Hazepaw closed her eyes, hoping that she didn't go to that place where she had met the cat, moon, last night.

And so of course, she opened her eyes to the weird glow of the place she was in the previous night. She pushed herself up, blinking.

 "Hazepaw?" Hazepaw jumped at the voice. She looked over here shoulder to see volepaw standing by a huge fallen tree.

"HAZEPAW GET OVER HERE! " she whipped her head back around, knowing the sound of moon's voice.

"Ugh, you have cloudmoon for you mentor?" Volepaw asked .

"Two things." Hazepaw replied, turning around once more to look at him. "One, isn't her name moon, and two, don't you hate me? "

Volepaw shrugged, and said "eh. Not really. It's kinda hard to hate to when hawkpaw isn't there. And she says her name is 'just moon', but literally everyone here knows her real name is Cloudmoon. You'd better start training, by the way."

After a few moments of awkward silence, hazepaw asked, " Where... Where are we? "

"The dark forest, mouse-brain! In real life, I am currently sleeping at the roots of a huge oak tree, starving because I couldn't catch any prey. I have no idea where hawkpaw or lilypaw are."

 " But seriously... You should hate me so much... "

Volepaw rolled his eyes, and said "mouseface couldn't even hunt! Seriously, she was against Smokestar!"

hazepaw took a step back, surprised. Volepaw supported smokestar?

 "You do realize that hawkpaw will do everything in his power to kill you, right?" Volepaw continued, evidently not noticing hazepaw's look of terror. "You could -"

 " HAZEPAW GET OVER HERE! " moon, or Cloudmoon, roared, and hazepaw heard pawsteps coming her direction.

 " Y-you'd better get going. " volepaw told her, taking a few steps forward, and touching noses with hazepaw.

The gray apprentice stood there in shock as he turned around, and bolted into the forest, not looking back. Cloudmoon appeared from the almost leafless bushes behind her, and stalked up to her, but hazepaw just kept staring at the place volepaw had disappeared.

 "What, still sleeping? " Cloudmoon growled.

 "Y-yeah. Sorry." Hazepaw replied , turning around to see the black and white she-cat scowling at her.

 "We're battle training. Now." 

 " Wait, here? "

To answer hazepaw's question, Cloudmoon leaped at hazepaw, bowling her over, and quickly pinning her down.

"You call that fighting? " Cloudmoon hissed in her ear, claws digging into her shoulders.

"L-let me up! " Hazepaw gasped, pushing herself upwards with all her might. However, Cloudmoon smirked, and pushed her down again.

"In a battle, you'd be crowfood. Let's make you some." Cloudmoon said , pressing her right paw down on hazepaw's throat, claws still unsheathed, while scratching her flank again and again.

hazepaw screeched, batting at cloudmoon's face with her paw.

 "Ha. Sheathed claws won't get you anywhere in a fight." Cloudmoon laughed , but it was a very menacing and evil laugh, and stepped off of hazepaw.

hazepaw pushed herself up, panting, blood spilling from the wound in her side. "What... Is- is this... Place?"

 " You obviously need a lesson about the dark forest. " Cloudmoon answered, stepping back, and sitting down. " cats here are dead-"

"So am I dead?" Hazepaw interrupted , then winced as Cloudmoon glared at her.

"You are not dead. I am. We stand by what is right. We are no soft, like the clans used to be. See stand by smokestar, as he made us strong again. If any cat dares start something, dares to work against him, we will be ready. We don't invite those... Other cats in."

" What other cats? "

"Thunder, river, shadow, sky. They follow different rules. Enough questions. An attack could come at any time, so -"

 Hazepaw broke Cloudmoon off when she leaped at her, knocking into her. but Cloudmoon surged to the side, and pinned her down in one, swift movement .

"Don't try. " Cloudmoon growled. "I'm going easy on you. Don't make me mad."

How did I kill two cats, Hazepaw caught herself wondering , if I can't make to kill on I want t MURDER.

 "Because some other warriors helped you." Cloudmoon said, as if replying to her thoughts. Maybe she could. "Blackstorm helped once, ashblaze another."

" Just... Get off me. " Hazepaw asked as cloudmoon's class dug deeper into her skin.

"Just because your smokestar's kit doesn't mean we respect you." Cloudmoon growled . "No."

 " so... When will I actually learn stuff? " Hazepaw asked.

"As soon as you learn to deal with pain." Cloudmoon replied , scratching hazepaw's face.

"Get off!" She yowled.

"Just get off her. She'll never learn to fight if you kill her first. " said a voice, unknown to hazepaw.

"hmph. Fine." Cloudmoon siad, Nd hazepaw felt her step off of her .

She twisted her head around to see a tiny white tom with a few ginher patches. or, at least, hazepaw thought that was his color. He was almost completely transparent, and she could see the trees and ground behind him as he glared around the clearing hazepaw and Cloudmoon had been fighting in.

"snowspot, weren't you training blizzardstrike and crowpaw?" Cloudmoon asked stiffly.

 " We're done. I've come to help you train your new apprentice, since your obviously failing. " the white tom, snowspot, answered, smiling.

"Get up." Cloudmoon commanded . "This is hazepaw."

"I know. I'll help tomorrow."

 " tomorrow? "

 "The sun is rising, and she'll be waking up soon. "

Fine. " Cloudmoon sniffed, boarding at snowspot. "She can wake up now. Tomorrow, hazepaw needs to learn about how to fight properly."

 " Or maybe you need to learn how to teach? "