"Identify yourself tresspaser,"a cat hissed.
Honeypaw didn't speak she was trying to free herself from the trap.
"its no use trying to escape,"the cat hissed again.
"well i can at least try!"honeypaw hissed clawing at the thick trap.
"you're a funny she-cat,"the cat, now identified as a young tom meowed."whats your name? Mine is tigerpelt."
"honeypaw,"she meowed."now let me go!"
"ahh so you are the future medicine cat of leafclan."tigerpelt meowed.
"yes it's so exciting,"honeypaw meowed sarcastically.
"ahh so you don't enjoy the choosing of starclan thing eh?"tigerpelt meowed.
"too obvious?"honeypaw meowed getting a good look at tigerpelt.
He was a brown tabby with cool blue eyes, honeypaw never believed in true love until she saw him.
"well sandstars mother left your clan when she was young,"tigerpelt meowed his blue eyes softening.
"yes i heard about that,"honeypaw meowed.
"well i got to bring you to camp now,"tigerpelt meowed.
Honeypaw was lifted by tigerpelt and brought further into treeclan territory.
"hey tigerpelt!"a brown she-cat called.
"hey flowerpelt!"he called to her.
"what did you catch? A cat?"she mewed jokingly.
"actually yes, he meowed, a leafclan she-cat."
"woah, well see you soon i have to go out on patrol,"flowerpelt exclaimed.
Honeypaw noticed the admiration in flowerpelts' eyes when she spoke to him. She was in love with tigerpelt also, and she was a warrior not a queen.
"maybe treeclan isn't so bad,"she thought.
After a few moments honeypaw began to scent other cats.
"we are almost here,"tigerpelt meowed.
"i was kind of thinking,"honeypaw tested.
"about what?"tigerpelt asked absently.
"i want to join treeclan as a warrior apprentice!"honeypaw blurted.
"you'd have to tell that to sandstar,"tigerpelt meowed.
Honeypaw gave a weak nod.
"sandstar,tigerpelt greeted his leader, i have caught a leafclan apprentice in one of our traps."
"what is your name little one?"sandstar asked.
"honeypaw,"she meowed.
"hmm,sandstar said thoughtfully, i suppose you are medicine cat apprentice."
"yes,honeypaw meowed, but i have decided to leave my clan to join yours, i do not want to train as a medicine cat but as a warrior."
"well if you do wish to join treeclan you will be kept under watch till we are positive on where your loyalties lie,"sandstar meowed.
"i understand,"honeypaw meowed,"i still want to join your clan sandstar."
"then i will hold your ceremony as a warrior apprentice tommorrow at sunhigh it is late you shall get some rest, but first...."sandstar meowed.
He briskly grabbed a leaf with his teeth and tugged pulling apart the trap.
"thank you sandstar,"honeypaw meowed bowing slightly.
"it was no problem,"sandstar meowed."now tigerpelt will show you your temporary nest."
Tigerpelt nodded."come with me honeypaw."
Honeypaw padded along following tigerpelt to a sheltered den with a stale leafclan scent in it.
"here is your shelter for now," he meowed.
"thank you,"she meowed gazing at him.
"see you in a minute i'm going to fetch you food,"tigerpelt meowed.
Tigerpelt walked off without another word.
Honeypaw watched out the entrance of the den looking at cats walking into camp and out of camp.
Three small kits tumbled out of the nursery. One was sand colored, the other orange and white, the last was pure white.
"sandkit get back here!"the kits' mother meowed.
"you too brightkit and snowkit!"
They were sandstars' kits.
Tigerpelt stalked back into her den and dropped a mouse at her paws.
"um...thanks tigerpelt,"honeypaw meowed.
"uh yea no problem,"tigerpelt meowed gruffly.
"so i'll see you tommorrow i guess,"honeypaw meowed.
"yes, i got to get on sun down patrol,"he meowed and turned to leave.
"you know you are my first friend other than my sister,"honeypaw meowed.
He turned back and gazed at her with warm eyes."your my first friend other than flowerpelt, he meowed, certain cats don't trust me..."
"why?"she meowed.
"my mother and father were rogues and killed, oceanstar, the last leader of treeclan, he admitted, i was taken in by the clan after my mother had died from the battle wounds; my father fled but they say that he'll come back."
"that's horrible!"she squeaked.
"yes but i have lived every day trying to make myself different than my mother and father,"he meowed.
He turned and left the den honeypaw curled into a tight ball and slowly fell asleep.
"will my mom miss me?"she wondered."will cinderpaw or stripepaw miss me?"
She fell unconcious into a deep sleep.
