Trees are cool

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Tansyjaw had had enough of this....piecemeal approach to kit classes. She thought they were a stupid thing to begin with, skirting the warrior code, the fact notwithstanding that her own kits had been able to crouch and pounce and knew a few basic fighting moves before they became apprentices. That was her business, as her mother. If the kits these days wanted to learn they should ask their parents, not have queens lazing about forcing the elders to pick up their slack and make sure the youth was properly raised. Alas, Tansyjaw was fairly certain that such a view, if expressed loudly enough, would land her in trouble with Bumblestar, for whom she held a modicum of respect. Mostly stemming from the younger molly's position which she had always been taught to venerate, but that was beside the point.

She was going to do her duty for Thunderclan, teach the ungrateful little worms most of the kits had proved to be how to climb. But she wasn't going to do it stupidly. She was going to gather all of them at once, at least the ones old enough to do it, probably those over two moons, march them out in to the territory, and teach them to climb, stars damn it! Preferably with some queens along as supervision, but that wasn't completely necessary. She was more than capable of keeping the herd of buffoons in line herself, stars knew she did enough of it trying to keep her family in line. Don't ask her about her track record. Just don't. Not if you want to keep your ears unscathed.

To this end, the elderly molly had parked herself outside the nursery, long fluffy tail wrapped distinguishedly around her paws. She drew herself up straight, not wanting to signal any sort of weakness with bad posture. And then, Tansyjaw yowled. Quite loudly, in fact. They probably heard her out in the territory. Kits older than two moons! If you haven't learned how to climb yet, get your tails out here! I'd rather not repeat myself forty million times, so I'm teaching you all the basics at once! A breath was needed, and swiftly sucked in. If any of your parents she wasn't picky want to come along and make sure you don't do something stupid, fine, but at least bring yourselves. And, just in case that wasn't quite a clear enough order, she added I probably shouldn't have to remind you, but this is a REQUIREMENT to become an apprentice.

Oh, yes, Shockkit had taught her ONE thing. Two, now that she thought a bit more about it. If you REALLY need kits to behave, threaten their apprentice ceremony. That will whip them into shape like nothing else. And two, if they didn't behave, they were surprisingly decent at cleaning out a den. Perhaps if this lot was problematic she'd let them loose on the nursery, their caretakers would probably appreciate that.

(OK SO! I'm going to post every 3ish days. This'll probably be four or five posts from me, to give everyone a chance to get the required three for a kit class. They're just going to go out into the territory, find some trees, climb 'em, and then come back.) @poppy. @Shadowed Flower @Caspian

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Mushroomkit
Mushroomkit trotted over, his tail held high. He sat close to Tansyjaw, waiting for others to join.

[poppy]

Redkit skipped over with a gleeful giggle.

[Caspian]

Cloudykit steadily walked forwards, his long tail making his balance very easy to keep. He sat down in front of Tansyjaw and dipped his head respectfully

[Minku]

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Strikekit - He/Him

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Well, this lesson was required for all Thunderclanners to do...obviously. So Strikekit will do it and try to pass. Of course he'll pass, no doubt. Though the sudden yowl of an older cat ringed through the nursery made him quite shocked, his eyes widened before he quickly came back to normal. No one saw that, right? Well, whatever probably no one did! The 4 moon old kit stood up before walking towards the molly with confidence. He dipped his head before walking next to the older cat, not bothering to sit down.

This won't take a while and infact, it's probably only a few minutes of waiting so why sit down when you're going to stand up and walk again soon anyways? The confident tom held his tail high, before looking at the other kits who had gather up as well. Doesn't seem like a lot. Whatever though.

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Tansyjaw had expected more kits to take her up on the offer of climbing training, but it appeared the youngest generation was just as lazy as the one currently running Thunderclan. So be it. All the little rats still in the nursery would come crying to her soon enough, asking for her to train them(Goatcrunch certainly wouldn't do it) and she would say no. Tell them to bother Bumblestar, who came up with this whole thing. SUCH a brilliant idea.

Whatever. She was over it. Definitely. Addressing the kits who HAD bothered to show up, Tansyjaw proclaimed Right! Follow me, we're going out of camp. Stay close, don't cause problems, and you won't be cleaning out the elders den. Even if they did cause problems it'd be some other den, the elders den had just been cleaned by Shockkit and Sparkkit, but the elders den sounded grosser than the warriors den or Bumblestar's den. With this warning delivered, Tansyjaw marched out of the entrance and into the woods, fairly certain the kits would at least be smart enough to follow her. If not.....they had bigger problems.

After but a few moments she had reached the trio of trees she'd taken her other bunch to, and halted rather dramatically, waiting for the infants to catch up and ooh and aah at the outside of camp. It was sure to be impressive, for ones who'd never been outside of the bramble walls. To her, it was nothing special. Just trees. Trees were nice and all, but they weren't anything to write home about. Moment having been granted, the elder ordered All of you, sit down. I'll demonstrate so you don't all die she didn't want to have to catch anyone with her back like last time and then you'll try it yourselves. Now all she had to do was wait for them to get settled. @Shadowed Flower @Caspian @poppy. @Pangoligon

[Caspian]

He watched, ears flicking intently as he watched the warrior

[Minku]

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Strikekit - He/Him

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Strikekit followed closely behind the warrior as the group walked past the bramble walls that bordered their camp, watching the views around him as the group went in the territory. This was his first time though it was quite obvious what the territory would look like. He honestly wasn't suprised both on the inside and his expression. Trees, trees, trees and more trees. The clan lives in a forest of course the territory would be just trees scattered everywhere.

As the group reached their destination, the four moon old kit just did as he was told and sat down. No elder's den cleaning for him. "Alright then" he replied to Tansyjaw's words. Climbing shouldn't be that hard; Seems easy enough to do. Now to just wait for the rest

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[gs29513]

(EEEK sorry for the slows on this!!)
Hopefully all of the kittens had been able to make it out here at least, and it wasn't just the two in her line of sight who had left the camp. Tansyjaw didn't THINK they were capable of getting lost in the four foxlengths between the exit to camp and the trio of trees, but who knew. Kits weren't always the brightest bunch, and the excitement might have overwhelmed them. At any rate, she waited for a few moments before beginning what was now becoming a very well-rehearsed spiel on how to climb a tree, accompanied by a demonstration on her favorite of the maples.

Padding up to the tree, she stretched her front legs upwards, hooking her shiny claws into the bark. You'll want to keep your claws unsheathed, and hook your front claws into the tree. Then, you can hop your hind legs up Tansyjaw unsheathed those paws too, and half pulled half pushed off from the ground her hind legs up onto the trunk. Then, pull your front paws out, and move them higher up. She followed her own advice, stretching her front limbs as long as she could before hopping your hind legs up again. If done properly and quickly it looked like running up the tree, but they weren't expected to manage that yet. Just making it up decently high would suffice.

She continued climbing for a few foxlengths, hauling herself onto the branch which was now marked all over with clawmarks from her various climbing lessons. Now going downwards, you have to go backwards, because your claws aren't able to hook in well facing the other way, since they're curved. This instruction given, Tansyjaw hooked her front claws into the tree, dropped her hind end off the branch and scuttled down, hooking her hind end and then her front paws and dropping the other as far down as it would comfortably go before repeating the process. Once safely on the ground, she mewed Unless there are any questions, you may begin. hoping that there wouldn't be any and the kits would get on with it.
@Shadowed Flower @poppy. @Caspian @Haunting Pangolin

[Caspian]

Cloudykit watched, focusing on the instructions rather than the fear of heights he had developed from past events. He sighed. This was for the best. He padded over to a tree after thinking she was done telling them what to do and how to do it. Cloudykit positioned himself against the tree, unsheathing his claws and hooking them into the tree. He got his hind legs on there, as he was told, and pulled up with his paws. He worked his way up the tree, slowly getting the hang of it. “Tansyjaw, I did it!” he purred, proud as he reached a branch.

Without thinking, he jerked his head down to see if Tansyjaw was looking at him with at least the slightest bit of pride. He froze when he saw how high he had climbed.

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