Dawn Light On A Sunset

MAIN CHARACTERS

Lightpaw - A cream-colored she-cat with bright green eyes.

Darkpaw - A black tom with golden eyes.

CHAPTER 1

Snow cracked between Lightpaw's cream-colored paws. The ShadowClan apprentice walked with her mentor, Rosethorn, a ginger tabby she-cat. "Lightpaw, what do you smell?" Rosethorn asked her. Lightpaw sniffed the air. "Stale fox scent," She reported. "And frog!" "Fox scent?" Rosethorn's pale green eyes went wide. "Stale," Lightpaw told her. "A few days, I think." Rosethorn shook her head. "Okay." She meowed. "What about that frog? You said you smelt it." The frog scent was more clear now. Lightpaw could see a frog sitting by a marsh. Leaping to it, she took it out with one quick bite. She held it in her jaws, her eyes shining. "Good job," Rosethorn praised. "We should get back to camp now."

Lightpaw dropped her fresh-kill into the fresh-kill pile. "Hey, Lightpaw!" A familiar voice called. It was Amberheart, the medicine cat apprentice. He used to be a warrior until the medicine cat, until Nettletail got an omen telling him to take Amberheart as an apprentice. Amberheart's thick dark brown tabby pelt was fluffed up, and his front paws prodded the ground. The white tom Cloudfrost was behind him, the young warrior had claw wounds and blood smudged the white fur on his back left leg. "Can you help me put cobwebs on Cloudfrost's leg? His border patrol found a fox near the Thunderpath." "Mouse-brain," Lightpaw grumbled jokingly as the two cats held cobwebs on Cloudfrost's wounds.

"Now go get some fresh-kill." Amberheart told Cloudfrost. "Okay," Cloudfrost replied, limping over to the fresh kill pile. "Thank you, Amberheart." As the senior warrior and Lightpaw went to get fresh-kill, Lightpaw noticed the frog she caught wasn't there. "Wonder who took it." She mumbled. "What?" Cloudfrost looked up from the fesh-kill. "Oh, er.. the frog I caught wasn't there." Lightpaw answered. "Yes it is," Cloudfrost pointed one paw at the frog. ''What? The frog wasn't there, but now it is! ''"The frog is right there." He mewed. "Oh." Lightpaw breathed. She picked up a lizard from the pile and brought it to the Apprentices' Den. "Maybe I should tell Nettletail about what I had seen." She thought.

Walking over to the Medicine Cat Den near the Clanrock, she smelled two cat scents. One was Nettletail's the others was a cat she didn't recognize. She could hear small voices. Walking into the entrance, almost into the den. She could see Nettletail. The dark gray tom was lying in leaves, and his light blue eyes were gleaming. "Flamewing, this secret could destroy the whole Dark Forest." He growled.