The Battle of Warriors
Prologue –
The sky was dark, and only the rippling of the waters could be heard. An eerie silence was piercing the area, and it seemed like there was no sound of a living thing. Breaking the silence, a young cat stirs herself and wakes up. All her clanmates were fast asleep, including her mother and her littermates. She slowly pads out from her mother's warm, curled belly, feeling of a rise of excitement building up inside her. She looks at the nursery, where her family was using only. Turning her head she sees the apprentices' den where she was longing to go, the medicine cat's den, the elders' den, the warriors' den, and finally the leader's den.
'The leader's den!' she thinks to herself. Sorrelstar was sleeping inside the cave – like den that was weaved by skilled builders a long time ago. She feels a jolt of curiosity about how it looks like inside. Every single cat was still sleeping. She looks sideways just in case. 'Good!' she thinks to herself. She might be the first kit to be inside the leader's den, and just imagine what a story that would be to tell her littermates! Unable to control herself, she jumps in the leader's den as hard as she could. Sorrelstar wakes up immediately, her claws unsheathing and baring her teeth. "I'm here! " she meows out loud. She looks at the kit in front of her as if she seeing something, and with a pause she sheathes her claws. With an expression mixed with many feelings, she stares at the kit. "May I ask what you are doing here, Willowkit? "she meows shakily.
Willowkit was too stunned to react. She couldn't stop thinking about the alarm in her leader's face. She allows herself to reply, "I….I was awake early, and… I..I wanted to see how th…the leader's den looked like…and well, I'm so sorry!" She almost spat out the last words. Her emotions were building a turmoil inside of her. 'Did I do something really wrong? 'she thinks to herself. She was staring at the ground, framing her leader's expression right now. She pictured her leader raging with fury. 'What if I get exiled?' She tried to control her worries, but the only thing she could do was tremble in fear again. 'Why did I even think of doing that?' She wondered if a clan could possibly exile kits too. After a long pause, Sorrelstar opens her mouth.
"The sun is rising now…."she meows softly. Willowkit didn't know how to react to that. She took a look at where her leader was gazing at. The streams were rippling quietly, and the birds were singing. The sun was rising, making everything orange around it. "It's really beautiful.." she says. Sorrelstar looked as if she were lost in thoughts. Then she flicks her tail dismissively, and goes back into her den.