" Rise and shine my little kits, you need to do the elders ticks today. Bring them some Fresh kill to be polite." Doeleap meowed gently to us. "We're up and we'll get the fresh kill." Strawberrykit meowed excitedly as we skidded out the den " Be polite and ask Yarrowtree if you need mouse bile." our mother called after us. " We will!" I called back.

We ran up to the fresh kill pile and grabbed a couple mice each before scurrying to the elders den. "Who goes there." Said a gruff meow from the back of the den. " hush Greybark it's just kits and by the looks of it they brought mice for us." An orange Tom purred. " We are here to do you ticks. I'm Cherrykit that's Strawberrykit And That's Dragonkit." she meowed confidently. " Well little kits I'm called Somberpath, over there is Greybark, in that corner that's Fallingsnow She's deaf by the way and that's-" " I can introduce myself you know," She lightly cuffed the ginger tom over the ears " I am Leafleap." She purred.

"Ok who has ticks." I meowed.

" Everyone except Fallingsnow. We went for a walk at dawn and Greybark picked the path with the most ticks. Fallingsnow didn't come as she was asleep. Ok Strawberrykit you do Greybark, Cherrykit Leafleap and Dragonkit can do me." Somberpath meowed.

"Ok on it!" We chorused.

" Right how bout a story young ones?" Greybark meowed.

" YES PLEASE!" Yowled Strawberrykit in Greybark's ear.

" Oof not so loud but love the enthusiasm. Alright here goes.

Many seasons ago there were a cat named Dragonclaw. He was bright red with mean yellow eyes. This be his story.

Dragonclaw was prancing through camp, he were happy because he had just been made a warrior. He went out on border patrol and was badly hurt in a border scuffle. he was recovering for a moon in the medicine den and when he came out he were horribly scarred. Dragonclaw's mate diched him for a more hansom tom leaving him devastated. One day in Leafbare whilst getting a drink from the stream his former mate pushed him in. He cursed her and she died a few days later by being struck by lightning.

As for Dragonclaw he was swept down stream to the river and were washed up on a beach by the sun drown place. He began following the river back to his clan. The tom found only skinny prey on his journey but one day he saw a crate of twoleg food he went for it but the twoleg caught him. He was brought to a strange place that smell of sadness, twolegs and other cats. Dragonclaw gave up hope but he didn't loose his warrior instincts. If a twoleg kit came to the twoleg crate he was in he would hiss, bite and scratch. One day he was took into the yard. He saw a bird and bolted up the fence after it. He caught the bird, ate it and realized two things. It was Greenleaf and he was free.

After a moon of wandering he found the river again. He began following it again often straying away to find prey or investigate something new. He noticed that it was Leafall now so he sped up to reach the clans again. He lost the river whilst exploring one day so he didn't find it till Leafbare. Eventually he was home he was cold, skinny and no longer smelt like a clan cat but he was home.

His clan fed him up and he even got a mate. They planned their future together one night and a moon later she was expecting kits. They were both exited and she moved into the nursery. Dragonclaw kept helping the clan now fully recovered from his adventure. A cat finally told him what his former mate had said when she pushed him in the stream. She had said he hadn't been looking where he had been putting his paws and he had fallen in and drowned.

One day Dragonclaw started coughing. It escalated until he coughed up blood. His medicine cat told him he had red cough and he was going to die. His mate started kitting so the medicine cat ran of to help. Later he got the news he had two sons and a daughter. He began coughing blood up again and knew this was the last minuet of his life. He cursed the next clan cat with the name Dragon with bad luck but the medicine cat absorbed half of it. A few moments later Dragonclaw died." Greybark finished.

Wait I'm cursed!

" Cool story, dose that mean Dragonkit is cursed?" Cherrykit asked.

" She is. It was that long ago that She won't even have half Dragonclaw's bad luck though." Greybark mumbled as he fell asleep.

" Thanks for doing our ticks and getting him to go to sleep kits, don't believe Greybark. It's just an old elders tale." Purred Leafleap

Just and old Elders tale. Just and old Elders tale.

" Bye kits. Enjoy the rest of your day." called Somberpath.

I hope you enjoyed this early chapter.

Question of the day, Do you think Dragonkit is cursed? Let me know in the comments!