Warrior Cats: Icetail's Enemy (COMPLETED ✔️)

Chapter Fourteen

Edited ✔️

Brightstar growled to Icepaw. "No, you're doing it all wrong!" his mentor scolded, padding up with her tail lashing.

The two were having their third training session—and from all those other private sessions, Icepaw learned that Brightstar was a tough mentor. He wished more than ever now that he still had Ashtail, even though Brightstar was the leader of MoonClan. Why did she push him this hard? Is this how her other apprentices were treated before him?

Icepaw nodded to his mentor and dipped his head. "I'm sorry, Brightstar." He looked back up to her, hoping she wasn't that mad. She always seemed to be angry at Icepaw.

"This is a very hard move, I know," meowed Brightstar with her powerful voice, "but if you don't know this move you will have a disadvantage in battle. No cat will get up and let you try it again, Icepaw." She looked impaitent with him. "Do it again."

"But I did it countless times!" Icepaw groaned, walking up slowly to the middle of the clearing. "Why do you push me so hard even though it takes days to learn something like this? I'm just an apprentice."

Brightstar's eyes blazed. "Don't talk back to me," she growled, glaring at him. "And I don't care whether you are an apprentice or not. I don't care how many moons you are or how small you can be, but I will push you as far as I need you to go to see when you will break."

Icepaw's jaws opened to respond, but he shut them again. Why was Ashtail the only normal mentor I've ever had? he wondered with annoyance.

"Now do it again," she ordered, stepping out of the way.

Icepaw sighed, and stood in the middle of the clearing. Brightstar nodded, a signal to begin, and he positioned himself. He hoped he did it right, or else Brightstar would stop him again and make him do it all over again. He crouched down, and then leaped high, flicking his hind legs into the air, and spun so he would land onto his forepaws. He reared up to Brightstar, pretending to rake her on the back, and then sprung to face her, but stumbled back on his paws.

Brightstar darted from her position, pinning down Icepaw with her forepaws onto his shoulders. He hissed at her, and grabbed her around her neck with both of his paws, pulling her close so he could nip on her nose, but already, she nipped his ear that was torn, making him yowl out in pain. She let him go, and he stumbled up, panting and shocked at her surprise attack.

Brightstar nodded to Icepaw and sat down, wrapping her tail neatly around her paws. "If you had done it right I would of not hurt you." Her eyes gleamed with satisfaction. "Perhaps you'll do better next time?"

"I'm trying!" growled Icepaw, getting up. He winced when his ear started to sting. He decided to ignore it. "Are you gonna make me do it again?"

Brightstar's ears twitched. "Yes. This time I will defend myself."

"But I didn't even get the move right," insisted Icepaw, looking into her blue eyes. Icepaw immediately realized that she was growing in gray fur. He wondered how old she was, or how many lives she had left.

"Well, the harder it gets, the more you practice, the easier you get it." Brightstar stood up, stretching her muscles. "Come on, go ahead."

He shook the sudden thought from his head. "Alright, Brightstar," Icepaw said with a groan.

She will push me to my limits, thought Icepaw, until I break. I need a counter attack. He looked around the surrounding, and saw the branches that hung over them from the lower trees. Nobody had ever used these branches before . . . but an idea came to his mind.

"Ready?" she asked, getting into position. Icepaw nodded and got into position as well, making sure his tail was close to his body. "Go!"

Icepaw leaped as soon as the word spit out, and sprung off his forepaws, flicking his hind legs in the sky again. He came back down, raking her back with sheathed claws, and she spun, hitting him in the face with a front paw blow. It hurt! He collapsed on the ground, and she charged at him, spitting with rage. Icepaw's eyes widened, as he quickly scrambled up.