Welcome to my world of Warriors Cats. Erin Hunter owns everything except for the things I made up out of my own mind. Flame all you want, I will glady welcome it with open arms. Now on with the show!
Chapter 1: Loosing Everything
Shadowkit wakes up suddenly, her heart pounding. Her golden brown eyes blink in the sudden light, and she squints to make out what she is seeing. As her vision clears, her horror grows. Right outside the nursery of her clan, a fire is roaring! Her mother, Featherdust, wakes up and yowls in alarm.
"Shadowkit! get your siblings up!" Shdowkit rushes to obey, stumbling over her tail in the process. She gets to her youngest sibling, a tom named Flickerkit, and recoils in despair.
"Mamma! Flickerkit is dead." She goes to her other sibling, Rosekit, and licks her fur gently. Featherdust pushes Rosekit away and nudges Shadowkit to the the entrance of the nursery.
"They are both dead, sweetie. We have to leave." With one last look at her dead siblings, Shadowkit rushes into the smoke-filled clearing. Featherdust looks around in agony and yowls,"Cloudstar! Where are you?" Cindervole, the medicine cat, limps past and collpses.
"Our leader... is dead. We need... t-to..." Shadowkit watches as Cindervole dies and then turns to her mother.
"Dad is dead," she mews timidly, afraid to believe it. Her mother nods and noses Shadowkit forward.
"No time to mourn. We need to leave!"
The two she-cats stumble towards the entrance of their camp, starting to weaken from breathing in the fumes of the rapidly growing fire. A familliar yowl rings through the clearing, sending Featherdust running on winged paws into the apprentice's den. She comes out a few seconds later with Leechpaw, a tom from her first litter, in her jaws.
"C'mon," she mumbles through a mouthful of fur. Shadowkit, starting to fell woozy, pads quickly to the tunnel used as a main entrance and exit. After a while, she turns around.
"Do you think the othe-" Shadowkit breaks off as she realizes she is alone. In a state of panic, she rushes back into the tunnel. Featherdust is lying there, her body curled around the slowly dying Leechpaw, in the middle of the tunnel.
"We have to leave! Come on," Shadowkit mewls urgently as she noses her mother's fur. Featherdust purrs hoarsly at her daughter and mews, "All of my kits, my mate, my clanmates, every cat I care for is here and dead except for you. I am an old cat. My life is over. But you, you still have a life to live." Featherdust, ignoring her daughter's protests, bats Shadowkit to the entrance.
"I love you and I will be with you forever," she mews. Shadowkit cries out and starts to run back, but there is a loud crunch and the tunnel collapses. She wathces in frozen dismay as her camp, her clanmates, her mother, all go down in flames. She stays frozen for a couple seconds and then, with a strangled yowl, throws herself at the burning branches blocking the entrance.
"Momma! Momma please! Don't... do not leave me here alone," her mewl dies out when she realizes the truth of what she said. She is alone all alone. Her tail falls to the ground and her shoulderss slump. She collapses and there, surrounded by flames and burning shrubbery, keening in despair. The four moon old kit decides then to give up on living and the keening stops. Shadowkit wathces with sad eyes as the flames around her grow closer and closer, eating up ground and nature alike.
'Why fight,' she thinks. 'I have lost everything anyway.'
So there it is. The first chapter of my story. Send me some feedback if you please! It would be greatly appreciated. I will do more when I get some readers. Thank you all and good days!