The other kits were jumping around the nursery while I hid in the corner of the den to avoid being trampled on by my hyper-active litter mates .
My eyes wandered around the nursery for a few seconds the light was dim and fragmented , but I could still see my brothers through the shady light I looked up to see the mass of branches and vines that made up the roof of the nursery , it only seemed to let in the faintest of light through the tangled branches that were weaved by the warriors and the queens.
I was shocked out of my aloof state of mind due to the loud noises my mother was making while scolding my two brothers Shadekit ,black Tom with three silver stripes on his back he looked a lot like me but his feet and tail tip had dark silver fur while I was all black with three silver stripes, his eyes were a dark blue much like my own ,but Strikekit who was a dark cream color with light cream ears and tail tip that looked more like our mother Muddywater's coloring which was entirely dark cream except for The light cream swirls were all through out her fur, Muddywater and Dovenight A dark gray she- cat with white paws, ,her stomach was bolted because she was heavy with kits and I was told that she could start her kitting any day now, I folded my tail around my body to look like I was asleep in case Strikekit and/or Shadekit tried to drag me in to this
"BUT I FOUND IT FIRST"Strikekit yowled his large green eyes staring into muddywater's darker green eyes which were filled with annoyance
"But you had it forever and I asked you and you said to wait till it was MY turn and it seemed like your turn should have been over" Shadekit stated with a meekness in his voice.
"I don't care you don't just take things from other cats" Muddywater spoke with a calm anger in her voice that sent chills up my spine. "and how do I know that if I let you out of the nursery you won't go and take stuff from the warriors or even from larkmoons medicine den" muddywater continued with a hint of warning in her voice I knew what was coming
" but I wouldn't do that shadekit mewed despraly all conference gone from his voice and his blue eyes staring directly in to muddywater's stern gaze
"oh give him a break he's just a kit it was only a feather" dovenight said with a sympathetic tone of voice.
"BUT IT WAS MY FEATHER" Strikekit yowled once more with anger in his shrill voice.
"calm down strikekit warriors share with others unless you don't want to be a warrior?" dovenight said calmly.
"no I want to be a warrior" strikekit mewed desperately. His green eyes were large and round.
"whats going on in here" a new voice said she recognized it as her father Soottali, a large tom cat with silvery black fur and eyes that were a hint bluer then my own,
"SHADEKIT STOLE MY FEATHER!" Strikekit yowled seeming to forget what muddywater had just said.
"is this true Shadekit?" her father asked with a fake stern look that looked more like we was about to burst out laughing.
"It was MY TURN" shadekit mewed desperately. in a attempt to win his fathers support.
"now i am sure that if you really wanted to you could have found more feathers out side" Soottail mewed calmy though amusement still gleamed in his blue eyes.
"but muddywater wont let us leave the nursery" Shadekit mewed meekly. I tried to drift off into sleep not wanting to listen to the stupid argument any more.i had fallen asleep only to be awoken but strikekits yowls of protest "BUT WHY NOT" I heard him say in a ear splitting shriek that sounded as if he thought the world was ending.
"Because your not old enough or mature enough" Muddywater said in a calm but slightly aggravated voice.
"I'm mature enough" shade kit jumped in.
"you dont even know what mature means" Dovenight said in a annoyed voice.
"yes i do" shade kit said puffing out his chest to as if he was trying to make him self look bigger.
"really then what dose it mean" Dovenight said with a smirk on her face
"to be big?"Shadekit said though his bubble of confidence had been burst.
"no it means to be able to share and not take things that don't belong to you and its what a real warrior is" Muddywater said with a stern tone in her voice.
"BUT WE WANT TO GO OUTSIDE SO BAD PLEAS MUDDYWATER CAN WE PLEAS GO" both of them said in unison as if it had been planed out from the start.
"fine but all three of you have to go together, and that means you have to wake Midnightkit up to go with you" muddywater said with a sigh.
Oh no I though just as Strikekit Shadekit jumped on top of me and rolling me in to the prickly side of the nursery. I scraped my back on one of the exposed prickly things that make up the back wall of the nursery. jumped up stared walking towards the exit know that saying some thing would invoke a stupid response from my two brothers. as I reached the exit i was shocked by the blinding bright light that had caused me to recoil because I had never left the nursery before now and in there it was dim with only a few patches of light that managed to get though.
I looked over my shoulder to see that my two brothers were seemingly unphased by this bright light and were taking off in a run. I peered around the camp to see A tall prickly wall surrounding the entirety of the camp border and thick things out side of the camp the I assumed were the pine trees that Dovenight and Muddywater talked about. the ground was covered in grass and places were the grass had been worn down from endless paw prints. there were two cats sharing tongues by a pile of things which looked a lot like the pray that the apprentices would bring Dovenight and Muddywatter. so I assumed that that was the fresh kill was a hole in the wall of prickles which I guessed was the exit to the camp. I started to look around more when then I noticed that my brother were already running off into what looked like something that could have possibly been a den . I stared to follow them, but I quickly lost them and I couldn't see either one o my brothers anywhere in the large camp maybe the camp was so large I just cant see that far? I thought questioningly to my self.
I started nosing around camp while staying out of sight of the other cats that I did not know yet but I also did not want to get in to trouble for not staying with my brothers finally I caught on to their scent. they had go in to a bush type thing with pointy green leafs. I started to go under it then I realized it there was a space behind the bush were both my brother were as I entered the space behind the bush i saw that there was no grass here though if you looked up you could still see the sky and the the space was enclose by rocks that had been over grown with moss and other various plants.
my brothers were talking to someone my blood ran cold as I soon realized this cat did not smell like any shadow clan warrior I know of nor did they even smell like a shadowclan cat. my paws froze to the ground as the strange cat looked at me, it was a she-cat with silvery blue fur and light gray paw and ears. her eyes were ice blue "hello Midnightkit" the cat said in a smooth voice.
I wanted to run and there were endless questions raging though my mind. How did she know my name , were did she come from, how did she get in to the camp, should i tell some one?. I stared back my jaws dropping and my eyes widened in fear. i was frozen stiff then more fear and unsertiness ran though my mind when i relized that I could see though her.