Duskkit sighed and stretched out his white paws, feeling the first rays of sunshine reach the nursery and warm his pale orange fur. He looked over to his siblings and noticed they were still asleep. Duskkit stood up from his nest and crept out of the nursery, hoping not to be seen. As he slinked outside, he saw that the SunClan camp was just starting to come to life. Duskkit looked to his right to see Stonefrost talking to Juniperfang in a hushed voice. Stonefrost noticed Duskkit outside of the nursery and snarled, "I still can't understand why we let our leader have kits, I'd hope Eaglestar's ashamed of himself in CloudClan." Duskkit frowned. Is he talking about me? he wondered.
Before Stonefrost could shoo the kit away, Dawnkit jumped out of the nursery, onto the unaware Duskkit. "Surrender, MoonClanner, you can't defeat my SunClan might!" she yowled, gripping onto his back. Duskkit rolled over onto Dawnkit, knocking her onto the ground. "You can't defeat me, the great Duskstorm, bane of evil!" he yelled. Stonefrost sighed, "You might as well just give both of them to MoonClan, maybe then our leader wouldn't be so preoccupied with playing with kittens." As Stonefrost started to get up from his resting place to get away from the kits, Dawnkit sprinted up to him and jumped on his back. "Stonefrost, give us a badger ride!" she pleaded. Duskkit ran up and started to climb onto Stonefrost's back too. "Yeah, badger, take us on a badger ride!" Duskkit yowled. "If you don't get off of me this instance I'll show you what a badger can really do!" Stonefrost growled, shaking the kits off his back. "Come on, Juniperfang, let's go."
Dawnkit smiled at Duskkit, "We sure showed him." Duskkit nodded, "I bet Cloudleaf has some good stories to tell,maybe some honey for us." Just as they were about to see the elders, Daykit bounced out of the nursery, his fur still matted and messy from his sleep. Duskkit smiled, "I'm glad you're up with us, wanna go see the elders with us?" "Of course, why didn't you wake me up in the first place?" Daykit asked, trotting towards the elder's den. "Well, we assumed you wouldn't want to do any play fighting, you might get hurt," Duskkit responded. Dawnkit looked over to Daykit and saw his face fall. Dawnkit had always felt bad for Daykit, he was the smallest in the litter, and rumors had circled around him since his birth. Dawnkit and Duskkit both resembles their parents, but Daykit's brown pelt stood out from the rest of the litter. Rosestar had always claimed that her father looked just like Daykit, but no one could confirm this, because Rosestar had lived as a loner in her kithood. Dawnkit could believe it, though. Daykit's birth had been witnessed by several cats, and Duskkit was the spitting image of Flamefur, their father..
"Do I hear kits out there?" Cloudleaf jested, welcoming them in with his tail. "Berryflower and I were just wondering where you were." Dawnkit and Duskkit sat down right next to Cloudleaf and Daykit curled up in a nest beside Berryflower, obviously upset about Duskkit's comment, but trying not to show it. "Can you tell us a story?" Dawnkit asked. "Of course, that's why I'm here after all," he joked. "How about I tell you about how our Clan came to be?" Daykit leaned in closer, "Yeah, that sounds fun, where we descended from lions or something?" Cloudleaf shook his head, "No, we were created by two mysterious loners, Sun and Moon, who came to these territories and helped many cats find food and survive. One day, Sun and Moon came out from a cave under the greatest boulder in the territories, and told the cats that they would have to unite into two groups or leave the land." "How'd they even come up with that? I'd think any cat would want to stay a loner if they could," Daykit remarked. "They didn't come up with idea themselves, they were told by our ancestors to do this. It's said that Sun and Moon didn't even want to lead two different groups, and instead wanted to raise their kits together," Cloudleaf responded. Dawnkit widened her eyes, "They had kits together? Why would anyone choose power over kits?" Cloudleaf sighed, "I suppose they were dedicated to our ancestor's wishes, . Anyways, Sun and Moon became Sunstar and Moonstar, and they lived across from each other in the Clans they named after themselves. The cats began to call our ancestors CloudClan, because they would watch over us, day or night.
Flamefur poked his head into the Elder's den, and acknowledged Cloudleaf, before looking to his kits. "I was wondering where you three went, Stonefrost seemed angry, were you bothering him again?" Flamefur asked. "No, we were sleeping all morning, until we came in here," Dawnkit responded, a mischievous look in her eyes. "You were loud as badgers outside this morning, I don't think you were sleep screaming," Daykit grunted. Flamefur frowned, "Just leave him alone, he's just an angry old badger, he won't do any harm." "I hope I join our ancestors before he joins the elders, I couldn't bear listening to him talk about 'how many MoonClan warriors he fought in his youth,'" Cloudleaf joked. "It's time to eat for you three anyways, your mother caught you a rabbit to share," Flamefur said. "I'll race you to the rabbit," Dawnkit challenged. "I'll get there first!" Dawnkit called, racing out of the elder's den.
Just as she got out of the den, Dawnkit skidded to a halt at the screams of Lionclaw, a senior warrior. "Fire! The warrior's tree is on fire!"