Deep Blue Eyes-- a warriors fanfic (completed story!)

Chapter One

Sunlight drifted into the hollow of the ThunderClan camp. A little ginger she-kit was struggling, forcing her eyes to open. Today will be the day. Mother will be so proud. I will open my eyes. Gasping, she blinked open one eye and let the light flood through. It stung her eyes, and she snapped them shut. She tried again, blinking in shock when the light touched her eyes. Finally she began to be able to hold them open for a second before she had to blink. Amused, she began to try to force them open as she took quick glimpses of the world around her.

Finally, at last, Flowerkit opened her eyes and held them there, refusing to blink. She discovered she was in a thicket with a sharp bush surrounding her, and soft green stuff lining the ground. Happily, she began to shuffle them around with her paws, rolling one into a ball. She tried to pounce, but her legs were too wobbly and she landed with a thud on the soft ground beneath her. She let out a soft mrrow of laughter, and tumbled forward onto a pile of gray softness that squeaked underneath her. Horrified, she leaped off, not wanting to hurt her sister Bluekit.

Bluekit was a little bit of a weakling. Even in the darkness Flowerkit would bump into her and she’d squeak. She hadn’t opened her eyes yet. I’m the strong one, thought Flowerkit in delight. For some fun, she poked Bluekit as she squeaked in terror. Flowerkit poked her again when a gigantic bundle of cream pulled her back and she looked up into the emerald green eyes of her mother, Lightflower.

“I see you’ve opened your eyes,” she purred happily. “Don’t bug your sister. It’s not her time yet.” Lightflower seemed to stare in wonder at Flowerkit. “You have beautiful blue eyes,” she commented. Flowerkit blinked her eyes happily, determined to please her mother. She purred, and Flowerkit purred as well, snuggled up in the closeness of her mother.

Bluekit began to mewl weakly. Flowerkit jumped up. “Bluekit’s awake,” her voice rasped at first, but became light. “Now she can open her eyes!”

“She’ll open them in her own time,” Lightflower told her. “Meanwhile, how about you get some rest?”

Flowerkit sighed. Resting was no fun. She’d rather be running around through camp, playing.

Branches rustled and a golden she-cat burst in. “Do you need any more borage, Lightflo-” she cut off when she saw Flowerkit staring at her. She seemed to shake a little, and Flowerkit bounced out of her mothers’ fluffy tail and bounded over to the she-cat. “My name is Flowerkit. What’s yours?”

“G-Goldenblaze,” the she-cat faltered.

“That’s my sister, Bluekit. She didn’t open her eyes yet. And that’s my mother Lightflower!” Flowerkit chirped, determined to win this Goldenblaze’s attention.

“That’s… nice.” Goldenblaze mewed distractedly, her gaze transfixed on Flowerkit’s eyes.

“I have blue eyes!” Flowerkit was tired of Goldenblaze acting like there was something wrong with her.

“You do… all kits have blue eyes to start off with…” Goldenblaze sounded like she was trying to comfort herself.

Lightflower just smiled at her kit. “Isn’t she sweet?” She purred. “Flowerkit, maybe you can go see the medicine den with Goldenblaze,” she offered.

“Really?” Flowerkit stared up at Goldenblaze, who smiled weakly. “Can I go?”

Goldenblaze nodded and the two headed out of the nursery into the ThunderClan camp. Flowerkit stumbled behind, her little ginger legs getting caught up in the irregular ground beneath her. She looked upwards and squealed, for a very bright object was hovering right above the camp.

“What’s that?” She squeaked, trying to get a better view.

“That is the sun. Don’t look; it will hurt your eyes.” Goldenblaze meowed brusquely.

Flowerkit gave up trying to make conversation and instead stumbled after Goldenblaze on the way to the medicine den.

Once she got in there, a black and white tom was sitting in a corner, sorting something. Flowerkit stumbled over, accidently tripping over a small pile of moss littering the ground. She landed face-first into the mess and scrunched up her nose. “Eww…” She padded at her nose with a paw, trying to get rid of the smell.

“Next time, don’t go tripping head first into the mouse bile,” the black and white tom purred while Flowerkit scowled. She stepped out and shook herself off, accidently scattering more mouse bile across the floor of the medicine den. The tom, thinking this was a joke, lifted some mouse bile in his paw and hurled it at her with lots of force while Flowerkit tried to dodge it. With her minimal strength, she picked up some mouse bile and tossed it towards him. He leaped away, crashing into bundles of leaves and petals that scattered on the ground. The two cats gazed at each other. Flowerkit was amazed by this apprentice’s enchanting green eyes, while the tom was stunned by the gaze of Flowerkit’s beautiful deep blue eyes.

Goldenblaze broke in to the medicine den, taking in the mess scattered across the ground and her apprentice’s guilty gaze. “Blazepaw,” she began, struggling to contain her irritation, “what happened here?”

Blazepaw shuffled his paws awkwardly and stared at the herb-littered ground. “Well, this kit and I may have had a fight…”

Lightflower burst in after her sister, sensing the troubles that lay. “Oh, Flowerkit!” She gasped, rushing over to her kit and covering her with licks. “Are you alright? What happened, darling?” She bent her cream-coloured head and frantically checked her daughter for any harm.

“I’m alright…” Flowerkit grunted, embarrassed to be treated like this. Her first day out of the nursery, and she gets treated like this?

Something shuffled near the entrance to the medicine den and a tiny little kit peered in. Flowerkit recognized her scent and her pelt from this morning. It was her sister, Bluekit, with silver-blue eyes that bore into Flowerkit’s, and ultimately Flowerkit noticed one tiny detail in those eyes that shocked her.

Jealousy.