Pinekit yawned, blinking her eyes open. Her brother, Sparkkit, was asleep beside her. Her mother and everyone else around slept peacefully. Why was she the only one awake?

    She curled up and tried to sleep again, but, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't find her way to dreamland. Pinekit then decided that it would be best to get up and stretch. She carefully leaped over the tails and limbs of other cats in the nursery and padded out into the fresh night air.

    "Hey, what are you doing out here?" A soft voice questioned, prodding her with a white paw.

   Pinekit turned around to see the medicine cat, Birchwood, sitting there. She must not have noticed the she-cat. "I can't sleep," The brown kit admitted, staring up at her expectantly.

    "Come with me," Birchwood gestured, leading her to the medicine den.

    Pinekit sit in the center of the den as she stated, "I still wanna sleep with Sparkkit."

    "Oh, you will," Birchwood replied, searching through stacks of unfamiliar plants until she found tiny seed things and set one down. "Eat this and go back to the den. It should make you feel sleepy in no time."

    "Thank you, Birchwood," Pinekit purred, "You always know what to do."

***

    Pinekit woke up, but this time, Sparkkit was prodding her awake. After a moment, he jumped onto her, and Pinekit sleepily pawed him off.

    "Come on, Mom said we could play out in the clearing with Woodkit and Sprucekit!" Sparkkit exclaimed, bouncing around the nursery.

    Pinekit jumped up, leaping onto her mom's tail as it twitched into her paws, "Really?" She asked, pawing it back and fourth. Sparkkit joined in, batting the white tail tip back at her when she pushed it away.

"Well not if you don't go out and play with them," Coldflame chuckled, swishing her fluffy tail to her (also fluffy) side, "They're waiting for you with Willowcloud, I'm gonna go talk to your dad." She stood up and left the den, leaving the two in the den.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Pinekit exclaimed, leaping up and landing by the nursery entrance.

"Coming!" Sparkkit replied, jumping up and following her out of the nursery.

"We've been waiting for you two!" Sprucekit exclaimed, "My mom was about to drop the moss ball for us!

"Are you guys ready for the best game of moss ball you've ever played?" Sparkkit mewed, "Even though I will beat all of you!"

"Oh really?" Woodkit challenged, swishing his brown and white tail playfully.

Suddenly, the ball of moss went flying through the air, and all the kits leaped up to catch it. Pinekit caught it, only to get it pawed out of her claws by Sprucekit. Then Sparkkit pounced on her, snatching the ball, but getting toppled over by Woodkit. He squealed, rolling the brown tom off and jumping a step away with the ball.

As the kits continued to wrestle, though, Pinekit realized something. Something... odd.

    Sparkkit was acting really strange. It was like Sparkkit was getting weak, but it didn't seem like it was from all the playing.

A/N: I know this sucks, but we're just getting started.

Also, I wanna say that the main series is by Comandercat, so go follow her!