Otterheart's Legacy

Leader
Nettlestar - Small tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes and messy fur

Deputy
Lakesong - Strikingly beautiful blue-grey she-cat with orange eyes

Medicine Cat
Frostwing - Large white tom with icy-blue eyes and sleek fur

Warriors (toms and she-cats without kits)
Buzzardfur - Huge brown tom with matted fur, brown eyes and an overbite

Heronwhisker - Tall tabby grey she-cat with dark blue eyes (Apprentice: Quailpaw)

Eelfoot - Tiny black tom with lithe fur and light green eyes

Toadleap - Light grey tom with brown eyes

Wolfbite - Muscular tabby black/grey tom with amber eyes (Apprentice: Ripplepaw)

Icepelt - Beautiful white she-cat with green eyes

Darkpond - Large black she-cat with striking light blue eyes (Apprentice: Gorsepaw)

Snowbreeze - White tabby she-cat with unusually long claws and brown eyes (Apprentice: Spiderpaw)

Dewstripe - Blue/grey tom with bright green eyes

Echoflake - Small brown to with amber eyes and one ear

Apprentices (more than six moons old, in training to become warriors)
Quailpaw - Small white tom with light brown dapples and amber eyes

Ripplepaw - Tabby she-cat with blue eyes

Spiderpaw - Muscular black tom with abnormally long legs and green eyes

Gorsepaw - Dark grey tom with white-tipped ears and brown eyes

Queens (She-cats expecting or nursing kits)
Foxblossom - Beautiful red she-cat with a white, bushy tail and amber eyes (Kits: Otterkit, Thornkit)

Slatestream - Tiny grey she-cat with pitch-black eyes (Kits: Beekit, Stormkit, Lilykit)

Goosefern - Calico she-cat with blue and green eyes (Kits: Willowkit, Cherrykit, Poolkit)

Elders (Former warriors and queens, now retired)
Silverstripe - Small light grey she-cat with dark blue eyes

Primrosepelt - Orange she-cat with white paws and amber eyes

Volefur - Brown tom with light green eyes

Chapter 1
Otterkit slowly stalked her helpess, tiny prey one foot at a time, lightly crushing the undergrowth burried underneath her tiny paws. The prey was completely unexpecting its ever-so-soon fate, standing dead still, taking in the golden beams on sunlight. Otterkit took one more pawstep, and...

''"Got you!" ''

Otterkit howled in triumph as she held the play mossball inbetween her small jaws. Her bobtail was twitching with pride as all the other kits murmured about her success. "Told you I could catch the mossball faster than you, Thornkit!" She meowed as Thornkit stared in awe. "Mousedung!" He wailed while the other kits continued playing with the moss. Foxblossom's ears perked up and she immediately turned facing Thornkit. "How many times have I told you not to say that word?" She snapped. Thornkit looked down at the ground while licking his paw, his fur hot with embarrassment.

"You think you're so special, don't you, Otterkit?" Stormkit sneered while Foxblossom, Slatestream, and Goosefern were chatting away right outside of the nursery. Otterkit's fur stood on end. Just hearing Stormkit's voice annoyed her. Otterkit turned around and faced Stormkit eye to eye. "This has nothing to do with you. Why do you always have to ruin everything I do, Stormkit?" Otterkit replied with fury. Stormkit laughed and plopped down next to his best friend, Poolkit. Otterkit knew that both of the toms were much larger and stronger than her, but she refused to back down. "Like you guys are gonna intimidate me! I could beat you one clawed with my eyes closed." She protested. Stormkit narrowed his eyes and hissed, "Aww, what are you gonna do? Cry to your daddy? Oh wait, I forgot, you can't because he's dead!" He and Poolkit then broke into laughter. "Flea-chewer!" Otterkit yelled. Stormkit's eyes suddenly shot open in fury. All the kits remember the horrible event when Stormkit bit an entire chunk of his fur off trying to nip at a flea to this day. "Dirt-eater!" He yowled back, all of his fur on end. "Dog-lover!" Otterkit almost immediately hissed back. "Toad-licker!" He sneered, about to claw into Otterkit's back. "Foxdung!" Otterkit roared, about to jump. All of the other kits jaws nearly dropped to the floor while Otterkit swayed her tail in victory. However, almost out of nowhere, Foxblossom pawed Otterkit's tiny ear. "What did you just say...?" She hissed. Otterkit jumped up and flopped over in surprise. "N-Nothing!" Otterkit wailed. "I heard you loud and clear. You know I yell at your brother all the time because of that. Now stay with me, Goosefern and Foxblossom." Foxblossom growled. Otterkit grudgingly agreed, holding back tears as everyone stared and laughed at her.

Lilykit's ears perked up and she pounced over to her best friend. "What happened over there, Otterkit?" She asked, sitting down next to Otterkit. Otterkit sighed and cried, "He thinks he's all that when he's not! I want to rip his grey stripes right off of his fur." Lilykit chuckled and replied, "Just imagine sleeping in the same nest as the grouchy furball like me!" Otterkit smiled and looked over at Foxblossom, whom was no longer paying attention to the little kits. "I say we go back into the nursery and play mossball tag!" She declared while racing with the mossball inbetween her jaws. Lilykit stood up and matched Otterkit's speed while running back inside.

Stormkit was interrupted while proudly boasting about meaningless events as Otterkit violently threw the mossball at his back. "HEY! Who did that?!" He yowled. Otterkit fluffed her tail and taunted Stormkit, coaxing her paw to her direction. Stormkit hissed and chased after her with the mossball. And thus, for the rest of the night, the entire band of kits spent their time chasing after eachother with a tiny mossball.

...

Otterkit woke up early in the morning with a shiver. She peered over, noticing that her brother was shivering in his deep sleep. Even the warmth of Foxblossom's red fur wasn't enough to block out the sudden drop in temperature. Otterkit's tiny ears peered up as she slowly regained her balance trying to stand in the freezing cold.