Hey hey hey! It's Tansy and I'm here with a series of one-shots called How I Met Your Father, which is basically just any she-cat from warriors telling their sons and daughters as kits how she met their father. :) it's not going to be a crossover, thought, because I'm only using Warriors. Let the story begin!
Disclaimer: I don't own warriors. :T
It was a rainy day in the ThunderClan camp that night. Dark and rainy. Gloomy, one might say. Dreadful. Anyways, it was a rainy day. Firestar had cancelled all patrols for the time being, seeing it was raining so hard. Over in the nursery, a restless kit was trying to escape the cramped den.
"Whitekit, come here!" A small, pure white kit trudged back to her mother from the entrance of the nursery. "How many times do I have to tell you? You can't go outside until the rain stops completely. I don't want you tracking water in here."
"Sorry, Brightheart," the small she-kit squeaked sadly, trudging back over to her mother at the back of the den and climbing back into the (mostly) dry nest.
"It's alright." The white and ginger-patched queen sighed. "Just try and get some sleep."
"Sleep?" Whitekit meowed. "It's the middle of the day!"
Brightheart sighed again. "Well, maybe if you sleep some, when you wake up the rain will have gone."
It was Whitekit who sighed this time. "Okay," she grunted. But it wasn't long after she had closed her eyes that she fidgeted and lifted her head up again. "I can't sleep."
Brightheart was silent for a moment, closing her eyes. Then she opened them and said, "Do you want to hear a story?"
Whitekit sat up in the nest and smiled. "Ooh! Yes, please!" she mewed.
"Okay," Brightheart purred. "But you have to lay down and be silent so that you don't wake Ferncloud." Whitekit looked over at the plump, expecting queen at the other side of the den and nodded, laying down again. Brightheart righted herself.
"Do you want me to tell you about the time that I met Cloudtail?" The young queen whispered. The small she-kit nodded. "Okay." Brightheart cleared her throat.
"It was when we were kits that we met, but it was during my apprenticeship that I fell in love with him." Whitekit opened her mouth to speak but her mother shushed her with a flick of the tail.
"As I've told you before, I got this," Brightheart gestured to the scar on the place where her left eye should have been, "from fighting the dog pack with Swiftpaw. Do you remember me telling you that story?" Whitekit nodded, and winced at the memories of the tale. "Well. It was after that incedent, actually right after it, that Cinderpelt healed me the best she could. I was in the medicine den for at least a half moon." Whitekit grimaced, and Brightheart chuckled at the kit's contorted face.
"I know, my kit. Anyway, I was in the medicine den for a very long time. And while I was there, Cloudtail would come and comfort me. He'd lay with me, and sort of protect me, even though there was nothing more at that moment to protect me from." The queen had a wistful glance on her face before continuing that story. "He'd stay with me, when no one else but Cinderpelt would even look at me. I was happy that he was there for me. Up until that point, I was jealous of him; that was the whole reason I went to attack the dogs.
"When I got well enough to resume my apprentice duties, Cloudtail helped me with every skill I needed to learn, and even master. Then, when I finally received my apprentice name, Bluestar named me," Brightheart elaborated on the word and said it with disgust, "Lostface." Whitekit gasped, and her mother nodded.
"I know. Cloudtail was furious, and demanded her to change my name to something sensible. She refused. Then, after Bluestar died and Firestar became leader, he changed my name to Brightheart. Cloudtail was as happy as I was, and shared my joy in almost everything after that. He even helped me adapt more using just my one good eye. That was when I understood that he lover me, and at I truly loved him back."
Whitekit purred. "The end." Brightheart meowed. "No!" Whitekit exclamied. Brightheart looked over at the snoring Ferncloud and shushed her only kit.
"No!" Whitekit whispered. "Tell me more!" Brightheart shook her head and Whitekit's ear drooped.
"I'll tell you another story some other time, my kit," she purred. "For now, get some sleep. I'll wake you when the rain ends."
So they both fell sound asleep. But the next morning, Whitekit woke up first to the sound of birds chirping and no rain thrumming on the earthy ground. She smiled.
So, how'd you like it? Tell me in the reviews if you want more, hate it, or just don't know what to think. Also, you can submit queens, their mates, and kits they tell their stories to in the reviews. I only have so many ideas! ;) I randomly got this idea because it's raining where I live- *walks to nearest window and opens the curtain. Walks back*- or it was raining. It must have stopped awhile ago. Hehe... Anyways, bye kitties! I'll write mor soon!
-Tansywish :)