Warriors: Broken Destiny

CHAPTER 1

Smallkit tumbled out from the nursery. Her white paws nimbly weaved through the camp as she chased her sister. She felt satisfied as her thick coat flattened against her own speed. 

"You can't catch me!" Sagekit teased from ahead. Her lithe body moved effortlessly through the DawnClan cats.

"Wrong!" Smallkit objected. She squinted her eyes and began to push herself even harder. Surely enough, her legs began to move so fast that even she couldn't believe it. In a flash she had overtaken her sister and was now heading for... a bramble bush!

"Ow!" Smallkit yelped as she plunged headfirst into the thorns.

Sagekit had raced over to her sister. She blinked her odd-coloured eyes at her sister before bursting out laughing.

"That was the craziest thing I've ever seen," Sagekit praised her. "Do you think Maplestar saw? I hope she didn't," she added cheekily.

"Me too, that would be embarrassing," Smallkit admitted. She fluffed out her snow-white fur and began to untangle herself from the shrub.

"Oh, true. But I just meant that I didn't want her to make you an apprentice before me," Sagekit grinned.

Smallkit swatted her across the nose jokingly. Sagekit smiled, then turned towards her littermate and crouched down. Smallkit copied her. The sister's began to circle each other, readying themselves for a playful battle. Then, Sagekit leaped. But before she could land on the ground, a pair of jaws had clutched her scruff mid-air.

"Hey!" Sagekit protested. "Put me down!"

"No," a firm voice scolded the kit. "I'm sick and tired of you teaching Smallkit that battles are nothing but games."

"Sorry," Sagekit meowed as she realised it was her mother, Fidgetfang. 

"Clean your pelt, it is a mess," Fidgetfang ordered her. She then turned to Smallkit, who still had a few loose pieces of the bramble bush clinging to her pelt. "Come with me, dear. I'll have to give your fur thorough wash so you can go back to being the most beautiful she-cat in the entire clan."

Smallkit felt her fur bristled, but she knew it was best to keep quiet. Grudgingly, she padded after her mother.

"Are you coming?" she asked her sister, who planted herself on the forest floor.

"I don't think I'm welcome," Sagekit smiled. Smallkit knew it was a forced smile, so she lovingly rubbed herself against Sagekit, and headed for the nursery. 

Smallkit felt terrible for her sister. Since they were born, Smallkit could tell that she was the favourite. Smallkit knew it was because Sagekit looked different. Half of her face was black with a blue eye, the other was a dark ginger with a green eye. Plus, she had a white underbelly. Although Smallkit had to admit that her sister looked strange, she couldn't help but feel envious of her unique coat. 

"Quickly," her mother meowed. Smallkit made her way over to her mother. Once she had found a comfy place on the dried grass and moss, she circled into a tight ball and closed her eyes as her mother washed her coat.

"You're looking well," Fidgetfang said to Tansycloud between licks.

"Thank you," Tansycloud dipped her head. She was grooming her own cream-coloured paw as her young kits suckled. "Rooberry visited this morning when you were sunbathing. He thinks the two toms are extremely healthy."

"What about the she-cat?" Fidgetfang asked. She seemed to have forgotten that she was grooming her own kit.

"I'm not sure," Tansycloud sighed. "She's beautiful, and she looks healthy but she hasn't said a word."