The Daily Things

[Mirepaw]

Pebblepaw's eyes beamed brightly. "I slept great!" he mewed. "I woke up early though," he added, "but I'm used to it, so it doesn't affect me any more."

Galesong closed her eyes, simply listening to all the sounds of the morning. The enthusiasm of her apprentice was good, though she sometimes worried that it would annoy some of the other cats, especially the older ones.

[[Nightwood]]

Puddlekit pounced on her mothers tail which was curving into the nursery. "Got you!" She said loudly, but slightly slowly.
Dewdrop sprang up in alarm. "Oh, dear. Puddlekit, do you have to sneak up on me?" She smiled and licked her kit between the ears.
The tiny kit smiled and pounced at a rock. "Practicing." She said as though her mother should have known what she was doing.

[leopardfur]

Pebbleheart watched as Puddlekit sprang on his mothers tail, and when she sprang up in alarm Pebbleheart let out a yowl of laughter. "An exellent warrior you should make, Puddlekit!" He yowled to the young kit as he flicked his tail in amusement.
"So would anyone care to go on a hunting patrol with me?" He asked Galesong and Pebblepaw, hoping that they would accept his little offer before he had to go and find something else to do like help find herbs and pick berries with Swiftshadow![/color]

[Mirepaw]

Pebblepaw looked up at Galesong questioningly. "Why not?" she said. "It'll be more good practice, and a good chance to wake up. Not that Pebblepaw needs any more energy," she added, smiling down at the energetic young cat.

"I'll be back in a second, then," said Pebblepaw as he raced off toward the nursery to say a temporary goodbye to Hummingkit. He quickly hurried back to to two cats, his sister retreating into the nursery to sit and rest.

[[Nightwood]]

Puddlekit froze and stared warily at Pebbleheart. She lowered her head shyly and grinned. "Thank you." She said quietly.
Dewdrop stretched luxuriously and nudged Puddlekit gently. "There's no need to be like that. You know all of these cats."

[Amber]

Wildstreak got back onto his paws as he heard Nightstar. It was best to not disobey the leader. 'A patrol' he thought, looking back into the forest. Maybe he shouldn't be so hopeful of finding his little sister, maybe he should concentrate on something else for a while. 'How could I even think of not finding her?' he questioned himself. With a small sigh he looked around the camp for the two cats he was suppose to go on patrol with. As he spotted them he smiled a little and saw that Pebbleheart was with them. "Nightstar told me to go on a patrol with you two." he said, looking at Galesong and Pebblepaw. He was completely unaware about what Pebbleheart had just said.

[leopardfur]

Pebbleheart smiled and watched Puddlekit but he was interupted by a voice that startled him. "Oh Wildstreak, it's you. A patrol? I just asked them to go on a patrol with me..." Pebbleheart meowed as the fur on his fluffed up tail began to settle back down.
If Wildstreak thinks that he's going to look for his sister on this patrol he's wrong, the clan is more important Pebbleheart thought as he shook his head at his own feelings. Swiftshadow, Wildstreak, what was next? Pebblekit out looking for his half kin?[/size]

[Mirepaw]

Galesong was crestfallen about what to do. If Nightstar had told Wildstreak to go on a patrol with them, it would be wrong to refuse, but she didn't want to turn down Pebbleheart's offer after she had already accepted.

"Well, why don't we all go together?" suggested Pebblepaw, reading her mind as always. Not that it was difficult, her face was quite expressive - except when she was covering it with her smile.

Galesong looked from Wildstreak to Pebbleheart for confirmation, not wanting to be the one to decide.

[leopardfur]

"Great idea Pebblepaw, as smart as your mentor already eh?" Pebbleheart meowed with a smile as he tried to hide his broken expression. He really wanted to go on a patrol with Galesong and Pebblepaw but I guess that that was out of the question. Why did Wildstreak have to go and ruin his fun? Pebbleheart had though so many times as he got up and stretched a bit.[/size]

[Mirepaw]

Pebblepaw let the compliment go straight to his head, leaping up in excitement. "Let's go then!" he meowed, looking as if he was ready to take on a badger by himself.

Galesong was unusually quiet, her tail twisted tight around herself. She wasn't sure just how smart she was, and more than that she wasn't sure that she'd want any cat to be as "smart" as she was either. Especially not an apprentice. Especially not Pebblepaw.

[leopardfur]

Pebbleheart smiled and flicked his tail at Pebblepaw, "Now now, don't act all tough as if you could take on the whole of ShadowClan! We must wait for Wildstreak's approval of this, should we not?" Pebbleheart asked as he looked from Pebblepaw, to Wildstreak, then to Galesong. Noticing her uneasy look, he bent down and smiled at her, "Why so glum? We're going on patrol, cheer up, maybe Nightstar will permit us to go check out Sunningrocks, you know that it's only a matter of time before we take them back from ThunderClan!" He yowled as some of the cats cheered on, they all knew that Sunningrocks belonged to RiverClan, and they wanted them back.[/size]

[Mirepaw]

Galesong smiled weakly, though she did feel better, thinking about the glories of RiverClan. Pebblepaw turned around to face Pebbleheart, nearly panting with excitement.

"Yes, we should go to Sunningrocks and take them back right now! I bet we could, ThunderClan wouldn't stand a chance!" the young apprentice meowed in feverish delight. "After all, we have three strong warriors, not to mention me! And maybe after that we can go to ShadowClan, just so I can prove you wrong!"

Galesong, caught up in her apprentice's enthusiasm, joined in. "And then we may as well go and fight WindClan, just so they don't feel left out," she laughed. "Think you can manage all of that, Pebbleheart?"

"Why not?" replied the apprentice, already deciding what his battlecry would be.

[leopardfur]

"Why not?" Pebbleheart laughed as he looked at the assembled RiverClan cats, "Today we take Sunningrocks back! They are rightfully ours and no Clan, not even ThunderClan or ShadowClan will stand in our way!" He yowled to the cats around him as most yowled in unison.
"Unwise you cats be," a voice meowed from the shadows as Swiftshadow stepped out, his lame eye facing them. "Sunningrocks is ours, we can take it back, we can fight off the whole of ThunderClan and still live. Bleh! A bunch of mouse-brained kits you all are!" Swiftshadow hissed as he walked up to Pebblepaw. "Thinking you could take on ShadowClan eh? They'd rip you to pieces as soon as you set one paw in their territory, they are vicious and cruel and no cat see's the light of day ever again if you enter their woods." Swiftshadow hissed to all the cats as their cheers quieted down.
"Who are you to say this? Just because of one insident?" Pebbleheart yowled at Swiftshadow as the tom began to bare his teeth.
"I know all too well what they are capable of and if you want to get yourselves killed then so be it!" Swiftshadow yowled as he dug his claws into the mud, trying to hold himself back from clawing out Pebbleheart's ears for that last remark.[/size]

[Mirepaw]

Pebblepaw's ears lowered in slight shame, but his eyes still shone. Not with defiance, that was rarely seen in the small apprentice, but with belief. He knew he couldn't take on all of ShadowClan and win, but that didn't mean he had to lose, either. Nor did it mean he wouldn't be a strong warrior.

"At least we try," said Galesong softly. "At least we try to do something good. We could do everything the same everyday and live perfectly happily, but if we never try to make things better than things will never get better." Her eyes seemed lit with a strange glow as she recited words she knew very well. "It doesn't mean we have to take on a whole clan. It doesn't mean we have to learn to control fire or stop lightning. It just means that we have to understand that things could be better, that things could be worse, and try our hardest to shift the balance."

Pebblepaw gazed up at Galesong in half-awe. He'd seen her many ways, but he'd never seen her like this before!

[leopardfur]

Pebbleheart smiled at Galesong's words and stared at Swiftshadow in content, "There, now you see why we do these things? Good job, Galesong," Pebbleheart praised as he smiled and nudged her, he too was in awe of her words.
"Try to shift the balance all you like, try to change things, we do not live every day in happiness, you think leaf-bare will just decide to skip us just to change the balance of things? You are foolish to think so, as foolish as a young kit!" Swiftshadow spat at Galesong as he glared at the three, "Try to change something all you like, it will end up being the same on the outside as it ever was," he hissed as he retreated back into the shadows, his eyes glinting as he hunched over and stared at the ground, how could they not see that this would get them killed, how could HE have been so blind that night with Ivypool...[/size]