Warrior Cats: The Four Clans

OOC; Everyone is a dinner Shatters ;D

Luke merely chuckled, "Because as a human, we cant handle the nasty germs and diseases that come from eating raw food. We have to cook it over fire in order to keep it from harming us."
Hawkpaw's jaw dropped, "You use fire?! Why didnt it burn this whole place to the ground?!"
Luke's face once again pulled in to a smile as he found himself enjoying explaining his world to these youngsters. "You'd be suprised at everything humans can do. We can control fire using machines made of metal and various other things. It keeps the fire from burning anything we dont want to." Hawkpaw's golden eyes danced with amazement. "Yet there are careless humans or accidents that manage to cause uncontrolled fires. Thats why we have firemen."
Hawkpaw tilted his head to the side, "Fire... men? That doesnt sound to good. Can they control the fire through magic or something like Starclan?"
Luke waved his hand at the boy as he laughed, "No, no. These men and women are trained to control fire by using water and their wits to get the fire to die down. During the fires, if there is anyone inside the burning area, they were flame resistant clothing and go to rescue them."
Hawkpaw's jaw dropped, his eyes seeming to glow with inspiration, "They must be legends if they are brave enough to go in and save others from fires."
"Well many people see them as heros but usually we dont remember them as you would your legends and heros. They would tell us its all apart of their jobs but so many people owe their lives to the brave men and women. We consider them heros despite the fact that their names done go down in history." Luke shrugged his shoulders for a moment.
"Wow..." Hawkpaw murmured, "When i make it back to Thunderclan, I want to be a fireman and rescue cats from fires." A grin of sheer joy appeared on the boy's face.
"Thats a wonderful though Hawkpaw... BUt you have to remember, these people are trained professionals. Just like you have your warrior training, they have firemen training. The take rigorous courses on how to rescue people and to keep themselves from dying in the fires." Luke didnt want to hamper the boy's enthusiasm but he had to warn him. "Firemen to lose their lives trying to save others. Its something you truley have to believe in to want to do."
Hawkpaw frowned at that news. He looked at his food with careful eyes for a long moment. "So if i train under the firemen mentors i could be one too?"
Luke watched the boy with skeptical eyes, "Well... I suppose so but that would take years to do. As a human you dont age as fast so you wont be considered adults for many many seasons yet. Your training would extend for years until the point where when you go back to the clans, you probably wont know and of the cats there. The ones you love will have passed away to live with Starclan."
Hawkpaw scratched the back of his neck with his human paws. He would have to train for more seasons than a warrior did? That didnt sound to promising. He also would go back to a foreign Thunderclan. Would he risk it just to become a fireman? Hawkpaw sighed heavily, "How long do you think we will be here in this world?"
Luke turned his face away, "I have no idea... To be honest i have no clue if you can ever go back. We were in Thunderclan for eight seasons, or there abouts..." Hawkpaw's golden eyes turned toward the older man. He certainly did have a good grip on the world of the clans. He knew about Starclan and their connections with the clans. He knew about legends and how their systems worked. He was most definantly Runningcloud at some point in his life.
"While you are here," Luke continued, "You might as well make yourselves useful. I will send you to school or get you a private tutor in order to teach you the way our world works. Just in case you are here for more season then we expect. First off, you are going to need human names." Luke studied the faces of each of the apprentices before he called out, "Robert!"
Instantly through the door the man had left, he reentered, "Yes Mr. Knightly?"
"I need you to make some identification cards and visas for these youngsters. Find them good names and make them legal here until such time that they need to return to where they came from."
Robert merely nodded his head, "Consider it done." With that he turned and left the room again. Hawkpaw was amazed at how loyal the man was to the former warrior.

Sparrowpaw tilted her head to the side, her food forgotten as her mind spun in circles. "Is he...like your apprentice?" she asked, watching Robert leave. He certainly took orders like a good apprentice should, and if making ay-den-tif-icash-un cards was the equivalent to cleaning out the elders' den, then it would make sense. "So if your firemen are like heroes, leaders..? Then what do the warriors do?" This whole world was far more complicated than she had thought it was when she was an apprentice. It was all so confusing!

Luke pressed his palm to his forehead as Sparrowpaw asked more questions, "No, Robert isnt my apprentice." He turned his eyes toward the apprentices again, "Its his main job to protect me and the second part of the job is to do as i say. Although, he gets more liberties than others in his position since he is my best friend. The closest thing we have to apprentices would be students. They learn and grow until they are adults and then they get jobs. Its definantly not how your system works. The closest we have to warriors would probably be soldiers, policemen and any law enforcement." He shrugged and waved away what he had just said, "Dont worry about it though. Our world is completely different than yours. You'll need new names if you want to blend in and not seem like crazy people. Dont think anymore about warriors, apprentices, medicine cats, kits, elders and such."

Hawkpaw frowned darkly at the man, "I dont get your kind at all. Why cant you creatures be simple?"
Luke eyes snapped to the young boy, "If we were simple we wouldnt have been able to have a man walk on the moon."
Hawkpaw looked at him like he was crazy, "There is no way someone can go to the moon. Not unless they live in stars with Starclan." The young boy believed completely in his own arguement. Yet once again Luke merely shook his head softly, as if pitying the ignorant apprentice.
"There are many amazing things humans can do that you guys can never dream of. For now, lets just leave it at that and have desert," With that the man clapped twice and a female human appeared from the door that Robert had disappeared through. "Jennifer, please get our desert." The woman bent a little at her legs and nodded her head as well. She turned away and disappeared for a few moments before reappearing with a strange round item in her hands. The top looked woven together with small round red things covered in red slime. Hawkpaw pulled back for a moment. He was really going to make them eat that?



-- Edited by Ebonycloud on Saturday 15th of May 2010 04:36:40 PM

Luke waited for his piece patiently as Jennifer made her rounds. His was the last to be served and he smiled his thanks to her as she left. "Yes, if you are going to live here there are things called law which you must obey. Its like the code but there a ton more and we usually dont have them memorized. All you really need to know is dont steal things, dont kill anyone, dont start fights and be respectful. Also when i mean steal, i mean to say dont take things that dont belong to you. Nothing in this wrld belongs to you. Just like prey on other territories. You cant take anything unless you pay for it with money or if someone says you can have it okay? Money is like a way of trading things to get what you want. Lets just say that in your world it would be like trading one piece of fresh killed rabbit for three small birds." That was the simpliest way to explain it.

Hawkpaw frowned still confused, "Oh mouse dung. Im never going to understand this place." He growled and turned to the strange item in front of him. INside the red slime were round red berries. Hawkpaw's breath caught in his throat but he managed to hiss, "Are you trying to kill us?! Those are deathberries! You want us to eat Deathberries?!"
Luke merely shook his head and said easily as he took a bite, "They're called cherries and they most definantly dont kill you." With that he chewed his bite and swallowed. Hawkpaw watched with round eyes as he licked his lips and nothing happened. Usually they started choking or something but he was completely fine.