Sweet Starclan

Prologue

"Mama?" the little kit turned her bright green eyes to the ginger she-cat"

"yes Sugarkit?" the ginger she-cat wrapped her tail around the kit

"I love you!" she squeaked

"I love you too Sugarkit" the ginger she-cat's eyes brimmed with tears and she pulled the kit to her chest. The lichen draped over the entrance to the nursery rustled and a broad shouldered tabby ducked in. The grey kit looked up,

"Dad!" she struggled free and raced over to him, three others on her heels.

A brown tabby kit pulled at his tail "badger ride! Badger ride!"

"Alright kits" the tabby said "hop on! Its time for a badger ride!" she looked up and smiled at his mate. The orange tabby smiled back and mouthed, "thank you". He nodded and padded out of the den, four kits in tow.

The ginger cat closed her eyes and rested her head on her paws,

"Breezenose?" a gruff voice sounded in the nursery, she looked up from her three kits, her mate Cobrastripe looked up too, the leader Hollystar was carrying a kit in her mouth, "will you and Cobrastripe take this kit and raise her as your own? A kittypet gave her to use, said her name's Sugar."

Breezenose gasped, "of course I will take her! I will raise her and she will grow up thinking that Cobrastripe and I are her parents. She will never know her real mother, I promise"

"Thank you," Hollystar nestled the kit in next to Breezenose's three other kits, "Sugarkit will be happy here."

A voice woke Breezenose, her tabby body trembling, a cream colred she-cat stood over her, her swollen belly blocking the light from the entrance.

"Breezenose? Are you alright? You cried out in your sleep" she she-cat rested a paw on her shoulder.

"yes, I'm okay, I just had a strange dream." The ginger she-cat nodded, blinking her green eyes a few times, "honeymilk you should lie down, you shouldn't be walking so much! Your kits are due any day now!"

"These kits are tough" honeymilk laughed, :"they can handle it" she turned and padded back to her nest just as Cobrastripe and Breezenose's kits returned. Cobrastripe pressed his muzzle to hers and the kits buried into her stomach looking for their milk.

"hello beautiful" his green eyes locked with hers

"Would you like to walk with me tonight?" I can have Dawnmark stay with the kits.

"I would love to but you've ought to stay with our kits tonight, Dawnmark has a bellyache, I don't think it's serious, but I don't want to put them at risk." Cobrasripe explained "ill go and get us some fresh kill and then you should be off to bed" he laughed

Six moons later......

"may all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather beneath the boulder for a clan meeting" Hollystar's gruff voice rang out across the quiet clearing.

"today four kits have reached the age of six moons, Scalekit, Wolfkit, Cherrykit and Sugarkit, please step forward" Hollystar padded up to the first kit, "Scalekit form this day until you receive your warrior name you will be known as Scalepaw, your mentor will be Bearstream." Holly star rested her head on the new apprentices and he licked her shoulder, then turned and trotted to his mentors side. "Wolfkit form this day until you receive your warrior name you will be known as Wolfpaw, your mentor will be Amberthorn." Wolfpaw nodded and licked his leaders' shoulder, before she could rest her head on his he raced off to find his mentor in the sea of pelts, Hollystar laughed and called for Cherrykit, "Cherrykit form this day until you receive your warrior name you will be known as Cherrypaw, your mentor will be Blackbush." Cherrypaw raced up to her and licked her shoulder and squeaked out a 'thank you' as Hollystar rested her head on the newly named Cherrypaw. "and last but not least," Hollystar tuned to the biggest of the four kits, "Sugarkit form this day until you receive your warrior name you will be known as Sugarpaw, your mentor will be Shimmerspots." Sugarpaw nodded and licked her leaders shoulder before tuning to find her new mentor standing behind her.

Breezenose tuned to her mate, tears welled in her eyes, "our kits are all grown up Cobrastripe" He smiled and nuzzled her ears

"Not until they have kits of their own and their warrior names." He chuckled.