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Foxdawn – ooooo, I never thought of that. So Runningspark was a special case. During a badger attack, she saved the Flightstar from the head badger and almost died for her leader. When she was all better, she was granted one wish. She wanted to be a tom, so she is now a he. He is treated lowly like she-cats, but he gets to go out into the forest, hunt, fight, stuff like that. And thanks!
badguthrie – Here it is!
WildChild13 – Thank you, and I'm doing better each chapter!
XXwintershadowsXX – Well, I have something planned for Runningspark. Thanks as well, here's the next one!
The One that Disappeared – Thank you so much! And I'll keep it down with the action, I promise. The next few chapters will be more slow paced.
"Whisperkit, Wake Up!" I recognized that it's my sister, Hazelkit.
"Hazelkit, give her time. She hasn't open her eyes yet. Let her do it on her own." A sweet, quiet voice came next to me. My mother, Ravenwing.
"But everyone else has! I wanna go outside!" Hazelkit protested.
"Hazelkit, you know the rules. You can't go out until you're one moon old. Besides, it's time to go to sleep." I heard my sister whimper a little, but laid down next to me. A couple more kits laid down as well, and I drifted off to sleep.
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When I first woke up, I felt sunshine on my pelt. How long have I been asleep for? I open my eyes and look around the crowded den. It looked very peaceful, but there was many she-cats and their kits sleeping. It kinda felt a little claustrophobic at first, but I was glad for them keeping the cold out.
I felt something stirring beside me, so I looked to my left and I saw Pondkit, my sister, stirring beside me.
"Hey Pondkit." I whispered to her.
"Morning Whisperkit … Whisperkit! You're up! Finally!" Pondkit said jumping up from the nest immediately and going over to Hazelkit.
"Hazelkit, wake up." She said prodding awake.
"What? I was having a good dream…" Hazelkit said, yawning, and went back to sleeping.
"Come on Hazelkit! Whisperkit's up. And we can play with the rest of the kits since its dawn.azelkit awakea
"Ok, ok! I'm up!" Hazelkit said, shaking her pelt.
She turned to me and said, "Hey Whisperkit, how are you? We've been waiting forever for you to open your eyes. Now we have enough to play!" Hazelkit said. I was confused on what she meant, but she was already walking to where Ravenpelt was.
"Ravenpelt, Pondkit, Whisperkit, and I are gonna play with the other she-kits." Hazelkit said.
Ravenpelt woke up and yawned, looking at us with her sleepy, blue eyes.
"Oh, Whisperkit, you've finally opened your eyes." Ravenpelt said, nuzzling me.
"Go on, now. You have no need to stay here. Just be polite to the other kits and be back here when the others tell you it is sunhigh." Ravenpelt sat up and started to groom her pelt.
Just when we were about to leave Ravenpelt, Firekit woke up and stretched.
"Hey Firekit." I said, giving him and slight smile. He just snorted and walked out of the den.
"What's wrong with him?" I asked, looking at Hazelkit and Pondkit.
"He's like that all the time. Like he keeps eating fresh-kill stuffed with dirt." Pondkit said, jokingly, and we all laughed.
"Come on, I see Redkit and Barkkit waking up." Hazelkit padded to the back of the den, with Pondkit and me following her.
There was a calico chimera she-kit, a silver and white mottled tabby she-kit, a russet she-kit, and a dark brown she-kit. I realized with a start that every cat here was a she-kit. Why didn't any of the toms play with us?
"Cool, now we have even teams and a judge." The silver and white mottled tabby said.
"I'm team leader!" The calico chimera she-kit said, jumping up and down.
"Ok Koikit, you can be team leader. I can be judge." The dark brown she-kit said.
"Sure, Barkkit. Echokit can be the second leader." Koikit said, nodding to the silver and white mottled tabby, who was now known as Echokit.
"Ok, I choose… Redkit and Whisperkit." Koikit said, gesturing the russet she-kit and me over to her side.
"Then I'll have Pondkit and Hazelkit." Echokit said and my siblings walked over to her.
"Everyone has 5 minutes to prepare." Barkkit said and each team got into small groups.
"What are we playing?" I ask.
"We are playing 'Best.' The judge decides what we have to and usually there will be 3 contests. Each team will send one she-kit out to represent their team and the judge will decide who wins. The winners will get the first pick of fresh-kill when the toms bring some." Redkit explained.
"Redkit, whatever voice contest Barkkit is going to throw out, you're on. Be soft. Whisperkit, you can take a shot at any posture contest that's gonna happen. I'll do whatever is left." Koikit said.
"Teams! Warm-up is over. The first contest is… posture." Barkkit announced, while Echokit and me step up.
"Hey, good luck to you and your team." Echokit just flicked her tail and turned her head away from me. Wow, how rude.
I stood completely still and wrapped my tail around my paws. Echokit had her tail along her spine and puffed out her chest. Barkkit examined us both carefully, looking up and down at us. She walked to a small pile and walked back, a pebble in her jaws.
She set the pebble next to me and said, "Congrats Whisperkit, you won a point for you're team." I was happy that I won something, but Echokit wasn't. I swore I saw her fur bristling, but she smoothed it and put on a fake smile.
She then padded over to me and said, "Great job!"
It seemed friendly enough to forget the whole not-winning issue, but she lowered her voice and said to me with a menacing look in her eyes, "Get in my way again, and you'll wish you've never opened your ugly eyes." She smiled at me and walked over to her team.
Ok, great. Now, a she-kit that everyone seems to love now hates my guts. Perfect.
I walked back to my team and was fortunately greeted with real smiles.
"Awesome Whisperkit. Now we only need at least one more point to win." Redkit said.
The game continued. Redkit and Pondkit both had to balance a moss ball on their heads, and Pondkit won. Hazelkit and Koikit had to make a small nest by using moss and other things. Surprisingly, Koikit won, having found a feather to line the small nest.
"We won!" I exclaimed, jumping.
I went over to the other team and said, "Good game."
All but Echokit, who seemed upset, responded, "You too."
"Kits, it's sunhigh, you should get to your mothers." A tortoiseshell she-cat said. We went our separate ways, while I went with Pondkit and Hazelkit.
"Hi Ravenpelt." I said to her, sitting down like my siblings did.
"Kits, you should learn some basic rules about she-cats and how they should act. Your mentors should teach you the rest of the rules." Ravenpelt said, sighing and sitting down in front of us.
"The first thing you must learn is that when a she-cat is born, they must wait half a moon to go outside of the den. She-cats start their training, either to become a queen or a medicine cat when they are 7 moons old. She-cats treat cats older than they are and toms with respect. Those are the basic rules that she-cats must know when they are kits." I was confused when she said that. Why did we have to wait half of a moon to go out of the den? Why we had to wait an extra moon to start training? Why did include the toms when she could've just said our higher ups?
"What do you mean? Why do we have those rules, mother?" I asked, confusion in my expression.
"Because dear, we are she-cats. Toms believe that she-cat have only a use to have kits for the clan."
"Well, it's dumb! We shouldn't be treated like that!" I yelled and spat. At that moment, every cat in the den stared at me.
"Keep your voice down. You can't let the toms hear you say that. I know it's dumb, but we can't stop it. We barely know how to fight, let alone battle a whole army of toms. Just please, promise me that you all won't break any rules and get into any trouble." The she-cats stopped starring and went back to what they were doing.
All our heads nodded, but I felt like I was lying to her. I knew, that in my heart, I would never stop fighting to solve this problem and to make everything right.
Hey everyone! I did it! I finished ze first chapter with 1359 words of just writing the story. Good gosh. Anyways, I'm probably not going to update tonight, but hopefully I will tomorrow. If not, I will post an extra chapter on Saturday.
Anyways, Peace Out!
-Firehope2015