Blood and Secrets

Blood and Secrets: Chapter 1
Blood and Secrets

It was early New-Leaf. Pinepaw was sitting under a tree eating a piece of fresh-kill. She was eating while she could, because she was to train in a few.

As she ate, she heard her mentor Sagepelt padding up to her. "Pinepaw, are you ready to go train?" Sagepelt asked enthusiastically..

"Sure."

As they made their way to the entrance of the OakClan camp, Blackpelt, a newly named warrior, had stopped them.

"Where are you guys off to?" He asked scornfully.

"We are going training. Nothing you want to do. I'm sure you've had enough of that." Sagepelt hissed.

Sagepelt turned her back on him as they made their way to the forest.

"Okay Pinepaw. Lets test your hunting skills. What can you smell?"

She got into the hunter's crotch and opened her mouth to taste the air.

"I smell. . . vole!" Pinepaw mewed.

"Very good. Now try to find it. You may go on your own for this. Once you find it, bring it back to camp. The elders would appricate it," Sagepelt demanded respectfully.

"You aren't going to hunt for any fresh-kill?"

"I would, but I have to go on a patrol. Rosestar chose me to lead. Make sure to be back at camp before we go."

Pinepaw had two voles and a very plump mouse by now.

She was about to go back to camp, when she caught at the corner of her eye, the brambles moving beneath her brown tabby body.

Instinctively, she went into hunter's crotch, and extended her pupils so she could see better.

It was a mouse.

She walked with her back flopped, and very quietly sneaked up on the plump mouse.

She shook her hind legs, leaped, unsheathed her claws, and killed it with one blow.

Pinepaw picked it up and clenched it in her jaws.

She had reached the OakClan tunnel, which led to the entrance to the camp.

Pinepaw saw Sagepelt leading the patrol out of the tunnel. At least she had made it back to camp in time. She didn't want to get punished again by Rosestar.

As she walked into the clearing, she spotted the elders sharing tongues by the Great Oak.

"Hello, Redpelt. Would you care for a mouse or vole?"

"Ah, hello Pinepaw. Sure. Thank you."

Pinepaw took a nice plop outside of the Apprentices' Den. Nightfall was close, and Sagepelt and the others had just came back from their patrol.

"Pinepaw!"

She had heard someone call her name.

"Pinepaw!"

It was Rosestar.

"Yes Rosestar?"

"May I ask you for a favor?"

"Of corse, Rosestar."

"You know Flamepaw, Fishpaw, Spottedpaw, and Crowkit don't you?" Rosestar asked curiously.

"Well, I don't know them, but I've seen them around. Why?"

"Well, Pinepaw, I want you to start meeting them. Don't ask me why. Just, go and talk to them. Crowkit will be named an apprentence soon, so there's no need to talk to her yet."

"Yes Rosestar. I'll see them now."

Pinepaw didn't know what this was all about, but she liked it. She went inside the Apprentices' Den, and spotted them. This was it. Here goes nothing. ..

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