Welcome back peeps!
Coming at you with the allegiances and chapter 1 of TEOA! Yay! Thanks again to Halfmoon for reviewing, and to everybody else, I see you... I see you not reviewing. But seriously, just take a moment, it means so much to me! I suggest reading through the allegiances, not only because they took me ages and I put each Clan in the respective chapters, but because you're gonna be stuck with these characters for a while, so you might wanna actually find out what they look like ;). (Seriously, though. Keep an eye on Blackpool, Thornstar, Owlclaw, and all the kits. But read all of them. But especially those ones.) Anyway, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Warriors! (If I did, HOLLYLEAF WOULD BE LEADER!)
Allegiances
ThunderClan:
Leader: Thornstar-Light brown tom with golden eyes
Deputy: Shadefur-Dark gray tom with blue eyes
Medicine cat: Dawnsplash-Ginger and cream she-cat with blue eyes
Warriors:
Owlclaw-Dark brown tom with yellow eyes
Apprentice: Oakpaw
Birdtail-Sleek blue-gray tabby she-cat with a fluffy tail and green eyes
Heatherclaw-Cream and brown she-cat with blue eyes
Apprentice: Rosepaw
Blackpool-Black tabby tom with dark blue eyes
Brownwing-brown tabby she-cat amber eyes
Apprentice: Mallowpaw
Daisytail-Gray and white she-cat with yellow eyes
Redflower-Dark ginger tabby she-cat with pale green eyes
Halfear-White and black tabby tom with one shredded ear and yellow eyes
Queens:
Hollybird-Brown and ginger tabby she-cat with green eyes (Rainkit-Gray tom with blue eyes, Petalkit-Pretty white she-cat with dark gray patches and pale green eyes)
Fawnshade-Dark brown and gray she-cat with light amber eyes (Slatekit-Dark gray she-cat with blue-gray eyes, Vixenkit-Ginger tabby she-cat with white tail-tip and amber eyes, Lightningkit-Dark brown she-cat with white markings and stripes and brilliant golden eyes)
Leaffur-Light brown tabby she-cat with bright green eyes (Expecting Shadefur's kits)
Apprentices:
Rosepaw-Cream and ginger she-cat with green eyes
Oakpaw-Dark brown tom with lighter brown stripes and amber eyes
Mallowpaw-Gray and white tabby tom with blue eyes
Elders:
Tanglescar-Gray tom with heavily scarred underbelly and green eyes
Rowanwind-Brown tabby she-cat with amber eyes
Chapter 1.
"Lightningkit! What have I told you about putting thorns in other kits' nests?" Fawnshade, her mother, demanded. "You too, Vixenkit! You should know better! What kind of example are you setting for Leaffur's kits?"
"She hasn't even had her kits yet." Vixenkit muttered, flicking her white tail-tip mutinously. "Besides, Rainkit was asking for it."
"That doesn't matter! Leaffur's kits will be coming any day now! And what will the Clan think? You only have three more moons until you become apprentices, then your mentors with deal with you." Fawnshade sighed, suddenly looking exhausted. "Why can't you be more like Slatekit?"
She motioned with her tail towards their gray sister who was lying in the middle of the camp with a bored-looking Petalkit, talking quietly.
"Oh yes, perfect Slatekit... Why can't ThunderClan be made of just Slatekit?" Lightningkit meowed dramatically, glancing at Vixenkit.
"Because it would be so boring!" Vixenkit finished, the kits exploding into a pile of fur, whiskers, and purrs of laughter.
Fawnshade huffed loudly to hide the fact the she was holding back a purr of her own. She fought to keep the expression of stern disapproval on her face. Rainkit popped back out of his nest, another thorn clenched in his tiny teeth. He spat it out, an annoyed look on his face.
"You have to help! It's not fair that I have to clean out the thorns that you put in there!" He meowed frustratedly.
"Rainkit's right!" Fawnshade mewed, turning to kits. "You must help him."
Vixenkit moaned theatrically, causing Lightningkit to collapse in a fit of giggles again. She sat up abruptly when Fawnshade gave her a look that could stop a thunderstorm.
"Okay, okay." Lightningkit muttered. "It was just a joke."
"A joke that we have to clean up now." Vixenkit pointed out glumly.
They heaved themselves to their paws dramatically, making a big show of dragging their tiny kit bodies over to Rainkit's thorn-riddled nest. They began digging through it, sending bits of moss flying everywhere. This continued for several minutes, Fawnshade and Rainkit becoming more moss covered by the heartbeat.
"Found one!" Lightningkit exclaimed triumphantly, holding up a piece of gray fur.
"That's not a thorn, Lightningkit, that's my fur." Rainkit said frustratedly.
"Oops." Vixenkit said, shrugging.
They dove back into the shredded nest.
"Fawnshade, if this keeps going, I'm not going to have any nest left!" Rainkit scowled at the wriggling shape of his destroyed nest.
"Vixenkit, Lightningkit, that's enough! Go do something helpful, somewhere else!" Fawnshade mewed irritably, clearly realizing their apparent inability to find a thorn in what was practically a thornbush was an act.
"If you insist!" Vixenkit's ginger head popped out of the still-thorny nest.
"Looks like we have no choice but to stop!" Lightningkit's dark brown head appeared next to her sister, and shot her a triumphant look.
In perfect unison, they hopped out of Rainkit's ransacked nest and sashayed out of the entrance to the nursery. Once they were out of the view of Fawnshade and Rainkit, they pressed their pads together, their signature gesture.
"Lightningkit and Vixenkit win again!" Lightningkit mewed, waving her tail happily.
"Let's go bug Slatekit and Petalkit." Vixenkit mewed, amusement gleaming in her amber eyes.
"We should creep up on them again!" Lightningkit suggested, excitement reflected in her own golden eyes.
"No, we did that yesterday. This time, let's dare ol' Perfectkit to climb the High Rock." Vixenkit whispered, fur bushing out in excitement at the prospect of getting Rainkit's paragon of a kit sister into trouble.
"Yes!" Lightningkit purred in amusement at her sister's plan.
Together, they crept over to Petalkit and Slatekit, trying to look as innocent as possible. Lightningkit forced her waving tail to be still, and Vixenkit flattened her fur in an effort to look normal.
"Why, hello Petalkit, Slatekit." Vixenkit greeted them pompously.
Slatekit shot them a suspicious look, but Petalkit greeted them with her soft, sweet voice.
"Hello Vixenkit and Lightningkit."
"We had an idea for some fun!" Lightningkit burst out, her forcedly still tail beginning to lash from side to side.
"Well, we thought we could amuse ourselves on this fine new-leaf morning." Vixenkit added, shooting a look at Lightningkit, warning her not to spoil the trick.
Slatekit narrowed her blue-gray eyes at them.
"Go on." Petalkit murmured, dipping her gray and white head. "I was beginning to feel slightly uninterested in the current events."
Slatekit ducked her head, embarrassed. Vixenkit sent Lightningkit a 'can you believe her?' look.
"Ah, yes, well, we had the idea to... um... invigorate ourselves... by-" Lightningkit stumbled across her words, trying to match Vixenkit's confident, pompous tone.
"By attempting some escalation of rocks." Vixenkit finished theatrically. "Namely, the High Rock."
Slatekit gasped, shocked at the prospect of trying to climb up the rock from which the leader addressed the whole Clan for ceremonies and announcements, but Petalkit narrowed her eyes, rare interest gleaming in her pretty pale green eyes.
"That sounds entertaining." Petalkit mewed pleasantly. "Lightningkit, why don't you take the first attempt?"
She gulped audibly. This wasn't the plan! Petalkit was supposed to do it first! But there was no easy way to back out now, she would have to do it. Petalkit definitely had a brain in her pretty head.
Shaking slightly, she slunk over to the dusty bottom of the High Rock. She had dreamed about climbing it as the powerful leader, not a whimpering, nervous kit. Shaking herself, she gathered strength in her puny haunches and sprung onto the first boulder. She made the jump with little trouble, hindpaws scrabbling at the rough surface for only a moment before she was able to sit comfortably on the top. She stared up at her next jump, a much higher one. Narrowing her eyes against the glare of the hot newleaf sun, she launched herself at the rock. Misjudging it slightly, she crashed into the flat side of it, and slid down onto the rock below.
She hissed in frustration and tried again, taking an extra moment to visualize the jump. She made it, but only barely, having to haul herself up by her forepaws, only just getting her chest onto the top. Panting, she collapsed onto the rough rock.
She peered down at the ground from her vantage point, and immediately slammed her eyes shut. The ground seemed a long way away, even though she knew she was far from the top.
She continued to hop from sun-baked rock to sun-baked rock, until she thought she must have reached Silverpelt! Staring up at the edge of the biggest rock yet, she realized it was the last one, and then she would be standing on the High Rock.
The very idea propelled her up onto the top. She huffed, exhausted from hopping across rocks, and slumped onto the hot rock.
Her eyelids slowly lifted as she realized... She was on the High Rock!
Let's see Rainkit make fun of me now! She thought triumphantly, scrambling to her paws and padding to the edge of the High Rock.
She raised her head benevolently, closing her eyes to imagine this moment once she was leader of ThunderClan!
"Lightningkit!" It was Fawnshade. And she did not look happy.
"You get down from there right now or I swear to StarClan I will-" She cut off abruptly, her light amber eyes widening in shock and fear as Lightningkit's tiny paws lost their balance.
For one moment, Lightningkit felt the electrifying sensation of flying, followed by the even more electrifying sensation of falling.
Time seemed to slow down as she fell. Is this how it ends? Like a bolt of lightning, smashing into the ground and then dissapating forever. How fitting. Then panic set in. Her heart screamed, joining the chorus of the surrounding cats, mingling and combining until she couldn't seperate individual voices. But then, rising above them all, her sisters' voices, twisted with fear.
"No!" She heard them scream at the same time as Vixenkit and Slatekit launched themselves towards her falling body.
Her eyes split open as a voice in her mind screamed, I can't die yet! Her body slammed into the soft forms of her sisters. They had caught her. They would always catch her, she realized.
Aww, cute ending. I hope ;). Tell me what you think... WITH A REVIEW :)! Pls and thx. Anyone else love Petalkit? She's actually my best friend's cat :P. Thanks for reading, hope you liked reading it as much as I liked writing it! BoI!
~Pondfrost
