Authors Note: Hey, this is my first Fanfiction! I hope you guys like it! All the same, thanks for checking my story out! Constructive criticism is great, but no flames!
Thank you to Cloudfern of the Shire for looking through the story and editing it!
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Prologue
" Come on, it's time," Greyroot peered around the rocky wall and her eyes shone with excitement and worry at the same time, faint rays of silver moonlight reflecting from the depths of her beautiful amber eyes, like two round suns, with orange fire swirling around the amber orbs.
There was movement from the shadows. A shaggy coat appeared from the dark, swaying shadows of leaves and ferns outside this important den. The cat's eyes opened, revealing a pair of piercing sky-blue eyes. The cat stretched his powerful legs and lifted his massive head, and his white chin glowed in the faint beams of moonlight.
" Let's go," the tom meowed thickly, anxiety hidden behind his hoarse mew. Greyroot shrugged and padded out of the den. She prowled across the clearing swiftly, with the tom trailing after her nervously. She stopped abruptly, turning around to face the tom.
" You have to promise me Talonfeather, that this will be our secret. Do you have everything?"
Talonfeather squinted at the bundle of herbs in her jaws and then looked at her and his gaze locked with hers for a moment. Her amber gaze was full of hope and a bit of pain. Then his gaze lingered on her round, bulging belly. She covered it with tail and flicked her black ears to the undergrowth outside the camp indicating they move over there.
Talonfeather padded forward and then let her lean on his shoulder as they headed into the dark deep forest.
" The secret we keep, must be... always must be a secret..." Greyroot rasped, the pain in her eyes growing, before she collapsed on her side, belly rippling.
"They're coming," she whispered. The she-cats muffled yowls of pain were only to be heard by Talonfeather.
-artumnfire