Next time I woke up the nursery was much lighter. Everything had so much more color; it was all beautiful, even the nest I was in had shiny things in it. Looking over to Mosspelt I saw three other kits- my littermates is knew. One was a tom, he was light-brown with dark stripes, then there were two she-cats like me, one was black, and the other was a darker brown tabby with white paws- she looked like the other cats I saw.
They are taking so long, I want to explore! I turned around so I was facing the tom, my brother, Splashkit. "Wake up," I hissed, "I want to go and explore."
He stirred a little bit, but didn't wake up. I gave a quite hiss of irritation. Sneaking a quick glance at Mosspelt, I quietly got up. As soon as I was out of the nest I all but ran to the entrance of the den.
Outside was shocking. It's so big. I thought amazed; on the other side of the clearing was a bramble thicket. There were various entrances to these thickets, and I, of course, had to know at what was inside of them. Hurrying across the clearing I went to the one a little away from the others.
Inside it was small with only room for one nest. I was starting to back out when I heard a cat meow, "What are you doing?"
Spinning around I saw a golden-spotted tabby she-cat. She was looking down at me with big amber eyes. I couldn't tell if she was angry or not. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to get you angry," I say quickly," I'll leave right now." I rushed out and ran back to the nursery too scared to continue my exploration.
Luckily the queens were still asleep, and didn't notice when I crawled back into my nest and fell asleep again.
(2 moons old)
"Get up!" I said exasperated at Splashkit, he is always asleep. "Come on we want to go out and play!"
"Let me sleep," he mumbled stuffing his head under his paws.
"Please can we go play?" my sister Nightkit asked quietly. We were the exact opposite; me loud, her quiet. I was also bigger than her, well her and Hawkkit.
"Fine," he finally said getting up, "What are we going to play?" he looked at me.
"Well I think we should play Thunderclan Invading!" I voted.
"I wanted to listen to the elders." Hawkkit protested.
"I wanted to talk to Mothwing." Nightkit said, she might be quiet but she didn't back down in her opinion.
"I think we should get Stonestream to teach us some battle moves!" Splashkit argued.
"No Thunderclan Invading!" I hiss and pounce on my small black sister.
"No fighting moves!" Splashkit yowled jumping on me. This started a big scuffle between all of us, Hawkkit not wasting a second to get involved.
(4 moons old)
"So you crouch down like this," Stonestream said demonstrating how to pounce on a bird. We all tried to copy it. "Good, but Splashkit, you need to get lower. Nightkit stop moving your tail. Good job." He said proudly, he is like the father we never had, after all he is Mosspelt's best friend.
"Can you show us some fighting moves?" Splashkit asked excitedly.
He purred, "I don't think so, your mother would have my pelt. I need to go, I'm on the next patrol, stay out of trouble." He said looking at me; I gave him an innocent look. He shook his head before walking away.
"You guys wanna follow the patrol?" I asked quietly when he was out of earshot.
"This is the kind of stuff he was talking about," Hawkkit said rolling her eyes, "but other than have you confuse me into going I'll just save you the trouble. I'll go."
"I'm in, it should be fun." Splashkit meowed excitedly.
"I don't know… we could get into big trouble," Nightkit said trying to change our minds.
"But if you think about it is really helping the warriors. If we know the territory then that saves them time when we become apprentices. And if it saves them time not having to show us around then we can spend more time learning to hunt and fight for the clan… So if you really think about it then we aren't doing anything wrong, just trying to help our soon-to-be mentors, and trying to be better warriors." I stated like it was obvious. She looked confused.
"but-"
"You're in right? I mean you do want to be the best warrior Riverclan has seen right? The only way to do that is to start as soon as you can. And if you really want to be the best warrior, then we should start now. Otherwise we'll only be as good as all the other warriors… Ok it's decided then, we are all going!" I start to lead them to a hole in the thickets surrounding the camp.
"Quiet!" I hiss when I heard Splashkit step on a twig.
"Sorry," he meowed quietly back. I rolled my eyes and focused on finding Stonestream's scent. There! I signaled them to follow me. When I heard them ahead I slowed down and started to crawl towards them with the move we were shown not that long ago. My littermates followed my lead and crouched down.
After talking for eternity Stonestream and the other warriors moved on we started to follow when another stick broke, again by Splashkit! I whipped my head around and glared at him. He looked sorry, then his eyes got wider.
"I told you to say out of trouble!" Stonestream said looking down on me with angry blue eyes.
"Frog-dung" I mumble, looking at my white paws.
"Icewing! You take these kits back to the camp, we'll finish the patrol," Reedwhisker hissed before walking off.
The white she-cat padded up to, and past us, "Follow."
"I told you it was a bad idea," Nightkit hissed to me on our way back. Other than that it was a silent walk.
When we got to camp Icewing talked again."Wait here, I'm getting Leopardstar." We are in so much trouble. I may, or may not have, whimpered when I saw Leopardstar coming up to us.
"Why did you sneak out of camp," she asked.
"Well we wanted to see what the territory looked like," I said looking at her pleadingly.
"Looks like you'll have to wait longer," wait
"Wh-"
"Your apprentice ceremony will be pushed back a moon!" she said. This caused a stir among my littermates, and the clan who was listening.
"But!" I tried to say.
"NO!" we fell silent, "you betrayed your clan and clanmates by leaving the camp before you were apprentices, my mind will not be changed." She walked away.