Featherstar looked warmly at her kits. Today they'd become apprentices, along with Rainshine's kits, Bluekit and Baykit.
"Do you think I'm good enough to be a warrior?" Hopkit asked, pausing from bouncing around. "Of course." Featherstar frowned. Frostkit had been silent, looking at the clearing below.
"Frostkit, are you okay?" Brightnose asked, "you seem. . . Sad."
"I don't want to be an apprentice." She grumbled, "I want to be something more important."
"Maybe you'll be leader one day," Featherstar said gently.
"Maybe," She mewed but didn't seem convinced.
"It's time." She murmured and headed out of the den.
"Let all cats old enough to jump this fence join here beneath the large rock for a clan meeting!" She called.
When everyone had gathered, she spoke again.
"Today, we have four new apprentices. Froskit, Hopkit, Baykit, and Bluekit, step forward."
Hopkit and Bluekit touched noses and stepped forward together. I wonder if they'll grow up to become mates.
Baykit stepped forward, looking excited and anxious.
Frostkit, however, stood where she was.
"This isn't my destiny," She growled, "I'm important. The clan will die without me."
Featherstar stiffened. "What – what do you mean? You're only an apprentice – not even that!"
"StarClan has something special in store for me." Her eyes were narrowed, though she was shaking a little.
"Wait," Lilacbreeze breathed. "I had a sign – a vision – and a StarClan cat came to me –Meledyheart– and told me 'look for frost, for it is cold, yet it will bring heat.' And then, he showed me a frost-covered ground, and tracks in it, as small as kits."
''So you're saying. . ."
"Yes, Frostkit is to be the medicine cat apprentice."
For a moment, she stared stupidly at Frostkit. Is this what Glowfoot meant?
She nodded, and for a moment, was lost for words.
"I–," She shook her head in embarrassment. "Hopkit, you will be Hoppaw. Your mentor will be Gravelnose."
Gravelnose seemed pleased and excited as he touched his nose to his apprentice's. They headed back to take a seat.
"Baykit will be Baypaw, apprenticed to Treefall; Bluekit will be Bluepaw, apprenticed to Waterlily."
"Frostkit, is it your wish to be apprenticed to the medicine cat?"
"It is."
"And Lilacbreeze, do you except this young cat as your apprentice?"
"I do."
"Than Frostpaw is now your apprentice."
"Frostpaw! Hoppaw! Baypaw! Bluepaw!" The clan cheered.
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Savage
FanfictionFeatherfoot was a misfit. She had a strange glowing eye. Former apprentice of Lilyheart, Poppyclan's deputy, everyone expected her to become deputy when Fawnstar died. But her life took a turn when she mated with Brightnose, the medicine cat. She ha...
