Nightheart's Heart (Warriors Story)

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

    Nightkit opened his blazing, purple eyes. He was curled up in the nursery with his sister, Snowkit, and his adopted sister, Wavekit. He rose to his paws and parted his jaws into a yawn. He padded over to Snowkit and began prodding her in the side, “Wake up! it’s morning!” He whispered into her ear, careful not to wake Wavekit. She had always been a late sleeper.

    Snowkit slowly blinked open her eyes, “Morning already… I’m just gonna sleep for another moon” She said in a hushed voice. Nightkit was the only one in the nursery awake. Echospirit was curled up with Wavekit and Snowkit still by her belly and Doeface was on the other side of the nursery with Lionkit curled up at her belly. Lionkit had just been kitted last night and had kept every cat in the den awake the whole night.

    “Come on! Let’s go play!” Nightkit said as he hopped clear to the other side of the nursery. He picked up a ball of moss with his claw that was sitting near the entrance and flung it as his sister.

    Snowkit grumbled before she finally got to her paws. She walked towards the ball of moss that had rolled a little away from her and then turned back to her brother. She dropped into a crouch before she tackled her brother in an enormous leap. The two kits scrambled around in a ball of fur and tail before Nightkit felt his paw hit another cats body.

    “You two should be in bed.” A dark brown she cat grumbled before lifting her head to look at the kits in the eyes. They had scrambled around all the way to the opposite end of the nursery from where Doeface was sleeping.

    “Sorry Doeface..” Nightkit apologized, quickly getting to his paws and looking down at the ground.

    “It’s fine this time, but you need to be careful now that Lionkit is in the nursery.” She said, gesturing with her tail a small, gold, bundle of fur by her belly, “Now, you two go out and play in the main cavern” The queen instructed before she laid her head back down in her nest.

    Nightkit instantly perked up. He looked at his sister and ran out of the nursery, gesturing with his tail for his sister to follow him. He looked around the camp. just to his left was the medicine cats den and to his right was the underwater tunnel that led to the leaders and deputies dens. He looked straight forward and saw the warriors den.

    Once his sister rushed after him, he turned towards her and pushed his head into her shoulder, sending her to the ground. She let out a playful hiss before jumping back at her brother. The play fight lasted for a few more moments before Nightkit looked up and saw Brackenpike entering the cavern through the underwater tunnel that led to the deputies and leaders den.

    He jumped away from his sister and watched as the deputy called Flashstrike Rapidwave and Rapidwave’s apprentice, Solopaw, over to him. Nightkit guessed that they were the dawn patrol. Though just as he finished that thought, Manglefur, Maplebreeze and her apprentice, Forestpaw, came into the camp from the entrance pool. That was the dawn patrol. Flashstrike must be leading a hunting patrol.

    “Nightkit! Over here!” Snowkit yowled to her brother.

    Nightkit turned from the groups when he heard his sister call. She was playing in a pile of feathers just outside the nursery. Nightkit padded over to join her

    “I bet I can catch more feathers than you!” He challenged.

    “You’re on!” Snowkit meowed as she used her paw to send the feather in the air where they then fell to the ground.