I took Frostfoot-Dreamleaf's challenge!!! This will be Awesome!!! anyway, so yeah. I have to write 100 stories and fast, cause I have to beat her and RiverLee. I probably won't update any other stories for a while, besides the fact that I must re-find my old files...so, wish me luck!! (if you want to join, pm me or reveiw)

Beginning

A soft paw poked my side. I raised my head to see the furry face of Brambletalon staring at me. "Frostleaf has been begging for you all night."

I leaped up, my fur standing on end. "Well, why didn't you get me before, mouse-brain?" I hissed.

Brambletalon shrank back. "Jadeleaf said you needed your rest," the gray tabby tom growled. "And anyway, those poppy seeds you took really knocked you out." his whiskers twitched with amusement, and I caught a glimpse of the old Brambletalon, before his mate Featherstorm died.

I flicked him with my tail and headed out of the warriors den. Mousepaw and Thunderpaw were playing by their den, and my apprentice raised her eyes as I approached. "Are you going to see Frostleaf?" Mousepaw asked eagerly.

"Yes Mousepaw." I simply replied, "And I've asked Breezeblade to take over your training until she is well again." With that I continued to the nursery, where my mate lay. She was panting hard. Unknown to me, after a battle in the camp, she had started labor, but her kits had not yet come.

"Li-on-flash," she choked out. Jadeleaf, the medicine cat, crouched near her. "I-want-ed you,"

"Hush," Jadeleaf ran her tail down my mate's flank. I padded near and lay beside her. Memories flashed through my mind; the day we became mates, when we found out she was having kits, all the laughs we shared and fun we had as apprentices. Suddenly the golden she-cat sat bolt upright. "I can see her kits coming!"

It nearly killed me to watch as Frostleaf began panting, her flanks heaving as she fought for breath. She let out a screech of pain. I tensed, my claws dug deep into the nursery floor. Soon a kit was by Jadeleaf. She pushed it toward me. "Lick," she commanded. I began licking my kit's fur to stimulate breathing. Then I saw something that made my blood run cold.

Blood was flowing around Jadeleaf as she worked to help get the next kit out. Finally it was beside me as well, and Moonflower padded over to help lick its fur clean. But I was more concerned about the blood. Where was it coming from?

Jadeleaf backed up, her paws leaving smudges of blood from where she sat in it. Soon it soaked the whole nursery floor. Frostleaf was dying! "StarClan no!" I screeched. Memories fluttered in my head...

Mother was lying on the patch of moss. Jadepaw and Grasstail crouched near her, her breaths coming in deep gasps. My father stood beside me, watching his mate with round eyes.

"Fluttertail! Fluttertail no!" Grasstail yowled his grief for his sister. "I am so sorry Bladetalon..." My father let out a screech and collapsed near my mother. Mother was dead? But she was still so young, younger than my father. Grief crashed over me, but I could not get the vision from my mind, that deep, dark, glistening blood...

At last Jadeleaf let out a sigh. "I am sorry, Lionflash. Frostleaf will not survive." I shook my head. She had cobwebs pressed along the white she-cats rump and flank, but they were soaked through with blood. Frostleaf was lying motionless. Numb, I padded forward to gaze into the beautiful green eyes for the last time.

"Remember, this is not the end..." she whispered, before giving one last wail and falling still.

"No," I whispered, my voice quiter than ever. "It is the end."

From somewhere in the breeze, wrapping around my two newborn kits, and blinking at me, I saw the ghost of Frostleaf. "Not the end...the beginning."