Darkwhisper's Path

Chapter 2

Darkkit looked blankly at her littermates and denmates playing outside of the nursery. Moonfire sat next to her with sympathy in her eyes. She still felt the shock from the 'vision' as medicine cats call it. No one knew except her, but she had noticed that Stormfire had looked at her differently from that day. Does he know? Darkkit wondered.

Shaking the curiosity off, Darkkit stood up and scampered towards her littermates, making her mother jump up,"Darkkit, I thought you didn't want to play with what happened yesterday. Are you sure you're okay to play?" Darkkit nodded without looking back. Her littermates and denmates had been sitting in the nursery waiting to see if she was alright. "Darkkit!"Silverkit had exclaimed."Are you okay?" "Yeah, we saw you collapse and we thought you were dead,"Icekit put in. Darkkit reassured them,"It's okay, I'm fine."

Darkkit just still didn't feel fine after her ordeal. "Guys, can I play with you?" I told you, I am fine, so don't ask me again." Willowkit shrugged and sighed,"Okay, we're practicing our battle moves."

Darkkit suddenly felt excitement course back through her, she still felt downed, but also cheered up a bit."Okay! What battle move are we doing?" "Leafshadow taught us the forepaw slash and how to do a twist in the air, but the last one is so hard!"Sunkit complained. "How do you do the forepaw slash?"wondered Darkkit. "You do this!"Applekit leaped forward and slashed the air with his paw and headed back towards the others."Now you try Darkkit!"

Darkkit glanced nervously at the others, but crouched down and then leaped forwards, but accidently stumbled and landed awkwardly. She tried again, with the other kits encouraging her. She jumped and slashed the air with her forepaw and landed finally on all four paws."I did it!"she turned around to the other kits."Yay!"Blossamkit meowed."I wasn't good at it either. It's fine to make mistakes." She suddenly smelt fear and rage in the air and turned to see cats crowding around Ripplestar and a patrol at the entrance to the camp."What's going on there?"wondered Sunkit."Let's check it out!" Darkkit followed the rest of the kits towards the crowd of cats.

"What's happened?"demanded Ripplestar as the kits got nearer. "SwiftClan have stolen prey! The border is reeking of their scent!"Quailflight, a light brown she-cat exclaimed. "Yeah!"a young tan tom, Reedpelt hissed, "There's prey blood everywhere! We should teach them a lesson!" A couple of cats yowled in agreement but Ripplestar silenced them,"Yes, we should teach them a lesson, but not yet! We need to know what they're up to."

 A few cats nodded in agreement while a few unsheathed their claws in defiance."Lavendersong and the senior warriors, I will talk with you in my den,"Ripplestar turned around and headed to his den that was a rock den with moss hanging over it.

As the cats began to break up, Weaselkit hissed,"So SwiftClan is stealing our prey, the mouse-hearts!" "He's right!"Icekit meowed,"They don't know who they're messing with, we'll show them!" "You mean the warriors will show them?" A voice sounded behind them. Darkkit and the kits turned around to see Sunfrost, her father. 

Uneasiness squirmed in her belly. "You're all too young to go fighting other cats, you're only about nearly four moons old. You've still got a few moons until you're six moons old."Sunfrost pointed out, looking down on all the kits. "But, six moons is ages away!"Applekit complained."Nevertheless, my son,"Sunfrost nudged his kit with his head. Darkkit just ignored them and padded away towards the pool between the Medicine Cat Den and the Aprrentices' Den. As she got to the pool, she saw her own reflection. 

A small black kit with emerald eyes, frustration tugged at her, something just didn't feel right when Quailflight mentioned about SwiftClan stealing prey. She suddenly jumped back when she looked down into her reflection. A dark cat with golden eyes was snarling at her. It's that cat again! But...am I looking at myself? Blood dripped from the dark cat's jaw while cruelty and delight glistened in the cat's eyes. As the dark cat faded away, Darkkit felt fear and dread creep into her fur and she backed away into a lump of fur.