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Kitten-blue eyes glared at the she-kit. “Permanently wanting to be a queen IS stupid,” he hissed at Strawberrykit when she spoke up. “Especially when a tom wants to be one. He can’t even have kits!” The facts of life were clearly well-known to this four-moon-old kit. Oxkit remained entirely unaffected by Ambercloud’s words. She was Strawberrykit’s and Applekit’s mother, not his. Why would he care what she thought? “Queens are warriors on break, they don’t need your protection,” he added for good measure.

Brown ears swiveled suspiciously to Blackwolf’s private conversation with Ambercloud, but the kit couldn’t hear what they were saying. Instead, Oxkit began grooming himself, taking note of how thick and long his fur was getting. Long fur was better than short fur, the kit decided. It kept the cat warmer. He had heard that there was a time when it wasn’t cold out, a season called “green-leaf”, but he was starting to not believe it existed. While attempting to reach a spot on his back, light-blue eyes caught sight of the kit this entire argument was over, just hiding in the corner. Oxkit turned to face the (in his mind) fellow tom and meowed at him, “Stop being so mouse-hearted, Applekit. You’re going to have to be a warrior someday.”

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Ambercloud
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She listened to both Strawberrykit and Blackwolf before she sighed lightly. She looked down at Applekit before she walked over to him and she wrapped her tail around him gently. She looked to Oxkit then and she hissed at the kit. "Mind yourself Oxkit. With how you are acting, you will stay in this nursery with me, and I am sure Ravenstar will agree with me." She walked away from everyone and over to Oxkit.

"A warrior is supposed to support his clan, not bring his clan mates down. You are, right now, being a bad warrior. If you continue as this, you will more than likely get stuck cleaning out nests and checking the elders for ticks." She looked back to the group and she mewed to Oxkit once more. "Leave Applekit alone. If I hear about it again, I will have a chat with Ravenstar. Applekit has his thoughts and you have yours, now keep yours to yourself."

She walked back over to Applekit, Strawberrykit, and Blackwolf and she wrapped her tail around Applekit again. She looked at Strawberrykit and sighed. "Strawberrykit, you also need to think of helping Applekit to be a warrior." She looked down at Applekit then and she licked the top of his head. She whispered to him then, "I know what you want Applekit, but you also need to remember that you are a tom. You will be a warrior no matter what. And please remember, I love you no matter what." She licked his head once more and sat down beside him.

She looked to Blackwolf then and nodded a thank you to him for breaking up the fight. She would talk to him later about it fully.

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Strawberrykit
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A momentary flash of anger was clear as daylight in the young she-kit's eyes, but she was quick to turn her gaze to the floor to mask it. Her pelt rippled slightly as she battled her anger. The notion of Applekit becoming a warrior. Why couldn't he be a queen? That's what he wanted, he shouldn't be forced to become a warrior if what he really wanted was to be a queen. Holding back the cry of complete exasperation that threatened to break from her mouth, the mottled brown she-kit stood up and padded silently from the nursery. She needed to get some fresh air.

The colder air bit at her, but she didn't care, sitting herself down to gaze up at the expanse of sky above her. If she stared at the sky, she couldn't be angry. Yet her claws continued to flex as she battled the anger that was bubbling inside her. This whole thing was stupid. Applekit was to be a queen. Why couldn't that foxbrained Oxkit understand and accept that?

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Applekit had sat through the whole ordeal rather silent, the only words he had muttered were his side of the story to Blackwolf. He had digested all the information that was thrown around throughout the ordeal and watched as the scales tipped away from his favor. It seemed everyone but strawberrykit was keenly leaning away from what he wanted and even if by some miracle his wish came true he realized he was going to be up against keen opposition from all sides. For the second time in the whole big talk that everyone seemed to be having without his input he spoke, “I won’t be a warrior if I leave.” He said in a dejected voice, hanging his head he started for the entrance of the nursery. He didn’t know where he would go or if he would get far at all, Strawberrykit had just left and for all he knew she would probably just send him back into the den.

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O X K I T

Light blue eyes stared incredulously at Ambercloud. What was she talking about; he didn't do anything wrong! At the threat of being held back as an apprentice, the kit hissed furiously at the queen, fur puffing out. He wasn't bringing any cat down; he was telling the other kits what they were doing wrong! He couldn't believe that this cat was so blind as to side against him! "What do I care what you think!" the kit hissed out at Ambercloud angrily before dashing out of the nursery. Why were the other cats so stupid?

As the kit walked out into the common camp area, he pondered what to do. Oxkit wasn't returning to the nursery any time soon, that was for sure, but he had no plans of trying to leave the tunnels. Maybe he could find an unused little side-shooting tunnel to sleep in until he could join the apprentice's den... There was clearly no reason to stay in the nursery anymore. Those other kits were stupid, and their fake mother clearly had no intent of teaching them what was reasonable and what wasn't. With this plan in mind, the dark-colored kit stuck to the walls of camp, searching for an alternative sleeping place for the night.