Friends!
Snowkit awoke to the morning sunlight coming through a crack in the brambles.
"Mum?" she asked.
"Yes." Dawncloud answered.
"Can I explore the nursery?"
"Why, of course." Her mother said, puzzled. Snowkit went round the nursery were she came across a white she-cat with golden swirls and shining purple eyes, just like hers, sitting next to a gray she-cat with golden stripes and green eyes.
"Hello?" she whispered.
"Hi!'' The white she-cat said, "My name is Goldenkit what's yours?"
"I'm Snowkit." She meowed quietly, "Who is this?" she said waving her tail at the gray she-cat.
"That's my sister Dewkit." Goldenkit said.
"You're sisters?" Snowkit asked. They nodded. "Well, see you around." Snowkit said. She walked round further and found a gray tom with green-blue swirls. She noticed he looked sad.
"Are you ok?" She asked. He looked up startled.
"Um...Ur..." he stuttered.
"Oh...sorry." she said, "I'll-I'll leave,"
"N-no, Stay." He stuttered. "I'm Spiritkit."
"I'm Snowkit. Why do you look sad?" Snowkit meowed.
"M-my..." he stuttered.
"I'm sorry; do you not want to tell me?" Snowkit asked. He sighed.
"My dad was injured in the battle half a moon ago and Lakeheart is worried he won't survive."
"What battle? And who's Lakeheart?" Snowkit asked confused.
"You don't know?" Spiritkit asked.
"No."
"Ok, well there was a battle half a moon ago when LeafClan invaded our territory. And Lakeheart is our medicine cat." Spiritkit meowed.
"Oh, ok." Snowkit said. "I'm only about half a moon old. Bye."
She went to see Gentleleaf who was a queen who she asked about the battle. When she went back to Dawncloud she lay down and slept.
Snowkit woke to Goldenkit and Dewkit pouncing on each other and yowling at the top of their lungs.
"Shh." She complained.
"Sorry Snowkit." Goldenkit meowed.
"You two are too big for the nursery." Leafsong sighed. The two kits had a begging look in their eyes.
"You too." Redspot said talking to Spiritkit.
"Can we go outside please?" Spiritkit asked.
"Ok." Redspot answered.
"Yes, you may go outside." Leafsong sighed, to Goldenkit and Dewkit.
"Can I mother?" Snowkit asked.
"Yes." Dawncloud said, "It's about time you explored outside." Snowkit ran outside with the others.
"It's so big!" Snowkit exclaimed. Leopardjump had just come out of a meeting with Pepperstar, he noticed the four kits.
"Hello, You four." He said. "Would you like me to show you around?" He asked, they all nodded. He showed them the whole clearing and then the mothers called them inside. For four moons the kits explored and talked with other cats and began to know their Clan.
One morning Pepperstar called the Clan.
"All cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here under the HighLedge."
"Mum! Mum, Mum! MUM!" Snowkit yowled.
"What?" Dawncloud meowed.
"Mum can I please go see Spiritkit and Goldenkit and Dewkit become apprentices! PLEASE!" Snowkit was yowling and yowling. Spiritkit smiled while getting groomed by his mother.
"Fine!" Dawncloud sighed trying to calm Snowkit down.
Outside; Pepperstar yowled,
"Goldenkit please step forward." Goldenkit bounded forward full of energy. "From this day on, until you receive your warrior name, you shall be known as Goldenpaw! Your mentor will be Icebeat. I hope Icebeat will pass down all she knows on to you." Snowkit watched as a pure white she cat with crystal blue eyes, stepped forward. "Icebeat, you are ready to take on an apprentice. You had received excellent training from Leopardjump, and you have shown yourself to be gentle and caring. You will be the mentor of Goldenpaw, and I expect you to pass on all you know to her." Icebeat and Goldenpaw touched noses and sat to the side together.
Pepperstar then announced, "Dewkit!" The grey she-cat stepped forward. "From this day forth, until you receive you warrior name, you shall be known as Dewpaw! Your mentor will be Shadowblaze. I hope Shadowblaze will pass all he knows on to you." Snowkit watch as a dark grey tom with flame shaped orange spots stepped out the crowd. "Shadowblaze you have received excellent training from Brownscar, and have shown yourself to be bold and outgoing. You will be the mentor of Dewpaw, and I expect you to pass all you know on to her." Dewpaw touched noses with Shadowblaze and sat next to him.
"Spiritkit. Step forward." Pepperstar called. Spiritkit jumped forward. "From this day forth, until you have received your warrior name, you shall be known as Spiritpaw! Your mentor will be Whitefrost. I hope Whitefrost will pass all he knows on to you." Snowkit watched as a strange, pure white tom with dirty white splotches stepped out of the Clan. "Whitefrost you received outstanding training from Peachleopard…" she stopped, Snowkit watched as the whole Clan stopped and was silent. Pepperstar started again, "and have shown yourself to be courageous and loving to your Clan. You will be Spiritpaw's mentor, and I expect you to pass all you know on to him." Spiritpaw and his mentor touched noses. Then the Clan cheered,
"Goldenpaw! Dewpaw! Spiritpaw! Goldenpaw! Dewpaw! Spiritpaw! Goldenpaw! Dewpaw! Spiritpaw!"
After the meeting Snowkit caught up with Spiritpaw.
"Hi!" she said.
"Hi." He replied with sadness in his eyes.
"What's wrong? And don't just stutter at me." She giggled. His smile turned into a frown.
"My father just passed away due to his injury from battle." "Just then as I was becoming an apprentice." His eyes teared up and he sat at the edge of the clearing. Snowkit wrapped her tail around him, he smiled. Then she left him be and went back inside the nursery.
The next morning Snowkit ran outside before asking her mother, then ran back inside to ask. She grabbed a small mouse from the fresh kill, and found Spiritpaw.
"So," she said with her mouth full, "Are you excited about..." she swallowed, "About being an apprentice?"
"Yes!" Spiritpaw said with a glimmer in his eyes.
"Spiritpaw!" Whitefrost called from the entrance of the clearing.
"Yes. I get to go out of the clearing for the first time!" Spiritpaw exclaimed while running to Whitefrost. Snowkit was quite lonely without the other kits. She was soon was going out the nursery by herself and feeding herself and would quite soon be sleeping by herself not in the nursery.