ThunderClan
Leader - Honeystar - Small light creamy she-cat with bright orange eyes.
Deputy - Thrushfeather - Pale grey tom with dark grey markings and paws and purple eyes
Medicine cat - Nightgaze - Dark grey she-cat with pale grey eyes.
Warriors:
Runningrain - Large grey tom with blue eyes
Hawkclaw - Pale tabby tom with grey eyes
Mothdrop - Pale brown she-cat with golden eyes
Grasstuft - Grey tabby tom with aqua eyes
Marshleaf - Small grey she-cat with green eyes
Mint-tooth - Small white she-cat with pale blue eyes
Apprentices:
Rabbitpaw- White tom with hazel eyes
Whitepaw - White and ginger she-cat with green eyes
Queens:
Shiverpelt - Pale tortoiseshell with bright grey eyes
-Swiftkit (Light grey tom with blue eyes.) -Dark-kit (Large black and white tom with one green eye and one purple eye) -Lakekit ( Silver tabby she-cat with yellow eyes)
Dawnrise - Brown tabby with hazel eyes
-Heatherkit (Long haired brown she-cat with a white under-belly and darker markings and lavender eyes) -Applekit (Dark grey tabby tom with blue eyes) -Ravenkit (Black and white tom with blue eyes) -Sparrowkit (Brown tabby she-cat with hazel eyes)
Elders:
Snowstream - Pale tabby she-cat with pale blue eyes
Brokenclaw - Large black tom with a twisted paw and green eyes
Chapter 1
Heatherkit's eyes slipped open. The first thing she saw was a large pair of crystal blue eyes staring back at her. The kit squeaked and fell backwards. Heatherkit knew who this was by scent. It was Swiftkit, one of Shiverpelt's kits. The small grey fur ball darted back to the safety of his mother's side. The small brown she-kit stretched out her small legs and stood up. She heard the soft snores of her mother beside her. Her kin weren't in the nest with her so she assumed they were out in the camp playing. Heatherkit had never been outside the safe walls of the nursery and her paws was trembling with anticipation. She blinked her newly opened eyes once more and left her mother's side and bounded out into the clearing. For a moment the glare of the new-leaf sun blinded her. Heatherkit paused for a second before looking back at the clearing. She let out an amazed squeak as she gazed at the camp. Large stone walls towered up around the clearing and a few stuck out leading to what she knew was the leader's den. She looked at the apprentice den and saw ThunderClan's two apprentices sharing a large rabbit. Heatherkit watched them enviously, hoping the day she would be an apprentice would come soon. She spotted a patrol coming back into camp. Her face brightened up when she saw Thrushfeather. Not only was he ThunderClan's deputy but he was her father. The grey warrior flicked his tail and the two cats behind him broke off into camp. Heatherkit ran clumsily over to him purring a happy greeting. Thrushfeather looked down at the she-kit and smiled warmly.
"Heatherkit," he purred, "you opened your eyes."
"Yeah! Sparrowkit kept nagging me and I wanted to see what the camp looked like."
"Is that so?" Thrushfeather bent down so his muzzle met hers. "Did you know that our ancestors had to go on a long journey to find this place led by cats specially chosen by StarClan."
Heatherkit's deep purple eyes lit up "Really!?"
"I'm sure one of the elders will tell you the story if you bring them some fresh kill."
Heatherkit nodded and rushed off towards the fresh kill pile. While she was running she bumped into two warriors who were talking. She looked up and immediately recognized one of the two. It was a small slender she-cat with creamy fur and large orange eyes. Honeystar the current leader of ThunderClan. Heatherkit stared in awe at the she-cat and the warrior next to her snickered.
"Hello little one." The large grey tom beside her spoke. "You must be one of Dawnrise's kits."
Heatherkit sat upright and puffed out her fluffy chest. "I'm Heatherkit."
She felt the burning gaze of the two warriors hitting her pelt and she shut her eyes tightly. "Relax." She heard the bright almost kit like voice of her leader and relaxed her shoulders. "A small kit like you should be playing with your littermates not trying to impress the senior warriors. That can wait until you're an apprentice." Heather kit smiled widely. These two cats had an amazing aura about them. Honeystar dismissed the warrior she was talking to and walked over to her den. The she-kit looked around the camp clearing in search of her kin, completely forgetting about the elders story. She saw Sparrowkit and Ravenkit playing near the nursery and Applekit was watching them. Heatherkit ran over to them and called out with a high pitched mewl. Sparrowkit turned her head towards her sister and bounded over to her.
"Heatherkit! You opened your eyes." Sparrowkit squeaked happily.
"Yeah, now we can all play together."
Ravenkit and Applekit approached them.
"Heatherkit, we were waiting for you." Ravenkit purred and touched noses with his sister. Applekit twitched his ear in greeting. Heatherkit smiled. She like her littermates and was looking forward to training as apprentices with them.
Applekit stepped forward. "Have you been around camp yet?"
Heatherkit shook her head. "I've only seen the nursery."
Sparrowkit jumped up. "Then let's show you around."
Sparrowkit bounded off towards the apprentice den followed by Ravenkit and Heatherkit. Applekit followed a few paw steps behind them. They made their way to the apprentice den and were greeted by Rabbitpaw a white tom with hazel eyes.
"You guys are Dawnrise's kits." He spoke.
"Yeah!" replied Sparrowkit excitedly.
"What is it like being an apprentice?" Heatherkit mewed.
Rabbitpaw looked up for a second as if he were thinking hard before he dropped low into a stalking crouch and slowly approached the four kits. "We do things like hunting owls and stalking ShadowClan cats." Heatherkit gasped with her siblings. Being an apprentice sounded dangerous. A white and ginger cat emerged from the den and hit Rabbitpaw on the head with her tail.
"Don't scare them, mousebrain." She turned to face the kits and smiled. "Nice to meet you. I'm Whitepaw."
The kits watched as the two apprentices started talking. Heatherkit didn't stick around to hear what they were saying. She ran off to the elders den. After all she still needed to listen to that story. Sparrowkit followed close behind leaving Applekit and Ravenkit behind. As they approached the elders den they heard the elders speaking.
"I heard Dawnrise's last kit opened her eyes today."
"It's about time. It's almost been a moon since they were born."
"Don't be stingy Brokenclaw. We all knew how long it took you to open your eye." The voice crackled in laughter.
"That was a long time ago."
"It still happened."
Sparrowkit shoved into Heatherkit pushing her into the den. She fell forward on her paws and landed face first in the elders den. The two elderly cats stopped talking and looked at her. Heatherkit looked up at them. One was a pretty pale tabby that looked as if she could still be a fit warrior and the other was a large black tom with a twisted paw. She stared for a while and the tom spoke in an impatient voice.
"Well?"
Heatherkit squeaked "I'm Heatherkit. Thrushfeather said you would tell me a story about about how our ancestors found our home."
Brokenclaw snorted and curled up. "I'm tired; come back later."
Snowstream smiled at Heatherkit. "It happened when the twolegs started destroying the territory of the four clans."
Sparrowkit burst into the den. "But I thought there weren't many twolegs came here."
Heatherkit had heard about the twolges before. Weird hairless things that stood on two legs and took what they wanted when they wanted.
Snowstream snickered. "Yes but in the old territory the twolegs' nest was right next to the clans territory."
Sparrowkit looked at Heatherkit with amazement in her eyes. The two kits spent up until sun high listening to the elders story. It was amazing how the clans worked together and supported each other to find a new place to live and the fact that there were cats living in the mountains amazed her. She wondered what it was like to be one of the cats chosen by Starclan to find a new place to live. As they left they saw the sun high up in the sky. Sparrowkit bounded over to the den that was in the rocky face of the camp's walls but Heatherkit stared up at the sky for a while letting the sun warm her pelt. She felt a cat sit beside her a looked to see a tall dark grey she-cat. The cat had a strange sent. It wasn't the fresh forest scent she was used to but the scent of many herbs and plants. The she-cat also had an air of elegance different from Honeystar. Heatherkit looked at the cat and she turned her head to look down on the kit. The grey cat looked at Heatherkit for a while before nodding her head and mumbling something. "I'm Nightgaze. The medicine cat in ThunderClan. If something ever happens to you I'll help." Nightgaze stood and walked into den Sparrowkit had gone into. Heatherkit stared after her but shook her head and ran off in the direction of the warriors den. There were two cats sleeping close together in the den. They were both small she-cats one with pretty white fur and the other with slightly grey fur. Heatherkit decided not to disturb them and ran back to the nursery. She saw Shiverpelt with her kits curled up next to her. Applekit and Ravenkit were playing next to Dawnrise. The brown queen lifted her head and turned it towards Heatherkit. "Did you have fun?"
Heatherkit nodded and ran to her mother's side. She cuddled up to her warm fur and Dawnrise started licking her head. Heatherkit yawned and closed her eyes with the thought of playing still in her head.