wildkit opened her eyes and yawned. Her and her brother scratchkit were sleeping next to each other and it was quite warm, but the small ginger and white she-cat could see light coming into the nursery, and she didnt want to sleep the whole day away. stretching her paws, she stood up and hopped out of her nest that also held her mother Puddlespots. The large black and white she-cat stirred when she heard wildkit.
Yawning, her mother mewed in a tired voice, "Wildkit, what are you doing up so early?"
Wildkit flicked her tail and said " I dont want to sleep all day. I want to see the camp!"
Her mother replied "You can only go out to the camp with your brother. No warrior is going to like being bothered by a kit this early in the morning, just so you know. So keep out of their way"
Wildkit nodded and padded over to her brother "Scratchkit! wake up! I want to go see the camp!"
Her brother mewed indignantly and rolled over, mewing "later! its too early".
Wildkit poked him with her paw, "come on! we are gonna be made apprentices in 1 moons so weve got to get to know as much as we can before we get mentors!"
The small black tom opened his green eyes and sighed, "I guess youre right."
Scratchkit got out of the nest and licked his fur a few times before nodding for wildkit to lead the way. Their mother waved her tail goodbye before curling up again. Wildkit padded out of the nursery and was greeted by the rising sun. It was newleaf and the days were getting warmer and warmer. Wildkit purred when the sun hit her pelt and made her feel warm. Giving her pelt a shake, she spotted badgerpaw, a small black and white tom who was made an apprentice right after she was born.
Bouncing over to him she mewed, "Hi badgerpaw!"
The young tom turned to the two small kits and smiled, "Hi wildkit and scratchkit. What are you guys doing up so early?"
Scratchkit mewed, "Wildkit wanted to go around camp. She wouldnt let me sleep until I came with her."
Badgerpaw laughed and padded over to a sunny area, the kits following close behind, where he plopped down to sun himself.
"I wish I had the choice of sleeping right now, like you guys. Being an apprentice is hard work" mewed badgerpaw
Wildkit sat in front of him, curling her ginger tail around her white paws, " You dont seem like youre doing much. "
Badgerpaw rolled his eyes and responded,"Well, luckily, as of right now, im on a break. I just came back from dawn patrol with Crowshade, runningflame, and vixenpaw."
Wildkits eyes widened happily, "Want to play a game with us then? We can play catch the mouse!"
Scratchkit leaped up and nodded, his green eyes bright. Badgerpaw stared at the two young kits, his eyes thinking.
After a few heartbeats, he sat up and shrugged his shoulders,"Alright. we can play. Ill be the mouse and well see who can grab the tip of my tail first"
Wildkit and scratchkit nodded, backing up to prepare.
Badgerpaw stuck his tail in the air and smiled,"Ready. set. go!"
The two siblings leapt into action. Wildkit growled playfully as she raced in between the apprentices paws and attempted to get behind him. Her brother scratchpaw was on his back trying to leap onto his tail. Badgerpaw mewed playfully and rolled over, careful not to hurt either kit. Wildkit was squished under his weight and leaped up once he was off of her. Scratchkit was thrown off the apprentices back, but he was back up on his paws quickly. Then both kits leapt onto badgerpaws back, their small claws holding onto his fur. Badgerpaw took a soft swipe at wildkit and managed to dislodge her backlegs. While hanging on she saw scratchkit get batted off. With a strong kick, she leapt for badgerpaws white tipped tail, but the apprentice moved it at the last second, causing her to fall flat on her face near his backlegs. Spittng out dirt she saw scratchkit leapt onto badgerpaws tail as he went to check to see if she was ok.
Scratchkit mewed loudly, his voice muffled by fur, "I WIN!"
Badgerpaw laughed and nodded, flicking scratchkits ear with his tail, " Good job scratchkit! You took your chance and got it when I wasnt paying attention."
Wildkit huffed in disappointment but put on a smile for her brother, "Good job scratchkit"
Her brother smiled and mewed, " you did pretty great too wildkit. you alnost had it"
badgerpaw laughed and was about to say something when somecat called him, "Badgerpaw"
All three cats turned around and saw Crowshade padding over,"Badgerpaw. weve been assigned for a hunting patrol. We have to go"
The black and white apprentice nodded before turning to the kits, "I had fun. Be safe you two"
Wildkit and scratchkit mewed their goodbyes as badgerpaw and Crowshade padded away, meeting up with needletail, Silverpaw, and deerfoot.
Scratchkit sighed, "well it was fun while it lasted. What do you want to do now?"
Wildkit thought for a moment before saying, "Lets go see how soulpaw is doing "
Scratchkit nodded and followed his sister to the medicine cat den. The minute they came to the entrance of the den, it smelled strongly of herbs.
Scratchkit sneezed before muttering, " I dont know how soulpaw can stand it. I couldnt stay in this smell all day"
A voice mewed from behind them, "Good thing shes a medicine cat apprentice and you arent then"
Both kits whirled around and saw dawneyes, the clans medicine cat. Her yellow eyes stared at the two kits like daggers
. Wildkits ears were back in fear, " Sorry Dawneyes. Scratchkit didnt mean it. We were just looking for soulpaw. Is she around?"
Dawneyes sniffed indignantly before mewing," shes out gathering some herbs right now. But shell be back soon. Until then, you two stay out of my den."
Walking past them, the two kits relaxed.
"Whatd you have to go and say that for?" wildkit asked scratchkit.
Her fur was sticking up a bit in fear. Dawneyes had been known to get extremely edgy around cats.
Scratchkit shrugged his shoulders and ducked his head in embarrasment, " Sorry." he mumbled. "I didnt know she was there"
Wildkit rolled his eyes, "Well who cares now. Lets go find something else to do. "
The two kits padded around camp, talking to cats they stopped and sometimes playing around. Once it got dark, they were ushered back to the nursery by a warrior.
"Come on kits, Its getting late. Its time for you to go back to your mother" mewed Rainbelly.
Wildkit nodded and followed the grey she-cat. She was very nice to the kits and often played with them when she had nothing to do.
After a few heartbeats of silence on their way to the nursery, wildkit asked "Do you have kits of your own Rainbelly?"
The grey she-cat stopped in her tracks, her mouth open in shock.
"N-no" she mewed after a few heartbeats "Why do you ask that wildkit?"
Wildkit shrugged her shoulders, glancing at scratchkit who was peering at her in curiousity.
"I dont know. I just thought you did since youre so great with kits like us" mewed wildkit.
Rainbellys eyes filled with warmth, " why, thats very sweet of you to say wildkit, but no I dont have kits. Now come along, your mother must be worried"
Scratchkit and wildkit followed the older warrior to the den where they were greeted by fallenkit, Starlingtails son who was their age.
"Hey guys, where have you been? Ive been bored without you" mewed the pale brown, grey, and white patched tom.
Scratchkit mewed in reply, "Just going around camp. Wildkit didnt want to stay in the den "
Puddlespots appeared behind fallenkit, "You two were out for a long time. Next time, come and check in with me so I dont worry."
Wildkit and her brother nodded in reply before joining fallenkit in the back of the den where they played small games.
After a bit of playing, starlingtail called to her son, "Fallenkit, its time for bed. Come to the nest"
Fallenkits tail drooped, "Goodnight guys" he mewed before leaving the two kits to sleep with his mother.
Puddlespots moved over in her nest so her kits could do the same. Wildkit and scratchkit hopped into their nest and layed down to rest. Wildkit was pressed up close to her brother and fell asleep.