Hey peeps! :D

I have the next chapter for you guys!

It's another Mousekit POV chapter and it takes place between Grounded and Healing Wounds. (After the events of Grounded but before Bramblekit and Mousekit go off into the forest at night)

I just decided to keep Grounded and Healing Wounds were they are, it makes sense either way I think. But if you guys would like me to switch chapters around then PM me.

"Light is Fading and Darkness is Falling, but the Stars will Rise and end the Long Night"

Chapter 9:

Promise

The smell of herbs immediately hit Mousekit as she stepped into the medicine den with a throbbing jaw.

"Leafpool?" She mewed softly, not wanting to wake her brother who seemed to be sleeping in one of the patient's nests.

"Oh! Mousekit, is that you?" Leafpool called from somewhere in the back before Mousekit saw her stepping out of the darker part of the den with a bunch of herbs in her mouth."What are you doing here?" the medicine asked kindly after setting the herbs down.

"I uh.. bumped my jaw...on the floor..." Mousekit said, looking away. Her little trip-and-fall still haunting the back of her mind.

"How'd you do that?" Jaykit asked, turning his sightless blue gaze on her.

"I tripped on my paws."She replied curtly, glaring at him like he was the one who had laughed at her earlier. "Wait... You weren't asleep?"

"No. I don't see how I can get to sleep with this stupid leg bugging me."He mewed crossly.

"Do you want me to get some poppy seeds to numb the pain for a while, Jaykit?" Leafpool asked her patient, already turning to go get them.

"It's not like you even gave me a choice..."He muttered grumpily, his tail twitching.

"Hey, Jaykit?" Mousekit mewed softly, padding over to her brother to lie down next to him on his uninjured side.

"Yeah?" He replied after a yawn, his blue eyes closed as he settled on his paws.

"Can I ask you something? About today?"

"If it has anything to do with me falling off the ridge, then no. 'Cause I'm fine."He mewed bitterly, his ear twitching in annoyance.

"But it's not about that."

"Oh...Well you could be more sympathetic." He said his mood changing from bitter to grumpy, trying to cover up for his hasty mistake."Anyways, what did you want to ask me?"

"Well...Uh...Has anything...strange ever happened to you before?" Like something you end up doing without even trying?"

"Like falling off a cliff?" He muttered, tail twitching again as he opened his eyes to slits and glared at the stone wall of the medicine den.

"No,not like that! For StarClan's sake will you listen to me for once? Nobody cares about how you fell off a cliff today! This is important!"

"Define important."

"Jaykit!"

"Okay, okay! I'm listening! StarClan calm yourself."

"Well I would be calm if you wouldn't be such a prank like Lionkit! I mean seriously-"

"-What were you going to tell me?"He interrupted, finally giving his attention after being compared to Lionkit's immaturity level.

"Well what I was going to tell you was this:" Mousekit mewed, taking a large intake of breath before continuing."Basically,what happened was that when we all got chased by the fox cubs we all split up-"

"I know."

"-And Bramblekit and Lionkit went one way and got chased by one of the foxcubs and Hollykit went to go get Dad and his patrol, and I was being chased by the other foxcub while you went who-knows-were being chased by the other foxcub;But I guess it's not reallly who-knows-were anymore because we all know were you were- or at east were you ended up-"

"-Mousekit, can't you just get on with it and tell me?"

"I am telling you, pushy. Now be patient will you?"

"Anyways as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted-So we were all being chased in different directions and I tripped because of these darn gigantor paws of mine and the fox cub almost got me! Which, by the way, was really horrifying. I mean with all the big snappy teeth and the nasty mouse-bile breath and those teeny tine beady eyes-"

"-Mousekit are you almost done?" Jaykit asked, a light undertone of pleading in his voice.

"I'm almost done. Sheesh why are you so impatient, I'm even giving you the short version! You're like an elder, you know that?"

"Humph. Just get on with it already."

"Okay!" So I tripped and the foxcub was really scary and I thought it was gonna eat me, but then I got out from under it as fast as lightning! And I climbed up an oak tree and it couldn't get me there. And then I heard you scream so I went after you from the tree-tops! I was literally jumping from the branches! Just like a squirrel or something! Do you thin Mom has ever done something like that? I mean...her name does have squirrel in it."

"...THAT'S what you wanted to tell me so badly? That's what was so weird? That's what all the fuss was about?! That you can jump like a squirrel now?!"Jaykit yowled, glaring at her sister as anger and frustration rolled off him like thick clouds.

"No, mouse-brain. You weren't listening at all were you?" Mousekit scolded, rolling her eyes."Like I said, the weird thing was that when I dashed out from under the foxcub when it was going to eat me, everything around me was brighter, and in better detail. For instance, from where I was on the branch of the oak tree I climbed, I could see the individual ridges of the other tree across the clearing from me clearly as if I was standing right there. And believe me, that tree was pretty far off from my tree. I think if I had to guess, I'd probably say somewhere around half the size of the camp. Yeah, there was a pretty big clearing."

(You never even said anything about that though...) Jaykit's thoughts echoed in her mind, she didn't even know she was touching it.

"That's weird. How long did this happen?"

"Uh... Not that long actually. It ended after I jumped the first few branches."

"Oh...Has this ever happened before?" He said, interest in his voice.

"What do you think, mouse-brain? Of course not. If it had I would've told you first thing like now. I haven't even told Bramblekit or Hollykit or Lionkit yet. Much less our parents. You won't tell anyone, right?"

He sighed before answering closing his eyes for a moment. "I won't."

"Not even the others?"

"Not a soul."

"Promise?"

"Mousekit, I already told you I won't tell anyone! Why do you keep making me-"

"Make you what?" Leafpool asked, finally returning from the storage with some poppy seeds.

"Nothing!" The two siblings said in unison as the ThunderClan medicine cat gave Jaykit the poppy seeds.

"Okay then, if you say so." She mewed with amusement in her eyes,"Mousekit, how's that jaw feeling? I don't see any swelling."

"It's fine now, I think. It doesn't hurt anymore." She mewed, standing to her paws.

"Well if you feel fine now, why don't you go to the nursery? I'm pretty sure Brambleclaw won't like it if you stay here any longer."

"Yes ma'am." Mousekit mewed obediently, giving her brother a lick on the cheek before leaving the den.

"If you have any problems tell one of the queens and I'll send for you!" Leafpool called as the golden-brown she-kit walked off.

"So, did you two have fun talking while I was gone?" The brown and white she-cat asked Jaykit after a pause.

'PROMISE!' Mousekit mentally yowled at her brother.

'Fine!'

8DDD It's a JayxMouse Brother and Sister chapter! squee~lol!

So what'd ya guys think? was it funny? Did you guys enjoy it? I had a lot of fun writing this, let me tell you guys now. :3 But seriously, did my style change at all? I want to know.

Favorite and review, I enjoy hearing your thoughts and peace out til next time!