Chapter 1

1 Moon

Silverkit listened to one of the queens tell a story about the four clans, Lunarclan, Mistclan, Stormclan and Dawnclan. They were part of Lunarclan. Silverkit was interrupted from the story when she heard a friendly voice.

"Come ON Silverkit! Let's go explore!" Silverkit recognized the small shape of her sister, Featherkit. They ran outside and started running around the camp. They reached some bushes with a hole underneath, and went under.

"I wonder what den this is!" Featherkit squeaked cheerfully. A dark shape came out of the shadows and towered over them. The cat was a brown tom cat with gold eyes. Silverkit trembled in fear.

"Evidently one you are not supposed to be in." The big cat grumbled sleepily. "Go away. Go back to the nursery." The big tom nuzzled them out of the den.

"I guess we have to go back..." Silverkit mewed sadly. They walked solemnly back to the nursery. "Maybe tomorrow..."

The kits slipped through the leaves and nuzzled up to their mother Poppytail. Eventually their breathed slowed and slowed, until they were finally asleep.

3 moons

Silverkit walked over to the Fresh-kill pile and pulled out a large mouse she was barely bigger than and brought it to her sister. Being smaller, she wasn't able to finish even half of the mouse. She left the rest to her sister who ate it like she hasn't eaten food in 5 moons.

Silverkit ran over to the apprentice den and bolted inside. She saw 5 apprentices, Pebblepaw, Honeypaw, Whitepaw, Lionpaw and Jaypaw sat in the apprentice den deep in conversation.

"Hi guys! What's up?" Silverkit said happily to them. The apprentices all looked at her. A couple of them had smirks. They didn't look too happy to see her.

"What do YOU want?" Pebblepaw sneered. "Go away Silverkit. We don't care about what you want to say." The words stung like needles in a paw. She couldn't think of any counters, so she walked away. She hid in the shadows, making sure no one saw her or could see her...

Featherkit's POV

Featherkit trotted over to the medicine den. Being the curious kit she was, she wanted to see what happens in there. She peered in the den, and saw Spotteddapple sorting herbs. Featherkit watched in wonder when Spotteddapple broke the silence.

"I know you're there. So you might as well come in young one." Spotteddapple mewed kindly. Featherkit slowly and cautiously walked into the den towards the old medicine cat. Spotteddapple had mousy fur with dark browns spots. She had amber eyes and a soothing and calming voice.

Walking over to where Spotteddapple sat, Featherkit looked with curious eyes. She looked at the herbs that Spotteddapple picked up with a questioning look her eyes. The medicine cat replied with a purr when she answered.

"This herb is called Comfrey. It's used for mending bones and getting them to heal where they are supposed to be. So if an injured cat comes back from a battle with an injury that goes deep into the skin and bone, then-

"-Then the comfrey will help heal the bone and set it on the right path!" Featherkit interrupted. The old medicine cat let out a purr of amusement.

"That's right!" The two cats slowly went through about all of the herbs, Featherkit's interest not withering away one bit. Her whole attention was on the medicine cat and what she was saying about each and every herb.

"Wow! I never knew there were these many herbs!" Featherkit meowed in astonishment. The medicine cat smiled. Featherkit went on. "Do you think I can become a Medicine cat like you?"

"Well..." Spotteddapple started.

"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!? I promise I will listen to every single thing you have to say!" Featherkit pleaded. She had a glimmer of hope in her green eyes.

"That would be up to Shortstar." The old medicine cat let out a chuckle. She looked at the small cat in thought. Maybe she meant to be the next medicine cat. Spotteddapples thoughts were interrupted by the call of Featherkit's mother, Freckletail.

"I guess I have to go, Featherkit sighed. "I'll see you later Spotteddapple!" Spotteddapple watched the young kit bounce back to her mother. They walked back into the den. Then she saw a slight movement in the shadows on her left. She saw a small cat sliding elegantly through the shadows. Then finally, she identified the cat. It was Silverkit.

6 moons

Silverkits POV

"I can't let you go like this!" Freckletail fussed. It was her kits apprentice ceremony and they were in a mess from play fighting. She licked sticking up patches of fur and groomed their fur. "You have to be clean in front of the clan." Silverkit looked into her mother's eyes. She caught a small emotion in her eyes. Sadness. When she looked at Featherkit, she just saw pride. But when she looked at her it was just sadness.

Finally when she was done, she let the two young cats bolt towards the rockpile, where Shortstar had just jumped on, ready to announce the apprentice ceremony to the whole clan. Featherkit was worried, but Silverkit didn't care. Why should I be worried about the opinions of the cats who were either mean to me or think I am too small to fight.

"All cats old enough to catch their own prey join here beneath the rockpile for a clan meeting." Shortstar meowed. Cats from all around came to gather around the large pile of sunbaked rocks where Shortstar was standing.

"I call upon my warrior ancestors to look over these two young cats, and to help them grow to serve well under their clan. Silverkit please come forward." Shortstar meowed. Silverkit slowly came forward as Shortstar hopped down the rockpile, and padded up to her. "From now on, until she has received her warrior name, this cat will be called Silverpaw."

"Flamefur, you have shown Lunarclan your intelligence and bravery many times and I expect you to pass that down to Silverpaw." Shortstar mewed. Flamefur beamed with pride as Shortstar said the words.

"I won't let you down." Flamefur said confidently. Silverpaw walked over to her new mentor and touched noses with the flame colored tom. His body was excited and showing off his pride, but his eyes were telling a different story. She could see the disappointment in her mentor's eyes. She knew why. It was because she was small. She wouldn't be able to fight as well as anybody else. She wouldn't be very good at hunting. She would never be able to do anything right. It disgusted her. Like size could prevent her from becoming a warrior. She felt anger towards her clan mates. How could they think this way about her just because of... of... her size!

Silverkit didn't really pay much attention to the rest of the ceremony after she padded back to where she sat before. She didn't really care. She just sat there thinking about how her clan mates didn't approve of her. She thought about this for a little while. The clan cheering their names seemed to wake her up from her deep thoughts.

"Featherpaw, Silverpaw, Featherpaw, Silverpaw!" The sound ringed around the camp and echoed across the sky. Featherpaw beamed with pride. She just became the medicine cat apprentice. Silverpaw felt... nothing.

The camp scattered as the ceremony finished. Flamefur padded up to her. He had a beautiful orange pelt with a reddish orange color as little spikes across the top of his pelt. He had blue eyes and his mouth was shaped so it looked like he always had a smile on his face.

"Hey, you should get some sleep." He meowed to her. "We're going to go learn the clan borders and our territory tomorrow morning." Silverpaw nodded and padded to the apprentice den. She got some fresh moss from one of the old apprentices. They became warrior's last moon, and since Featherpaw was a medicine cat apprentice, Silverpaw was sleeping in the apprentice den by herself.

Silverpaw sat in her nest, staring at the moon. She was lonely. Her only friend and sister was a medicine cat apprentice, and Spotteddapple would keep her busy. There were no other apprentices in the large apprentices den. There was nobody to keep her company and nobody for her to talk to. She was pondering this, deep in thought as she slowly drifted off into sleep, her silver pelt shining beautiful silver in the moonlight above her.

Hi guys! How did you like the first chapter! If you didn't like, please tell me why, so I can make this story better. Sorry if it doesn't have a ton of story as kits. I'm not very good at writing about kits, and I wanted to get the story up and running and the plot kicking in. But this book will not go to quick, I promise! Please Favorite, follow and review and I'll see you guys later! Take care.