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"And then you just have to swipe their back paws out from under them like so," Nightpaw said as he swung his paw into Redkit's hind legs. She felt her legs fly out from under as she toppled forward and slid threw the pine nettles. Nightpaw smirked as she tried to push herself back up and fell. Redkit shot him a look.

"Okay, now your turn!" Nightpaw mumbled as he helped Redkit back to her paws. Redkit looked back at Nightpaw again, eyes searching for the joint Nightpaw had said to aim for. There! Redkit located the striking point and kept her eyes trained on it as she bunched up her muscles; ready to leap.

Redkit shot for Nightpaw's legs, but before she could duck under him, he had her pinned underneath his large paws. "You had the speed, but your eyes betrayed where you were aiming for. Next time act like your going for my shoulders or head, then duck underneath me." Nightpaw lifted his paw off Redkit and she scrambled back up, ready to attack again.

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"And where were you this morning?" Dawnchaser hissed at Redkit. Redkit had just returned from her practice session with Nightpaw moments ago, apparently Dawnchaser had been looking all over camp for her.

"I was with Nightpaw," Redkit's mew was barely audible.

"You were with Nightpaw? What were you doing with him?" Dawnchaser spat. Redkit flattened her ears.

"We were just playing," Redkit squeaked. Dawnchaser narrowed her eyes, but she nodded at Redkit before turning back to the Nursery.

"Where were you really?" Startled, Redkit turned to the voice. Silverkit was standing behind her, head tipped to the side with curiosity. Redkit hesitated.

"Nightpaw was just showing me some stuff he had learned from Runningshadow." Silvekit's tail shot up excitedly.

"Can you show me?" Silverkit asked.

"Maybe later, I'm a little hungry right now," Redkit had noticed a juicy-looking mouse that had probably scampered across the ThunderClan border when it was caught.

Silverkit rolled her eyes. "Your always hungry! Well, while you do that I'll go ask Balckblossom if I can play with her kits." Redkit watched Silverkit run into the Nursery before turning to head to the fresh-kill pile. As she walked past the leader's den, she heard muffled whispers behind the brambles.

Redkit scampered underneath a thick bush that grew against the leader's den. Redkit crept underneath the bush, dodging its branches until she could press her ear against the bramble den.

"For the last time, Smokecloud, she can't know about her prophecy. That's too much pressure to put on a kit so young!" Lionstar hissed.

"The Moon Kit deserves to know!" Smokecloud hissed back.

"Don't call her that!"

"That's what she is!"

"No it's not!"

"She was born with a prophecy!"

"And she figure that out in her own time!"

"She needs to know now! Before she starts her apprentice training!"

"No. Even Dawnchaser, he mother, agrees with me."

Smokecloud scoffed, but he didn't argue any further with his leader.

Are they talking about me? Dawnchaser is my mother, was I born with a prophecy? Redkit nearly burst out of her bush in excitement before catching herself. She couldn't get out yet or Lionstar and Smokecloud would know she was spying on them. I can wait, though. I can't believe it! I really am special!

For the rest of the freezing morning Redkit waited underneath the bush. Smokecloud had gone on patrol a while ago, but Lionstar had been sitting in the center of camp since he had exited his den. It was mid-afternoon by the time Lionstar nodded a farewell to Yarrowriver and Runningshadow, his two most senior warriors whom he had trained as apprentices with back in his time, and strolled back into his den.

Relieved, Redkit fought her way back out of the bush and headed to the fresh-kill pile. No-cat had taken her mouse yet!

With new excitement at the idea of being a prophecy cat, Redkit settled down in a patch of sunlight next to Snailtail and Jayflight to eat her mouse.

"Have you seen Silverkit?" Redkit asked Tanglebush. The large tabby tom looked at her pointedly.

"No," he muttered, tail flicking behind him. Tanglebush still hadn't really forgiven Redkit and Silverkit for grabbing his tail, (though Redkit thought he was more angry at how Runningshadow had scolded him for it).

Redkit couldn't find Silverkit anywhere, and she was starting to worry. She was dying to tell some cat about her prophecy, but she knew her sister would want to be the first to know.

"Redkit?" The familiar silver-blue pelt of Silverkit emerged from a bramble thicket by the edge of camp.

"Silverkit! You're not going to believe what I found out!" Redkit shouted as she shot across the clearing to her sister. As she neared her sister, a cream-and-black tom emerged from the brambles beside Silverkit.

"I'm sure what you discovered is nice and all, like pretty feather or a smooth pebble, but we have something much more interesting to tell you," Mudpaw stared down at Redkit with a smug smile. Redkit hated Mudpaw, but what was Silverkit doing with him?

"We're all going to go to Starlight Clift!" Silverkit said excitedly. "Mudpaw says that I'm practically an apprentice already, so you and I can come!" Redkit narrowed her eyes at Mudpaw. Why would an apprentice want kits to join him? And isn't Starlight Clift forbidden unless you're a warrior and it's absolutely necessary to go?

"We're leaving now, so hurry it up," Mudpaw told Silverkit. Silverkit looked up at Mudpaw, her green eyes were sparkling with something Redkit didn't recognize.

"But I thought we were going to hang out with the elders?" Redkit looked at her sister, expecting to see a flash of remembrance and to hear her sister say, 'oh that's right! Sorry Mudpaw, maybe next time?

But instead her sister's excited gaze didn't waver; she only flicked an ear dismissively.

"You want to spend your afternoon with a bunch of old badgers? How boring. Are you coming or not?" Mudpaw rolled his eyes as he finished speaking. Both cats eyes, Silverkit's warm and friendly green gaze, and Mudpaw's hard and intimidating brown one, were boring into Redkit, waiting for her to answer.

"Sorry Silverkit, but Blackstone promised to tell me a new story, and Browneyes asked me to help him with one of his grass sculptures." Redkit looked at her sister apologetically.

"That's fine, you can come next time!" Silverkit said cheerfully, but Mudkit glared at Redkit with such intensity, Redkit thought her fur would fall out. Finally, Mudkit turned to lead the way out of camp with Silverkit bouncing at his side. The two disappeared through the brambles and for a moment Redkit wondered if she had made the right decision.

And then before I knew it that stinking dog had me pinned to the ground, it's horrible breath clogging up my nose," Blackstone rasped, her blue eyes wide in the excitement of reliving her story.

"Then came Lionstar, or Lionstorm back then, and he ripped that dog off of me and tore him to shreds! He ran off with his tai between his legs whimpering," Blackstone finished her story with a dramatic yowl that sent five warriors rushing into the elders' den to check on her.

"That was such a cool story!" Redkit told Blackstone. The old black she-cat gave one of her rare purrs at the compliment.

"Aww, would you like to hear another one, dear?" Redkit was pretty sure she was the only cat that Blackstone ever called 'dear'. Blackstone had a reputation for hating pretty much every cat.

"Not so fast! Redkit promised to help me weave my grass," Browneyes interrupted her. Blackstine snorted at him, but she settled down next to Redkit and the other elders as Browneyes went to retrieve his grass stash.

"Alrighty, everyone gets one bunch of grass, don't mess up 'cause this is the only bunch you get. Apparently gathering grass doesn't count as an apprentice duty," Browneyes snorted.

"I'll collect grass for you when I'm an apprentice!" Redkit told the old tom. Browneyes smiled at her as he reached out to grab patch of grass.

"Oh, I know you will Redkit." The others each gathered their own bunches of grass and started weaving the fronds together. Redkit had thought all last night about what she wanted to make today.

The last things she had made were a badger for Blackstone (because she was always retelling a story about her killing a badger, Redkit thought it was her favorite story), a jay bird for Jayflight (not because of her name, but because she loved the sound of jay birds chirping), a snail with a very long tail for Snailtail (an inside joke), a cat for Browneyes (because he had always wanted one for his collection but he could never figure out how to make on, turns out Redkit had to invent a whole new stitch to do it), and finally a miniature model of Clanrock for Silverkit.

Today she had decided to make Nightkit crescent moon with a loop attached to it so he could wear it on his neck. It was something new Redkit had thought of the night before. She didn't know if it would work, but if it did then she could use that technique on future projects, (and it would impress Browneyes so much! She could just imagine the look of delight on his face when she demonstrated it to him).

She looped the fronds together again and again until they started to curve into the shape of a moon.

"Oh, what's that?" Jayflight had noticed the peculiar shape of Redkit's piece.

"It's a crescent moon for Nightpaw," Redkit told her. Blackstone's eyes glittered with amusement.

"Oh, I see," the old she-cat rasped, smiling mischeviously. Confused, Redkit decided to ignore the weird odd looks the elders were giving her and to focus on Nightpaw's gift. A lot of weaving later, Redkit had finished the loop attached to the crescent moon and was inspecting her work admiringly.

All the elders had stopped their work to see Redkit's finished piece.

"What is that odd loop for?" Blackstone asked her.

"Yeah, since when does the moon have a big circle attached to it?" Snailtail mumbled in his deep voice.

"I'll show you," Redkit told them. All the elders' eyes were trained on Rdkit as she lifted the looped moon up above her head and brought it down so that the moon dangled in the middle of her chest. The elders gasped and complimented Redkit on her invention.

"That's brilliant! I'll have to use that on my next project!" Browneyes told her.

"Wonderful! As I always say, you are the cleverest cat in ShadowClan, far smarter than that Smokecloud!" Blackstone snorted. (She had a thing about the deputy).

"That looks very nice, Redkit. You'll have to show me how to do it," Jayflight said in her quiet voice.

"Ohh! That is a great reason to stick a loop throught the moon!" Snailtail side, laughing.

Redkit felt her pelt grow warm with all the compliments.

"I'm sure Nightpaw will love your gift. Why don't you go and give it to him now?" Browneyes suggested. Redkit nodded enthusiastically. I can't wait to give this to Nightpaw!

"Come back later if you want hear the rest of my story!" Blackstone told her as she ran out into the clearing.

"I will!" Redkit called back as she sped past the fresh-kill pile and into the apprentices' den. She pushed her way through the harry vines at the entrance and into the musty den. When was the last time they cleaned this place? Redkit wrinkled her nose as she looked around the ragged den. Where's Nightpaw? Training should have ended by now!

The sky had darkened and stars were beginning to appear. By now the apprentices should be in their den talking like they do every night. But as Redkit walked back out of the den with her weaved crescent moon dangling from her jaws, she couldn't see any trace of the apprentices at all.

Redkit spotted the lean, muscular brown-and-black shape of Runningshadow near the entrance to camp. Redkit nearly barreled into him as she ran across the camp towards him.

"Runningshadow, where are all the apprentices?" The startled expression on Runningshadow's face turned to confusion, then worry.

"Aren't they in their den?" he asked. Redkit shook her head vigorously. Runningshadow's face darkened. "Smokecloud!" he shouted as he caught sight of the deputy. The long-furred grey tom turned abruptly to Runningshadow's voice. It was obvious Smokecloud recognized the urgency Runningshadow's call and he immediately dropped his prey to meet the warrior.

"What is it? What's going on?" Smokecloud looked from Runningshadow to Redkit, then back to Runningshadow.

"The apprentices are missing."