AHMESTARCLAN GUYS IT'S BEEN TWO MONTHS! well more than two months…BAH TWO DAYS anyways here's anoder chappie for you guys! :D If you've read the end A/N of the last chapter you'll know exactly why this chapter is late.

Featherpaw: STAHP WITH THE LONG A/NS AND GET ON WITH TEH STORY!

Okay, geez…

In this chapter I'm making almost all the kit OCs into apprentices…das a lot of apprentices…but whatever.


Featherpaw

The next morning I woke up on the ground, with Brackenpaw still next to me. Looking up at the sky, I notice that it's well past sunhigh.

I shove him over and get up, licking dust off my fur.

Shadepaw bounded over to me. "Featherpaw! Guess what!"

"What?" I grunted, washing my tail.

"More apprentices are going to be made tonight! And this time, they were born here!" he exclaimed, bounding around in a circle around me.

"Apprentices? How come I've never seen the kits?" I ask, finishing my wash and standing up.

"It's because you've been way to busy playing in the woods with Foxpaw and Faithpaw," Shadepaw said.

I lick my paw and run it over Brackenpaw's face to wake him up. He sits up instantly.

"Wha in the name of Star-" he begins. I let out an amused purr.

He cuffs me over the ear with sheathed claws. "What was that all about?"

"It's my way to wake furballs like you up," I say, unable to stop purring.

Brackenpaw sighed and stood up. "You could've just let me sleep, you know."

Shadepaw kept bouncing around us in a circle.

"Shadepaw, what is it?!" Brackenpaw said, trying to escape his circle.

"Songkit and Eaglekit are becoming apprentices tonight!" Shadepaw said.

I finally escape Shadepaw's circle and escape into the woods.

Curling up in the hollow of a tree, I gaze off into the woods mindlessly.

"Hi."

"Brackenpaw, I said-" I begin.

A tortoiseshell kit is in the hollow next to me.

"You're not supposed to be out of camp!" I say.

The kit looks at me with with wide amber eyes. "I wanted to see what was out here," she said.

I pull myself out of the hollow, shaking off the leaves and twigs stuck to my fur.

"Featherpaw! Wait!" the kit says, and climbs out, trying to shake off the leaves stuck to her fluffy fur.

A white kit pops out of the leaves below where the tortoiseshell was sitting.

"Butterflykit, I told you not to-" the kit began.

I sigh and pick up the kits. "I'm taking you back to camp," I say, throwing them on my back.

Back at the camp their mother fusses over them like they had been missing for moons.

Unlike my mother, who let me be sacrificed…

A burning hatred fires up inside of me, rising up to my head and then, all I can think of is RiverClan and how they left me to die in that stupid river.

Grief quickly replaces the hatred, making me weak. I collapse on the ground, hoping that this is all a nightmare, a long nightmare, and that I'm still in RiverClan.

Shadepaw's scent wreathes around me and I lift my head.

"RiverClan again?" he asks quietly, and I nod.

A white cat raises her head at the edge of my vision.

I look in her direction and she hisses before lowering her head again.

"You can't go back," he whispers, and gets up.

The sun sets behind the forest, the light casting itself across my fur, turning it from silver to a dark gold color.

As the stars begin to rise in the sky, faint traces of green and blue light begin to dance over my head.

The Clan begins to gather in a circle, the kits gathering next to Skystar.

Eaglekit is bouncing up and down, while Songkit is tracing patterns into the dirt.

The lights become brighter and the apprentices are told to look down.

As Skystar begins the ceremony, I look up at the dancing lights for the second time.

The glowing mist wreathes all around, the spirits of SpiritClan ancestors coming down to watch the Clanborn kits become apprentices.

From the nursery, the smaller kits peek out the door.

"Featherpaw!" another apprentice hisses, prodding me with a paw.

I look down, blinking to adjust my eyes to the darkness.

I then realize that the rest of the Clan has stopped looking up and are now looking at the new apprentices.

Brackenpaw is glaring at me from the other end of the circle, and I briefly glare back before looking at the apprentices.

"Eaglekit, you were born in this Clan by another who has been sacrificed. Stay in this Clan or be considered a rogue," Skystar said.

"Where else would I go?" Eaglepaw said, his voice piercing the utter silence.

"Songkit, you were born in this Clan by another who has been sacrificed. Stay in this Clan or be considered a rogue," Skystar continued.

Songkit's hesitation was longer than it should've been, as if she were considering becoming a rogue. "My home is here," she said.

"Eaglepaw, Songpaw, welcome to SpiritClan."

I began to leave the circle with the rest of the cats, but Skystar stopped me.

"Brackenpaw, Shadepaw, Featherpaw, this is your first night as a true apprentice," she said.

"Brackenpaw, Flamefur will be your mentor. Shadepaw, Herbtail will be your mentor. Featherpaw, Breezefire will be your mentor," Skystar said. "I have already let them know. Starting tomorrow, you will start your warrior training."

I start bouncing up and down. Tomorrow, I would become the warrior I would've been if I hadn't been sacrificed.


Soooooo there's de chapter. Told you it would be out today :) Anyway, more OCs included! I didn't get to them all yet…but I will eventually! I have something planned for a warriors ceremony..so I'll do one next chapter. Anyway, till next time,

~(TILDE) Raineh :3