Chapter 5
*3 moons passed*
Dawn felt a prod in her side and she moaned.
"Get up lazy!" She heard Owl purr.
Dawn opened one and with a small smirk. She slapped him with her tail and rolled over.
"Alright, you miss your ceremony." Owl mewed and Dawn was up like a flash.
"That's today!?" She mewed with worry. Smoky tumbled over and giggled.
"Smoky!" Dawn mewed and picked up the kit and walked over to Snow who was rounding up the other kits.
"Mom, Smoky got away." She mewed and yawned. Storm and Dapple were running around and Snow was trying to get them, with no luck.
"Smoky come here please." Snow mewed and looked up and gasped. "You're a mess!" snow mewed and sighed as Dapple scampered over her paw.
"Guys!" Dawn snarled and they all stopped. "Listen to mom!" She yelled and they nodded. '
No need to yell.' Smoky said in her mind. 'Shut it.' She hissed back.
"Alright. Today is your sisters ceremony so please cooperate. I don't want to bring your dad in here." Snow mewed and they sighed. Dusk padded in and noticed they were all sitting in attention.
"Dawn yell at them?"
"Yeah."
"Didn't want to make me come in here?"
"Yes..."
"Alright."
Dusk padded over to Dawn and started grooming her. "You're going to be an excellent Trainee. I already know it." He mewed. Dawn purred then heard RuneStar.
"RuneClan gather for a meeting!" RuneStar yowled and Dawn padded out with Owl and Dust. They sat in the front as the clan gathered behind.
"Today 3 kits become Trainees. It would have been 4 but 3 moons ago we lost Smoke to a monster, the monster she became." RuneStar said and looked around. "Dawn, Owl, and Dust, come up." He mewed and they padded up. Rush padded over with a leaf of the red berry juice. "Do you promise to stay loyal to RuneClan. Respect the Runeclan ways, and never disrespect or betray RuneClan?" RuneStar mewed an chis gaze seemed to rest on Owl and Dust. Flickering between the two of them.
"I do." Owl said, his voice strong.
"I do." Dust mewed.
"I do." Dawn mewed and RuneStar nodded. "You are now Trainee's of RuneClan."
Rush beckoned his trainee, Honey, and she dabbed her paw in and placed it where their dots were, as if to grow the kit paw.
"Owl, your mentor is Dusk. Dawn your mentor is Runner. Dust, your mentor is Red." RuneStar mewed. "Dismissed!"
Dawn, Owl, and Dust leapt down to greet their mentors. They rubbed noses then the Trainees put their heads down and the Mentors licked their head. "We start training tomorrow at dawn." Dusk mewed and the warriors padded off.
"We're Trainees!" Owl mewed jumping about and Dawn giggled. "I can't wait for to-"
"We found a cat! It's not one of the RogueClan cats, this cat is from far away!" Silver yowled running through the entrance.
Flame and Grass padded in the a cat stretched across their back. Owl, Dust, and Dawn were over there.
"There are more but we could only grab this one." Silver mewed.
"Where?"
"By the river."
"Thorn, Red, Ginger, Oak, Pine, Night, Stone, Twig, Mud, and Cloud, lets get the rest!" Dusk yowled and the cats ran out of the entrance.
"I'm guessing the extra's are for if Smoke attacks." Owl mewed.
"Maybe, but why would a cat come all this way?" Dust mewed.
Dawn crept closer to the cat. 'He looks familiar...' She thought then the cat opened his eyes. One green, one hazel and they widened seeing Dawn. She gasped and took a step back. "It can't be..." She whispered and Owl and Dust padded next to her.
"What is it?" Flame mewed.
"Dawnkit... I found you..." The tom mewed and Owl looked at Dawn and she was crying. She ran over and nuzzled the tom and he smiled.
"Who is this tom? How do you know him?" Grass mewed stomping her paw to the ground. Dawn looked up with a smile. "He's my dad."