The sky was blue and cool.  The wind was blowing violently, bringing all the mist from the moor to the forest.

He woke up in his lair, next to him his brother Swiftpaw slept, who raised moss with his breath, just one day after his appointment from kit to apprentice.

A little further away was Hawkpaw, the deputy's son, he could see that he did not like having competition with him and his brother, although it was clear that he despised him more than his brother.

"Good morning Stalkingpaw" His mentor purred from the shadows of the warriors'den.

"Good morning, Stripedfur" He replied excitedly.

"You have trained hard yesterday, you can take a break if you like or you can go hunting, today there is no training"   His mentor murmured.

He looked at him surprised, he had taken it for granted that they would go out to train to warm up, but it was not like that.

Hawkpaw looked at him suspiciously upon hearing that.

Floweredheart emerged from the warriors'den with his brother Wastelandflight.

"To that you have dawned earlier" Floweredheart greeted him.

"Yes, Otterpaw is still asleep"  He said in a calm voice.

"Well, then you and I will go out to train, I'm on the lookout for why don't you join us to train"

"Come out, I can't, Stripedfur said I could rest or go hunting."  He said.

"I see, it's fine as you want, if you go hunting tell Wastelandflight to take you along with Otterpaw, it would be good if the two shared techniques, especially since she is already older than you"

"Yes, she is fine"  He said bored.

"Let's see your capture techniques" Wastelandflight said urgently.

•          •          •

He was in the training hollow, the leaves of the new station bringing a comforting glow.

"Hurry up" Otterpaw snapped. "From here until you move the mice will have already hidden"

"I'm sorry" He murmured him.

He settled into the hunter's stance, suddenly a flash of reddish fur flashed before his eyes.  Otterpaw had pounced on a squirrel at the foot of a tree.

She returned very triumphantly with her squirrel and left her at the feet of her mentor.

  "A) Yes?"  The apprentice asked.

"Yes, exactly, perfect Otterpaw you are a highly talented apprentice, as for you Stalkingpaw, you must hurry and be concentrated"

"I was until Otterpaw knocked me down."  He snorted him, glaring at the apprentice with fury.

She looked at him and said.
"I'm sorry, it was not my intention"

Wastelandflight looked at the two of them and said.
"Young apprentices, they must always be looking for problems, why not, the two of them are going to hunt, it will serve them a lot"

"It will be an evaluation!" Otterpaw exclaimed excitedly.

"No"  The warrior replied.  - Stalkingpaw is barely an apprentice for a day"

•         •        •

Otterpaw advanced beside he, head bowed, eyes wide with excitement.

"Can you climb up to the branch there?"  She challenged the young she-cat.

"Of course I can, I am not weak and besides I am bigger than you in size, I am even almost the same stature of Wastelandflight"

"Of course not"  The apprentice snorted.

"Of course"  He replied.

"Then I challenge you" And she said this she shot herself towards the tree and she began to climb it with agility.

He followed her quickly, when they reached the branch he turned to look down, they had climbed very high.

"Otterpaw, we are way up!"

"Of course, according to not terrify you, right?" She said mockingly.

"Of course not!"

"Well then do this"

She started jumping on the branch.

Suddenly the branch began to creak and was quickly detached, the apprentice let out a shriek of terror, fortunately he reached her and grabbed her hoisting her on the piece of branch that remained, the two staggered with terror on the branch, the weight of the the apprentice was a lot and even though he was bigger and stronger he couldn't bear it all, for a moment he felt exhausted and almost slipped.

A movement in the brush warned him of the presence of a patrol, this consisted of: Whitefoot, Pearlfoot, Firestorm and Hawkpaw.

"Hey, up here!"  He scream.

The patrol turned their heads up, and looked at them with surprise and concern.

"But how did they end up up there?  I thought they were cats, not squirrels" The deputy replied in a furious voice.

Whitefoot and Pearlfoot climbed the branch for them, helping them down.

"Thanks" He meowed.

"Yes, no problem" Pearlfoot said in a laughing voice.

The patrol was advancing in the undergrowth, he was going to follow them when Hawkpaw struck him swiftly.

"Hey what's wrong?!  Let go!".  He growled at he.

"No!  Why did you put my sister in danger?  you wanted she to die, right?!"

"No not at all!" He snorted.

"If I believe that I will believe anything"

That said, the apprentice rushed against him, dropping all his weight on his body, then he drew a claw wounding him in the face, the burning and blood cut him for a moment, he tried to attack him but he looked at him and said.

"You already know what will happen to you if you attack me, my father is the deputy and he could expel you, because you are not worth it!"

When he returned to the camp, his companions looked at him with derision.

"You are a squirrel" Swiftpaw's mocking voice snapped him out of his thoughts.

"Of course not!"  He snapped at her sharply.

"Warriors of the Thunderclan, gather around the rock"

Spottedstar's call brought him out of his quarrel with Swiftpaw.

"We all know what happened this morning, Stalkingpaw and Otterpaw believed that they were squirrels or birds, to be able to climb a tree"

Murmurs of laughter spread through the clearing, even the elders began to laugh hoarsely.

"That is why they must be awarded a well-deserved punishment"  Spottedstar continued.

"The punishment will be the following, they will not be able to go hunting, they will clean the elders' den and the queens'den, plus they will not be able to choose a piece from the pile of fresh meat until the clan has eaten first and they have fulfilled their obligations, such as It is the first assembly of Stalkingpaw it is important that the other clans see it so they can attend the one tomorrow, you, Otterpaw have already attended two assemblies so you will not be able to attend, that is as punishment and for you to let the trainees who have not yet attended"

"Yes Spottedstar" Said the apprentice in a sad voice.

"I will choose those who will go to the assembly tomorrow" Spottedstar continued.

"They will be: Swiftpaw, Stalkingpaw, Hawkpaw, Pearlfoot, Ashflower, Flyingwind, Floweredheart, Wastelandflight, Turquoiseclaw, in addition to the medicine cat and her apprentice Stormpaw"

Everyone in the clearing nodded with murmurs of satisfaction.

He felt a sharp push, it was Hawkpaw the apprentice looked at him with hostility and whispered with a threatening growl.

"You know what happens to you if you say something, I'll tear you to pieces!"