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A brown tabby she-cat stalked silently out of the apprentices den. She glanced around camp, and narrowed her eyes. Her mentor was nowhere to be seen, as always, to her. She sighed. Her icy blue orbs turned to the sky, and she gazed up almost carelessly at the pale blue, cloudy sky, as if just staring at it would lift all her problems away from her, forever.

A paw prodding her in the side snapped her back into reality, and she turned to see her brother standing there. "Thiefpaw," Brackenpaw meowed, rolling his eyes. "Seriously; what were you doing?" he asked, narrowing his eyes playfully. Thiefpaw glared at her brother for a few moments, before closing them. Brackenpaw had too much of a playful personality, when Thiefpaw was just silent and mysterious.


Thiefpaw batted Brackenpaw's ear, but her brother didn't react. He knew that Thiefpaw didn't like play-fights, and that she only did that to tell him wordlessly to be quiet. "How rude", he had told her the first time she did that, and told him what it meant. Thiefpaw had just shrugged carelessly.

Brackenpaw was slightly alarmed by the fierceness in his sisters' icy blue eyes, and he took a very small pace back, but quickly took a step forward again. He wouldn't show her that he was . . . afraid. He shook his head slowly. Get a grip, Brackenpaw, he scolded himself mentally. She has eyes! Big deal.

Now that he thought of it that way, he thought it mouse-brained to be alarmed in the least-bit by her piercing ice blue eyes. "You're being oddly quiet," a voice said in an oddly mysterious tone. But completely familiar to Brackenpaw. Snapping back into reality, he turned to face his sister. "Just thinking." he defended himself coolly.

Thiefpaw rolled her eyes. "Right, I can tell. Anyway, it looks like your mentor is looking for you. You'd better go before you're scolded and punished," Thiefpaw hissed coldly, though she only said that out of envy. And she knew that Brackenpaw knew it. "Right," Brackenpaw replied, glancing back at Midnightwhisker, his mentor. He shrugged. "See you later then." And with that he took off, running towards his mentor.

Thiefpaw watched, slightly sad. Why did Brackenpaw always get the good things? Good mentors who always trained him, good friends who always stayed with him, and everything. But what did she have?

Nothing.

A mentor who never trained her, and no friends who ever cared about her. In fact, the only living cat who cared for her was Brackenpaw, and now she felt guilty for ever treating him coldly. She hissed softly, and stared down at her paws, ears flattened.

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Stolenpaw looked at Theifpaw. His blue eyes not nearly as icy as hers. He watched Brackenpaw go to his mentor. Stolenpaw casted a glance at his own mentor, Seqouialeaf. He hissed. Seqouialeaf did almost nothing now that Chocolatestar died, and since his brother got injured by some lost badger.

Suddeny he felt a weight on him. Smokepaw's familair scent came to his nose, and he hissed, "Get off of me Smokepaw!" He hated it when Smokepaw attacked him randomly.

Smokepaw hissed back and climbed off, "Your not fun!"

Stolenpaw just growled and stared straight ahead. Smokepaw wondered off again, this time near Theifpaw, she crouched down low, and wiggled her tushy. Then she launched herself at Theifpaw and landed sqaurely on her back.

Stolenpaw watched in surprise, Theifpaw never wanted to play-fight.

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Thiefpaw hissed softly when she felt a sudden weight land on her back. She quickly turned her head and saw that it was Smokepaw. She had at first thought it to be some random attack, but knew that was highly unlikely. She unsheathed her claws, not really wanting to injure Smokepaw, for she would be punished, but she wanted to get the apprentice off of her.

She shook her pelt violently so that Smokepaw would be flung off.

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Smokepaw almost clutched her claws into Theifpaw's flesh, trying to stay on. But before she could do that, and before she was flung of. She hit the ground roughly with her brother standing over her.

Stolenpaw was snarling at her sister, and help her tightly to the ground. "Lay off" Stolenpaw snarled. He had launched himself over Theifpaw and had snatched his sister away, pinning her to the ground.

"Then get off!" Smokepaw snarled back.

Stolenpaw's ear twitched as he leaped over his sister, and joined Twilightpaw. Twilightpaw had been watching, but she had said nothing. She could feel Crowfeather's glare burning into her.