Thunderclan

Leader: Bramblestar- brown tabby with amber eyes

Deputy: Lionblaze- golden tabby tom

Medicine Cat: Jayfeather- gray fur with blue eyes; blind (apprentice: Birdpaw)

Warriors: Snowfang- white tom with amber eyes; Mate: Lilystream

Dewbeetle- gray Tom with amber eyes

Molewhisker- large cream and brown Tom; Mate: Ambermoon

Lilystream- dark, tabby, she-cat with white patches. Mate: Snowfang

Seedpelt-pale ginger she-cat

Blossomfall-tortoiseshell and white she-cat (apprentice: Blackpaw)

Bumblestripe- pale gray Tom with black stripes Mate: Dovewing

Dovewing- light gray fur with blue eyes Mate: Bumblestripe (apprentice: Nightpaw)

Ivytail- silver-white tabby

Foxleap- reddish-brown tabby tom Mate: Cherrybird

Rosepool- tortoiseshell and white she-cat

Sandclaw- golden tabby tom

Queens: Ambermoon- pale gray She-cat with amber eyes; Mate: Molewhisker (mother of Cinderkit, Badgerkit, and Moonkit)

Cherrybird- ginger she-cat; Mate: Foxleap

Apprentices: Nightpaw- black tom with amber eyes

Blackpaw- black tom with green eyes

Birdpaw- silver-white she-cat

Elders: Berrynose – cream furred tom; stub tail

Icecloud- white she-cat; early retirement from battle injury on front foot

Millie- striped silver tabby She-cat; extremely old

Cinderkit slowly opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was her mother. She was a very pale gray color. She looked at her mother's eyes. She was amazed. They where amber, and looked great with the light colored fur, Cinderkit wondered is she looked like this. Her head went down to her paws. They seemed to be the same color as her mother's fur, but what about her eyes?

"Mom?" Cinderkit asked.

"Yes honey?" Ambermoon asked.

"What color are my eyes?" Cinderkit was thinking. "The same color as yours. Please say they are the same color."

"Blue." They are a wonderful shade of blue." Ambermoon almost purred.

"What color are your eyes? Cinderkit asked. She was hoping her eyes where blue too.

"Mine are amber. Like my name suggests. Cinderpaw frowned. She was disappointed.

"Mom?" Another kit squeaked. Cinderkit turned around. It was her sister. She was cream colored with her mother's eyes. "Wow" Thought Cinderkit. "She's as pretty as Mom."

"It's me sweetheart." Ambermoon turned to look at her other daughter.

"Well don't forget about me" Said the last of Ambermoon's kits. Cinderkit rolled her newly eyes. It was just like her brother to be annoying in a great family moment. Badgerkit scampered over. He was a brown tabby. He looked a lot like Bramblestar, but yet he didn't look the same. At least that's what she had heard Cherrybird tell her mother. She also said there was at some difference between them, but neither one of them could figure it out.

Cinderkit padded over to nursery entrance. She saw a large golden tom. He looked rather upset.

"Mom?" Cinderkit asked. "Who is he?" She pointed at the Tom.

"That's Lionblaze. He is one of the senior Warriors and the deputy. He wasn't Bramblestar's first deputy, but he is the second." It wasn't Ambermoon that replied, it was Cherrybird, who was very close to kitting. Her belly was so large she could barely stand. Cinderkit over heard Ambermoon say she was going to have a lot of kits.

"What's wrong with him?" Moonkit asked. She had come over to see when Cinderkit pointed.

"He just lost his mate. She was also Rosepool and Sandclaw's mother.

Cinderkit nodded. She had missed Rosepool yesterday. For some reason she didn't come to play with them like she normally did. Cinderkit didn't know why though. Rosepool always knew some fun new game to play. Sometimes she would even show her a battle move. Cinderkit didn't know Sandclaw as well. He only came to give Ambermoon and Cherrybird some fresh kill. Cinderkit normally didn't pay any attension to him even when he did come. Though she did know his sister was Rosepool. Molewhisker, her father, had mentioned it to her one time.

Cinderkit saw a butterfly just outside to the nursery. She got into the hunter's crouch that Rosepool showed her, then slowly crept forward. The butterfly started to fly away, so Cinderkit pounced at it. She barely missed it. That didn't stop her though. She chased the butterfly until she ran into something, but it wasn't a something. It was a someone. She had run into another cat. "I'm sorry" She stuttered. She looked up to see a strong brown tabby. He looked like her brother. She realized it was Bramblestar. "Oh, no!" She thought. "I ran into the leader of my clan!"

Bramblestar gave a tiny smile. "Shouldn't you be with your littermates?"

Cinderkit looked at the ground. "Yes." She squeaked.

Bramblestar's smile grew a little. There was small silver hair on his muzzle. "He is really old." Cinderkit thought, but she didn't say it. She didn't want to get into trouble. Jayfeather said she should think before she does or says. After he said that when he came to the nursery she never said anything. Cherrybird always said it was the only time she was ever quiet. She knew that his silver hair must be the thing that made Badgerkit and him look different. When Bramblestar turned to talk to Lionblaze, Cinderkit quickly ran back to the nursery.

When she got there she had to catch her breath, when she did curled up in to a ball and took a nap. At first, when she couldn't go to sleep, so Cinderkit thought of what it would be like to be an apprentice. She thought of the chasing a rabbit or squirrel. Then, she imagined herself as a full, grown cat. She was fierce and strong. Her tail was long, and her pelt thick. She was in a battle. No cat could touch her. She sped through the cats taking down every one in her path. She couldn't lose just like Lionblaze. She had heard stories of him in battle. Somewhere in the imaginary battle Cinderkit fell asleep.