Chapter 11

Wolfkit was waiting for Ivypool to come back, the silver-and-white she-cat appeared followed by her silver daughter, Frostkit.

"Tonight we will be going into the Dark Forest," she explained to her kits, "last time it was Tigerkit and Shadekit, now it's your turn."

"Yay," Frostkit exclaimed, "I can't wait to see daddy again!"

Wolfkit watched as his sister started running around him happily.

"Frostkit! Calm down," Ivypool meowed sternly, "but you have to do as you are told."

Frostkit stopped running, her ice-blue eyes shinning, as she listened to their mother. Ivypool's dark blue eyes looked at Wolfkit, and he tried to look exited. I don't want to go! He followed Ivypool and Frostkit into the nursery and closed his eyes, when they were in the nest.

When Wolfkit opened his eyes he was in the Dark Forest, Frostkit' s claws were sliding in and out of her black front paws, as she waited impatiently for something to happen. Ivypool appeared with Hawkfrost and Mapleshade. Try not to look scared! He ordered himself as he saw the tortoiseshell-and-white leader.

"Follow us," Hawkfrost told his kits.

Wolfkit followed next to his exited silver-and-white sister, the Dark Forest was still, as they traveled. Hawkfrost stopped as they approached a clearing with a big rock in the middle. They started to walk towards the rock, Mapleshade climbed onto the highest part of the rock. Hawkfrost took Frostkit and jumped onto a lower part of the rock, placed his daughter down and joined Mapleshade at the top. Ivypool took Wolfkit and placed him next to his sister, she sat down behind her kits on the lower part of the rock.

What is happening? Wolfkit wondered but his thoughts were cut of as Hawkfrost and Mapleshade yowled. Then he saw movement as cats started to gather beneath the rock.

"Let all cats old enough to kill their own enemies gather here," Mapleshade demanded. "Last night you met two of Hawkfrost's kits, now you meet the other two! Frostkit and Wolfkit!"

Don't shake! Please don't shake! Wolfkit told himself. Frostkit walked towards the end of the rock and looked at the cats bellow, eyes smiling. Wolfkit walked next to her, forcing himself not to shy away. Wow! There are so many cats!

"Now continue what you were doing!" Mapleshade ordered.

The rest of the cats left, as Hawkfrost jumped down the lower part of the rock and took Wolfkit before jumping and placing him on the ground, Ivypool brought her silver-and-white kit down.

"What now?" she asked.

"Your parents will show you how we train here," Mapleshade said before leaving, "lucky kits! Father leader and mother deputy…"

Ivypool is deputy? Wolfkit couldn't help but feel proud for his mother.

"You never told me," he told the silver deputy.

"It was never the time," she replied.

Hawkfrost and Ivypool started walking and Wolfkit followed with Frostkit. They stopped at a place that looked like the training hollow in ThunderClan, four cats were siting there looking at them, waiting for something to happen. Wolfkit saw Ivypool nod, the cats got up and a white skinny tom jumped, claws out at a mottled brown and ginger tom, the two other cats took a step back and sat down watching the other two fight. This is no training! Wolfkit realized, their claws are out, they will hurt each other! He looked towards his mother, but she was watching the cats, as if nothing was wrong. Frostkit was approaching the cats a bit, her silver-and-white fur fluffed out as she watched them.

"The white tom is Snowtuft and the brown and ginger is Redwillow," Ivypool told her kits not taking her blue eyes off the fighting cats.

Wolfkit forced himself to continue watching, as Redwillow, a much bigger tom than Snowtuft was clawing the white tom's belly. He realized with shock that the white tom had a huge old scar starting from his ear to his belly. Wolfkit couldn't watch anymore, he closed his eyes and tried to block his ears from the yowls and wails coming from all around him. It sounded as if all the cats of the Dark Forest were fighting with each other.

"Hawkfrost?" a mew startled Wolfkit, and he opened his eyes.

He realized that the yowling had stopped and the whole Forest was still and quiet. He turned around to see Ivypool's silver-and-white pelt spiked out with anger, and her ears pinned down as she stared at a tom. He was a dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes. For a moment Wolfkit thought that the tom was Bramblestar, but he realized that this tom was a tiger-striped tabby not just a tabby.

Hawkfrost was looking coldly at him as Ivypool lunged at him yowling,

"Traitor!" she was pinning him down.

"Ivypool!" Hawkfrost ordered, "stop that now!"

"I want to know why he came back," Mapleshade's voice added from the forest, as she approached.

It's as if she knows what is happening in the whole forest! Wolfkit thought silently. The tom got back to his paws and shook his pelt, he lowered his head as Mapleshade came close to him. Frostkit was staring curiously at the tom, Wolfkit couldn't help himself to be intrigued by what was happening.

"Tigerheart!" Mapleshade said at last, "why did you come back, after your betayal?"

Tigerheart? Isn't he from ShadowClan? Wolfkit wondered, what is he doing here? He could see his mother forcing herself not to jump on him. Tigerheart lifted his head,

"I came for forgiveness," he said.

"Forgiveness?!" Ivypool was furious, "how can you think about that?"

She looked towards her mate but he didn't move, then she shifted her gaze towards Mapleshade, who nodded. Hawkfrost saw this and he was not the only one. Tigerheart's eyes were now showing fear. The cats around them backed away into the shadows but Wolfkit knew that they were watching. Hawkfrost nudged his kits behind him and Mapleshade and told them to stay behind him.

Wolfkit not understanding what this meant, popped his head to watch was happening, and saw that his sister had done the same, to see their mother lunge at the brown tom's neck. Tigerheart tried to back away but Ivypool was faster, he yowled, as he knew that it was over. Wolfkit backed away closing his eyes to hear Tigerheart land on the ground with a loud thump. He opened his eyes to see Ivypool standing over the body of the brown tom. Hawkfrost was shaking his head,

"You've just killed a grandson of Tigerstar," he murmured coldly, walking away slowly from his kits.

Frostkit's ice-blue eyes were wide, as she watched her father walk towards the disappearing dead body of his kin.

"He knew that this was the consequence of betrayal," Mapleshade told the silver kit coldly, "Kin of Tigerstar's or not. No second chances are given."

The silver she kit, looked up at Mapleshade and nodded in understanding. Wolfkit shifted his attention back to Hawkfrost and realized with shock that Tigerheart's body had disappeared. Ivypool was now next to Wolfkit; he had not realized that she was there,

"When you die here, you disappear," she explained, to her shocked son.

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