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The Third Challenge

Spiderkit lay next to the rest of her litter mates, curled up against Miststream, their loving mother. In her dreams, Spiderkit pounced through tall, green grass. She was chasing after a golden butterfly. The butterfly floated way ahead of her, and Spiderkit lay an enthusiastic chase after it. The butterfly wasn't a butterfly though, and when Spiderkit came closer to it, she discoved it to be rather odd looking. A strange creature that seemed to be composed of worms was there instead of the pretty, golden butterfly she'd originally spotted. She'd take the butterfly over that thing any day. Spiderkit scrunched up her nose in slight disgust as one of the wormy tentacles reached toward her.

"Hello, Spiderkit. I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or the FSM," the floating blob of worms told her. Spiderkit stared at him, her ears laid back on her head. What kind of creature...? She definitely didn't trust it. It was composed of worms for yowling out loud! Her fluffy tail flicked back and forth, and Spiderkit was tempted to glare evilly at it. Her fur was already fluffed up defensively, yet she couldn't help the question that lingered in her mind.

"What's spaghetti?" she asked, her eyes shining with curiosity. The wormy creature chuckled softly. Spiderkit fluffed out her pelt again in fright. What was it thinking? She stared at with wide, yellow-green eyes. She was no where near trusting the anomaly. Spiderkit wasn't one to trust others very quickly, unless they were a cat, of course... from FireClan. She knew better than to trust outsiders at least.

"Spaghetti is my arms, legs, body... It is the worm-like part of my body," he told Spiderkit. She narrowed her eyes at him, wondering why spaghetti was worm-like. Who would want anything to do with something so gross looking. Spiderkit shivered slightly. That was so... weird.

"So who are you, FSM?" she asked, tilting her head slightly. FSM rose a tentacle to the starry sky. She followed the movement curiously, half expecting the explanation to be viewable in the sky, plain and easy to understand. Spiderkit was still a bit disturbed by the spaghetti.

"I am the great deity that rules over humans," he told her. She narrowed her eyes in confusion. Humans were ruled by a worm-like thing? How strange. Spiderkit just didn't know what those 'humans' the FSM had mentioned were. She felt like they were the twolegs that she'd heard some cats mention once or twice, but really she didn't know.

"Humans? Is that what you call twolegs?" Spiderkit meowed. FSM nodded. Her questions had been answered rather easily. Twolegs had a strange deity. She was glad to have StarClan. It was better than having the FSM watching over all cats. That would just be all too mind boggling for her. She shook her fuzzy, little head quickly. Spiderkit was definitely thinking too much.

"Right you are. Like how you cats are taken care of by your ancestors, twolegs are looked after by I, the FSM," he answered her easily. Spiderkit nodded. That made a inkling of sense. She kind of liked learning about the twoleg deity. How strange it was for them to have a pasta creature watching over them. Rather suddenly, Spiderkit's stomach growled. The FSM did look admittedly tasty. He probably wouldn't like hearing her say that though.

"Weird," Spiderkit replied, her tail flicking back and forth. FSM only laughed. He seemed too relaxed about it all. It just didn't seem to bother him all that much, which was understandable, since he was a star walker. They usually knew anything and everything, but they weren't always trustworthy. Spiderkit wondered if StarClan had a main ruler or something of that kind. She may not find that out though for a long time.

"Twolegs would say the same about your StarClan," he said. Spiderkit narrowed her eyes at him, not able to quite understand what he meant by that. Twolegs talked? The conversation was beginning to go beyond her understanding. She shook her head and tried not to think about it. It was just so confusing.

Spiderkit sat up in her shared nest and looked around the nursery. The bush's leaves rustled in the night wind. Spiderkit's ears flickered about, listening closely to the night. Then she snuggled back up to her litter mates to sleep the rest of the night away. What a weird dream.

...

Spiderkit prodded her brother, Squirrelkit awake. Her yellow-green eyes were glittering with excitement. Squirrelkit yawned loudly.

"What is it?" He asked his sister, his amber eyes still seemed rather sleepy. Spiderkit swatted him quickly and bounced away. That efficiently riled up her brother. He wriggled out from under Graykit quickly, glaring at her.

"Get back here, Spiderkit!" he meowed. He chased after his faster sister. Eventually, she whipped around and tackled him. Spiderkit wanted to tell her brother about the FSM. She knew it was a bit crazy, but at least it would make a good story to her fellow littler mates.

"Guess what?" she said, putting her face up really close to her brother's. He wiggled slightly, trying to escape her hold. Spiderkit loved how she could always pin down her brother. She was just too strong for him to escape.

"What?" he asked after a moment. Spiderkit grinned. Her ears lowered down and folded back on her forehead as she took on a frightened yet serious expression. It looked rather comical to Miststream, who purred softly in amusement.

"I know who looks after twolegs," she told Squirrelkit. He stared at her in disbelief. Blazekit bounced over, looking as curious as ever. Spiderkit then knew she'd grabbed her brothers' attention. She knew then it was time to let them in on the secret.

"Who?" Blazekit asked, his russet splotched ears pricked forward. His ivy green eyes were bright with excitement. Spiderkit turned to him, her tail brushing the ground slightly. She gave him a smirk quickly.

"The FSM!" Spiderkit meowed, fluffing out her long coat. Squirrelkit looked at her incredlously. She felt vastly more informed than the other two, and it seemed she was beginning to draw Graykit's attention as well.

"Who?" he asked. Spiderkit rolled her eyes like Squirrelkit was an idiot. He always asked the silliest of questions. It wasn't like she was going to say it was the FSM and then not elaborate to them who exactly to FSM was.

"The FSM, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is this creature that looks like a bunch of worms entangled together," she said, creeping toward Blazekit and entirely serious. Blazekit scrunched up his nose in disgust, much like Spiderkit had in her dream when she saw the FSM for the first time. This amused her. Blazekit and her had a lot in common. She just knew they were going to turn out to be the best warriors in FireClan.

"Eww," he replied. Spiderkit nodded. She knew how Blazekit felt. It was nothing to ignore. The FSM was quite disgusting. Maybe twolegs were too.

"I know, which is why twolegs are so scary," she told the two, nodding her head swiftly. Graykit stared with wide eyes. A ball of worms looked over twolegs? She was thankful for StarClan, ancestors were much better than the FSM. Tigerkit yawned, rolling onto his back next to Miststream. The she-cat purred, watching the rambunctious kit tell the others about the strange deity. Spiderkit seemed to have an overactive imagination.

"Let's play a game!" Blazekit declared. Spiderkit looked over at him excitedly. He always came up with the best games.

"Spiderkit, you be the FSM, and we'll be StarClan cats," Blazekit meowed. Miststream could tell that Blazekit would be a good warrior one day. Spiderkit seemed like she would be a great warrior as well. Graykit was too soft spoken around the others, and Miststream worried about her a bit.

"Roar! Fear my wormy tentacles!" Spiderkit roared. Graykit squealed as Spiderkit tussled with her. Then Miststream knew Graykit would be just fine with Spiderkit looking after her. Squirrelkit ran and knocked Spiderkit off of Graykit, and a bunch of adorable fluffs went rolling across the nursery. They somehow didn't manage to awake Tigerkit, who could probably sleep through a war. Miststream watched them all, and sometimes she felt like she knew who Squirrelkit and Spiderkit's parents were, but the names caused a knot to form in her stomach. It couldn't be... If their parents were ever found out, there would be a great calamity in the clan. Oh, Falconstar... What had he been thinking?

...

Leafbare came with a layer of snow. Cloudpaw feel sick with a strange disease that Littlestep didn't recognize. He suspected though, that it had something to do with all the dead birds. Littlestep just hoped he could figure out how to treat Cloudpaw before it was too late.

Well, that eludes quite nicely to the next ol' bit. This is kinda fun! I'm becoming more acquainted with all the Warriors concepts again. I just hope I'm doing a good job with this. A review would be a nice help!

~AS

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This is fun to edit! I didn't really realize it before though. That, and after the new James Bond movie, Skyfall, I'm ready to do some editing! The opening song for the movie was "Skyfall" by Adele. That's a good song. You guys should listen to it. And drop me a review~ :)