpaw's reaction to last night's ceremony. He knew that exploring the territory would be the best opportunity, However he didn't have a good enough excuse to explain why he didn't want to go with Icefeather.

"Okay that should be fine. Should we ask Stonetooth to see if he wants to come along?" Firestorm asked her, Icefeather shook her head.

"No, I already asked him, he says he wants to start training Sharppaw now." Firestorm blinked in surprise.

"But, Sharppaw hasn't been out of the territory before today." He pointed out. "Why wouldn't he want to show Sharppaw around?" Icefeather could only shrug.

"Should we get them now and let them eat? Or should we just head out?" Firestorm thought for a moment.

"We should just head out, they'll probably be too excited to eat anyway" Firestorm pointed out. "Besides we could just catch something later." Icefeather meowed her agreement.

They walked over to the apprentice den. Ravenpaw was outside the nest grooming himself as they approached.

"Ravenpaw could you fetch Sunpaw and Leafpaw for us?" he asked the black apprentice. Ravenpaw nodded before disappearing into the den. Moments later Leafpaw came scrambling out of the den, with Sunpaw moving much slower. Firestorm looked on in concern, he could tell that Sunpaw must not have slept well last night and wondered what had upset her so much?

"Sunpaw are you alright?" he meowed gently. She turned her sky blue gaze on him, nodding slowly.

"Yes I'm okay, I didn't get enough sleep last night." She meowed quietly, she must have seen the concern on Firestorm's face because she quickly added that it was due to her own excitement. Firestorm didn't believe her, but felt this was not the time to pry any further. Icefeather looked at her curiously and gave Firestorm a questioning look.

"She's tired from a lack of sleep, she says she was too excited to sleep." Icefeather seemed to accept the answer, for she gave her own apprentice a scolding look.

"I want you sleeping when you're supposed to sleep understood?" she meowed. Leafpaw nodded and meowed in agreement. Firestorm regarded Sunpaw carefully. He could see she was tired, but she was sturdy on her paws from what he could see.

"Do you need to rest? Maybe you shouldn't explore the territory today." Sunpaw shook her head.

"I'll be alright," she told him. Firestorm looks her over once more and sighs, he decides to let her come along. Icefeather led the way to the tunnel, with Leafpaw trailing after her. Firestorm followed and Sunpaw brought up the rear.

Once they were outside the territory, Sunpaw seemed to get more excited. Her eyes were glowing as she looked around. Firestorm kept a close eye on her as Icefeather started toward the Bat Hollow tree. As they walked Leafpaw was asking lots of questions. Mainly about how big was their territory, and who they shared borders with. The forest was covered in leaves. It was currently Leaf-fall so the forest was covered in reddish-brown leaves. Leafpaw looked at them in surprise.

"I always wondered why my mother chose to name me Leafkit, when I look nothing like a leaf," she thought allowed. Icefeather mrrowed in amusement. Leafpaw batted at some of the leaves that fell from passing trees. Sunpaw looked around nervously, but she too found amusement in crushing the leaves between her toes.

"Will we be catching birds today?" Leafpaw asked as she looked around. Icefeather shook her head.

"No, just exploring territory, will work on that tomorrow," she told her.

Before long they had reached the Bat Hollow it seemed empty and lifeless. Firestorm thought about what Goldenstar had told him about the Bat Hollow.

"This is the B-"Firestorm was cut off surprisingly by Sunpaw.

"Bat Hollow," spoke Sunpaw, Icefeather looked at her curiously, while Leafpaw was distracted by the Bat Hollow tree. Firestorm was shocked the young kit recogonized the Bat Hollow, despite never seeing it.

"That's correct, it houses bats during the Newleaf and Greenleaf seasons," Firestorm spoke, "They send Leaf-fall and Leaf-bare elsewhere so it's unlikely will see any until Newleaf."

"They're not bad to eat though," Icefeather pointed out.

"Let's get going, we have much more to see," Firestorm called as he headed in the direction of the Sun Rock. Firestorm saw a strange wooden nest clinging to the sides of trees, he remembered that his own Twolegs would hang these strange nests off of trees in his garden. He knew birds liked to live in them during Leaf-bare. His twolegs also liked to put seeds, nuts and berries in other twoleg things and hang them off of trees so birds could eat them. He saw one of those bird feeding things closer to the twolegplace.

"What are those?" Leafpaw asked in fascination of the strange nest she was looking at.

"Twoleg's set it up, it's for birds to nest in during Leaf-bare." Firestorm meowed softly.

"Is it a trap of some kind? Should we destroy it?" She asked glaring at the strange nest.

"No, they're useful, since those nest appeared in our territory more birds have stayed around during Leaf-bare, there are also these strange feeding things that twolegs put out for birds to eat from. Both of these twoleg things keep more birds around during Leaf-bare, so we eat well, a lot of birds will leave the forest come Leaf-bare so we'll need every bird we can find." Icefeather explained Leafpaw's eyes widened in surprise and she looked at the nest with a new light. Firestorm was surprised by this information, Goldenstar had once pointed out one of these strange nests, but she hadn't explained as thourghly as Icefeather had. 'Maybe she thought I already knew about it.' Firestorm realized with a jolt. 'Of course since I was a kittypet, she probably thought I knew its use and why the Clan didn't mind them being in their territory.' Firestorm knew there were four other nesting boxes close by and maybe three other feeding nests nearby.

"Those feeding nests will be the best spots for hunting during Leaf-bare." She explained, "Birds will gather around there get fat from the seeds, nuts and berries."

"What birds stay during Leaf-bare?" asked Sunpaw

"Wrens, robins, woodpeckers, jays, jackdaws, sparrows, goldcrests, firecrests, a few doves, chaffinches, crows, bullfinch and blackbirds."

"We wouldn't be able to catch nightingales, nightjars, redstarts, sedge warblers, flycatchers, swallows, swifts, wood warblers and hobbies, again until Greenleaf." Icefeather told them.

"Though there will be some birds that will come to the forest only during leaf-bare." Firestorm pointed out. "Like bramblings, there will be plenty of them during Leaf-bare."

They continued moving through the forest, and came upon a familiar clearing. Firestorm headed toward the proud standing rock, in the center. Leafpaw and Sandpaw looked on in excitement.

"This is the Sun Rock," Firestorm meowed as he leaped to the top of the rock in a single bound. "This is where we come to warm up or relax when on patrol or taking a break from hunting." Icestorm came to sit underneath the rock, in the cave-like opening. Leafpaw crawled under to join her. Sunpaw looked up at Firestorm, who invited her up with a flick of his tail. Sunpaw scrambled up to join him on the rock. Firestorm could feel the sun warming his pelt and could feel the same energy he felt from the first time he stood on the Sun Rock. Having Sunpaw standing beside him made him reminisce on his first time exploring the forest with Goldenstar.

"I think we should move on now, "Icefeather called up after coming out from beneath the rock. Leafpaw reluctantly followed her. Firestorm nodded and looked at Sunpaw who seemed reluctant to leave as well.

"We'll have other times to go to the Sun Rock, we have much more territory to show you." Firestorm told her, Sunpaw nodded and jumped down and Firestorm leaped down after her.

They continued onward and before long they reached the Sand Shore. The river was flowing steadily splashing against the bank. Icefeather lead them to a spot to lay down on.

"This is the Sand Shore, this is a good spot to find ducks and herons to catch for prey, it's also a nice place to share prey and just relax, similar to the Sun Rock." Icefeather explained

"We also have fought with RiverClan for moons over this territory, because it is a prime area for fishing." Firestorm added. "Take a deep breath see if you can scent RiverClan," Leafpaw and Sunpaw began to breathe deeply, taking in all the scents around the forest.

"I can smell cats and a yucky fishy odor," Leafpaw meowed as she looked around.

"Me too," meowed Sunpaw softly, Firestorm nodded

"Is the scent fresh or older?"

"Older, a patrol hasn't been there yet." meowed Sunpaw, Firestorm gave her an approving look.

"Well done, your right the patrol hasn't been here yet." Meowed Icefeather. Leafpaw and Sunpaw seemed to glow under the praise of their mentors. Firestorm stood suddenly and started into the forest. Sunpaw stood to follow him, but he stopped her with the flick of his tail.

"I think we should rest for a moment, I'll catch us some fresh-kill," he reassured them. Firestorm turned into the forest. He sniffed around for a moment, his ears twitching back and forth. Suddenly he saw a quail and a pounce later and he had it in his jaws. He buried the quail, and sniffed around for more prey. He climbed the nearest tree, he caught sight of a woodpecker on the branch below him. He judged the leap from the branch below him to his branch and noticed that the woodpecker in the path of the leap. He slowly he balanced himself down on the limb and leaped down catching it in his teeth and landing on the lower branch. He lowered the woodpecker to the ground. He then made his way over to some nearby branches. He sniffed around once more and caught the scent of a robin. He waited patiently and slowly the bird came out, and Firestorm pounced onto the bird. Firestorm carried his catches back to the Sand Shore. Leafpaw excitedly picked up the robin, Icefeather blinked gratefully then picked up the woodpecker. Firestorm carried the quail over to Sunpaw and together they pulled the feathers off and shared the prey. Once they had finished they rose from the Sand Shore and continued onward, toward the ThunderClan border.

Firestorm leaped over the other side of the creek and waited patiently beside Icefeather for the apprentices to leap across the rocks to the other side. Icefeather started to lead the way to the ThunderClan border. As the border came into view, Firestorm saw Sunpaw stop suddenly. Firestorm looked over at Sunpaw and saw that she was trembling, with a haunted look in her eyes. Firestorm immediately came to her side.

"Are you alright?" he asked, she looked at him with pain filled eyes shaking her head slowly. Firestorm turned and called out to Icefeather.

" Icefeather go on ahead, Sunpaw's not feeling well, I'm going to take her back to camp." Called Firestorm, Icefeather looked on with a worried expression.

"Is she alright?" she called,

"I think she'll be okay but I'm going to take her back the camp." Firestorm called back. Icefeather nodded her head and continued on with Leafpaw excitedly trailing behind Icefeather. Firestorm nudged Sunpaw gently and started to lead her back toward the camp.

As they grew closer to the camp, Sunpaw changed direction and raced off into the forest. Firestorm called for her and raced after her. He caught up with her not far from the Sun Rock.

"Where are you going?" he asked her after catching his breath. She looked around and looked up into the trees. As Firestorm looked into her eyes he noticed that she seemed to be struggling with something, but seemed to steel her resolve as she met his eyes.

"Can we talk? A way from camp?" she asked softly. Firestorm looked confused but nodded slowly.

"Yes we can, we're close to the Sun Rock we can talk there." He told her. He started leading the way to the Sun Rock. Once they had reached the rock, Sunpaw went beneath the rock, Firestorm sighed and followed her beneath the Sun Rock. He saw that Sunpaw looked extremely nervous and he touched her shoulder gently with his tail.

"It's okay you can tell me anything," Firestorm reassured her. Sunpaw nodded sadly, taking a deep breath and looked up into his eyes.

"Do you know the story about my brother Flamekit?" Firestorm nodded looking sympathetically at her,

"Yes I do, he was killed by a fox, Longclaw told me." Sunpaw winced a little when he said it.

"Well it's not entirely true," Sunpaw meowed softly. Firestorm looked curiously at her.

"What do you mean?" Sunpaw looked sadly into his eyes.

"I was with him the day he died."

Okay I'm leaving it here, to torture folks but I'm sure everyone can guess what happened and if you are totally stumped well…

You'll have to wait for the next chapter. I know it's kind of short but it is here.

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