Chapter 2

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Icykits POV

Her eyes flickered open to see a beautiful tortoiseshell standing over her. Icykit smelled the sweet scent of herbs in the air. She looked around and saw a store of herbs resting against the far wall and a small golden she-cat placing them into neat piles. Icykit tried to move but felt a sharp agony course through her belly. Suddenly it all came flooding back, sneaking out of the nursery, racing Sunkit, pinning him down and getting into a fight. Her blue eyes slowly looked down and Icykit saw that her body was covered with cobwebs. She let out a mew of surprise, had Sunkit really hurt her that bad? That arrogant furball would pay.

"Hush, you poor scrap of fur. Your wounds will be healed soon." mewed the tortoiseshell gently, her amber eyes were filled with warmth and concern. Icykit loved the sweet melodic sound of her voice, she wanted to know who this lovely cat was.

"Who are you?" groaned Icykit softly. She agonizingly lifted herself up into a sitting position, a pain she had never experienced came from her belly.

"Starcloud, I'm FeatherClan's medicine cat, now don't put too much strain on that belly. You have a nasty wound there." she explained. The golden she-cat who was sorting out herbs bounded over carrying a bundle of herbs in her mouth.

"This is Honeypaw my apprentice, she has some herbs to help treat your wounds." mewed Starcloud. Honeypaw placed down the herbs in front of her mentor.

"Honeypaw, chew this horsetail into a pulp and apply it to Icykits wounds." commanded Starcloud briskly. Honeypaw chewed it into a pulp then applied it onto the gash that ran down Icykit's belly and onto the nick in her ear. Then she got some little black seeds and held them out to Icykit.

"This is poppy seed, eat it and it will ease the pain." explained Honeypaw. Icykit stared at the seeds then she gulped them down, soon the burning pain that consumed her senses eased down to a dull ache.

"See, that's much better isn't it?" soothed Honeypaw. Icykit nodded sleepily, she was starting to feel very drowsy. Suddenly she felt a soft tongue rasp over her, Icykit looked up and saw her mother Foxfur. She wriggled closer until she was touching pelts with Foxfur.

"Are you alright, I've been so worried about you!" mewed Foxfur with concern.

"Yes, where are Rosekit and Mintkit? Did you leave them by themselves?" asked Icykit curiously. Her mother must have changed a lot if she was ready to leave them on their own.

"Oh StarClan no, they're right here!" exclaimed Foxfur. She moved away to reveal the small ginger pelt of Rosekit and the blue-gray pelt of Mintkit. They came next to Icykit and snuggled their pelts in hers.

" We're glad you're okay, Sunkit will be in big trouble!" mewed Mintkit cheerfully. Oh Sunkit! Icykit had totally forgotten about him, she wondered what they would do to him. Icykit's mind flooded with pictures of Sunkit, his huge amber eyes that sparkled with happiness and his perky attitude. But then Icykit remembered how he was like in the fight, teeth bared, bristling golden fur and narrowed eyes. She wondered wistfully if they could have been friends, but how could they after Sunkit had shown himself to be a mean fighter? Then Rosekit interrupted her thoughts.

"When Sunkit comes back in the nursery we'll tear him to shreds for you!" she growled. Foxfur mrowed with laughter.

"Come on kits, we don't won't you guys fighting in the nursery! You could get hurt like Icykit!" she warned lightly. Mintkit's eyes widened and she snuggled closer to Icykit.

"I don't want to get hurt like our sister, do I Rosekit?" Mintkit nudged Rosekit.

" Uhh, yeah, we will be more careful from now on." she mumbled. Icykit thought about how nice it felt to have her sister's snuggled up next to her when the ferns at the entrance to the medicine cat den swished. A huge dark cream & brown tom strode over to Icykit and her family, he bent down next to Foxfur and pressed his pelt to hers. What was he doing thought Icykit. Suddenly Rosekit and Mintkit flung themselves onto him and tried to catch his tail. Foxfur soon turned to Icykit and smiled at her confused look.

"Meet your father, Kinktail!" explained Foxfur.

"Hi Icykit, I've already intoduced myself to your sisters when you were knocked out." purred Kinktail.

"Hi father, do you know I'm just like a warrior. Because I have two scars!" mewed Icykit proudly, Kinktail purred and looked at her two new scars.

"Yes, you are the little warrior. That Sunkit didn't really stand a chance with you around did he?" chuckled Kinktail. Suddenly Icykit felt a big tiredness sweep over her, she heard Starcloud say to her family.

"Honeypaw gave her some poppy seeds which will probably make her go to sleep."

Slowly Icykit's eyes closed and the last thing she saw was a picture of a golden tom with amber eyes in her mind.

Sunkits POV

Dewstar didn't talk the whole entire way as she led Sunkit to her den. Sunkit still held his erect stance, the walk seemed to take forever. Finally Sunkit scrambled into a spacious cave, it was Dewstar's den. He forlornly sat down in the middle of the cave with his tail wrapped around his paws. Sunkit pondered over all the possible punishments, he remembered a story Fernspring, the elder, had told him. She had said that if a cat did something really horrible they would get exiled! Would Dewstar be so harsh as to exile a kit? Sunkit started to tremble in fear as he thought about being exiled, for a start he couldn't even hunt. He would probably end up being sent to his death if he was exiled. Sunkit thought how stupid he was! Why would he attack his own clanmate when he was only a kit? If Sunkit could do this as a kit what would he be like as a warrior. Sunkit shuddered at the thought.

"If you are done thinking?" growled Dewstar impatiently. Sunkit bowed his head and let Dewstar continue.

"Now would you care to explain what I saw today?" hissed Dewstar. Sunkit knew that he should tell the truth.

"Well, I sneaked out the nursery with Oakkit, Rosekit, Mintkit and Icykit. The other kits wanted to play a fox attack game but Icykit and I wanted to explore. So we raced each other to the fresh-kill pile but-" Sunkit stopped mid sentence, he couldn't say that Icykit had started it otherwise she would be in trouble as well. After all he owed her that because of the wound he inflicted on her.

" - but I got jealous that she was winning and started a fight." finished Sunkit. He braced himself for Dewstar's yowl and sure enough it came.

"How dare you attack a clanmate just because of petty jealousy! Obviously you need to stop behaving like a kit if you ever want to become an apprentice! You should be ashamed of yourself!" yowled Dewstar furiously. Sunkit hung his head in shame, he flinched at Dewstar's angry rant. Suddenly he couldn't take it anymore.

"Look just get it over and done with and exile me!" shouted Sunkit. Dewstar looked at him strangely.

"For StarClan's sake, I won't exile a mere kit but you will be punished!" growled Dewstar. Then she stopped for a moment to think, finally she appeared to have reached an idea.

"Your punishment is-" Sunkit stared up at her sadly. His claws kneaded the ground impatiently.

"You will wait one moon after your brother becomes an apprentice until you can become one!" Sunkit's jaw dropped, one moon! That was ages he couldn't survive that long. Oakkit would never let him hear the end of it! But then Sunkit's mind drifted back to a certain white she-cat. Maybe I deserve it he thought.

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