This chapter is quite short, sorry about that, but it's also quite important ;)
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The bright green-leaf sun shone down upon the camp while Rainkit and her friends played. They had made up a game where they had Doveheart draw two circles in the sand and the kits split into two teams. The teams had to get a seashell into the other team's circle.
Sense there were only three kits, Rainkit was up against both of her friends and, unfortunately, they were winning. Rainkit was panting heavily, and eventually plopped down on the ground to rest.
Emberkit swaggered over to her and, with a mischievous gleam in her eyes, imitated Dawnpaw and Olivepaw's snobby voices and insults. "Oh my gosh Rainkit, you are like, so weak!" mewed Emberkit, with Bramblekit barely holding in his laughter in the background. Rainkit started to laugh so hard that she and her friends were rolling around in the dust on their backs. "Get up at once, you're getting all dirty!" Doveheart yowled from next to Hawkeyes, who she was sharing prey with. The three kits jumped up at once, and went back to playing their game.
After a while, the kits abandoned the game and opted to play fighting. As they were rolling around, swiping at each other with clumsy paws, Redberry walked into the camp. In his jaws was a very small kit.
Bramblekit noticed and mewed to his friends "Hey, look you guys!" Rainkit and Emberkit jumped up and stood to attention as Swiftstar came out of his den. Rainkit had never seen the clan's leader before, and she suddenly felt very small indeed. The large tom was very strong and powerful, and one of his paws was about the size of her head.
The leader looked confused as he started at the small kit in Redberry's jaws. Eventully, he mewed, "Redberry, would you like to explain?" The small reddish-brown tom nodded and walked to the front of the clan.
Swiftstar called a meeting from the Highstump as Rainkit and her friends ran up. They were more interested in the chance of a new playmate then where the kit came from. When all the cats of RiverClan had gathered, Swiftstar nodded to Redberry to speak. The medicine cat set down the kit softly on the ground and drew breath to speak.
"While I was gathering herbs by the border to the unknown forest, I found this kit wailing pitifully in the bushes. It seemed to be abandoned. I couldn't just leave it to starve, could I? The warrior code says that we must help all kits in need, even if they are from another clan. I have a feeling that extends to loner and rouge kits too."
When the medicine cat had finished, the clan burst out with their own opinions. Alderfall, Smallclaw, Eaglefang, and many other cats yowled out complains, while Rainkit's parents and many other cats nodded in agreement.
Swiftstar had a concerned look on his face as he turned to Redberry. "I understand where you are coming from Redberry, but is the kit worth it? I don't want it to grow up followed by controversy and hatred." Redberry's opened his mouth to reply but Swiftstar reacted first. "No, we are warriors, not savages. If we abandon the kit we are no worse than the evil villains of our past. We will keep the kit."
Rainkit bounced happily on her paws as Redberry carried the kit trowed the nursery. As the cats went back to what they were doing, Rainkit heard Alderfall hiss to himself, "Great, one weakling and one filthy rouge. What is this clan coming too?" As Rainkit turned around to hiss at the agitated warrior, Emberkit ran up and mewed, "Come on! Lets go see the kit!"
Rainkit and her friends stared down at the little mound of ginger fur, suckling quietly at Starflower's belly. The queen had agreed to foster the kit, even though Rainkit had wanted her mother to have it. Doveheart just didn't have enough milk. Bramblekit mewed to his mother, "What are you going to name her?" For a second Starflower didn't respond, but eventually she mewed, "How about Gingerkit, for her fur?" The kits mewed in approval and crowded around the new kit, but Starflower pushed them away. "Go play, Gingerkit isn't old enough to join you yet." Rainkit's friends imminently ran out of the nursery, but Rainkit nuzzled the little kit before going to join them.
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Fun Fact: Rainkit's disability was orignaly going to be from an injury that an old enemy of her father's inflicted on her, and that she would grow up and have to kill him. I changed it because of a major problem that came up with the storyline that I couldn't fix XD