This one's sort of short, too. But I like it! KIT BRAVERY EXCEEDS ALL!!!! :D No, seriously, it does. And.... are medicine cats SUPPOSED to clean out the elders' den?! I don't think so, although I THINK that I may have gotten mixed up in my judgement.... |:o

Chapter 7

Sandkit

"But – what?!" she screeched. "I'm not doing that!"

Swallowkit and Snowkit were watching her with wide, scared eyes. Then Snowkit stepped forward. Her pelt was bristling but she began to speak.

"It's my fault, Redstar, Sedgewood," she mewed steadily, having drawn herself up to her full height. "I had the idea."

"Oh?" Redstar's voice was cold and his eyes set a challenge as he stared down at the white kit.

"It's true, Redstar," Swallowkit piped up. She had come to stand beside Snowkit. "I took part in it."

"Then you may all tend to the elders," Redstar growled. "You can start now."

He stalked away again, with Sedgewood at his side.

"You heard him," Sandkit said wearily. "Let's start."

"Okay," Swallowkit and Snowkit sighed together. "Let's get going," Snowkit added.

The three kits bounded towards the medicine cats' den, Sandkit in the lead.

"Amberleaf!" she cried, skidding to a stop.

"Woah!" the light brown tabby mewed, coming out of her den; she barely managed to not crash into Sandkit.

"I'm sorry," Sandkit mewed. "Anyways…. we three got stuck cleaning the elders' den. Um…. I mean care for the elders in basically EVERY WAY POSSIBLE! But we need moss; can you show us where to get some?"

"Sure!" Amberleaf agreed warmly. "Come with me."

She led the three kits out of the camp in the ravine and to a large tree.

"This is a prime moss-collecting place," explained Amberleaf. "Just claw the moss from the roots of the tree and collect it into a big ball. Then, take it back to camp, clear out the old bedding and put it at the side of the dirt place with the other dirty moss, and put the new bedding in. Oh, and then take them fresh-kill. But you don't have to search their pelts for ticks; Rosepaw did that yesterday; Whitewind watched her herself so that she wouldn't fall asleep on the job."

Just then, Windtail came up to them.

"Hi, kits!" she greeted Sandkit, Swallowkit and Snowkit. "What are you doing at the moss-tree?"

"Redstar got them to clean the elders' den," Amberleaf volunteered.

"That's right!" Snowkit piped up. "He said it was because we 'insulted an older cat'. The older cat was Rosepaw-"

"And we were talking about how she loves to sleep!" Sandkit squeaked.

"You have a point," Windtail agreed, nodding. "I always hear Whitewind telling her apprentice, 'Wake up or I'll make you clean out the elders' den!' Well, it turns out that she always has to clean the elders' den, and then when taking out the dirty moss she puts it down and finds a place to sleep so that she doesn't have to do it. Then, Whitewind always finds her sleeping in a tree a day later! Oh, my SkyClan, you wouldn't believe how angry Redstar always gets – once he practically almost had her tail off!"

"Once Windtail got in trouble with Redstar-" Amberleaf began.

"And he tried to make me clean out the elders' den! Medicine cats shouldn't have to do that duty because what we do is different from that of warriors. Amberleaf practically had his tail off!" Windtail purred.

"Yes, I know," Amberleaf agreed, her eyes showing an expression of laughter. "Anyway, you three had better get started."

"Okay," Sandkit agreed slowly, her tail drooping.

"See you soon!" Swallowkit called as Amberleaf and Windtail bounded away.

"Well, it looks like we'd better get started," Sandkit sighed.

"Let's go," Swallowkit agreed. Snowkit just nodded.

Sandkit groaned as she thought of the chores she would have to face that afternoon.