My 3rd NightClan challenge. Hopefully, it's good!

It takes place in a future ThunderClan.

My eyes are shut tight as the light filters into the area. I try to get closer to my mother, but she pushes me away. I let out a squeak of protest, and then feel claws on my face.

"I can't believe that Squirrelstar let you stay in camp!" a voice says. I think it was my mother's.

I blink my eyes open, and see a pretty tortoiseshell cat in front of me, with three other kits: One is white spotted gray and had green eyes, one is black with white paws and had blue eyes, and one is ginger striped dark ginger with amber eyes.

"At least Winterkit, Flowerkit, and Autumnkit are beautiful!" she snaps. At least, I think that's what she's saying.

I look down at my paws, and they are fine. My sisters are fine, so why am I a problem?

I go outside and see big cats all around me. None of them look my way, and I feel alone.

My sisters come outside and start slashing at me, and Autunmkit even gets a hit on my right foreleg. I know mommy won't make me feel better, so I run off to the closest den, which is in a wall.

Inside, a dark ginger she-cat was sorting things. She turned around and saw me wounded, so she picked me up by the scruff and set me down in a nest.

"Are you okay?" she asks.

I nod. "I think so."

"You're bleeding."

"I know. But it doesn't hurt."

She looks surprised. "Well, even if it doesn't hurt, I'm going to clean you up."

She puts cobwebs and things on my face and foreleg, and then tells me to stay still. I oblige, and soon she's checking my head.

"What are you looking at?" I ask.

"I was afraid of that," she murmurs. "Here, look in this puddle." She guides me over to a little puddle, and I see myself, and then I know why mama hates me: One of my ears is gone.

I tilt my head, trying to see where it was connected, and see little clawmarks next to where it should have been.

"Um..." I say, not knowing the cat's name.

"Flameleaf," she replied.

"Flameleaf, can you smell anything where my ear was?" I ask.

She walks over to me and sniffs the area, and looks shocked.

"Why are your sister's scents here?" she asks me.

"I don't know. I don't sleep near them. Ever," I reply.

"I'm going to go ask Dappleheart why she treats you this way," Flameleaf tells me.

As I'm sitting in Flameleaf's den, I start to wonder how I can work with her, since she is so nice.

Soon enough, Flameleaf came back and said, "How would you like it to stay in my den for the rest of your life, working with me?"

I was overjoyed. "Really?"

"Yes," she replies, but with a hint of sadness in her voice. "I ask because your mother says she doesn't love you, and she could care less is you were dead."

"I don't care if she doesn't care. I want to be here!"

A few moons have passed since I found out my ear was destroyed by my sisters, after my mother thought I wasn't beautiful. Life has moved on, and I'm now the medicine mat apprentice. I still don't really have any friends, but at least the Clan accepts me. My only true friend is Flameleaf, who is the daughter of Squirrelstar. Some days, I'll leave the den when everyone's fallen asleep, and climb to the top of the camp, just to relax.

My name is Moonpaw, and this is my story.

The End