So There

Nightfall of Star-Crossed Lovers

Songpaw's POV

"Nervous? I wish I was becoming a warrior today!"

Spiderpaw leaped around me in excitement, but I was too terrified to respond. I was actually going to become a warrior that was supposed to fight and kill. Back in ThunderClan, the warriors insisted that I become a medicine cat apprentice. They thought that since I wouldn't have a tom's kits and be terrible at fighting, it'd be the perfect role for me. But I wanted to fall in love, I really did. Even if it wasn't with a tom.

Stormbright knew about how scared I was, and she didn't care. Instead, she constantly obsessed about reuniting with her sister and the Clan that I didn't miss.

Spiderpaw joined us in the final assessment to become warriors, and Stormbright explained our final assessment: a three-part assessment involving swimming across the river and back, a two-on-two fight, and catching one rabbit in the outskirts of WindClan thanks to one WindClan tom.

"Who?" Volepaw hissed unexpectedly. "Who was the WindClan tom?"

"Does it matter?" Stormbright sounded suspicious, and Volepaw looked terrified. Did this tom hurt her?

"She knows something!" Volepaw snarled.

"Knows what?" I whispered.

"Stop!" Sweetcloud finally snapped. "Quit accusing Stormbright."

The mentors split us into pairs: Brownpaw and Spiderpaw, Redpaw and Flypaw, and Volepaw and me. My heart raced knowing that the mentors personally thought that we were best for each other.

"Try not to get in my way." Volepaw growled, still upset about the tom.

"I wouldn't dream of it." I purred, leaning against her. I scolded myself for being so forward, but then Volepaw calmed down and softly blinked at me.

When we got to the river, it was clear that Stormbright was bitter towards all of us; especially me. I was used to getting the rotten treatment, but why was she being rude towards the rest of us? She taunted Redpaw all the time, and now she was scaring Flypaw and Volepaw about some tom.

I couldn't let that distract me, not when I knew that's exactly what she wanted. When I leaped into the raging river, it knocked me off my paws and sent me spiraling underwater. I blindly kicked and clawed for air when I felt someone lift me up by the scruff.

Volepaw placed my paws back on the ground underwater, still holding onto my scruff. I looked ahead and saw Flypaw and Redpaw doing the same thing and smirked at how clever Volepaw was.

We even beat Brownpaw and Spiderpaw in the race to catch fish in the river. Unfortunately, that also meant that we had to fight Redpaw and Flypaw. I got anxious at the thought of Volepaw and her brother fighting, so I leaped at Flypaw at the first chance.

That didn't work out. As soon as Flypaw violently shook me off his back, he leaped at his sister and I panicked, going limp as Redpaw tackled me. Volepaw saw what I was doing and went completely limp in Flypaw's paws.

"Thanks for helping me avoid confrontation with my brother during our final assessment." Volepaw whispered. "Now we can kick tail with those two softies."

Brownpaw and Spiderpaw ran towards us, expecting to win easily. But once Volepaw leaped at Brownpaw, he shrieked like a little kit and fell over. Spiderpaw tried to pull her off, but I swooped in and swatted my tail over her eyes...what? I hate fighting.

We defeated them in battle easily and took off to the WindClan outskirts.

"Listen, this is the most important part. We need to catch that rabbit before that gray tom gets there, he cannot see me!" Volepaw and I ran as fast as we could until I saw the tom approaching Redpaw and Flypaw. "Shit, he's already here! We need to hide!"