Chapter 1

Featherkit's POV:

I sighed as I stared unseeingly towards where I knew by smell the camp entrance was. My sister and brother were playing with Aunt Iceblaze's kits, Wingkit, Hawkkit, Ripplekit, and Rainkit. Once again they excluded me, the blind kit. They seem to think that just because I am blind that I will be useless. They all seem to think that because I am blind I will become a Medicine Cat, but that's not so. I will become the best warrior ever no matter what they say. Besides, Ripplekit wants to be a Medicine Cat and I won't take away her dream.

Just then I heard a twig snap close to me and I stiffened as I turned to stare at a spot next to the nursery that I knew even though I couldn't see it was enclosed in shadows. I stared at the spot muscles tense, ears straining to hear even the slightest sound. I heard nothing, and I slowly turned back around letting my muscles relax.

At the moment I had finally relaxed a voice came out of the shadows, "Tsk, tsk Featherkit, you let your guard down. Never let your guard down!"

I groaned as I recognized the voice, "Lighten up, Silentpaw. I'm only a kit."

"Yeah," He agreed, "But you're the smartest kit in the nursery. You can understand things the others can't, and they're four moons old like you."

"I can only understand that stuff because Starclan made me blind. I had to grow up faster than the others," I replied annoyed, "We have this conversation everyday! Can't you just drop it?!"

"Not until you admit that I'm right," He said cockily, "But I'll drop it," I sighed in relief, "For now," He continued and I glared at him. He ignored my glare and asked, "So, did anything new happen today?"

"Not really," I replied, "Everyone says I have to become a Medicine Cat, and that I'll never be a Warrior. They all pity me, and worry about me twice as much as the other kits, maybe three times as much! Same old stuff, I'm getting sick of it! Also they are now not letting me near the stream! I'm not allowed to learn how to swim! How mousebrain is that? They're teaching my siblings to swim, but not me! It's making me so mad!" I finished my speech angrily.

"Well, how about I teach you how to swim?" Silentpaw asked. I was astonished. No one had ever volunteered to teach me something before. They all seemed to think it would be a waste of time.

"You don't think it will be a waste of time teaching me how to swim?" I asked scared that he would say it was.

"No, it is never a waste of time teaching you anything. You're the smartest kit around. You will probably learn how to swim faster that your siblings, but I can't teach you now. I have apprentice duties right now, so I'll teach it to you tonight before anyone goes to bed.'

I was about to answer when Mallownose, Silentpaw's mentor, called over, "Silentpaw stop talking to Featherkit, and get your furry, little butt over here. We're going hunting!"

Silentpaw yelled back, "Coming," Then he said to me, "Don't forget our swimming lesson tonight." Then he left so that his mentor didn't get angry.

I listened as his paw steps hurried away. I couldn't wait for my swimming lesson. No one was going to stop me from becoming a warrior. In fact I was going to become the best warrior in the whole clan!