Training -- Rookpaw

[Crevicefrost]

|| Rookpaw ||

Crevicefrost had woken up early. The young she-cat yawned before calling her apprentice. "Rookpaw training" she yowled before waiting for Rookpaw to emerge from the barn. Training here is going to be hard. Crevice muttered to herself 

[Rookpaw]

Rookpaw dragged himself out of his "Den" that he had made under the safe branches of a hollow bush. "Good morning," he meowed brightly, pushing back the pain in his raw paws and aching muzzle. He could feel onto the blisters on his paw-pads pop and release hot droplets of blood onto the ground. He winced slightly, but otherwise ignored it, instead looking around for Crevicefrost's other apprentice.

"Where's Mousey?" he asked curiously as he padded closer to his mentor. He was referring to Mousepaw, one of the other apprentices at the ceremony the other day, "is he gonna join us, or is this gonna be more of a one-on-one thing?"

[Crevicefrost]

Crevicefrost looked at her apprentice. "I'm going to be training you guys separate unless maybe you would like to hunt together tomorrow" she meowed. "What can you observe about this place.?" Crevicefrost asked him

[Rookpaw]

"Ah, okay. I'd be up for hunting together, it actually sounds pretty fun," the black tom meowed cheerfully, stretching a bit as he talked. He was still sore all over, but he could deal with it. He looked around when Crevicefrost asked him to observe his surroundings. "Well, it's not IceClan, for one thing," he pointed out as he looked around, not wanting to sit in silence, "lets see, we're still close to where everyone is camping, meaning that most of the prey in this area probably isn't around due to us scaring it off. Um, there's a big weird thing? I haven't gone inside it yet, but I've heard it's hollow. By the looks of it, it's probably something a two-leg made," Rookpaw looked back at his mentor, wondering if he was right about any of the things he was droning on about.

[Crevicefrost]

Crevicefrost nodded to her apprentice. She lead him into the plains. Her eyes scanned her surroundings. "What can you observe about this place." She asked him waiting for an answer.

[Rookpaw]

Rookpaw looked around carefully. "Well, it's fairly flat around here. And, with all the grass and everything, I would assume we're closer to FireClan than we are our own home? That makes sense to me at least, I've heard that there is a lot of grass in FireClan. Which is weird, considering that grass burns and, well, I would assume something that burns wouldn't exactly pair well with fire? Oh, sorry, getting off topic over here," the black-furred apprentice shook his head and focused back on his task, "okay, lets see, this place isn't actually FireClan, so I would assume we're more in loner and rouge territory now? That would probably explain why there aren't any concentrated areas of cat-scent. Umm..." he tried to think of more to add onto his observations, his ears perking up when he finally came up with something, "rabbit's like places like this, right? There are probably some rabbits running around," Rookpaw looked at Crevicefrost, hoping he had done a good job.

[Crevicefrost]

Crevicefrost nodded. This apprentice was smart. "Good answer you will end up being a great warrior one day" she told him. "Would you like to try to hunt?" the mackerel brown tabby asked.

[Rookpaw]

Rookpaw grinned from ear-to-ear when his mentor praised him, the fur on his chest fluffing up in pride. "I hope so," he meowed with an excited flick of his tail, "I wanna be the best warrior in the clan!" he stopped himself before he could bounce on his heels, knowing that his blistered paw-pads would hurt if he did. I'll be able to protect everyone in my clan one day, he thought silently to himself as he looked down at his paws, his head snapped back to his mentor when she asked him about hunting.

"'You kidding?" he mewed, dark blue eyes glinting, "'course I would!"

[Crevicefrost]

Crevicefrost sniffed the air for any trace of prey. There was rabbit scent but the warrior wanted Rookpaw to try something easier first. "See if you can catch something. I will be watching your progress" the she-cat meowed. Crevicefrost waited for her apprentice to begin his hunt.