<Fluff! That's it, that's the chapter>

Sparrowflight woke up to the feel of a warm body leaving his side, though there was still a smaller -though still big- shape curled up to him. He blearily opened his violet eyes to see a muddy brown tail leave the nursery. Greenclaw, his mind supplied. But what was he doing in the nursery? And who was curled into him?

The small tom moved his head to look at his side, and a pleased and amused purr left him. Redpaw was curled up to him, his tail wrapped around the three sleeping kits much like Sparrowflight's own.

Seeing that the black-and-white tom was sleeping peacefully he chose to let him sleep. Though he did pull his tail out from under the tom and wrapped it around the younger too.

Sparrowflight didn't fall asleep, choosing to instead watch over the three sleeping cats.

As he rests he gets time to think over all that's happened. To think of all that changed in such a short time. In just one sunrise they had gone from hiding to being accepted into Spruceclan. Things like that would never happen in Oakclan. And he owed it all to the sleeping apprentice next to him. Redpaw had saved his siblings' lives, he was sure of that. They were just small kits, and he and Birdwing could only catch so much. The red eyed tom had really saved them. He should probably repay him in some way, though that would have to wait for a while.

He was broken out of thought by the sound of the needles (the weird leaf things on spruce trees) of the nursery opening rustling. He looked up to see a red and black speckled tom walk in, in his mouth he had a red flower. He looked a bit startled at seeing him awake, but he continued on, "Uh, hi. I'm Adderleaf." Adderleaf shifted a bit, looking unsure about what he should say next, "I-uh came to give you this flower, give the nursery some color for you and the kits to enjoy." He then noticed Redpaw's sleeping form to, and an amused tone entered his voice, "And for Redpaw too, I guess."

Sparrowflight let out an amused pur, Adderleaf soon joining in himself. He calmed down a bit before addressing the red tom, "Thank you Adderleaf, I'm sure the kits will love it."

The standing tom nodded, happy that the smaller liked his gift. He gently placed it down next to Sparrowfligt, silently telling him to choose it's placement. The light brown tom debated it for a few moments, before deciding to gently place it a few mousesteps away from where his head was resting, "So that I too can enjoy it." Explained Sparrowflight at Adderleaf's questioning look.

Once more a cat entered the nursery, this time somecat Sparrowlight recognized. It was Frostfoot, the medicine cat holding a few herbs in her mouth. She placed them down before greeting the two, "Hello you two! All is well I hope?"

"Wonderful, you've all been nothing but kind." Purred Sparrowglight, meaning every word.

The she-cat smiled at him, "I'm glad! Now how about you two get something to eat whilst I keep an eye on these four? I'm sure you'd be happy to get out of here, if only for a bit."

"That would be lovely." Said the light brown tom, carefully raising himself out of the nest. He was being careful as to not wake anyone of the sleeping cats, especially not the kits. Greenclaw would probably be barging in to get Redpaw up for training any moment now, the deputy was after all known for taking training apprentices very seriously.

As he and Adderleaf walked out into camp, Frostfoot quickly got to work on checking up on the tree kits, doing a check on Redpaw too whilst she could.

Sparrowflight hadn't gotten to admire the camp when he first arrived. But he could now, and it was wonderful.

The Spruceclan camp was made up of a mountain side surrounded by thick leaf thorn bushes. There were two small caves that had been naturally carved out that were covered by vines. In the center of camp was a big tree stump, in one of its sides a hole had been carved out of it. There was an old hollow tree on one of the sides. Next to the nursery there was a stone circle with freshkill in it. And on the other side of that was another den similar to the nursery, covered by needles, but there were ferns too.

"Oh! Let me show you around after we eat, and I'll introduce you to those we meet too!" Said Adderleaf making his way to the freshkill pile, picking out a big mouse and handing it to Sparrowflight before taking a vole for himself.

Thay sat down next to the nursery and started eating, the two making small talk. It didn't take long for them to finish so they soon started their tour around camp.

"Over there are the warriors and apprentices den." Said Adderleaf, pointing towards the cave, "And the fallen tree is our medicine cats den. Turtlestar sleeps in the hole of the old stump. And next to the nursery is the elders den! I'm sure the kits will be coming here often, so good thing both their all gentel cats, even Wolfsong and Flintshade."

The old dark brown tom resting right outside the elders den let out a low rumble, "Sure, you only say that now because we're old. Or need I remind you of when you yourself were a kit?"

Adderleaf ducked his head in embarrassment, licking at his chest. Sparrowflight on the other hand looked very interested, "What was he like as a kit?"

"Very skittish, wouldn't even go near me unless it was with my son. Though it became a bit hard when I was chosen as his mentor." Said the elder teasingly, ear twitching in amusement, "I'm Wolfsong by the way, it's a pleasure having you and your siblings here."

"Thank you." Thanked Sparrowflight, happy to be accepted by the old tom.

"Let's go meet some other cats, yeah?" Interrupted Adderleaf, tail twitching almost anxiously.

Sparrowflight looked at him with a playful look, but followed without protest.

They soon approached two apprentices talking animatedly about something, battle moves Sparrowflight would guess by them flexing their claws. It wasn't actually any of them who noticed the two older toms approaching, but a third apprentice coming out of the den, "Oh! Hey Adderleaf and new cat!"

"Hello Blossompaw, how are you?" Asked Adderleaf, sitting down with the three apprentices and motioning for Sparrowflight to do the same.

"I'm doing good!" Purred the white tom, "Bubblefoot is going to show me how to properly rebuild the nursery and elders den if they ever get damaged today!"

"That's good, especially now that we have four new cats who live in the nursery."

"Five if you count Redpaw." Added Sparrowflight, his whisker twitching in amusement.

"So that's where he went!" Cried a scarred brown apprentice, "I'm Scarpaw by the way."

"Oh! And I'm Sunpaw!" Added the pale golden tabby sitting next to the other apprentice.

Sparrowflight purred at their enthusiasm, "Hello you three! You might already know that I'm Sparrowflight."

The three apprentices seemed like they wanted to say more but the double call of, "Scarpaw!" "Sunpaw!" Stopped that. The two mentioned gave bashful smiles and quick goodbye's before bounding off towards their mentors. And Blossompaw, seeing his two friends leave, gave his own goodbye before walking off and doing something else.

Adderleaf looked around, seeing if there was some other cat he could introduce Sparrowflight to, but there was no one else in the snow covered camp for the other to see.

"Huh, there's usually many more cats out at this time."

"Maybe they're out on patrolling or hunting?" Suggested the light brown tom to the other, "Or maybe they're just escaping the cold by staying in their dens?"

"It is rather cold." Agreed Adderleaf, red eyes looking at the old tree stump in the middle of camp that was completely covered in snow, "So we better get you back into the nursery! You're a fluffy cat, so I'm sure the kits will be missing your warmth by now."

"Your right!" Agreed Sparrowflight, quickly turning to run in the direction of the nursery, making Adderleaf scramble to follow him, "And I better let Frostfoot go back to her other duties!"

And just like that the two were back in the nursery, Sparrowflight once more curled up around the kits. When he arrived the medicine cat had been trying to gently wake up Redpaw, without much success. The light brown tom had told her to stand back and watch him, he then proceeded to scope a bit of snow onto his paw before dumping it on the tom, being mindful of his kit siblings. That got the red-and-white tom up, and after shaking himself off the snow started laughing with the older cats, who had laughed as soon as he startled awake. He along with Frostfoot left after that, though Adderleaf stayed for a bit longer. Not that Sparrowflight minded, he'd always been a cat that likeded having company, so Adderleaf was actually helping.

Though the red tom did have to leave for patrol eventually, but that was okay since he said he'd try to bring back another flower. And the kits would hopefully be awake by then too, so they'd get to enjoy the gift properly.

All in all, Sparrowflight really liked it in Spruceclan so far. And he was sure he'd like it for the rest of his life.

<So fluff and camp descriptions! And introductions to a few characters, only a few though. I really think this is turning out good so far, I'm really happy with this! So I hope you've all enjoyed this. Stay safe and have a wonderful time everyone!>