Spiralkit was listening to his brother's impatient mews, directed towards their mother. "But mommy, when?"
"He'll open his eyes when he's ready, Autumnkit," Mallowspot soothed. Spiralkit didn't want to be ready. He was enjoying the pleasant darkness. It was the only thing he'd ever known, and he wasn't ready to change that yet.
But Autumnkit was. Spiralkit felt his brother's eyes looking at him. "Look mommy! He's awake! Why won't you open your eyes?" Autumnkit yowled. "Maybe he's scared!" his brother challenged.
Angry, Spiralkit's eyes flew open, and before he could pounce onto his brother the color hit him full force. He sucked in a deep breath. First he looked to his brother, who was smiling triumphantly. He had beautiful orange tabby fur and knowing blue eyes. His mother flicked her tail as he studied her, a lovely yellow-gray she-cat with wise green eyes. This was his life, and it would be for months until he became an apprentice.
As he was savoring the moment another cat joined the group. It was the most ugly cat he thought he would ever see, gray with brownish- yellow eyes. She didn't look happy.
"Ahh, so the new kits have opened their eyes. What a shame their mother couldn't be here to see it!" the she-cat mewed in a scratchy, unpleasant voice. Spiralkit was confused. His mother had just watched him open his eyes! Maybe this cat was insane…
Spiralkit was scared of her. He backed up into his mother and looked up into her green eyes. He almost instantly regretted it. A hatred so deep and powerful it hurt him to look at it was shining in her. It was scary to see his mother like that. But if Mallowspot hated this cat, so did he.
Little did he know, he would not need his mother's hatred to fuel his own.
A/N: Okay, this was a REALLY short chapter, mostly a filler. I just needed to introduce you guys to the main character. R&R!