Guardian Sister, chapter 3

A lot can happen in one moon. Icebloom gave birth to two kits, Patchflight died of old age, Beetlestep's kits became apprentices, and the four apprentices became warriors. Their names were:

Frogstep

Roselashes

Blossomleaf

Yellowthroat

Sagekit and Waspkit stretched. Their mom, Swiftwind, was still asleep. It was a long, sleepless night, because there was a battle between RiverClan and ThunderClan. It was about territory, Waspkit remembered. The medicine cat den was bulging with injured kitties. Waspkit walked around, tired with nothing to do, since Sagekit had once again curled up to sleep. He looked up at the stars, and a kit's face appeared. Wishkit. He blinked, and Wishkit's face disappeared. Turning back to the nursery for sleep, he noticed a pair of round, glowing eyes. "Badger!" he warned the whole Clan. "Badger in the nursery!"

The badger looked an awful lot like Midnight.

"I am the son of Midnight, and I am evil!"

"Who's Midnight?"

"You do not know my dumb, cat-loving mother?"
At this point Sagekit woke up in shock. "It's—it's—it's—it's a badger!" Sagekit was on panic mode. "AAAAAAHH!"

The badger raked its claws across Swiftwind's back. A scarlet liquid started trickling out first, then started gushing quickly. "Get Swiftwind to the medicine cat's den now! And, Rushfang, kill the badger," the leader, Jaystar commanded. "I want to kill itT00!" Aquaheart said. So, Frogstep carried Swiftwind to the medicine cat den. Ribbitwave's den was no longer packed, so he tended to Swiftwind's wounds. "I'm sorry, but it looks like chances are slim she'll survive, it's in the paws of StarClan."

Meanwhile, Rushfang was using his long, sharp teeth to give the death bite to the Badger while Aquaheart pinned it down and gave fatal blows to its back. The badger lashed out in anger an extreme pain. Its claws did not get to anybody, as it was killed. Aquaheart and Rushfang watched as the badger's body went limp. Aquaheart was a little bit overexcited. "Yeah! We did it! We killed the badger!" His… smile? was too warm for comfort.

Waspkit and Sagekit winced as they saw their mother yowl in pain as the medicine cat gave her some poppy seeds to ease it. They were anxiously playing a game of moss-ball, and Waspkit was losing."Ha-HA! I win," said Sagekit shakily. "The-the game's not over yet!" announced Waspkit. When Sagekit looked ahead, she heard three life-changing words: "Swiftwind is dead."

"No—not now! We need a mother!" shouted Waspkit and Sagekit simultaneously. Beetlestep approached. "I can care for you for the next three moons," she told them. She walked into the nursery caringly, careful not to step on any small paws. Sagekit fell asleep peacefully when day broke. So did Waspkit.

"So, Sagekit, welcome to your first lesson on loyalty, for the future." Wishkit was practicing what she should say to Sagekit when she fell asleep, when Sagekit appeared. "And I'm gonna be all powerful, and… oh, it's you, Wishkit." Sagekit arrived with a bloodstain on her pelt from her mother. Wishkit addressed Sagekit by, "Sagekit do you want to be loyaler than before?" The lesson started.