The nursery walls surrounded the kits on all sides. Bluekit was curled up with her littermates and parents in the seperate den they had to themselves. Queens that birthed over four kits at one time were sent to the largest nursery. Near the apprentice den. Her brothers, Screechkit, Smokekit, and Sparrowkit were all bunched up on her right flank. Her sister, Birdkit, was nearest her mother, cutting her littermates off from Eggwhisker's soft, warm belly. Bluekit wriggled and heard a squeak from the regular nursery. Getting up quietly, she tip-toed to the entrance and slipped into the den, where she found Jaykit staring at her as tho he'd never seen another cat in his life. Well, he really hasn't, seeing as he was blind.
Knowing he was blind but still had visions or whatever he called them, she padded over and settled next to him. "Are you ok? I heard a squeak. Did a thorn get into your bedding?"
Jaykit snapped his around at her. "How long have you been in the den," he hissed, obviously trying not to wake the other queens and kits in the den.
"O-only a few heartbeats. Why? Is something wrong," Bluekit felt very uncomfortable in the small dark den. She wanted to get back to her litternamtes but she also wanted to see if Jaykit was alright.
"Come with me. I have something to tell you that no one else can know about." Flicking his tail, the gray blue tabby tom kit led his friend from the den and out into the clearing. Crossing to the far side -under the high rock- he settled and looked around, as if he could actually see. "Are you ready to hear?"
"I was born ready Jaykit," kneading the ground with her paws, she added,"but why did we have to come over here? You know this is only for Firestar, Brambleclaw and Shadetail." Brambleclaw was Firestar's choice for deputy and Shadetail was Brambleclaw's own. Jaykit's father was the lead deputy. Bluekit's was the second.
"Would you stop whining and get under here?"Jaykit snapped."The others'll be up soon, and I don't want them to be asking questions as to why we were up so early."
"But why can't you tell Lionkit and Hollykit about it? Did you make that squeak just to wake me up? Who knows who else you -"
She broke off at the sound of heavy pawsteps. Shooting a glance at Jaykit, she dived into the clearing and shot across to the thorn tunnel, hoping praying Jaykit was in pursuit. Exploding through the entrance, she blundered through the undergrowth and heard jaykit panting behind her, his breath hot on her tail.
Thank StarClan!I thought we were gonna get caught for sure. Slowing down, Bluekit halted at the bank of a river and smelled a tainted scent. Rabbit.
"This must be the WindClan border." Jaykit remarked, pulling up beside her. She could smell his sharp fear scent. "I remember hearing Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw telling us that WindClan always smell like rabbits."
"That's all very nice, but how are we to get back to camp? Did you lay a trail or something that could actually help us," Bluekit spat, her own fear making her vicious.
"No, actually, I did. While we were running, some of my fur got caught on the brambles. We'll follow that home. Now, I have something to tell you. Wanna hear," the small kit sat and curled his tail over his paws, ears angling toward the river.
Reluctantly, Bluekit sat as well with a bump that sent a mouse shooting out of the bushes. Quick as lightning, she pounced and flung it into the air, relishing the squeak it made when it dropped closer to the river.
Jaykit picked it up between his teeth and snapped it's neck, draining the life from it. "Will you stop playing with fresh-kill and listen to me! This is important. I had a dream."
Bluekit looked at him through narrowed eyes like slits. "We all have dreams, Jaykit. You're the only one who think's they're important."
The small tom gave his Clanmate a stinging flick on the ear with his tail. "Enough with the sacrasm. If you don't wanna believe me, fine, but I will tell you. StarClan -yes, Bluekit, StaClan- visited me and told me something. 'There will be three, kin of your kin, who will hold the power of the stars in their paws. Through time, three will become eight. And by that time, a prophecy will be formed.' I think they meant me, Lionkit, and Hollykit about the first three, and then you, Birdkit, Scorchkit, Screechkit, and Sparrowkit about the other five. That makes eight Bluekit. The eight in the prophecy."
Bluekit was taken aback. A prohpecy, she thought, blinking at her friend. Was this the sort of dreams he usually had?
"I don't always have dreams like this, but this is the first dream that I actually think meant something," Jaykit began to pace.
"Well, how do you know they actually meant for us," Bluekit asked. It wasn't that she didn't beleive, him oh she believed him alrighty. She just didn't want him to be wrong.
"Becase they sent the dream to me," her denmate said simply, walking through the bushes.
"Where are you going," Bluekit whispered fiercly. The last thing she wanted to do was get lost in ThunderClan territory even though they were ThunderClan kits and she did NOT want to end up in ShadowClan territory either, because that would just be horrid.
"Quit worrying, I told you, my fur god caught on the brambles while we were running. I'm following my scent home," Jaykit soothed. He dropped back to Bluekit's pace and pressed his fur against hers, warming them both as they walked.
The pre-dawn sky threw soft shadows on the forest floor as birds started to wake and chirp, other animals coming out of their burrows. It was overal peaceful and quiet, the ideal time to be out. I'll be going on walks like this all the time, Bluekit thought to herself, looking side-ways at Jaykit. The young tom's fur shown blue and silver in the weak sunlight, leaves dappling his pelt, making him look like a StarClan cat. And I'll have him by my side the whole way.
And that's exactly what she told herself all the way back to the hollow.
OI, OI, OI, DEVELOPING A BIT OF A CRUSH, ARE WE BLUEKIT?! Well well well, what have we here, two young kits on their way back to the hollow, HMMMM? Yes yes, I shall get in a few more cats in the upcoming chapters. Who do you want to be the star of the next chapter, huh? Bluekit's mother or father -Shadetail (father) or Eggwhisker (mother), Lionkit (almost typed 'Lionking'), Hollykit, one of Bluekit's brothers -Screechkit, Sparrowkit, or Smokekit- (Sparrowkit has a seeeecreeettt), or Birdkit? Or, and I KNOW this is a bit weird, seeing as no one's ever done his P.O.V. before, but what about Longtail? Yes, you read correctly. I. SAID. LONG. TAIL. You'll learn more of why Bluekit's family is in the Clans anyway if you want it from his perspective. And also, you will learn more about Mousefur and what the two elders do. I shall go eat and do my daily business.
Bless your face. If you sneezed whilist reading this, bless you. PEACE LOVETTS!
(YouseewhatIdidthere? Iseewhatyoudidthere!)
