"Reedkit, wake up already!", a voice hissed. Reedkit rolled over, moaning.

"What is it Breezekit?", Reedkit meowed drowsily, feeling a paw cuff his ear. Reedkit opened his eyes, the world was blurry. He blinked a few more times. Standing over him was a light grey tom with dark grey paws, he had yellow eyes that burned with anger. Reedkit felt his stomach rumble with hunger. "Breezekit, can we eat first?" Reedkit asked, yawning as he stood up.

"No Reedkit, we are going to play with Rainkit, Owlkit and Brownkit" Breezekit growled with annoyance.

"Breezekit, don't be rude to your brother." a voice meowed. Reedkit glanced up to find a golden she-cat with beautiful green eyes. Reedkit smiled.

"Hi Daisyshine, me and Breezekit are going outside to play!", Reedkit exclaimed. Breezekit snorted.

"Okay Reedkit, but be careful you two.", Daisyshine purred. Breezekit scampered out the den, followed closly by Reedkit. Four kits sat in the middle of camp, all of them were gazing closely at a dark brown tom with amber eyes and white paws. He was showing the kits some battle moves. Reedkit and Breezekit stumbled up to the other cats.

"Aww, Breezekit, you had to bring him?", a silver tabby tom grumbled.

"Daisyshine said that I couldn't go outside with out him.", Breezekit sighed. Reedkit dropped his gaze to his paws as the sadness flooded through him.

"Hey badger, why don't you go to you're real home?", a big dusty brown tom snickered.

"This is my real home Brownkit." Reedkit growled at the older tom.

"I don't think so, I mean, you're fat enough to be a queen expecting kits!", another tom sneered. He was cream with a white underbelly and white dapples on his face and back.

"Shut up Owlkit", Reedkit whispered, rage burning deeply in his stomach. All the other toms started laughing like hyenas. Except for one. He was light grey with black and dark grey speckles, and he had a white underbelly. Suddenly a voice boomed through the air.

"Do you guys want to learn or not?!" The kits glanced up above themselves. Shrewpaw, an apprentice, towered over them. They all nodded sheepishly. Shrewpaw crouched to the ground. He bunched up his muscles, grinning. Then he sprang into the air and landed squarely on a dead tree branch that lay a few fox lengths away. Shrewpaw stood up, licking his matted chest fur proudly. Rainkit leaped up into the air, almost tripping over Shrewpaw's foot.

"I want to try!", he yowled as loud as he could. Shrewpaw smiled.

"Good Rainkit, you go with Breezekit, Brownkit, go with Reedkit, and Owlpaw will come with me.", he ordered. The kits nodded. Reedkit sighed. Once again, he was paired with Brownkit. Brownkit was the strongest kit in the nursery, he was almost the size of Shrewpaw. Brownkit frowned, rolling his amber eyes.

"Ugh, you again.", he growled, digging his sharp claws into the dirt.

"Okay, everyone crouch down to the ground and spring into the air with all the force you have in your legs.", Shrewpaw instructed, licking his paw and drawing it over his ear. Reedkit did as the apprentice told him and crouched. Reedkit gazed at Brownkit. Brownkit's eyes were tiny slits, like little chips of amber ice. Reedkit lashed his tail. "Go!", Shrewpaw yowled. Brownkit quickly launched himself at Reedkit. Reedkit tried to dodge the tom's claws, but he wasn't fast enough. He felt thorn-like claws dig into his mottled pelt and screeched as pain shot through his side. He felt blood trickle from the wound and heard Brownkit let out a triumphant yowl.

"Hey look, Badgerkit got beat!", a voice sneered, it sounded like Rainkit. The pain was increasing, it burned like fire, blurring Reedkit's vision.

"Yeah, he's too fat to dodge an attack!" another voice hissed. That voice sounded like Owlkit. Tears started to stream down Reedkit's face.

"Awww, the mouse-brain is crying, how stupid.", Reedkit knew that voice too well, it belonged to his brother, Breezekit.

"Stop, everyone just stop!", a voice screeched. Reedkit felt Brownkit fly off of him, ripping a gash on his flank. Reedkit could barely see, but he did see a flash of light grey. Is that, Pebblekit?, Reedkit wondered. Reedkit closed his eyes, it was too much for him right now to keep them open. Another wave of pain washed over Reedkit. His entire body trembled. The voices were starting to disappear, and suddenly they were drowned out to nothing but an eerie silence.