An Unforgettable Grudge: Chapter 1
Maplekit opened her eyes and groaned. Didn't Stormkit ever sleep? "Are you going to stay in that nest until you take root in it?" Stormkit asked.
Their mother, Cloudleaf, looked up, blinking sleep from her eyes.
"Let your sister sleep if she wants to," she chided her son.
"But I want to see Silverfur organizing the patrols, so that when I'm deputy I know how to do it," Stormkit wined.
Maplekit stood up and pushed her brother to the ground.
As she held him down, she meowed, "I'm going to be deputy first!"
"Deputies can't sleep till sunhigh every day." Stormkit meowed, pushing Maplekit off him.
"Stormkit, be nice to your sister, and if she wants to sleep, let her. You are old enough to go out without her," Cloudleaf said.
Streamfoot, a silver queen who was expecting Pikeheart's kits looked over at them and blinked.
"If you want to take Stormkit outside, I'll watch Maplekit," she meowed.
"Thank you," Cloudleaf said.
With that, she and Stormkit left the den.
At least Stormkit was in a good mood today. All he ever talked about was that he would be a much better leader than Maplekit. Streamfoot layed her tail across Maplekit's shoulders.
"I'm sure Stormkit is only playing," the queen meowed.
Maplekit blinked up at Streamfoot and asked, "Do you remember when he clawed me for saying that I wanted to be deputy?"
"I do, but he knows better now," Streamfoot meowed.
Maplekit knew that she wouldn't go back to sleep, so she went outside.
"Hi Maplekit!" called Pikeheart.
He loved every kit as if they were his own, and sometimes queens jokingly said that he should move into the nursery.
"Hi," Maplekit meowed. She found Stormkit watching Silverfur. The silver deputy was Streamfoot's mother and it was sometimes hard to tell them apart. Maplekit sat down next to Stormkit.
"So you woke up? I thought that you'd sleep like an elder all day. They'd rather sleep than play, and they get mad when you ask them for a story. You should go join them. I'm sure they wouldn't mind because you sleep all the time, and then I'd have Cloudleaf all to myself. I wouldn't have to deal with your whining, and Cloudleaf wouldn't get mad at me for the stupid things you do," Stormkit greeted her.
"If you just want to be mean, you can shut up!" Maplekit tried to act angry, but she was quite hurt.
"You shut up! If you keep wining I'll claw you again, and tell the clan it was Streamfoot!" Stormkit threatened.
Maplekit walked away. She crashed into her father, Sandheart.
"How's my little orange and white warrior today?" he meowed.
He was great with kits just as Pikeheart was, and Maplekit loved her father more than even Streamfoot.
"Fine," Maplekit said.
She didn't want to talk with the warriors right now.
She found a ball of moss she'd dropped yesterday and tossed it at Stormkit's back. Her brother hissed and ran at her.
"Why'd you do that?" Stormkit snapped.
Maplekit looked right at her brother and meowed, "I was just playing with you. I want to be friends with you. Will you play Moss-ball with me?"
"If I wanted to play with you I'd have asked long ago. And if you have nothing better to do than beg like a newborn, you can go get lost. I bet Streamfoot is missing you. I bet you miss her too! Go on! Go find her before she comes looking for you!"
This was every day life for Maplekit. Stormkit hated her and taunted her about everything. Maplekit tried to be friendly, but that never worked. And it didn't help that Maplekit thought of Streamfoot as her mother more so than Cloudleaf. To put it lightly, the two queens had never been what you would call friendly with each other. Stormkit sided with Cloudleaf about almost everything, never using his own head.
"Hi Maplekit!" It was Mousepaw, a light brown tom.
Mousepaw was a good friend to Maplekit. He had just had his apprentice ceremony about a half moon ago.
"Hi Mousepaw!" Maplekit purred.
"I'm going hunting with Fernclaw at sunhigh, but I have time for a game of Moss-Ball first."
"Okay!"
Mousepaw always made time for Maplekit. Yesterday he had showed her a hunter's crouch. Stormkit watched with cold eyes from behind Cloudleaf.
Fernclaw looked up from her washing. "Time to go hunting, Mousepaw!" she called.
Maplekit waved her tail at them as they left.
"Feeling sad without your mate?" Stormkit called.
Maplekit just turned her back.
"Hi!" Sandclaw meowed.
It was sunset and Sandclaw had just come back from fishing. He set a fat trout next to Maplekit and Stormkit.
"I caught this just for my little warriors," Sandclaw meowed.
"Don't call me a little warrior! I'm going to be Stormstar!" Stormkit declared.
"You both would make fine leaders," Sandclaw said.
Maplekit took a bite of trout. She was glad that her brother was eating with her. As she entered Cloudleaf's nest, she felt tired.
A/n:
First of all, thank you to the three people who reviewed my story.
Catbooklover2004: Thank you, and I will look at your story.
Raven cries Nevermore: I know, but that was just the prologue, and anything more would have been filler.
Ramonapest: Thank you for the nice review.
Also, I'm taking OCs for Streamfoot's kits. Tell me their name, what they look like, and a bit about their personality. If you want, you can tell me their warrior name as well. If I get more than four kits they will be in a different litter.
Thank you so much for reading.