Starkit saw Nightkit trying to climb the wall of the den. Nightkit's black pelt blended with the shadows, the only thing giving her away was her white diamond patch from her forehead to her nose.
"Nightkit! Come here! I'm gonna claw your ears off!" Starkit giggled. Nightkit scurried over.
"I'm here! Now I'm gonna claw your ears off!" Nightkit cuffed Starkit's ears. Starkit cuffed Nightkit's ears back and ran to the other side of the nursery and yowled.
"Catch me if you can!" She yowled. Starkit heard Nightkit run over to her hiding place. Starkit darted out and battered Nightkit's muzzle. Nightkit tumbled backward, straight into Sleepingwillow. Sleepingwillow was a nice queen at times, but when you do something she doesn't like... you gotta start sleeping with an eye open and an ear perked. Nightkit did something Sleepingwillow didn't like yesterday. Nightkit accidentally bit her tail.
Starkit scrambled over the moss and bracken to her mother. She was a feisty she-cat, her mother's name was Leopardtail. Leopardtail didn't like being cooped up in the nursery, but Starkit knew that her mother loved her. Besides, she was Leopardtail's only kit. Her brother died a few days after he was born, his name was Blackkit. Blackkit and Starkit had escaped the camp and were playing on the rocks near the Thunderclan border with Riverclan and he fell down the rocks into the river. Starkit had cried out to him but he never resurfaced, so she sat there wailing for her probably dead brother. Until a Riverclan patrol came and asked Starkit what was wrong and when she told them the story, the tom in charge of the patrol went into the river to retrieve her brother. She was right, her brother was dead, and Starkit never forgot what happened that day. She would never forget her brother.
Starkit scrambled into the nest, Leopardtail looked at me.
"What are you kit's doing now?" Starkit looked down while Leopardtail licked her head lovingly. "Come on, out with it." Starkit looked up at Leopardtail.
"Nightkit just annoyed Sleepingwillow yesterday then she ran into Sleepingwillow's side today, and I don't wanna be there when she gets in trouble." Starkit said as she looked over the top of the nest. Nightkit was apologizing to Sleepingwillow. Sleepingwillow nudged her over to Firestep. Firestep was Nthgkit's mother. She had a dark ginger pelt and ice blue eyes. She was stern, but she was a good mother to Nightkit. No one knew who Nightkit's father was. Nightkit was always asking her mother who her father was, but Firestep would never tell her. Starkit wondered if Nightkit's father even knew she was his, or if her father was from a different clan. There was word in the clan, that Nightkit's father was from Riverclan, but no one's for sure.
"Hey, Nightkit! Over here!" Starkit whispered. Nightkit looked over to Starkit. She looked over to Sleepingwillow, who was now facing the other way. Nightkit padded over to Starkit and Leopardtail's nest and climbed in. "You wanna go outside?" Nightkit nodded and they both scurried out of the nursery.
"Wanna get some fresh-kill?" Nightkit asked, Starkit nodded. Nightkit was eating a starling and Starkit was eating a mouse. Starkit saw her father, Owltalon.
"I'll be backs Nightkit. I'm gonna say 'hi' to Owltalon." She told Nightkit. Nightkit nodded and continued eating her starling. Starkit ran up to Owltalon.
"Hi, Owltalon!" Starkit said, jumping on Owltalon's back and hanging onto his back with her long claws. Owltalon swung his head around.
"Hi, Starkit. You're going to be apprenticed soon, at sun high. Go to Leopardtail and get ready with Nightkit. Both of you are going to be apprenticed. Now go on." Owltalon said. Starkit jumped off of Owltalon's back and ran back over to Nightkit, who was still siting beside the fresh-kill pile, she was starting to eat Starkit's mouse.
"Hey! That's my mouse, Nightkit!" Starkit yowled as she charged at Nightkit, who had now looked up from Starkit's mouse.
"Ahh!" Nightkit ran to the nursery. Starkit ate her mouse triumphantly and went to the nursery to get ready for her apprenticeship.
"Leopardtail?" Starkit asked between Leopardtail's rapid strokes of her rough tongue on Starkit's pelt. "Who's my mentor going to be?" She asked.
"I don't know, Starkit. Maybe Tigertail or Cloudstripe?" Leopardtail then continued her stokes.
"But I don't like Tigertail or Cloudstripe, they're mean." Starkit whined. Then she heard Ravenstar summon to the clan.
"Looks like it's times Starkit. Come on." Leopardtail said as she stood up and squeezed out of the nursery. Starkit fell into step with Nightkit as they went out of the nursery and out into the open. I wonder who my mentor will be? Starkit thought.
