LostClan
By: Echostep
Echostep: Hello! This is Echostep, once again! Thank you, Midnightsun of ShadowClan and Silentleap for reviewing and sending in requests!
Midnightsun, I have now added you to the list for the next story, the Whisperkit P.O.V. You'll enjoy it! But you might not come in later until the next couple of stories!
Speckledkit: Read and Review!
Echostep: What she said.
CHAPTER 2
Speckledkit's P.O.V
Speckledkit, a half-moon old kit, was snuggled up next to her sister Sweetkit and her brother Smallkit. Their mother, Eagletalon, was grooming them between the ears. The nice smell of milk in the nursery soothed her, though she still was shaking a bit from her dream. Or would it be called a nightmare? Not sure.
Fogpelt, the Kittypet-Queen, was curled up in the corner and her only son, Clearkit, was patrolling around the den's inside. He was 3 moons older than her. She was the first one of her litter to open up her eyes, she was born with her eyes open, surprisingly.
She stirred and woke up, stretching in her nest and pushing her sister a bit to the right. She sighed and looked at Clearkit bounding around the den. Clearkit looked down at her and smiled. His ears perked a bit. He looked outside the entrance and saw Hawkflight pad into the den.
"Hi," He said. He was very muscular, almost 3 times as big as Speckledkit. "Eagletalon, Fogpelt need any new moss?"
They both shook their head sleepily. Breezesong, her stomach full of 2 kits, lay in the side of the nursery. "Could you get me some poppy seeds?"
Greywhisker padded in with borage and poppy seeds, "Already covered!" Hawkflight growled a bit in his voice, usually not heard, but Speckledkit heard him clearly. "Hawkflight?" She squeaked.
"Yes, Speckledkit?" His voice was tender. His eyes gleamed with happiness, a longing of wanting kits.
"Can I go outside with you? I haven't explored the camp yet!"
"Uh…" Hawkflight looked at Eagletalon with question. She heard Eagletalon's head shift, nodding. "Sure! Let's go."
"Wait, I want to go too!" Clearkit meowed. He ran out of the den without even asking his mother. "Uhh…okay." Hawkflight said.
Clearkit was running around camp, naming all of the dens, spoiling Speckledkit's experience. Hawkflight's tail tip twitched in amusement at her face expressions.
"Warrior's den! Apprentice's den! Nursery! Dirt Place! Leader's den! Medicine cat den! Entrance—"
The hunting patrol had returned. Clearkit was standing right in the middle of the entrance, he was pretty big for a kit. He was about the size of a small warrior (Apprentice!)
"Move, would you?" Silentleap said and chuckled as he passed by. Goldenpaw and Sunpaw padded by, holding their chin high as if they had won a medal for going out on a patrol.
"Goldenpaw!" Clearkit leaped onto her back and clung to her. "How was the patrol? What does the territory look like? Did you catch anything? Did you fall? Did you get hurt? Ooh, did anyone else get hurt? Did you get in a battle? Did you see any other cats…?"
"Shut up, would you?" Goldenpaw shook him off. "Gosh, I'm glad I'm finally out of the nursery and away from you!"
Goldenpaw was kind of a snotty she-cat. She was the prettiest apprentice, soon to be the prettiest she-cat of the clan, and she thought she was better than everyone because of her beauty.
Speckledkit stood in the background, hiding a bit behind Hawkflight. Clearkit attacked Goldenpaw and Sunpaw with questions.
Speckledkit shrunk down and Hawkflight looked down at her, "You want to be an apprentice, don't you?"
"I do…it's just that Goldenpaw is so mean…"
"Yeah," Hawkflight looked back up at Clearkit biting at Sunpaw's foot. "There are a lot of cats like that in SoundClan. That's why we try to get them off our territory as much as possible. We don't want bratty cats in our Clan." Hawkflight winked at Speckledkit.
Speckledkit had sniffed the prey pile. Not impressed.
"Every cat old enough to fetch their own prey, gather around the Rock Pile for a Clan Meeting!" Robinstar's voice rang through the camp, echoing off the walls.
Speckledkit ran over to her father, Silentleap, and sat next to him as he purred. All of the cats came from the warrior den, or turned their attention from where they were eating. She heard Swampcloud and Hawkflight sit next to each other, the small hum of their purr rang in her ears. Her mother and her siblings sat in front of the nursery, with Breezesong and Fogpelt sitting next to her.
"We have a warrior ceremony to celebrate," Robinstar's eyes gleamed with pride. "I have word that Flowerpaw is fully trained now and is ready for her warrior ceremony."
Silentleap nudged his daughter, "Your very first warrior ceremony!"
Speckledkit's ears perked as she heard a bit of thunder in the distance. She looked to her right and saw the storm clouds coming this way. Rain was here!
"Flowerpaw, come forward!"
Flowerpaw, apprentice of Morninglight, stepped forward and the crowd of cats parted. Robinstar leaped down in front of Flowerpaw and dipped his head to.
"I, Robinstar, leader of Lostclan, call upon my warrior ancestors to look down on this apprentice. Flowerpaw has trained hard to understand the ways of your noble code, and I commend her to you as a warrior in her turn. Flowerpaw, do you promise to uphold the warrior code and to protect and defend your Clan, even at the cost of your life?" Robinstar meow echoed without the camp.
"I do." Flowerpaw shook, dipping her head to Robinstar.
"Then by the powers of StarClan, I give you your warrior name. Flowerpaw, from this moment you will be known as Flowerfall. StarClan honors your trust, love for your Clan, and your honesty, and we welcome you as a full warrior of LostClan!" Robinstar shouted into the sky.
"Flowerfall! Flowerfall! Flowerfall!" The Clan chanted loudly, the stars twinkling above, as if chanting with them too.
Speckledkit had sat there all night, staring at where Robinstar had announced Flowerfall's new name. Flowerfall had gone to her vigil spot, to watch for the Clan's protection. Her nest was next to Swampcloud and Hawkflight's nest, where they would protect her if harm was done to the camp.
She sat there, the cold wind blowing and the dusty, dirt covered ground turned warm around where she sat. Her ears twitched as she heard someone padding towards her.
"Hey, Speckledkit," A voice said.
She turned her attention to where the voice came from and saw Echostep, the medicine cat.
"What are you doing out here, so late at night?" His warm voice soothed her. She sighed.
"I know I'm too young to be an apprentice, but it'd be really nice to pretend I could just skip a few moons." Speckledkit shuffled her paws.
"I know how that feels. I remember when I was a kit, I had to wait forever to be a medicine cat! Man, I had so many dreams I wish that I could just sleep in the medicine den ahead of time. I always wanted to be trained by Gingerleaf, the former medicine cat. And now I think that Gingerpaw…"
Speckledkit blinked and glanced at Echostep, watching him rant on about something. She saw his ears twitch and whiskers quiver, as if this topic was hard for him. His eyes were slightly clouded, as if in memory of his mentor. She tilted her head.
"Did Gingerleaf die?" She interrupted him.
"What? Oh…yes, yes she did." Echostep nodded. "I miss her very much."
"How did she die?"
"I…" Echostep stuttered. "I don't quite know. She was out at night looking for some catmint in the twoleg territory and then she just disappeared and didn't come back. I was with her, and I looked for her all over and then she just…vanished."
"You're not very smart, are you?" Speckledkit giggled. "I know where she is."
"Where is she?" Echostep completely ignored the insult.
"She's been taken by the twolegs. If she was in their territory, they probably saw her out in the territory and took her into their nest."
"What…how did you know that?" Echostep leaned in closely. "I might not be smart, but I remember a lot of things." He smacked his head with his paw, making a clonking sound.
Speckledkit giggled. "It's easy."
"Easy for you to say! Gosh. Well, good night, Speckledkit." He nudged her. "I'll look around the twoleg territory tomorrow morning. Thanks!"
Echostep: A little cliffhanger. Will Echostep find Gingerleaf? Or is she truly dead?
Gingerleaf: Shut up and right the next story!
Echostep: Gosh, you're just like Gingerpaw.
Gingerleaf: They don't know that yet, do they! So write the next story!
Echostep: Review, please!