Drip's POV

I looked down at the bodies of Marrow and The Healer, who was named Tooth. They killed eachother in a conflict. Marrow was my father. The second beta, Scab, was preforming a ceremony. After what seemed like my lifetime, we were allowed into the Sacred Cave, a cave carved in a twoleg box. Of course, Marrow was first. His body was removed of bones and all, and washed in the stream. His body was laid on a stone. The shallow water pummeled my feet. We were supposed to scratch a pebble, and place it in the body. It was my turn. I scratched a pebble, finding the finest one, and placing it in the body, I said my goodbye.

There was a stream, and you send the body downstream. To the Dark Forest, whom we believe in. They sent him downstream. I couldn't bear to watch. The same went for Tooth. But he wasn't gutted. I went with the weeping crowd of cats, stepping into the daylight. Scab stayed in for the beta ceremony.

It will never be the same again.

?'s POV

I squirmed around. "Get up, dirt!" My littermate, Goldenkit, yelled at me. Ever since Pebbleleap, my mother, abandoned me for some reason, I was shocked. Goldenkit and Slatekit were my best friends. Then, Pebbleleap called them into the den, and they were in there. For hours. They came out, and they ignored me when I wanted to play Mosswad. Now, that was yesterday. Goldenkit calling me dirt? I jumped up. "Hi, dirt!" Goldenkit smirked.

"What's with name calling? What happened?" I asked.

"You don't know?" Goldenkit boomed, her eyes alit with hate and amusement. "You are a loner. The only way you're here is because of Ratfoot. She asked Adderstar for you, just because you was on a branch, dangling for dear life." Goldenkit explained. She raked thorn-sharp claws across my face. I squeaked, and pushed her over. Pebbleleap was nearby. "Get away from my kit, foxdung!" She picked me up and litterally threw me. I landed with a splash near the entrance. I splashed because there was a mud puddle there. My orange pelt was now brown. Slatekit came by, with Goldenkit. "Look at the dung!" They mocked. The guards laughed at me. One was Harewhisker. "Hello, Mudkit. Seems like you turn brown, to match with your life. A muddy life is a bad life." He sneered. But, my saver came to me. I was the runt of the litter, probably because I was found as a loner. Ratfoot stepped up to me, picking me up. "Whoever calls somebody dung is the most dungiest in the clan. Leave the kit alone. What did she do to you?" Ratfoot asked. Then... Came the insults.

"She made my family upside down! She made our father hate us and love her!" Goldenkit wailed.

"She made my friend, Ashleap, tell me I was an idiot for hating her!" Said Harewhisker.

"Well I... Uh... Why do I hate her?" Slatekit wondered. "Yeah! I don't hate her! Get away, bullies!" She yelled at Goldenkit. A tabby stepped up. "Goldenkit is my friend! I thought you were one of us, who hates Glidekit!" He yowled. But Ratfoot, me, and Slatekit was making distance. She took me to the medicine den, for the injury of my face. Herbpelt looked up. "Ay. I smell blood." He said.

"Yeah. Stupid Goldenkit did it." Said Slatekit. I have never heard her call Goldenkit stupid. Only me.

"Well, I got some of that marigold." Herbpelt stood up, pointing to a clump of marigold.

"Well goodness, Herbpelt, that be the best marigold of all of Tunnelclan!" Ratfoot smiled. She chewed it up into a pulp, and Herbpelt directed me to a nest. "Rest." He ordered. I slipped into the nest.

Well guys, I have my plot! Maybe. April fools. Hey a challenge:

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