The Sky is Gray [OPEN]

[Skiv]

Cloudpaw flicked his white tail as he padded through the territory. His fur had finally gotten out of that kitten stage and was now, long and flowing. He really hated it because it reminded him of his father, everything about him reminded him of his father and how he left. He left the clan and now they had a new leader and a new deputy. Cloudpaw narrowed his blue eyes, he really didn't like the new deputy, she was well almost to caring it was like she didn't have a back bone on her. If she was a leader all the others clans would stomp all over Leafclan like a nest. Cloudpaw didn't like it at all. The white tom headed off in the forest it was green and full of life and his pelt stuck out like a sore thumb. He didn't even bother to try and hide, he just wanted to take a stroll. Cloudpaw wasn't the most modivated apprentice in the world, well he was the exact opposite. Like right now he was supposed to meet his mentor but he just blew the warrior off. The tom was doing it more and more as the moons went on. He really didn't plan on becoming a warrior soon and well he really didn't want to be a warrior yet. That was to much work at least as an apprentice he could still roam the territory but yet he wasn't responsible for anything and the worse they could do was hold back his warrior ceremony. 

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Cloudpaw really didn't care about anything. He just padded around until looking up at the sky. It was a dark gray, sniffing the air it was quite moist. It's going to rain. Fun. He just blandly thought to himself and he just continued on not caring about the water or the storm. 

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Doebreeze really needed to stretch her legs. Three and a half moons spent cooped up in a nursery did nothing good for her muscles and she really needed to make sure she still had the physical ability to teach her apprentice. She left the camp with the full intention of heading to the Sunsetclan border, but her eye was caught by a flash of white amongst the birch trees.

Maybe now wouldn't be a bad time for stalking practice.

She got down low, and carefully followed after the younger tom, watching underfoot for anything that could give her away. Maybe she could surprise attack the apprentice.

Crack!

Just as she was approaching a fox length away from the tom, her tail slapped against a bush, producing a much louder sound than she had anticipated. She froze, eyes wide and tail still.

[Skiv]

Cloudpaw just padded silently he was heading who knows where. He needed more adventure in his life. Maybe he would cross the border and see if he could find a Sunsetclan cat to talk to. He honestly didn't care much about the warrior code, it was something that his mentor talked about often but he just tuned it out. Which was pretty much what he did everyday at training. He never had an motivation to do anything anyways. Continuing along the tom wasn't paying attention to his surroundings.

Crack.

The lean tom's ear perked up and flicked instantly towards the sound. He just narrowed his blue eyes and then looked over his shoulder at the sound. The shrubs around him didn't move and he just blinked to where the sound came from. He knew that he should investigate but the white tom just sighed and flicked his large white tail and continued on. Tasting the air as he went he could smell the faint scent of Leafclan but the tom really didn't feel like talking to any clan mates today.

OOC: εℓιzαвεтн., I give you permission to attack and pin him down or what ever you were thinking.

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Doebreeze felt the air in her lungs let out it a quiet sigh of relief. Either the apprentice spotted her and was playing along with this little game she had or hadn't spotted her at all. Of course, it must be the latter. I've still got it.

She continued to follow the young tom, now very aware of where her tail was at all times. As she began closing in on him, she began bunching her muscles. Maybe a little bit of a test wouldn't be bad for an apprentice, just to see if they were doing well with their training and being aware at all times. It would be like an unofficial, mini assessment. And it would her Doebreeze know what she needed to teach her own apprentice. Yes, that would be the perfect excuse. She was within a tail-length of the tom and he would surely be able to smell her now. She leaped, landing square on the tom's back to pin him down. "Ha ha!" she yowled victoriously.

Starclan, maybe she was losing it by being in the nursery all day.

[Skiv]

Cloudpaw kept continuing on. He looked up at the gray sky once again and was just waiting for the rain to come down. but it wasn't time yet. He just paused in the forest and listened to the world around him. The birds were quite and nothing seemed to move. It meant that the rain would be coming soon. He just sighed and contined on again but its wasn't long before he felt the paws on his back. He felt the weight of the cat land on him hard. His paws collasped from under neath of him and he landed on the ground with a grunt. He just head the cat say something in triumph and he just growled and then said, "Get off of me!" He then squirmed underneath the cat with his body. He knew that it was a fellow clan mate because if it was someone else they would have used claws and two this cat smelled like Leafclan. He just stopped kept squirming until he was allowed to get up.

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Doebreeze got off of the younger white tom; well, more of leaped off of him, being sure to push on his shoulders for good measure. She snickered, "Your mentor hasn't been teaching you too much has she?"

She glanced up at the gray sky, noting how close it was to bursting. Odd that an apprentice be walking about by himself when it's about to be a downpour. And with his lack of attention to his surroundings, it's like he has a death wish or something. Or maybe he was just too cocky to realize the dangers of what was outside of camp. If he was her kit, he would be getting a good talking to about leaving so young without another cat around.

[Skiv]

Cloudpaw just got up and shook out his long white fur and grumbled something along the lines of the warrior being heavy. Then he just looked at her with a lack of focus in on her. He just heard her next comment and he just shrugged her off casually and said, "Well she can never find me." Then he just flicked his long white tail and smirked at the warrior. He could tell that she was thinking about something and he didn't even want to ask what she was thinking about the apprentice just rolled his eyes. He was about to leave when he felt a rain drop hit his nose and he just sneezed before looking back up at the sky. It started opening up and the rain slowly fell down. He just looked at the warrior once again not saying anything to her.

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"Can never find you? I haven't been an apprentice for a little while now, but I don't think you're suppose to be hiding from your mentor," Doebreeze said. Out of the corner of her mouth she muttered, "Or walking around by yourself." The Bengal's tail tip flicked, almost nervously. Now that she had caught the younger tom, she wasn't actually sure what to do now. Was she suppose to lecture about being alone outside of camp without his mentor? Was she suppose to escort him back? Or was she just meant to hang out with him? Pouncing on an apprentice she didn't know didn't seem like such a great idea in hindsight.

The clouds had finally burst and the rain had come. One drop had unfortunately hit the white tom on the nose and he turned to look at her. Doebreeze raised her eyebrows at the young apprentice. "What? I can't make it stop raining," she said, tail tip flicking. She walked up beside him with a gentler smile on. "Look, hey, I'm Doebreeze. You're a new apprentice right? What's your name? Who's your mentor?"

The she-cat paused to give him time to respond to her. The rain picked up pace, but she paid no mind to it. It wasn't too much of a bother, especially since she wasn't in a tree or anything. It did make the atmosphere more moody and foreboding. She wouldn't be surprised if the tom broke out in a sob story about how awful his family was and how he just needed to get out to escape them or something like that.

[Skiv]

Cloudpaw just narrowed his blue eyes at the warrior. He just the snorted turning away from the she-cat. He just rolled his eyes and shook his head, Walking around by myself. I have been doing that since I was a kit. Why would it make a difference now."[/I] He just then felt as the rain came down and he looked back at the warrior once again. He just let the rain soak his pelt and she seemed to snap at him for no reason. He just rolled his eyes, he personally just wanted to see her reaction to the rain itself. He just then he listened as she introduced herself. He just flicked his ear in her direction and then growled slightly. He just looked back at her with his blue eyes and said, "Hiding from my mentor is a personal choice and some newly warrior isn't going to just stroll up to me and tell me what to do." Then he just then narrowed his eyes the rain making his long white fur heavy and cling to his lean frame. He just then said, "I'm not a new apprentice thank you. I actually have been an apprentice longer than you have been a warrior." He flicked his heavy wet tail and if it had not been raining it would have flicked water every where. Then he just flattened his ears and said, "Oh and my mentor is Rowanlight. Go head and talk to her I really don't give a mouse whiskers what you do or say to her." Then he just sat down and looked at the warrior and waited to see what she said next.


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Doebreeze laughed. The apprentice certainly had cheek, but he ought ot be more careful with the words he used. Some cats won't like the way he talked. "Well, maybe I just thought you were new because I don't pay attention to all of the apprentices we have running about now," she grinned. The rain was coming down good now and soaking through her short fur and shrinking her frame to even smaller than it already was. She was beginning to feel like a Sunsetclan cat with how much water she was covered is. Doebreeze shrugged off his prickly comments, saying, "Look, to be perfectly honest, do what you want. I'm just a new mother concerned about what your mother might think of you walking around without paying well enough attention to warriors sneaking up on you. Avoid your mentor, don't avoid your mentor; it's your training not mine. And I'm not going to talk to your mentor. If you've been an apprentice for as long as you say, then I'm sure she knows."

The Bengal she-cat was getting tired of standing in the rain. She lightly shook off her coat, barely removing as much water as she needed to to feel better, and moved under the cover of some underbrush, warding off some of the rain. She sat down on the damp ground, hoping to finish this up soon before the rain got too bad. "Hey, you never said your name."

[Skiv]

Cloudpaw just listened to the she-cat laugh. He just looked at her with a bit of annoyance on his face. This is why he didn't want to be a warrior. They though so highly of themselves it wasn't even funny. Thinking that they know everything about life and how to live it. He just then looked away from the warrior. He just listened as the warrior said that she doesn't keep track of the apprentices. Cloudpaw just put that on his list on why warriors were mouse brained know-it-alls. That was why he didn't want to become one. Cloudpaw just then glanced back at the warrior and then snorted. "Okay." he said to the she-cat. He then watched as she moved out of the rain. His white fur getting heavier by the second. So he decided after a few moments to join the she-cat. Getting in the underbrush he shook out his long pelt. Water flying every where. He then sat down while the she-cat then asked him what his name was. He just said simply, "I'm Cloudpaw."

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