SnowMoon's Heart -

Chapter 12~

A few days later EchoStar had called a clan meeting, for it was time for him to make his sisters kits into apprentices. " Today we are gathered here to welcome these two kits as an apprentice of ThunderClan. RockKit, you have reached the age of six moons, and it is time for you to be apprenticed. From this day on, until you receive your warrior name, you will be known as RockPaw. Your mentor will be JayClaw. I hope JayClaw will pass down all he knows on to you." EchoStar looked to the Warrior. "  And JayClaw, you are ready to take on an apprentice. You have received excellent training from OakClaw, and you have shown yourself to be Quick and brave. You will be the mentor of RockPaw, and I expect you to pass on all you know to him." said EchoStar. JayClaw shook his head and walked over to RockPaw and touched noses with young apprentice. " Now for SparkKit, SparkKit, you have reached the age of six moons, and it is time for you to be apprenticed. From this day on, until you receive your warrior name, you will be known as SparkPaw. Your mentor will be AspenHallow . I hope she will pass down all he knows on to you.." He turned to AspenHallow. " AspenHallow, you are ready to take on another apprentice. You have received excellent training from my father FoxHeart , and you have shown yourself to be a great leader. You will be the mentor of SparkPaw, and I expect you to pass on all you know to her." The two cats touched noses. The cats in the clearing cheered for the new apprentices, LillyWind and FoxHeart were the loudest. SnowMoon was sitting next to her adopted family, she could tell that LillyWind was crying out of joy and pride. SnowMoon set her tail on her shoulder as they watched the new apprentice leave camp with their mentors. " They'll be alright LillyWind their mentors will protect them, Plus now you can go back to your patrols or hunting, anything you want." said SnowMoon. The she cat looked back at her and shook her head. " Oh I know SnowMoon, you'll understand when yours become apprentices, speaking of which, when will they be due?" asked LillyWind. " A few moons, so I have time to not be in that den, plus EchoStar likes me to sleep in his den with him. I hope I don't have a lot of kits, just two or three is fine with me. Are you and your mate gonna have more kits LillyWind?" she asked. " I don't know if he even wants to be mates with me anymore, MinkWisker and I had a fight recently and I don't know. I do love him, he will always be the father of my kits, but if he wishes not to be my mate anymore than so be it." said the older queen. " You should go speak to him, if you truly love him then you should work things out for if not yourselves but your kits." said SnowMoon. LillyWind looked towards MinkWisker, longing and sadness in her eyes, she turned back to SnowMoon. " How are you right? I'm older than you, yet you are right. I'll talk to you later SnowMoon, father." she said. LillyWind got up and made her way over to talk to MinkWisker who was sitting alone.

SnowMoon turned towards FoxHeart, the old tom was getting fatter, but that was probably from sitting in camp all day.  " I hope I'll be here for your kits SnowMoon, I would love to meet them. I'll tell them all the best stories and plus I'm their grandfather." said FoxHeart, he had puffed his chest out to make him look strong and full of pride. " Well why wouldn't you be FoxHeart? Your completely healthy are you not?" she asked. " Oh I'm in perfect health, but you never know what can happen. I'm worried about the skies, you can smell the rain coming, the sky has been dark for days yet no rain. I fear there is a strong storm coming, and the risk with those is lightning. If it hits a tree it can erupt into flames and fall into the camp and kill cats.  Ha, ShadedStar always thought my skill with the weather was strange but as an apprentice I saved some of our clan mates from a flood, those cats are no longer with us, but anyways. I studied the skies for days to figure out why it had been so dark and scary looking. The day after I figured a storm was gonna hit us, the camp had flooded and cats were scrambling to find a way to leave. Kits and elders were left behind to fend for themselves. I grabbed the abandoned kits and led the elders out of camp because no one else wanted to.  Anyway, the gist of that story was that I have a sense of when storms hit and how bad they can be. I don't want to be left in camp like those cats were.." FoxHeart drifted off into his own thoughts for a moment. He stared at a leaf in front of him, sadness filled his eyes. " Are you alright FoxHeart? You can stop talking about it if its to hard." she said. He shook his head, " I'm sorry SnowMoon, if you don't mind I might go take a nap and rest my head. I'll see you later, my dear." The old tom got up and went to the elders den and went inside.