Chapter 1
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"The twolegs are talking to us!" meowed a cat.
"I don't want to die!" wailed another cat, "I'm pregnant!"
Then a bright blue light came out of the end of a stick the twoleg was holding.
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"They're coming."
"Hold on a bit longer, Lilyblossom."
"I can't!" wailed Lilyblossom.
"Just a bit further."
"One's out!"
"What color is it?"
"Well, it's a she-kit, she has ginger fur and blue eyes."
"I'll name her Gingerkit."
"Here comes the next!"
"Already?"
"What's wrong with her?" Lilyblossom looked petrified.
"She, he was stillborn."
"Stillborn?" Lilyblossom wailed.
"Just a bit longer, here comes another one."
"It's stillborn too!" wailed Lilyblossom.
The other cats sighed.
Then Gingerkit moved. She opened her eyes and stared at the second stillborn kit.
"Gingerkit opened her eyes!"
"No. It's much too early. You must have been seeing things."
"Look the second kit is moving!"
"What will you name her?"
"Leafkit."
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"Let's bury the first stillborn kit."
"Gingerkit opened her eyes again," wailed Lilyblossom.
"I told you, you're just imagining i…"
"Her eyes ARE opened!"
"That's weird."
"You said that the second kit was stillborn?" asked an elder, "I don't think it's stillborn."
For the second kit, a grey tom was scampering about the nursery.
"It's a blessing!"
"StarClan saved them!"
"I don't know…" meowed the medicine cat, "Strange things have happened today. Very strange things."
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"Gingerkit! Leafkit! Smokekit! Get out of the medicine cat den!"
"Mommy! Look at me!"
Leafkit was flying around in a circle on top of a borage leaf. Gingerkit was staring at her.
"Leafkit? What are you doing? How did this happen?"
"I don't know, mommy."
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"I don't want to go fetch water!" yelled Gingerkit.
"You have to."
"No I don't!" Gingerkit screamed, and the other cat flew into the air, turned upside down, and fell.
Gingerkit stared in horror, "I didn't mean to…"
"Go get that water! Before I really get angry!"
"Yes, father."
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"Gingerkit, please."
"No! I won't, Cloudkit did not die!" Gingerkit screamed.
"Gingerkit, don't get into one of your tempers," Lilyblossom warned.
"No," Gingerkit whispered, "He can't die."
"He did," Lilyblossom comforted, "There's nothing you can do."
"Yes there is!" Gingerkit's eyes glowed in pain, "I'll bring him back to life! Like Smokekit and Leafkit!"
"Honey, you did that once," Lilyblossom stroked her back, "You might not be able to do that again."
"I will!" and she ran off.
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"Why won't it work?" Gingerkit whispered, "Why won't Cloudkit come back to life?"
"Why won't it work?" Lilyblossom wiped her tears with her tail, "Honey. I'm going to get some help."
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Lilyblossom crouched through the edge of the forest. She slinked up to a twoleg nest. A cat was sitting on the brick wall looking at a bunch of tree shavings that were as big as her. The shavings had little marks in black on them. The tabby looked up.
"Come in Lilyblossom," the tabby meowed, noddeing curtly, "I have been waiting for you."
"Thank you," Lilyblossom nodded, wondering how the tabby knew her name, "May I ask what is your name?"
"Minerva," the cat meowed, "Now tell me; why have you come to ask for my help?"
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"You are going to go to a twoleg nest," Lilyblossom told Gingerkit, "To learn how to control this power you have."
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"I am actually a twoleg," meowed Minerva, "I am in cat form right now."
"What do you want with me then?" asked Gingerkit backing away.
"I am going to ask your parents if I can take you to a school," meowed Minerva.
"A school?" Gingerkit cocked her head, "What's that?"
"Sorry," meowed Minerva, "A school is like another clan, except you are not related, you learn with each other from a select group of mentors, I think you call them. I myself am one of these mentors."
"A cat? Going to a twoleg, school?" Gingerkit asked, but Minerva was gone. She reappeared in a few minutes.
"I asked your parents, and they said if you want to go, go ahead."
Gingerkit thought for a while.
"I'll go."
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"You said we were going to the 'school'," meowed Gingerkit.
"No," meowed Minerva, "You must learn how to use your powers to become a twoleg." She explained, "So you'll fit in."
"A twoleg?" asked Gingerkit.
"You won't be one forever. You will just be one at school. Then when you come home you can become a cat."
"Okay," meowed Gingerkit, "Show me."
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