"Well, Rose looks like you been through a lot since I was gone!" He chuckles, and this new pet name I guess will take a while to get used to, but I can only assume it platonically.

"Haha, I believe so to maybe you should connect to me by the hip, so I don't need to keep you up in this cases!" I laugh at him as his smile was soft, calm, and heartwarming.

It looks like Silvertail, and I are the talks of this clan maybe this is due to the old relationship among the clans as such Bluepaw has told me. "Hello, I see you know my friend..." The hiss of a she-cat echoes around my ears.

"Hello? I believe I did not see you at the gathering, but it is nice to meet you." She has hiss in her voice and a frown painted on her face, but I can at least try to make any future relatively less confronting.

"I'm Fawnpaw. And I'm mentored by the same cat of Badgerpaw." Noble just noble, her voice reeked of it. As she had high thoughts of her and mostly about her. "Correct Badgerpaw?" She moves around Badgerpaw her tail falling around his as she ruffled his neck fur with her head.

I pretended that I did not see this. She had the smuggest face in all of the Lake Territory. "Well, it's great to meet you..." I was quite uncomfortable this is was not the best thing to sitting and watch.

"Hmm, what jealous? Maybe you hit your head falling out of that tree!" She laughs she clearly has no idea how to treat a guest!

"What would me falling out of any trees affect my relationships? And get how did you know that I dropped out of a tree have you been crossing borders!?" My face and back fur on edge with embarrassment and my nose on fire.

"You know you should keep your paws on some herbs and keep a trout in your mouth! You don't belong here, and I hate your scent, your clan, and your rank! Also back on your scent, you smell like a burnt forest! Crisp, sour, and deadly!" Okay, I would be fine with her making fun of me on the first remark but bring my home into this needless battle is fox leaps over the line!

"Hey, ladies! Ladies Stop I don't want to be the mature one here! First off Fawnpaw you moved way to far! Secondly, Wildpaw grow some backbone!" The tom sighs and gestures me to a den after he got up and walked away.

"Badgerpaw? May I ask you for one request?" He now has interest I believe rather than anger in my lack of standing up for myself. "I want to learn how to get my thorns of my rose." He smiles and drags my tail. As I begin to speed up to him, he approached a tall she-cat who looked familiar.

"Oakflower! Oakflower! Wildpaw and I want to go on a hunting patrol!" This she-cat seemed anxious her eyes drawing towards the wound he got. But I'm sure she could not say no as she this queen loved her kit.

She sighs "alright but promises me Badgerpaw you will be safe." Badgerpaw nodded a smile beaming on his face. Wow, that was odd a cat how just got fur pulled off him just got off free out of the camp where that thing maybe still out there. We walked out of the camp. ShadowClan was dark in the shade hidden from the world.

"So where are you taking me?" The cold grass ruffle and protect my paws with its woven and knotted blades hugging our paws leaving a sort of green blood as we smashed the grass.

"Well, there is this place that I have seen it's amazing! A waterfall near a two leg place and meadows running as far of the eyes can see! And oh the prey there!" I saw his mouth water a bit. I guess he has been there before and has high hopes.

"I think we should head out then lets not dilly dally!" I jump to his side as he runs towards the steep mountains reaching towards StarClan.

As we walked up the mountain, I started to hear faint yelling or whispering near us. "Why are we told to reside here for three days!? It's disgusting here everything is muddy, so many bugs what if we get ticks? And look a dead animal!" It was a She-cats squeals, so my interest was peaked. 

"Hey, Badgerpaw do you hear that? Over here I believe!" I jump into a bush filled with thorns as I watch the two cats bicker back and forth. 

"I'm sorry, but our owner wants to get back to nature as this is the best way! She is getting old I'm sorry if you don't like it here my petal! How about I get your bed maybe that will make you feel better!" A ginger tom who I assume is her mate is trying to make her happy at any cost I guess.

"NO! That will only make it worse I don't want a dusty bed! Then my coat will be all disgusting!" She would make the worse out of our lives only if she knew we have it much worse then haveing very plump body and glistening fur. 

"Okay, so you have been in here for a while what is it?" Badgerpaw finally joined me in the thorny bush as he ducks his head to avoid the thorns I gesture my head towards the two cats. "Oh, Kittypets come on let us not waste our time here we don't have all day!" I stayed put being quite stubborn about it. "Okay let me tell you about them because during this season they come here almost every moon. So Kittypets live with those things" He gestures his head towards a saggy furless creature that walks on their two legs. "They are called Twolegs, Nofurs; most names are accepted. And Kittypets are cared for by them! So no hunting, that's why they are so fat and well, lazy."

"That one with the Brown spots and blonde fur hates it out here she says it disgusting!" I gesture my head towards the cat now basically getting her feet licked by her assumed mate.

"Yeah, most are like that they hate it out here. Most of they time, they scare off the prey due to their moaning and groaning so they make it much harder for us." He sighs and jumps out of the bush as leafs rustle towards him and falling on his black fur. "Come on lets, not linger here it will make it harder to walk during the night."

Leaving the bush too but still, they had my interest maybe someday I can talk to them. They have an odd way of life that I love to learn about. "Badgerpaw how much longer until we get there?"

He laughs "wow is their personality contagious? Haha don't worry we are very close. If you need to you can hold me tail just doesn't bite it off!" As he looks back, he unsheathed his claws and dug into the ground.

I felt it the wind rushing towards us almost pushing me off my feet. As we go, I saw it. It was wonderful flowers taller than me and as far as the eye can see. We tried to get under one to stand ground from the raging winds. "Hey Rose look down there you can see everything. See all the moving dots? That's your clans I bet!" He adjusts him because this was too much of a view." Well, come on let's get those thorns!" He was talking loudly but due to the wind he was drowned out by the raging winds as I forced myself across the meadows, I lost him...

"Badgerpaw?! Where are you? Come on this is not funny!" Yowling for the tom, I can not see him or hear him over these winds. "GAH!"

"Haha, you thought I left you rose?" He pounced on me pinning me to the ground. "Haha your so cute when you scrunch your muzzle!" He hopped off of me swaying his tail and making is way through the abundant flowers.

"Wait what?! What does that mean!"

"What you never noticed? You scrunch up your muzzle when you are embarrassed! Like when I say, Rose! See you are doing it again!" He snickers as he walks next to me. Silvertail does say I do that when cats commented on my scar but still it's just a reflex not something I do on purpose! Don't all cats do it? Why did he comment on something everyone does? Maybe he is just playing with me as a joke! I shake the thought and as I do "welcome to the promise land!"

"This place is beautiful! That waterfall is amazing! Have you ever brought your clan here?"

"My Queen did show me this place with another tom, and then I brought Fawnpaw but then they started acting weird. Saying stuff like Fawnpaw and I are so cute together, and Fawnpaw agreed. I'm just so confused... You know?" His tail lowered as his ears perked down from his cheery self.

"Hey, who cares what they meant? Let's just live in the now! Just push away that thought!"

"I guess your right Rose! So okay what first? Hmm... Oh, I know! Let's hunt!"
He raised his head his nose twitching as he moves around and then got into a prep a pounce he moves slowly as I follow his movements. "When I run to make a dust cloud hop on it!" He whispers to me.

He bolts and my reflexes hop to action as I landed and smashed on the prey no even being able to see the thing that landed on. Only feeling the softer landing. I can only assume I fell on the thing Badgerpaw smelled and not a poisonous frog that can poison you just by the touch of their skin. The dust settles after many heartbeats. "Look look! I got my first prey! Silvertail is going to be so proud of me!" Hopping around with joy I squeal and squeak.

"Good job Rose! Okay, let's open them up!"

"The code says otherwise... Remember we can't eat until we feed the elders and kits?"

"Who is going to know? No one but us is out here!"

"StarClan will know Badgerpaw they can see everything!"

He rolled his eyes. "This is the cat who said to live in the now as well." He chuckles and ripped the rabbit in half and push it towards me.

"Well I was only in my clan for about four moons, so I guess I'm still a kit in a way."

"Okay, I'll watch you eat than when you're done, I'll eat." He lays down and smirks and intently stares at me.

"Oh um, you were not joking you would watch..." Feeling awkward he would judge me for how insanely I eat a take small bites to seem more ladylike as I am I high ranked cat who is imperative in clan matters and the future of my clan. So his respect is something I guess I should be striving for.

"Wow you eat slowly I suppose I should start before the crows get my food!" He began to eat and looked back at me. "Haha, you are scrunching your muzzle again!"

"Um no I'm not I'm just trying to shake off some rabbit fur off my nose!"

"Haha yeah right! Oh yeah, I have meant to ask you! What is life like without well your nose?" 

"Well, oddly I heard your scent is mostly part of your taste, and I know it as mostly truth I am unable to tell the difference of trouts, carp, and so on."

"That is odd. Well, I suppose good scents do make my mouth water likewise any other cat."

"So I have been wondering this but keeping it on the edge in my mind but still. How is your relationship with your clanmates? Just asking, no meaning behind it."

"Well Rowanstar is a great leader I believe, Oakflower and I are very close, and I guess Fawnpaw is okay, she gets clingy I just want to run in the wind but she just holds me down and I feel like she is moving our relationship way too quickly."

"Well, I'm your friend, right?We can just see all of this through, and I think we should head back we can talk on the way back."

"Thanks, Rose you're a doll. I hope you never change! And yeah let us go!"