Patient Impatience (Roselocke)

[Anya]

Roselocke

Nightpatch lingered at the entrance –already in a grumpy mood because of the cold nipping at him. He had asked Vixenpaw to meet him at dawn for an early morning tour of the territory, a training agenda, and her first hunting lesson.

Then he had to assign duties to the apprentices, and he would make sure Vixenpaw started off by collecting water for the elders and the cats in the nursery. As for delivering meals he would have Fawnpaw do that…Honeypaw would probably complain and he was in no mood to bicker with her.

The large black tom unsheathed his claws sinking them into the ground. The wind wouldn’t blow him away but it reassured him that he was attached firmly to the earth.

His ears perked at the sound of a familiar voice. Thundersong. Wonderful. Just wonderful. There was no way he was going to put up with that in the morning. Never.

“Where is that apprentice?” he lashed his tail back and forth in impatience.

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Vixenpaw slept soundly in the apprentice den, a small smile on her lips as she dreamed of hunting through the woods, searching for mice, but instead finding Stormpaw. The brown furred she-cat was oblivious to all the activity rushing around her-apprentices waking up to rush off to training, warriors getting their apprentices preped for training, or even sending them off to do chores. Nope, the she-cat was too busy dreaming about Stormpaw to even wake up. Yup. Completely perfect apprentice. Until, Wolfpaw stepped on her tail.

In a flash of brown fur, pale forest green eyes stared at the wide, bright green eyes of Wolfpaw with quite the bit of anger. Until that silly she-cat remembered training with Nightpatch. With a slight surprised squeak, she was out of the den in seconds, leaving Wolfpaw standing there bewildered at her change of emotions.

Slipping out of the den, the pale forest green eyes of Vixenpaw searched for her mentor, darting from side to side as she searched for the large black tom. With a quick bound, she reached him with perked ears and fluffed, ungroomed fur, yet there was a ting of excitement in those eyes as she thought. Her very first day of training! Oh how exciting this would be!"Sorry I'm late Nightpatch! I completely forgot about training today!" She meowed, an awkward smile on her face as she hopped from paw to paw, unable to hold her excitement.

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Nightpatch's ears twitched with irritation. The large black tom opened his mouth to scold his apprentice when his sharp yellow eyes caught sight of a golden tabby tom slipping out of the warriors den. StarClan! He's out! In his haste to avoid any sort of conversation with Thundersong he hurried to push his apprentice through the entrance and out into LeafClan territory.

"Quick on your paws, we need to finish up quickly. I've got a lot planned for us to do today and I want to stay on schedule." Nightpatch didn't wait for his apprentice to respond as he hurried along the barren path through the forest. "First I'll show you all the important parts of our territory." Nightpatch stopped abruptly and turned his fierce gaze down on Vixenpaw. He was huge. Literally ginormous. In a battle, the odds would be in his favor.

"Let me explain where our borders lie," he used his tail to point in each direction as he explained, "to the west lays the border between us and MidnightClan. To the east we border SunsetClan. The south, our territory is cut off by an unused thunderpath. Be careful around that area. To the north are the fields and the river, and just beyond that is the Pond of Truce. You will see that when you go to your first gathering." he turned around once more and continued to walk.

"Now we'll see the key areas." he called behind him. "Any questions Vixenpaw?" 

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Vixenpaw was shocked that Nightpatch practically shoved her out of camp, her pale forest green eyes wide with surprise. She thought she would most likely just get snapped at, and she could just tell from Nightpatch's grumpy expression she just got there in time to stop it, or something like that. With a flick of her long tail, she listened closely to his words, quickening her pace as she padded beside him. She stared around at the territory, a smile on her lips as her eyes glanced around. With a quick stretch, she bounded back to her side, and then listened closely to his words.

Until she saw a butterfly.

'Ooh pretty!' The brown she-cat thought, her eyes now staring at the butterfly fluttering through the air, and her own ears perked, though she was pretending to listen. Her thoughts far, far away, she smiled at the butterfly and nodded at his words, though she was too busy to hear what he was saying. Until she snapped out of it when the butterfly had left, hidden behind a bush. Right when he asked her a question.

"Oh um...Could you just repeat all of it please?" She asked, prepared to be completely snapped at.

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"Oh um...Could you just repeat all of it please?" She asked.

Nightpatch whipped around with a fierce glare. "WHAT? HAVE YOU NOT BEEN LISTENING?!? IGNORANT LITTLE APPRENTICE!" he fumed, fur standing on end.

"Vixenpaw..." he toned his anger and irritation down, "if you want to become a warrior worthy of LeafClan then you must do as I say!"

"Learning the territory is the first step and if you don't know your own turf well then you can say goodbye to your life in battle!" Nightpatch he furiously spun back around.

"Listen well, to the west lays the border between us and MidnightClan. To the east we border SunsetClan. The south, our territory is cut off by an unused thunderpath. Be careful around that area. To the north are the fields and the river, and just beyond that is the Pond of Truce. You will see that when you go to your first gathering." his voice grew a tad bit gentler and his anger subdued when his fur lay flat again.

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Vixenpaw flinched, prepared to get snapped at, but jumped out of her pelt when he yelled at her, crouching close to the ground. Her pale green eyes wide, her ears pressed against her head, she stared up at her mentor, horrified. She never expected such an outburst.

Now listening closely, she nodded her head quickly as she listened, her eyes still wide."O-Okay. I-I understand." She meowed as she slowly pushed herself up, before setting up on a slow pace forward to stand next to her mentor, her fur still puffed from the shock."Wh-What's next, Nightpatch?" She asked, a nervous ting in her voice.

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Nightpatch flicked his left ear, angling it towards the Mossy Oak. "That is the Mossy Oak tree, where you'll be collecting moss when the Mossy Pool is frozen over." he explained. The tree was large, it's branches spreading far and wide and it's bark and the earth at it's roots covered in moss. The filtered light between it's branches danced as the sun rose up higher.

"I'll show you the Mossy Pool on our way towards the training grounds. Ahead we'll see the the Dead Woods." Nightpatch stopped momentarily to face her. His yellow eyes burned intensely and his tone was dead serious. "Stick close and don't dawdle, it's dangerous around the dead woods -especially for apprentices." he warned.

He wouldn't let her get hurt, obviously. but there were some things that even Nightpatch could not do. Hopefully the Dead Woods wouldn't be occupied. They usually weren't so early in the day, especially in leafbare -one of the reasons he chose this time.

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With a blink of her soft forest green eyes, she nodded in haste. Staring with awe at the large tree, she took notice to the moss surrounding the roots, and with a flick she imagined one of her friends trying to climb such a monstrosity. With a small smile, she returned all her thoughts back to her mentor, trying her very best to keep up all of her deepest attention. She wanted to be a good apprentice, though with her attention span, pfft, it was gonna be hard."It's so big Nightpatch!" Her words slightly excited, Vixenpaw trotted right next to her mentor.

"Ooo, me and my friend Stormpaw went in there once! It did not seem very scary to me." Staring wide eye=d at her mentor, her maw slightly opened in surprise of the Dead Woods being that scary. When she went in their, it was perfectly fine.