Zodiac (warrior cats)

Chapter 9

Rushkit blinked open his pale gray eyes, as sunlight poured in through the hanging lichen. His head pounded like a rock had fallen on top of it, what in StarClan's name happened?
"Whiteleopard" he meowed quietly, seeing the black and white spotted she-cat sitting in the corner of the Medicine Cat's den.
She turned and with an amber glare padded over to him, "I see the daredevil is awake" she pressed her paw to his head to examine, "StarClan knows you caused enough trouble for a moon, what were you thinking Rushkit?".
He lowered his head in confusion, what was Whiteleopard talking about, and why was she so angry with him? But then memories came flooding back to Rushkit from the previous night.
The storm hitting RiverClan camp hard, and Rushkit just wanted to prove that he was strong enough to be out there.
After all Mallowstar did delay their apprentice ceremony, Rushkit just thought maybe he was waiting for them to prove themselves.
"If it wasn't for Otterkit fishing you out" Whiteleopard growled while applying a poultice to his head, "Then you'd be nothing more than a large pebble at the bottom of the river."
Rushkit rose his head at the name of his friend, "Otterkit saved me, but how?".
Would his best friend really risk her life for him? And then a thought came to Rushkit, She's not hurt is she? Almost as if Whiteleopard knew what he was thinking, she sighed.
"Don't worry Otterkit's fine, actually its Otterpaw now. Mallowstar held the ceremony this morning, and you would have been an apprentice by now if you didn't pull that stupid stunt last night."
The words stung Rushkit like an adders fang, he was just ruining his life, now he was never going to be an apprentice!
Why oh why did he have to wander into the storm last night?
The whole clan probably thinks he's a maniac now! Bad things always had to happen to Rushkit, ever since he was born the runt of the litter, his sister Thunderkit teased him constantly about his size.
And then there was the fact that Rushkit's father paid absolutely no attention to him, and when he did speak to Rushkit, it wasn't pleasant. And now he had to ruin his only chance whatsoever at becoming an apprentice, Rushkit wanted to just curl up and die!
"Don't worry" Whiteleopard's soft meow broke his feeling of distraught, "I'm sure Mallowstar will make you an apprentice, its just what kind of apprentice that he makes you."
Rushkit perked his ears, what kind of apprentice? Wasn't there only one kind?
"I've seen how you are with the younger kits" Whiteleopard bent down to sit next to him, "Your very empathetic, that's the trait that defines Medicine Cats."
"A Medicine Cat?" Rushkit echoed the words in utter and complete disgust, "I don't want to be a Medicine Cat, I want to be a warrior!".
How could Whiteleopard even suggest such a stupid thing? That's the whole reason Rushkit went out into the storm last night, he wanted to prove that just because he was small, he could be a warrior!
"Your a Zodiac Rushkit, you can't be pulling stunts like that ever again. If not for your own safety, then for the safety of RiverClan!" Whiteleopard's words held great wisdom.
"Don't you realize that you were sent here from StarClan for a reason? You have a gift, even if we don't know what that gift is quite yet."
Rushkit didn't want to hear anymore of this nonsense, he wasn't going to be a Medicine Cat and that was final! And he didn't want to be a stupid Zodiac either, not to mention the stupid symbol StarClan gave him.
Yes Rushkit had a symbol, his pads were pure white. White as snow, white as the clouds above his head. He glanced down at his two front pads, what use was having stupid white pads, that was a stupid symbol!
Hearing a distraught grunt from Whiteleopard, Rushkit heightened his gray gaze, and gasped at what he saw. There was a wreathing red light surrounding the Medicine Cat, it swirled and dappled like water but was the color of fire.
"Why are you staring at me like that?" she snapped, the light around her intensifying like an inferno.
And then something clicked in Rushkit's mind, the color was red because Whiteleopard was angry! Glancing across the den to see Copperpool who was sleeping peacefully after having a thorn stuck in her pool, Rushkit saw a cool blue light surrounding her.
"I have a power!" he instantly yelped, Rushkit wasn't useless after all.
But there was something that bothered the young kit, what was this power, and what use could it have towards RiverClan? Whatever it was though, Rushkit needed to find out soon, he had a feeling its going to have use in the near future.
And what that use was, Rushkit could only wait to find out.