Hey guys! Sorry I've not updated in forever! Well, more like two weeks. Anyway!
I noticed that some of you are a bit confused on the allegiances. Well, I'll explain it to you. Ok first things first, let's start with... Marshclan's names!
Ok, so these clans are descended from the original clans. Marshclan is currently in a tyranny right now by Shadowstar (they decided that since they aren't in the real clans anymore, they can use the old names) and Shadowstar believes a kit shouldn't get the suffix to name unless they earn it (don't ask where I came up with that). So they are not loners or rogues, they are clan-born kits and apprentices. You will notice that Whitepaw has a last part because she has "earned it". Ok, moving on! As some of you have noticed, Lightclan has some strange names. This is because the leader is HORRIBLE at making names, mainly because they all used to kittypets or loners/rogues. Ok let's see here... ah! Starbelly used to have another name as kit, apprentice, etc. but Foxstar changed it at the time when he became an elder. So, he didn't have to chance to be Starstar :( Oh yes, these new clans made up a rule: The deputy's suffix must change to the clan's prefix to show their true loyalty to the clan.
This was used by my response to the review that SkyTheLoner. Also, I would like to announce that Koistar's name has been changed to Creekstar. Sorry for the long author's note! Now to the chap!
"Mossclan, attack!" shrieked the tortoiseshell she-kit running towards a skinny white tom's tail. After her ran five other kits, two toms, one black and one white, and three other she-kits, one red, one ginger, and the last orange. "
"How dare you enter Mossclan, you filthy Marshclan crowfood!" the black tom hissed.
"Yes, Ravenkit's… wait, what is your warrior name Ravenkit?" a white tom, obviously his brother, asked.
"I don't know, Owlkit. Maybe we should all decide on one. You guys?" Ravenkit turned to group of she-kits.
"Sure." the four kits replied in unison. All of the kits dashed to the side of the clearing, right underneath a small fern.
"O.K. If we're going to be Mossclan warriors, we need to actually have warrior names." said the tortoiseshell she-kit, "Since I'm leader this time I get to be Lavenderstar!" she emphasized the important suffix. "My deputy will be…" she looked around from each kit to the next. "Daisykit." she pointed her tail to the red she-kit to the right of her.
"But what is my warrior name going to be?" Daisykit complained.
"Hmmm…" thought Lavenderkit deeply. "How about you all close your eyes, turn yourself around, stop, and then point your paw out somewhere. Then you use that as the ending!" she proclaimed.
"Fine," Daisykit said, "I get to start because I'm deputy and you're all warriors." she ended with mock disgust and then purred. She turned herself around in a circle and abruptly stopped. She waved her paw around and paused. Opening her eyes, she revealed to herself she was pointing to a blue-gray tom's tail. "Looks like I'm Daisytail." She pointed at the ginger she-kit next her. "Flowerkit, your next."
"Yes!" she cried. Repeating Daisykit's process, much more faster though, she ended up pointing to a leaf on the ground. "I get to be Flowerleaf." she said with authority. Flicking her tail to Owlkit, "Your next!"
The kits repeated the process to each other until the group of kits all ended up with the names Lavenderstar, Daisytail, Flowerleaf, Owlclaw, Ravendust, and Marigoldnose.
"OK, now we're ready!" Lavenderkit exclaimed, "Mossclan, attack!" she shrieked leading the mob of kits towards the tom's tail.
"What are you doing in our camp, you fox-hearted Marshclan warrior? Forgotten where your own borders are?" hissed and jeered Daisykit.
"We're here to take over the whole camp! Mossclan will be destroyed for ever!" the white tom playfully hissed.
"We'd like to see you try!" squeaked Owlkit jumping onto the side of his back.
"No you won't because I'm another evil Marshclan warrior!" purred a blue-gray she-cat running from the other side.
"Ravenki… I'm mean Ravendust, help me!" squealed the small white tom hanging from the side of the other white tom.
Ravenkit pawed the blue-gray cat's muzzle, while Lavenderkit leaped onto her back.
"Oh no, the Mossclan warriors have defeated me!" the she-cat said in mock terror while winking at the skinny tom. He collapsed revealing a black star-shaped on his chest. The kits swarmed the two old warriors.
"Ha, you evil warriors! You're just a bunch of mouse-brained half-eaten crowfood!" Marigoldnose taunted.
"Okay, we give up!" the blue-gray she-cat laughed but ended up coughing.
"You okay, Rainclaw?" the white tom asked worried.
"I'm fine, Starbelly!" Rainclaw rolled her eyes, "How about a story, kits?" she cheerfully asked.
"Yes, please!" they mewled and ran towards the elder's den, followed by Starbelly and Rainclaw. Well, everyone but Lavenderkit. Lavenderkit gave her fur a quick lick and padded very slowly to another den. In the beginning, most cats thought that she was lonely and asked to play with her, but they were used to this now. All Lavenderkit wanted was some peace and quiet. But being a kit, as she was, she wasn't allowed to be outside of the camp. So what more of a peaceful place is there than the medicine cat's den?
"Hey Lavenderkit!" the gray she-cat said in the corner.
"Hi Mintcloud!" she returned happily. Lavenderkit loved the smell of the herbs and sandy surface and just the quietness of it all. She couldn't identify each herb, but she hoped to one day.
"So you're the future leader of Mossclan, aren't you?" Mintcloud said with a sly grin.
"I am not!" pouted the tortoiseshell kit.
"If you say so… hey, can you help me for a moment?" she asked. "I need to organize the marigold and the borage leaves back into the right place, because your brothers scattered them all over the place!"
"Whoops, sorry! But sure!" Lavenderkit replied.
"Thank you so much! I would but Maple over there," she flicked her tail over to the light-brown she-cat lying on the ground, "just had to get a thorn in her paw!"
"Look, I'm sorry! I wasn't trying to!" Maple said exasperatedly.
"I'm just kidding! Okay the marigold is the…" the medicine cat started.
"The marigold are the orange and yellow flowers and the borage are the leaves."
"Yep, that's correct! Get started!" Mintcloud walked over to the former loner.
After Lavenderkit had separated the different herbs from each other, she mewed a quick good-bye and left the sweet-smelling den. She walked to middle of the clearing. Maybe the elders are still telling a story! she thought with eagerness, and rushed over to some bracken, slipping under them into a wide opening. In a corner were five kits surrounding the two old cats.
"And that's how Maple and Oak came to Mossclan!" she heard Rainclaw say.
"Let's ask them about their previous journeys!" suggested Flowerkit. They all rushed by her, running out of the den into the wide clearing.
"Oh, hello Lavenderkit." Starbelly croaked. "Rainclaw and I were just telling your friends about Maple and Oak. Have you heard that one?"
Lavenderkit nodded.
"Starbelly! We told her that one yesterday! Remember the squirrel Wolfpaw brought us? We shared that with Lavenderkit here!" Rainclaw rolled her eyes.
"Yes, I remember now! That was a huge squirrel for an apprentice! He will go far, that tom, he will go far… But anyway, you didn't come here to listen to us talk about Wolfpaw, did you?" the white tom laughed. "You came here for a story! Rainclaw, did we tell the kits about the Original Clans?"
"What are the... "Original Clans"? Lavenderkit aroused.
"Ah, so we didn't! Let me begin…" Starbelly started.
"Long ago, but not too long," Starbelly began, "there were four clans. Thunderclan, Shadowclan, Windclan, and Riverclan! These clans lived around a big lake. Thunderclan took the forested and undergrowth area, Shadowclan took the dark pine area, Windclan took the open moors, and Riverclan took the streams!"
"Like Mossclan, Marshclan, Meadowclan, and Rippleclan! But what about Lightclan?" Lavenderkit interrupted excitedly.
"Yes, we'll get back to Lightclan. But back to the story!" Rainclaw purred amused. "These clans all lived happily by the lake. But one day…" she started
"There were too many cats!" cried Starbelly. "Too many cats around the lake! So the leaders of each of the clan, Honeystar of Thunderclan, Puddlestar of Shadowclan, Larkstar of Windclan, and Waspstar of Riverclan, decided that some cats must move!"
"A warrior was chosen from each clan," Rainclaw interrupted, obviously excited to tell the story, "Mossfoot of Thunderclan, Marshtail of Shadowclan, Meadowpetal of Windclan, and Rippletide of Riverclan! They all set out with a group of warriors from their clan."
"They went through mountains, twolegplaces, swamps, and many other terrains!" Starbelly launched in again. "But finally, after a moon or so, they found the Moongems!"
"Really?" gasped Lavenderkit.
"Yes." Rainclaw solemnly replied. "The moment they came in, Starclan was already waiting for them. They said 'Mossfoot, Marshtail, Meadowpetal, and Rippletide! Come here!'. The four cats came to them starry figures."
"And then and there," Starbelly jumped in quietly, "Starclan made them Mossstar, Marshstar, Meadowstar, and Ripplestar. The founders of our clans!"
"Each of them found the place that suited them." mewed Rainclaw.
"But what about Lightclan?" complained Lavenderkit.
"Yes, Lightclan." Rainclaw replied. "They came many moons ago, but not too many"
"Originally, it was just a group of loners," said Starbelly, "they were led by one named
Light. We, Mossclan and Marshclan, let them take some land that surrounded an abandoned twoleg nest. Light went to Moongems and became Lightstar. He died a couple moons ago and his deputy, Sparrowlight became leader."
"Sparrowstar!" exclaimed Lavenderkit.
"Yes, Sparrowstar." nodded Rainclaw. "Well, that's the end of the tale of the Original Clans. You should be heading back to your mother."
"Yes, you look starving!" chuckled Starbelly.
Lavenderkit's belly growled as if in response. "Whoops! But okay sure! I am pretty hungry. Thanks for the story!" Lavenderkit left the den.
"There you are Lavenderkit," a white she-cat with bright green eyes like two shining clovers, "I've been waiting for you forever!" she rushed in the groom the kit.
"Mom!" Lavenderkit complained, dodging her mother's attempt to groom her. "I only came here because I'm hungry!"
"Lavenderkit?" muttered Owlkit, the exact replica as his mother, but a tom. "Oh, it is you finally! Ravenkit, our sister's here!"
"Finally!" replied the black tom. "Mom says we can't eat until you came, but that now you're here…"
"We can eat!" Owlkit completed Ravenkit's sentence. "What should we get?" he asked his mother, Ivymoon.
"Well…" uncertainly replied the she-cat, "anything, I guess. Just eat all of it, okay?"
"Sure!" replied the kit trio excitedly, bouncing out of the den, running through the sandy clearing to the center. There lay the fresh-kill pile.
"Look's like the warrior's caught plenty, today!" exclaimed Ravenkit.
"They even have my favorite, thrush. Hey, what's that smell?" asked Lavenderkit to no one in particular, dragging the sweet-smelling light brown and yellow-orange bird out of the pile.
"Oh, Brackenfeather caught that in the lavender patch today." responded a ginger she-cat with white markings.
"Like my name?" excitedly asked the tortoiseshell kit.
"Yep, that's what lavender smells like!" purred the she-cat.
"Oh. Thanks, Honeyleaf!"
"My pleasure." replied Honeyleaf, stalking off with a squirrel in her jaw towards a stump.
Digging into the thrush, with Owlkit by her side, she licked her lips and watched the cats around her eat. Nearby an old oak stump, sat the Gingerclaw and Honeyleaf sharing the squirrel. Next to her was Ravenkit, ravenously(like the pun?) eating a small mouse. She saw Quietpoppy and Redfur sharing a large sparrow next to their three she-kits, Daisykit, Flowerkit, and Marigoldkit, nicknamed the "Flower Sisters" by their clanmates.
"Ravenkit, Owlkit, and Lavenderkit! Time for sleep!" called her mother.
"We're coming!" replied Ravenkit for all of them, starting to rush off with Owlkit.
"Wait!" exclaimed Lavenderkit. "We have to give thanks to Starclan first!"
"Thank you, Starclan." the kits muttered in unison and then ran into the nursery.
"Ah, there you are!" Ivymoon cried. "Well, sleep well little ones."
"Good night, mother." Lavenderkit replied sleepily and slowly nodded off into sleep.
And… done! Also I quick disclaimer/claimer: I, Lavenderpaw1, do not own the idea of Warriors, at all. That is owned by the amazing Erin Hunter group. However, I do own all names, clans, and new rules in this chapter, and I would dearly appreciate it if no one stole them. Done with that! Also, I noticed one review. :( That made me sad, because there was about 15 views. I would highly appreciate it if you reviewed, member or not. It can be high praising (which I doubt, because this my first fanfic) or highly criticism (try to keep swearing to limit if you could though ;D). Thank you once again! See ya!