ThunderClan

Leader- Bramblestar- Huge dark tabby tom

Deputy- Thornclaw- Ginger tom

Medicine Cat- Jayleaf- Blind blue/grey tom with bright blue eyes, apprentice, Cinderpelt

Warriors- Cloudtail- White tom

Ashfur- Pale grey with darker flecks, dark blue eyed tom

Sorreltail- Tortoiseshell and white she-cat, apprentice, Foxpaw

Spiderleg- long limbed black tom

Brookfur- Brown tabby she-cat with grey eyes (Formerly Brook Where Small Fish Swim)

Whitewing- White she-cat with green eyes

Mousefoot- Grey and white tom, apprentice, Icepaw

Poppytail- tortoiseshell she-cat

Berrytalon- Cream colored tom, only half a tail

Lionheart- Golden tom with amber eyes

Apprentices- Foxpaw- Auburn tom

Icepaw- White she-cat with blue eyes

Queens- Honeytail- light brown tabby she-cat, mate Lionheart

Hollybranch- black she-cat with bushy fur and green eyes, mate Mousefoot

Hazelflower- Small grey and white she-cat, mate Spiderleg

Ferncloud- Pale she-cat, mate Dustpelt

Elders-Sandstorm- pale ginger she-cat

Dustpelt- dark brown tabby tom

Stormfur- Dark grey tom, retired early to due three paws broken by badger

Birchfall- Light brown tabby tom, retired early due to sudden deafness

Daisy- cream she-cat, retired early because she was to timid to fight, and could no longer have kits

Kits- Nightkit- Dark brown tom, flecked with gold, amber eyes, mother Honeytail

Featherkit- Pale, creamy she-cat with long, fluffy fur and pinkish eyes, mother Honeytail

Brushkit- White tom with grey tabby patches, golden eyes, motherHollybranch

Chalkkit- White she-cat with black bases of fur, looks like smoke, blue eyes, motherHollybranch

Threekit- Shiny black tom with bright green eyes, three tails, motherHollybranch

Shadows enfolded the dark nursery. Hollybranch's green eyes blinked slowly as she stared out into the night. The black she-cat was restless, she could feel her kits kicking inside her belly. She desperately wanted her brother, Jayleaf to come and help her give birth.

She was afraid of what her mate, Mousefoot, would think of her soon-to-be born kits. He was critical, and she felt intimidated by him.

Hollybranch glanced over at Honeytail. Honeytail was her brother's mate. Lionheart was always very proud of Honeytail and her two mellow kits.

She let out a yowl and fell to her side. Jayleaf heard her from across the clearing and came running.

She gave birth to three kits.

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Bramblestar strolled across the clearing to see his new grandkits. His son, Jayleaf had told him early that morning that Hollybranch had finally given birth.

With Squirrelflight at his side, Bramblestar bounded into the nursery. Hollybranch lay on her side.

Mousefoot pushed past Bramblestar, his eyes wide and hungry. Bramblestar growled at the rudeness the tom had shown for his leader, but he then remembered that Mousefoot was Hollybranch's mate, and the father to these kits.

Hollybranch looked up at the visitors and moved her bushy tail to expose two little kits. One was a white tom with grey tabby patches.

"I decided to name this one Brushkit," She said, smiling. The other kit was all white, but the bottom of her fur was black, so she looked like smoke.

"Her name's Chalkkit. I decided Smokekit was too ordinary." Hollybranch said.

Mousefoot looked mad. "You didn't leave any for me to name?" He snarled.

"Oh, sorry, there's another." She said, moving her tail to reveal a tiny black tom.

Mousefoot looked outraged. "Doesn't he have a tail?"

"Oh, sorry, I forgot to uncover it." Hollybranch apologized. She did not move her tail.

"MOVE YOUR TAIL YOU TWIT!" Mousefoot screamed.

"SORRY!" Hollybranch yowled. She still did not move her tail.

Mousefoot shrieked and swiped her black tail aside. Then he screamed.

Instead of one tail, the kit Hollybranch had been half-hiding had three. The middle tail was right where it should have been, but there was one on either side of it, touching the base of the middle one.

"KILL IT!" Mousefoot screamed. He was sweating, spit sprayed from his mouth and he could barely breathe. Never before had he thought someone could look so horribly mutated, let alone his son.

"No." Squirrelflight stepped foreword as both Bramblestar and Mousefoot unsheathed their claws. The ginger she cat's eyes met her daughter's frightened ones.

"He's a little smaller then his siblings, but he looks as strong as any kit. What could keep him from becoming the best warrior on earth?"

Bramblestar looked at her like she was crazy. "A kit with three tails? Are you mad? An opponent could grip all those tails, and turn him upside down like he was a beetle! Plus, it's a disgrace to ThunderClan to have such a mutant in our Clan!"

Squirrelflight and Hollybranch looked hurt. They all watched as the mutant- kit crawled toward his mother and started nursing. Hollybranch bent her head and gave him a gentle lick.

Bramblestar drew himself up. "He will be disposed of. Squirrelflight, fetch an apprentice."

"But…"

"Do as I said."

The ginger she-cat gave her daughter a sad, loving glance, and disappeared from the den. She reappeared a moment later with a confused looking Icepaw at her side.

Bramblestar turned to the white apprentice. "Icepaw, you are to take the tiny, uh, three tailed kit of Hollybranch's out to the middle of the forest. Dispose of it there."

"You mean, leave him?" Icepaw looked confused and shocked.

"No. Kill it quickly. A small slash to the throat should do the trick. Bury all the remains."

Icepaw looked almost angry. "Kill a kit?"

"It has three tails!" Bramblestar yowled.

"What does that have to do with anything?" Icepaw said, "So what if it has more then one tail?"

Suddenly, Mousefoot leaped at the apprentice, attempting to pin her down. Icepaw lashed out, wriggling away. Mousefoot spun, aiming claws at her neck. She ducked barely, so the claws sliced across her foreword. She yowled and fell, and he pinned her down.

"No! Stop!" Hollybranch was yowling.

"Quiet." Mousefoot snarled at her. "Listen, Icepaw. If you don't kill that kit, I'm gunna be on your case until you die. Got that? I'm not gunna take the baggage of being the father of a kit with three tails."

Icepaw looked at him with shocked, angry blue eyes. Then she stood up, flipping him away from her. She grabbed the kit, and his three tails twitched together.

"His name's Threekit, by the way," Mousefoot added, his eyes sparkling with glee as he named his son disgracefully. "For his three tails. Get him out of my sight now, forever!"

"Yes, and be quick about it," Bramblestar added. He stretched. "I must now go and prepare Honeytail's kits for their upcoming ceremony." Whereupon he left.

Icepaw ran as fast as she could with Threekit in her jaws until she reached the river. There she stopped.

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