The Mountins (Jayfeather/Half Moon)

Prologue

This chapter is a review of when talon and night came to ask the clans for help, all the other chapters will be in Jaypaws and Halfmoons POV, and won't follow the book so closly.

"And you three can come out now." Squirrelflight rose to her paws and stared straight at the holly Bush him and his siblings were hiding in, spying on them.

"Fox dung." Hollypaw mutterd. "We'll end up searching the elders for ticks instead of going to the mountains."

"Come on," Squirrelflight repeated." If you don't want to be seen, Lionpaw, don't leave your tail sticking out."

As Lionpaw climbed out, Jaypaw could feel the embarrassment coming off him.

"Mouse-brain." Hollypaw hissed as she followed him with Jaypaw.

"You shouldn't have been spying," Squirrelflight mewed severely when the three apprentice were standing in front of her. "Cats who listen uninvited might here things they don't want to."

"But we had to listen!" Lionpaw burst out. "We want to go with you!"

Squirrelflight's green eyes stretched wide in astonishment, while Brambleclaw's neck fur was fluffing up ominously. But to Lionpaw's relief Firestar blinked in amusement

"Don't be angry with them," he told Squirrelflight. "They remind me of a certain ginger apprentice who also insisted on going on a journey when she hadn't been invited."

Squirrelflight huffed, making her whiskers flutter, and gave a single lash of her tail.

"Why do you want to go?" Firestar prompted.

Lionpaw was opening his jaws to reply when hollypaw gave him a nudge. "We want to help the tribe cats, too," she announced. "Lionpaw and I are good fighters, and Jaypaw ....
well, Jaypaw can heal cats that are injured."

"Thanks a bunch." Jaypaw muttered.

"Jaypaw can do more that that." Leafpool  meowed calmly. Jaypaw jumped as if he was surprised to find the medicine cat on his side.
"For what it's worth," Leafpool went on, " I think they should be allowed to go, when we lived in the forest,  all the apprentices made the journey to Mothermouth, to visit the Moonstone,  before they became warriors. We seem to have left that tradition behind, but I think there's value in apprentices making a long journey, to see what lies beyond their territories."

"I agree with Leafpool," Sandstorm mewed. "There's nothing to be lost in meeting other cats abs seeing how they live." Her gaze held Firestar's for a moment as if she and the Clan leader were sharing memories.

"Brambleclaw, what do you think?" Firestar asked. "They'll be an extra responsibility, and it could be very tough for them. A long, hard journey, and fighting at the end of it."

"I'm sure my kits could manage it." There was a glow of approval in Brambleclaw's amber eyes as his gaze swept over the three apprentices. "I'd be proud to take them to meet the Tribe of Rushing Water. "