Warriors: The Next Prophecy

Chapter 3

     Starpaw's chest swelled up with pride as he faced his mother.

"Congratulations, Sapphirepaw and Starpaw!" Emberflame congratulated them.

Bramblejaw then lead Starpaw out the bramble wall and into the forest.

"Whoa, I didn't know the forest was this big!" Starpaw exclaimed.

"The forest goes even farther than you could possibly travel," Bramblejaw said, "The four clans, Fireclan, Boulderclan, Waterclan, and Lifeclan all live in a forest with a river going right through the middle."

They then headed a different direction, towards a crashing sound. It was faint but Starpaw still heard it.

As they were walking, Starpaw spotted a squirrel racing through the undergrowth. It then stopped and started eating a beech nut it had found. Bramblejaw turned to him, "think you can catch it?" he whispered.

"I'll try," Starpaw replied. Dropping into what he thought was a hunters crouch, he crept forward.

Starpaw had watched the apprentices doing different crouches as they showed one another when he was a kit.

He remembered seeing Nutpaw lift her tail and pad soundlessly, while creeping up on a leaf.

Starpaw then did what he remembered, stalking up on his prey. Starpaw was now a pounce length and he knew he could get it. Bunching all his muscles, he pounced, pinning the squirrel down and nipping it's neck so it hang lifelessly in his jaws.

"Well done Starpaw!" Bramblejaw said, "that squirrel's almost the size of you!"

Once again Starpaw's chest swelled up with pride.

"This is how you hide prey so no predators get it and you can pick it up later," Bramblejaw then dug a hole, and placed the fresh kill inside. Bramblejaw then recovered the hole and stuck a leaf in it staining upwards so they new where it was.

'' lets be on our way," Starpaw's mentor mowed. Bramblejaw then led Starkit to a fast flooding river.

He smelled the bank, "what was that smell? It smells like cat, but fishier."

"That's the smell of Waterclan, they fish with their paws and love to swim," Bramblejaw said.

"That's weird, why would any cat want to get their paws wet just for fish, surely they could hunt on land, right?"

"I don't know, its how its been for generations to come," He replied, "come on its 'bout time we head back."

Starpaw noticed the sun dipping down below a hill on a Moreland behind Fireclan's territory.

Retrieving his squirrel, Starpaw made his way towards camp behind his mentor.

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