Code of the Clans/Code 5

Daisytail's PoV


 * Leafpool says it seems obvious that kits should not be fighting until they are trained and strong enough to take on fully grown warriors. However, it wasn't always like this, and it took the love of a mother to stop the deaths of fragile lives.


 * A voice calls out different commands, and as his apprentice tries to follow them, the apprentice falls. His mother winces as he scrambles to his paws and pants. Specklepaw looks dazed and blood is welling on the tip of his ear. His mentor, Slatepelt, nudges him towards the other apprentice, Adderpaw, and gently tells him to try again. Daisytail cannot bear to watch as her son launches himself at the older apprentice. It seemed like only a moon ago that she was suckling the freckled tom at her belly. Adderpaw had been training for several moons longer and looked fully grown next to the younger tom, who barely reached the former's shoulder. A thud sounds next to the brown-and-ginger she-cat, and she has to bite her tongue so she doesn't scream. Specklepaw asks if she saw how he pushed Adderpaw over, and Daisytail turns to her son and forces herself to purr.


 * The queen can tell from the look between Adderpaw and Slatepelt that the older apprentice let the brown tom win.