"Owlflank! Owlflank! Hurry up! You are taking too long! I thought you'd be more happy to meet your kits!" TatteredBranch hissed and shoved the massive Tom from behind.

"What Will their names be? ScatteredBreeze?" A small cat nudged the sleepy queen. ScatteredBreeze blinked and stared at her four squirming kits. Two were light sand colored, one was white, and the last was grey with black and white spots. She cleaned the sandy ones and watched as the spotted kit crawled toward the other queens bed. "These two will be Sandkit and Dustkit. She will be named Snowkit. And this one," ScatteredBreeze pulled the final kit back to her, watching as it squirmed to be let go. "This will be SpottedKit."

OwlFlank barreled into the nursery, followed by Yarrowfang, the medicine cat, and OneStar, the clan Leader. He looked at the sandy colored kits as they struggled to pull themselves around, watched as Snowkit sneezed from Spotted blowing dirt in her face. "They are beautiful." ScatteredBreeze smiled in agreement. They were the first kits to be in the nursery since leaf-bare, making it a big accomplishment for the clan.
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"SpottedKit, this is Bluekit, she'll be taking your nest when you become an apprentice." TickledLeaf cleaned her kit carefully, making sure to be as gentle as possible.

"She'll be waiting a whole moon just for a nest?" SpottedKit smacked a moss ball around her nest, listening for her father to return. She hates being in the nursery while he was on patrols. She worried gravely, and often annoyed her siblings with her pacing. Bluekit was squirming toward her and she got up and carried the kit back to her mother.

"YARROWFANG! Hurry! It's OwlFlank!" Onestar's yowl filled the camp and the siblings ears shot up. Snow kit and SpottedKit were the first out of the nursery, followed swiftly by Dustkit. Yarrowfang ran out of his den, followed close behind by Dizzypaw, the medicine apprentice.

"We we're attempting to help Windclan with their hawk problem, OwlFlank was protecting a queen, the hawk didnt even give him a chance to turn around." Yarrowfang listened carefully before yelling for Dizzypaw to get herbs.

"He'll be okay? Right? Our Dad is one of the best warriors there is! No hawk could take him down!" Dustkit stepped into the clearing and stared at Yarrowfang with a scared expression. SpottedKit watched as Onestar paced, his expression conflicted.

"He's dying isnt he? You left our dad to die?" Spottedkit watched as everycats face turned into our horror. Onestar looked at the kit with a sorrowful face. "It's between him and a whole litter of kits waiting to be born. Their medicine cat can't handle all the hawk wounds alone." Onestar spun and raced from camp, Yarrowfang and Dizzypaw in hot pursuit.

"Snowkit, hey, it's okay, OwlFlank will be fine." Tigerpaw nudged his friend, trying to cheer up the poor she-kit. Snowkit let out a yowl of agony and flung herself into Tigerpaw's flank. Dustkit slunk away to the medicine den to be with Sandkit, his only comfort when he was sad. SpottedKit watched as TatteredBranch came scrambling into camp, almost barreling into FlickerClaw, who jumped out of her way last second.

TatteredBranch locked eyes with SpottedKit and grief filled her eyes. Spottedkit was constantly told of how she looked like ScatteredBreeze. TatteredBranch only saw her littermate in SpottedKit's face. "Riverclan's Medicine cat will be here to help shortly. Nothing to worry about. SilverBabble and her apprentice Codpaw will be here shortly. Everything is under control."

"And we'll be all alone." Spotted sat by herself in the middle of the camp clearing. Her only thought was how she was going to keep her siblings safe.