Waking Up, Cottonkit could see the sunshine filtering through the hole of the nursery, her cream pelt and the pink calico pattern shimmering in the light, she stretched her paws forward letting out a big yawn as she arched her back inward. She rose to her paws and turned to face Bluekit: her brother. She knew he was awake and started batting at his head playfully with one of her paws rapidly, Bluekit quickly turned and leaped at Cottonkit playfully, knocking her into Ghostkit as Bluekit pushed her to the ground, Ghostkit was the more quiet and mature kit of the group, especially as he got older. He groaned as he rolled his head to look at Cottonkit with an annoyed and tired expression.
"Hey!" He hissed. And then jumped at Cottonkit slamming her into Bluekit with a thud.
"Ok, stop you three," Snowfrost said, grabbing Bluekit by the scruff and setting him on the ground to groom his pelt with her paw wrapped around his to keep him from leaving.
"Mom! stop! I can groom myself!" He exclaimed trying to escape his mother's grasp and as Bluekit pulled away from Snowfrost's grasp There was a loud yowl outside the nursery. It was dead silent until tons of murmurs flooded the camp.
"It's time." She mewed to her kits, Cottonkit ran towards the nursery exit bumping Ghostkitin the progress with Bluekit trailing behind. Cottonkit and her siblings scrambled to the clearing, finding a place in the crowd, drawing her heads up to see their leader Moonstar, Moonstar flicked her tail and the clan fell silent.
"All cats old enough to swim across the pond meet below the meeting rock for a clan meeting," Moonstar said with a calming voice. "Today I will be naming three new apprentices,"
All the cats murmured in approval with a few excited glances shot at them by one or two cats, Cottonkit felt pride swirling in her like a nice morning breeze after a long nap, she could tell that Ghostkit also felt the same because he lifted his head making him look taller while Bluekit puffed out his chest fur.
"Bluekit, Cottonkit, and Ghostkit please step up," Moonstar called, looking down at them, Cottonkit could feel Moonstar's gaze sweep over her and then to her brothers.
"Ghostkit, from this day until you get your warrior name you will be known As Ghostpaw! Your mentor will be Mapleleaf'' Moonstar announced, as the entire clan started cheering his name, he made his way over to Mapleleaf.
"Bluekit, from this day until you get your warrior name you will be known as Bluepaw! Your mentor will be Stardust." Moonstar said and the clan cheered his name alongside Ghostpaw while running toward his mentor, who was their father as well.
"Cottonkit..." Moonstar's voice drowned out, Cottonkit suddenly felt all her clan eyes locked on her, she didn't dare turn to look at what kind of faces were looking at her whether they were approval or not.. thought Cottonkit kept her fears deep down and hidden hoping they would just disappear. and kept her emerald green eyes locked on Moonstar's mystifying purple eyes.
"...Your mentor will be Woodleaf '' Moonstar finished as her voice drew back to Cottonkit, Cottonpaw quickly ran to her mentor as her new name was being called by her brothers. She touched noses with her mentor.
"Clan dismissed," Moonstar said, running her tail over her paws with a delighted flick.
"Cottonpaw!" Bluepaw called. Cottopaw looked behind her and saw Ghostpaw and Bluepaw running towards her. There are mentors padding behind them.
"Good morning Woodleaf," Stardust said dipping his head.
"Good morning," Woodleaf replied.
"Can we have our first day out of the camp together?" Cottonpaw asked. Woodleaf, Stardust, and Mapleleaf all looked at each other.
"Sure, as long as the others are okay with it," Stardust said.
"I'm fine with it. Woodleaf?" Mapleleaf said, looking at Woodleaf.
"Sounds like a great idea, let's go then," Woodleaf said. The six cats walked towards the Moonclan entrance.
"First, we need to show you the border of our territory." Stardust said, "First, let's show you our border with Infernoclan and then Sunclan"
The six cats walked towards the Infernoclan's border following the river upstream, and Mapleleaf explained a bit of the warrior code to them while they began to walk to Sunclan's border. By the time they made it back to camp it was nearly nighttime, their mentors showed them the apprentice den and then headed to the warrior's den.
"Wow, that was a long day!"Cottonpaw said, letting out a big sigh.
"No kidding," Ghostpaw said curling up in his nest. Bluepaw lay in his moss bed already half asleep. Cottonpaw could hear paw steps heading towards the apprentice den, she looked behind her and saw Oakpaw and Springpaw, they were older apprentices there both almost ready to become warriors, Cottonpaw looked away and laid her head on her paws closing her eyes and drifting off into sleep.
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Warrior cats: the Lunar prophecy
Fantasythree kits are born in Moonclan, one of the many clans around the lake, but as soon as these kits are made apprentices there is a prophecy that changes the clans entirely, and these three kits have to powers to save the clans.