Chapter 1
Flakes of snow fell from the overcast sky.
A tiny white spot drifted onto Charredkit's nose, making him sneeze outside the nursery. This was the first moon full of snow, the others were just full of frost and little snow showers over night.
Charredkit really enjoyed the snow, especially the previous night when a blizzard hit the forest, it was awesome!
"Come play with us" a meow sounded behind the ginger tom.
He turned to see a small sand-furred kit staring at him with round icy blue eyes.
"I don't want to play, Sandkit. I want to be out there in the snow hunting for my clan!". Why oh why did he only have to be five-moons old?
His littermate sighed, "Fine I guess I'll just go find Timberkit and Heatherkit than. Your almost as boring as Bluekit now!".
Narrowing his eyes, Charredkit turned back to the thorn-tunnel, awaiting the return of his father. Burntpelt was one of the mightiest warriors of ThunderClan ever to walk this earth, when Charredkit became a warrior, he's going to be just like him!
Wrapping his tail around his paws for warmth, Charredkit noticed the crimson spiral wreathing around the edge of his tail tip. It had jagged sharp edges like those of a flame, and circled all the way up to the very tip of his fluffy tail.
"Why did StarClan give me this?" he asked curiously to no one in particular.
The young tom had heard his mother Scorchcloud, and the leader Dovestar talking about him and Bluekit. Apparently they were something called Zodiac's, but what were those?
Charredkit certainly never heard that word before! As more snow began to fall during the course of the day, Charredkit soon became bored of waiting around, and went in search of adventure!
"Hi Grovepaw!" he greeted the gray tom with bright green eyes as he stood guard at the entrance, "Have you seen Jayfeather?".
The apprentice shook his head, "No, but you know how he is, always wondering off for no apparent reason. Lionblaze tried to convince him to join the elders den again this morning you know".
Charredkit perked his ears, "How did it go?".
Grovepaw flicked his tail towards the elders den, "Go in there and take a look at Lionblaze's nest, its full of crushed berries."
The ginger kit winced, the elder Lionblaze should know better than to mess with Jayfeather, he had quite a sour attitude.
Wandering off to look for something else to do, Charredkit noticed the two warriors Crimsonrise and Quilfur sharing tongues at the base of the rocky ledge.
"Yuck!" he spat loud enough for them to hear, "Save that for New-Leaf!".
Everyone knew that New-Leaf was the best time for kits to be born, and the clans certainly did need more kits! ThunderClan didn't really need anymore, although him, Sandkit and Bluekit's littermates were going to be apprentices in less than a moon!
Not to mention that Leafbreeze's kits were sick with Green-Cough. Charredkit's little friend Crowkit had went to join StarClan only two nights ago, now Leafbreeze only had one kit left, and that was Ebonykit.
The little black she-cat had quite an attitude alright, probably from her grandmother Icecloud who was in the elders den currently.
Suddenly the tiny kit caught the sight of a dark gray tail disappearing behind the Medicine Cat's entrance, and instantly followed. Sure enough, the scent of Jayfeather hung in the air, the Medicine Cat had returned.
Pushing through the opening, Charredkit took a moment to look around the den. There were holes on the walls on either side to store herbs inside, and a small pool in the back to get fresh water.
And then his eyes focused on something at the bottom of the cavern, "Blueberries!".
Instantly the fluffy kit darted forward, but soon the berries disappeared and were replaced by a mangy Medicine Cat.
"What are you doing in here Charredkit?" Jayfeather snapped, picking up the berries in his mouth and hiding them where Charredkit couldn't reach them.
Moving his tail forward with his front paw, the ginger kit beckoned forward.
"Why do I have this marking on my tail" he asked outright, "And what's all this talk about Zodiac's, what are they?".
The old gray tom sighed for a moment, then sat down next to the five-moon old tom. Charredkit perked his ears, was Jayfeather finally going to tell him?
"Do you remember how I told you that your mother and Bluekit's mother gave birth on the same night don't you?" he fixed a firm gaze on Charredkit.
"Yup" he nodded, "That's rare isn't it?"
"Yes" Jayfeather answered solemnly, "Very Rare. And that's why at first I didn't believe it was possible, but then StarClan sent me an omen."
Charredkit perked his ears, "An omen?" weren't omens only sent from StarClan when something bad was going to happen.
Jayfeather nodded, "They told me that not only did two ThunderClan queens give birth that night, but so did five other queens."
Charredkit gasped, that wasn't even possible! He had known Leafbreeze and Coldpoppy were pregnant at the same time, and her kits were born half a moon late!
"And one kit from each litter was born with not only a symbol" Charredkit glanced down at his flame tipped tail, "But a power as well."
"A power? You mean like how you can always tell when someone is trying to steal Blueberries?".
Jayfeather smirked a little and moved forward, "Not quite Charredkit, we still don't know what most of the Zodiac's powers are, only one has been discovered."
Instantly Charredkit's mind began racing with thoughts. What if he had the power to fly!? Or he could have the power to be the strongest cat in the whole forest!
But then realization hit Charredkit, "I don't even have a power yet" and what if he never got one? But Charredkit was as determined as ever to find out what this power was.
Did Bluekit even know what her power was yet?
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