Alright, im really hoping people like this story!
No worries, what happened to Hawk-kit is happening very soon. Many of you may be excited since you may not like hawk-kit and wish for this story to burn and be forgotten, but no i will keep writing and i will not stop until it is complete!
Anyways, enough of that jazz and on with the story! In this chapter Hawk-kit is 2 moons!
Enjoy! R&R any comment is appreciated even the mean ones!
Oh yeah and i don't own warriors nor any references to any other franchise's mentioned in this story or chapter, i only own my oc's.
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-Hawk-kit-
A loud yowl broke the peaceful silence of the nursery and Moorshadow doubled over in agony.
Hawk-kit carefully stepped over her mother's tail and crept towards Moorshadow.
"Moorshadow are you ok?" the brown kit asked with a slightly quiet and tired voice, she hated getting woken up but even she could sense something important was happening.
"Hawk-kit i need you to be a brave warrior and go get the medicine cats"
The kit opened her mouth to ask if she could wake up her mother but was hushed by the queen.
"Don't worry little cub i'll take care of waking our denmates"
The young kit then understood and made her way out of the tunnel with great haste towards the medicine tunnel that was guarded but thick green leaves, pushing through said leaves she ran press paw speed and rammed right into the medicine cat waking her and her apprentice.
"HAWK-KIT DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW LATE IT IS?!" the medicine cat scolded me
"You can scold me later something is happening to Moorshadow i smelled blood and she told me to be brave and go get you and Cactuspaw" the grey and white medicine cat's ears perked up and immediately understood what i meant even if i had no idea what was going on!
She nodded to me and gave the orders to her apprentice and the gathered a bunch of funny looking herbs and escorted me back to the nursery.
"Palmheart your kit came and got me no need to be alarmed" the bright colored she cat and her apprentice walked right past my mother and somehow knew what she was going to say even if she didn't even say anything yet.
"Mama? i'm tired can we go back in? i promise i'll stay out of the way" snake-kit was swaying on his paws with ruffled fur,
"I'm sorry my love, but when a queen is having her kits it is a good idea to stay well out of her way, but they have enough sense to know when someone is trying to help them."
The dusty queen curled her tail around her tired son and he quickly fell asleep.
"Ok Pumastripe you can go in now you have 3 kits waiting for you"
The medicine cat and her apprentice cactus paw padded back to their den for some needed rest.
"Can we see the kits now?" Ravenkit looked up at her mother with the moons light shining on her fur making it look almost silver, Hawkkit sighed inwardly her sister was truly beautiful.
" alright my beautiful it should be safe now"
The queen gently roused her exhausted son awake and gently led us to our nest.
"Hawkit? Can you come here?"
The she-kit looked up at her mother for her permission for which her mother just nodded.
She padded over to the golden queens nest and sat down at a good distance.
"I want you to name a kit"
She felt honored to say the least, carefully she got up and gazed at the kits,
The first one was a golden she-kit like her mother, but instead of tabby stripes she had black spots, black paws and tail tip.
"That one is leopardkit because of her black spots"
The golden queen stared at her first born with love in her mossy gaze.
She shifted her gaze to the next kit it was a black tom with a golden brown chest and tail tip,
"That is Sparrowkit, i guess i should have told you we already named the first two" the muscular Pumastripe purred with amusement that hawk-kit swore the ground shook for a second.
The kit that she gets to name was a small ginger she kit with white paws and a white tail tip.
"Her small paws remind me of a squirrel's feet! So i will name her squirrelkit!"
The queen looked a bit shocked that i named her daughter after prey but soon realized that it was no big deal.
"Welcome to Desertclan my kits may the wind give you swift running and the sun warm you"
The brute warrior touched his nose to each of his three kit's heads and his nose to his mates cheek before exiting to the warriors den.
"Hawkkit give moorshadow some rest you have bugged her enough today"
Ant-kit glared at me as she spoke, i think she was jealous that i got to name a kit and she didn't.
-time skip to sunhigh the next day-
"Let all cats old enough to bring down a coyote gather to hear my words!"
Father yowled to the clan while atop of the sandstone.
"My Clan we are gathered here today to bear witness to the courage of the three souls here"
"We stand as witnesses to the courageous souls standing before us"
The three warriors Goldenwhisker, Crimsonflame, and Roseshade all meowed in unison.
This must be Darkpaw, Sunpaw, and Scorpionpaw's warrior ceremonies!
"Would you wield your claws in battle for them?"
"They are unsheathed ready to meet the pelts of their enemies"
"Would you defend them if they were wounded in battle?"
"We stand ready at their backs hoping that the world may never overtake us"
" And after a victorious battle would you share tongues with your clanmates and tell them of the victory?"
"We would be the firsts to lead the battle patrol in a victory yowl so that our ancestors may purr with pride at our victory"
"With those words our ancestors have spoken, sunpaw come forward"
Father leapt from the sandstone to stand in front of the excited apprentice.
"Sunpaw from now on you will be known as Sunstone, the winds and starclan praise your endurance and strength and welcome you among our ranks as a warrior of Desertclan"
The gray tabby leader rested his muzzle on the newly named Sunstone's head as the new warrior gave the leader's shoulder a lick"
"Scorpionpaw, from now on you will be known as Scorpiontail, the winds and Starclan praise your speed and quick thinking and welcome you among our ranks as a warrior of desertclan"
The young warrior licked his leader's shoulder as the powerful tom laid his muzzle on his head.
"Darkpaw, from now on you will be known as Darkfall, the desert winds and Starclan praise your stealth and strength and welcome you among our ranks as a warrior of desertclan"
After repeating the same process as his den mates went through, he gazed at his leader with a look of newfound respect in his eyes.
"DARKFALL, SCORPIONTAIL, SUNSTONE, DARKFALL SCORPIONTAIL,SUNSTONE!"
To hear the clans shouting was almost deafening.
As soon as the chanting stopped Adderstar continued with yet another ceremony,
Hawkkit feared that this was going to take forever.
The next ceremony the she-kit and her littermates watched on with jealousy and awe, their friends coyotekit,Antkit, and Berrykit were becoming apprenticed.
Coyotepaw was apprenticed to Sandtail, Antkit was apprenticed to Petalflight, and Berrykit was apprenticed to Poppyfoot.
"Don't worry Runts we will teach you the hunting crouch, when you are apprentices of course!"
The ever so snotty Antpaw padded to the apprentice tunnel to what i would assume claim a nest.
"Don't worry about Antkit, she likes to tease you guys because she is jealous of you being the leaders kits, but she means well i'm sure!" berrypaw flicked our ears in a playful yet somehow reassuring. After wrestling one more time with the new apprentice he was to snake-kits utter disappointment called away by his mentor whom were waiting with his littermates to begin the tour and endurance training she had heard so much about.
She decided to wander about while her father spoke to the newly made warriors informing them about their vigil.
"One day that will be you getting your apprentice name" the kit jumped to see quail-feather the clan's most despised warrior, she didn't know why he was hated. She just knew she shouldn't talk to him.
"Thats a day i look forward to everyday!" she practically jumped with anticipation at the thought of her apprentice ceremony.
The mottled tom sat next to her and groomed her dark brown ears.
"Quailfeather you shouldn't be around the leader's kit. You were lucky he even let you in the clan."
The ancient elder Fadingmist shoved through me and quailfeather and acted as a barricade as if to protect me from a tom who did nothing wrong.
"I… i apologize Fadingmist i was just trying to make conversation." with eyes void of any emotion he got up and padded to the fresh kill pile.
"Well you want to make conversation do it with someone else!" she yowled at him.
"Are you alright lovely?" she held me close with one old gray paw and began to groom me,
"Yes we were just talking" i blinked innocently up at the old she cat.
"Well you shouldn't be his name brings bad luck on our clan and way of life, i don't see why you father, my son by the way, doesn't just kill him" she shorts with distaste as she she made eye contact with the tom.
"And just what are you looking at mange-pelt?!"
He quickly averted his sad gaze "yeah that's what i thought that no good dirty-"
"Fadingmist why is his name bad? It seems ok" 'he seems alright'
"The name 'feather' is a banned name, because of our customs, all three clans know he caused the great drought just by existing!" her lips drew back in a snarl that revealed old and cracked fangs.
"Fadingmist that's enough" the other elder ashwind a battle scarred grey tom with a lame tail came trudging over.
" young kit the reason his name has feather in it is because of his mother, who was a rogue she had a forbidden relationship with, well with me and she died taking our son to the clan were she believed he would live a somewhat safer life. He named himself quail-feather to honor her memory"
She nodded and scampered off to avoid to listening to the story about the great drought.. Again.
It was basically a time where it didn't rain for a full year and a half and we had to rely on Bushclan to let us drink out of one of their many rivers.
"Hey Hawk-kit, mom and dad said they have a surprise for us! We just have to go to the big sycamore tree in the middle on the territory and wait until sundown"
Ravenkit whispered to me, with no explanation she made a motion for me to follow her to the most secluded area of the camp, right behind the tall tree.
We somehow made it to the sycamore without any incidents to our knowledge, i became a bit worried when i noticed the big and sharp looking red rocks that surround the base of the tree.
"Alright we can surprise them by climbing this tree and jumping on them when they get here with Snakekit!" she climbed easily up the tree as if she was a Bushclan kit, if you ask me it was almost too easy.
"Well come on! You won't get the surprise if a coyote eats you!" that would scare any kit to climb, with some trouble i made it up the tree.
"Come on i know a good branch we can sit on to wait for them!" she balanced amazingly on the branch and waited for me.
"Good thinking Ravenkit they won't even see us we will definitely catch them by surprise since we are hidden by the leaves" i let out a purr of amusement but stopped short when i noticed my sister looking at me with a emotion i have only seen once. Malice.
"Im sick of you Hawkkit you want to why? Everyone treats you like you are made of stars while me and snakekit have to fend for ourselves. You know they only like you because they only feel bad right? Mama told me herself. She wishes you were as beautiful as me and as smart as Snakekit, but no you were meant to be a brute a filthy brute that no one should ever have to see"
I just froze unable to move or speak. Where did all this come from?
"And i believe i can arrange that. Good bye..false sister" it all happened so fast, she shoved me off the branch and i hit the sharp looking rocks below. The last thing i heard before i gave into the dizzying blackness was my mother screaming my name.
-End Hawkkits pov-
-Ravenkit-
'There it is done we are one step closer' the voice whispered to the dark grey she kit.
The young kit watched her mother frantically lick her kit trying to get my sister to wake up.
"Ravenkit get down from there this instant!" father yowled up to me.
Sorrelcreek gently took Hawkkit away from my mother while she leaned on my father for support.
Back at the camp i was ushered into the nursery while Sorrelcreek took Hawkkit to see Brightfrost,
'I doubt she will survive,that fall would simply injure a full grown warrior,just think about what it will do to your sister' the voice cooed. The beautiful she-kit felt a twinge of pride at what she had done, from what the voice had told her she was the one to save the clans and make them strong again all she needed to do was eliminate my sister.
"Palmheart i know you just want to be with Hawkkit in her time of dire need but your other kits need you too.
"Mama what happened to Hawkkit? Why is she bleeding? Why do you look scared" Snakekit my poor brother, always so innocent so determined to bad you will never learn the truth.
Mother reluctantly nodded and hesitated before walking and curling around me and my brother protectively.
"Mother you never answered my question" Snakekit mewled loudly "hush little one Hawkkit just had a small accident that's all" she smoothed his pelt with her tail.
Moorshadow curled protectively around her kits with her eyes filled with worry as she looked at mother, mother simply nodded and they went to sleep.
I smiled to myself at the thought of how they can be so oblivious.
-Brightfrost-
"Quick put her on one of the nests, Cactustail get me a good amount of cobwebs and mix a poultice we need to save her from infection" so far my brothers youngest kit's head stopped bleeding and was showing signs of scabbing but from what i learned from years of being a medicine cat, wounds can be unpredictable.
It seemed like moons had passed when my apprentice Cactustail had came back with the cobwebs and poultice.
"Good now wrap it around her face but not too tight" my apprentice rolled his eyes and did as commanded.
"Ok she is stable for now, tell Adderstar she will have to stay in the medicine den until she wakes" the tom nodded and padded out immediately, letting out a relieved sigh i had not realized i had been holding, i carefully curled myself around the young kit praying to starclan for some sort of miracle.
The brown medicine cat returned and gave me a nod of confirmation, that is all i need for tonight.
-end-
Here are the updated allegiances
DesertClan
Leader: Adderstar:Grey tabby tom with sharp amber eyes
Deputy: Sorrelcreek- ginger tabby tom with green eyes
Medicine cat: Brightfrost- white mollie with light grey almost silver patches
Apprentice: Cactustail- pale brown tom with a ginger tail and spiky fur
Warriors:
Oakstorm- reddish brown tom with orange eyes
Morningmist- cream colored tabby she-cat with amber eyes
Sandtail: sandy colored tom with long fur and green eyes
Apprentice- Coyotepaw
Goldenwhisker- golden she cat with a white chest and underbelly
Palesand: sandy coloured tom
Pumastripe- Big muscular dark brown tabby tom with blue eyes
Copperstrike- tall ginger tom with a white belly and piercing amber eyes
Dappleheart - light brown she-cat with small brown flecks and a bobtail
Roseshade- A creamy soft brown colored tortoiseshell mollie with bright green eyes
Amberdawn- golden tabby she-cat with white flecks and sunset colored eyes
Spottedwish- dusty brown tom with ginger flecks
Poppyfoot- black tom with brown paws
Apprentice- Berrypaw
Quailfeather- mottled grey and brown tom
Spiderfur- brown tom with odd black legs and orange eyes
Cloudbreeze- grey she cat with white paws and belly
Petalflight-golden she cat with cream patches and mossy green eyes
Apprentice- Antpaw
Scorpiontail-light ginger tom with dark ginger rings on his tail
Sunstone-bright ginger tom with blue eyes and grey paws
Duskfall-dark brown tom with black ears and green eyes
Apprentices:
Antpaw-ginger she-cat with amber eyes
Coyotepaw-light brown tom with a ginger spot above his nose
Berrypaw- ginger tom with black flecks
Queens:
Palmheart- dust brown she cat with white paws with green eyes (mother to iguanastar's kits:
Hawkkit- reddish-brown she-kit with Amber eyes and white paws, Snakekit-Gray tabby tom with white paws and amber eyes, Ravenkit- dark grey she-kit with green eyes and a lighter grey tail.
Moorshadow- Golden she-cat with a mossy green gaze. Mother to Pumastripe's kits:
Leopardkit-golden she-kit with black spots black paws and tail tip mossy green eyes, Sparrowkit- black tom with golden brown chest and tail tip light green eyes, Squrrielkit- ginger she-kit with white paws and tail tip blue eyes
Elders:
Fadingmist- old grey mollie with blind green eyes
Ashwind- dusty grey tom with a battle scar covered pelt. Retired early due to a battle with a coyote that rendered his tail useless
Bushclan:
Leader:
Sagestar-dark tabby she-cat with green eyes
Deputy:Beetlepounce- black tom with amber eyes
Medicine cat: Silentsong- dark brown she cat with green eyes
Apprentice: Ivyfrost-white she-cat with blue eyes and a cream muzzle
Warriors:
Deersplash- cream colored she cat with blue eyes and brown patches
Apprentice- Applepaw
Crowtalon- black tom with orange eyes
Waterflower- blue grey she-cat with green eyes
Apprentice- Willowpaw
Spiderstrike- Black long legged tom with amber eyes
Fallenbranch- brown and ginger tabby tom with a long tail and blue eyes
Apprentice- Logpaw
Honeydawn- ginger and brown tabby she cat with mossy green eyes
Apprentice- Rowanpaw
Frostheart- silver dappled long haired she-cat with green eyes
Stormrunner- blue grey tom with a silver underbelly and muzzle
Windstride- grey tom with black splotches and orange eyes
Rainfern- light grey tabby she cat with dark green eyes
Lionshadow-golden tabby tom with ginger stripes and pale green eyes
Gingersplash- white she-cat with ginger splotches and a ginger striped tail, blue eyes.
Thornwhisker-golden-brown tabby tom with leaf green eyes and short whiskers
Apprentice-Eaglepaw
Sweetblossom- tortoiseshell she-cat with amber eyes and a soft muzzle
Briarfrost- black and tan mollie with tiny white flecks and blue eyes
Swiftstorm- black tom with two back white feet and amber eyes
Leafmoon- brownish red dappled she cat with amber eyes
Wolffang-handsome light brown tabby tom with a white belly and chest and striking amber eyes
Echocloud-silver she-cat with white stripes and mint green eyes
Clovertail- pale tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes and a long tail.
Apprentices:
Eaglepaw-ginger tom with grey paws and belly blue eyes
Logpaw- ginger she-kit with small brown flecks and orange eyes
Applepaw- cream colored tom with grey splotches and blue eyes
Rowanpaw- red tabby she-cat with blue eyes
Willowpaw-silver tabby she-cat with pale green eyes
Firepaw-Golden brown tabby she-cat with one blue eye and one green eye
Queens:
Brackenmist- light brown tabby she cat mother to Stormrunner's kit:
Mistkit: a grey she-kit with long legs and a stumpy tail yellow eyes
Blackstream- black she-cat with a ginger flash on her chest and green eyes, mother to beetlepounce's kits:
Streamkit- black she-kit with blue green eyes
Shadekit-black tom with gray paws and amber eyes
Elders:
Redpetal- dark ginger she cat with light ginger paws
Silverash- silver tom with dark grey belly and barely visible tabby stripes
Dustfeather- dusty brown colored tom blind in one eye
Valleyclan:
Leader: Sheepstar- long white furred tom
Deputy: Cinderfern- pale tortoiseshell she-cat with green and amber eyes
Medicine cat: Whiskerstone- grey tom with skinny whiskers and amber eyes
Warriors:
Cherryfrost- red tabby she cat with white paws and chest with ice blue eyes
Lizardfang- cream tabby tom with a brown muzzle and a long tooth sticking out (amber)
Creamshade- sleek dark brown tom with cream colored paws and tail (orange)
Violetflower- Blue grey she-cat with striking green eyes
Badgerstep- black tom with a stumpy tail,and a white belly, chest, and paws
Pebblestep- gray tabby tom with brown tabby stripes (amber)
Mallowtuft- ginger she-cat with white patches of fur
Apprentice- Buzzardpaw
Lynxheart- brown tabby tom with black tufted ears
Cedarclaw- black she cat with white splotches and brown paws
Russetmist- reddish brown she cat with stripes that look like they are fading
Pineheart- Reddish brown tom (green)
Quailwing- grey tabby she cat with a brown underbelly and paws (green eyes)
Mintshade- grey and silver tom with black patches and green eyes
Bluemist- blue grey tom with silver paws and tail
Emberstorm- large ginger tabby tom with amber eyes
Robinclaw- brown she-cat with green eyes
Boulderpelt-light grey tom with orange eyes
Kestrelheart ginger she-cat with black patch on her eye with amber eyes
Queens:
Mossflower- pale gray she cat with orange eyes mother to sheepstar's kits:
Patchkit-tortoiseshell she-cat with orange eyes, snowkit- Long haired white she-kit with amber eyes, Foxkit- Ginger tom with black paws.
Apprentices:
Buzzardpaw-ginger tom with cream splotches, black ears and amber eyes.
Oh my gosh that was 15 pages long 15 PAGES that is a new record, i hope you weren't too bored with all the words and dialogue!
QOTD: What do you think of the story so far?
My answer: i feel like i am rushing things a bit, but i really wanted to get this chapter out there i have been working on it for HOURS.
Please review!
-oshawott