A yawn escaped her mouth as her vibrant green eyes opened. Her sister was still sleeping in the nest next to her. The moss was soft against her small paws and she relished the feel of dew soaked grass. She looked around the nursery and saw Whiteheart snoring loudly. Her litter of kits had just left the nursery but she decided to stay and help Hollowpool with us two kits. The young she cat stretched her beige and spotted pelt and glimpsed at the pink dawn. She looked like her mother only Hollowpool had a gray pelt like her sister Graykit. They were only a few moons old and already shaking to become an apprentice just like any kit. Spottedkit snuck her way out of the nursery and sneezed in the warm new leaf breeze. It seemed that the dawn patrol had just arrived. Her father Oakleaf had lead the patrol and brought back to mice and a black bird. Spottedkit skipped out into the clearing and towards her father. He had a sandy coat like her.
"Hello father. Anything interesting happen on patrol?" Spottedkit asked.
"What would you find interesting?" He countered playfully.
"I don't know, shadow clan crossing borders? Fox trap? Stray wind clan kits?" She purred.
Her father chuckled,
"No nothing that interesting. Just the smell of rain coming this way." He admitted.
Spottedkit shrugged and skipped back to the nursery where Graykit was beginning to wake up.
Once the whole nursery was awake, the apprentices began to roll out of their mossy beds. They greeted the warriors in training.
"Greetings Talonpaw and Ravenpaw." Spottedkit smiled.
The brother and sister looked down at the leopard like kit and her tabby sister.
"What can we do for you Spottedkit and Graykit?" Talonpaw asked.
"Can you teach us some new battle moves? We want to be ahead when we begin training." Graykit jumped.
"Well-" Raven paw began.
She was interrupted when her mentor Foxfur slid out of the warriors den and twitched her tail.
"Sorry I have to go." She apologized.
The sisters understood and when Talonpaw went on a hunting patrol they were left with their thoughts and a few apprentices who were checking the elders for ticks. The two admired the bustle of the clan as they moved swiftly about. However the two were snapped back into reality when the leader of Thunder Clan came into the clearing. Hawkstar licked his chest proudly as he made his way to the warriors den. Then Spottedkit turned to her sister,
"I want to be leader." She blurted out.
"Don't we all." Graykit remarked.
"No seriously." Spottedkit complained.
"Well okay, only if I can become deputy!" Graykit smiled cheekily.
Spottedkit jumped on her sister and they swatted at each other's ears and play fought for a few minutes until they hit something. They jumped up and looked up at a lean russet cat with long fur. It was Tanglepaw.
"Sorry Tanglepaw." The sisters muttered.
"It's fine, just watch where your playing." He rolled his eyes.
When he left Spottedkit let out a moan of sarcasm. Tanglepaw had always been crashing into their fun. He always told them right from wrong and told the sister off when they had stolen a mouse from the fresh kill pile. Spottedkit did not admire Tanglepaw at all. Spottedkit turned to her sister who had shyly hung her head when the arrogant apprentice had scolded them.
The two continued on walking around the camp looking for things to do or how to get out of trouble. By the time the sun set a party to go to the gathering had set off. Leaving the kits, Ravenpaw and her mother along with a few warriors to watch over camp. Spottedkit and Graykit went back to the nursery and saw their mother half asleep, waiting for her two kits to come back. Spottedkit decided to curl up by her mother's stomach while Graykit wrapped her tail around Hollowpool's front paws. No sooner had they entered their den had they fallen asleep. Spottedkit was soon jolted awake by a cold breeze. Dark shadows surrounded her small body. Crystal eyes peered at her with intensity. One of them stepped forward looking at the small, scared kitten. Spottedkit noticed that each cat had crimson paws that stained the empty ground beneath them. Whispers passed though her ears then faint screams echoed through her mind. The cats gathered closer to Spottedkit until she was smothered with shadows and was swallowed up into a dark void that lead her back to her nest in the nursery.
The sky was practically black but had red streaks, painted by the early sun across the horizon. Strangely however, odd scents filled the air. Scents that have never touched her nose before. Cats, not forest cats. Cats that smelled like rotten fungus and mud and blood. She heard evil sniggering from the approaching cats. That's when she decided to react,
"Intruders!" Spottedkit squealed.
Soon a whole confused mess filled the camp. Sleepy warriors attacked each other while the Intruders made their way through camp. One of them, a she cat with a gray blue pelt looked at Spottedkit. Aware of her loud mouth would probably wake the camp.
"Help" Spottedkit cried.
No sooner had the rest of the intruders come towards poor Spottedkit. One if them and three long scars across his face and had reinforced claws that looked like talons from a bird. He was their leader. Another cat with a muddy brown pelt raised her paw, claws unsheathed.
"No!" The leader snapped.
His followers looked confused.
"We will show the clans what happens when they humiliate us. Take her back to camp, Flame, Horn. The rest of you, prepare your battle claws." He grimaced.
Spottedtail's shook with horror. She tried to back away but Flame, a orange tabby with messy fur and Horn a gray Tom with a blind eye, creepers closer towards her. At this time the clan was wild with battle. Hollowpool shouted Spottedkit's name. She finally whipped around and her eyes filled with fear as Flame picked her up by the scruff.
"No!" Spottedkit shouted as the two intruders ran off with her.
Oakleaf sprinted after the two cats. He pounced on Horn scratching his ears. They were in a heated battle. It was enough to get Flame out of the forest. She ran past the farm and onto the road. She pounced through some hedges making Spottedkit's fur full of thorns and twigs. Farther and farther the forest disappeared. Sadness and fear filled her body as she was taken down a dark alley way.