Echostep: I'm super sorry about the long wait! I just found this chapter and I forgot to post it. I haven't read it yet (HAHA!) so I'm hoping for the best! I just posted it so you guys could read it.

Whisperkit: If it needs editing, PM Echo! Back to you, Echostep.

Echostep: Uhh...yeah, ok. Read & Review! :)

Whisperkit's P.O.V.

Whisperkit ran out to the clearing where the cats shared tongues. He had just saw Hazelstar's dream! It was a sacred dream! Maybe the firefly was supposed to lead her to Robinstar in the dream…

No way.

Whisperkit was now three moons old, the same as Speckledkit. But little did he know that the two kits would meet today.

Whisperkit looked up at the sun, shining brightly. He felt an urge to go to the river that separated the SoundClan and LostClan territory.

"What are you doing, Whisperkit?" Birchsong, the only senior she-cat warrior, meowed. "Where are you going?"

"I..uh…" Whisperkit mewed. "I'm going to go find moss for the nursery! Yeah, yeah."

"Oh, well, then," Birchsong said. "I'll go with you!" Whisperkit grunted in anger and nodded. He ran to the entrance thicket and rushed through it. The river was on the far left side of the camp, and he ran all the way to it.

Birchsong kept up, very well, actually. He tried to out run her with his speed but he couldn't shake her off of his tail. Literally!

"Why are we going to the border?"
"There is more moss here." Whisperkit said. He ran to the edge of the river, feeling compelled to go across it, to go see his destiny. Birchsong nodded and found tons of moss. "Great thinking! You'll make a great apprentice."

"Thanks," But Whisperkit stood still, looking everywhere, in search of Speckledkit, even though he had no clue of where she would come from. He had a very good picture of her in his mind, she had beautiful brown fur and tiny black spots. She had two white paws, one on her left front paw and one on her right hind paw. Her eyes were brilliant green and her tail was striped with black and light grey.

She was beautiful to him, but she was ugly in the eyes of his clan. He pictured her in his mind so clearly like she was standing in front of him. Soon enough, she was.

Birchsong had left, to return the moss, but Whisperkit still stood there. In about a couple heart beats, just a couple after Birchsong had left, she appeared.

"Who are you?" Speckledkit asked. "Who are you?" Whisperkit asked, totally not repeating what she just said. Like totally.

"I'm Speckledkit, the daughter of Breezesong and Silentleap!"

she mewed proudly. "I'm three moons old, and I have two siblings, Sweetkit, my sister, and Smallkit, my brother. I was the first one to open my eyes, and my mom said I was born with my eyes open!"

Whisperkit was taken aback. Speckledkit seemed like a very special cat, according to her introduction. "I'm Whisperkit, son of Robinbreeze and Fallentree. I'm three moons old, too, and I have one sister, Patchkit. Patchkit is really boring, because she's not as strong as I am. I'm the biggest kit in the nursery and I'm the strongest on, too. I took on all of the kits in my nursery and they all lost. I'm older than my sister and I was the first one in all of the Clan to open their eyes quickly."

"I guess we have a lot in common, then." Speckledkit meowed. She looked at the water. "But we are separated. I wish we were in the same Clan. I bet I could beat you any day!"
"You wish," Whisperkit mewed. "I'm the strongest kit in the history of my Clan!" Speckledkit purred in amusement.

"Hey…guess what?" Speckledkit stared at Whisperkit's paws, he was shuffling his paws nervously, and embarrassedly. He really liked Speckledkit. He forgot her question, "Oh…uh, what?" Speckledkit jumped up and down, "Robinstar said I'm something special! He's making me an apprentice, today!"

"Today?" Whisperkit's jaw dropped. "But… I thought you said you were three moons!" Speckledkit nodded. Whisperkit tilted his head. "How did you find out? Did he tell you?"

"Well, not really," Speckledkit said. "His movements and eye movements were obvious, I mean, how could you not tell that he was going to make me an apprentice? I mean, he looked me straight in the eyes, and then he looked back and forth at the warriors trying to comprehend which one he wound make my mentor-"

"Show me exactly what he did." Whisperkit was getting to think that Speckledkit was a little weird. Speckledkit got up on a small pile of rocks and stood on it. Her eyes darted from side to side, obviously looking at the warriors. Her paws shifted slightly, showing a bit of nervousness, which also is obvious. Then she stared right at Whisperkit, with no emotion at all. What was she thinking?

Speckledkit dashed off of the rock pile and her eyes darted towards the forest, Whisperkit not knowing this wasn't part of her act. He squeaked, "Speckledkit?" Speckledkit's eyes were wide. "Echostep! He's back from searching for Gingerleaf!"

"Who's-" Whisperkit was cut off by the pat pat of Speckledkit's paws.

She was gone. His love was gone.

Hazelstar's P.O.V.

Drip.

The water from the ceiling's crack fell onto the floor, making the area wet.

Drip.

Hazelstar sat there, thinking about Whisperkit. How did he get into my dream? He said he was outside of my den, but he's not there! Absolutely not there! Did I imagine that? No, it was too unimaginable to think of! Am I going crazy?

Drip.

For some reason, after at least two moons (metaphor :D) of thinking, Hazelstar finally came to this conclusion.

"All cats old enough to fetch their own prey, gather underneath the Flat Rock for a Clan Meeting!"

All of the cats, even the crazy Yellowsong who seems to be cooped up in her medicine den all day, sniffing herbs that seem to smell rotten. Hazelstar stood on top of the flat stone that ran across a couple of fox lengths. Everycat sat in front of the rock and Hazelstar lifted her chin.

"I am proud to announce that I have a new apprentice to make," The eldest kits were squirming around. "Whisperkit, step forward."
Silence. The Clan was shocked. Whisperkit shook and padded to the front of the Clan, looking tough, but weak inside. "I know, this sounds really bad. But I feel like I have the right to do this. And because he is under age, I will mentor him personally. I, Hazelstar, leader of SoundClan, call upon my warrior ancestors to look down on this kit. He has reached the point where I cannot take his 'kitness anymore, and hereby declare him an apprentice.

"You may not approve of my choice, but StarClan, I know you will right my wrong if you do so. Whisperkit," Hazelstar padded to the three-moon-old, "from now on, you will be recognized as Whisperpaw, until your warrior name is set before you. I, Hazelstar, will mentor you privately, and LostClan will not hear of this apprenticeship. I trust that none of my Clan will tell the other Clan, for they might start a war in Whisperpaw's sake. Whisperpaw, do your duty as I expect you to, as an apprentice." Hazelstar took a deep breath from her monologue and touched noses with her apprentice.

Whisperpaw couldn't move. He squeaked and his fur bristled at the touch of her cold nose. He was now an apprentice, and Hazelstar knew she had done the right thing. Hazelstar's mate, Fallingstone, smiled at her apprentice and put his tail on his shoulder. "Take good care of her," He purred in amusement.

"I..I will," Whisperpaw mewed back. The clan had their eyes on Whisperpaw, judging, sizing him up. Would they accept him? I know they will. I've announced it, and I'm the leader, right? They wouldn't disobey me…would they…?

"Hey!"

Whisperpaw turned around and saw his sister, Sweetkit, glaring at him from the back of the crowd.

Speckledkit's P.O.V.

There is a special time where all the stars align and everything connects together, all at one time…

This was that time.

Speckledkit had been named an apprentice by the Clan leader, as she had expected (wasn't it obvious?). Or should I say Speckledpaw? Whisperkit was quite interesting. She couldn't wait to show off her apprenticeship to him. But…he was in SoundClan. She couldn't go over there! She'd probably lose her apprenticeship!

How would she get in touch with him?

Well, it was a tiring day: first she ran all the way to the river because she felt compelled to (weird right?), Goldenpaw then yelled at her for getting mud all over the ground where she was walking (are you kidding?), then her mother had groomed her down (every loose hair on her body was carefully plucked off and scolded for), and her apprenticeship of course. Her new mentor was Robinstar because he didn't believe anyone else could train a "kit".

Great StarClan, she wasn't a baby. 3 months old is a long time!

She literally tripped over her own paws on the way to the nursery, only to be shoved off to the apprentice den, being reminded, "Honey, you don't sleep here anymore" and the response being a yawn.

There was no nest set up for her in the den. Goldenpaw glared at her the moment she put her paw in the den. Why couldn't she just let it go? Someone had a little too much mouse bile today.

"Get out, kit-prentice." Goldenpaw sneered. Fangpaw (the oldest apprentice) slapped Goldenpaw with his tail. "Quit it, you. She's new and we should appreciate that."

"She's cute, too!" Sunpaw purred. "If only Flowerpaw-sorry, Flowerfall-were here. She would have told Goldenpaw up straight!"

Goldenpaw growled, "You wanna go, Sunny? I'll go!" She unsheathed her claws. Sunpaw's eyes grew wide and he unsheathed his own claws for protection.

"Oh, would you quit it you two?" Gingerpaw slumped inside. "You two are acting so immature. No wonder you had to keep reminding Robinstar to make you apprentices. He must have forgotten you were at the age limit."

"Great StarClan, Gingerpaw, why are you always so down in the dumps?" Fangpaw meowed. "Always so demanding for maturity… what do you expect? We're apprentices! Not leaders." He purred.

"Can it, Fangpaw," Gingerpaw rasped. "I'm not in the mood. Echostep went out today to find Gingerleaf, his mentor, and he didn't find her. He's all angry and confused and he's taking it all out on me. Like always."

"He didn't find Gingerleaf?" Speckledpaw mewed.

"That's what I said, didn't I?"

"Well, yeah, but…" Speckledpaw shut up. Gingerpaw wasn't the kind of person to stay in a conversation for this long. Speckledpaw sighed and thought about Gingerpaw. It was strange that Gingerleaf had disappeared about the same time Gingerpaw was born… Could it be that Gingerpaw is Gingerleaf? Reincarnated? Given a second chance in another body? And yet…she ended up with the same job and role in the Clan. Maybe it was her destiny to always serve her clan that way..

She was thinking way too much. Her brain shut off immediately after she finished that thought, telling her Shut up, Speckledpaw. I'm tired.

She opened her eyes to a swampy area. Muddy. Gross. She found herself standing in it. Even more gross.

She sighed and started to clean off the mud on her back. She heard a snap on the opposite side of the place she was standing.

"Who's there? Come out!" Speckledpaw stopped midlick and meowed out.

"Who are you?" A cat came out from some bushes. "Speckledkit!"

"StarClan, you scared me, Whisperkit! And it's Speckledpaw now. My mentor is Robinstar." Speckledpaw puffed out her chest and smiled.

"Oh yeah. I'm Whisperpaw now, too. I'm an apprentice! I'm also being trained by the leader: Hazelstar. Isn't that weird?"

"Yeah…wait, why are you in my dream?"

"No, you're in my dream."

"No, you're in my dream!"

"Okay, okay. I want to see you in person again sometime…" Whisperpaw shuffled his feet. She cocked her head and thought about his gesture for a while. She knew everyone's actions clearly, like when somecat looks at another cat, then looks away, they're either jealous or wanting them, depends on the situation. But, for some odd reason, she couldn't figure out Whisperpaw.

"Earth to Speckledpaw!"

"What?" Speckledpaw snapped out of it. "Oh, yeah I want to see you again too. Want to meet at the river tonight at Moonhigh?"

"I don't know. I'll try to make it. My mom, Robinbreeze, was going to help me move into the apprentice den tonight. And Harmonypaw asked me to sit with her when we eat.

"She's real nice and all, but she's kind of clingy. I don't know if I can make it."

"Oh," Speckledpaw felt a weird pang in her chest. She didn't understand it at first, but she realized that it was jealousy. Jealous of Harmonypaw and Whisperpaw. Even though she had just met him, she had started to like him. Destiny had brought them together. How could she not?

"I…oh, yeah, maybe tonight isn't a good idea."

"How so?" Whisperpaw cocked his head.

"I just remembered that, uh, F-fangpaw had asked me to eat with him, too. He's real tough and strong. Probably stronger than you."

She regretted the last words.

"I mean…"

"Uh, ok…" Whisperpaw's eyes looked hurt. "How about tomorrow at sun-up (noon)? I have free time then. Hazelstar is taking me out to train during sun-down (afternoon)."

"Oh, yeah, sure... Robinstar hasn't said anything to me about training yet."

"Okay, I'll see you there." Whisperpaw turned to leave.

"Wait!"

"What?" Whisperpaw turned around, longing in his eyes. He wanted to rush over to her and kiss her goodbye, but…his paws were stuck in the mud…

"I…um…" Speckledpaw couldn't decide if she wanted to tell him or not about her liking. "It's just that…"

"Speckledpaw," Whisperpaw meowed. "You're mumbling."

"I'm sorry," Speckledpaw closed her eyes and disappeared form her dream.

Whisperpaw stood there staring at the empty spot where she was standing. Words echoed in his head, I wish I could tell you.

Echostep: Wow. Okay. :) Well, I didn't remember that ending, but it turned out well! Do you think Speckledpaw and Whisperpaw will ever tell each other their love? I added Harmonypaw and Fangpaw in there to jazz things up. Do you think Harmonypaw might interfere with WHISPERxSPECKLED? Maybe. Maybe not. ;)

Please review and give me any suggestions!