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Also i'm very sorry I didn't update sooner from now on I will try to update every 1-2 weeks, I just started High School and was trying to figure out what to do with all the homework! Please review I really appreciate it, even if you don't have anything particularly nice to say it will help me become a better writer.

Chapter 1

"Speckledkit, are you awake yet? We're playing moss ball if you wanna join!" It sounded like Stormkit but Speckledkit wasn't sure since she was still half asleep. Her lack of sleep certainly wasn't helped by the disturbing dreams she kept having either, last night she dreamt she was wandering through a shadowed forest with a large marsh and a duplicate of her came crawling out of the marsh with a very sinister smile on its face. Speckledkit shuddered; maybe she should join the game, at least to get her mind off of that dream for a while. She climbed out of the nest and over top of her mother Flowerpetal towards the nursery entrance. Looking at her mother she wondered if she was secretly somebody else's kit, after all Rainstar was grey with yellow eyes and Flowerpetal was black with brown patches and green eyes, while she was light brown with black and white all over her fur and blue eyes.

Speckledkit pushed through the nursery opening and padded across the clearing to the other three kits, she still didn't know Stormkit's brother's name, but he looked like he should be her parent's kit, not her. He was brown and grey with green eyes and was short enough he looked like he was only one moon old when really he was three moons old. Glancing away from him she noticed her sister Leopardkit was glaring at her menacingly, her tail flicking from side to side. Her claws were dug into the dirt too, she was obviously angry about something.

"Hey Speckledkit, can I talk to you over by the dirt place for a second?"Leopardkit meowed in a tone that made it clear she wasn't really asking a question. Speckledkit sighed and followed her sister; it seemed like she was always throwing a fit about something, she was so full of herself. She always bragged about being their mother's favorite, as for their father it didn't matter he was too busy leading the clan to bother with them. Speckledkit was jolted out of her thoughts as she smacked into her sister who had whipped around and was looking rather unimpressed. "You know, I've been thinking about something" Leopardkit suddenly stated with a look of disgust on her face "I've decided you can't look at Featherkit anymore, he's mine we're going to be mates one day."

"Ok first of all, are you literally telling me I can't make eye contact with a clanmate? Second, there are literally four of us kits, you need to calm yourself and learn to share!"

Leopardkit leaped forward and slashed Speckledkit's nose, causing her to stagger backwards in suprise and fall right into a pile of dirt. "You know what we aren't even siblings, they found you in the forest! Even your real mother didn't want you so why don't you just leave the clan!" Tears welled up in Speckledkit's eyes and she turned and ran out of the dirt place tunnel. She kept running until she reached a stream and jumped near the middle of the territory. Climbing into it she waded clumsily along until all the dirt was gone from her fur, then to get rid of the stench she rolled in some sweet smelling flowers growing nearby. She didn't want to leave and risk dealing with Leopardkit but eventually she gathered up the courage to hurry back before she was caught outside the camp by one of the warriors.

Speckledkit looked around for her sister and darted through the entrance to the elders den when she saw that Leopardkit was distracted. The clan only had two elders, Sunheart an orange tom with gold eyes and Echosong a grey she cat with green eyes who was only in the elders den because of her crippled front leg. Sunheart was asleep but Echosong looked up from where she was sitting in one of the nests. She beckoned Speckledkit over with a flick of her tail, after two moons she knew the strange routine well, Speckledkit would come to the den almost every day with a sad face and tears in her eyes and ask for a story. It was concerning and no matter how many times she told the kit's father nothing seemed to change. "Would you mind telling me what's wrong, Speckledkit? I would love to help if you let me!"

"O-oh don't worry about it Echosong, it-it's nothing!" Speckledkit stuttered nervously, knowing that she'd probably just be scolded for making up lies. Her sister always acted kind and perfect around everybody but the other kits, Stormkit was always on her side anyways and Featherkit just sat there like one of those stupid birds that can't fly and don't even run when you try to kill them.

Echosong frowned at her but started the story regardless "Many moons ago there was a small white kit named Brightkit, she was born without claws. For a while nobody noticed and she was treated like all the other kits. That changed on the day she became an apprentice, when her mentor discovered her deformity and the news of it spread like wildfire through the camp. Eventually it got bad enough that she ran away, nobody ever saw her again but it was rumored she started her own clan called Brightclan for cats that had been shunned and treated badly by others."

Speckledkit stared at Echosong in shock with her mouth hanging open. "That was a horrible story, why would you tell me that? Do you want me gone just like everybody else? Is that it?"

"I don't want you gone Speckledkit, if that's what everybody else is saying it's they're loss"

That night Speckledkit slept peacefully in the elder's den alongside Echosong and Sunheart. It was good to know that even if the rest of the clan was against her the two elders would stand by her.