"Pinned you!"
Snowkit let out a hiss as her sister held her to the ground. "Get off me, you big lump!"
Rosekit let out a squeak of amusement. "Not until you say that I can be the leader," she mewed.
The small white kit huffed. She and her siblings were going to play "Clans", but both she and Rosekit wanted to be the FrostClan leader.
"Well? What's your answer?" Rosekit asked.
Snowkit smirked. I know how to get Rosekit off me!
"Oh no!" she meowed dramatically. "Everything is going dark because you're so heavy and fat! I can see StarClan. They're calling for me, waiting for me with opened paws..."
She exhaled deeply and closed her eyes. "Good...bye... Rosekit..." she rasped. She let her head fall to the side and waited.
"S-Snowkit?"
Rosekit jumped off her sister. "Snowkit?" She nosed around her sister's head, trying to lift her head up, without success. "Snowkit, this isn't funny," she whimpered shakily. "I-I'm sorry! P-Please tell m-me you're okay!"
Rosekit waited for a few seconds but nothing happened. She nuzzled the fur around her sister's neck and heard small raspy breaths. She gasped and growled at Snowkit. "You—!"
Not even giving Rosekit enough time, Snowkit exploded upwards and jumped on her sister. The two kits struggled and rolled around until Snowkit had her sister trapped underneath her paws.
"Pinned ya!" she purred teasingly.
"Snowkit! You piece of mouse-dung!" Rosekit growled as she struggled to get out of her sister's hold. "That wasn't funny! Now get off me!"
"Not until you say that I can be the leader," Snowkit mewed.
"Never!"
"Why can't you both just be the leader?" Robinkit asked sleepily as he yawned. He stretched his legs and walked from behind his sleeping mother's tail.
"Are you crazy?!" both she-kits yowled.
Robinkit let out a squeak and hid behind Lilyfeather's tail in fear of his life.
"Hey guys, what are you doing?"
Snowkit excitedly glanced over towards the location of the voice. A well-toned grey tabby tom-kit padded lightly over towards them. Hailkit!
She and her siblings had met Hailkit a few sunrises ago and already the four of them were good friends. Hailkit was already four moons old and he was almost an apprentice!
I can't wait to be an apprentice, she thought with a purr.
Hailkit padded over to Snowkit and she gazed at his perfect fur and well-toned muscles, letting out a purr. "H-Hey Hailk—ahh!"
Rosekit used Snowkit's distraction to her own advantage. She darted from underneath Snowkit, tripping her sister over in the process as she bounded over to Hailkit.
She nuzzled the tom-kit's side. "Hey Hailkit! Do you want to be my deputy? We're playing Clans and I'm the leader!"
Snowkit huffed. "I thought that I was going to be the leader! And what makes you think that Hailkit wants to be your deputy? Maybe he wants to be mine!" she argued.
Rosekit rolled her eyes. "He wants to be my deputy, Snowkit." She fluttered her eyes innocently at Hailkit. "Don't you?"
"Uh..." Hailkit stuttered. "Su-Sure, I g-guess."
"But I pinned you!" Snowkit whined.
"And I got out!" Rosekit pointed out.
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"Did—!"
"—Stop it both of you. There is a simple answer to this problem."
Snowkit raised her eyebrow and both she-kits looked around for the source of the voice. A brown version of Hailkit padded towards them. "Who are you?" Snowkit questioned.
The tom-kit sat down and licked his paws to clean his ears. "I'm Hailkit's brother."
Rosekit glanced at Hailkit. "You have a brother?" she gasped. "I didn't even know!"
The brown tabby huffed in offense.
Hailkit sighed. "Hawkkit, meet my great and fun friends, Rosekit, Snowkit and Robinkit. Guys, meet my not-fun brother, Hawkkit."
Hawkkit dipped his head in greeting. "Now, as I was saying... The solution to your problem is simple. There can be two Clans with two Clan leaders."
Snowkit opened her mouth, ready to protest, but then closed it again in defeat.
"Welcome to RosekitClan, deputy Hailkit!" Rosekit squeaked.
"Wait!" Snowkit hissed. "But I want Hailkit to be my deputy!"
"Well, you're too slow. He's my deputy now, Snowkit."
Hailkit purred. "Thank you, kind and gracious leader, Rosestar. But, I am not Hailkit anymore. I am Hailtail your loyal and faithful deputy."
Rosekit smiled smugly at Snowkit and Snowkit poked her tongue out at her older sister. Hailkit and Rosekit sat down together and Rosekit put her tail on Hailkit's back, making Snowkit growl with jealousy.
Snowkit glanced over to Hawkkit. "Do you want to be my deputy?" she asked shyly. She wasn't too sure what to think about the more mature and serious brother of Hailkit, but she needed a deputy and he was the only other cat.
"Um, sur— "
"I'll be your deputy!" A reddish-orange she-kit with black tips and a white chest bounded over towards the two kits. "I am the brave and noble Foxface!"
Her tortoiseshell sister followed her, trotting lightly. "Can I play too?"
Rosekit and Hailkit moved closer to the two newcomers and Rosekit let out an excited squeak. "You can be my warrior!" she mewed to the tortoiseshell she-kit. "What's your name?"
"Emberkit."
"Not anymore," Rosekit meowed. "You are now Emberspots, the RosekitClan warrior!"
"Cool!"
Rosekit swished her tail and the two other members of her Clan followed her, racing behind the still sleeping Lilyfeather.
Snowkit let out a low growl. Rosekit is taking all of the other kits before I even have a chance to recruit them! She licked her chest quickly and faced her Clan.
"You can be our warrior, Hawkkit," she purred which Foxkit purred in agreement to. "Now, if you'll just excuse me for a minute," she meowed, trying to make her voice sound deep and powerful. "My deputy and I need to choose a fitting warrior name for you."
Hawkkit shrugged his shoulders, nonchalantly. "Alright."
Snowkit and Foxkit turned their backs to Hawkkit and after about 15 seconds of nodding and whispering, the two turned back around.
"As your leader Snowkitstar—!"
"Snowstar," Hawkkit corrected quickly.
"Don't interrupt your leader, filthy mouse-dung!" Foxkit cried as she pawed Hawkkit across the face.
Snowkit dipped her head in gratitude. "Thank you Foxface. Now, as I was saying... As your leader Snow...star, I name you Hawkflower."
Robinkit poked his head from behind Lilyfeather's tail. "Can I be the medicine cat?"
Snowkit beamed. "Of course, Robinkit! What's a Clan without a brave medicine cat?"
Rosekit suddenly appeared from behind Lilyfeather with the two other kits following her. "Charge, RosekitClan!"
"Wait!" Snowkit cried in horror. "We're not ready! We still have to name our medicine cat!"
"No mercy!" Rosekit squealed.
"We need a medicine cat too though, don't we?" Emberkit pointed out quickly as she stopped running.
Rosekit stopped in her tracks as well. "Good point Emberspots. Okay Robinkit, you're in our Clan now."
"We had him first!" Hawkkit growled.
"But we need a medicine cat too!" Hailkit mewed. "Without him, we can't attack your Clan and live."
"But you can't have him!" Foxkit cried. "He's ours!" She grabbed Robinkit's tail in her jaws and started to drag him away from the opposing Clan.
Emberkit jumped forward and held Robinkit's paws down, stopping him from moving any further. The two sister kits growled at each other.
"Wait!" Robinkit meowed as he shook himself free from their grasp. "You can all share me. I'll be watching and I'll treat all of the injured cats!"
All of the kits nodded their heads with mews of approval.
"Welcome to our Clans, Robinfish," Rosekit meowed. Suddenly she put her head back and yowled, "RosekitClan, retreat!"
The kits of RosekitClan ran back to their hiding place, leaving the kits of SnowkitClan to huddle and decide on their strategy.
"I think we should charge now," Hawkkit whispered, "We can surprise them by coming up behind them. They're only just hiding behind Lilyfeather. They won't see us coming!"
"Sounds good!"
"Alright!"
The kits began to break away from their huddle when they head Rosekit yowl, "Attack!"
Snowkit whipped her head around to see Rosekit and her Clan headed straight towards them. Our plan has been foiled!
"Go SnowkitClan!" Snowkit yowled.
The three kits took off running towards their opponents and soon they all met in the centre of the battlefield. "Foxface! You take Hailtail. Hawkflower, you take on Emberspots!" Snowkit ordered. "I'll get Rosestar!"
"Okay!" Foxkit purred as she pounced on Hailkit, pinning the poor tom-kit almost instantly.
Snowkit stopped in tracks, noticing that Rosekit had disappeared from her vision. I could've sworn I saw Rosekit running with the rest of RosekitClan...
She looked around quickly to see Foxkit still jumping on the surrendering Hailkit like a bouncing rabbit. She looked to the other side and noticed Robinkit dropping blades of grass onto Emberkit's side. Hawkkit was running over towards her.
"Run Snowstar!"
Snowkit felt someone pounce on her from behind. Rosekit! She hissed and the two kits rolled around on the floor. Rosekit pinned Snowkit and pawed her across the face. "Take that fox-dung!" she cried.
Foxkit lifted her head and snorted at Rosekit crossly. "Hey!"
"No offense Foxface," Rosekit mewed apologetically before continuing to paw Snowkit's face.
"Avenge me!" Snowkit cried.
Hawkkit leapt up and pushed Rosekit off Snowkit. Rosekit landed on the ground with a bump and she shook her head to regain her balance. Hawkkit jumped at her, but she leapt out of the way just in time and the two circled each other, growling.
"Thanks Hawkflower," Snowkit panted.
"No problem, Snowstar," Hawkkit mewed in between the growling. He leapt at Rosekit but the she-kit dodged, leaving them to circle each other once more.
Snowkit decided that Hawkkit would be fine on his own and bounded over to help Foxkit. Emberkit was trying to sneak up on her energetic sister.
"Aha! Nice try, Emberspots!" Snowkit mewed as she charged into the tortoiseshell. Emberkit yowled in surprise and swiped at Snowkit's face.
Not expecting the blow, Snowkit fell to the ground. "I'm hurt!" she cried dramatically. "Robinfish, help me. I'm hurt!"
Lilyfeather's green eyes burst open at the sound of one of her kits mewling for help.
"Snowkit!" she meowed. She rushed onto her feet looking for her kit. "Are you alright?"
Robinkit bounded up to Snowkit with blades of grass in his mouth. He spat them out and they floated gently down onto Snowkit's white pelt.
"She's alright now, mama," Robinkit assured his mother.
"Oh thank StarClan," Lilyfeather breathed. "Snowkit, don't scare me like that! I thought that you had really been hurt!"
"My name isn't Snowkit, mama!" she protested. "It's Snowstar!"
"Not anymore, my darling," Lilyfeather purred. "It's time for you all to go to sleep."
"Aww... mama!" Snowkit whined. "Do I have to?"
"Yes," Lilyfeather growled firmly. "Now where is your sister...?" She noticed Rosekit and Hawkkit pawing and hissing at each other. "What do you think you're doing Rosekit?" The tabby queen picked Rosekit up by the scruff of her neck.
"Mama!" Rosekit cried in embarrassment.
Lilyfeather dropped Rosekit to the ground and glared at her daughter. "Don't fight among yourselves! Whatever you were arguing about, stop now and apologise. You are Clanmates; you can't fight each other!"
Hawkkit looked to his paws and licked his pelt in embarrassment.
"We were only playing Clans, mama..." Rosekit mewed softly. "I was leading RosekitClan to victory by defeating all of the SnowkitClan warriors."
Lilyfeather's stern gaze softened. With a replenished sense of humour, she smiled at her kits. "Who's in your Clans?" she asked.
Rosekit stood up straight and lifted her head proudly. "Well, I'm Rosestar."
She glanced over at Hailkit who was still being jumped on by Foxkit. "That's my... brave... deputy... Hailtail...?"
She shook her head and Emberkit bounded up to Lilyfeather. "And I'm Emberspots, the RosekitClan warrior!" she beamed.
Snowkit scratched at the floor impatiently. "Do you want to know who's in my Clan now, mama?" she asked.
"Of course, Snowkit," Lilyfeather purred.
"Well, I'm Snowstar obviously," she mewed. "And that's Hawkflower, my warrior."
Lilyfeather held in a giggle as Hawkkit trotted next to Snowkit. "Hawkflower... what an interesting name..." she purred.
Snowkit glanced over to Foxkit. "Foxface!" she hissed. "Get over here, you lazy excuse for a deputy!"
Foxkit gulped. "Yes sir." She backed off Hailkit quickly and made her way over to Snowkit.
"What was that for?" Lilyfeather asked.
"As leader, you need to be firm so your Clan listens to you," Snowkit meowed as-a-matter-of-factly. But then, you need to make sure that they know you didn't really mean what you said."
"Yeah, you'd know that if you were the leader mama," Rosekit added.
Foxkit bounded up to Snowkit. "I'm here, Snowstar!"
"You're such a good deputy," Snowkit purred. "I didn't mean any of what I said before."
Foxkit beamed. "Aww, thanks Snowstar!"
"See?" Rosekit mewed to Lilyfeather.
"Anyway," Snowkit continued. "This is my deputy, Foxface."
Robinkit trotted up to his mother and wove in between her legs, glancing up at her. "I'm Robinfish, the medicine cat!" he purred. "I treat all of the cats from both RosekitClan and SnowkitClan."
"Well, now you're all friends and kits of FrostClan, okay?" Lilyfeather meowed.
The seven kits all sighed. "Okay..."
"Let all cats old enough to walk through the snow, gather around me for a Clan meeting!" a she-cat yowled from outside the nursery.
Suddenly a brown tom leapt into the nursery and jumped over the kits.
"Careful, Brackenheart!" Lilyfeather hissed. "You could step on a kit if you come rampaging in here like an angry badger!"
"Sorry Lilyfeather," he meowed. "I've just come to grab Hawkkit and Hailkit. Thunderpaw and Willowpaw are about to have their warrior ceremonies and I thought they might want to watch."
"Ooh, yes!" both Hawkkit and Hailkit purred.
"Come on then," Brackenheart told them as he carefully bounded out of the nursery.
"See you later guys," Hailkit purred as he and Hawkkit followed their father outside.
Snowkit stared at them as they left. How come Hailkit and Hawkkit's father spend time with them? Where was her father? Didn't he love them? Was he ashamed of them...? Her head flooded with thoughts and questions.
"Foxkit, Emberkit!" a she-cat called, "Where are you?"
"They're just here, Specklepelt," Lilyfeather called back, "They're coming back now."
"Bye guys…" Emberkit mewed as she and her sister ran back to their mother.
"Mama! Can we watch the ceremony too?" Rosekit pleaded, knocking Snowkit out of her thoughts.
"Ooh! Please mama!" Robinkit begged.
"Please!" Snowkit added.
Lilyfeather glanced at Snowkit quickly. "No," she huffed. "You're too young. But you can listen though. You might be able to hear the ceremony if you're really quiet."
The three kits sighed, but nevertheless, stopped talking and perked their ears.
"I, Ivystar, leader of FrostClan, call upon my warrior ancestors to look down on these apprentices." Ivystar meowed loudly, "They have trained hard to understand the ways of your noble code, and I commend them to you as a warrior in their turn."
"I can't wait to become a warrior!" Snowkit purred before letting out a yawn.
"Thunderpaw and Willowpaw, do you promise to uphold the warrior code and to protect and defend your Clan, even at the cost of your lives?" Ivystar meowed.
Snowkit and her two siblings yawned and Snowkit hung her head in defeat. Why can't I just stay awake for a little bit longer? Stupid sleep.
"Come on you three," Lilyfeather meowed. "You're all exhausted. Come over here."
Snowkit yawned once more and trotted over to her mother and snuggled in the warmest spot of her belly. Robinkit and Rosekit followed and soon the three kits were all laying down, struggling to listen.
"...Then by the powers of StarClan, I give you your warrior names!"
Snowkit closed her eyes and put her head down on her paws. I can't wait to become a warrior! I'll be the bravest and strongest cat in the Clan! And not even Rosekit will stop me from becoming leader one day.
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A/N: Hope that chapter was okay. I thought it'd just be a really cute way to introduce our main characters and their personalities. Don't worry though; the drama will start in the next chapter, I believe, if you're waiting for that.
Sorry that I couldn't publish this earlier— I've only got four weeks of school left and I've had to finish my English and Visual Art assignments as well as start my Japanese and Science assignments. And to top all of that will a sadistic cherry, I've been feeling sick and dizzy—sort of like a vertigo-type thing and my parents wouldn't allow me near my laptop because I needed to rest and all that jazz :/
And Kit if you read this chapter, I hope you like how I've written Foxkit and Emberkit. They're such fun characters to write about ;)
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Swirlspot: Thank you! I really do hope that it'll be unique and I'm really glad you like it :)
Zoua: We'll just have to wait and see ;)
Guest (Guest): Oops, thanks for pointing that out. I've fixed it up but I didn't even see that before, lol. And I'm glad you like it so far :)
The-Purple-Panda-Frog: True, but people (or... cats...) do some pretty stupid things when they're angry or scared. Ivystar is no different. I'm really glad you like my story, but I don't think it'll ever be as great as yours. Also, have I ever told you how much I love your username? :)
Fernsky72: FERN! Hey! And yeah, I'm still trying to write these, lol. I'm really glad to hear from you again and I hope you will continue to read it :)
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Thank you for the reviews guys! It made me feel really good to see that you're liking my story so far :) I try to update once every one to two weeks depending on how busy I am and how much time I have to write.
I might also start a question-a-chapter thing because I'm genuinely curious about what you guys think, so...
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QOTC: Who is your favourite character so far?
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See you next chapter!
~Kat