I'm on a roll today! Lol xD Well, here's Chapter 4, in which our darling kits may or may not become apprentices… x3


Eaglekit sighed as he watched Tanglepaw and Puddlepaw emerge from the apprentice's den, stretching and yawning.

"Tanglepaw!" Cloudtail padded across the clearing to his apprentice. "Are you ready to go? I was just about to go in and wake you up, you lazy fur-ball!" He cuffed a snowy paw over the ginger apprentice's ear, but the long-legged tom dodged neatly out of the way, purring with amusement as he rolled onto his back.

"Come on, Cloudtail… Can't we battle train instead of hunting?"

The white warrior narrowed his eyes. "Or if you get off your lazy rump for five seconds we can hunt until sunghigh and battle train, all in the same day! It's a wonder, isn't it?" Cloudtail rolled his eyes, and Eaglekit couldn't help his whiskers twitching in amusement. Contrary to his first thought, Cloudtail and Tanglepaw got along rather well as mentor and apprentice, the white warrior only needing to claw him over the ears three or four times a day to keep the ginger tom in check.

Eaglekit padded over to Puddlepaw as Tanglepaw left with his mentor, ears pricked in curiosity. "What are you doing today, Puddlepaw?"

The gray apprentice glanced at him with a tilt of his head. "Hm? Oh, I'm hunting for the elders, then Brambleclaw's gonna take me on the sunhigh patrol, why?"

Eaglekit shrugged. "Just wondering, I guess… I saw you teaching Hollykit and Lilykit a hunting crouch."

Puddlepaw blinked. "Would you like for me to show you, too?"

Eaglekit shook his head. "No… I want to learn how to defend this clan… I'd much rather learn fighting moves…"

Puddlepaw purred his soft laughter. "That will come in time, Eaglekit. Sooner than you think." His crystal blue eyes sparked. "Or hasn't anyone told you yet…?"

Eaglekit blinked again, confused. "Told me what?"

With another mrrow of laughter, Puddlepaw flicked his tail against Eaglekit's shoulder before padding away. "You'll see soon enough!"

"Eaglekit! Eaglekit!" The smoky gray kit turned to see Hollykit scampering towards him across the clearing from the nursery. "You'll never get what Emberkit just told me!" With a playful yowl, Hollykit launched herself at her brother, bowling him over. Gently and easily disentangling himself from the gray and black tabby, Eaglekit sat up.

"What is it?" He blinked at her, amber eyes curious.

"Cinderpelt asked her if she wanted to become a medicine cat apprentice!"

Eaglekit's ears pricked up. "She did?"

Emberkit padded quietly up from behind her sister, nodding shyly. "I'm really excited to train as a medicine cat… I enjoy healing, and I already know a lot of the herbs from helping Cinderpelt around the camp." Eaglekit purred softly at the smaller she-cat.

"That's great, Emberkit."

Hollypaw looked at him like he was mouse-brained. "Don't you know what this means, Eaglekit?"

The gray tom blinked at his two sisters, rather confused. Hollykit went on. "It's been two moons since Tanglepaw and Puddlepaw were apprenticed, and tonight's the half-moon!"

Emberkit piped up again. "That's when I have to get my apprentice name. Cinderpelt is taking me tonight, and we have to leave at sunhigh."

Suddenly, Lilykit hurtled out of the nursery, bowling her brother over much like Hollykit had before. "We're going to be apprentices!" She squealed excitedly. "We're going to be apprentices!"

"We are?" In his shock, Eaglekit couldn't help his voice squeaking out like a young kit's, eyes wide.

"We're going to be apprentices!" Lilykit cheered again, bouncing up and down, around Eaglekit in a circle.

"How do you know?" He asked skeptically, causing Lilykit to stumble in her happy bounding.

"Firestar's in there talking to Mother and Father about it right now." She sniffed disdainfully. "I was pretending to be asleep but then Father realized I was faking and made me leave…"

Eaglekit's ears flattened. Why would that matter…? "Wait here…" He murmured quietly, slinking towards the nursery. As he neared, Eaglekit could hear Crowfeather's sharp, indignant voice. "Why would we have to worry about their mentorship?" His father hissed. "They were born and raised in ThunderClan, what could anyone find disloyal in that?"

"Crowfeather…" That was their mother's quiet voice,

"It's going to take more than that to convince the Clan of their loyalty, Crowfeather…" Firestar spoke in a soft, understanding tone. "I just want you to know that I've thought carefully about their mentors…"

Crowfeather let out an impatient huff of air. "And I'm assuming that I'm not one of them?"

Firestar sighed. "I've considered it…"

"But then they'll doubt my children's' loyalty." Crowfeather cut in bitterly. "No, Firestar… It's alright. I just want them to be happy… Please don't choose any one that will hold them back for their half-clan heritage… I couldn't live with myself if I set them up for failure like that…"

"Crowfeather…" Leafpool's voice was pained, but understanding. "It's not just your fault… I was a medicine cat…"

"If it's worth anything," Eaglekit's ears pricked as he heard Sorreltail's voice thrown into the mix. "I want Crowfeather to mentor one of my kit's when they're ready. If I only have one, I want him to be the mentor."

There was a stunned silence, and a soft purr erupted from Leafpool's chest. "Oh, Sorreltail…"

Firestar was quiet. Eaglekit took a deep breath, bracing himself before he stepped forward, pushing his way into the nursery.

"Eaglekit." Crowfeather gave him a sharp look. "What are you doing in here? We're talking to Firestar at the moment, you should leave."

Eaglekit lifted his head. "No."

Leafpool's amber eyes shot wide, and Firestar's ears pricked. Crowfeather's tail flicked back and forth in agitation. "Excuse me?"

Eaglekit turned to Firestar, addressing the flame-pelted warrior directly with his head high. "I don't care who my mentor is." He began, amber eyes blazing. "I will work twice as hard as a pure ThunderClan apprentice, run twice as fast—catch twice as much fresh-kill. And when I fight twice as hard for my clan, they won't have a choice but to accept that I am the most loyal cat ThunderClan has. My sisters are the same. Firestar, give us whichever mentors you deem worthy, because we're dying to prove our loyalty to ThunderClan." Firestar blinked at him through wise green eyes before dipping his head in a nod.

"Well said, young Eaglekit. You and your siblings will be apprenticed at sunhigh… I hope you're ready to back up those words." With a light flick of his tail on Eaglekit's shoulder, Firestar left, leaving just Eaglekit, Crowfeather, Leafpool, and Sorreltail in the nursery.

Crowfeather was quiet for a moment, before her leaned down and touched his nose to the top of Eaglekit's head. "Firestar's right, Eaglekit… That was well said…" Eaglekit felt his heart glow at the praise… Right up until he got a heavy cuff over the ear from his father's paw. "But so help me," he hissed, "if I ever catch you eavesdropping—especially on your Clan leader—again, I'll have your ears!"

Eaglekit ducked his head in embarrassment. "Yes, Father…"

That earned a satisfied nod from the smoky warrior. "Good. Now go, and don't repeat anything you just heard to your siblings, alright?"

With a small nod, Eaglekit scampered back out of the nursery, somewhat startled by how far the sun had risen already. "Eaglekit!" Lilykit was calling for him, from next to the apprentice den, Tanglepaw beside her. As he approached, he noticed his sister's tail lashing furiously. While Lilykit got most of her looks from their mother- with her light brown tabby fur, snowy white legs, and identical amber eyes- Lilykit had definitely inherited her temper from their father.

"What's the matter, Lilykit?"

The small tabby growled. "I told Tanglepaw that we'd be moving into the apprentice den today and he called me a liar!"

Tanglepaw rolled his eyes. "I did not. I told you I didn't think it was happening. And definitely not today. See? Your still whining off to your brother like a kit… That's not exactly yowling, 'I'm ready to be an apprentice'."

Eaglekit sighed. "We are, though." He pointed out seriously. "Emberkit has to be apprenticed today, and we're all 6 moons old now."

Tanglepaw rolled his eyes again before his ears pricked, attention completely refocused as his brother re-enter the camp, pushing his way through the thorn tunnel with a load of fresh-kill that could have bested a LionClan cat.

"Wow…" Lilykit meowed quietly. "I'm going to bring in catches like that one day! Tomorrow, even, because I'm going to be an apprentice!" She added the last part for Tanglepaw's benefit, but the ginger apprentice was already padding over to his brother.

"Forget him, Lilykit." Eaglekit mewed, flicking her ear with his tail-tip. Let's go get Hollykit and Emberkit, it's almost sunhigh." He felt his fur tingling with energy as he said that, paws filled with electicity.

Just you wait, ThunderClan! Whoever my mentor is, whether they approve of my blood or not, will see just how loyal I am!


Chapter 3(: So what do you guys think? Still want me to continue? Who's your favorite kit? (though since we've only seen the POV of two of them I'm not sure if that's a good question xP lol. If you DO have a favorite though, feel free to tell me, and I may try extra-hard to do a chapter in their POV:P Until the next chapter!