Birchtail's Secret - Chapter 13

Rivera padded away from the camp in her hunting patrol. She was the leader of the patrol and she was given Birchtail, Firestorm and Honeyfrost as the rest of the patrol. She looked over her group. "We want to catch as munch food as we possibly can for the clan. Strong warriors means the rest of the clan stays strong as the warriors hunt for everyone else. We as the warriors have a responsibility that we must carry through. I would like every cat to do there very best. Birchtail please go to the fields,  I heard that Mountainmist taught you how to catch rabbits.  Honeyfrost I heard that you are the best fisher in the clan, if you can I would like you to go to the streams and see if you can find anything. Firestorm try the log piles, mice would have just made their fall burrows see if you can get a few." Rivera finished. All the cats nodded and padded away. Rivera turned and raced up a tree looking for some birds to hunt. The apprentices and younger warriors skidded into the clearing that Rivera had been standing in a few moments earlier. Rivera turned and listened to their conversation when she heard herself mentioned. "Where was she, I knew she came this way." Applepaw was saying. "She was the lead of the hunting patrol," said Sagepaw. Rivera turned and raced through the trees not stopping until she caught a blackbird then she turned and raced back to where the apprentices were and then she dropped the blackbird. All the apprentices looked up. They raced up the tree following Rivera as she leaped from branch to branch. Rivera soon outpaced them and she leapt higher into the tree. She went higher and higher until there was no escape for her except for a branch a few feet away. The apprentices turned and wondered where Rivera was and then they noticed the branch moving above them. They scrambled up the tree. Rivera turned and looked at the broken ash tree. It was resting on the fork of another tree. So if she could just get to that tree she wold be able to show these apprentices just who deceived some respect. Rivera pushed off the tree, flipped down to a lower branch and jumped off the dead branch making it crash to the ground behind her. The apprentices skidded to a halt at the edge of the broken branch.