Okeyzies, so I'z back. The only reason why I'm updating this is because LakeStream, a reader of this story, told me to. So here you go! Will try to make it longer as I haven't given you anythingfor a long time. 45 words already! Okay, okay, I'll start. Oh yeah, no more OC'S for now. Sorry! Holding back on some of them again, sorry… People who submitted them first get them in first. And-
Featherkit: *chucks rock at Harmonic's head* JUST START ALREADY!
Okay, okay, okay! #longestanever
I was woken up by the dawn sunshine streaming over the trees, making everything alight with a golden glow.
Bramblekit was jumping around, trying to catch a beam of light on the side of a tree.
Stupid furball,I thought, smirking. He'll never catch it.
Shadekit was sitting, well, in the shade, talking to a warrior I hadn't seen before.
"When will we become apprentices?" Shadekit was whining.
"When the lights come," the warrior answered. With that Shadekit noticed me, and beckoned me to come over.
"Who's that?" I muttered to Shadekit.
"Seeing as this is our new Clan, and as our old ones cast us out…" Shadekit started.
"I'm Rabbitdash," the warrior said. "Your friend here really does talk a lot."
"No one can be more loud and annoying than Bramblekit," I muttered under my breath.
"Featherkit, did you hear that?" Shadekit was bouncing around like Bramblekit. "The lights are coming tonight! We're gonna be apprentices tonight!"
Bramblekit stopped his stupid light-chasing game and looked up. "Tonight?"
Rabbitdash nodded. "It's been quite a few moons since you were sacrificed," she said.
Sacrificed. I hate that word. Sacrificed. It reminds me of my old stupid RiverClan home, my old stupid RiverClan parents, and my old stupid RiverClan EVERYTHING!
Greif wells at my eyes, fighting to push out. I run away, not hearing whatever stupid old ThunderClan Bramblekit wanted to say.
His mother hated him, a tiny voice said in my head. She asked for him to be sacrificed. Shaking that voice out of my head, I kept running to wherever my paws would take me.
"Watch where you're going."
The voice startled me and I fell back into a bramble bush. A pair of twinkling green eyes were staring at me.
Slowly, carefully, gingerly getting up, I see what the eyes belong to.
"I'm Foxpaw," he said. "When did you get here?"
"I'm going to be an apprentice tonight," I say, raising my tail in pride.
I look off at the sun, which is still high in the sky. I didn't want to wait!
"Foxpaw!" a voice called from not far away.
As I turn back towards camp, I know I'll see him and the voice before the sun set.
"Faithpaw is calling me," he said, and I start to walk back.
"I never caught your name," he said.
I turn back around and stare into those green eyes again. "Featherkit," I say. "My name is Featherkit."
The sun is finally setting, making the river illuminate golden, orange and red.
As the sky becomes darker, I bound off to meet Shadekit and Brackenkit. Shadekit is tracing circles in the ground with his claw, and Brackenkit is pacing in a circle around Shadekit. I settle down next to Shadekit and try not to fall asleep as the sky darkens even more.
I blink my eyes open as they start to shut. I see Shadekit and Brackenkit have moved next to Skystar.
"Do exactly as I tell you to do during the ceremony," she was saying. "It's different from the Clans."
Brackenkit and Shadekit walk away to the other side of the clearing.
"Featherkit. Good. You heard what I said, right?" she said.
I nod and start to get up, but she stops me.
"There's light in you," she whispers, and then lets me go.
The stars are in the sky by this point, and a glowing mist is starting to rise.
"Look down," someone beside me hisses, and pushes my head down.
Skystar climbs a rock jutting out of the ground on the opposite side of the clearing.
"We are here because of this occasion. They are all scared of this, but not us. This is why we are here, and this is why we are doing this," Skystar says, looking up at the sky. I assume that I shouldn't look up by the fact that no one else is.
"Brackenkit, Shadekit, and Featherkit," Skystar continued. "These are the three kits left that were sacrificed in leaf-fall."
Shadekit rose beside me, his head still looking down. I copied him, my neck aching from holding this posture.
"Brackenkit, Shadekit, and Featherkit, you may look up at the sky."
I lift my head and look at the beautiful greens and blues that lace the dark night sky.
"The sky is awake," I whisper.
Shadekit nudges me and I take it that we weren't supposed to talk.
Skystar continues with the ceremony, but I'm still taken aback by the sky. The cold, leaf-bare wind blows against my fur, but I don't mind.
"Featherkit, RiverClan abandoned you. Turn back or be admitted by SpiritClan," Skystar said. I nearly jumped.
I look down a bit and look her in the eyes. "Why would I go back?" I say.
"I, Skystar, call upon the spirit of Lilystar to approve my choice."
Everything is silent for the shortest time.
"Brackenpaw, Shadepaw, Featherpaw, welcome to SpiritClan."
The circle we were in breaks up and the clearing is filled with chatter again.
"Welcome."
I jump and turn around. It's a golden warrior, and he certainly looked like he wanted to take everything he said back.
"Brambleshadow, talk to someone when you actually can!" A black tom shoos him away.
Rabbitdash hurries over and tries to pull the black tom off of Brambleshadow.
"Scarpath-"
"But-"
"Get off!"
"Welcome."
This time I don't jump because I know who it is.
"Hi, Foxpaw," I say without turning around.
A silvery apprentice jumps in front of me. "You didn't even turn around," she complained, a twinkle in her aqua eyes.
I jump back, right into Foxpaw and whom I guessed must be Faithpaw.
"Silverpaw!" Faithpaw complains, pushing me off her. "Sorry," Silverpaw says with a mischievous grin.
They start to quarrel and I slowly back off, until I'm alone in the middle of the clearing looking up at the sky.
Warmth brushes my side. "Aren't you cold?"
"No," I say, and pull away swiftly.
"Are you sure?" I look to my side right into the pleading amber eyes of Brackenpaw.
"You couldn't plan to be more annoying," I say and gaze up at the sky again.
I can still feel his eyes on my pelt, probably waiting until he can get to annoy me again.
Stupid furball.
A long one, like I promised :) Got some OCs in, will get the rest in sometime soon. When I get to it, I'll ask for more again. I know I haven't updated this in like a million years, but the update is coming!
TILDE KEY, Harmonic :D