Chapter One - Becoming an apprentice

"Wake up, Mosskit!" I blinked open my eyes to see dawn just entering the nursery.
"What is it, Rainkit?" I asked. I felt angry at my brother for waking me up.
"We're going to be apprentices today!"
I just remembered!
"I can't wait!" I squeled.
"Wh, What?" My other brother, Mudkit, yawned.
"We're going to be apprentices today!" Rainkit repeated.
"I completely forgot!" Mudkit yelped.
"We know." I told him.
"How?" Mudkit was obviously puzzled.
"You always forget things."
"Oh, right." He replied clumsily.
"What is?" Our mother, Spottedhead, questioned.
"Sorry we woke you up, Spottedhead." I told her.
"Well quiet down, before you wake the whole of Thunderclan up!" She joked,"Why don't you go and get some fresh kill. You need to be ready for your big day."
"Okay!" Mudkit said enthusiastically.
I crept outside of the nursery with my brothers. Other cats were begining to stir. I could see our father, Swiftpath, sitting at the fresh kill pile with a squirel clamped in his jaws. I grabbed a large mouse and sat down beside him.
"Are you exited about becoming an apprentice?" He asked.
"Of course!" I told him.
"May all cats old enough to hunt their own prey gather under the highledge for a meeting." Firestar's voice boomed through the stone hollow.
"Oh my Starclan! I am so exited!" Mudkit cried.
I padded forward to the clearing the cats had made. When most of the cats had gathered, Firestar spoke. He padded up to Rainkit and said:
"Rainkit, you have made it obvious that you want to the best warrior possible, and for that, the mentor best for you would be Lionblaze. From this day forth, you shall be known as Rainpaw."
Rainpaw half walked, half ran to where Lionblaze was standing. They touched noses and watched as Mudkit stepped forward.
"Mudkit, your mentor will be Berrynose. You shall now be known as Mudpaw." Mudpaw trotted over to his new mentor and touched noses with him.
I knew that I was next.
"Mosskit, you care for your clan, the mentor best for you would be Jayfeather. You shall no longer be Mosskit, but Mosspaw."
So that was it. I was suposed to be a medicine cat with a grumpy,blind, cat as a mentor. I glanced back at Firestar to check that he didn't say that I was really meant to be a warrior and that Poppyfrost would be my mentor. But he didn't. I eventually realised that almost the whole clan was watching me. I padded over to Jayfeather and regretfully touched noses with him.
Then Rosepaw started calling "Rainpaw, Mudpaw, Mosspaw! Rainpaw, Mudpaw, Mosspaw!" Then her brother, Toadpaw, joined in and then the whole clan did.

Chapter Two - Settling in

The sun was just dissapearing behind the hills and I was watching what was going on in camp.
Rosepaw was chatting with Mudpaw, Rainpaw was practicing a fighting move he had learnt with Toadpaw and Poppyfrost was chomping on a vole the evening patrol had caught.
I decided to go up to her and ask her for advice on me becoming a medicine cat.
"Poppyfrost! Poppyfrost!" I bounded over to where Poppyfrost was sitting.
"What is it, Mosspaw?" Poppyfrost asked.
"I wanted to ask you about me becoming a medicine cat. I wanted to be a warrior and have you as a mentor, but I became a medicine cat and got grumpy Jayfeather as a mentor. What do you think I should do?"
"Mosspaw, my advice is that you give it a go." Poppyfrost told me.
"Mosspaw! There you are! I have been looking for you everywhere! We need to practice the herbs."
"Coming, Jayfeather." I moaned.

Chapter Three - Longtail's long tale

It was about a moon since I became an apprentice and already I was sick and tired of learning the herbs, what they looked like, what they were for, what they helped.
"Arent you exited about your first gathering tonight?"
Mudpaw was bounding up to me from where I was sunning myself outside the medicine den.
"Of course." I told him, trying to sound like I was looking forward to the gathering but in vain.
"You don't sound very exited." Mudpaw said.
"Well I am." I snapped.
"Don't snap at your brother!"
Mousefur called from the halfrock where she was sitting with Longtail.
"If you don't have anything to do, why don't you come and change our bedding?" Longtail sympathyised.
"Oh, all right then." I agreed.
"Longtail, tell us a story!"
Mudpaw demanded.
"Ooh, yes!" Bumblepaw came over as well and sat down ready to listen.
Soon all of the apprentices, Rainpaw, Mudpaw, Bumblepaw, Briarpaw, Rosepaw, Toadpaw, Blossompaw and me, were sitting in a huddle around Longtail.
"What do you want me to tell you about?" Longtail asked.
"Tell us about a missing warrior!" Briarpaw requested.
"Please do!" Rainpaw agreed.
"Well, Okay. There was once a young apprentice. His name was Bramblepaw. When he was going to be made a warrior, he had to swear that he would put his clan first and fight at all costs to defend it. However he refused, for his mother was of Shadowclan and he would kill to save her. His mentor, Thornclaw, called him disloyal. Bramblepaw said that he hated the clans. Riverclan, Windclan, Shadowclan, and even Thunderclan. Then his father sent him out to the forest until he came to his sences and agreed to be a warrior. Right before sunset, he agreed to be a warrior. He was named Bramblenose, but he lied. The day after he was named he dissapeared. He had ran away. Some say he would return, but it has been many moons since then, and he still has not come back."
"Wow! That was an amazing story!" Briarpaw exclaimed.
"Yes, it was!" Mudpaw agreed.
"Is Bramblenose really real?" I wondered.
"Yes." Longtail replied calmly.
"He must be really brave!" Birchpaw replied.
I noticed out of the corner of my eye that Swiftpath was padding towards us.
"It's time to go to the gathering." He told us.
"Yay! I am really, really, really exited!" Mudpaw cried.
"Well hurry up, or you won't be able to go." Spottedhead had come over to join the conversation.

Chapter Four - My first gathering

As I was about to go and sit next to Thorntail, my half sister from Windclan, a young pale gray cat came over to me.
"I'm Petalpaw! Come and sit with us!" Petalpaw flicked her tail to where the other medicine cats were sitting.
I followed Petalpaw to sit in between her and Jayfeather.
"We have a new apprentice in Shadowclan. Olivepaw." Blackstar said.
"Newleaf has brought many rabbits to Windclans fresh kill pile." Onestar told us.
"Riverclan has an advantage of newleaf as well. One of our apprentices, Petalpaw, has found a supply of catmint." Leapordstar continued.
"We have three new apprentices in Thunderclan. Mosspaw, Rainpaw, and Mudpaw." Firestar reported.
"Is everyone finished?" Onestar asked.
"Yes." Leapordstar told him.
"All done." Blackstar agreed.
"Then this gathering is over." Firestar finished.
"Hey, Mosspaw, come over here!" Rainpaw called to me from where he was standing with my half brother, Icebreath.
" I made up this joke based on a real cat." Icebreath said."Why is your name Mosspaw?"
"Because your only worth moss!" Rainpaw cackled.
"Just leave me alone." I told them.
I was already depressed enough without Icebreath to annoy me. I really, really hated the Windclan warrior, however much we were related.

Chapter Five - My dreamy battle training

My eyes snapped open. I was standing in a familiar area, but I knew I had never been there before.
"Okay, now leap at me."
I realised that Lionblaze was standing in front of me, his front paws in the air, his hind legs on the ground.
I leaped at him, knocking him over.
"Good. Now try scraping at me."
I reached out my paws and slashed at his face.
I then realised that those weren't my paws, they were Rainpaw's!
I must be in the training hollow, doing Rainpaw's lesson!
"Well done! You will be a fantastic warrior!" Lionblaze exclaimed.
So this is what it feels like to be a warrior!
I must tell Jayfeather!
This has to be a message saying that I am meant to be a warrior!
"Mosspaw, I need you to go and collect some catmint!"
"What do you mean? Why would I need catmint for training?"
"Your a medicine cat! That's why!"
"Jayfeather?" I asked.
"Who else?" Jayfeather replied.
I remembered that I needed to tell Jayfeather that I had to be a warrior.
"But Jayfeather, I need to tell you something first!"
"Then tell me later." Jayfeather stalled.
"Okay, then." I agreed.
As I was out in the forest looking for catmint,I murmured to myself:
"I knew it! I knew that I wasn't supposed to be a stupid medicine cat! This is fantastic! This will be the last time I have to collect boring herbs!I can't wait to start warrior practice!"

Chapter Six - The Fox

I didn't notice the rustling of bushes or the quite growling.
Suddenly, a large fox jumped out of the bushes towards me. It jumped on top of me and as it was about to grab my neck in it's jaws, I wriggled out of between the foxes legs. I lashed at it's side and climbed on top of it, digging my claws into it's back. But the fox was smart. It rolled over and squashed me. I couldn't breath and as I was about to exept the fact that I was going to die, it leaped up. I wondered what had caused it to do that, and then I saw another cat.
At first I thought that it was Brambleclaw, Thunderclans deputy, But then I saw that they had a torn ear and a scar across their muzzle. This cat's fur was messy, as if they hadn't washed it for moons.
This was not a clan cat.
The cat lashed out at the foxes cheek, blood pouring from where he had scratched the fox.
I stood watching, trying to get my breath back, and then when I had, joined the fight.
The fox turned to me, and was about to take my pelt in it's jaws, when I jumped up onto it's head. I pressed my powerful hind legs into my eyes while the other cat raked it's sharp claws across the foxes neck.
The fox yelped with pain and limped as fast as it could away.
"Good work." The cat said to me.
"Thankyou. But, who are you?" I asked him.
"I'm Bramblenose! Who are you?"

Chapter Seven - Bramblenose

I was shocked. Bramblenose had sounded terrible in Longtail's story, but this Bramblenose seemed very well, different.
"I'm Mosspaw. But are you the Bramblenose that was a clan cat?" I asked him.
His eyes shone with pain. "How do you know about that?" He asked.
"Longtail told me." I replied.
"Yes. I am Bramblenose." Bramblenose told me.
"What is it like? I mean, being a rogue?" I asked him.
"Well, at first I couldn't live as well, not being with a whole clan of cats. But now I am used to it." He told me.
"I should thank you for helping me. I would probably be dead by now, if it wasn't for you being here." I suddenly realised.
"You shouldn't be here!" I warned."What are you doing here?"
Bramblenose looked guilty."I wanted to see how Thunderclan was getting on. I wanted to see what state the clan was in, which new kits had been born, which cats had died." He answered.
"You mean you wanted to spy?" I gasped.
"Not really spy, more of check up on. You won't tell will you?" He hoped.
"I owe you my life, so I won't." I agreed.
"So Mosspaw, are you a medicine cat, or a warrior?" Bramblenose questioned.
"Well, I'm a medicine cat, but last night I had a dream that I certain meant that I should be a warrior." I explained.
"Very interesting. Do you need any help finding herbs? I know where you can find loads!" Brablenose replied.
"Yes. I need catmint." I told him.
"Great. I'll show you where some is." He led me further into the undergrowth.

Chapter Eight - The tunnels

"Thanks, Bramblenose!" I thanked Bramblenose.
"Your welcome." He told me.
"I don't want this to be the only time I see you, ever." I told Bramblenose.
"We should meet somewhere. I know the perfect place Follow me!" Again, Bramblenose led me away.
I followed him to a small rabbit hole.
"So this is it? A rabbit den?" I asked.
"No! Come inside!" He scrambled into the hole.
As I wriggled inside after him, I realised that this was a long tunnel. I thought that this tunnel would go on forever, but then it opened into a huge cave.
"Wow! This is amazing! Look at this!" I padded over to the tiny river flowing through the middle of the cave. "And there are so many tunnels! For all we know, one might lead to Windclan territory! How did you find this?" I asked Bramblenose.
"When I was an apprentice, I was hunting a mouse, and I fell down into here." he told me.
"Wow! I'll meet you here every other night!" I told him.
"Okay! I'll see you tommorow!" He agreed.

Chapter Nine - Jayfeather's objection

"What took you so long, Mosspaw?" Jayfeather demanded.
"Sorry Jayfeather. I won't do it again." I apoligised.
"You'd better not." He said.
"Jayfeather, I have something important to tell you."
"What is it?" Jayfeather sounded worried.
"I had a dream last night. I was Rainpaw, in the training hollow. I was doing Rainpaw's lesson, Lionblaze said that I would be a fantastic warrior.I think that I am supposed to be a warrior." I explained.
"Mosspaw, I must tell you, many moons before you were born, I had a dream sent from Starclan. They said a kit by the name of Mosskit. They said that you would be a great medicine cat and that it is your destiny."
My heart sunk to the bottom of my paws.
"But..." I protested.
"I fell that the whole of Thunderclan will be affected by your choice, so you mustn't become a warrior."
"Jayfeather, I..."
"Not another word on this subject."

Chapter Ten - Medicine cats can't take mates?

I decided not to argue anymore. I padded out of the medicine den and over to the fresh kill pile. My paws ached to run back to the tunnels and see Bramblenose there, but I knew that he wouldn't be there.
"What are you thinking about?" Blossompaw was padding over from the apprentices den.
"Um, uh... you know that cat, Bramblenose, that Longtail told us about? I was wondering if he could cope out in the world on his own." I was glad I had made up that excuse.
"I'm sure that he would have found another lone she cat by now and had kits with her and started a family." She reasured me.
I hope not! I thought.
I remembered the way that Bramblenose had first looked at me, his eyes shining with kindness and affection.
I wondered if I would take any other cat as a mate. I couldn't think of any other cat that I could possibly love in Thunderclan.
I saw Hazeltail sitting beside the halfrock. I picked up a squirel and went over to her.
"Hazeltail?"
"Yes, Mosspaw?" She asked.
"Who do you think I should take as a mate? I don't know who, because there isn't really any cat I could love in Thunderclan."
"Wait, medicine cats can't take mates!" Hazeltail told me.
"They can't? I never knew that. Thats really unfair." I complained.
"Why do you care though? You don't seem to want to take a mate. Is there something your not telling me?" Hazeltail cautioned.
"No! Of course not!" I protested.
"All right then."

Chapter Eleven - First meeting at the tunnels

I was just entering the cave when a dark shape scared the life out of me.
"Mosspaw! You're here!"
"Bramblenose!" I exclaimed.
"I was thinking, we should pretend we have a secret clan."
"Okay! And Mosstar can sit here!" I jumped up to the highest perch in the cave.
"No! Bramblestar will sit there!"
"Mosstar!"
"Okay then, Mosstar. What shall we do first?"
"Name our clan!"
"How about ThornClan?"
"I love it!"
"And I will be deputy! I say that Thornclan will be better than any of the other silly clans!" Bramblenose declared.
"Bramblenose!" I gasped.
"I'm so sorry! I don't know what I was saying! I would never mean to tease you, or Thunderclan!" Bramblnose apoligised.
I pressed my muzzle against his cheek.
"Don't worry. I know that you never would." I told him, affection burning my pelt.
"I'm hungry. Shall we go hunt?" Bramblenose asked me.
"I don't know how to. I'm not going to be a warrior" I told him sadly.
"Sorry, I forgot. WAIT!"
"What?"
"I could teach you!" Bramblenose exclaimed.
"Great idea! Let's go start right NOW!" I agreed.

Chapter Twelve - Hunting practice

Once we had gotten out of the tunnels, Bramblenose looked up and asked me:
"Do you know any good hunting spots?"
"I think that my brothers said that this area was a good hunting spot." I told Bramblenose.
"Great! Let's get started. First, you drop into this crouch," Brambleclaw showed me a crouch that I had seen Mudpaw and Rainpaw do.
I crouched the same way as him.
"Good! Then, you need to bend your front and back legs, and waggle your hindquarters like this." Bramblenose explained.
I copied.
"Now, keep your tail flat. And..."
I waited.
"POUNCE!"
Brambleclaw pounced on me, and we play fighted like kits, still in the nursery.
"Now let me

try!" I told Bramblenose.
"Okay. Let's go look for prey." Bramblenose agreed.
I spotted a leaf rustling on the forest floor. I tasted the air for scent. Mouse.
I lowered myself into the hunters crouch, did everything that Bramblenose showed me, and pounced. The mouse scuttered away, but was too slow. I quickly inserted a nip to the mouse's neck, and it's squirming body went limp.
"Did you catch anything?" Bramblenose padded up to where I was standing.
"Yes, this mouse." I showed him the mouse.
"That's a nice, fat, mouse! Well done! Barely anyone

catches their prey first time. I see how you are meant to be a warrior." Bramblenose purred.
"Oh, um, there's something I need to tell you."
"What is it?" Bramblenose asked.
"Jayfeather won't let me be a warrior." I mewed quietly, sadness in my tone.
"Poor you! I would hate

it if that happened to me! I'm so sorry!" Bramblenose exclaimed.
I gave a mournful sigh and looked up at the stars, only to see the sun, just peeping it's head over the horizon.
"We'd better get going. Dawn is just about to come." I warned.
"Okay. I'll see you here tomorrow night then?" Bramblense asked.
"Okay." I began running back to camp.
I hope that no one saw I was gone!

I thought.

Chapter Thirteen - Collecting herbs

Once I had arrived back at camp, I curled up in my nest, and tried to get back to sleep.
"Mosspaw!"
I reopened my eyes.
"What should I do, Jayfeather?" I moaned.
"We are low on tansy and juniper berries. I need you to go get some." Jayfeather ordered.
"What? I only just got into my -" I broke off, as I realised that I was about to exclaim that I had only just gotten into my nest.
"You don't have

to collect herbs, unless you want to clean out the whole clan's bedding." Jayfeather replied.
"All right, then. I'll go collect boring

herbs." I mumbled.
As I left the medicine den, I saw a hunting patrol getting ready to leave.
"Hi, Mosspaw!" Blossompaw came bounding up to me.
"Hi, Blossompaw." I mumbled.
"Are you going to collect herbs?" Blossompaw asked.
"Yes." I replied.
"You can come with us!" Blossompaw decided, "You will, won't you?"
"I guess so."
"Come on, Blossompaw! We need to leave!" Graystripe called.
"Okay! Mosspaw's coming with us to collect herbs." Blossompaw replied.
"Alright." Graystripe agreed.

Once we reached a good hunting spot, the patrol stopped and went off looking for prey. I saw Blossompaw dropping into a I tried tasting the air to see what she was stalking. Rabbit. Blossompaw pounced, but it was a heartbeat too late, for the rabbit had hopped away. I leaped for it, and caught it easily. I gave a quick bite to it's neck, and the rabbit dropped dead from my jaws.
"WOW! That was amazing

!" Blossompaw cried, "I have never

caught a rabbit as fast as that!"
"I heard a cry, is everything okay?" Sorreltail came bounding out of the undergrowth.
"Yes! Look at the rabbit Mosspaw caught. It's absoloubtly huge

!" Blossompaw exclaimed.
"I see. It is quite big, isn't it?" Sorreltail agreed.
"Where did you get that rabbit from?" Graystripe asked, padding calmly out from the bushes.
"I caught it." I told him.
"Well done! It certainly is going to feed hungry mouths, isn't it?" Graystripe admired.
"I think we should head back to camp now, seeing as Graystripe, me, and Mosspaw have caught something." Sorreltail decided.
"Okay." Graystripe agreed.
As the patrol headed back toward camp, Blossompaw looked back, and called:
"Come on, Mosspaw!"
"I'll be with you in a heartbeat, just let me gather some herbs." I told her.
As I padded to a spot that Jayfeather had told me was good to collect tansy and juniper berries, I scented a familliar scent, yet it was not clan scent.
"Bramblenose!" I cried.
"I saw that you caught a big, fat, rabbit. You were fantastic!" Bramblenose bounded up to me.
"Yes. Do you think I did well?" I asked.
"No."
I was about to burst out saying that I thought that I did very well, when I saw mischeof glistening in Bramblenose's golden eyes.
"No." Bramblenose repeated, "I don't think you did well. I know

you did well."
"Thankyou." I thanked Bramblenose.
"You'd better go back to camp now."
"Okay."
I grabbed a clump of tansy and juniper berries, and left back to camp.
Bramblenose is so kind,

I thought Do I love him?

Chapter Fourteen - Will I be a warrior?

As I arrived back in camp, I paused briefly to look around.
Mousfur and Longtail were sharing tongues outside the elders den, Firestar and Graystripe were chatting together beside the fresh kill pile, and Jayfeather was pacing around the entrance to the medicine den.
"Mosspaw! There you are! What took you so long? I thought I would have to wait here till leafbare and catch greencough!" Jayfeather scolded.
"Sorry, Jayfeather." I apoligized.
"Don't go too hard on Mosspaw, Jayfeather. She's been working very hard. And not just

on medicine cat duties." Firestar told Jayfeather.
Graystripe must have told him about the rabbit that I caught!

"Anyway, may I talk to Mosspaw? I will only be a heartbeat." Firestar asked.
"By all means." Jayfeather replied.
As he brushed past me he muttered:
"I'll take thoses." And took the tansy leaves and juniper berries from my mouth.
I padded over to Firestar and Graystripe.
"What was it that you needed to tell me?" I asked.
"Graystripe told me that you needed to go collect herbs, and you joined his hunting patrol. You then caught a huge, most likely very

hard to catch rabbit, and with no warrior apprentice training at all!" Firestar said, "Is that true?"
"Yes, it is." I told him.
"Mosspaw, do you realise how amazingly unbeilevable that is?" Firestar asked.
"The point is, Mosspaw, we thought that you might be able to take warrior training, as well as medicine cat training. Do you think that would be possible? However, it would mean working extra

hard." Graystripe said.
"Of course, we would have to ask Jayfeather first." Firestar told me, "He did ask specially if you could be his apprentice."
My heart sunk right down to my paws. There's no way that Jayfeather would let me take warrior training!

I thought.
"I would simply love

to take warrior training. But I'm not so sure that Jayfeather would let me..." I told the two toms.
"We'll ask him." Firestar said.
As I padded over to the medicine den, Firestar quickly said:
"Wait! Mosspaw, I saw that when I anounced that Jayfeather would be your mentor, you looked quite upset. Did you want to be a warrior?"
"To be honest, I did. But I don't think that Jayfeather will let me ever

be a warrior." I replied.
"What do you mean?" Firestar looked puzzled.
"I had a dream. I think that Starclan sent me it. I was pretty sure that it meant that I was meant to be a warrior. But when I told Jayfeather that, he said that I could not

be a warrior." I explained.
"Oh. Thankyou for giving the time to talk to me." Firestar said.
As I entered the medicine den, Jayfeather mumbled:
"What was that about?"
"None of your buisness!" I snapped.
"Listen! I heard something about becoming a warrior. You mustn't become a warrior!" Jayfeather told me.
"Fine!" After I said that, I muttered, so quietly that no one else could hear apart from me:
"Dream spoiler!"

Chapter Fifiteen - The big plan

"I'm so FURIOUS

!" I yowled as I entered the underground cave.
"Why?" Bramblenose asked.
"Firestar asked me personally

if I wanted to be a warrior because Graystripe told him about the rabbit I caught. And guess what? Jayfeather still

said NO!" I exclaimed.
"Really?" Bramblenose asked.
"Really!" I shouted, anger burning my pelt and making it feel as if it was on fire.
"Okay, how can you live with that?" Bramblenose exclaimed.
"I can't!" I told him.
Do I really mean that?

It suddenly struck me. If I can't live with that...

"I need to run away!" I suddenly cried.
"WHAT?

" Bramblenose screamed.
"Yes! I need to run away! I can't live with that, so I shouldn't have to! I can start my own

clan! And then, I can be a great

warrior!" I was practically jumping with excitement.
"If that is so, then I'm coming with you! I will admit it, I miss clan life. But I can't even think

about going back to Thunderclan!" Bramblenose decided.
"Great! We can leave tomorrow! I can sneak some traveling herbs out of camp, and we can eat them here, and then catch some prey. Then we can eat that

, and we can go!" I said.
"Okay! You'd better go and get some sleep, because you'll need to be ready for tomorrow night." Bramblenose suggested.
"Okay. I will." I said, and began to pad towards the tunnel out of the many tunnels in the cave that lead to Thunderclan territory.

Chapter Sixteen - Running away

I cautiously slid my eyes open.
Good. Jayfeather was fast asleep. I grabbed the traveling herb poultices that I had made when no one was looking and had stuffed behind my nest.
I peeked outside the medicine den. Berrynose was on guard.
How am I going to get past? He'll probably be wondering why I have traveling herbs. He's bound to suspect something!

I then noticed the dirtplace tunnel was quite nearby.
Maybe I could slip through there...

I quickly tip toed over to the dirtplace tunnel and ran out into the forest.
"Mouse dung! Now I stink of poo!" I cursed.

"Okay. Now that we've had the traveling herbs, let's hunt!" I decided.
"Good. The sooner we get going, the better." Bramblenose said.
I lead the way out of the cave, and felt a cold wind whip my fur.
I spotted a plump vole scuffling around in the dead leves on the forest floor. I crept towards it, leaned forwards, prepared to leap, and...
Pounced!
"Good catch!" Bramblenose commented.
"Thanks." I meowed around the vole's dead body.
We sat down to share the vole, and once we had finished it, we set of on our journey. At first it was easy, because I was used to the area we wre in, however, the deciduous woodland soon turned to rolling hills.
When we reached a small hollow, full of soft moss that would be perfect to sleep in, Bramblenose told me:
"We'd better stop here for the night."
"Okay. Can we hunt? The journey has made me starving!" I pleaded.
"Alright. I'll check through the bedding while you hunt." Bramblenose decided.
Once I had hunted, eaten, and Bramblenose had sorted out the bedding, we settled down to sleep for the night.
I wonder what's going on at camp? Have I been missed? Oh well, it doesn't matter.

But as I curled up beside Bramblenose, I knew that it did matter.

Chapter Seventeen - Danger?

I raced through the thorn tunnel that lead to camp, blood pounding in my ears.
"Help!" I screamed, glancing behind me to make sure that the rest of the evening border patrol, including Rainpaw, Berrynose, and Lionblaze, were keeping up.
"What's wrong, Mudpaw?" Rosepaw came bounding up to me.
Wait! Mudpaw? I must be in Mudpaw's body like I was in Rainpaw's body! Hang on! This is the evening patrol! It's still night though! This must be the future!

"F, ff, fo, ffo, FOX ATTACK!" I cried.
"What?!" Toadpaw yelped, following his sister out of the apprentices den.
The rest of the cats in the clearing started panicking. The warriors not in the clearing ran out from where they were.
"Back in the nursery, Bluekit and Fernkit!" Daisy called to her kits, her eyes wide with fear.
I ran up Highledge to Firestar's den.
"FOXATTACK!" I warned all at once.
"What in Starclan?" Firestar questioned.
"Attack!" I heard Swiftpath cry the battle call.
"Hurry! We must help our clan!" Firestar ordered.
As I ran back down, I saw Rainpaw trying to fight off a fox all on his own. I bounded over to him to help.
"RAINPAW!" I screamed, taking a slash at the fox's eye, but it was not a smart idea, for two other foxes came to help it.
"We're outnumbered! Help! Help!" Rainpaw screamed to other warriors, but they were all busy fighting their own battle.
As the foxs closed in on us, my paws began to tremble.
I huddled closer to Rainpaw, I said:
"This is it, brother. This is the end of us!"

Chapter Eighteen - Must... go... back!

I snapped open my eyes.
"Bramblenose!" I hissed.
"Huh? What is it?" Bramblenose murmered.
"I have to go back home!" I told him.
"Why?" Bramblenose asked.
"I had a dream that foxes will attack camp and my brothers are going to die if I don't help!" I explained.
"Oh, um... okay." Bramblenose mewed, sadness clouding in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, but I have to go!" I told him.
"Okay. But it's alright." Bramblenose assured me.
"Bramblenose, I love you. But I feel that I am meant to be a clan cat." I told him, reading his thoughts as easily as if he had just said them out loud.
Mosspaw, you can't leave! I love you too! We could start a family, have kits, and so much more! Please, don't go!

"Mosspaw, I have been thinking, I don't actually mind being in Thunderclan, and I feel, that I am meant to be with you

. I coming with you to join Thunderclan once again."
"What? Really? You'd do that all for mebe

a clan to return to." I told him.
Once again, we traveled over the hills and through the large forest, back to Thunderclan, where I knew I belonged.
Once I started to smell the faintest scent of Thunderclan, I broke into a run.
"We're almost there! Let's get back as fast as possible." I decided.
"Good. I can't wait to see some old friends. Yes, let's get back to camp." Bramblenose agreed.
I rushed through Thunderclan's territory, aching to be back at camp.
"Attack!" I heard the faintest call of Swiftpath, echoing throught the trees.
"Hurry!" I cried, worrying I would be too late.
Bounding through the camp entrance, I saw a blur of foxes and fighting cats filling the stone hollow.
"Help! Help!" I saw Rainpaw screaming with Mudpaw close beside him.
"There are my brothers! We must

help them!" I told Bramblenose, who was already bounding towards the foxes surrounding Mudpaw and Rainpaw.
I followed him, jumping onto the back of one of the foxes. I pummeled at it with my powerful hind paws, and I found a strenth I never knew I had.
The fox rolled over, trying to get me off, but in vain. I was prepared, and I slashed at it's face before grabbing the fox's tail between my jaws and sending it yelping out of camp.
"Good work!" Bramblenose commented, before launching himself at the last remaining fox that had tried to kill my brothers. I followed, and we soon sent it scurrying away.
The last of the foxes were clearing out of camp now, and I then realiosed that I had fought without getting a single scracth.
I whirled around, making sure there were no more foxes in the camp.
Face it, Mosspaw,

I thought, The battle is over.

Chapter Nineteen - Finally, a happy ending!

"Mosspaw! You were amazing!" Rainpaw bounced up to me, but shied away when he saw Bramblenose.
"Wh, who, Who's that?" Mudpaw stuttered.
"Mudpaw, Rainpaw, this is Bramblenose." I told them.
"WHAT?" Rainpaw exclaimed.
"Bramblenose? As in, I mean, Bramblenose?" Mudpaw asked.
"Yes." I said calmly.
"Mospaw! Come over here!" Firestar called.
"What is it?" I asked.
"I now know

that you are meant to be a warrior." Firestar said.
"Really?" I asked.
"May all cats gather under the highledge for a meeting." Firestar called.
Murmers of confusion swept around camp.
"I must say, that one of our apprentices, Mosspaw, simply must

be a warrior." Firestar said.
"Mosspaw, from this day on, you shall have Poppyfrost as your mentor."
I was beaming with happiness. I stepped forward to touch noses with Poppyfrost.
"Well done. You finally got what you wanted." Bramblenose touched his nose to my ear.
"What? Bramblenose?" Firestar asked, clearly puzzled.
"I can explain!" I said.
"Okay. Go ahead." Firestar agreed.
"So what happened was..." But as I explained, I was delighted.
Afterwards, Firestar said:
"Brablenose, I say..."
FIND OUT IF BRAMBLENOSE CAN STAY IN THE NEXT BOOK!

Lake territory

Allegiances

Thunderclan

Leader: Firestar

Deputy: Brambleclaw

Medicine cat: Jayfeather

Warriors:

Graystripe
Swiftpath
Thornclaw
Lionblaze
Cinderheart
Spiderleg
Sorreltail
Apprentice: Rosepaw
Berrynose
Mouswhisker
Hazeltail
Apprentice: Briarpaw
Poppyfrost
Birchfall
Apprentice: Bumblepaw
Cloudtail
Brightheart
Apprentice: Toadpaw
Whitewing
Apprentice: Blossompaw

Apprentices:
Rosepaw
Toadpaw
Briarpaw
Bumblepaw
Blossompaw

Queens:
Spottedhead
Mother of Swiftpath's kits:
Mosskit, Mudkit, Rainkit
Daisy
Mother of Spiderleg's kits:
Bluekit, Fernkit

Elders:
Longtail
Mousefur

Shadowclan

Leader: Blackstar

Deputy: Rowanclaw

Medicine cat: Littlecloud
Apprentice: Flametail

Warriors:
Tawnypelt
Oakfur
Apprentice: Ferretpaw
Tigerheart
Dawnpelt
Scorchfur
Ratscar
Apprentice: Pinepaw
Smokefoot
Toadfoot
Crowfrost
Applefur

Apprentices:
Ferretpaw
Pinepaw

Queens:
Kinkfur
Ivytail

Elders:
Tallpoppy
Cedarheart
Snaketail
Whitewater

Windclan

Leader: Onestar

Deputy: Ashfoot

Medicine cat: Kestrelflight

Warriors:
Hawfire
Icebreath
Thorntail
Heathertail
Apprentice: Furzepaw
Crowfeather
Owlwhisker
Harespring
Weaslefur
Leaftail
Emberfoot
Breezepelt
Apprentice: Boulderpaw
Sedgewhisker
Swallowtail
Sunstrike

Apprentices:
Furzepaw
Boulderpaw

Elders:
Webfoot
Tornear

Riverclan

Leader: Leopardstar

Deputy: Mistyfoot

Medicine cat: Willowshine
Apprentice: Petalpaw

Warriors:
Reedwhisker
Apprentice: Hollowpaw
Graymist
Apprentice: Troutpaw
Mintfur
Icewing
Minnowtail
Apprentice: Mossypaw
Pebblefoot
Apprentice: Rushpaw
Mallownose

Apprentices:
Hollowpaw
Troutpaw
Mossypaw
Rushpaw

Queens:
Duskfur
Mosspelt

Elders:
Dapplenose
Pouncetail

The website

For more fun, go on
http://www.theadventuresofmosspaw.webs.com/

Impressum

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 22.02.2012

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Widmung:
This book is dedicated to Erin Hunter, for writing the original warrior cats book series, and to my cats, Pepper and Henny, for inspiring my love of cats.