Well, here! ^^ I hope you enjoy it! I worked hard on it! ;3 ;)
So you think you're tough, huh?
Dawnkit woke up on a sunny yet cold morning in the middle of Greenleaf.
Today's the perfect day! she thought eagerly, getting up and quickly licking herself. She let out a small purr of satisfaction as she smoothed out her pelt so that it wasn't messy.
She got up and, gingerly setting her paws down, got out of the nursery. It started to get warmer as the heartbeats wore on. She sat in the entrance to the nursery, her tail curled neatly over her paws.
A bird let out a loud alarm call, and Dawnkit flinched. Did everybody hear that?!
She heard noises from inside the nursery, and turned around and looked out.
"Oh…. good morning, you two!" she said brightly as her two siblings, Nightkit and Cloudkit, woke up. They scampered over to her as their mother stirred slightly and watched.
"So…. do you wanna do the game today?" Dawnkit asked her siblings quietly.
"Great StarClan; yes, I do!" Nightkit said enthusiastically.
"Shhh!" Dawnkit quickly shushed him. "Not…. not so loud."
Nightkit nodded seriously. "Okay," he said.
"Hmmph, well; at least I know how to be quiet," Cloudkit said, all in a huff.
"Oh, Cloudkit." Dawnkit flicked her sister's ear lightly with her tail. "Don't get all mad."
Cloudkit bristled. "Don't you tell me what to do!" She had a bit of a temper.
"Ah, yes; I see your temper is acting up again," Dawnkit laughed.
Cloudkit let out an angry growl. Dawnkit decided that she must have not gotten enough sleep last night.
"So, when do you think Applekit, Sunkit, and Rainkit are coming out?" Nightkit asked worriedly, looking up at the sky. "I think it's going to rain soon."
"I'll go in and wake them up," Cloudkit growled, getting up and stomping into the nursery.
Soon, Dawnkit heard a loud yowl, and the voices of excited kits. Soon, Applekit, Sunkit, and Rainkit bounced happily out of the nursery, followed by a sullen Cloudkit.
"We're he-re!" they sang, bouncing happily around Dawnkit. She laughed.
"We can start the games now," she purred. Then she rose her voice to a yowl: "Every kit, gather 'round!"
They all gathered in a circle around her and she announced, "Today is the day of the Games. We will be racing, and fighting! It will be fun."
"Yay, the Games!" sang Applekit.
"The Games!" yowled Sunkit.
"THE GAMES!" screeched Rainkit.
"Very nice; very nice." Dawnkit covered her little ears.
"You're being too loud for a nice morning like this!" Cloudkit hissed grumpily. "Keep it down."
"Oh, Cloudkit." Dawnkit flicked her sister's ear with her tail. "Let's start. First, Cloudkit and I will battle it out in a race from the nursery to the leader's den!"
"Ready…. set…. GO!" Rainkit shouted.
Dawnkit propelled herself forward. She knew she probably wouldn't be able to win this one. Cloudkit was very fast when she wanted to be….
Cloudkit dashed, panting, across the clearing. Dawnkit saw that her sister was getting ahead of her, and sped it up.
Soon they were neck-to-neck. Each could hear the other panting as they raced to the finish line. And then….
Cloudkit pulled out ahead! She tumbled into the leader's den and quickly stood up and shook herself out. Dawnkit skidded to a stop, crashing into the wall outside the leader's den.
"I win!" Cloudkit declared, happy now.
Rainkit scampered over from the other side of the clearing. "Great job, you two!" she panted. "Cloudkit is the winner! Sorry, Dawnkit," she apologized quickly. "You lost, and I know you don't like to lose."
Dawnkit laughed. "No, no; it's fine. At least Cloudkit is back to her normal self; and that's what matters."
Rainkit let out a purr. "I guess you're right. Come on; I want you to judge my race with Sunkit."
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The rest of the morning progressed very much like that. The warriors and other cats were careful not to get in the way of the kits' games, and everything was happy.
Then, it was finally time for the battle between Nightkit and Dawnkit.
"I'll be the judge," Cloudkit announced. All the other kits took seats around her. Nightkit and Dawnkit faced each other from opposite ends of the camp, grinning.
"No claws, no teeth, no hurting each other; just playful fun," Cloudkit announced the rules. "If it gets to be any more than that, well…. your game will end. Understand?"
Both Nightkit and Dawnkit nodded.
"Right, then," Cloudkit yowled. "Begin!"
"So you think you're tough, huh?" Nightkit challenged, wiggling his rump as he prepared to spring forward.
"Try me!" Dawnkit challenged, leaping forward.
"Here we go!" Nightkit yowled, rolling forward to meet her.
Dawnkit crashed into Nightkit and he pinned her down with a move as quick as lightning. He had flipped onto his feet and flipped her over, all in less than a heartbeat.
Dawnkit went limp. She loved this trick. Nightkit started to get off.
"I win," he announced.
"Not so fast!" Dawnkit burst upward, flinging him back across the camp and giving her time to shake out her fur and get ready for his next battle move. Cloudkit was announcing all the events.
"And Nightkit seems to have beaten her, moments after the battle started—oh! Oh, no; she is up and ready again! Nightkit has been flung halfway across the camp and this gives Dawnkit time to recuperate!" she yowled. Cats were poking their heads out of their dens and sitting outside the dens, looking amused.
Dawnkit saw the leader sitting at the entrance to his den, but she had no time to focus on that. Nightkit was barreling toward her again!
She leaped up just as he reached her and crashed down on top of him. Nightkit gasped, all the air knocked out of him, and she jumped off of him and began circling him menacingly. Nightkit leaped up a moment later and flew at her.
Bowling her over, they rolled backwards until Dawnkit was on top. Nightkit went limp, but Dawnkit knew that trick. She was ready.
As soon as he was about to burst up, she tightened her hold on him and kept him down.
"I win!" she called, loosening her grip.
Nightkit slunk out from under her. "Fine. You win."
"And Dawnkit is the winner!" Cloudkit declared. "Yay, Dawnkit!"
Dawnkit stared hard at Nightkit again. "I won! So, you think you're tough, huh?"