Disclaimer: I do not own warriors in any way, shape, or form.
Here is chapter 1! I hope you enjoy reading it, it mostly just introduces you to Rosekit's personality a bit, HOWEVER! THERE IS A VERY IMPORTANT CHOICE AT THE END OF THIS CHAPTER! BE PREPARED!
Chapter 1
Everything was a blur, literally everything. Sight, hearing, smell, taste...everything was like a blur. The little golden she-kit could just barely hear heavy breathing, and it wasn't her own. It was from whomever was carrying her. Suddenly, she was set down. She blinked, and when she opened her eyes again, there were two more cats.
"Here...please." A voice croaked out. The cats were just shadowy figures in the little kit's eyes. She felt warmth around her as someone curled around her. She stared intently at the face that had not yet spoken or approached her yet, but couldn't make him out no matter how hard she tried. Finally, the tom spoke.
"We'd best be off." He muttered. He finally approached her.
"Let me get a good look at her." The tom approached, but no matter how close he got, he was shadowed. She became aware that she was being carried again as there was more walking. She had no clue what was going on. She couldn't make sense of anything…
Light filtered into the den through the cracks the branches left in the nursery. Rosekit yawned as she blinked awake.
"What a strange dream…" She whispered. She felt a tail slap her in the face, and she recoiled immediately, looking at the culprit.
"Oakkit." She said, smirking as she began prodding his face. He stirred, so she poked him harder. He sprung up so suddenly that Rosekit fell back, accidentally knocking into her other brother Ashkit and waking him up, as well.
"Wha?" Oakkit muttered, looking around. Rosekit laughed at him as Ashkit began grooming himself. Blossomkit, her sister, was also awake now.
"You guys are so loud…" She muttered. The body they had been curled against moved before turning to look at them. She was their mother, Moonfall. Moonfall wore a smile on her face as she watched her kit's antics.
"Ashkit has the right idea." She commented as he continued grooming himself.
"Well then Ashkit can stay here!" Rosekit said as she cheerfully ran out of the den and into the clearing of the camp. The sun momentarily blinded her, reflecting off of her shimmering golden pelt. Oakkit and Blossomkit had followed her out, and they both seemed to have the same reaction towards the sudden light. Rosekit smiled as she ran back to the two of them.
"Come on, let's get something to eat!" She exclaimed. They nodded excitedly.
"Last one to the fresh kill pile is an old elder!" Oakkit called out as he ran.
"Well I'm not an old elder!" Blossomkit said, running after him. Rosekit was on their heels already. Oakkit made it there first.
"Looks like Rosekit is the old-ah!" Blossomkit yelled as she tripped. Rosekit giggled as she passed her.
"Who's the old elder?" Blossomkit began grumbling as she got up and stomped over to them.
"Come on!" Rosekit said, grabbing a raven. However, Oakkit immediately shook his head.
"No, Rosekit! You know I don't like ravens. They're way too feathery and...ugh. Can't you pick something else?" Rosekit rolled her eyes.
"You're going to be picky about prey? Fine…" She put the raven back and instead picked out a small squirrel. She dragged it over and the three of them settled down to share it. While they were eating, a patrol came back, and a cat bounded up to them.
"I see the three of you are getting older by the second, huh?" Branchclaw said. They all stopped eating and jumped up to see their father.
"Dad! Did you catch any prey!?" Oakkit asked excitedly. He chuckled.
"Well, it was a border patrol, so no." Oakkit sat down disappointedly.
"You still could've caught something…" He muttered. Rosekit pushed the squirrel forward with her nose.
"Eat some!" Her dad smiled at her.
"Oh, that's alright, you kits finish up, I'm going to grab something to share with your mother."
"Can you tell Ashkit that if he doesn't hurry up we'll finish without him, then?" Rosekit asked. "We won't actually finish without him." She added. Branchclaw rested his tail tip on her shoulder before moving past her to the fresh kill pile.
"Alright, I'll be sure to tell him!" Rosekit purred before turning back to eat. Branchclaw picked out a raven and bounded into the nursery, Oakkit looking after him.
"I guess I didn't get my dislike of ravens from them!" Blossomkit flicked him with her tail amusedly. Moments later, Ashkit came bounding towards them, panting.
"Sorry! Is there any left?"
"Of course there is!" Rosekit said, rolling her eyes a bit. Ashkit settled down to finish the squirrel as the rest of them stood.
"I can't wait until we can go out into the forest…" Rosekit said, staring longingly at the entrance/exit of the camp. Oakkit snorted.
"Yeah, but you can't wait for anything." Rosekit stomped her foot.
"What's that supposed to mean!? And aren't you excited, too?" Oakkit sighed at that, but before he could respond, Blossomkit tapped his shoulder with her tail with a mischievous look on her face before quickly running off.
"Tag, you're it!" She called from over her shoulder before she disappeared behind the apprentices den. Oakkit just stood still, shocked for a moment, before he realized what was happening. Wasting no time, he dashed for Rosekit, a grin on his face. Rosekit giggled as well, quickly turning around. She dug her heels into the ground before shooting herself forward, sprinting out of his reach. She turned to watch him chase her and quickened her pace. She turned around, just to bump into a cat.
"Oof!" She said as they collided, falling to the ground. Oakkit caught up and stopped abruptly, looking down at her and waving his paw in front of her face.
"Hey! Rosekit! Are you okay?" He asked. Rosekit blinked a few times before quickly getting on her feet and lashing her tail.
"Who got in my way?" She demanded. She turned to see a dark cat just a bit larger than they were standing there. It was Smokepaw.
"S-sorry, Rosekit! But you should look where you're going, too!" He said. Rosekit rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, yeah." She and Oakkit left and went to look for Blossomkit.
"Well, tag is no fun anymore. Let's play something else." Oakkit agreed with her as they called out Blossomkit's name, peering behind the apprentices den. There were footsteps behind them, and Rosekit turned around to see Flamekit.
"Flamekit!" Rosekit exclaimed, running over to him. She stopped in front of him, glaring a little.
"Do you know where Blossomkit is?" He rose an eyebrow.
"Blossomkit? What, you can't even keep track of your own littermates now?" Rosekit huffed at him.
"Of course I can! And at least I have littermates!" Flamekit faked a look of being offended by her. Oakkit padded up to them uncertainly as they argued.
"Why are the two of you always fighting?" He asked, but he was totally ignored as Flamekit looked Rosekit up and down.
"You aren't even groomed! It's no wonder Blossomkit ran away from you." Rosekit gasped at his rudeness, stomping up even closer to him to look at him eye to eye.
"You think you're smart?" Just then, Blossomkit quickly ran up to them, panting.
"Stop that!" She exclaimed. With both of them giving a huff, Rosekit and Flamekit turned away from each other. Blossomkit and Oakkit both just gave them both a shake of their heads as Ashkit padded over silently.
"You two again?" They all turned around to see Flamekit's mother, Brightpool padding over. She stopped in front of Flamekit, and Moonfall and Branchclaw followed her out of the nursery over to the kits.
"Flamekit, you should try to break your habit of arguing every time you see Rosekit. You're going to be made an apprentice soon." Brightpool lectured. At first his head hung, but his eyes gleamed at the mention of being made an apprentice. Moonfall nodded.
"The four of you will become apprentices very soon, too, you know. You should start to act like it." However, at this point none of the kits were listening.
"I can barely wait! I bet I'm going to be the best apprentice ever!" Oakkit said. Flamekit snorted at that.
"Best apprentice? I'm going to be the best warrior ever!" They all chatted eagerly when suddenly, Birchfoot approached, carrying herbs. He dropped the herbs down by Brightpool.
"You had a bellyache earlier, right? Juniper berries." He said simply. Brightpool dipped her head and licked up the berries. Birchfoot looked at the kits and sighed.
"Such a loud bunch, and so much of you, too. No doubt the apprentices den will be quite full." He began walking away as they continued talking about who was going to be the best apprentice den, but Rosekit sat quietly as she watched Birchfoot retreat into the medicine cat den.
"Hey, hey, you've been quiet! Probably because you know you'll never be the best!" Flamekit said to her, but she didn't reply or look at him. She kept her gaze. Oakkit padded up to her worriedly.
"He's right, you have been quiet. Aren't you going to say how you're going to be the best warrior?" Rosekit snapped back to him.
"Huh?" Oakkit blinked a few times, his head going from Rosekit, to the medicine cat den, and back. He gasped and jumped up.
"Oh I see! You want to be a medicine cat apprentice!" Rosekit blinked as they all waited for her to confirm it. She sighed.
"I…"
"I want to be a warrior apprentice."
If this option is what you want Rosekit to choose, proceed to chapter 2A.
"I want to become a medicine cat apprentice."
If this option is what you want Rosekit to choose, proceed to chapter 2B.
This choice will basically shape the entire story. You can go the warrior route or the medicine cat route. Whichever one you choose, both should end up equally as interesting and with equally as much drama as the other. So, review which route you think you're going to be taking in this story! I will update and have chapters 2A and 2B out as soon as possible!
If you are confused as to how this will work, let me clear it up. I will be posting two chapters at the same time once I have it done, one will be titled Chapter 2A and one will be Chapter 2B. Look forward to it, until then! Bye!
