Chapter one
Reedkit bounced around happily as his mother flattened the fur on his head. "Reedkit, if you don't settle down, you will never become an apprentice!" His mother Mistyfoot meowed tiredly. Reedkit and his two litter mates, leafkit and patchkit, were finally six moons old and it was almost time for their naming ceremony.
"All cats old enough to catch their own prey gather around the high rock for a clan meeting!" Riverclan's leader Crookedstar meowed from the head of the highrock. Reedkit, leafkit, and patchkit squealed as they shuffled one by one out of the nursery. Mistyfoot padded to sit in the front of the
Clan with reedkits father whiteclaw.
"It has been six moons now since Mistyfoot kitted. The time has come for the naming ceremony of her 3 kits." Stonestar signaled the three kits to the high rock with the flick of his tail. Reedkit led the way as him and his two other siblings climbed up the rocks leading to the high rock. "Patchkit, leafkit, and Reedkit. do you promise to uphold the warrior code as an apprentice?" Crookedstar meowed. "I do." Whispered the three kits. "Then by the powers granted to me by starclan, I give you your new names, patchpaw, leafpaw, and reedpaw." "Leafpaw! Patchpaw! Reedpaw!" The clan chanted. . Crookedstar flicked his tail to silence the clan. "Blackclaw, you are a young warrior and you have proven your loyalty to riverclan. I have chosen you to mentor patchpaw. I expect you to pass on the skills you have learned to her. ." Blackclaw made his way over to patchpaw and touched his nose to her small wet muzzle. "Leopardfur, you are an experienced senior warrior who has served riverclan well. I know you will pass on your skills to your new apprentice." Stonestar smiled as leopardfur ran her tail over leafpaws flank. Crookedstar beckoned reedkit closer to him. "shadepelt, you are one of my senior warriors and I believe that you can handle another apprentice. I expect you to pass on the skills that I taught you to reedpaw." Shadepelt padded over and pressed her nose into reedpaws muzzle. Reedpaw looked up into his mentors shining blue eyes and purred loudly. Stonestar pounced down from the high rock. "The three new apprentices shall sit vigil tonight. This clan meeting is over."
Chapter 2
"What can we do first! How about we go catch some prey or we could spy on shadowclan."reedpaw bounced excitedly around shadepelt. "Right now, I am going to take you and your sisters out to show you the borders and territory," shadepelt purred as she led reedpaw out through the camp to the river. Leopardfur followed close behind with leafpaw on her heals. Blackclaw and patchpaw were already ahead of reedpaw, sniffing around the wet rocks.
"Alright reedpaw, what do you smell?" Shadepelt meowed after they had crossed the shallow river. reedpaw lifted his nose and sniffed the air. "I smell water vole, and fish." he licked his lips hungrily. "And something that smells bad!" Shadepelt let out a
Mrow of laughter. "that's thunderclan. See those rocks right there?" she flicked her tail to 4 big rocks leaning against each other. "those are sunningrocks. Thunderclan and riverclan are always battling for ownership of them, but for now, thunderclan use them." Shadepelt winked at reedpaw. she continued walking up the side of the river. "our border is on this side of the river. We have this little strip of forest right here, but the rest is thunderclan territory." Reedpaw felt pawsteps crushing leaves. "Shadepelt I hear something!" he unsheathed his claws and pounced as a couple of cats padded out of the bushes.
"Get of of me you wet fleabag!" the large striped brown cat hissed. he quickly shook reedpaw of his back and reared backward. the brown tom glared at reedpaw. "Shadepelt! is this your apprentice?" shadepelts cheeks turned pink as she grabbed reedpaw by the scruff and pulled him back on riverclan land. "Darkstripe, settle down, this cat looks about six moons old. He didn't know any better," a white tom meowed to the brown tom. shadepelt touched he nose to the white cats ear. "whitestorm I greatly apologize for my apprentice. Reedpaw was just apprenticed last night. He doesn't know clan scents yet." The brown cat stalked away from whitestorm. "No worries shadepelt. did you say reedpaw? as in Mistyfoots kit?" whitestorm asked. shadepelt nodded. "Tell Mistyfoot congratulations for me, will you? she's such a noble cat." Whitestorm turned and padded after the angry brown cat. "reedpaw! what were you thinking?" shadepelt cuffed him over the ear. "That's thunderclan. Your lucky whitestorm was the patrol leader. If he wasn't there, you would have been shredded by darkstripe." Reedpaw looked at his paws. "Sorry shadepelt. I just thought they were intruders. I didn't want you to get hurt." shadepelt's eyes softened. "Let's go back to camp. I bet your starving by now.
Chapter 3
"Reedpaw, go take those fish to the elders." Shadepelt meowed while sharing tongues with silverstream. Reedpaw clamped three fish in his mouth and headed toward the elders den. "Ah, a kit. What can we help you with?" Graypool twitched her ears in annoyance. "i am no kit! I'm reedpaw. I was coming to bring you fresh kill." he hissed proudly. Loudbelly licked his chest uncomfortably. "Well bring it here. We don't have all day now do we?"graypool stretched her back and snatched the fish from reedpaw.
"Graypool was so ungrateful when I brought her fish! she called me a kit! I'll let leafpaw bring fresh kill to the elders next time" reedpaw flicked his tail in anger. mistyfoot licked the top of his head. "she's old, reedpaw. she's very lonely nowadays. She may have bad memory, but she is your kin. She is a wonderful mother to me and stonefut and was a noble warrior." reedpaw remembered what the white thunderclan cat said about his mother. "Today when we were looking at the clan borders, a thunderclan warrior said you were noble. if Graypool is noble and your noble, does that mean ill be noble?" Mistyfoot's eyes sparkled with love. "Your blood doesn't make you noble. You choose to be noble or you choose to be unfaithful to riverclan."
