The eerie silence stung my ears. I sat down and meowed as loud as I possibly could, which wasn't very loud since I was still a kit. My throat was now sore and hoarse and no sound would come out of my mouth. I twisted my head around and began to lick my sleek black pelt. I jumped when I heard a rustling in the bushes nearby. A gray cat with long fur and green eyes stepped out.
"Oh, you poor thing!" she fussed, rushing over to me. "Where are your parents?" I stood up and rubbed myself against her legs. "Oh, I supposed you can come home with me; at least you don't have the scent of an enemy Clan." The cat grabbed me by the scruff of my neck gingerly and carried me through the trees.
I heard the roaring of a river and instinctively tensed as the cat continued on. A cream- colored tom trotted up to us.
"Gracefur, what are you doing?" he inquired.
"I found this kit abandoned in the wood," the she-cat, Gracefur, said. "Minnowstar, you know the warrior code says we can't abandon her."
"Will you take this kit in?" Minnowstar checked. Gracefur nodded. "Alright, then. From this day forward this kit will be known as Ebonykit."
"Thank you, Minnowstar," Gracefur bowed her head respectfully. I followed her inside a den.
"Gracefur!" a brown she-cat exclaimed. She was a pale brown except for her tail, which was a dark brown, near black. "Your kit's been crying off the hook! Who's this?"
"This is Ebonykit. I found her in the wood, Earthtail," Gracefur explained. I saw a little tabby kit my age whining. I went over to him. The kit stopped whining and we bounded across the den together.
"My name's Eaglekit," the kit said.
"I'm Ebonykit," I replied. The name Ebonykit sounded funny on my tongue, but I would get used to it. Gracefur began to groom Eaglekit and I realized that she was his mother and he was going to be my brother.