My book chapter one

chapter 1


Leopard Mask charged and rammed into a practice target forcing it over. she backed away and smiled. Her ears twitched as she heard clapping behind her she turned around and there stood her mentor, Lady Jasmine. She shape shifted into her human form still learning how to at the stage she was at she had the ears of a cougar and the tail of a cougar. She was clothed in a black shirt with a large green star on it with orange small stars surrounding the larger one, Her skirt was also black but had a chain as a belt underneath to keep from attracting attention to herself had black leggings under neath, she also wore black leather boots that on the sides had one white star. Lady Jasmine finished clapping and said "your learning fast. has your tail disappeared yet?" Leopard Mask turned around and wiggled the end of her tail "nope still there but shorter" she replied Lady Jasmine smiled and said "your learning rate is faster then normal" she said walking toward the collums out of the training area. Leopard Mask had been Practicing in the training grounds of the castle. The area had four training dummies shaped as other wild cats for practice. it also had four targets beside the wild cat practice dummies those were stood up by bales of hay. surrounding the area had bows and quivers filled with two dozen arrows each. the new shape shifters would come here to practice there fighting skills. The collums surrounding the area were walk ways to there dormitrees. As Lady Jasmine was walking out Leopard Mask began to follow. Lady Jasmine continued "I believe the council was right about you" she said looking down at her feet. Lady Jasmine was wearing a red cloak with navy blue swirl disiegns on it. underneath it she wore a navy blue shirt with on the upper left hand corner of her shirt there was a broken star, the symble of the shape shifter clan. "Right about what?" said Leopard Mask "Is it about the war between the Shifter clan, the horse clan, the Wild cat clan, and the standing clan?" continued Leopard Mask. There was a war between the four clans, the horse clan and the shifter clan had joined forces to put the Standing clan and the Wild cat clans in there place recently the two clans had been trying to take over more territory then they should have. The Stander's Clan (the humans) had asked the Wild Cats if they thought they didn't have enough territory with the coming litters of cats, The wild cats had agreed they needed more space then neccecary for hunting training with there young. They had been forcing the horse clan and the shifter clan back out of there rightful territory, in return the Shifter clan and the Horse Clan had joined forces to put a stop to it. Lady Jasmine nodded slowly "yes and no they were saying that the Wild Cat clan and the Standing Clan had been pulling back there forces completely they said that for some reason there had been no attacks for a long time almost a month" Leopard Mask raised her eye brows, "thats unusual the Wild Cats are known for there constant attacks and the Standing Clans people are known for there battle tactics" Lady Jasmine nodded again, and said "yes they must be planning something big something that would surely completely destroy the horse and the shifter clans and thats where you come in" Leopard Mask looked at her mentor, Lady Jasmine was the best shifter mentor to live since the dawn of time, the shifters were immortal so she looked as if she was twenty, but in reality she was over 6000 years old and still running strong. "how? i still have my tail and ears" She said, Lady Jasmine looked at her and said "not any more" Leopard Mask felt on top of her head to be surprised to find no ears, she looked over her shoulder and there was no tail. She let out a slight gasp, Lady Jasmine smiled, knowing that Leopard Mask rarely gave any sign that she was surprised, happy, annoyed, vexed, or crushed "wow does this mean i can go on a mission?" she said, with a blank face knowing if she showed any emotion she wouldn't get a mission, the shifters never showed if they had any feeling, witch is what made them so hard to kill or challenged,  Lady Jasmine said "yes I want you to take two other with you to go to the wild cat castle and capture their plans". "all of them?" said Leopard Mask there was a pause for a moment. "all of them" said Lady Jasmine.