Prologue
I let out squeaks of pain as I lay down. I looked up at Jake, the ginger tom standing over me, my one true love. He looked urgently down at me. I turned my attention to my swollen belly. I took many deep breaths. The female house folk who gives me food stayed up late into the night to watch. The twoleg kits where asleep. There was no question to me or anyone here on what was happening. I was giving birth to my kits.
Jake looked puzzled down at me. I couldn't help but be scarred on what was going to happen to me. Everything hurt- from the tips of my tail and my claws. I should be able to take care of myself, but I was too weak. I felt so weak that it seemed that I was meaningless. I just wanted this to be over.
Then I saw Jake's eye's twinkle. There was a small lump of fur behind be. I looked at my child. The kit had black and white fur and was slowly breathing. Jake began to lick the kit.
"It's a boy." He purred. I sighed. There was one out, but it still wasn't over. A few minutes later I saw a new shape come. It was a gray she-kit. Since the black and white kit was already warm, Jake began to lick the girl. I purred. She looked just like me. All of a sudden I felt another piece of fur drop behind me. I turned my head and tilted my head at the kit. It was black and had some white on his front left paw.
I starred in discuss at him. He was small, too small. I pushed him aside Jake looked up in horror as he saw me push the kit aside and lie back down.
"What did you do that for?" He asked. I looked up into Jake's green eyes.
"Just look at him!" I said.
Jake turned his head to look at the small bundle of black fur on the ground. His small eyes where closed and facing back at us.
"I don't see anything wrong with him." He responded.
"How could you not see it?" I asked. Jake ignored me and reached out to warm the black kit too. I hissed at him.
"Put him back! Don't waste any time on… that."
"Quince, this kit is a living cat and I'm not going to push him aside because he is small." I glared up at him.
"He won't last two hours!" I said. "Don't even bother or you might risk killing our daughter too."
Jake looked back at me.
"I don't believe this! You're giving up on a cat; you're giving up on a kit, and for what? Just because he seems too small at first glance?"
I couldn't believe this ether; Jake was always wasting his time on meaningless things.
"He is going to die!" I hissed.
"What if he doesn't? What if we kill him when he was going to live anyway?" He asked. "What kind of label would that give us? Murders? Savages? It doesn't matter. We just will know we did the wrong thing."
My ears dropped as I realized what I had just said. Jake was right, this wasn't a good idea.
"Besides, he could grow up to become a fine cat to do good for others. You just never know." I closed my eyes.
"Your right, I'm sorry I'm just kind of grouchy after the birth." I said looking at my paws.
"I understand." Jake said. He laid his head on my gray fur and I purred. I don't know what it was but everything made sense around him.
"He is still small though." I said. Jake opened his eyes.
"Well… he can't really help that can he?" He asked.
"No, I guess not."
After I licked the small black kitten several times, we settled down. The twoleg went to sleep and the three kits all laid beside me. They where so beautiful, well almost all of them. I guess I was just being picky and wanting my kits to look perfect. Silly me. I really do wish the last one was… normal sized. Was that wrong? It really seemed wrong to me.
I sighed. He really was a cute kit; maybe I should give him a chance. After all, he is my son. I should be happy that I have a son, but he was small. I guess I have the other two kits. I love them. They didn't have anything wrong with them.
"What shall we name the kits?" Jake asked.
"You can name the black and white cat." I said. Jake looked down at the kit. Names flooded through his head.
"Socks." He finally said. I smiled. Socks was a good name. "You should name our daughter. After all, she has her mother's looks."
I blushed at his comment and looked down at my daughter. I was lost at names. She looked like me, so maybe I should give her the name I always wanted.
"Ruby" I said. "The name fits her perfectly. She will be our little princess." Jake smiled.
"Socks and Ruby. I like those names." He said. "What about this one?" I hade almost forgot about the small black kit in my paws. I didn't want to sound mean so I just responded to Jake.
"You can name him." I said.
"No, you should name him." He said. I wondered if he was thinking the same thing I was. This kit was so small, so puny, and so tiny, that I had to make him remember that. I couldn't see any other thing to call him.
"He shall be named Tiny." Jake looked up at me. "It's the only name that will ever fit him."
Author's Note: Hey everyone. Ok I sat down one day to think about why I'm not posting chapters lately and then it hit me. It's because I was tired of doing Swiftpaw's Lovely Bones. It just began to get kind of boring to me. Therefore I decided to start another book and work on both. If I get tired of this I can start doing Swiftpaw's Lovely Bones again.
I posted on my profile a few days ago that I will be posting a new story but I didn't tell you what story. Well now you know. That's right everyone I am doing Rise Of Scourge. I love this story because it shows how a smart, ambitious and courageous young cat could end up following a much darker bloodstained path. That's just cool in my opinion. So I went out of my way to go all the way to a bookstore and to spend 7$ to buy the book so I can have an pretty good reference for you guys. By the way, Jake is the father of Firestar and Princess too. It was reveled by Erin Hunter. Sometime after this Jake goes somewhere and becomes mates with Firestar's mother.
Ok guys, I need to get really serious right now. Tomorrow around 6 (in my time zone) I leave on a plane to go to Disney World, Florida for 11 days. Now you guys are probably exited for me and all but here is the problem. The hotel that I am staying in charges 10$ pure computer for Internet connection. My parents need that Internet connection so I'm not going to be able to post anything for 11 days. I'm sorry. It's not likely I can post before I leave tomorrow but I will try my very best. Now that I told you, I don't want any messages saying "Why haven't you posted anything" or "Did you quit Fan Fiction?"
So now for the question of the day. Have you ever been to Disney? If so tell us about your trip. Sweet dreams everyone. Hope you like Rise Of Scourge.