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[Carotius]

Training Status
Shown Territory: [1/1]
Hunting Training: [1/1]
Battle Training: [0/1]
Hunting/Border Patrols: [0/2]
Chores: [unspecified/2]
Skyfield Trip: [0/1]
Assessments: [0/2]

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"Foxpaw! Foxpaw, time to go!"

The SunsetClan camp was still relatively asleep in the early morning. The salty air was mingling with the misty dews of morning; cats were still asleep, though some were already up and about, preparing for their daily duties as assigned by the deputy. Good thing mentors and apprentices didn't need to be included if they were already off training, though he would have liked them to be included in the patrols for his apprentice's benefit. 

For now, Kestrelflight contented himself with a promise of taking his excitable ginger apprentice to battle training. He would have loved to ask another Clanmate to take their apprentice with them, but he wasn't sure who else would come along. Shrugging his shoulders, Kestrelflight padded over to the entrance, tail swishing in wide circles as he waited for Foxpaw's head to pop out from the apprentices' den. She was taking longer.

Rolling his eyes, he called out again, "Foxpaw! Don't make me come in there and tickle you awake!"

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Foxpaw woke up and stretched. Her eyes widened when she realized she was woken up to Kestrelflight calling to her. "I'm up" she said yawning "You don't have to tickle me awake" the she-cat said quickly. She stepped out of the apprentice den and blinking sleep out of her eyes. "What are we doing today?" Foxpaw asked, back to her normal energetic self, her bushy tail waving in the air.

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Well, that took a little longer than expected. Kestrelflight waved his tail in greeting to his ginger apprentice, at the same beckoning her to follow him. Without really waiting, he headed out the camp entrance, his spotted pelt disappearing through the barrier. He appeared back out from it and onto the sandy beach of the territory, the salty air filling his lungs with absolute familiarity.

"Today, we'll start on your battle training, since you did very well on the hunting one," Kestrelflight explained, flicking his tail tip. "As a warm up, we're going to run, and later swim! Stretch our muscles and all that!"

Playfulness now overwhelming his entire being, the Bengal shot forward, his limbs stretching out in wide gaits as he sprinted across the sand in a series of quick bounds. His tail streamed behind, fur pressed onto his body as the wind rushed past, a nice chill that was most definitely the sea breeze. Ah, the life of a SunsetClanner..

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Foxpaw stepped out after her mentor and into the beach. "Are we swimm-", her question was broken off by Kestrelflight's training plan for the day. Still grumbling about her interruption, Foxpaw didn't notice her mentor about to run, she sped after the Bengal, her long legs a blur, and her red tail sticking out. Foxdung she thought I still can't catch up to him.

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"Keep up, Foxpaw! You'll be thankful for this warm-up later!"

Kestrelflight felt his tight muscles begin to loosen and flex easily, allowing him to stretch out his paws as far as he could, and pulling himself forward a great distance. Maybe he wasn't as fast as WhisperClan cats, but he sure was faster that most of his Clanmates combined; after all, he didn't earn his warrior name of Kestrelflight for flying into the sky like a bird anyway!

He turned his head around, spying his ginger-pelted apprentice trailing behind but still making a valiant effort to keep pace with him. Purring, the Bengal slowed down his pace a little, at a speed that Foxpaw could easily keep alongside him with. After this, they would go for a short swim just to cool their body down (or warm it up, depending on the weather), and then they would begin their battle training.

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Foxpaw noticed with a purr that she was starting to catch up with her mentor, and ran faster to race ahead of him with a small triumphant mew. The she-cat slowed when she remembered that she didn't know where they were going today, and let Kestrelflight pull ahead slightly. "Where are we going" she asked, wanting to be the first to their destination.

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OOC: Muse has been used up for another post. Oops. XD

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"Well, since you know the territory now, I thought maybe you'd like to pick a spot for your battle training," the warrior replied, matching his apprentice's pace as they followed the edge of the jungle. "I'll show you a few moves, then we can go hunting."

Kestrelflight wasn't too enthused by the idea of fighting, but living in this realm of rivalries and borders, it was, quite unfortunately, a necessity. It would have been great if the Clans could just live in peace, to enjoy the serene lands that were gifted them seasons and seasons ago, where everyone could be happy and without worrying about losing another friend or family to the claws of death. Death was...frightening, for lack of a netter word.

Sounds like a kittypet life. On second thought, maybe the Clan life was all right as it is, if it meant it was nothing like the kittypet life. The new generations of warriors in each Clan should learn to appreciate such a fact, and that was why new kits were apprenticed and assigned to warriors, to teach them. The Bengal took a deep breath, green eyes gazing at Foxpaw. Do me proud when the time comes, and I will die a wonderful life.

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Foxpaw pricked her ears at the thought of picking the place they would train and of learning battle moves. She thought of where she wanted to train. "Would the beach by where we are swimming be a good place?" she mewed, wanting another opinion before deciding. "That way we are already there after swimming." Foxpaw added.

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Tags: @flameheart in case the thread disappeared
OOC: Sorry for the delay!

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Kestrelflight purred approvingly. His apprentice was proving to be clever in thinking; combine that with her enthusiasm and energy, she'd make quite the warrior. Now, where did she say she wanted to train again?

His green eyes widened. The beach? This late in greenleaf? Surely that wasn't too good of an idea with all the Twolegs romping about in the sand? The Bengal opened his mouth to protest, then closed it back again. He did let Foxpaw choose the location, and it was convenient to go straight to training without the need to travel after swimming. It should be fine. If anything, Kestrelflight could jump in to defend his apprentice.

"The beach is all right for me. but we must still be aware of Twolegs," he warned, whiskers twitching. "Lead the way!

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Foxpaw twitched her ears to show she heard her mentor as she sped up towards the beach. How many twolegs do you think there will be?Foxpaw asked nervously. Do you think they will have monsters? flocking her tail, foxpaw slowed as they reached the beach, not close enough to see it, but to scent that they were growing very close.

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The Bengal followed after his ginger-pelted apprentice, his ears and nose alert for signs of danger as they neared the beach. He wasn't expecting that many Twolegs there when it was late into greenleaf, knowing that even strange creatures such as Twolegs would be preparing for the freezing changes in weather as leaf-fall approached to finally give way to leaf-bare, though there had been an instance of a crowd of Twolegs rampaging on the beach at this time. He wasn't sure if it'd happen again, but he gave them the benefit of the doubt for now.

"No sightings of their monsters for as long as I remember," Kestrelflight answered as he stood next to his apprentice overlooking the beach. "On with it, while there's not many of them this early. I'm sure most have gone back to their stone dens."

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Foxpaw nodded in relief and bounded forward, not seeing any twolegs at first. She noticed some on the water in something that looked kind of like a monster. What's that? the she-cat asked, pointing to the water monster with her tail. Will it chase and catch us, It looks really fast, faster than rabbits. she said, fear making her voice tremble as she talked.

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"Shhh, it's okay. Those water monsters won't hurt us if we're on land," Kestrelflight soothed Foxpaw, wrapping his tail around her shoulders in comfort. It wasn't often they saw the watery cousins of the Twoleg monsters out in the ocean, but it was frequent enough. "Those are water monsters. Twolegs travel on the ocean with them, and I've noticed they only stuck to the deeper parts."

Kestrelflight scanned the shore beyond their position, taking the rather empty surroundings save for the loud roar of the water monster and its follow-up splash of waves as it swam speedily through the ocean. There weren't as many Twolegs as he had expected, with only small groups of them on the far end of the beach; some were playing with a round white stone of some sort, while other were holding onto tendrils that ran upwards to the sky to show they were attached to colourful flying things with strange leafy tails. Twolegs are strange! He crept forward a little, sniffing. The Twolegs didn't seem to have seen him.

Turning his head around, the Bengal nodded to his apprentice, lifting his ringed tail off of her as a small signal of 'all clear'. He pelted straight for the ocean as soon as he did that, a cheeky smile on his face. Oh, the waters again! How he missed the sensation of cooling seawater in his fur, soaking it to the skin until he was sure he had turned into a fish. That was a joke, of course, and he'd rather stay a cat, thank you very much.

With a concealed squeal, Kestrelflight dived through the surface, a wide smile upon his features. "Come on, Foxpaw! The water's great!"

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Foxpaw calmed herself, pricking her ears at Kestrelflight's twoleg lesson. Following the bengal, Foxpaw ran after her mentor, her long bushy tail streaming out behind her. The she-cat leaped into the water after Kestrelflight and started to swim up to where he was ahead of her. Why would the twolegs want to be in monsters instead of the water? she asked with a purr as she splashed in the water.

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Kestrelflight was greeted with a splash to the face as his apprentice joined him in the ocean, her expression of fear for the Twolegs earlier now replaced by joy and relaxation as she paddled almost effortlessly towards him. The soft purr that tickled his hearing only affirmed what he was assuming, and he returned it as Foxpaw joined up with him, querying more on the strangeness of Twolegs and their ways. He tilted his head in thought.

"As far as I'm aware, the Twolegs can swim, but not for too long of a distance. Not quite like us, no?" he meowed, gliding through the water like a slippery fish. "That, or they're afraid of drowning in the water...kind of like us."