Ashkit and Ripplekit's Apprentice Ceremony

"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather beneath the willow branch for a Clan meeting!" the RiverClan leader yowled, settling down onto the rock below her.

Upon hearing Fishstar's voice, the two kits from the nursery emerged excitedly. Seeing the group of cats gathering underneath the branch's shadow.

Ashkit and Ripplekit made their way to the branch, standing proudly in front of Fishstar with their heads high.

Once the kits had sat down and quelled their own excitement a fair bit, the RiverClan leader continued on with the ceremony. "You two have both reached the age of six moons as of today, and are now ready to be apprenticed. From this day forth, until you receive your warrior names, you shall be known as Ashpaw and Ripplepaw. Ripplepaw, you mentor shall be Sootwhisper. Ashpaw, I will mentor you." Fishstar leaped down to meet her newest apprentice, and they exchanged a brief nose-tap. Goodness, how many apprentices had she trained now..?

Ashpaw nodded firmly, standing still when her nose was shortly tapped by the Leader. Ashpaw was excited to be trained by Fishstar, but her expression remained composed as well as calm.

Ripplepaw jumped for joy, once on his four feet again, he eyed around the area to try and see if a cat approached him. Sootwhisper? Yeah, that was their name.

Sootwhisper had been listening on a shady spot, far enough from the crowd to not feel uncomfortable with so many cats around him. He rarely got close to the main gathering place after all, he felt fairly surprised when his name was mentioned, but shook it off and got up, walking towards the newly named apprentices with his usual silent way of walking and emotionless expression. As soon as he got in front of Ripplepaw he lowered his head to touch noses with him, accepting him as his first apprentice without saying a single word.

He wouldn’t be surprised if Ripplepaw couldn’t recognize him, as his aloof personality made his social interactions be severely limited and he never visited the nursery after receiving his apprentice name “Patrol, tomorrow morning, be ready” His voice was barely audible even for the apprentice he was touching noses with, making honor to his warrior name, and he went straight to the point. After saying those words he decided to just walk away and plan what kind of training he was going to give to the younger cat the next day, wondering how it would be to train an apprentice when his own mentor died a couple moons before he received his warrior name.