Disclaimer: I don't own 'Warriors', nope, I don't.

Author's Note: Sorry I didn't update. –bows head in shame— I broke my foot, then got sick, and then lost my iPod, but here is the long-awaited chapter two. This chapter takes place our favorite Applekit and Birchkit moment in 'Starlight'. Taken from page 110 in 'Starlight', the only part I own is in italics.

Birchkit's POV

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"Can Toadkit and Applekit and Marshkit come too?" I asked. Along the journey, after me and Applekit went and explored the Tribe's cave, they started to feel like family.

"No, we belong in ShadowClan," their mother explained gently. "We'll have our own territory now."

"But that's not fair!" I wailed. Applekit, Toadkit, and Marshkit went and stood by my side, all of our eyes were pleading to be together. "If they can't come, I don't want to go." I wouldn't leave them, I couldn't. There were no ThunderClan kits and all the apprentices were old, almost all warriors.

"Don't be so silly." My mother cooed and padded over to me. She licked my ears and I scowled in fury. "That's the warrior code. When you're apprentices you'll meet at gatherings." Warrior's code! I could have spat. That didn't matter; all that did was seeing my friends.

"It won't be the same," Toadkit muttered, a death look on his little face.

"And there are no ThunderClan kits for me to play with," I added sadly.

"Say good-bye now," Tallpoppy mewed briskly, pushing her kits toward me.

"Good-bye" Toadkit and Marshkit called, dashing after their mother. Applekit stayed behind, waiting to tell me good-bye, but she didn't. She dashed forward and touched noses with mine.

"'Bye," I muttered. Then I watched them leave.

Two moons later, Birchkit's apprentice ceremony

My mother licked my fur flat, but it wasn't working and I couldn't care less. I was going to be an apprentice, I could see Applekit again. She was all I could think about since they left.

"You're so lucky!" mewed Maplekit, the only daughter of Sorreltail and Brackenfur. Her brothers stood at her sides, like they were protecting her. "He's just older than us, our time will come." Said the biggest of the three, Mosskit, the other kit rolled his eyes. "I can't wait until he leaves, then there won't be anymore snoring." Sapkit meowed, a glint of humor in his tiny eyes.

Mosskit glared at his and placed his tail over his mouth for quit. My heart sank. There was no cat in the whole of ThunderClan that cared that I would be sleeping alone in the apprentice den. Why couldn't Whitenose have been made a warrior a moon later, then I could talk to someone.

Sorreltail was talking to my mother, for she had given up making my fur look nice. "It will be very lonely here without you Ferncloud." She was saying, for now she would be the only queen in the nursery. My mother shook her head, "Squirrelflight should be moving in soon enough now that she and Brambleclaw are talking." (A/n: yes, in my story they made up)

"All cats old enough to catch their own prey join here beneath Highledge for a Clan meeting!" the old Firestar's yowl could be heard and we all rushed over to ledge.

"Birchkit, step forward. I call upon my warrior ancestors to look down upon this kit. He would like to become a warrior of ThunderClan, but must first become an apprentice. Birchkit, from this day forth, until you have earned your warrior name, you will be known as Birchpaw. Brambleclaw will mentor you." My heart swelled, the Clan deputy would be my mentor!