(I am so sorry this chapter is way over due stuff has just been going on but i'm proud to say it's finally finished! There is quite a lot of foreshadowing in this chapter so pay attention and send me replies of what you think will happen in Angelkits future :D)

Angelkit slowly opened her eyes. She was inside the nursery curled near her mother's belly fur. She stood on tired paws and prodded her mother's side. "What is it, Angelkit?" her mother asked raising her head. "Where are Bluekit and Boltkit?" Her mother pointed her tail toward the entrance and Angelkit padded outside and sat down. Looking around she saw Boltkit and Bluekit playing over by the fresh-kill pile. Lightpaw and Autumnpaw made their way outside the camp with Ivypool, Lionblaze and Sunpool. Angelkit sighed and looked down at her paws as a maple leaf fell in front of her. She sniffed it, it smelled strange, no cat from Thunderclan.

Fur brushed up against her side and she felt the rasp of a tong on her forehead. She looked around her but did not see her mother. Angelkit shrugged and padded over to her littermates with no obvious excitement. "Bluekit, Boltkit can I play?"

Boltkit looked at her and groaned "I guess."

Bluekit lashed her small tail "We are apprentices in this game and are practicing are battle tactics."

Boltkit nodded "Yeah. Who do you want to fight first?"

"Um… Bluekit." Angelkit crouched down and wriggled her haunches and charged at Bluekit. Bluekit squeaked and leapt out of the way tripping Angelkit with her paw. Angelkit tumbled forward and coughed. Bluekit turned on her paw and leapt on top of her pushing her face into the dust. "You really thought we wanted to play with you?" Bluekit hissed in her ear. Boltkit burst out laughing behind her and she tried to hold back the tears as Bluekits tiny claws pricked through her fur.

"You look pathetic" It wasn't Bluekit "Get up! Make Bluekit regret it."

"You're just a flea brained runt!" Boltkit growled.

Angelkit gripped the dirt with her back paws and pushed up. Bluekit squealed in surprise falling onto Boltkit. Angelkit spun around at her bit her tail. Bluekit wailed and she bit even harder. "What in the name of Starclan is going on here!?" Angelkit jumped up letting go of Bluekits tail at the sound of Jayfeathers voice. "Why are you three always fighting?" He scolded them his blind eyes bore into them like sharp stones.

Angelkit huffed and growled in frustration "But Bluekit attacked me! I just wanted to play with them for once and get along!"

"I don't care. You three are litter mates for starclans sake!"

"Jayfeather." A gentle voice came from behind him. Angelkit stretched her neck to see Bramblestar padding up to medicine cat. "They're just kits they don't understand."

"Well they'll have dead brains if they think like this and it disgusts me." The medicine cat stalked off.

Bramblestar sighed his broad shoulders slumped "Please excuse him…." then the leader looked down at the kits his amber eyes sparkled in the sunlight, "but he is right." The leader padded away over to his mate rubbing her nose with his in greeting.

Angelkit took her chance and looked back at her siblings and let a smirk grow on her face "Stop trying to hide your jealously. I understand now that I'm just going to have to deal with being better then you two." She didn't bother letting them and padded off and her tail high.

Scarletpaw stretched in her nest, arching her back high then straightening it. Her wounds were finally clean and healthy enough for her to leave camp. A moon had passed since the battle in Riverclan and the tensions were still high so Windclan did their best to avoid Riverclan. Much has changed in Windclan though since then. She was finally feeling settled amongst the clan cats and she has met pretty much met everyone. Windpaw had introduced her to another apprentice by the name of Tigerpaw who was a quite handsome tabby tom in her opinion. His sister was gorgeous as well with beautiful eyes. Her name was Puddlepaw although Scarletpaw could tell the she-cat didn't favor her. There were two other apprentices, Nightpaw, was a black tom with piercing amber eyes and his brother, Stonepaw. Stonepaw unlike his brother was more of a heavy build with black and white fur along amber eyes. Nightpaw was long legged and skinny like a normal Windclan cat but taller than his brother. Ashstar had finally decided they could move her into the apprentice den and she had a nest between Windpaw and Tigerpaw.

Scarletpaw yawned and probed Tigerpaw in his ribs since he was the only other cat in the den. He opened one eye to look at her "What?"

"Are we training on the hill today?"

Tigerpaw jumped up "Oh dear Starclan how could I forget! Come on we have to hurry or we'll be cleaning the elders for ticks!" He bolted out of the den scattering his heather weaved nest. Scarletpaw followed him out increasing her speed once she exited the gorse tunnel. They ran flank to flank through the heather and up and down the small slopping hills. Within heart beats their mentors came into view. Hailstorm sat calmly beside Grassfoot, a plain beige tom with stunning green eyes. Scarletpaw came to a halt in front of them with her chest heaving as she tried to catch her breath. Grassfoot gave a hearty laugh "Looks as if you two had forgotten about training today."

Tigerpaw lowered his tail "Sorry, Grassfoot…"

"It's alright." Hailstorm said gently, "You aren't late. We are still waiting for Nightpaw and Stormfang to get here."

"So what is it we're doing today?" Scarletpaw cocked her head to the side.

"Battle practice," Grassfoot huffed, "We need to get you and Tigerpaw started on it."

"Yes and I know you fought quite well in the battle at Riverclan, Scarletpaw, but we need to teach proper ways so you don't get so scarred next time." Hailstorm inferred.

Scarletpaw nodded just as two cats made their way over the rise and toward them. Stormfang, the dark brown tabby, responded "And the best way to get a jumpstart with it is to have you train with an experienced apprentice." flicking his tail at Nightpaw. Hailstorm stood up and nodded.

"Scarletpaw I want you to practice landing a certain leap on Nightpaw as he tries to dodge so watch me carefully. Grassfoot try to dodge me." Hailstorm went down into a low crouch. Wiggling her haunches she leaped through the air. Grassfoot leapt to the side as she came closer but hailstorm flipped her hind paws in the air causing her body to spin and landed on Grassfoots back leaping off she nodded to Scarletpaw "Now you try." Scarletpaw turned towards Nightpaw and tried to mimic her mentors crouch. She wriggled her haunches and pushed hard of the ground with her hind paws. As Nightpaw moved she tried to spin but landed just a bit too short. She heard a muffled laughter come from Nightpaw and sighed looking up at her mentor. "Try it again." She did and after the fifth time she tried she still couldn't land on Nightpaw. Tigerpaw tried after that so Scarletpaw could take a break and she growled in frustration as Tigerpaw landed on Nightpaw the first try. Hailstorm rested her tail on Scarletpaws shoulder "It's alright not everyone gets it right at first." Scarletpaw didn't respond but tried to figure out what she was doing wrong but she didn't understand.

"You're a lighter weight cat, Scarletpaw, so you have to use your tail more to throw balance off to spin." Scarletpaws eyes lit up at Thistleclaws voice.

"Hailstorm may I try now?"

"Go ahead." Scarletpaw took her position and leaped taking Thistleclaws advice. As she landed on Nightpaws back she grinned in delight but then Thistleclaws voice came again.

"Don't get too happy you should have figured that out on your own."

Scarletpaw heaved a sigh as she leapt off "Nice job!" Hailstorm called "Try again."

As Scarletpaw returned to her position Thistleclaw talked to her "This time I want you to kick his side. He won't expect it and it'll expose his belly that is how you will pin him down." Scarletpaw leaped hard into the air and once she planted her paws into his ribs she heard his gasp of shock and the rest played out smoothly and when Scarletpaw let Nightpaw up and the mentors and Tigerpaw swarmed her. Hailstorm smiled "How did you learn that?"

"I just… kind of thought of it" Scarletpaw smiled not sure how to explain it.

Angelkit kicked a stone as she padded through the forest. Wandering away from camp was starting to become a habit now that she had a friend to do it with it. She smiled up at the orange and white she cat in front of her "You know you haven't told me your name yet."

"You want to know that badly?" The she cat chuckled.

Angelkit nodded "I do!"

"Mapleshade is my name." She licked the tiny kit "I was born underneath a maple tree so my mother named me after it."

"That's pretty." She smiled "You know there is a maple tree that sprouted by the nursery just before I was born"

"Oh yes I know, I know very well that it's there."