"Come on, Nightfeather! Push!" Lilysong, the medicine cat, said to the queen.
Nightfeather screamed in pain and bit down on the stick, splitting it in two, as the kit came.
Lilysong nipped the sac and licked the kit's fur the wrong way. When kit started mewling for milk, she put it next to it's mother.
"I'll be back with some borage." Lilysong said and left the nursery.
"What shall I name you?" The queen murmured weakly.
Nightfeather looked at her kit for a while. Her kit was a white she-cat with a grey hind paw and a grey spot around her eye.
She was beautiful.
"I will name you Crystalkit."
"Hey, Crystalkit, can you open your eyes already? It's been a half-moon!" Crystalkit recognized the voice of her denmate, Berrykit.
"Berrykit, don't push her. She'll open them when she's ready." Her mother, Nightfeather, chided.
It took a while, and a lot of strength and energy, but she managed to do it. She opened her eyes.
But...
Something was wrong.
All she could see was black. Where was the light that Berrykit told her about?
"Crystalkit, you've opened your eyes!" Her mother, Nightfeather, exclaimed, delighted.
"Momma? I can't see anything!" Crystalkit wailed.
"What?"
Just then, Sparrowstar, Crystalkit's father, padded into the nursery.
He just had to pick that moment, didn't he?
"Crystalkit!" He smiled. "You've opened your eyes!"
"But I can't see anything!" She cried again.
"I'll get the medicine cat." He said, calling Lilysong.
Lilysong looked at Crystalkit for a while, then asked, "What do you see?"
"I see darkness! I see black!" She wailed.
Lilysong nodded slowly and turned to Nightfeather and Sparrowstar.
"I'm sorry.. But your daughter is blind."
Sparrowstar was silent for a while, then turned.
"She is not my daughter." He said with disgust, and left the nursery.
"Sparrowstar, wait! You can't just abandon her like this!" Nightfeather called.
Nightfeather turned to face her kit.
"I will stay by your side, Crystalkit. I will always be with you." She said.
"From this moment on, you will be known as Crystalpaw." Sparrowstar said the name is disgust.
I wonder who my mentor will be. Cherryfall? Sunleaves? Marshheart?
"Your mentor will be Lilysong."
"What?!" Lilysong and Crystalpaw exclaimed at the same time.
"I don't want to be a medicine cat apprentice!"
"Sparrowstar, you didn't even tell me!" Lilysong hissed.
"But you like surprises, don't you?" Sparrowstar growled, a hint of warning in his eyes.
Lilysong muttered something under her breath and looked at Sparrowstar.
"I will train her."
"So what is this herb called?" Lilysong asked, pushing a yellow flower towards her.
Crystalpaw sniffed it.
"Yarrow?" Crystalpaw asked.
Lilysong sighed. Crystalpaw had been a medicine cat apprentice for four moons, but she still didn't even know what MARIGOLD smelled like.
"It's marigold, Crystalpaw!" Lilysong snapped, losing her temper.
Crystalpaw would never be a good medicine cat at this rate. NEVER.
Lilysong was dead from greencough and Crystalshine was the only medicine cat. She still had no idea what cobwebs were. How could she heal cats?
Berrylight was coughing. Crystalshine gave him some yarrow.
Juniperwhisker had a stomach ache. Crystalshine gave him catmint.
Rosebush had a sore throat, and Crystalshine gave her mousebile. (Oops! Rosebush must have been complaining for days!)
Finally, Sparrowstar had enough.
"Crystalshine, you are exiled from Frostclan. Leave and never come back!"
She did. And she was out for revenge. She had a clan following her now. Lostclan. They would take over Frostclan. They would show them!
My first challenge :3 (and probably the worst.) I'm used to writing multiple chapters of a story, and challenges aren't like that. I'll get used to it though.
