Chapter 1:

So here is the next chapter, hope you like it.

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Foxkit squealed as Wolfkit landed on her, squishing her against the floor of the camp. Her brother jumped off of her and once again began scrambling up the rock pile at the edge of the camp. The rock pile was only place in camp that they didn't get under everyone's paws, as there were no apprentices training as tunnelers that needed to use the rocks.

Badgerkit and Eaglekit were already at the top of the pile, so Foxkit scampered away to avoid being landed on again. Then she scrambled clumsily up the rock pile to join her siblings. As Foxkit waited for her turn to jump, paws tucked under her tail, Wolfkit tried to climb higher on the rock pile, dislodging small pebbles that hit Foxkit and Badgerkit on the back.

"Hey, Mother said not to climb that high!" Foxkit hissed angrily at her brother. He was always trying to be top of every activity they did, and would get angry if he didn't win.

"But it's so amazing, being up this high, it's like I can fly!" Meowed Wolfkit, reaching the top and looking around. Eaglekit began climbing up beside him. Eaglekit was the smallest of the litter, and he always followed his brother and sisters in what they were doing, but he had his own rebellious streak. Once he was found exploring outside of camp, at night!

Just as Eaglekit reached the top, Yarrowstem's yowl rang out over the camp, laced with inpatients.

"Kits, come here now!"

"Aww, but mother!" Exclaimed Wolfkit, jumping down swiftly from the rock pile, Eaglekit tumbling after him, "We were having fun, Eaglekit made it to the top!"

"I don't care if one of you made it to the moon, come here or no apprenticeship ceremony!" Hissed the golden tabby she-cat at the entrance to the nursery.

"She sounds serious, what did you do now Wolfkit?" Foxkit asked as they ran to their mother. Foxkit didn't like it when Mother's anger came out, she was like a different cat.

"Nothing, I promise, it must be something else." Wolfkit whispered to her as they approached Yarrowstem.

Her mother was sat watching them approach, and when they arrived she picked Eaglekit up and began to groom him, licking the dust off his fur. She paused, looked at the rest of them and said, " No need to look so scared, I just need to clean you up for the ceremony, you're going to be the first apprentices in this clan for three years!"

Then she went back to cleaning Eaglekit. Foxkit knew about the strange lack of kits that had plagued Windclan before they were born, but it had stopped now, mother had said.

Suddenly a patrol ran into camp, calling for her father, the leader. Foxkit only heard the last part of the report, that a fox had attacked the patrol, but had been defeated quickly.

" Ok, we will send more patrols over there to make sure it is gone, nothing to worry too much about." Cricketstar meowed to the warriors.

"But, Cricketstar, this attack... it was unusually aggressive, like it was targeting us!" Frogfoot pressed, fur spiked in agitation.

"It might have been hungry and desperate." Hedgelark, the deputy, meowed, stepping up beside her leader.

"It didn't look hungry!" Frogfoot snapped at her.

"Frogfoot, stand down, we will send more patrols, but no other action will be taken." Cricketstar meowed calmly.

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Foxkit felt like she might explode from excitement, this was her apprentice ceremony, she would begin her training to be a warrior. Her siblings looked to be in a similar mood, fidgeting on their feet where they were stood in front of the Tall Rock. The clan was gathered around the rim of the hollow in the middle of camp.

"Today I have the great pleasure of making my kits into our first apprentices for three years!" Cricketstar yowled happily to the gathered clan, who looked oddly angered by his statement. Wonder who left a thorn in their bedding?

"Wolfkit, come forward."

Wolfkit ran to his father and sat, excitedly awaiting his new name and mentor.

"Wolfkit, from this moment on, till you receive your warrior name, you are Wolfpaw, and your mentor is Cloudjay. The white she-cat looked surprised, but got up and padded over to Wolfpaw and they touched noses.

Cricketstar then went on to name Badgerpaw and Eaglepaw and assign Amberclaw and Larkdawn as their mentors respectively.

As her siblings moved of to the side with their mentors, Foxkit felt her nerves spike at being the center of attention, but she pushed the feeling down. A warrior is never scared!

"Foxkit, you are now Foxpaw and your mentor is Mistshadow!"

Foxkit ran over to the dark grey she-cat and touched noses with her. She didn't know Mistshadow very well, she never came to the nursery, but she was said to be a great hunter.

Behind her, yowls rang out from the watching clan.

"Hey, all those mentors are moor runners, tunnelers need apprentices too!" yowled Moleclaw, an old tunneler tom.

"Don't worry, my kits will be trained moor runners and tunnelers, given the circumstances." Cricketstar meowed. The warriors stopped shouting, but continued to whisper to the cats around them.

Foxkit paid no attention to them, instead she followed her menter out of camp to see the territory.

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