Oh thank you so much!!!
Name: Snowtrail
Gender: Male
Age: 40 Moons
Clan:
PikaclanAdjectives: A slender seal point tom with height white spotting.
I love him so much!
Edit: forgot his rank!
He is a warrior
How he met Martenstar:
Snowtrail walked through the clan when Elmstar approached him, "Snowtrail, today is the day the apprentices get assigned?"
Snowtrail nodded at the clan leader and looked at the cluster of kits playing together, "Yes, hopefully I can get one that will learn well."
Elmstar nodded, her eyes drawn to a little brown kit who was watching the others play instead of joining in. Snowtrail sat with the other warriors who were eligible for apprentices and Elmstar took her spot on her flattened rock. She waited for everyone to settle down and the kits all straightened up, sitting like they had been taught, the queens looking on proudly. Each kit sat there waiting for the apprentice name and mentor assignment, most shaking with excitement.
"Welcome everyone. Today, we are celebrating the age of these kits. They are now old enough to begin their warrior training. And who better to train them then these wonderful warriors? As I say each kit's name, please come up and I will give you your name and the mentor you will be working under," Elmstar spoke loudly and some of the other clan members paused to watch the simple ceremony.
Elmstar began to call the kits, one by one to give them their name and mentor before they were to go sit beside their mentor. Snowtrail watched each kit approach her and then sit besides his fellow warriors. It was getting to be the last few kits now and Snowtrail wondered if he would get an apprentice at all. He tried to remain optimistic but knew that chances were he may not get one since he was still one of the younger warriors here. Finally the last kit was called, "Martenkit."
The smallest of the kits got up and moved towards the leader. Martenkit was the same little brown kit who had been watching the other kits and had remained calm through the entire ceremony. She approached the leader and bowed her head in respect, something none of the other kits had thought to do, before sitting in front of the leader.
"Martenkit, from this day on until you become a full fledged warrior, you will be known as Martenpaw. You will be mentored by Snowtrail," Elmstar spoke and Snowtrail's head snapped up to look at this little kit and his leader. He nodded and the kit came to sit besides him.
She was an awfully small thing, and Snowtrail tried to remember who her mother and father was. He looked at the queens who sat nearby but none seemed to look anything like Martenpaw at all. He frowned a bit and then shook his head, he was supposed to be paying attention. Snowtrail resumed listening to the leader but all she had left was a well wishing and a dismissal to begin training.
Snowtrail stood and walked towards the edge of the clan clearing with the little kit, "So Martenpaw, you excited to explore outside today?"
The little kit looked up at her mentor and nodded, "Yessir. Will you teach me to hunt and climb and swim?"
Snowtrail chuckled a bit, "All in time little one. For today we will just explore the territory."
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Snowtrail was surprised at how fast his little apprentice learned. She may have been the smallest of her group but she was excelling in everything and even comparing to the older group of apprentices. He watched her bound up a tree trunk in pursuit of a squirrel, faster than he had ever seen any other apprentice before. She seemed to know just where to dig her claws into the wood so she could launch herself higher.
Snowtrail watched her through the bouncing of the tree branches and chuckled a bit as she heard the squeaking of the squirrel she was in pursuit of. Finally, everything went quiet and Martenpaw carefully picked her way down the tree, the squirrel in her jaws. He smiled at her and licked her forehead in a congrats when he heard another cat approaching. He turned to see Elmstar.
"Oh, Elmstar, did you see how well Martenpaw did in catching that squirrel? The kids a natural!" Snowtrail grinned and Elmstar smiled in return.
"I did, I actually was coming to speak to you both about that. I was thinking Martenpaw could be transferred to be my apprentice as she seems to be a very gifted cat." Elmstar smiled at the pair and Snowtrail frowned for a moment, disappointing that he would be losing his apprentice. He had grown very close to the young cat but he knew she would benefit apprenticing under the leader more than a simple warrior.
He nodded, hiding the sadness in his eyes, "Of course Elmstar. She would learn so much more under your eye than my own."
He noticed Martenpaw frown a bit and she nuzzled his leg softly before going to join the leader. The pair strode off into the woods to begin training together and Snowtrail picked up the squirrel that Martenpaw had caught. He carefully carried it back to the clan.
