Bramblekit was never a regular kit. When play-fighting, she would always miss, and she was awkward at hunting. Not seeing the signs, Frogstar, the leader, mentored her as a warrior. Bramplepaw looked up to her, but she scorned the failed kit and dropped her to be a medicine cat. With forever rising fury, Bramblescar trained as hard as she could. (The scar on her nose was from a particularly frustrating session with Frogstar.) She would have been a great medicine cat, but she was distracted and wanted revenge. She soon took on an apprentice, Swallowpaw. One night, while everyone was sleeping, she snuck into Frogstar's den. Her leader had three lives left, but she forgot that in her red haze. She took her awake but pressed her muzzle to the ground.
"Here is what you get for giving up on me" She said, and clumsily ripped open her leader's throat. Frogstar lost a life and Bramblescar returned to her den and removed all evidence. But she forgot that her leader still lived. The next day, she was exiled from Thunderclan. She fled to Shadowclan, who abandoned her as soon as she secretly got pregnant with Fogstream, a attractive tom. Her kits, Petalkit an Frostkit, were banished as well and for the second time she searched for a new clan. Finally she sheltered in Windclan, where the recent medicine cat, Fernsong, was dying. They made an agreement not to say that the kits were Bramblescar's, and they were taken in by Windclan because of this. Fernsong died and Bramblescar was finally alone and at peace.
For a while.
One day, Thunderclan attacked. Furious at Windclan for taking in a traitor, they were driven with their anger. Seeing Petalpaw and Frostpaw battling off her siblings, Yellownose (sister), nd Browntail (brother), Bramblescar ran up to the 'paws. Dragging them away, she painfully and clumsily (causing more pain because of not having proper training) tore open their necks like she had done to Frogstar. But like Frogstar, they were actually dying. Knowing this, Bramblescar christened them Petalscar and Frostbramble, in honor of her.
Seeing that Frogstar was on her last life (one life taken by greencough), she charged up to her and demanded that they settle this once and for all. Frogstar, accepting, snarled the question they had all been wondering.
"Why did you kill me?"
"You gave up on me." Bramblescar's yellow eyes shone with malice. "You gave up on me and abandoned me because I wasn't perfect. You left me with sniviling Shriveledhare to be a medicine cat. No more chances. I only had one."
Frogstar sneered. "I made the right choice, then. With trining, half of these cats would be dead. You've lost everything- you've killed your own kits, and have harbored yourself in almost every clan. No cat wants you anything but dead, Bramblescar."
Bramblescar snarled and launched at Frogstar. The silver-and-white leader jumped out of the way. After a short but brutal fight, Frogstar won. Leaving Bramblescar bleeding slowly to death on the ground, she limped away. That night Windclan let the crows pick apart her body.
Bramblescar went to the dark forest, eyes cold with malice. Wandering, she knew her pain could only be lifted by conflicting another who, in her turn, would conflict more and more. Waiting for generation after generation for the right cat to torture, she suddenly heard a mew ring across the cats below her. Racing to see who it was, she grinned wickedly.
"Welcome to the world, Maplekit."
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Enjoy! This was inspired by the 'Everybody Wants to be a Cat' thread in one of my forums, Feathers and Frost. All credit goes to Frost Belles!
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