A/N: Finally! Chapter 10 for our little story! As promised this is a Rabbitkit chapter! And yay! My little girl finally gets her apprentice name in the book :D

I would like to thank the following for reviewing:

winxclubfan1- thanks!

Silver wolf rain- aww, that stinks... I ride horses too! We have the best place to ride here, miles and miles of trails... you could get lost on them and go for several days!

Wishheart01- ikr? they are so cute! Same with me!

XxSilverslashxX- not a fan of gerbils? Impossible! XP My Flicka is so fat and cute... everybody loves the little rat with the fuzzy tail! Thanks!

Dragonflywing- a dog would be nice ;) I like the little ones with the mustaches myself...

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Stormfeather of LakeClan- same here. A falcon would be awesome!

Chapter Ten: Sixth Moon

"FieldClan has three kits who have reached their sixth moon. Patchkit, Clawkit, and Cherrykit will now be known as Patchpaw, Clawpaw, and Cherrypaw respectively. Sunflight will be Clawpaw's mentor and I hope that he teaches his apprentice kindness. Daisyrain will mentor Patchkit and I hope she teaches him her fighting skills, and Emeraldshadow will mentor Cherrypaw, I hope she passes on her eagerness and skill," Lionstar smiled, "That is all for FieldClan."

"Thank you," Blizzardstar swished her tail, "ForestClan also has kits that have reached their sixth moon. Rabbitkit and Snowkit, please come forward."

Finally!

Rabbitkit turned to Goldenpaw, "Now we'll be back in the same den!"

"Yeah," he smiled, "Well, you better hurry."

"Oh, right!" Rabbitkit realized that Snowkit had already taken his place before Blizzardstar.

"Rabbitkit," Blizzardstar's eyes betrayed her irritation, "Please."

Rabbitkit scampered up to her brother's side, shamefully looking at her paws.

"As I said, these two kits have reached their sixth moon and it is time for them to become apprentices of ForestClan. Snowkit, from now on until you receive your warrior name you shall be known as Snowpaw," she said the words slowly so that the deaf kit could pick up on them, "Your mentor will be Dovetalon. Dovetalon, I hope you pass on your skills in battle to this young cat," her gaze now moved from Snowpaw to Rabbitkit, "Rabbitkit. You have also reached your sixth moon as your brother has and will be known as Rabbitpaw. Ravenheart was my own apprentice and he will mentor you. Ravenheart, I expect you to teach Rabbitpaw well. Teach her patience and courage."

Rabbitpaw bounced over to Ravenheart and the tom licked her shoulder, as was custom.

"Don't worry, you'll do fine," he purred.

Rabbitpaw jumped back, baring her teeth at her attacker. In a swift motion she darted a paw forward and caught her opponent on the cheek. The opponent attempted to catch her paw as she drew it away but missed by a large margin.

"Okay, that's good for today. You're fast for one so inexperienced," Ravenheart sat down, licking one paw.

Rabbitpaw narrowed her eyes, "I'm not inexperienced! I've been practicing!"

Ravenheart snorted.

"Fine then, be that way!" she stalked off.

"Oh, Rabbitpaw, you need to take care of Moonfall!" her mentor's green eyes twinkled.

Great. She had to take care of the only elder! Not that she had any idea why the elder decided to join the clan… Moonfall never exactly helped out, the least she could do was keep her nest clean instead of troubling her!

Rabbitpaw leaped up the column of stone, her paws finding little hold in the rock. She hoisted herself onto the path and into the elder's den.

"When are you ever going to learn to use the path instead of off-roading it half the time?" Goldenpaw purred, "By the way, if you came to take care of Moonfall it's already been done. I did it."

"Oh, good," she sighed in relief, "Anyways, going a different way is fun! It's like an adventure out into the unknown."

"You're… strange."

"Yeah, oh well. Would you like to go hunting?" Rabbitpaw asked.

"Sure!" Goldenpaw leaped down the path, this time she followed him down the right way.

Both apprentices crouched down, scouring the area for possible certain someone's who would try to stop them. Sunpaw and Bonepaw were the only cats in the clearing, finishing up a freshly caught squirrel.

"Would you like to get Sunpaw and Bonepaw?" Goldenpaw whispered.

Rabbitpaw pushed away a disappointed feeling and nodded, trotting over to the two older apprentices.

"Do you guys want to go hunting?" she asked, her voice hushed.

A small smile formed over Sunpaw's muzzle, "You mean… just apprentices? Without our mentors knowing?"

Rabbitpaw gave a quick nod of her head.

"Of course, Goldenpaw's coming to?" the bright ginger tabby asked.

Rabbitpaw nodded again.

"Then let's go," Bonepaw purred, racing into the shrubs with Sunpaw at his heels.

Goldenpaw raced after them and after a moment- with another quick glance around the clearing- Rabbitpaw followed.

"Did you guys hear about the younger warriors sneaking out?" Sunpaw asked, her green eyes narrowing playfully.

"What? Who?" Goldenpaw asked.

"Well," Sunpaw broke off for a moment to leap over a fallen tree, "Stormdance, Ravenheart, Wolfshadow, and Hazelblossom were apparently out one night a while ago for a long time. I didn't hear much, but I know mom was mad. Oh! And talk about Forestpath, he looked like he would tear out Wolfshadow's throat in a moment! And Ravenheart had some nasty looking scratches."

"Where did they go?" Rabbitpaw asked quietly.

"Don't know. But I think out of the territory. Something to do with Nadia and Nimble maybe?" Sunpaw dropped down into a hunter's crouch and sprung forward, disappearing into the brush.

"Hey! Maybe we could save Nimble!" Rabbitpaw puffed out her chest proudly.

Goldenpaw and Bonepaw both turned a blank stare on her.

"You've got to be kidding. You must've seen Ravenheart's wounds. If he has wounds then they must've had some sort of confrontation and found it impossible to save Nimble. Do you think two half-trained apprentices and two newbies could defeat them?" Bonepaw growled.

"Bonepaw's right," a voice behind Rabbitpaw caused her spin around.

"Ravenheart! Err, we were just hunting!" Rabbitpaw stuttered.

"Maybe trying to hunt some rogues, I see? Come with me. The rest of you better be back in the camp in five seconds or your mentors will surely hear about this- if they haven't noticed already," Ravenheart padded off without waiting to see if Rabbitpaw would follow him.

Rabbitpaw shrugged, defeated, and followed him.

Once to a more secluded spot Ravenheart spun around on her, pinning her down with one paw.

"Okay, get up," he commanded.

"I-I can't, your pinning me down."

Ravenheart's eyes narrowed, "Sad. You can't even get out of a basic pinning move. And you think that you're ready to take on anything in the world."

"I can fight! I wouldn't allow them to pin me in the first place!" Rabbitpaw protested.

Ravenheart removed his paw, "You know; you are quite foolish. It's a good thing Blizzardstar gave you to me to watch out for you."

"I don't need anyone to watch out for me!"

"We were all defeated by one cat, Rabbitpaw. One cat. And he was smarter than all of us combined together. He preyed on our weaknesses and knew our strengths. You need to stop being so foolish and wake up, Rabbitpaw; a creature with a hundred times less his strength and smarts would make a meal of you in no time."

That made Rabbitpaw immediately somber up.

"Come on, we can patrol the border," Ravenheart licked a stray tuff of fur down on top of her head.

It was all quiet other than the breeze gently ruffling the leaves overhead. Rabbitpaw noticed Ravenheart limping but the black pelted warrior immediately corrected himself.

"Why don't you go check over there?" Ravenheart asked; his voice thinly laced with pain.

"O-okay," Rabbitpaw trotted away and scented the border, remarked it, and then turned around to return.

She was almost about to re-announce her presence and step towards he mentor's side when a dark gray and black tabby emerged from the bushes opposite of her. Ravenheart's mint green eyes flared open and his claws sunk into the ground.

"You scared me," he plastered down his pelt, but his claws remained unsheathed.

The rogue glanced down at Ravenheart's claws for a moment, "I'm not going to hurt you; you know that, right? I probably want Nimble out of there more than you even do."

Ravenheart pinned back his ears, "I wouldn't be entirely sure of that. So this is your way of contacting me?"

"Yes," the rogue's tongue flicked out of his mouth as he calmly licked his paw, "Is there anybody around here?"

Ravenheart paused mid-nod, "Rabbitpaw!" He spun around, frowning as she guiltily exited the bushes, "How much of that did you hear?"

"Not- much. Maybe… all of it?" she ducked her head, embarrassed to be caught eavesdropping.

Ravenheart sighed, "Well, I guess you get to hear more of it then. Rabbitpaw, let me introduce you to Akain. Akain, this is my apprentice, Rabbitpaw."

A/N: Okay, that's it for this week! Have fun, eat ice cream, and hug Rabbitpaw to death ;)

Chapter Question: If you were to give Akain a warrior name what would it be?

A) Swiftfang

B) Stormstripe

C) Iceblaze

D) (random warrior name)

Until next time,

Willow