"All cats old enough to catch their own prey, gather around Highledge for a Clan meeting!"

It had been half a moon since Nightkit and Dawnkit had left the Medicine Cat den. Their pelts weren't as clean as the other kits' pelts when they left the nursery, Nightkit thought. Fernseed hadn't been in the nursery when Heatherstar had called the Clan. Dawnkit and Nightkit didn't know why.

Duskkit, on the other hand, seemed like he was hiding something.

Their apprentice ceremony had been delayed since Frostcloud had reccomended that Dawnkit and Nightkit stay in the nursery until they had recovered, which they did.

Nightkit bounded ahead happily. Dawnkit tried to follow at her pace, but it seemed as if something was distracting her. Duskkit seemed to be talking to someone they couldn't see. Maybe he just felt lonely?

"They've grown so much since I figured them out." Nightkit turned around to see Frostcloud standing next to her. She was looking straight ahead at Heatherstar, but she turned at Nightkit and smiled.

"Maybe they'll be able to figure it out themselves?"

It was definitely Frostcloud's voice, but her mouth hadn't moved. Frostcloud turned back to Heatherstar and started staring at her again.

"Should I tell Heatherstar about the prophecy?"

Prophecy? What prophecy?

"Duskkit, Nightkit, Dawnkit, you have all reached the age of six moons, and it is time for you to be apprenticed," Heatherstar announced, pulling Nightkit from her thoughts.

"Nightkit, from this moment on you will be known as Nightpaw," Heatherstar said. "Your mentor will be Cherryheart. Cherryheart, you have received great training from Mossheart. I hope you pass on the knowledge you have learnt to Nightpaw."

This was it. Nightpaw was an apprentice. The moment she had been waiting for.

And she would be the best apprentice who lived.

-

Duskkit looked proudly at his younger sister. It was a dream to be an apprentice! Only quarter of a moon ago he thought that both of them would die. Now they were being apprenticed together.

"That's Nightpaw, right?" Duskkit looked down at Darkkit and nodded in a way hat no one but Darkkit could see. "She looks cool!" Darkkit commented. Duskkit purred inwardly.

"Duskkit, from this moment on you will be known as Duskpaw," Heatherstar announced. "Your mentor will be Gorseclaw. Gorseclaw, you have trained Willowcloud well. I hope you will train Duskpaw to enhance his skills, and be a great warrior."

"Y-your an apprentice now," Darkkit stuttered. 

"Yeah."

"And I'm still a kit."

"You can still train."

"Duskpaw?"

"Yeah?"

"You still didn't answer my question."

"Which one?"

"Will StarClan accept me?"

"What reason do they have not to?"

"That's not an answer."

"It's all you're getting from me."

"You don't know, do you?" Darkkit turned his eyes on Duskpaw. "You don't know if I'll be accepted, do you?" Duskpaw turned and stared at his leader as she apprenticed Dawnkit.

He didn't want to face the truth with Darkkit.

-

Dawnkit bounced up excitedly as her leader spoke.

"Dawnkit, from this moment on you will be known as Dawnpaw. Badgerclaw, you will mentor Dawnpaw. You have received great mentoring from Greyclaw, and you trained Emberflame and Wheatwind well. I hope you will give Dawnpaw the best training you can." Badgerclaw nodded.

Cherryheart and Gorseclaw touched noses with Nightpaw and Duskpaw. Was Dawnpaw supposed to do it too? It looked like it. Badgerclaw had put his head forward and was waiting for Dawnpaw to do something. Dawnpaw slowly touched noses with him.

"The Clan is dismissed," Heatherstar said.

"We're going for a tour around the territory, not that you haven't been before," Badgerclaw grunted. He walked towards the camp entrance, and left Dawnpaw standing there. He flicked his tail to indicate to follow him, so Dawnpaw ran towards him. It was annoying that Badgerclaw had brought up the fact that Dawnpaw had left the camp as a kit? It had been about half a moon since then. 

It wasn't the best way to start a relationship with your apprentice.

-

Nightpaw padded back into camp with Cherryheart, very ecstatic about the next day's training.

"Did you like the territory?" Cherryheart asked.

"Yes!"

"What was your favourite part?"

"The lake! It was big and wide!"

"What do you want to do tomorrow?"

"You're asking me?" Cherryheart nodded.

"I want to get to know my apprentice better, and which they would rather prefer, hunting or fighting."

"Fighting!'

"Okay! We can cover that tomorrow. For now, just make sure Sorrelflight is fed, then you can eat."

Nightpaw bounced to the nursery. Her first meal as an apprentice!

"Sorrelflight?" Nightpaw poked her head into the nursery

"Yeah?" Sorrelflight looked up.

"Has any cat brought you some fresh-kill to eat?" NIghtpaw asked.

"Actually, no. Could you bring me a vole from the fresh-kill pile?" Sorrelflight asked.

"Sure!" Nightpaw padded to the fresh-kill pile and picked up a vole.

"Are you done with your duties?" Duskpaw padded towards Nightpaw. "And the territory that was awesome?!"

"Yeah, it was awesome! I just need to get this vole to Sorrelflight, and then we can talk," a muffled reply from Nightpaw came.

"Sure."

Nightpaw walked to the Nursery and dropped the vole at Sorrelflight's paws.

One of the kits stuck their head up.

"Who are you?" she squeaked.

"I'm Nightpaw."

"Like the night that makes the sky dark?" the other one squealed.

"Yeah, like that night," Nightpaw replied. "I was named Nightkit because my fur is black."

"I'm Silverkit because my fur is silver!" the first kit squealed.

"I'm Spottedkit because - um..." Spottedkit looked like she was trying to think. "Sorrelflight, why was I called Spottedkit?"

"Because your tortoishell pelt looks like it has many spots on it," Sorrelflight purred. But Nightpaw just stood. Why did Spottedkit's pelt look so familiar? She shook it off. She must have seen a rogue or some cat with the same tortoiseshell pelt.

"I'm gonna go talk to Duskpaw," Nightpaw said.

"Can we come?" Silverkit and Spottedkit started tumbling over each other trying to walk.

"Kits, you haven't left the nursery before!" Sorrelflight laughed. "Maybe some other time. For now, it's getting late. You should get some rest, kits."

"But we're not tired!" Silverkit mewled.

"Maybe, but kits still need as much sleep as they can," Sorrelflight told them. The kits groaned, but wiggled into their mother's stomach. Nightpaw smiled and walked out.

"How was your tour?" Duskpaw asked.

"It was amazing!" Nightpaw squealed. "Cherryheart is so nice! She showed me the borders, where the prey runs most, and the lake! It was cooler seeing it when I wasn't saving my sister from the jaws of death."

"Gorseclaw showed me the same things!" Duskpaw said. "The lake was awesome! I'm so glad we were able to become apprentices!"

"I would rather be a kit for the rest of my life than be an apprentice with Badgerclaw." Dawnpaw walked towards them, not looking as happy as the other apprentices looked. "He kept bringing up the time we left camp as kits, he refused to show me the lake, saying 'I had already seen it', and we didn't even go close to the borders! He brought me to where 'the most moss is', saying that 'I'm going to have to come often there'! I can't believe Heatherstar made him my mentor."

"I'm sure he'll get better, Nightpaw said, but even she wasn't convinced.

"Yeah, I don't think so," Dawnpaw said. "Anyways, I'm just gonna have some food. The elders have already eaten, right?" Nightpaw and Duskpaw nodded. "Then we should be fine eating."

She padded over the fresh-kill pile, and padded back almost immediately, a leaf in her jaws. She dropped it.

"Look at this leaf," she said. "It looks so weird! It has dark green spots all over it!"

"Are you sure it's not a type of leaf?" Duskpaw asked.

"I'm sure," Dawnpaw said. "I've never seen this leaf before, and if it were a type that was around this area, then we would have seen these all the time as kits!"

Suddenly, Nightpaw realised where Spottedkit's pelt seemed familiar from.

It was Spottedleaf's pelt.

People, I am sorry, but I realised that Silverkit and Spottedkit would know Nightpaw from the nursery. I didn't think of that until after I had written the scene but I was too lazy to re-write it. Sorry :(

Also I have a new pen name! It's...

Crystal!

Don't tell me you don't like it cause I don't care I like it. Okay bye :)

~Crystal~