~☁ CLOUDCLAN ☁~The Cats Who Touch The Sky~

Ivypaw prodded Blazestep a bit roughly. The red tom jolted a bit. "Eh?" He blinked and yawned. Ivypaw rolled his eyes.
"Did you catch any of that?"
"Catch any of..." He yawned again. "What?" For the most part, Blazestep just followed behind patrols. Since cats normally changed when alarmed, he didn't notice any reason to pay more attention. His mind was back in his nest, curled up happily.
"We're hunting."
"Oh...cool..." Blazestep saw that the rest of the patrol had pretty much moved off, Owlshadow included. Which meant the apprentices were probably hunting together. Lucky him. Maybe he'd go take a nap somewhere.... "Have fun you two." With a wave of his tail, he bounded off. His long legs eating up distance with ease. Ivypaw watched the tom go with a rather disapproving look. He heaved a sigh before heading in the direction Briarpaw had wanted.

"You know, he may be lazy but once you poke and prod he really is a great mentor." Briarpaw had the patience for it, he had two smaller family members who pushed at his buttons. His mentor just needed a bit of Briarpaw being insistent and he eventually conceded, if just to get him to lay off of it.

The young tom could feel Ivypaw wasn't impressed with Blazestep... So maybe Ivypaw wasn't impressed with him? Thought that he wasn't going to end up a capable warrior? He frowns at that.

"How do we want to do this" Owlshadow wanted them to work together. "We could just hunt seperately. Or if we find something maybe we can try and... Have one chase it to the other cat?" He had heard that worked with rabbits. If they blocked the hole to their burrow and one cat chased it to the other, they could often times pin it down easier. The tom probably preferred to pretend they worked together and actually hunt seperately.

Minnowheart smiles at Speckleclaw- she could feel him trying to be optimistic and it brightened her spirits. "Well if we need a lot then let's make sure we catch a lot!" She meowed in a chipper tone. Taking a few paces away from the tom, she stepped onto a stone jutting out of the stream. Carefully positioning her body so that her shadow matched the one set by the rock, she crouched down and waited. Eventually, she knew, the fish would swim too close.

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Owlshadow scowled at Blazestep wandering off sleepily and watched the apprentice's chatter from below him, high up in the tree tops. The mossy cover cast shadows which his gray pelt mixed in with, and he stayed quiet as a mouse. Impatience wore on him though, and he desperately hoped that the apprentices would come up with a plan soon.
More than once his thoughts ran too Blazestep, his pelt prickling with hatred. What good was some lazy, sleepwalking cat for the clan? As deputy, he hated having to babysit his clanmates like this. He knew Cloudclan cats had a history of being flighty and thoughtless but it still drove him to madness to see cats be so slow and repetitive-like. The clan would be better off without him...

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Mosspaw pricked his ears, hearing the sound of Larkeye and her kits entering the clearing. He tilted his head as they greeted Strawberrypaw, the dainty she-cat apprentice he shared his den with. She was a mystery to him- always with her mind on something but too embarrassed to talk about it when you asked. He wondered how she was feeling today, and listened from afar as the queen spoke to her.

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Ripplestorm growled as the squirrel races to the top most branches. He flicks his ear annoyed. He turned and look for something else to hunt. Next time, he would be a lot more careful.

Littlespring pounces on a frog and kills it. She buries it and looks towards Dawnripple. The orange she-cat was watching a mouse as it drank from the stream.

"Hi!" Strawberrypaw brightened up when the queen spoke to her. She had cared for her when she was born and her mother died in kitbirth.

Strawberrypaw bounced over to Larkeye."Training is okay. I'm really getting used to hunting but battle training is not going well. I miss you too!"

"No, she is very sweet. I just can't seem to make a dent on her when I pounce, I practically bounce off." Strawberrypaw's eyes turned dark. "It's pretty pathetic"

(DAN BLACKBROOK such a smoothtalker lmao)

Minnowheart yawned in the afternoon sun, her back warm and her paws cool- the perfect combination. She wished she could spent all day by the river fishing, but Owlshadow had put her in charge of the patrol and she was sure he would be waiting for her to return. She cast her gaze up to Speckleclaw, who had also found a fair share of fish, although a bit small. Minnowheart comforted herself with the idea that lots of small fish were just as good as a few big fish, and she hooked one last slimy body out of the water before taking her prey into her mouth and padding over to the tom. The three small fish, she decided, were probably as much as she was going to get that day anyway.
"Hey, I think I've got enough. The fish are small but I think they'll be okay. Good idea coming to fish!" She meowed appreciatively. prey had been running slow everywhere in the forest with the cold, but it seemed that finally at least one part of the territory was producing prey. She just hoped the other two cats had managed to catch something.

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Owlshadow stifled a yawn. The apprentices seemed to be spending a lot of time talking and not very much time actually doing something. He decided with a shrug that he might as well go try to find something for himself if he was just going to be wasting time watching the apprentice's prickle their pelts at eachother. Slowly, he slinked out of the tree, heading off into an area of dense undergrowth to look for any creatures coming out of their dens.

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Mosspaw frowned, overhearing Strawberrypaw speak so lowly of herself. Shyfawn didn't seem to be upset with her or anything- why did she think she was pathetic. Choosing to intervene, he got up and padded over, tilting his head at the she-cat "Hey, Strawberrypaw. I haven't heard anything from Ripplestorm today about training so i thought I might go out for a hunt. Do you wanna come with me?" He asked, trying to seem friendly. He had heard that the she-cat was pretty good at hunting, so perhaps they might catch something together. Maybe she wanted to get out of camp as much as he did, after being left behind for patrols.

(Ya gotta be if you don't want people to know you're a black hearted killer with evil intentions lol)

He had been intent on his fishing while they were there, and though he would have to groom the scent of fish out of his fur, he was very content. Seeing as Minnowheart seemed to be stopping for now, the tom pulls his fish towards the she-cat. Speckleclaw looks at the combination of their prey and nods his head appreciatively. It was a good haul, it would be even better when the fish were larger. "I'm glad we did so too.. Rootkit will eat." He was eyeing one of the largest fish he had caught and planned on delivering it to the kit personally.

Whatever she didn't finish, Heatherkit would gladly claim.

"Shall we head back and wait for the other two then?"

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Larkeye gives the new apprentice a wary glance. Two apprentices going out to hunt by themselves?

Her brain screamed danger.

"Ah. Mosspaw. Good morning." Her initial reaction was to tell the apprentice to leave Strawberrypaw alone... Danger danger danger. The woods were dangerous. Cats so small could be lost so easily. The warrior in her whispered that Strawberrypaw needed the encouragement, that getting out with another apprentice could boost her confidence. "Why... why don't you go along, Strawberrypaw...?"

(heck no xD that'd be interesting haha. I'll reply in a bit, eating with my mom!)

Oh boy lol)