A/N: It seems you all voted for Badgerpaw, poor Robinwing. Well this one was sad to write because you know how it all ends, *Cries*. Thanks Icethroat21, Skyst, xStormcloudx, and Ivypaw4 for reviewing. Do you think I can reach 40 reviews for this chapter? Only six people need to review and I know a lot more were reading. Well I need to get to writing, and watching CSI! Another vote at the bottom, this time a three part one! Please review, thanks!
~Leo~
BADGERFANG
MATE: NONE
KITS: NONE
SIBLINGS: UNKNOWN
FATHER: UNKNOWN
MOTHER: FERNSHADE
GRANDKITS: NONE
GREAT-GRANDKITS: NONE
DESCRIPTION: LIGHT BROWN TABBY TOM KIT
RANK: KIT/APPRENTICE
MENTOR: FLINTFANG
APPRENTICE(S): NONE
CURRENT STATUS: STARCLAN
Bracken rustled as Badgerkit scampered out of the nursery entrance. The sky was dappled with dark gray storm clouds, as thunder rumbled in the distance.
"Wait for me!" a small voice cried, coming from Dawncloud's kit Blossomkit.
Badgerkit sped to a halt and waited under a willow tree for the she-kit, she was always so slow!
"Where are you to off to?" a gray shape appeared at the nurseries entrance, it was his mother Fernshade.
"Didn't you hear?" he mewed excitedly, "Brokenstar is calling a clan meeting! Come on!" he scampered back to his mother and pushed her forward towards the tree stump where Brokenstar called the clan.
He wondered what the meeting was for? Perhaps he was going to make Stumpypaw a warrior! Badgerkit could suspect what the tom's name would be, Stumpytail. When he was a kit Stumpypaw was attacked by a fox that bit off most of his tail, now it was only a mouse-length long.
"Let all cats old enough to fight to the death, gather here beneath the tree stump" Brokenstar's dark calling rang out across the clearing.
Warriors began filing out, Badgerkit noticed Flintfang among them.
I hope he'll be my mentor when I'm old enough, Badgerkit wanted Flintfang because he was the strongest of all the warriors. Even Blackfoot couldn't compare to the stocky gray tom, or even Clawface!
Feeling the soft muddy ground underneath his paws, the tom kit came to a halt as a cat stood in front of him. A long furred dark gray she-cat stood above Badgerkit, staring down at him intently.
"Where are you going off to?" Yellowfang hissed, giving Badgerkit a suspicious look.
The brown tabby kit sighed, Yellowfang always had such a sour attitude, especially when Raggedstar died last moon and Brokentail was made Leader, did she have a problem with him?
"Silence!" the hiss came from the one and only Brokenstar, is voice rang out through ShadowClan camp.
"As all of you know, WindClan has refused to give us any of their territory" the leader began, "Crookedstar has agreed to my terms, and I have yet to contact Bluestar. If our kits are to have food and grow into strong warriors, then we will need to attack and drive them out within the moon."
Shocked gasps filled the clearing, most coming from the elders and queens. But the senior warriors flexed their claws, eager to attack the clan of the moor. Badgerkit didn't know quite what to make of the situation, did WindClan deserve to be driven out?
"And if we are to succeed, then we will need more cats to battle. That is why Badgerkit and Blossomkit are to be made apprentices early, their training will begin immediately."
Badgerkit's paws froze to the ground, he was an apprentice!?
Fernshade moved forward, her tail lashing. "Are you mad?" she growled, "Badgerkit's only three-moons old, and Blossomkit's barely four-moons!".
A cat nodded in agreement, it was Dawncloud. "The warrior code says that a kit must be six-moons old to be made an apprentice, this can't happen!".
Brokenstar leapt off of the stump and faced both queens, his ears back in anger. "Shut up both of you" he hissed, "I am leader of this clan and they will fight in the battle against WindClan. If either of you or anyone else has a problem with this, then you will be banished from ShadowClan."
Fernshade looked as if she were about to attack Brokenstar, but with a look from Badgerkit, decided otherwise.
"There's no need to hold a ceremony" Brokenstar hissed to his clan, "Flintfang take Badgerpaw, teach him everything he needs to know. Clawface you take Blossomkit, do the same."
Flintfang! Was it really possible that the strongest warrior in the clan was going to be his mentor? This had all happened so quickly, that Badgerkit forgot that his new name was Badgerpaw. As the cats of ShadowClan dispersed,
Badgerpaw noticed Fernshade padding solemnly over to the Tadpole Pond, holding her head low. She must be worried about me, he realized. But Fernshade had no reason to be worried, Badgerpaw was going to be the best warrior he could be!
And perhaps someday he could be Badgerstar, or at least Badgerfang, named after Flintfang.
The battle would go find, and he was going to learn everything a ShadowClan cat needed to know in a battle.
Who shall be the next one I do? Sweetbriar, Hailstar or Weedwhisker? Make your choice!
