(Stormykit's POV)
I spun around flames and bodies lay everywhere and a sudden screech of horror made me turn to the side, a cat halted beside me and leaned over me hurriedly.
"Stormykit! You must run, run to the one who is a teller of earth and sky; run!" Then he ran off.
"Wait! What do you mean?" I screamed in terror as the tom disappeared in the distance. I suddenly burst from sleep to the sounds of fighting I shoved my head out the entrance to see a horde of cats tumbling around in a mass of claws, teeth and fur. I was yanked back into my nest by the expecting queen Glistenamber.
"Stormykit, stay in here, we are being attacked by Shadow clan and Wind clan at the same time. We must stay hidden." But interrupting her words Ashenpaw burst through the entrance.
"We need to move you!" He yowled to Glisenamber; she nodded and stood picking up my brother Grasskit as she did. Ashenpaw instantly picked me up and motioned for the other 5 kits to follow. Once out in the open the sounds of battle were a lot clearer but suddenly I was falling, I landed on the cold ground as Ashenpaw stood between me, and a giant blood red tom.
"Hand over the kit and you don't have to die!" The bloody cat declared. But Ashenpaw's only response was to shoot at him with amazing speed; he jammed right into the belly of the big cat, he huffed and toppled, I lost view of them but was snatched up by, Star Clan knows who, and taken across the clearing and out the entrance to the tunnel.
"I am going to take a wild guess and say you're not on my clan's side."
"Nope." A female's voice was muffled by my fur. I began to wither with anger and fear. A sigh got my attention; the she cat set me down and with her tail showed the path we had taken.
"I can't do this; I would rather die than disobey the code. Kit follow this path, if you still here fighting then hide, when it is over pray your clan has won and return to your camp. Good luck." And she was off back to the camp. I stumbled for a sec but got my balance and began the hobble back toward my camp, my home.
I stumbled along the path, which seemed to take longer now than it did in the warrior's mouth, oh well I was certain I was on the right path. After I passed a few more trees I stopped to catch my breath. When I stopped my paws from crunching on the dead leave it made the sound in the distance a little more hearable, just enough to touch her ears; she launched forward and rounded to her camps entrance.
(No POV)
She shot through the entrance and into the main camp; cats tumbled and heaved all over locked in combat. 'How much time had passed?' But then she saw something different, not all these cats had been here before! She sniffed the air, she may not be a warrior or an apprentice but she could pull clan scents apart. Thunder, Wind, Shadow, and….and…Tree Clan, that had to be it! They had come to assist Thunder clan.
I shot out of the way as a tom rolled away from a large Tree clan warrior, his eyes lightened when he saw me. He shoved his way to me and scooped me up and pushed through the way I had come. After a short burst of running he set me down in front of my mother, she cried out happily and snuggled around me. I had really scared her; she never got this lovey dovey. Then a screech of failure hit the ears of the cat around me and my mother. Shadow and Wind Clan cats fled out the entrance to our camp and ran for dear life. My mother picked me up and slowly crept into the camp, only two bodies lay in the clearing nether belonged to Tree or Thunder. I smiled and through my paws in the air, careful not to smack my mother in the face.
"Yay we won!" My mother shook me slightly to keep me quite. Yes we won, but many of the warriors in the clearing were injured with long claw marks and even one warrior with a dislocated shoulder. A young tom then sprinted up to my mother and me.
"Is she hurt?" He asked, sounding a little frantic. My mother set me down and my father looked me over. "Don't you ever do that to me and your mother again! My only little girl, you could have been injured or even killed!"
"Don't scare her fur off Foxstorm!" My mother nosed him towards the medicine cat's den. "Go get fixed up, go on! Off with you!" Foxstorm growled back but stoked off all the same to get him wounds checked. I was suddenly mauled over by my siblings and friends.
"Gosh sis when I said play without me I didn't mean out of the camp!" Hallowkit nuzzled up to me. I taped his ears with my tail and tackled my other brother. He hissed in anger and shoved me off. I twisted my paw on the way down. "Ouch! What was that for Grasskit?" I whimpered as I lapped at my aching paw.
"For worrying me; I already lost Sharpkit I won't lose another sibling!" Grasskit hissed. I looked at him, I could feel the hurt on my face but he turned tail and padded away to speak with an aching warrior about the battle. 'Something is off about that kit!' I hissed in my mind, 'It was like he was already a warrior!' I was then mauled over again by the rest of my friends as we began a playful tumble.
"Hey there guys! Want to learn a hunting skill? It could pass the time." A new voice called to us. It was Ashenpaw. He was smiling at me and I nodded my head vigorously. Ashenpaw laughed and signaled for us to gather around him. I trotted over and sat at his paws.
"Ok what you do is get down low like this," He lowered his body nearly all the way to the ground but slightly above. The other kits and I all tried it, but being the off-balanced balls of pure energy we were; we didn't get it the first few times. And by few I mean trillion! But no matter how or how much we screwed up Ashenpaw was completely patient. He is really great, I can't wait to be an apprentice and spend more time with him. Hunting, fighting, training, sleeping in the same den.
Suddenly a paw poked my side gently but it kept pushing till it knocked me over. When I had rolled onto my back I looked up to see Ashenpaw grinning at me. I blushed and climbed to my feet, I still had to look up to see his face.
"You know we are supposed to be the hunters, not the prey right?" I nodded my head, his grin turned into a cheeky smile. "That's my girl." He turned to assist my brother leaving me to calm my fluttering heart. 'Was being a kit this great for every-cat?'
(Deep in the woods of the Shadow Clan territory No POV)
Redpaw stood proud and held a straight face as her leader passed her repeatedly, trying to make sense of her injury-lacking body. He finally hissed and sat in front of her with a huff.
"Tell me Redpaw, if you were really fighting why do you have not a scratch on you?" Cragstar bared his teeth at her. "Because all of my best warriors are cut up and bleeding! Now tell me, does it make sense that an apprentice would do that much better than a senior warrior?" Redpaw smiled and glared at her leader.
"Oh believe me I was there, the fact that I did better that every senior warrior is most likely because all of them are old and weak; just as you are growing. On your last life, is it hard on you; does it pressure you?" Cragstar, taken aback, flicked his tail to dismiss her from his den. She smiled and walked out. She brushed past the lichen that hung from the mouth of the leaders den and right into Freshpaw and Shadowpaw.
"Hey sis! How did it go with Cragstar?" Shadowpaw, asked with a curious mew. Redpaw smiled and walked past the both of them. "Just as I thought it would! Did you know Cragstar is on his last life? I only assumed till I brought it up, his reaction assured me of it!" Shadowpaw frowned and Freshpaw looked confused. "Why does that matter, I mean why should we care? Sure when he dies it will be sad but everything will be okay, we would still have Breathtaker to become the new leader." Redpaw rolled her eyes at her sister. "Ya but thing of it now, once Breathtaker become leader; not to mention the blood-thirsty cat he is. We'll get to fight every day! It will be so much fun, not to mention more training to finally drive out those bird brained Thunder Clan warriors!" Freshpaw stopped her.
"Wait, so all of this is because you want to run Thunder Clan out of the forest? But if or when you do, then what?" Redpaw paused. 'After? After I drive them out? I never really thought about that…' "I don't know, maybe settle down, find a mate, and have a kit or something. What normal she-cats usually do I guess; I mean I never really thought it through all the way. It's a work in progress." Freshpaw nodded and walked away, Redpaw had a strong yearning to follow him but she held herself in place as he disappeared into the apprentice den where they slept side by side. Shadowpaw followed him in.
"Finding a mate sounds really good about now." Redpaw sighed and followed her sister and best friend into the den.
(A/N): WOOO, how do you like that! Ok the reason Redpaw gets a big part is because she is going to be Stormy's main enemy and the she-cat that let Stormy go was Silentsong NOT Redpaw. Hope you liked it! ^^