Zodiac (warrior cats)

Chapter 5

A warm current uprooted the leaves from the previous Leaf-Fall, carrying them across the bright green moor. Hills surrounded the land scape as far as the eye could see, well at least Ferretkit's eye.
The tiny cream and brown kit peaked out of the whole in the roof of the nursery, his hazel eyes round at the world sprawled out before him.
Robins were flying across the azure sky, their bright red chests shining in the sunlight.
Losing interest with just looking at the outside world, Ferretkit backed up so he could get out of the whole. The nursery was nothing more than a mound of earth sculpted around the queens.
Most of WindClan chose to sleep out in the open under the stars, but with the dangers of the forest, the queens and kits needed to be well protected.
"Spottedkit" he meowed his sisters name, poking the spotted brown she-cat who was snoring loudly.
"Branchkit wake up!" he prodded his dark brown brother, who was sprawled out on his back with his tiny brown paws folded in the air.
"What?" his sister mumbled tiredly, "Ferrekit go back to sleep, its to early" she flicked her brother away with her tail.
The cream and brown tom sighed, "Don't you two know what today is? Thistlestar's holding our apprentices ceremony!".
Instantly both of his siblings darted upwards, their ears perked and eyes round with surprise.
"I almost forgot!" Branchkit squeaked, "Thanks for reminding us Ferretkit, Ravenpelt would have been angry with us if we didn't make the ceremony."
Moving with his siblings to the nursery entrance, Ferretkit gasped as a pelt blocked his entrance.
"Where do you three think your going?" Rosefern, their mother, demanded while her tail lashed.
"It's our apprentice ceremony!" Spottedkit told her mother, as Branchkit tried to push past her.
"Can't we go?" Ferretkit asked, his mother wasn't going to stop them from going was she? He did have to admit that the three of them were a bit annoying sometimes, but that was how all kits were!
Right?
"Not looking like that you can't" Rosefern sighed, lowering herself to lap at Branchkit's pelt.
All three of them were covered in twigs and bracken, but who in StarClan's name cared!? They were going to be apprentices, almost warriors! Once the queen groomed all three of her kits pelts, Ferretkit and his two siblings pushed past her.
The temperature was just perfect for the three kits to be made apprentices. It was warm but not hot, and it held a bit of a chill in the air from Leaf-Bare.
"Look there's Thistlestar!" Branchkit pointed with his front paw to the long-furred leader who was speaking with his deputy Sunstrike.
Ferretkit breathed softly, he wondered who his mentor would be? There were the two senior warriors Stonefeather and Russetheart, but they were getting old.
Ferretkit needed a strong mentor to teach him everything he needed to know, like Waspfur or his own father Ravenpelt. But sadly his father had an apprentice already, Ferretkit spotted Cloudedpaw by the apprentices den.
"Hi Ferretkit" a voice meowed from behind.
The cream striped tom turned to see his den-mate Sprucekit, and her sister Lionkit. At a lost for words, Ferretkit began to feel hot with embarrassment, why was he so awkward?
He had liked Sprucekit ever since they were two-moons old, her pelt was the color of autumn, and her eyes were like bright green blades of grass.
"I'm here too" Lionkit broke the silence, eyeing Ferretkit up and down suspiciously.
The golden she-cat didn't particularly like that Ferretkit fancied her sister. It wasn't like she liked him or anything like that, but ever since the two's sister Pricklekit died last moon, they were quite close.
Ferretkit and Sprucekit did have somewhat of a bond, they were the Zodiac's of WindClan. Although Ferretkit did wish it was one of his siblings and not him, he hated all the attention from the other cats of WindClan.
And that stupid lightning bolt symbol across his ear, what did that mean? But Sprucekit had a completely different attitude towards it all, she loved being a Zodiac, although both had no signs of a power whatsoever.
"May all cats old enough to catch their first rabbit, gather here beneath the Tall-Mound."
All five kits gasped in excitement as the call from their leader Thistlestar echoed across the scoop of WindClan camp.
Ferretkit could only wish one thing as he moved forward to become an apprentice, Please let me be normal. I just want to be normal like everyone else.
But deep down Ferretkit knew that he could never be normal, and if that was a blessing from StarClan or a curse from the Dark Forest, he had yet to know.