okay, so here is what is happening. My Google account has been hacked much to my displeasure, And i am currently using my phones hot spot to write this. So here we go!
Oh and i am moving in less than a month! i am so excited, but sad at the same time.
-DesertClan-
"All those who can bring down a coyote gather around the sandstone for a clan meeting!" Adderstars voice boomed throughout the camp.
Palmheart watched from the opening of the nursery with Streakkit batting at her chest fluff.
"Everyone, today is a day for joy! my kits are ready to take on the final assessment! if successful they will be warriors by moonhigh!" the long haired leader looked down upon his clan as they chanted the names of the leaders kits, and his deputy's kits.
"they will be accompanied by their mentors and the youngest warriors, may the winds guide you" the large tom called the meeting to a close and leaped off the rock.
"love, may i speak to you?" the grey tabby turned his head at his mates tired voice
"of course, i always have time for you and our kits" Adderstar purred affectionately.
"Actually, it is something that i must say to you in privacy." Streakkit looked saddend that her mother did not want her to be included,
the young kit sadly padded to play with Moorshadow's kits.
the leader guided his mate into his den. "Adderstar. I know." that took him off guard, nothing took him off guard. But when his mate
finds out that he kept an important secret from her. That made him scared beyond belief.
"A-About what?" he lowered himself to the ground, unable to fully stand under his mates hard gaze.
"Hawkkit. I know she is alive! why? why didn't you tell me what you knew when you found out?! i have been grieving all this time, and
you never once thought that this bit of information would console me? to give me back my strength?" his mate curled on the floor and
covered her face with her paws.
"love i-" the heartbroken queen hissed at him, the tom took a breath and curled around his mate gently.
"Love, The reason i didn't tell you is not because StarClan swore me into secrecy. Its because i know you Palmheart. I was your
apprentice. Once you found out, you would have taken off in any direction to go look for her and without a proper patrol and guidance,
the thought of losing you makes my entire being feel empty." the queen slightly moved her paw off her face. "what did starclan tell you-"
the two mates were interrupted by the deputy's ginger head poking in, "Sorry Adder, did i interrupt something?" the deputy teased.
The large tabby leader rolled his eyes "yes but whatever you have to say make it quick" the tabby lashed his tail.
"I get it you love your mate. But Streakkit is still in the nursery, give her a break!" the deputy purred and twitched his whiskers in amusement.
Palmhearts pelt became unbearably hot with embarrasment. "Sorry. Jokes aside, the assessment patrol is getting ready to go. its almost sundown, i thought you might like to wish them well on their journey." the leader mewed his reply, and the deputy left after giving the pair a teasing look.
"nice to see Sorrelcreek never outgrew his sense of humor." The dust brown queen grumbled to herself.
"He has his moments. Anyway, StarClan told me that that she needs to stay with this faraway clan until she is a warrior and is presented
with a choice of some sort. You have all the right in the world to be upset with me, but for now. until StarClan gives me the okay to send
that patrol. let us live in the now" he gave his mate a gentle lick on her head.
"sometimes the things you say must sound far better in your head. but okay. Let us wait" they both got up and bit their kits a good journey.
"We certainly did raise some good kits haven't we?" his mate leaned onto him and twined her tail with his. "We?" the she cat joked.
-Assessment patrol-
"so. who is going to lead?" Coyotepaw surprised everyone with his deep voice suddenly breaking the silence.
"Typically, when going into battle it is the brutes that lead. But since we need to track it first, Snakepaw and Cloudbreeze should lead."
The formation of the group switched as Coyotepaw, Sandtail, and Poppyfoot fell back to the rear of the group and Snakepaw and
Cloudbreeze headed to the front.
"lets see if you remember how to track Snakepaw" the tom focused his senses to the wind, to the south west of the territory near the oasis he scented a female coyote.
"Near the oasis of the dead. I smell a female coyote. We need to be even more cautious we don't know if she has pups with her."
Cloudbreeze gave him a look of pride, that was a rare thing throughout his apprenticeship.
the group snuck up on the coyote making sure to take advantage of the steady breeze. All of a sudden a second coyote popped its head out of a nearby bush. "oh no..." he heard his mentor whisper beside him. He heard about coyotes being hard even deadly to fight, but two? i can't even imagine. his mentor rests her tail on his shoulder to reassure him before he knew it, she sounded the battle call and the cats ran into battle.
As planned the brutes ran in first while the regular warriors fell in behind. Coyotepaw and i fought side by side against the smaller coyote. i was amazed by the strength behind his massive paws. The coyote staggered obviously not expecting a fight like this,. The grey tabby apprentice slipped
under the wild dog like creature and slashed at its belly. Snakepaw darted out and gripped the coyotes leg biting down hard and pulling back, the small
coyote yelped after its mother who fled the battle scene leaving her pup behind.
the coyote lost balance and fell to the ground before the assessment patrol came back and attacked the pup full force. The thing that made Snakepaws heart break was the fact that the pup was yelping for its mother, who was sadly not going to return.
"Enough! lets chase it off" Poppyfoot led the charge chasing the injured pup in the direction its mother fled. Once it ran far enough Antpaw yowled to the sky in victory the patrol
Returned to the camps, the mentors had their tails raised with pride. and the apprentices showing off their battle wounds. Although the fight had been bloody, they were all glad to have made it.
"All those old enough to run the desert fields gather beneath the sandstone for a clan meeting!" the pride in the leaders voice was prevalent.
"My clan. Tonight we gather to celebrate new courageous spirits into our ranks! who will speak for them?" he motioned with his tails for the mentors to step forward.
"we stand stand as witnesses to the courage of the souls before us" Cloudbreeze, Poppyfoot, Duskfall, Petalflight, and Sandtail all meowed in unison
"would you wield your claws in battle for them?"
"they are unsheathed and ready to meet the pelts of their foes"
"would you defend them if they were wounded in battle?"
"We stand ready at their backs, hoping the world may never overtake us"
"And after a battle would you share tongues with your clan-mates and tell them of their victory?"
with this last testimony from their mentors. They knew that their apprenticeship, was at an end.
"we would be the firsts to lead the battle patrol in a victory yowl, so that our ancestors may purr with pride at our victory"
Cloudbreeze's gaze landed on him, he stared in disbelief as she slowly blinked at him.
"with those words our ancestors have spoken. Coyotepaw come here" the leader jumps off the sandstone and rests his head on the younger toms head.
"From now on you will be known as Coyoteheart. May the desert winds and StarClan honor your loyalty and understanding outlook on life itself"
the young tom licked his leaders shoulder out of respect and fell back so Antpaw came forward as she was called.
"Antpaw, from this moment on you will be known as Antblaze. May the desert winds and StarClan honor your determination and fierocity in battle"
The ginger she-cat repeated the action her brother did previously and stepped back.
"Berrypaw, from this moment on you will be known as Berrypool. May the desert winds and StarClan honor your ability to calculate every opponent and the ability to take necessary caution in battle."
Finally it was Snakepaw's turn.
"Snakepaw my son, from now on you will be known as Snakegaze. May the desert winds honor your unmatched hunting skills and attention to detail."
The leader looked at his son with an immense amount of pride swimming in his amber eyes. The new warrior licked his father's shoulder out of the deepest respect he could give him.
"Ravenpaw, from now on you will be known as Ravenmoon. May the desert winds and StarClan honor your beauty and speed"
The black and grey she cat hesitated for a second before licking her father's shoulder as well.
'Weird. Maybe she is just nervous about being a new warrior?' Berrypool stared at her through narrowed eyes. Something wasn't right with that she cat, but he just couldn't figure out what it was.
"as tradition. these young warriors must stay in silent vigil and guard our camp until dawn"
The clan erupted into loud cheers.
"RAVENMOON,SNAKEGAZE, ANTBLAZE, COYOTEHEART, BERRYPOOL!"
Palmheart padded towards them as usual, Streakpaw was under his mothers paws.
"I am proud of you two. i just wish you sister was here to share this moment" his mother looked forlorn as she remembered his lost sister.
"Im sure she is proudly watching us from the sky mother" Ravenmoon purred comfortingly to their mother.
"Can you teach me how to fight coyotes now?" his youngest sister mewed excitedly, the pale kit dropped into a very lopsided hunters crouch.
"see? Pumastripe taught us this crouch! i have been practicing" the she kit pounced on her older brothers tail but was caught mid leap by the scruff.
After that was over we all sat by the entrances of camp and began the vigil. "Hawkkit or Hawkpaw, did you become a warrior too? if so i wonder what
your name would be..' he thought to himself.
-Ravenmoon-
'he knows. Berrypool is corrupted. He knows.' Sometimes i wish mist would leave me alone. After my sisters death, i started feeling an unknown
emotion. Regret? no, i don't regret anything. I trained too hard for all of this. Mist was a diligent teacher who just wants the clans to be pure again, no
more corruption.
Even if it involves the deaths of many. I am to be their savior, they just don't know it yet as i don't even quit grasp how i am to save them.
'rid the desert of Berrypool. he knows too much. He knows.' the dark she cat growled a little, 'knows what?' she calmly asked mist.
'knows to be suspicious of you. you must save him from corruption. Save him. Kill him.' i took a deep breath and kept my focus on my vigil.
'i will devise a plan soon. But you must help. I can not just do it how i killed my sister' She replied to the loathsome voice in her head.
'Fine. But only this last time, after this i will continue to only tell you who is corrupted.' she blinked slowly signaling to the wisp that had suddenly appeared that she understood.
'Berryspot will be saved..'
-Hawkpaw-
it has been four moons since i began my apprenticeship. It was a shock to me when Bramblestar announced that i would be doing my final assessment.
the boring part was that the final assessment was to see how much prey i could bring back before sundown.
'hunting isn't even a challenge, why would this be worthy of a warrior assessment? i should be fighting something not gathering more prey than we
need right now. what a waste.' she though angrily as she gave chase to a plump rabbit through the leaf-bare undergrowth.
the nights were getting colder and colder with each passing day. Finally she caught the rabbit and dragged her kill to where she buried her other prey stock pile.
'What will they even do once they exhaust all the prey sources around here? move territories again?'
As she was burying her rabbit, she felt like she was being watched, scenting the air she could only smell the rabbit that she just killed, a faraway thunder path, the horse-place, and dog.
she came to the realization that the dog smell was fresh and very close. She meekly and silently turned to her right, and there it was. A long furred
black and white dog that was not even two fox lengths away from her. The dog lunged at her, its fangs were bared. Showing displeasure in losing the rabbit
that i was also chasing.
I acted quickly. Since the dog was large i darted under its belly and clawed very deeply leaving its blood to coat her. The dog moved away quickly and
grabbed her by her back left leg and swung her around until it finally let go and i hit a tree. Shaking the snow off my pelt, i suddenly felt a stream of
strength course through me. Like a true brute of desert clan i charged at the dog and slashed at its eye until it Screamed and bit her left ear ripping off
a good chunk allowing a warm sensation of blood drip into her eye. At the sudden rage she felt grow inside her, she let out a yowl of anger that shook
the remaining leaves off a branch above her. The dog staggered back, all of a sudden unsure of its opponent. The dog shook it off, and lunged at her,
she dodged just in time as she jumped up a bit, she managed to slam the dogs head into the frozen ground leaving the dog in daze.
Acting quickly, she used a move that thorn had her perfect. She stood onto her hind legs and pushed her claws deep into the dogs eye sockets. Pretty
soon her paws were stained with the blood of the dog. With one flick of her paw she tore out the dogs eye.
The dog howled in pain and turned to run away after realizing its opponent was not worth it. Hawkpaw gave chase and gave it a good slash on its
flank.
the she- cat still had the feeling coursing through her and she attempted to wipe herself off in the snow.
"Hawkpaw, finally we found you. we were sent as soon as we heard howling are you alright? what happened?" Leafpool fretted over her like she was her daughter. She thought it was a bit odd that they would bring a medicine cat with them, but the apprentice didn't give it that much thought.
"As i was burying the rabbit that i just caught, into my stockpile. A dog was not even two fox lengths away and it decided to attack me. I gave it plenty of wounds to remember me. I guess it wasn't happy that i stole its rabbit." she coughed up black little spots onto the snow.
"Internal bleeding, we need to get her to my den immediately. Birchfall, Sparkpelt and Snowbush would you help carry some of the prey? we will come back for the rest of your stockpiles later" i leaned gently on the medicine cat. As we walked, the feeling was fading quickly and pain was immediately replacing it.
"nngh" The dark brown apprentice groaned as She felt her leg muscle twitch painfully.
"Alright we are here. Just lay down while i gather the poppy seed, sweet sedge, and moss. Alderheart. Make sure to keep her elevated. we don't want the blood to fill her lungs." Hawkpaws vision was becoming blurry. Shortly Leafpool returned with a large amount of cobwebs and moss.
"Jayfeather, just because i need you to keep busy. i need you to wrap the moss and cobwebs tightly around her belly and flanks to stop her bleeding temporarily. Hawkpaw, Eat these poppy seeds.' The apprentice didn't need to be told twice. Despite the pain she was in. She managed to Eat the two
black seeds, feeling most of the pain fade away the she cat was tired, "Hawkpaw i need you to stay awake." the older medicine cat pushed a sweet
smelling herb in front of her and assumed it was sweet sedge.
"Alright she is stable for now. Only StarClan can save her now" Jayfeather breathed deeply "we will have to keep her elevated ans kep a near constant watch of her." the three cats agreed and allowed Hawkpaw to finally rest.
-Hawkpaw's dream-
i dream of a open field. The hot ground underneath me does not faze me as it would any other cat.
'where am i' i thought to myself as i gazed around spotting the familiar terrain of DesertClan territory.
"Don't be afraid, i am one of your ancestors. I mean no harm to you, young brute."
A gray tom appeared out of the creosote bushes,
"I am Sootstar. i was leader many many many years before you were born.."
the grey tom mewed comfortingly to the perplexed apprentice.
"you are not destined to die today. i have been given permission to heal your wounds. But do not always expect us to do this." Before i could say anything the tom gently presses his nose against my underbelly before i finally wake up.
-Hawkpaw-
"Recieve her not as Hawkpaw, But as Hawkthorn. may StarClan receive her with grace." Bramblestar spoke the words to send my spirit to StarClan. Sorry to break his bubble, but not today.
For the scares she popped her head up and spoke "I'm not dead just yet Bramblestar."
-End of ch8-
If any of you can't tell. I am using the copy and paste thing in docs manager and im using my data since i no longer have internet as of right now until i move. i will post the updated allegiances later. Since my google account has been on the fritz i can't get into google docs so i would just have to type it all.