The Shadowclan nursery was silent, except for the low snores coming from Lizardkit, as Honeygaze lowered her head to go to sleep. That was silent until some moron decided to come stomping in through the entrance lifting up her head Honeygaze hissed at the dark shadow by the entrance, 'If the camp isn't on fire I will rip your tail off and shove it down your throat!"
"Is that anyway to speak to your leader?," came the muffled reply as the huge white tom with jet-black paws stepped into a beam of sunlight that came through a gap in the thickly woven bramble den. In his jaws was a dark blue gray patch of fur,by his leg was a black kitten with white paws.
"It is if the leader is also her mouse brained brother-and what is that?Are those KITS!"Honeygaze screeched. Unsheathing her claws she snapped," Whose kits are they? Did you steal them, because if you did I swear to Starclan I will not cover for you, not even for all the mice in the forest, not for-"
"WILL YOU SHUT UP FOR TWO MINUTES SO I CAN EXPLAIN!" roared Blackstar ,dropping the tiny kit in his mouth, but even as it fell it didn't make a single sound. The bigger kit, a tom, by Blackstar's side ran to the smaller ones side and wrapped its tail protectively around its sickly littermate.
Blackstar padded forward, stepping over the kits, and bent his head to meet his siblings golden gaze-one exactly like his own. Quietly he mewed," They are not stolen they are mine and as your leader I am ordering you to take care of them."
Honeygaze gaped at him and said," Who in the Dark Forest would have kits with you?" Blackstar backed away and said so quietly that she was pretty sure it wasn't meant to hear," The most beautiful cat in the world." and them turned to nuzzle the little scrap that he had dropped, a she cat by the smell of it, and then lifted up his head and said, "Please, I'm asking not just as your leader, but also as your brother, please nurse the kits and raise them, they have nowhere else to go. Just trust me and don't ask who their mother is, she can't be with them and I can but for now they need a she cat to give them the things I can't. Please." With that said he bent down and started murmuring soothing words to the kits.
Honeygaze looked at the kits again and noticed that they were extremely young, less than a moon old, but yet they probably weighed half than what they should have, and then she saw the look in Blackstar's eyes as he gazed at them. Love. She had never seen him look at any other breathing being with such love and fire and a determination to rip and claw at whatever harmed his kits…
"I'll take them."
Blackstar sighed in relief, picked up the black and white kit , set it down by her nest, and said,proudly" This is Darkkit. "Darkkit looked up at Honeygaze squeaked and scrambled into her nest. Sniffing around, he nosed into her white belly next to her kit, Splashkit, and began to suckle hungrily.
Blackstar picked up the tiny blue gray she kit, placed her in the curve of Honeygaze's belly and said adoringly," And this is my little fighter, Skykit." he roughly licked the she kits head between her ears, straightened up and growled at his tortoiseshell sister,"If I see that their mistreated in anyway I will kill you and stick your tail down your throat." With those final words he padded out of the den with his head high, though he kept glancing back to look at his kits.
When he had finally left the den,Honeygaze looked downa t the two kits and sighed,"Don't tell your Father I said this, but when he said that it sounded more scarier than when I said it." Then Honeygaze laid her head drowsily to finally get some sleep.
As she was sleeping silently a pale outline of a beautiful pale gray and white she cat with dark endless blue eyes that appeared to hold tall the stars in the sky appeared in the corner of the den. Her fur sparkled like a thousand dewdrops and frost glinted slightly off her whiskers. Fixing her gaze on the sleeping she cat she whispered faintly,
,"Thank you for taking my kits, for one has a destiny that will cross over many until she has covered the whole sky. But there is also blood and danger that will come one from a Lizard's fang and the other from the clouds that will black her path. Protect them well and let them know that they are loved by both me and Blackstar, even though I am not there to guide them….I know you will do a good job….Farewell forever for unlike your ancestors can, I will not be able to watch and guide my precious kits through life …but this is my own sacrifice to you , my kits."
With a sad look in her eyes, she padded forward nuzzled Darkkit and Skykit. Backing up she turned her back on her kits, and with grief in her eyes, vanished into thin air.