I Don't Want Pity [Nixx]

[DanaBelle]

NIXX
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Gray fur moved up, down, this way and that as a very restless apprentice tossed and turned in his nest. It wasn't until his small paws pushed against his denmate that he arose to the cry of a very irritated she-cat.

"Watch it!" she hissed, brown fur bristling.

"Sorry." Graypaw grunted. "Is it morning already?" he flicked his big ears and pushed his white muzzle up to sniff the air.

"The dawn patrol had just returned." another apprentice replied, yawning as he went back into his deep slumber.

The gray tabby padded out of the den, he cringed as the bright sun hit his eyes, the black pupil becoming as thin as caterpillar silk and the mossy green iris' grazed the clearing for signs of a small, silver tabby tom. It was his first day training with Jaggedbreeze. Graypaw was not looking forward to it. He would get the same pitiful look he always got. With a large frown, the tom moved around asking for the whereabouts of his mentor from the few cats that were awake.

[NIXX]

Jaggedwing padded into the camp, the rest of his hunting patrol following in behind them. They hadn't been very lucky, no one had caught anything, but then again that can be expected during leafbare. There was no point in dwelling on that though. He had other things to worry about, like training his new apprentice. At the thought of his apprentice he looked around, it wasn't hard to spot the young tom that was asking others for his mentor. A smile playing on his lips Jaggedwing made his way over.

"Good morning, Graypaw.He meowed when he was closer to the tom. He didn't want to frighten him but then again he couldn't just stay quiet until the young tom realized he was there. "You weren't up very earlier, He started, it almost sounded like he was scolding his apprentice already, partly he was, but also it was just a start to conversation. "So, I left on a patrol."He stated, not wanting the young cat to think he was already in trouble. It would take a lot more than waking up late to piss off Jaggedwing.

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The silver-gray tabby sighed hopelessly. Had no one seen Jaggedwing today?

”Good morning, Graypaw.” The meow made him jump a step back. Sure enough, when Graypaw turned his small head he saw his mentor. ”You weren’t up very earlier,” Jaggedwing began. Graypaw braced himself for a scolding. “So, I left on a patrol.” The apprentice blinked his muddled green eyes in surprise. An unusual look for the usually indifferent tom.

”I didn’t sleep very well...I’m sorry I’m late. Do we still have time to train?” he hoped he hadn’t blown it completely. Jaggedwing letting him off for being late on the first day was lucky enough, he didn’t expect anything further today. Maybe he could help out in the medicine cats den.

[NIXX]

Jaggedwing watched the apprentice, waiting to see what his reaction would be to not being scolded. The older tom kept his face blank, trying to get a feel for his new apprentice. He had somehow suprised the younger tom by not getting too mad about the whole sleeping in thing. There was really no point to get mad at him though, Jaggedwing had gotten up late on mulitple occassions when he was younger. He understood it was hard.

"There is plenty of time left in this day to train!"The warrior responded scrunching up his eyebrows in confusion. There was always time to train, it was still the morning and he had nothing else to do today. "I thought we would start with hunting techniques, we won't be catching anything today but we can work on fundamentals." He turned around heading for the entrance to the camp, flickng his tail to let the other tom know to follow.

"On another note,"Jaggedwing started once they had made there way out of the camp. "You need to be sleeping. I get that you couldn't last night, but being a warrior isn't easy. Neither is training to be one. I'm training you to be the best warrior you can be and I can't do that if you are sleeping when you should be training." Granted the apprentice hadn't fallen asleep during training, yet, but Jaggedwing could remember all the times he had dosed off when his mentor was speaking. Even pervious apprentices he had, had done it too.

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"There is plenty of time left in this day to train!" The warrior responded scrunching up his eyebrows in confusion. Graypaw felt deflated. So he couldn't do chores instead. Well, he had to train sometime. "I thought we would start with hunting techniques, we won't be catching anything today but we can work on fundamentals." Jaggedwing turned towards the entrance, the silver tabby signaled for the younger tom to follow. Which, Graypaw did.

"On another note," Jaggedwing began again, once the pair had made there way out of camp. "You need to be sleeping. I get that you couldn't last night, but being a warrior isn't easy. Neither is training to be one. I'm training you to be the best warrior you can be and I can't do that if you are sleeping when you should be training." The silver-gray tom listened to his mentor, padding along while trying to match his gait.

"I'll work hard." Graypaw confirmed. He would. There was no doubt he was a diligent cat. Even if he didn't like the task, he would give it his all. Inevitably, he would need to do some combat sessions with others which he did not look forward to. He was a placid natured cat; Graypaw was not one to use his claws for the intention to inflict pain on another cat. At least today, they would be hunting. He liked hunting.

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I apologize if I accidentally switch up his name now and then. It's completely by mistake. I somehow want to call him Jaggedbreeze rather than Jaggedwing, lol. ^^'

[NIXX]

Jaggedwing nodded his head, glad to hear the confirmation that his apprentice would work hard. That's all the older tom wanted to see, that his apprentice would put in the effort. He couldn't grow in his skills if he was just going to be tired or lazy. Suddenly, Jaggedwing came to stop at a small clearing. He looked around for a momet before deciding this was the best place to start the first training session.

"Okay, Graypaw!"The tom stated taking a seat on the edge of the clearing. "Go into what you think the proper hunting stance is."He wasn't setting the apprentice up fro failure, although it could seem that way. He wanted to know what the young tom knew, so he would know where to begin. There was no point in teaching a cat something if he already had a handle on it.