Crowkit's and Mudkit's Ceremony

Raccoonstar leapt on top of the tall rock, and let out the tradtional call, "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here beneath tall rock for a clan meeting."

Mudkit pranced out of the nursery, his tail held high. His black fur shined in the sun and his paws gleamed from his cleaning. He knew this must be his apprentice ceremony because he was six moons old and ready to get out of that nursery. He held his chin high as he trotted to Tallrock and sat down below it. He looked around the clearing eagerly awaiting for this ceremony to start.

Crowkit followed him out, not as proud-looking but more bored. He sat calmly down next to Mudkit, guessing this must be his ceremony as well as Crowkit's own. Why else would Mudkit look so proud of himself? Crowkit thought it was kind of stupid to be all smug about getting to clean out the elders' den and work your rump off all day just so you were allowed to eat. Sometimes he wondered if he even wanted to be an apprentice, but he always reminded himself that it would pay off when he was a Warrior. He was looking forward to one day getting to show the other clans who's boss.

"Today we are gathered here to make Crowkit, and Mudkit apprentices." Raccoonstar looked at the apprentices. "Will you please step forward?"

Mudkit smiled and thought I was right!! Then he held his head high, stood up and pranced forward quickly then sat down and looked back up at Raccoonstar.

Twistedfoot sat not far from the Tallrock; his tail wrapped around his paws as he watched Crowkit and Mudkit. He was a warrior now; and it was great but he couldn't help but wonder if he was going to get one of them as his own apprentice due to the whole lot of apprentices they had now; and the lack of warriors.

Crowkit stepped forward, looking up at Raccoonstar with a small smile on his face, a hint of excitement in his bright, green eyes.

"From this moment on until you receive your warrior name, Mudkit you will be known as Mudpaw, and Crowkit you will be known as Crowpaw. I will mentor both of you." Raccoonstar mewed, then jumped down from the rock to greet her two apprentices.

Crowpaw dipped his head quickly before reaching up to touch his nose to his new mentor's, which was also the leader. Having the leader could be either really cool, or really bad, and with a second apprentice working beside him all the time, he was leaning towards the 'bad' end. When his part was finished, he narrowed his eyes, glancing over at Mudpaw. Don't get in my way. He warned in his thoughts, though he knew the tom, let alone anyone else, couldn't hear them. I'm going to be a strong Windclan warrior one day, and to achieve that goal, we're gonna need to cooperate some, so don't mess it up!

Mudpaw smiled and widened his eyes a little in surprise as he heard Racconstar say he and Crowpaw were gonna be her apprentices. He waited for Crowpaw to finish his part of the ceremony before touching noses with Raccoonstar himself, excitement glowing in his eyes. He looked over to Crowpaw and was about to say something to him, but something in his mind was telling him not to. So instead he just turned back around to check if there was anything else he needed to do.