Warrior Cats: Choose Your Own Adventure (COMPLETE)

[mistywater]

For the first time, Rookpaw felt a little sorry for Cinderpaw. 'I believe you' she muttered.

[Warriors13lover]

I'd worry about Rowanpaw

[cookie★]

Say nothing
Cinderpaw seems to still be angry from earlier,it's best not to rub her the wrong way,whether accidentally or not

[Arcaii]

Choices:

1. Say nothing
2. Say nothing
3. Say nothing
4. I believe you
5. I believe you
6. Worry about Rowanpaw
7. Say nothing

Roll says... 4: I believe you.

"I believe you," you say, looking at her with as honest an expression as you can muster. She may be mean, but you doubt even she would willingly keep something in pain and dying.

Her eyes move to look at you, but she doesn't say anything. She does, however, seem to relax her death grip on the crow just a little, which is good.

Your little makeshift patrol walks into the camp entrance, met with dozens of eyes and a few murmurs. Cinderpaw doesn't look at any of them, just keeps her eyes to the ground as she drops off the crow. Divercloud calls her in to be treated for the already drying wounds on her neck and head, and she silently follows the sound of his voice.

Your mother, having only been back for a few minutes, does a great deal of fussing over your scratches, which you honestly forgot about. They aren't even really hurting anymore - you're reminded of them when you yawn or curl your lip, but overall they'll likely be gone within a few days.

Birchstar chats with Eveningtail about what they could do about this situation; you get bored of listening pretty quickly, because it turns into him asking her to do something, rather than just deciding to do something himself. You mill over to the prey pile and grab a fish, heading for the shade by the nursery and settling down to eat.

Both of the bigger kits, Cloverkit and Brightkit, have wandered outside. The golden sister prances through the crowd, eagerly asking about the fight, which she had missed, while the red-and-white tom sits down next to you.

"How upset was Cinderpaw?" he asks.

"Quite." You chew contentedly at the fish. "I'm surprised she didn't immediately fight me and Eveningtail."

He looks at you, tilting his head. "I don't think she would. There's a reason why she only fights with the louder warriors."

Brightkit is most certainly the smarter of the pair - while his sister is more concerned with being a normal kitten, the tom has always had an odd, almost ageless intelligence to him. He's only about 4 moons old, and even as an apprentice you feel a little outmatched whenever you talk to him. The elders theorize that he'll immediately go to be Divercloud's apprentice - he's got a good memory and several lifetimes worth of patience, plus he does seem to like the old coot for some reason. A match made in StarClan.

"What do you make of this whole thing, then?" you ask through a mouthful of carp.

He looks towards a cluster of warriors, all fiercely discussing how to go about punishing Cinderpaw. "I don't know. She just seems... misunderstood."

You snort.

"She never gets why she was punished," he continues, ignoring you. "She reacts to it by doing more bad things, and keeps the cycle going. I don't think she'll stop on her own - someone's got to tell her what to do."

"She doesn't like being told what to do," you point out.

"So it keeps going anyway." Brightkit's ear twitches. "She might just end up being lost to the rogues someday. That's kind of sad."

You don't reply, partly because you're still eating. After a few minutes, Sparrowpelt calls them back in, and Cloverkit playfully bats your ears before darting inside. Brightkit waves his thin tail and follows.

The night soon comes, and you head for the apprentice den. You curl up, thinking over today's events, and it actually takes you a while to sleep, as you're almost certain that someone will leave camp again.

[Arcaii]

The next week and a half is relatively uneventful. You train consistently, and hard, and while Applefoot can be aloof and difficult to find in the morning, she does offer some support and helps you with everything if you ask. You mostly work with the other apprentices and mentors, though, which you don't mind, especially since Cinderpaw's been even more belligerent to Knotpaw, and Knotpaw does admit that she needs the distraction (though when you try and tell her to stand up for herself, she pretends not to hear).

All Skills +2.

You do notice, however, that the border patrol meetings are getting more and more tense. The quick succession of events with ForestClan's apprentices, plus their fears that their neighbors may have done something, rile up everyone involved. Even your poor mother has a hard time speaking peacefully with the other Clan. Arguments sprout up, ForestClan becomes more obsessive about its borders, and as a result, BrookClan becomes more fierce about the beach.

One day, the tension finally breaks, and Beefur and Thriftwhisker come home battered. From then on, for the next two weeks, insults are hurled across the river, more cats show up with deep scratches, and you and the other apprentices are banned from going to the northern part of the territory alone.

Eveningtail becomes more and more stressed, constantly darting in and out of camp to help with calming things down or with injured cats in tow. Birchstar is confused and unsure of what to do, and deals with it by going out alone and, in a stroke of genius, trying to chat with ForestClan cats. As a result, he returns daily more and more nervous of the tension.

You apprentices are getting frustrated. Even away from ForestClan borders, you're always being checked on and told to go with other cats. The five of you (well, really just the four of you most of the time) sit around the training arena and practice, or go out and hunt together, but it's really starting to get annoying every time Batstream rushes out to make sure you didn't go anywhere alone.

All Skills +1.

Finally, an emergency meeting is called, and the Clans agree to meet at the Gathering place to talk it out. A few cats protest that this may just be a trap, but Birchstar assures them that everything will be fine.

You really want to go - you've never seen the Gathering place before, and you're sure that whatever happens is going to be interesting. It's happening later tonight. You know for certain that both Eveningtail and Birchstar are going, but you don't know for sure if they'll allow apprentices in this particular gathering. Who will you appeal to?

Ask Birchstar.
Ask Eveningtail.

[.kestral]

Ask Eveningtail, the deputy owes you. Even if she doesn't admit it. You have kept quiet about her secrets after ll.

[Pokechu12]

Ask Eveningtail. She may be the more stressed of the two, but if you ask Birchstar you bet he'll just ask Eveningtail anyway.

[~Moony~]

Birchstar is less experienced, if you appeal to him he might just let you go

[Greenleaf]

Ask Eveningtail.

[mistywater]

Ask Birchstar, Rookpaw didn't want to bother the already stressed deputy.