A couple moons had passed and hazelpaw was learning all sorts of things, she had learned fighting moves, hunting teqniques, how to make a trap. All the things a normal apprentice would learn.
She hadn't gone to the last gathering for her protection, but she was due to go the next time which made her happy. There were four new apprentices now. Mintpaw, fleckpaw, mistypaw, and spotpaw had become apprentices a two amd a half moons ago and the apprentice den was now squishy. "ugg move over mistypaw!"spotpaw complained.
"i can't stupid!"she hissed.
"well this is just dandy,"mintpaw meowed sarcastically.
"shut up im sleeping!"jewelpaw hissed.
"no you're not!"fleckpaw meowed stubbornly.
"shut up, i am so sleeping,"jewelpaw meowed.
It could be worse though the older apprentices just finished training and had taken on warrior names.
Bittenpaw became bittenpelt, frecklepaw became frecklecloud, Rascalpaw was Rascalscar, specklepaw to specklenose, rumblepaw finally became Rumbleclaw.
Frecklecloud had become a friend of hazelpaw's in the past moon she had been in treeclan although she was a medicine cat.
"now hazelpaw,"tigerpelt meowed pulling her from her thoughts, attack me."
She look swiftly at him the raced at him dodging to the right then leaping over tigerpelt brining her sheathed paws to his side and wapping him.
She then jumped back one fox-length then wemt to jump on his shoulders. Tigerpelt easily went to flip but hazelpaw jumped up landing on tigerpelts' soft stomach she hit him a few more times with her sheathed paws.
He turned and knocked her over."good job,"he meowed."you used you wits and small figure to beat me but you could improve on you jumps."
"my jumps are fine,"she insisted.
She jumped to leap over his head and he snatched her tail with his claw and flicked her back.
"ouch!"she meowed."why'd you do that?"
"because i can,"he meowed."now we are practising the snake killing teqnique because Pebblestep has seen a deadly cottonmouth snake."
"yes tigerpelt,"she meowed.
"now first you never try to approach a snake it is faster than a rabbit when it tries to bite you,"he neowed."but if you see one and it is too close for comfort just pounce and slice.
He demonstrated the move and then backed away."now you try,"
"okay,"she meowed.
She pounced and cut into the ground.
"great almost perfect!"he meowed.
"T-thanks,"she meowed exhausted after her day of training.
"let's get back now,"he meowed.
She nodded in agreement and followed the tom.
Ruturning to camp she took place beside fernpaw and jewelpaw.
"hey so what are we doing today?"hazelpaw asked.
Jewelpaw didn't answer but instead had a large smile on her face.
"well i was thinking me and you,"fernpaw started."could go to the midnight meadow."
Hazelpaw stopped and thought, he wanted to go out to the midnight meadow?
She had been so oblivious that he liked her. She was confused, she liked tigerheart but she now felt a sensastion swoop through her. Was it love? A crush? Or something else?
"yes i'd love to,"she meowed.
He sighed in relief."for a minute i thought you were going to say no!"
"oh fernpaw,"she sighed."so jewelpaw what will you be doing?"
"oh just hanging out with specklenose,"she meowed.
"well have fun,"hazelpaw meowed.
"always do,"she meowed purring.
Jewelpaw scrambled off to see specklenose while hazelpaw and fernpaw left for the midnight meadow.
Hazelpaw gazed back towards camp catching tigerpelt's gaze before she was out of his sight.
