Ferretkit needs some friends

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    In the nursery, a small kit lay in his nest, looking sad and bored. He had no brothers or sisters to play with and all the other kits were nasty towards him. Even the apprentices bullied him. All the teasing and tormenting was because Ferretkit was unusaul. He had a brown and cream pelt with a black tipped tail. He also had black feet and a black patch aroung his eyes, like a mask. He had green eyes, but the thing his tormentors liked to tease the most was his long tail. He sat down and cried. I'll never have any friends he thought sadly.

    Grasskit, Toadkit, and Streamkit all play faught near the entrance of the nursery. But Dovekit didn't care for play fighting at the moment. She sighed and padded around with her tail down and she layed down at the back of the nursery. She was a white kit with ice blue eyes. Her brothers were never kind to her or any other kit in the nursery. Their mother, Marshflight, was very kind and strict, but her brothers never listened. She sighed again and lie down at the corner of the nursery. The stone floor sent a chill through her spine,but she was too lonely to care.

    Ferretkit jumped with surprise. "Are you... talking to me?!" he mewed.

    Dovekit ears pricked to hear Ferretkit's surprised mew. She got up and padded up to him and sat beside him. "I think he was" she mewed. She looked at Ferretkit, he never had any friends in the nursery, and she would like to be his freind but she was really shy and couldn't ever feel the nerve to ask him to play with her. Suddenly Grasskit ran into her "Gotcha!" he cryed. A burning flame rose up into her heart and all colors of her vision turned white and black. And she studied her brother now turned white until she battered him with claws unsheathed. She threw her forepaws at his throat and threw him down to where she pinnned him to te dusty stone floor of the cave. She growled angryly at him "Don't mess with me Grasskit, I'm not in the mood!" she hissed and turned to Ferretkit "I want to play with Ferretkit, he's much nicer than you, and he is funner" she mewed while giving Ferretkit a freindly lick on the ear

    She held her chin up high, she had never spoken to her brother in such a manner, but she didn't see why she would regret it. She turned to Ferretkit "It's ok,I'm shy too, in fact I was scared to ask you to be my friend until now" she said softly. She turned to see her father pushing through the stone walls of the nursery. Bluestep, their father, was a large muscular grey tom with green eyes, who was mates with their mother, Marshflight, a beautiful long haired white she-cat with ice blue eyes. She ran up to her father "Can me and Ferretkit watch you battle train with your apprentice today?" she mewed cheerfully. He hesitated quite roughly, opening and closing his mouth, searching for the right answer, until finally "Ok, you can, but I am going to bring Berryswipe with us to watch after you while I train Nightpaw" he said and left the nursery. Dovekit bounded back to Ferretkit "Come on! We get to go watch my dad train his apprentice with battle today!" she exclaimed.

    Ferretkit got to his paws excitedly. "Thanks, Dovekit!" he mewed. He than ran out of the nursery.

    "Hello,Ferretkit."The kit mewed again and leaped in front of him.

    "That's a nice name" meowed Ferretkit. "My name is Ferretkit" he mewed.

    She looked back at Ferretkit and saw him with Smokekit. "Hey Ferretkit! Smokekit can come too if he wants!" she called and stepped out of the cave and into the clearing. She parted her jaws and breathed in the smells. She could smell cats, lingering in camp or in the woods. She could smell the watery breeze that swept over the lake. And she could smell, fox! The rank smell drifted around her, but she decided to keep to herself. She looked to see Buzzstripe, a brown, mottled tom. Foxpaw, a orange tabby she-cat, Buzzstripe's apprentice. Bluestep, her father. And Nightpaw, a black and white tom, her father's apprentice. Also, Berryswipe and Jaystep where padding behind them. She jumped to her paws and joined them toward the walk toaward the camp entrance, her father purred and gave her a quick lick on the ears. "Come on Ferretkit and Smokekit! We are leaving!" she called out one last time

    Ferretkit rushed to Dovekit's side, bouncing happily along.

    "Aren't you excited Ferretkit?!" she mewed to Ferretkit cheerfully "I can't wait to be an apprentice, it will be so exciting, being able to train with older warriors, and learning new skills everyday." she meowed and looked up at her father and then turned back to Ferretkit " Who was your mother, Ferretkit? she asked and let her pelt brush his.

    Smokekit bounded up to Ferretkit's side."Wow,your tail is long."

    Dovekit whipped around and faced Smokekit "He can't help that it's long!" she hissed and stood beside Ferretkit and entwined her tail with his, still glaring at Smokekit.

    Ferretkit sighed. "Sort of" he mewed. He remembered what all the apprentices thought of him. He then looked at Dovekit and Smokekit. "My mother is Batsong" he mewed. "But I never knew my father. He was killed in a battle before I was kitted."