HUWKAY FOLKS!! Silentkit is getting initiated!... Just as soon as I can find it in one of the booooooks... *Muffled rummaging* *Muffled rummaging stops in order to be replaced with a soft creak* Oh no... *Sound of a couple of large bookcases crashing onto a CBer* Ow...

Silentkit~

Breezestar sits upon the Highrock (I just realized that we still have to decide where the 'stars are going to initiate cats...), looking down at all of the cats assembled for this occasion. He looks down at me.

"Silentkit, step forward." I comply. "Do you promise to learn the ways of being a warrior of Lunarclan?" I nod. "Good." Breezestar's eyes rake the crowd of cats. "By naming apprentices, we show that LunarClan will survive and remain strong." His intense gaze meets mine again. "Silentkit, from now until you become a warrior, you will be known as Silentpaw... Rapidfang!" The stoic tomcat steps forward. "You are ready for an apprentice. You will be Silentpaw's mentor." Rapidfang bows his head, turns to me, and smiles.

"Are you ready, kid?" I nod again. We both look back up towards Breezestar as the rest of the clan chants my new name. Silentpaw. Silentpaw. Over and over again. I am not going to be an apprentice forever. I will train hard, and soon, LunarClan will be chanting my warrior name.

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Derp derp there you go! 

Sounds about right, Chinch!

Hey sorry about not posting guys but here I am now! Don't abandon this on me! 

~Downypaw

My paws padded on the earth as I followed Ravenheart- my mother- and her apprentice Wasppaw. We were on the dawn patrol with Breezestar himself and his apprentice Dawnpaw. So there were five of them. 

Breezestar was leading the patrol. The care-free leader didn't usually come along with these types of patrols, but I guess he wanted some fresh air. I remembered Crowflight's reaction when the white-and-tan tom told his deputy that he was leading the dawn patrol. The deputy wanted to come with, but he had to take care of his clan while his leader was away. He was not happy.

Sometimes I wonder whether Crowflight trusts that Breezestar is a good leader for our clan. Sometimes I wonder whether I trust that Breezestar is a good leader. 

Dawnpaw was close behind the tomcat. Her tortoiseshell fur was striking, but I would never admit that to anyone. She kept asking questions, and Breezestar would answer them mysteriously, much to the young she-cat's frustration. Ravenheart kept a close eye on me the whole walk to the border, she had insisted that I come along even though my mentor was not awake yet. 

And then there was Wasppaw. 

The smaller apprentice kept to the back, her head low, as she watched her mentor ignore her almost completely. Her yellow eyes pierced my pelt with a furious jealousy, though I didn't feel guilty. She was my mother after-all, and so what if she was Wasppaw's mentor. She was still my only family.

Suddenly the she-cat froze. The rest of the patrol was walking forwards, but Wasppaw hissed and got our attention. "Do you smell badger?" 

Yowling and hissing suddenly caught our attention and Breezestar rushed forwards, closely followed by his apprentice. I exchanged a worried glance with Wasppaw. We were just a few trees away from the clan border with Lunarclan. 

I was about to start forwards when Ravenheart flicked her tail to stop me. Wasppaw padded past us with a light growl to follow Dawnpaw. My mother listened for a moment, her ears pricked, before she slowly started creeping forward. I followed closely in her pawprints. 

When we came up behind the rest of the patrol there were two cats, both of which smelling strongly of SolarClan, with one much older than the other, both covered in scratches and nicks. "They say they got in a fight with a badger, and that's why they crossed our border," Wasppaw whispered to him. 

A fight with a badger? They look like they just got in a small tussle. They would be dead if they truly did. Breezestar really isn't believing this...is he? 

The older tom smiled at the two cats. "Not at all." He responded to the older one's apology. "Accidents do happen." 

Downypaw groaned on the inside. Where was Crowflight when you needed logic? They weren't fighting a badger. They were trespassing and might have even stolen prey. 

Breezestar flicked his tail and we followed him away from the border, well, after he renewed the scent markings. And I whispered to Wasppaw about the stupidity in letting the SolarClan cat's go without question. As we walked back to camp, Dawnpaw kept looking at him expectantly, as if he was going to explain himself. But he never did. 

Ravenheart kept the back with a close eye on me and her mouth open for any signs of the badger. We knew there were a few badgers on our land, but the one next to SolarClan's border was new. I knew Crowflight would be watching that one. 

As soon as we got back to camp I went to take a vole from the fresh-kill pile. Silentkit immediately bombarded me with questions about the outside world, but I hissed at her and went to eat my vole in a corner. 

To my surprise, I was quickly joined by Dawnpaw. "Hey." She said as she bit into a fish.  

"Um, hi." I responded quickly, turning away from her so that she was facing my shoulders. 

"So about the patrol." She started. "Don't doubt Breezestar. He's a kind leader." 

"I am loyal to my clan, and the leader." That was a lie. But what else could I say? "Sometimes I question him but I don't doubt him." 

Dawnpaw hissed quietly as if she could see right through me and knew it was a lie. "Sometimes cats act with kindness and not violence. Do you really think those cats were brawling with a badger? No. We saw them fighting eachother. Breezestar thinks Solarclan is going through some rough patches, so we must be nice to the SolarClan cats. He says Speckledstar isn't the nicest leader."

"Well Breezestar makes up for that, doesn't he?" I met her gaze intently. 

The blue-eyed she-cat barred her teeth and looked away, continuing to eat her fish next to me. I tend to break even the nicest cats. I went back to savagely tearing apart my vole, which was almost gone.

A few awkward moments passed before the tortishel looked up again and spoke, "he thinks Solarclan is being torn from the inside out."  

My back stiffened and I looked back over at her with my mouth slightly open. "Hey, Downypaw!" I growled softly and looked up to see little Silentkit padding up to us. 

By now Dawnpaw had finished her kill and she got up and padded away. Silentkit sent her on her way with a glare. "I'm becoming an apprentice today!" She offered, her enthusiasm enough to make me want to claw my eyes out. 

"Are you now?" I had also finished my prey and sat up to leave. I thought I saw the golden brown pelt of my mentor.

"Are you listening?" The young she-cat snarled, her strange eyes narrowing. I didn't like looking into her eyes, they scared me. 

"Ya, ya..." I got up and bounded across the clearing just as Goldendawn emerged from the elder's den. 

Her eyes narrowed when she saw me. "Would you like to practice your fighting skills?" She prodded.

"We just got back from patrol though!" I groaned, flicking my tail over at Wasppaw who was pacing in front of the med. cat's den. She met my eyes for a brief second and a growl before she went back to pacing. She must be waiting for Swallowdance. 

"Boo hoo!" Goldendawn hissed, swishing her tail behind her. "I thought you wanted to be a warrior not an elder." 

My back straightened. "Bring it." I hissed. 

"There we go!" She bared her fangs as a strange look crossed her muzzle. "But if you want to fight, you must catch your opponent."  

And then she took off through the camp and into the entrance tunnel. It took me until the she-cat's tail was through the tunnel to realize what she meant. I bared my fangs and smiled before following her. I lept clean over the practice river in the middle of camp before barging through the brambles of the entrance tunnel, not caring as they caught my fur. I then bounded through the river that surrounds the camp, paddling after my mentor. 

I had become a strong swimmer and I caught up to her fast. But then we were on land again and she took off with her slick fur. My heavier fur weighed me down as I pounded after her. 

I burst into the sandy training space just as the ferns surrounding it were starting to still, panting as I called to my mentor, "Crazy she-cat!" Though I was more amused than angry. 

"That, my apprentice, is a warm-up run, gets your blood pumping and adrenaline running." She smiled and I straightened my back, feeling pride rush through my veins. 

We trained until sun-high, by then my fur being matted with sand and flaking mud. Panting, Goldendawn dismissed me with a lick between the ears. 

We padded into the clearing with a little commotion, Breezestar was sitting tall on the highrock, his deputy and the medicine cat outlined below the stone. "May all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here bellow the highrock!" I exchanged glances with my mentor before going to join the rest of the cats below the tall rock. I wondered if this had anything to do with the patrol and what Dawnpaw had told me. 

We sat in the back, where Moonface was licking Silentkit's fur to her head. Silentkit herself was beaming. Oh right, didn't Silentkit mention something about this earlier on? She was becoming an apprentice today. "Silentkit, step forward." 

The young white and black-stripped she-cat stepped forward proudly, coming to stand in front of the leader. "Do you promise to learn and respect the ways of a Lunarclan warrior?" She nodded eagerly. "Good." The old tomcat nodded in approval. 

"By naming apprentices," he began in the speech recommended by StarClan for appertinance ceremonies. "We show that LunarClan will survive and remain strong." He met the little kit's eyes again and I thought I saw the young cat shrink away. "Silentkit, from now until you become a warrior you will be known as Silentpaw." He paused as he scanned the cats. "Rappidfang, step forward." The grey spotted black tom-cat did so. "You have proved that you are a fierce and loyal warrior to this clan. You will pass your strength, loyalty, and precision to Silentpaw to make her a proud warrior of this clan."

Rapidfang bowed his head to his leader, then walked over to Silentpaw to touch noses with her. "Silentpaw! Silentpaw!" Glowpaw started, the enthusiastic she-cat was basically the young apprintance's only friend. 

Others started joining in, and Goldendawn nudged him before they both started chanting in honor of the youngest apprentice.  

After the ceremony, I met up with Wasppaw. She had been den-mates with Silentpaw longer than the rest of us. Moonface had also basically raised her, after her mother died.* She didn't nessecarly like her adoptive sister, but she dealt with it. Silentpaw had too much energy for all of us combined. She wasn't like Glowpaw, who restrained her energy for hunting and productive things and was just really nice, the white tabby's energy was all over the place. Always. 

"So." I smirked. "How does it feel being den-mates with Silentpaw again?" 

Wasppaw snorted. "Lay off, Downypaw. Some of us grow up, why don't you give that a try?" I was stung for a moment. "Now if you excuse me, I'm going to show our new claw-mate her nest." 

With that, she stalked off to where Silentkit was talking excitedly with some older cats and elders. "The apprentice den is going to be very crowded now, isn't it?" I turned around to meet Charredpaw's light brown eyes.   

"Ya sure is." I watched the light-furred she-cats disappear into the apprentice den. "Lucky you, you're going to be the first one out." 

"And soon too." Charredpaw nodded happily. "My final assessment is coming up."  

I sighed. "You were just waiting for me to bring that up, weren't you?" 

He laughed. "Sure was." 

They stood there for a moment before Downypaw asked quietly, "you don't think Wasppaw's mad at me?" 

Charredpaw turned to look at him. "No. I just think she's jealous." 

"Jealous? Of what? Of Silentkit? Why would she be jealous of that mange of fur?" 

Charredpaw smiled, shook his head amusedly, and walked over to the apprentice den. Glowpaw followed him with a bounce in her step. 

I watched them disappear into the brambles before turning around to meet Dawnpaw's glare. "What?" I snorted.

"Oh, nothing." She smirked. "Lover-boy." I watched her swaying tail as she walked over to the apprentice's den. 

What was that supposed to mean?  

~Fireflypaw

After the dawn patrol, I amusedly watched my sister run around the clearing like the lizard-brain she is. She had pretty much covered the entire camp...twice...before Seapelt had caught up to her. He grabbed her scruff and carried her over to where Foxtail and Fireflypaw were sitting. 

I looked up at them from my spot on the ground, my head casually resting on my paws. "Oh hey, sis." Burntpaw meowed enthusiastically. "I'm going to go practice my hunting with Lynxpaw and Polarfoot." 

"Are you know?" Fireflypaw meowed, stretching out on the ground. "Maybe you should tell your mentor that plan." 

"He knows!" Burntpaw meowed excitedly, wriggling in her mentor's jaws as she saw the two tomcats approaching. 

Polarfoot flicked his tail at the young apprentice. "Seapelt and I are leading this patrol." He meowed calmly. "The first ideal of being an apprentice is respecting your mentor. You can never become a warrior if you have no patience or respect." 

Burntpaw nodded eagerly and Seapelt gently put her back on her paws. "Are we ready?" She asked, her tail twitching as she forced herself to be still. 

Fireflypaw couldn't help but let out a merrow of amusement. "Yes." Seapelt scoffed. "We can go now." 

The four cats set off through the pine-needle-littered clearing and through the bracken and ferns that protected the entrance to their camp. Fireflypaw watched them go with amusement in her eyes. "I think we'll wait until that hunting patrol gets back before I teach you more about the clans and our territories." Foxtail meowed with a flick of his tail. 

Fireflypaw groaned and sat up. "Not another history lesson!" 

The old cat meowed in amusement. "Oh come on! Without history, there's no future." 

There was a soft hiss near-by and a, "say's the rouge cat to his rouge-blooded apprentice." Fireflypaw whipped around with a snarl at the cat who had said that. 

Sprucefeather was glaring at them from beside the nursery, his yellow eyes stale and cold. "I have more clan blood then you ever will." Fireflypaw hissed, stalking towards him. "I will serve my clan better than you ever will lizard-breath." 

"That's no way to treat an elder warrior." The cat hissed, standing up slightly. "We wouldn't want anyone getting the...wrong impression."  

Fireflypaw looked around and saw that the small head of Sparrowpaw was looking up at her with wide eyes. She looked back at Sprucefeather, who was walking away with a swish of his tail. She bared her fangs at him. 

"Don't listen to what they say." She turned around expecting her mentor to be the one comforting her, but it was Thrushflight. The newly-made warrior had been den mates with her and her siblings in both the apprentice den and the nursery. He had been her first friend in the unwelcoming clan she and her sister had first known. "You're kinder then any clan-blood cat I know."

"I know." She hissed. "What do you want, anyway." 

He looked hurt for a moment, and then a look of guilt passed over his expression. "Have you seen Wolfpaw recently?" 

"She went on the hunting patrol. I scented them when we were coming back." She ignored the impressed expression on her mentors face. "Why don't you go do something useful, like cleaning the elder's den." 

She walked away before anyone could tell her that that was her job.  

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Lol sorry for the long post, but I HAVE SAILED THE SHIPs. Yay! 

*Rouge, Tux, is this alright with you? If not I understand.  

Chinchilla, is Gorsejump going to report the badger and running into the LunarClan patrol to Speckledstar or Snowfeather? Or is he going to keep it secret...?

@Aspen are you going to RP/name the remaining kits of Pecanfur? 

@Tux does Softstep have kits?  

That was really good, both of you! Um, but Claaws, Silentkit is cold, calm, and calculating. She hates nonsense. :) She wouldn't be bouncing around and chatting wildly.

What I meant in Silentkit's... Thing with the 'efficient energy' is that she is never hyper. She uses her energy wisely and never exerts herself for no reason. She knows her limits well and never makes a wrong move.

Oh No Tux! That definitely sucks. Like 1000000% sucks. I hope you get better soon! Here's some virtual chicken soup for you! *sends virtual chicken soup*

Also, I wanna see what Chinchilla writes about Gorsejump and Thornpaw and how much they tell Speckledstar before we do the meeting thing.  

*gasp* oh no, I'm sorry Rouge! Let's see here then...

How about Downypaw doesn't like how creepy Silentpaw is! Nope, not right. Maybe she scares him. Yep, thats it. Maybe. Hold up...

~Downypaw (rewriting all Silentpaw-Downypaw scenes)

"Hey, Downypaw!" I growled softly and looked up to see little Silentkit padding up to us. 

By now Dawnpaw had finished her kill and she got up and padded away. Silentkit sent her on her way with a glare. "I'm becoming an apprentice today." She offered with a little smile, her claws twitching as she looked into my eyes, though I avoided her gaze.

"Are you now?" I had also finished my prey and sat up to leave. I thought I saw the golden brown pelt of my mentor.

"Are you listening?" The young she-cat snarled, her strange eyes narrowing. I didn't like looking into her eyes, they scared me. 

"Ya, ya..." I got up and bounded across the clearing just as Goldendawn emerged from the elder's den. 

~

After the ceremony, I met up with Wasppaw. She had been den-mates with Silentpaw longer than the rest of us. Moonface had also basically raised her, after her mother died. She didn't necessarily like her adoptive sister, but she dealt with it. Silentpaw was really...weird for a kit. She was often calm as she sat there...watching us, well usually me, and the warriors often said she had as much potential as all of the apprentices now combined. Which angered Downypaw, and most of the other apprentices. She could also be quite the show-off when she wanted to be. 

"So." I smirked. "How does it feel being den-mates with Silentpaw again?" 

Wasppaw snorted. "Lay off, Downypaw. Some of us grow up, why don't you give that a try?" I was stung for a moment. "Now if you excuse me, I'm going to show our new claw-mate her nest." 

With that, she stalked off to where Silentkit was talking excitedly with some older cats and elders. She often talked with the older warriors, they liked her more than the younger and rising warriors. 

~

Lol I hope that's better Rouge! Also, feel free to write some more and give us a sense of how Silentpaw truly reacts to all this and what she does next. I'll do better with this further into the RP I promise!

Sorry, totally forgot about this RP for a few days, but NOW I'M HERE YAY

And literally still reading the recent posts to get up-to-date whilst writing this.

@Claaws, yes, I do think Gorsejump would report this. I enjoyed the bit about why Breezestar was so, AH BREEZEY at them for obviously lying. However, considering how this one apprentice thinks of things, Lunarclan, ah, might just have a similar problem. I mean, WHEN will people STOP taking Breezestar's decisions at STUPID FACE VALUE?! *Ahem* Anyways, yes, Gorsejump is an honorable cat, he just has weird ways of training his apprentices... for reasons that I will divulge. 

Not right now.

YAY let's get started! Also! That is definitely what Breezestar would do, talk to Speckledstar. I really like writing characters who just sit down and sensibly talk about things rather than umping to conclusions willy-nilly.

Thornpaw~

It was sunset. It seemed like only a few moments had passed since the run-in with the Lunarclan patrol. Personally, Thornpaw thought that Gorsejump's lie was pretty unconvincing, but there wasn't really any other way to get out of that situation without Gorsejump's sanity being questioned. Thornpaw himself found the training sessions hurtful, in more ways than one, but necessary. His reflexes were much better than they used to be, and he respected Goresjump's desicions. He just didn't understand why Gorsejump always put him down when he was just trying his best....

Thornpaw  padded to the elder's den, nodded to the older cats who were deep in a conversation, and deposited his small bundle of moss into one of their beds. He let the lull of conversation calm his thoughts, and then proceeded to go back out and get some fresh-kill for them. He was especially tired today. As he picked out a plump vole for one of the elders, he spotted Speckledstar and Gorsejump talking together in quiet mews beside Speckledstar's den. Good, he's finally telling Speckledstar about what happened. 

I hope. 

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Sorry, I had a bunch of ideas for different things, but I don't really feel like writing them today. Good gief, lethargy in even writing! My ability to procrasinate astounds me. Lucky the Game Thearists aren't procrasinating, or I'd have nothing to procrasinate by!

Then again, that might be a good thing..... 

It's all good, Claaws! Here...

Silentpaw~

Wasppaw stalks loudly up to me. Unfortunately, due to her quite apparent hatred of me, she is never very quiet when I'm around. In fact, I've never actually seen her happy. Unfortunate. Downypaw is avoiding me. I scare him; I can see it in the way he avoids my gaze. He intrigues me though. Wasppaw's tan-and-black pelt brushes against my silver-and-black pelt as she growls for me to follow her. I ignore the bitterness in her voice and follow her to the apprentices' den. Wasppaw flicks a begrudging claw at my bed, positioned next to Downypaw's nest. I nod, note my nest's position in accordance to the rest of the den, and turn to go find Rapidfang. I find him on the training grounds. I tuck my tail around my paws when I sit down. Suddenly, Rapidfang swings his left paw over his head and tries to bring it down on my head, claws sheathed. A Front Paw Blow. I shoot out from under his paw, stopping at his left side and brushing my paw along his exposed ribcage. I kept my claws sheathed as to preserve my mentor. Rapidfang flinches at my touch, leaving me an opportunity. I jump over his back just as he whirls and bites at where I just was. He stops.

"Wow. So the rumors are true, you are better than all of the other apprentices put together." He licks his paw and swipes at his ears to clean them.

"No, I'm not. I just...," I can't find anything that would put me above the others that wouldn't point to skill. I shrug. "I've watched the apprentices and the warriors, critiqued their mistakes, and so now I know what not to do." That much is true. Rapidfang pretends to accept my humble but unfortunately ineffective redirect. From the treeline I catch two pairs of eyes, Dowypaw's and Wasppaw's.

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Nihil says pxie. Uh, pixie cut?