Chapter 1 : A Warrior Is Born

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A small kit slid to the ground and let out a cry as it took its first breath. A gray she cat let out a purr, her eyes shined with happiness.
"Congratulations, Stormstar!" The gray she cat purred to the queen who just gave birth "three she-cats!" Stormstar looked down at her three kits and smiled "thank you, Bushfur" she mewed happily, as the kits squirmed around. There were two brown tabbies and one silver tabby.
Stormstar looked at the kits
"I already know what I want to name them. Poisonkit for the darker brown tabby, Deerkit for the lighter brown tabby, and Petalkit for the silver tabby."
Bushfur smiled and looked into her leaders eyes. Her own leafy green eyes shining with happiness. The father of the kits had only gone missing a few days earlier and there had been no sign of where he'd been. The small medicine cat stretched and padded away, leaving the queen, and her newborn kits to rest. Life was peaceful right now. And it would be for a while.
A wail rose from the nursery.
"She won't wake up! She won't wake up!" yowled the voice. Bushfur raced in with a mouthful of herbs. She placed the small leafy plants on the ground and examined a tiny she-kit. Her pelt was a light brown, with tabby stripes. Deerkit. Her breaths were shallow and the medicine cat did everything she did to help.
"I'm sorry, Stormstar..." Bushfur finally said "she's gone...
Poisonkit, who had just opened her eyes stared at her dead sister as she sat next to petalkit. Her blue eyes shined with curiosity, as death had no meaning to her yet. She would have asked a question but didn't understand anything yet. What was she to do?
She sat and watched her mother mourn over her small kit and slowly fell asleep against petalkit.
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"Come on petalkit! your not scared, are you?" Teased poisonkit, her fluffy tabby fur puffed out and she let out little bursts of laughter. Her sisters amber eyes looked terrified as she looked at the long braken and bramble trendals going up the nursery walls.
"Poisonkit, do I really need to climb this thing?" She asked worriedly. Poisonkit stamped her foot on the ground
"yes!" Poisonkit hissed
"But it looks dangerous!"
"But I promise you its not!"
"Your lying!"
"Am not! There isn't anything dangerous about it!"
"But I'll get pricked with thorns!"
"Fine mouse brain if your to scared, I'll go first!"
"You wouldn't!"
"Yes I would!"
"Stormstar is gonna kill you"
"Trust me when is say she isn't!"
Poiosnkit let out a hiss and climbed her way up the bramble and bracken structure, her blue eyes shined with determination as she climbed up the barrier on the nursery. When she reached the tom she looked down at her sister
"I told you it wasn't dangerous!" She said and puffed out her chest to look strong
"I'm a warrior! Your just a kit!" She said proudly, as she tried to look as big as she could
"No your not! I'm more of a warrior then you!!" Petalkit hissed and swatted at the air. A cat ran into camp carrying a calico kit about the same age as petalkit and poisonkit. He dropped the kit and went into the nursery to talk to Stormstar. Poisonkit stood, trying to get a good view of the kit and fell off the barrier of the nursery with a thud. Petalkit padded to her with a smirk on her face
"Told you so" petalkit mewed. Poisonkit rolled her eyes at her sister
"Yeah, yeah, I know it was dangerous, but did you see that new kit? Who is she?"
Petalkit looked at her sister and shrugged "how am I supposed to know? I'm in the same position as you, I only know what you know. " poisonkit groaned and sat down
"Ugh, your just more stupid then me" poiosnkit mewed teasingly to her sister. Poisonkit let out a small laugh. ' she's such a mouse brain!' Poisonkit thought.
"Come on, let's just listen to Stormstar, she's calling a meeting right now" mewed petalkit. Both kits sat at the entrance as Stormstar brought the small calico kit up to the front of the tall stone. Stormstar cleared her throat.
"All cats old enough to catch their own prey please other around the high rock for a clan meeting!" She howled and brought the calicoi kit up higher
"We have a new member to our clan, a kit in fact. She doesn't have a name so I give her the name spottedkit! I will accept her as one like my own kits, and she will be staying here for as long as she lives. " yowled the leader
"Spottedkit! Spottedkit!" Yowled the croud of cats around the clearing. Poisonkit's fur prickled with a weird feeling.
"I feel like she's taking the place of deerkit!" Poiosnkit hissed quietly to petalkit. She hadn't really met this sister, making her not that sad that she was gone, but it still felt wrong to poiosnkit
"We just need to get to know her!" Mewed her sister "she's probably as nice as I am"
"If she's as nice as you, then I'm about doomed" she teased her sister. The two kits playfully attacked eachother in a ball of silver and brown tabby fur. The calico kit padded up to them "hello" she mewed "you two are my adopted sisters now,..... Right?" She asked with a head tilt. Both kits looked at eachother, then petalkit spoke
"Yes. I'm petalkit, and this is my sister, Poisonkit."
"Its nice to meet both of you" Spottedkit purred "anyone up for a game of moss ball?" She asked and pulled out a ball of moss. The kits spent the day jumping, chasing, and whacking the moss ball until Stormstar called them,
"Come into the nursery! Its time to go to bed!" She mewed as the three ran into tue nest. Poisonkit curled up between the other two kits.
"Goodnight" spotredkit mewed as the started to drift off.
'So maybe she isn't that bad' thought poiosnkit, and with that she fell into a deep sleep.

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