Here's the next chappie:
Brackenkit woke to the sound of his sister's calls.
"Wake up, Brackenkit!"
"Mmgrw?" Brackenkit grumbled, rolling over and blinking open his eyes.
He was in the nursery, his gray sister bouncing around, his mother Frostfur in the corner.
"Hey, hey! Get up!" Cinderkit poked her brother, who got to his feet sleeply.
"What's with you? Not that this is anything odd. You're always bouncy." Brackenkit mewed, flicking his ears.
"Hooray, Brackenkit! Don't you know what today is?" Cinderkit chirped.
"Uh..." Brackenkit twitched his whiskers as he thought.
Cinderkit didn't wait for her brother's reply.
"Our ceremony, mouse-brained!" she exclaimed.
Their apprentice ceremony!
"Oh! I can't believe I forgot." Brackenkit meowed, feeling foolish that he had forgotten such an importent day.
Cinderkit rolled her eyes.
"Don't worry." she mewed cheerly, then dashed out of the nursery.
Brackenkit followed at a slower pace.
"So who is your mentor going to be?" Brackenkit asked his sister as they headed for the fresh kill pile.
"Hm..." Cinderkit's face fell, and her eyes lost their sparkle.
"Come on... Tell!" Brackenkit insisted,
"Well, my mentors... Fireheart." Cinderkit mumbled.
"That's not so bad. So what if he was a kittypet?" Brackenkit asked, batting playfully at Cinderkit's ear.
"Just wait until Dustpaw and Sandpaw start making fun of me." scowled Cinderkit, brushing her brother's paw away.
"Oh, their gonna be warriors soon. And besides, we know Swiftpaw." Brackenkit tried to help his sister, but everything he said just led to another worry.
"Swiftpaw hardly talks to me anymore." Cinderkit meowed bitterly.
Brackenkit thought back to the days when Cinderkit and Swiftpaw had played all the time together.
They had been best friends!
"Listen, Graystripe is my mentor. And he's nice. I'm sure Graystripe wouldn't wants to be friends with Fireheart if he was mean." Brackenkit mewed.
"So?" Cinderkit snatched a mouse from the pile and headed across the clearing.
Brackenkit chose a sparrow, then hurried after Cinderkit.
As they passed the medicine cat den, Cinderkit and Brackenkit wrinkled their noses at the strong scent of herbs.
"Yuck! I'm so glad I'm not a medicine cat apprentice." Cinderkit mewed to her brother.
"Yeah. By the end of the day, you'd be all smelly!" Brackenkit put in.
"Ha!" Cinderkit, starting to brighten up again, padded under a tree.
"Come on. Let's eat here." Cinderkit waved her tail and sat down.
Brackenkit grinned, and joined his sister.
She was funny, fierce, and would make a great warrior some day.
*Sniff* But Cinderkit never will be a warrior.... *sniff* Anyway, next up is Leafkit! (Leafpool) Everyone who reviews gets a free Brackenkit plushie with three different sayings: "I'm an awesome warrior" "I rock" "I love being me!"