Chapter 1
Mistkit opened her eyes groggily. Another day in the nursery - boring, boring, and more boring. She couldn't wait until her apprentice ceremony. It wasn't until a moon later. She wasn't getting out of the nursery yet. It was terrible in there. Acornpelt didn't let her out of the camp. And rarely let her out of the nursery. When she got to go out of the nursery, it was mainly because Aspentail had requested her.
As if conjured by her thoughts, Aspentail padded into the nursery. "Hey Mistkit," he purred casually. "Want to help me sort herbs?"
Mistkit's ears pricked. "Yes!" She had taken an interest into healing and herbs.
She charged out of the nursery, relieved to finally get out of the small stuffy space. It was crowded in the nursery.
Mistkit made it to the medicine den much before Aspentail. "Slow down!" the medicine cat panted.
Mistkit grinned. "What are we sorting this time?"
"Actually, we're not sorting anything. I came to ask you if you wanted to be my apprentice, instead of a warrior. You could become a medicine cats and heal, not fight."
Mistkit gaped at him. "You want me to become a medicine cat?"
Aspentail nodded. "You've begged your father to come and help me almost every day the past three moons, you have a great memory, and you have a passion for things that warriors hate doing."
"Yes!" Mistkit jumped up and down. "Can you apprentice me early? I want to get started, I want to get started, I want to get started…."
"Slow down!" Aspentail sighed. "No, I can't apprentice you early, then it wouldn't be fair to the other kits and every kit would want to become a medicine cat apprentice. If we opened up the possibility that you could become an apprentice early by becoming a medicine cat, every single kit would want to become a medicine cat. That invokes jealousy to the cat that gets the position, plus it's just not fair to the other cats."
"Aww." Mistkit's ears drooped. "Can we start training soon, then? I promise I'll train harder than any other cat, and I'll learn everything by the time Frostkit and the others become warriors."
"Fine. But the other kits aren't going to be happy that you're starting early."
Mistkit shrugged. "They can go to any warrior and ask to watch a training session, or ask someone to take them out of camp. If they're too scared to ask a big old scary warrior that's their fault."
Mistkit spent the rest of the day with Aspentail, doing chores in the medicine den with him. It was obvious Aspentail liked her attitude; he pelted her with jobs until dusk.
It wasn't until the moon had risen some way into the sky that Aspentail meowed, "All right Mistkit, nice working with you. But it's almost moonhigh. Go to the nursery, get some rest, and if you want to do the same thing tomorrow that we did today, don't get me until dawn."
"Aww." Mistkit was usually up before sunrise, so the warriors had a hard time sleeping enough.
"Not until dawn!" Aspentail fixed her with a stern glare.
"Fine." Mistkit trudged off to the nursery.
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"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather beneath the HighTree for a Clan meeting!" Mistkit was woken by a call from outside the nursery. She scrambled outside; even if she wasn't old enough to hunt, she would listen to what her leader had to say before even she was up. It must be urgent, for Briarstar to wake the Clan up little after moonhigh.
Foxkit, her brother, came after her and sat down beside her as she waited for Briarstar to start talking.
"Cats of ShadowClan," Briarstar began, "it has come to my attention that ThunderClan has been pushing their luck too far. They have been hunting in our territory, challenging our patrols, and setting their borders fox-lengths inside of ours. This behaviour will not be tolerated. Today our dawn patrol will ask why they have been doing this. My prediction is that they will deny it. Then tomorrow, we will bring our warriors and teach them a lesson!"
The Clan cheered at this. ThunderClan had been pushing boundaries for too long. ShadowClan had been discontent because of this for nearly a quarter moon, until Briarstar had decided to take action. The reason for waiting had been because ShadowClan believed in exactly one more chance. They were a merciful Clan, but not if you angered them. ShadowClan had set the markers stronger around the area so ThunderClan knew that ShadowClan were aware of what they was doing.
"Acornpelt, Buzzardstripe, Hornetflash, Hawkshadow, Bayflight, Barkclaw, Shredfur, Jaggedclaw, Marshtail, Chasingpelt, you'll come with me. Cinderstreak and the others, you'll stay here. These will be the groups for tomorrow. For today, Coldflower, Galefang, you'll go with Cinderstreak. Any questions?"
No cat spoke. "Then Cinderstreak, take your patrol and go! May StarClan light your path."
Hello! It's been a month since I put the prologue out there. Sorry, I was having lots of trouble uploading the chapter :I This chapter's longer than the last, and I'll try to make them all this long. Shoutout to Silverblaze72 who gave me tons of support and encouragement. Go follow her, she's awesome! I forgot to tell ya'll last chapter that Impeccably Bizarre gave me the OCs for Mistkit, Cloudkit, Darkkit, Duskkit, and Frostkit. You guys haven't seen Cloudkit, Duskkit, Darkkit, or Frostkit yet because I haven't put them in yet. They should make an appearance next chapter. Bizarre gets credit for those five's names, looks, and personalities. But she doesn't get credit for the roles they play xD except she chose Misteh's role as medicine cat and the others as warriors, but that's it ;3 One last thing, last chapter I named "Allegiances and Chapter 1" but that was the prologue, not chapter 1 *facepalm* I'm having trouble renaming it so it's staying how it is right now.