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Fluffkit's pov
"Why must you always have to be playing with me, Fluffkit? Go play with your littermates," Mudpelt growls, standing and padding away. My shoulders slump as I watch him go, and I have to turn away when Whitekit runs up to him, jumps on his back, and he starts to play with her.
"You okay Fluffkit?," Deadkit asks, padding up on my right side so he could see me. The fur on his forehead had grown in the four and a half moons since he was kitted and was now dangling over his blind right eye. He also filled out a bit more.
"Yeah. I'm fine," I sigh, turning away from my father and sister. Deadkit looks where I had been looking and nods.
"I know how that feels," he says, watching Firetail gather the cats in his border patrol. "He still doesn't talk to me. I'm just glad that Frostpelt is here for me."
"And Splashpelt and my littermates are there for me," I say. "Plus, we're here for each other!"
"Yeah!," he says. It's then we hear a yowl, and we spin around to see Splashpelt running across the camp from the nursery to the medicine cat's den. She reappears a moment later with Blueleaf behind her, some herbs in his mouth, and they run over to the nursery. Frostpelt exits the den after they enter and sees Deadkit and I standing here, then pads over.
"I'm going out to get some new bedding for Pebblefall. She's kitting right now, so please stay out of the nursery and give her some privacy," she says.
"Do you need any help?," Deadkit asks. She shakes her head.
"No, but nice try for getting out of the camp. In a moon and a half I can join you and your mentor for some training if you want, and that goes for you too, Fluffkit. Now, I'll be back soon. Behave for the clan, okay?," she asks. Deadkit and I nod, and she pads off.
"I wonder what the kits are going to be," Needlekit says, running up to us.
"Or kit. Don't forget, she could be having two or only one," Deadkit says. "Is anybody else hungry?"
"Me!," Whitekit shouts as she runs up. We all laugh and go over to the fresh-kill pool where we keep the fish now. Needlekit grabs one fish and we all pad to the side if the camp to eat.
It was much later that day, around moonrise, when we heard little mewls coming from the nursery and Blueleaf pads out. "There was one kit. A she-cat. Small, but healthy," he says. The clan cheers and Splashpelt pads up to us.
"Would you four like to meet your newest denmate?," she asks.
"Yeah! I'm not the only she-cat of the kits anymore! Of course I want to!," Whitekit shouts.
"Remember to be quiet. She's just a kit, and will most likely be startled by your energy," Shplashpelt says. Whitekit nods, padding calmly beside the rest of us on our way to the den.
Once we get it takes a moment for our eyes to adjust to the light, but after a moment the tortoiseshell pelt of Pebblefall could be seen laying in her nest. For a moment I couldn't we anything, but then I saw a little shape at Pebblefall's belly.
The kit was small, for sure, and was mostly white. The fur on her tail was long like my fur was. She had a black stripe from the center of her forehead to the end of her tail, and there were two orange stripes that flanked the black one. One of her front paws was black, and the other was orange.
"What's her name?," Needlekit asks.
"This is Puffkit. Her name is that for an obvious reason," Pebblefall says. "Now, she won't be able to play for a while, and you may not even be a kit when she can, so be careful around her, okay?"
"Okay," we all say.
Whitekit yawns and Splashpelt laughs. "How about we all get settled in a nest, okay? The rest of the clan is going to meet Puffkit in the morning so we can all get some rest."
"But, what about Frostpelt?," Deadkit asks.
"I'm sure she'll be back by the time you wake up. Now let's get settled in," she says. We all climb into the nest and curl up, and then Splashpelt climbs in behind us. "Goodnight kits."
"Goodnight," we all say back.
Darkkit's pov
"Who's there!," I shout.
'Do not be afraid kit,' a voice says, and I wip my head around. However, there was nobody there.
I hear hissing from behind, turn around again, and suddenly dark figures of cats start stalking out. First just a few, but then more and more. I try to back up, but when I try to place one of my back paws down it hits air. A cliff had randomly shown up.
I stand there panting in fear, but then other cats jump on the ones attacking me. I could see my sister and Mudkit among them, but they were so much older, it seemed. I finally get time to calm down, but then I notice how big I was as well. I was a fully grown cat.
A hiss makes me look up, and then I see one of the dark cats jumping at me. It pushes me back, and I start falling off the cliff until I catch my paws on the edge, digging my claws into the loose soil.
The cat hisses again and starts clawing at my paws. I try to hold on, but then the cat pushes my paws off of the edge, both tearing my claws out and breaking my hold, and I start falling.
A white head popping out is the last thing I see before I hit the bottom, as well as,
"Dark-"
"-kit," I hear.
'What?,' I wonder.
"Darkkit. Wake up," I hear again, and then I gasp, my eyes jolting open and I jump up. I was back in the Windclan nursery, and I see Eveningfall looking down at me. It was still dark out.
"What time is it?," I ask.
"Moonhigh. Now, settle down. You woke me up," Eveningfall says. I lay my ears flat against my head as he puts her head down again.
"Are you okay Darkkit?," Harestep asks from the nest a bit away.
"Uh... I think."
"Nightmare?"
"Yeah," I say. She gets up, careful not to wake up Mudkit, and pads over.
"Do you want to go into the camp clearing for a bit?," she asks. I shrug my shoulders, and her whiskers twitch. "Come on. Let's just get some air."
We pad outside, and I see all the warriors sleeping around the edges of the clearing. "I can't imagine sleeping in the open like this," I say, looking at Dustcloud and Cheetahtail as we pass them.
"Why is that?," Harestep asks.
"I don't know. It just feels a bit... vulnerable. Like anything could hurt me," I whisper, looking at an owl flying overhead. It eyes me, and I shrink closer to Harestep.
"With all of these warriors, you'll be perfectly safe. You are the leader's kit, too. That makes you high on their priority list."
"And the lists of threats on the other clans."
"Now hush about that. We are great friends with Thunderclan, and also friends with Riverclan. Shadowclan may not like us, but they don't like anybody," she says.
"I still don't like it. Wouldn't it be better to stay under the trees? Then we can be concealed. Or even live in the trees. Then we will be watching over those passing below," I say, pausing next to the tree in our camp.
"Darkkit. We have lived under the open sky for generations. Changing that would be like changing the code," she says.
"I understand that, but imagine the thrill, knowing that you're safe," I say. "Being able to see the other cats wondering where you are, and you are just crouching there, waiting for the right moment to pou-"
"I think it's time that we got back to the den," Harestep says, interrupting me. She passes by me and pads over to the den, not even looking back at me before her head ducks into the den. I sigh, my tail lowering to the ground from where it had been held up with my excitement.
On the way over I step on a stray twig from the tree, making Thistleheart wake up. "Be quiet, would you? I kinda want to sleep tonight."
"Sorry," I say.
"Yeah yeah," he grumbles, laying his head back down.
'Why can't I do anything right?,' I wonder, entering the den and seeing that Snowkit had stretched out and taken up my spot in the nest. I make my way to the edge of the den where the extra nest was, and lay down, feeling the stale moss, pokey grass, and itchy sheep wool mold under me.
As I fall asleep, I hear a voice say, 'You will one day kit. One day.'
Yay! New kit!
Now, I don't really have much to say, so chapter challenge!
The challenge for this chapter is more of a question:
What are you guys looking forward to the most in this story?
I want to know what you guys would be interested in seeing in later chapters. Of course, I'm already working on chapter thirteen, but in chapters after that there could be some of your ideas!
Bye!
Ttyl
-TheRealDigiGal