Hey! So this is my second story that will be taking place during Bluestar's Prophecy. This will NOT mean that I won't be working on Firestar's Prophecy! I'll be working on it whenever I can, so no worries for those who've followed/favorited it! For this story I have already written four complete chapters for it so the posting of chapters won't be an issue quite yet, and so far it's been semi-easy to write compared to other stories. I'm not sure about how often I'll be updating, but rest assured I'll try to keep up with it as much as I can to those who follow/favorite this story.
Warning: This story will be like Bluestar's Prophecy only with my OC put in place as Bluestar's Imaginary third sister so things will happen accordingly as they did in Bluestar's Prophecy, though there will be some differences here and there because my OC will change some minor and (a select few) major parts in the book.
Disclaimer: I don't own Warriors only my OCs.
ALLEGIANCES
THUNDERCLAN
Leader Pinestar - red-brown tom with green eyes.
Deputy Sunfall - bright ginger tom with yellow eyes.
Medicine Warrior Goosefeather - speckled gray tom with pale blue eyes. (Featherwhisker)
Warriors (toms, and she-cats without kits)
Stonepelt - gray tom.
Stormtail - blue-gray tom with blue eyes.
Adderfang - mottled brown tabby tom with yellow eyes.
Tawnyspots - light gray tabby tom with amber eyes.
Sparrowpelt - big dark brown tabby tom with yellow eyes.
Smallear - gray tom with very small ears and amber eyes. (Whitepaw)
Thrushpelt - sandy-gray tom with a white flash on his chest and green eyes.
Robinwing - small, energetic brown she-cat with a ginger patch on her chest and amber eyes.
Fuzzypelt - black tom with fur that stands on end and yellow eyes.
Windflight - gray tabby tom with pale green eyes. (Dapplepaw)
Speckletail - pale tabby she-cat with amber eyes.
Apprentices (over six moons old, in-training to become warriors)
Featherwisker - pale silvery tom with bright amber eyes, long whiskers, sweeping, plumy tail; apprentice to the medicine warrior.
Dapplepaw - tortoiseshell she-cat with a lovely dappled coat.
Whitepaw - pale gray she-cat, blind in one eye.
Queens (she-cats expecting or nursing kits)
Swiftbreeze - tabby-and-white she-cat with yellow eyes; mother of Adderfang's kits: Leopardkit (black she-cat with green eyes) and Patchkit (black-and-white tom with amber eyes).
Moonflower - silver-gray she-cat with pale yellow eyes; mother of Stormtail's kits: Snowkit (white she-cat with blue eyes), Bluekit (gray she-cat with blue eyes), and Silverkit (silver tabby she-cat with yellow eyes).
Poppydawn - long-haired, dark red she-cat with a bushy tail and amber eyes; expecting Windflight's kits.
Elders (former warriors and queens, now retired)
Weedwhisker - pale orange tom with yellow eyes.
Mumblefoot - brown tom, slightly clumsy, with amber eyes.
Larksong - tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes.
SHADOWCLAN
Leader Cedarstar - very dark gray tom with a white belly.
Deputy Stonetooth - gray tabby tom with long teeth.
Medicine Warrior Sagewhisker - white she-cat with long whiskers.
Warriors
Raggedpelt - large, dark brown tabby tom.
Foxheart - bright ginger she-cat.
Crowtail - black tabby she-cat. (Cloudpaw)
Brackenfoot - pale ginger tom with dark ginger legs.
Archeye - gray tabby tom with black stripes and thick stripe over eye.
Hollyflower - dark-gray-and-white she-cat.
Queens
Featherstorm - brown tabby she-cat.
Poolcloud - gray-and-white she-cat.
Elders
Littlebird - small, ginger tabby she-cat.
Lizardfang - light brown tabby tom with one hooked tooth.
WINDCLAN
Leader Heatherstar - pinkish-gray she-cat with blue eyes.
Deputy Reedfeather - light brown tabby tom.
Medicine Warrior Hawkheart - mottled dark brown tom with yellow eyes. (Barkpaw)
Warriors
Dawnstripe - pale gold tabby she-cat with creamy stripes. (Tallpaw)
Redclaw - dark ginger tom. (Shrewpaw)
Elders
Whiteberry - small, pure white tom.
RIVERCLAN
Leader Hailstar - thick-pelted gray tom.
Deputy Shellheart - dappled gray tom.
Medicine Warrior Brambleberry - pretty white she-cat with black-spotted fur and blue eyes.
Warriors
Rippleclaw - black-and-silver tabby tom.
Timberfur - brown tom.
Owlfur - brown-and-white tom.
Ottersplash - pale-ginger-and-white she-cat.
Queens
Rainflower - pale gray she-cat; mother of Shellheart's kits: Oakkit (reddish brown tom with amber eyes) and Stormkit (light brown tabby tom with green eyes).
Fallowtail - light brown she-cat with soft fur; secretly mother of Reedfeather's kits: Graykit (dark gray she-cat) and Willowkit (silver tabby she-cat).
Elders
Troutclaw - gray tabby tom.
~Chapter One~
"Isn't it about time she opened her eyes?"
"Hush, Swiftbreeze. She's only a few days old. She'll open them when she's ready."
Silverkit felt her mother's tongue rasp over her head and nuzzled deeper into Moonflower's milk-warm belly.
"Snowkit opened hers the day after she was born and Bluekit the day after her," Swiftbreeze reminded her. "And my two opened theirs almost the very moment they were born." The she-cat's tail stirred her bedding. "Leopardkit and Patchkit are natural warriors."
A third queen sounded a soft purr. "Oh, Swiftbreeze, we all know that no kit can compete with your two," Poppydawn gently teased.
A small paw poked Silverkit's flank and the scent of Snowkit met her nose. Bluekit was fast asleep on her other side, her own flank rising and falling rhythmically. Silverkit mewled in annoyance and snuggled closer to Moonflower.
"Come on, Silverkit!" Snowkit whispered in her ear. "There's so much to look at and Bluekit and I want to go outside, but Moonflower won't let us till you're ready."
"She'll open her eyes in her own time," Moonflower chided.
Yeah, Snowkit, in my own time, Silverkit agreed.
Waking, Silverkit could feel the weight of Snowkit lying across her back while Bluekit was still beside her. On her other side, Moonflower's belly rose and fell rhythmically. Little ways away, Swiftbreeze snored and Poppydawn wheezed slightly as she breathed.
Feeling the beginnings of claustrophobia, Silverkit wriggled out from underneath her sister. A newleaf breeze stirred the walls of the nursery and drifted through the gaps between the woven brambles, carrying with it the same fresh forest smell her father had carried on his pelt when he visited. It chased away the stuffy smell of moss and milk and warm, sleeping fur.
Now that she was free, Silverkit stretched open her eyes for the first time. Upon doing so, she was momentarily blinded by the shafts of light that pierced the bramble roof. The nursery was huge! Before, when she had her eyes closed, it had felt small and cozy, but now she could the brambles stretching high overhead, with tiny patches of blue beyond.
Looking around, she saw Poppydawn - a dark red tabby with a bushy tail - lying on her side near one wall. Silverkit recognized her because she smelled different from Swiftbreeze and Moonflower. There was no milk scent on her; she had no kits yet. Swiftbreeze was in a nest beside her and was hardly visible being as she was curled up in a tight ball with her nose tucked under her tail, her tabby-and-white pelt blotchy against the bracken underneath.
It was behind Silverkit that the most familiar scent of all came from. Turning around, her gaze fell upon her mother. The sunlight that pierced through the bramble roof dappled Moonflower's silver-gray pelt, rippling over the darker gray stripes that ran along her flank. Her striped face was narrow, and her ears tapered to gentle points. I wonder if I look like her? Silverkit looked over her shoulder at her own pelt. It was fluffy, not sleek like Moonflower's, but otherwise looked identical.
Snowkit, lying stretched out on her back, was all white except for her gray ear tips while Bluekit was dark gray all over.
"Snowkit! Bluekit!" Silverkit breathed.
"What is it?" Snowkit asked sleepily, blinking open her eyes while Bluekit simply remained asleep. They were blue.
Are mine blue? Silverkit wondered.
"You've opened your eyes!" Snowkit leaped to her paws, wide-awake. "Now we can go out of the nursery!"
"What about Bluekit?" Silverkit asked, looking at their dark gray sister who was still sleeping. "Should we wake her?"
"Oh, yeah." Snowkit sharply poked Bluekit's flank, their sister letting out a mew of annoyance in retaliation before opening her eyes. They were blue too, like Snowkit's.
"What?" Bluekit snapped before noticing Silverkit. "You've opened your eyes!" She too got to her paws. "Are we going outside, now?" This question was directed at Snowkit.
"Yep!" chirped their white sister.
Poppydawn raised her head. "Don't go far," she murmured sleepily before tucking her nose back under her tail.
"Where are Poppydawn's kits at?" Silverkit whispered.
"They won't arrive for another two moons," Snowkit answered.
Arrive? Silverkit tipped her head to one side, questioningly. Arrive from where?
Snowkit and Bluekit were already scrambling for a hole in the bramble wall that must serve as the nursery's entrance, climbing clumsily over Moonflower. Silverkit tumbled after, her short legs unsteady and uncertain as she slid down her mother's back and landed in the soft moss.
The nest rustled and Silverkit felt a soft paw clamp down on her tail. "And where do you think you're going?" Moonflower was awake.
Gulping nervously, Silverkit looked up at her mother and pulled on an innocent face. "Outside?"
Moonflower's eyes glowed and she purred. "You've opened your eyes." She sounded relieved.
"I decided it was time," Silverkit stated proudly with a shrug.
"There, Swiftbreeze." Moonflower turned, waking the tabby-and-white queen with her satisfied mew. "I told you she'd do it when she was ready."
Swiftbreeze sat up and licked her paw. "Of course. I was only talking about my own two kits, they opened theirs sooner." She swiped her paw over her muzzle, smoothing the fur on her nose.
Moonflower turned back to her kits. "So now you're going out to see the world?"
"Yes," Silverkit mewed happily.
At the same time Bluekit asked, "Why not? Leopardkit and Patchkit are already out there."
"Leopardkit and Patchkit are five moons old," Moonflower told Bluekit. "They're much bigger than you, so they're aloud to play outside."
Silverkit's eyes widened. "Is it dangerous?"
Moonflower shook her head. "Not in the camp."
"Then we can go!" all three kits exclaimed in unison.
The silver-gray queen sighed, then leaned down to smooth Silverkit's fur with her tongue. "I suppose you have to leave the nursery sometime." She studied Snowkit. "Straighten your whiskers." Then Moonflower studied Bluekit. "Flatten your chest fur." Pride shone in the queen's amber gaze. "I want you to look perfect when you meet the Clan."
Snowkit ran a licked paw over each spray of whiskers, beside her Bluekit awkwardly began to smooth her gray chest fur with her tongue.
Silverkit looked up at her mother. "Are you coming with us?"
"Do you want me to?"
Silverkit nodded her head sheepishly, she didn't want to be without her mother just yet.
"Well then, off we go." Moonflower stood up but before the queen took a step, Bluekit was already running for the gap used as an entrance with Snowkit hard on her paws. "Don't get under any cat's paws!" Moonflower called after them as they headed through the hole.
Silverkit though, remained at her mother's side as Moonflower took the lead and pushed her way through the den's entrance after her other kits. As she followed close behind, the brambles scraped her pelt. When she tumbled onto the ground beyond, sunshine stung her eyes. Blinking away the glare, Silverkit finally saw the camp for the first time.
A vast, sandy clearing stretched away from Silverkit to a rock that casted a shadow so long it almost touched her paw tips. Two warriors sat beneath the rock, sharing prey beside a clump of nettles. Beyond them lay a fallen tree, its tangled branches folded on the ground like a heap of skinny, hairless legs. Several tail-lengths away from the nursery a wide, low bush spread its branches over the ground. Ferns crowded a corner at the nursery's other side, and behind them rose a barrier of gorse so tall that Silverkit had to crane her neck to see the top.
"Wow!" she breathed in awe. Ahead of her, Bluekit and Snowkit were standing frozen with wide blue eyes.
"It's so big," Snowkit marveled.
From the corner of her eye, Silverkit could see Bluekit staring at the camp with an amazed expression frozen on her face. It would seem she also lost her tongue.
"Look at that prey!" Bluekit finally managed to gasp out. She was staring at a heap of birds and mice at the side of the clearing. It was topped by a fat, fluffy squirrel.
"The fresh-kill pile!" Silverkit squeaked out and bounced toward it, her nose twitching. She'd heard the queens in the nursery talking about prey, and she'd smelled squirrel on her mother's fur. What would it taste like? Thrusting her nose into the pile, she tried to sink her claws into a small creature with short brown fur and a long, thin tail.
"Watch out!"
Her sisters' warning came too late. Silverkit's paws buckled as the plump squirrel rolled off the top of the pile and flattened her. Ooof!
Purrs of amusement came from the two warriors beside the nettle patch. "I never saw fresh-kill attack a cat before!" meowed one of them.
"Careful!" warned the other warrior. "All that fluff might choke you!"
Hot with embarrassment, Silverkit wriggled out from underneath the squirrel as Bluekit gave a fierce glare at the warriors. "It just fell on her!" her dark gray sister said defensively.
Moonflower quickly came to stand beside Silverkit. "Are you all right?" she asked worriedly, eyes scanning over her as if searching for an injury.
All Silverkit did was nod meekly, too embarrassed to voice a reply. The queen signed in relief and rasped her tongue between her ears comfortingly.
"Hey, you two!" Silverkit recognized Patchkit from his nursery-scent as padded over to them from a tree stump. When she turned to face her denmate for the first time she was taken by surprise. She hadn't been expecting Patchkit to be so big. His black-and-white fur was sleek like a warrior's, and she had to tilt her head back to look up at him. From her peripheral vision, Silverkit saw Bluekit stretch her legs in a vain attempt to appear taller.
Leopardkit scampered after her brother, swiping playfully at his tail. Her black coat shone in the sunshine. She stopped and stared in delight when she saw Silverkit and her sisters. "You've opened your eyes!"
Silverkit licked her chest, trying to smooth down her fluffy fur and wishing her pelt was as sleek like theirs and Moonflower's.
"We can show you around," Leopardkit meowed excitedly.
Snowkit bounced around the older kit. "Yes, please!"
Bluekit though flicked her tail crossly. Silverkit wondered what her problem was. It wasn't like they knew where they were going. In her opinion it would be better to learn from the older kits where everything was so they wouldn't go somewhere they shouldn't.
"And this is where I'll leave you," Moonflower announced and rasped her tongue over each of her kits heads. "Have fun, and be sure to listen to Leopardkit and Patchkit!" That being said, Silverkit's mother made her way back toward the nursery.
"Where to first?" Silverkit asked Leopardkit.
The black she-cat simply flicked her tail for them to follow before trotting over to the wide patch of ferns near the gorse tunnel. "This is the apprentice's den," she told Silverkit and her sisters who trailed behind her with Patchkit taking up the rear. "We'll be sleeping there in a moon."
Silverkit gazed back at the nursery where Moonflower was lying next to the entrance. She was rasping her tongue over a paw, but her eyes were on the kits. "Won't you miss your old nest?" She felt a sudden flicker of anxiety. She liked sleeping next to Moonflower.
She looked back up at Patchkit with innocent eyes. The older black-and-white kit opened his mouth to say something, but stopped when he caught her gaze. A more thoughtful look came into his amber eyes and when he did answer, it was a little more mature-sounding than what he was obviously going to say before. "I suppose, yes. It will be strange at first, but it will eventually get better. You can't stop the inevitable, after all. Eventually you too will become apprentices."
Silverkit nodded. Patchkit was right, she and her sisters would become apprentices eventually as well. Of course it won't be a while yet, but everyone had been an apprentice at one point; even Moonflower.
Leopardkit on the other paw yowled, "I can't wait to move into my new den! It'll be great to talk without Swiftbreeze telling us to be quiet and go to sleep."
Right as they caught up with Leopardkit, the ferns trembled and a tortoiseshell face poked out between the green fronds. "Once you start your training," yawned the sleepy-looking apprentice, "you'll be glad to get some sleep."
"Hello, Dapplepaw!" Patchkit greeted cheerfully as the tortoiseshell she-cat stretched, half in and half out of the bush.
Silverkit stared at Dapplepaw's pelt, thick and shiny; the muscles on the she-cat's shoulders rippled as she sprang from the ferns and landed beside Patchkit. Suddenly Silverkit's denmate didn't look so big after all.
"We're showing Silverkit, Bluekit, and Snowkit around the camp," Leopardkit announced. "It's their first time out."
"Don't forget to show them the dirtplace," Dapplepaw joked. "Whitepaw was complaining only this morning about cleaning out the nursery. The place has been filled with kits for moons, and there are more on the way."
Silverkit lifted her chin. "Bluekit, Snowkit and I can keep our nest clean now," she declared.
Dapplepaw's whiskers quivered. "I'll tell Whitepaw when she gets back from hunting. I'm sure she'll be delighted to hear it."
Silverkit tilted her head. Was she teasing? she wondered and playfully narrowed her eyes at the tortoiseshell apprentice.
"I can't wait to go hunting!" Patchkit announced and dropped into a crouch, his tail weaving like a snake.
Silverkit couldn't help, but let out a quiet giggle at how he ridiculous he looked. This earned her a playful glare from the black-and-white tom-kit. "Think I look funny do you?" he growled before leaping at her. Before she could move out of the way he pinned her to the ground and began using the tips of his claws to tickle her. "Do you think I look funny now?"
Laughing, Silverkit shook her head. Her entire body squirmed, trying to get free of Patchkit's grip. Her denmate didn't relent.
"I said, do I look funny now?" Patchkit yowled, tickling her mercilessly.
Gasping in between giggles, Silverkit finally choked out, "No!"
Relenting, Patchkit stopped tickling her and allowed her to squirm away from him. As Silverkit stood there, panting, she noticed that her sisters were no longer there. Frowning, she looked around in confusion. "Where are Bluekit and Snowkit?"
"They might've gone back to the nursery," Leopardkit explained, flicking her tail toward the nursery where Moonflower was no longer lying outside of. "Do you want to go back, too?"
Silverkit shook her head before looking up at Dapplepaw. "Can you show me how to do what Patchkit did?"
The tortoiseshell apprentice smiled and nodded. "Of course! Now, here's what you do..."