NOTE: I do not own Warrior Cats, and this is not an official Warrior Cats book. This is my fanfiction, which happens 5 months after The Last Hope. I hadn't read Dovewing's Wish or Bramblestar's Storm at this point, so cats like Sorreltail and Seedpaw aren't dead. This story revolves around 5 cats. Firstly, Jayfeather, Dovewing and Lionblaze. The other two are OCs, Hailpaw and Ravenpaw, who are Lionblaze and Cinderheart's kits. Chapter 1 is from Hailkit's POV. Anyway, story starts now.

'Wake up Hailkit!'

Hailkit slowly opened her eyes, squinting at the light of dawn. Ravenkit was excitedly looming over her. Hailkit looked to the side, glimpsing Cinderheart contently snoozing beside Daisy and Sorreltail. Poppyfrost was vigorously licking her kits: Beekit, a black and ginger tortoiseshell and her littermate Sunkit, a golden tabby. Hailkit heaved himself to her tired paws, and Ravenkit was happily waving his long tail, slightly brushing the littermate's mother.

'Morning,' their mother purred, uncurling from her nest. 'How are you, sunshines?'

Cinderheart dragged herself to her kits and wrapped her tail around them. Ravenkit squealed in excitement, and Hailkit nuzzled her mother's tail with her nose. Cinderheart widened her eyes as she stared at Ravenkit. Hailkit turned to him, shaking away her exhaustion. Ravenkit was covered in debris from a bush, and his fur was ruffled, messily.

'What happened to you?' Poppyfrost mewed from the corner of the nursery, looking up from her kits and her licking stopped. 'You look like you climbed to the top of the Sky Oak and fell back down!'

Ravenkit paused for a moment and proudly raised his head.

'I did.'

'Liar!' Hailkit hissed amusingly. 'Your paws could hardly hold grip on the walls, even when your claws were unsheathed!'

Ravenkit gasped, but didn't seem offended. 'Okay, I decided to go for a little walk!'

'Up a tree?' Cinderheart asked.

'No… around the clearing. I hid under the bushes so no one would see me!'

'Did anyone see you?' Beekit walked forward.

'Nope.' Ravenkit proudly meowed, closing his eyes. 'I was as sly as a badger.'

Cinderheart and Poppyfrost let out an mrrow of amusement. Ravenkit opened his eyes in surprise, and he lowered his head back down, embarrassed. Beekit and Sunkit failed to stifle a smirk, and Hailkit bit her lip to keep quiet. Daisy and Sorreltail woke from their nests. Daisy rose her head quickly, but Sorreltail slowly staggered to her feet. Their eyes instantly widened as they gazed as Ravenkit's messy pelt.

'What happened to you?' Daisy mewed, tilting her head sideways.

'Fell from the top of the Sky Oak…' Ravenkit added a normal tut, while rolling his eyes. Sorreltail seemed to see through Ravenkit's lies as if it weren't there, yet Daisy seemed impressed, her mouth formed an impressed smile.

'I think you two should play outside.' Cinderheart suggested, pointing to the exit with her gray tail. 'You're nearly apprentices,' Hailkit stood up straight. 'And it is very cramped in here as well.'

The two kits hurried outside, Ravenkit taking the lead. He halted, and his sister was about to hurry past him, when he stuck out his left forepaw, and Hailkit tripped over with a squeak. The black tom started to wobble as well, and fell on top the white she-cat. Hailkit huffed painfully.

'What was that for?' she angrily wheezed. Ravenkit rolled off and clumsily scrambled to his paws. Hailkit followed him, cuffed him around the ear, and pounced on him. 'That'll teach you!'

'Sorry.' Ravenkit murmured with embarrassment. He once again scrambled to his feet. 'I want to take you on a tour!'

He trotted off at once, towards the medicine den. Hailkit sighed and reluctantly followed her bossy brother.

I know the camp! She thought.

'And this is the warriors den,' Ravenkit rambled on.

'You mean, the medicine den?' Hailkit innocently pointed out, her eyes were slightly wider than usual.

'Y-yes…' Ravenkit hung his head low and was about to carry on when Jayfeather burst out the den.

'Bramblestar!' the blind cat called, his fur fluffed out anxiously. The leader padded out his den atop Highledge, yawning.

'What?'

'We have Whitecough!'

'It's only Whitecough though, isn't it?'

'But Greencough comes from that!' Jayfeather retorted irritated. 'Easily too! Millie has Whitecough! We need catmint.'

Hailkit didn't realise that Millie was in the medicine den. And with Whitecough too! She'd better not go in there! She was about to walk of back to the nursery when Ravenkit tapped Hailkit on the shoulder with his tail. Hailkit turned around and stared at her brother.

'Millie needs catmint!' Ravenkit exclaimed. Hailkit knew where this was going, and smiled. 'So let's find some!'

Hailkit's expression changed and she sighed. 'Bramblestar will never let us go, though…he will make us wait until we are apprentices, so we have our mentors to go with us!' She angrily lashed her tail in frustration. Jayfeather started to walk out the camp, ducking underneath the dangling brambles. 'Maybe we should ask Jayfeather to take us with him to find some!' Ravenkit nodded enthusiastically. 'Then Bramblestar will notice how brave we are, and that we will serve the clan in all ways possible! And we could be made deputy in future!'

'Yes!' Ravenkit happily agreed. 'Let's go now!'

Hailkit took the lead and ran quickly over to where Jayfeather was. Ravenkit followed.

'Jayfeather!' Hailkit called out to where Jayfeather crouched below the brambles.

Jayfeather turned around impatiently. 'Well? What do you want?'

'Can we go with you?'

'No chance.'

'But why?' Ravenkit desperately wailed. 'We want to serve our clan in all ways!'

Jayfeather waved his tail. 'Because, you are only kits. If you leave the camp, your apprenticeship will be delayed.'

Hailkit gasped.

'And!' he continued. 'You will get into trouble!'

'We won't!' Ravenkit protested.

'Every kit who adventured the territory got in trouble!' Jayfeather retorted angrily. 'Lionblaze, Birchfall, Sorreltail, Squirrelflight! Every one of them nearly died as a kit or early apprentice! Because they snuck out of camp! You know that Lionblaze was nearly savaged by a fox but narrowly escaped, Birchfall nearly fell off a cliff but was saved by Bramblestar, Sorreltail was fed death berries but was saved by Cinderpelt and Squirrelflight went on a journey she shouldn't have with cats who should have!'

'But we're careful.' Ravenkit pleaded, but to Hailkit's dismay, Jayfeather shook his head.

'No kit is careful.' He replied, and then trotted off.

'I can't believe he didn't let us help him!' Ravenkit mewed to Hailkit outside the nursery. 'All we wanted to do was help!' Ravenkit unhappily patted his feet against the dusty ground and clenched his teeth.

'He did have a point though,' Hailkit pointed out. 'We could have got into trouble.' But Ravenkit didn't seem to notice, as he didn't look up. Instead he kept his head low in disappointment.

'We will be such amazing apprentices.' Ravenkit wished hopefully. 'Then no one can stop us from helping out or going out.'

'We should go anyway!' Hailkit excitedly meowed. 'Then the clan will respect us for our bravery and loyalty!' Ravenkit immediately brightened at the prospect.

'Good idea!' he praised. 'Well, what are we waiting for?'

'Are we going now?'

'Well, why not?'

Hailkit and Ravenkit stealthily crept behind the nursery and ducked underneath the scratchy bush. They scampered forward until Hailkit mistook the elder's bush for a normal honeysuckle one, and she poked through and appeared behind Purdy, who was contently snoring. And purring happily as if he was dreaming of hunting a mouse. Hailkit slowly backed out, and Ravenkit was biting his lip to stop himself from erupting in a fit of laughter which would wake up Purdy. Instead, they silently padded past the den.

The line of bushes ended, and they found themselves backing into the long grass as three cats walked through the camp entrance. Spiderleg, Dustpelt and Blossomfall. They were about to walk past when Dustpelt turned to them.

'I can see you in there, you two kits!' he growled unwelcomely. 'And you are not going to leave camp!'

Hailkit and Ravenkit pushed past the grass and stepped out. Spiderleg suspiciously glared at them, and Dustpelt growled again.

'I can see that you wanted to sneak out of camp!' Spiderleg exclaimed. 'What were you going to do after you left?'

Ravenkit lowered his head. 'We were going to find catmint for Jayfeather, because Millie is infected with Whitecough.' He admitted.

'Well Jayfeather doesn't need two gullible kits to collect herbs for him!' Dustpelt retorted. 'Whitecough is mild. Hardly life threatening! And Jayfeather is a perfectly capable medicine cat! He can help Millie in all sorts of ways! Now go back to Cinderheart.'

Dustpelt padded towards the warriors den and Spiderleg followed after giving the kits a small hiss. Blossomfall padded forward.

'Don't worry about not being allowed to have adventures.' She empathised. 'There are effects of it. Me, Bumblestripe and Briarlight crept out every night to practise tree climbing, but unfortunately, we were tired for many sunrises to come.'

Hailkit watched Ravenkit stare at her as she walked towards the medicine den.

Maybe she got a thorn stuck in her pad, or cut it on a sharp stone! She thought. But if she did, she isn't showing it. No limping or nothing!

Her thoughts were cut off as Ravenkit suddenly and excitedly gasped, and spun around so quickly, he nearly fell off his balance, as he stumbled a small amount. He straightened up again, and faced his sister. His eyes glittered with excitement.

'That's it!' he exclaimed.

'What is?'

'Let's go in the night!