The Pit Of Darkness

Chapter One: Kits

Flykit's P.O.V

"Adderwing has kitted!"

Adderwing is a queen in OceanClan. The four Clans are OceanClan, LightningClan, NightClan, and BreezeClan. Kits who are defected, or have unnatural powers are dropped during The Dropping. The Dropping is when the deformed or unnatural kits are dropped down a large pit, in hope that the StarClan will reward them by ridding the Clans of bad blood by granting them good weather and hunting.

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A kit looked around, wondering why everyone was watching her.

"Give her a name. She will need one in StarClan." a unfamiliar voice reached the small kit's ears.

What is StarClan? The kit wondered.

"I'll name her Flapkit in honer of her stupid wings. The other one is Onekit in honor of his missing eye," that was Adderwing, her mother.

Well, about time you name me, mother, Flapkit thought angrily, At least my name is good.

She glanced over at Onekit, who had an expression of outrage on his face at being named after his missing eye.

Next, she glanced at Brightkit and Lightkit. They were her sisters, and had been named way before her and Onekit.

She let her gaze travel around the nursery, where lots of cats were gathered to hear the winged kit's and the one-eyed kit's names. As she looked around, she began to wonder why no one else had wings like her.

Wings must be rare, Flapkit concluded.

She flapped her wings and landed by Harewing. He was half-Clan, and also the medicine cat. Harewing is the only one who understood her, and he also used to have a winged littermate.

"I don't know what happened to her. One day she left with the Clan, and never came back. Her name was Featherkit," is what he said when Flapkit asked him about her.

Feather's P.O.V

Feather padded into the cavern as the hunting patrol returned. She noticed Dark at the head of the patrol and turned away. The two were mates, but after she gave birth, he saw that none of the kits had a blind eye like him and refused to even look at them. They ended their relationship because Feather thought that he was stupid for rejecting them because they weren't blind in one eye, while he argued back that she had a winged kit like her and it wasn't fair that he didn't have a kit like him. Soar, Lion, and Hydra were her kits, but only Soar was defected. The tabby tom had wings. Hydra, the smoky-black kit, was her only female kit, and Feather was very protective of her.

Feather settled down to eat by Tiger. He was her oldest kit, and also from her first litter. The only reason she and Dark didn't separate until her second litter was born, was because Tiger was blind in one eye like Dark. When she had eaten her fill, she stood up and stretched, then headed out to check the borders with Tiger, Lion, and Eagle. She nodded at her patrol and stepped back so Eagle could lead the patrl out of the camp and through one of the many tunnels.

Once out of the stuffy cave, she flapped her wings and slowly glided in the directions of the various borders and cave entrances, leaving the patrol in the dust.

Eagle caught up to her, panting, and gasped, "Just because you have wings doesn't mean you can desert us."

His eyes strayed toward Lion and Tiger, who were struggling to keep up. Feather never cloud keep herself from staring at Eagle's haunches when he was near her. He had no tail, and was Dropped at the same time she was, only he was from LightningClan, and she was from OceanClan. Eagle was her best friend, and she wished he had been her mate rather than Dark.

She smiled at him and landed beside the tabby tom, patiently waiting for her two sons to catch up.

"Sorry for leaving you guys behind," she purred, licking Lion and Tiger both over the ears once.

"Hey, stop it! I'm not your kit anymore," Tiger whined.

"You're always going to be my kit," Feather laughed, and the patrol started to move along again.