Always be patient //TAGGED & OPEN//

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October Christmas here is a battle training thread for Dovepaw :D

As the sun began to set, Cloverwish padded out of the warriors den and into the clearing. A large pile of prey lay in the clearing and most cats were lying around chatting. She headed over to the apprentices den and called out, "Dovepaw, are you there?" She planned to take her apprentice out for some battle training. He hadn't had any yet but he needed some, because they never knew when the next battle would be. She sat down and turned her amber eyes towards the entrance to the camp. The dusk patrol was just returning, their expressions happy and tails high. She smiled. Everything is fine at the moment. but it wont hurt to be prepared.

[October Christmas]

The creme colored tom padded out of the den "I'm here, I'm here," he grumbled. He hadn't made a habit of leaving camp when bored. instead, he had been waiting around camp, occupying himself by running around, pushing all the moss beds out to make a pile, and climbing on whatever he could. The climbing had ended with him bruised on account of his bad climbing on relatively anything. With dawn pushing its way on to the clearing to prepare everyone for night, he had retired to the apprentice den. "Took you long enough," Though he wasn't in a foul mood for not being trained earlier, he spoke with his average sharp tongue, not paying attention to feelings or respect as he spoke.

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She watched as Dovepaw shuffled out of the den, grumbling something. Cloverwish looked at him curiously. He wasn't usually this down. Shrugging, she stood up and mewed, "I thought that we could go and do some battle training. How does that sound?" Glancing ahead of her, she ignored it when he mewed, "Took you long enough". It had been such a beautiful day that she had gone out hunting with the rest of the warriors. Touching her tail to his shoulder she mewed, "Let's go. I found a nice grassy spot near the camp". She padded out of camp and into the meadow beyond. It was nice to feel the warm night breeze on the pelt as she padded down towards the border. Soon she arrived at a flat, sandy area. It was perfect for combat training. Now the calico warrior sat down and waited for hr apprentice to arrive.

[October Christmas]

The tom shook himself before following his mentor. He noticed she was leading him to a meadow and quickly rolled around in it before regaining his focus and continuing. With each step he grew more anxious though the trip was short. Dovepaw sat down across from Cloverwish, feeling unfamiliar sand. "Hey, I thought you said it was a nice grassy spot!" He shifted between paws, putting them up one at a time before getting over the lack of grass underfoot. He had felt sandy ground before but not very much and he never got over it.

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"And we will be. but first I want us to practice here". What she didn't way was that it was much harder on sand. All the more practice though. Turning around, Cloverwish padded over to the other side of the clearing and scratched a mark in the sand with a paw. Then she stood a mouse length away from the line and couched down. "Get past the line," she simply mewed, wanting Dovepaw to interpret this challenge in his own way. If it was up to her, she would go for a feint. I'm ready for this. 

[October Christmas]

Dovepaw was happy to hear that soon he would be leaving this unfamiliar area to hopefully, a meadow. He watched as she made a mark on the sand with anticipation at what she would do next. "Get past the line," he heard the she-cat say. " I'll gladly cross it if I can get on to some grass!" he mewed with focus on his target. His medium body shifted to a crouching pose before propelling him forward to run past the line.

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Cloverwish watched as her apprentice crouched down close to the sandy floor. She could see his discomfort in being on the new terrain and smiled. He needs to learn to be adaptable. It's a great trait to have. Whilst he was prepping herself, she shifted her position so that most of her weight was on her left side. Since she was stronger on her left side, she wanted to be able to perform her next move strongly. Suddenly he dashed forwards, heading for the line. Brute force and speed, I see. Good strategy, but not exactly what Whisperclan is known for. Quickly she flashed out a paw, aiming to trip up Dovepaw. Then, without stopping she spun around and swiped her sheathed paw at where his flank would hopefully be.

[October Christmas]

There wasn't much space for him to run and the sand kept making his paws sink. Though his running was wobbly unlike his usual straight running it didn't matter once he felt the force of Cloverwish's paws and tripped. What just happened? He was flustered and now on the ground but he didn't go back to where he had been to think a new plan. I'm already close, who wants to go all the way back just to wait and think of a new plan and then finally try again? Instead of going with an entirely different approach since the last one had failed, he went with something close to it and began to crawl towards the line.

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She smiled as Dovepaw connected with her paws and tumbled onto the ground. She watched him as he waited on the ground. Interesting tactic. Waiting and reforming. Not exactly a classic Whisperclan strategy but... Suddenly he began to creep forwards slowly. Interesting. She tucked up her haunches and pounced, aiming to nimbly land on his back. You need to keep yourself better defended, she thought as she flew through the air.