Prologue
The black kit opened her eyes… The pale blue color engulfed them as she looked around the berry bush for the first time… Her siblings looked at her and mewled something that Ivy couldn't understand. Two cats came running in, a white she-cat and a black tom. Her sibling said something to her…
"Hi! I'm Thorn! Oh… Uh mom? What's her name?" The dark grey and white tabby tom said his blue eyes also shining.
"Oh Thron her name is Ivy…" The white she-cat said, "I'm your mom Cloud and this is your sister Willow, you met Thorn and he;" She nudges the dark grey full grown tom forward, "Is Smoke, your father."
"I'm so glad you finally opened your eyes! You can finally see the world!" Willow, a white she cat with a grey muzzle had a soft mew but very high pitched, like Thorn! Her mother's mew was calming and sweet while she had not heard her father's mew. Ivy glanced up at her father.
"May I go out of the bush father?" Ivy's mew was calming and quite deep for a kit.
"Yes you may Ivy!" Smoke's mew was firm and coarse.
"Ivy you came outside on your first day with your eyes opened! It took Thorn forever to get up his courage to even set foot on the sand outside of the nest!" Willow said. She was the eldest of the kits and Ivy was the youngest. Will I ever seem as confident as Willow? Ivy thought as she sniffed around.
"Hey! At least I was the first to open my eyes!" Thorn said boasting again.
"At least I was born first so I'm mother's favorite!" Willow boasted. Ivy glanced at her paws. She didn't look like her siblings or her parents… She thought she may have been taken in from a couple who couldn't care for their kits… Her eyes watered with sadness and she stalked off to a nearby tree. She climbed the tree by finding paw holds and sniffed the air once more. She smelled a new cat. She sniffed again. It smelled like her mother but less of a milky scent… Ivy thought that it must have been a she-cat. She heard some mews from the distance. And that is when the little kit met her friend.
"Hey I'm Ivy!" Ivy said. She looked almost identical to the kit almost her age maybe a bit older, except the new she-cat had developed her eye color which was red.
"I'm Dark!" She said and from that day forth, Ivy knew she made a friend...
