Chapter One

Bluekit struggled to lift her heavy eyelids. The fresh scent of newleaf hung around the Nursery. Slowly, her eyes managed to open, to see a tom staring down at him. "Bluekit!" purred the kit, licking her ear.

"Oakkit!" purred Bluekit, batting at his face playfully with sheathed claws. Her brother rolled out of the nursery, forcing Bluekit to follow. Suddenly, a voice exclaimed from in the nursery, "Where's Bluekit!?"

Oakkit purred in amusement and whispered gently to Bluekit, "That's our mother." Bluekit felt herself blush under her fur and covered her face with her paw. How could she not remember her mother? She was about to go back in when a large tom padded out of the Leader's Den and leapt up on to the Highledge.

"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather beneath the Highledge for a Clan meeting!"

Bluekit noticed her mother padding out of the den, accompanied by another Queen and her kits. Her mother, Ravenfeather, almost leaped in surprise when she saw Bluekit sitting with Oakkit and staring up at the Highledge. "Where have you been?" mewed Ravenfeather, licking the small kit frantically.

"Awww, I'm fine!" protested Bluekit, batting her mother playfully. She hardly noticed the ginger kit attempting to pounce on Bluekit.

"Ow!" muttered the kit, glaring at Foxkit, the culprit.

Ravenfeather pointed up at the large tom. "That's Badgerstar, he's the leader of the Clan," purred the mother, attempting to get Bluekit's attention. It worked, but only for a few heartbeats as Badgerstar began the meeting.

"Recently, a fox broke into camp, as most of you remember."

Mutters from around the clearing confirmed Badgerstar's claim.

"It stole one of our kits, Pinekit, and we believe she is dead."

A wail of horror came from the clearing. Pinekit's mother? Thought Bluekit, gazing at the cat that wailed. Eventually the noise from the clearing died down, and Badgerstar could continue.

"Also, we have a ceremony to perform. Stormkit, can you come up please?"

Stormkit jumped up, extremely hyper from the build up to this.

"Stormkit, do you promise to learn the ways of StarClan's mighty code?"

Stormkit nodded, the kit's eyes glimmering with excitement. "I do!" the kit exclaimed, making the leader hush the kit with a flick of his tail.

"Darktail, you have already trained an apprentice, and watched him grow into a fine warrior," ,Badgerstar paused to cast an approving nod at Stripedback, "and now I entrust you with Stormpaw. Help this apprentice learn the ways of ThunderClan."

Darktail nodded, and began to stammer, "O..of course I will!"

Badgerstar flicked his tail for silence from the watching cats and continued,

"Stormkit, from this day forward, until you receive your warrior name, you shall be known as Stormpaw!"

The cats in the clearing began to chant as Gingerpaw and Thornpaw bounced over. Bluekit noticed that they had something secret for the new apprentice. She decided to snoop around at sunhigh and see what the apprentices were planning.

The exited voices of the rest of ThunderClan died away, and soon everyone was back to the daily routine.

Bluekit gazed at the Fresh-kill pile and began to stalk over. A small mouse on the pile had her name on it. She reached out with her paw, but Ravenfeather pulled her back. "Neither you, or Oakkit are old enough to be weaned yet. That would be tough on the hunters." She explained, sighing a little as she saw Bluekit's tail droop.

Bluekit sighed, took one last glance at camp for the morning, and followed her mother into the Nursery. Sunhigh was going to be fun.

A/N: 1k words is too much for me, so an average chapter will be 600 words long. Sorry about that!