I don't own Warriors.
One last thanks to those who helped me come up with names.
A gray she-cat with a white chest rested by a giant tree. Snow was embedded permanently at its roots, sparkling in moonlight. The Snow-tree started glittering like it was made from stars was the Moonhigh light shone on the tiny pieces of frost that we're in the notches of the bark. Even in Greenleaf they remained, though no cat knew why. Crystalheart curled up and drifted into sleep.
"Hello, Crystalheart."
Crystalheart opened her eyes. A tortoiseshell she-cat with sharp hazel eyes was sitting on a frosty rock. Her fur sparkled with frost. All around her, snow covered the landscape, but it was still warm and the plants were alive like in Greenleaf. Prey-scent was everywhere. "Snowstar."
Snowstar jumped down from the rock. "Crystalheart, I give you a warning. The black cat is coming. Shadow will destroy Snow."
"What does that mean?"
The dream was staring to fade away. Snowstar's eyes lit up in panic. "Listen whatever you do, don't-"
Crystalheart opened her eyes. She was back by the Snow-tree. "Don't do what?!"
"Okay, Ravenheart, this is the last one."
A small shape slid onto the moss. Ravenheart opened her mismatched eyes, full of love toward her kits. Snailpaw was licking the newest kit while all Crystalheart could do was stare at her. A black kit. A black cat. . . . A cursed.
Crystalheart shook her head to clear it. "Slateclaw, you can come in now."
The deputy barged into the bramble den. He crouched by his mate purring, but his purring stopped abruptly when he saw the cats. "Ravenheart, look."
Ravenheart widened her eyes when she saw the black kit. "No. . . ."
"You know what we'll have to do."
"Can you ask Berrystar to wait just one moon?"
Slateclaw sighed. "I can try. But first let's name them."
Crystalheart whispered into her apprentice's ear, "Go fetch some borage." Snailpaw nodded and dashed off.
"This one will be Ryekit." Slateclaw licked a sandy-colored tom. He squeaked.
Ravenheart rested her tail over a gray she-cat. "Yellowkit."
"And what about the-"
"Shadowkit."
Crystalheart flinched slightly. Shadowkit. Shadow will destroy Snow. . . .
"Crystalheart, are you okay?"
Slateclaw's sharp tone brought the medicine cat out of her remembrance. "Yes. Fine. Snailpaw will be back with borage." She ran out of the nursery toward Berrystar's den, a cave under a mound of hard-packed dirt. In Leaf-bare it would often get buried under snow. Crystalheart cleared away some snow that was piling up in front of the entrance and poked her head through. "Berrystar, I need to tell you something."
The cream she-cat looked up, her eyes dull. "What?"
"A few moons ago when I went to the Snow-tree I had a dream. Snowstar came to me and told me Shadow would destroy Snow. Well, one of Ravenheart's kits is named Shadowkit."
Berrystar's blue eyes sharpened. "We must get rid of her at once."
"Berrystar, are you busy?" Slateclaw's voice sounded from outside. Crystalheart felt a pang as she backed out of the den and went to her own. "It has to happen." She whispered to herself.
SnowClan:
Leader: Berrystar - cream she-cat with blue eyes
Deputy: Slateclaw - ginger tom with gray paws and green eyes (Shadowkit's father)
Medicine cat: Crystalheart - gray she-cat with a white chest and green eyes
Apprentice, Snailpaw - black and white tom with gold eyes
Warriors:
Wrenfeather - brown and white tom with blue eyes
Frostflower - white she-cat with gray eyes
Dawnmist - cream and white she-cat with green eyes
Apprentice, Sagepaw - white tom with hazel eyes
Amberwing - dark golden she-cat with pale green eyes
Apprentice, Maplepaw - tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes
Jade-eyes - lean silver tabby she-cat with green eyes (former rogue, Topazfoot's mate)
Topazfoot - white tom with gold eyes (former rogue, Jade-eyes' mate)
Leafblaze - ginger and brown tom with green eyes
Apprentice, Lapispaw - dark brown tom with hazel eyes
Streammist - silver tabby she-cat with amber eyes
Fallenember - gray and white tom with gray eyes
Songwind - tabby and white she-cat with gray eyes
Flakefur - white she-cat with blue eyes (deaf in one ear)
Cloudstorm - mottled gray, white, and cream tom with yellow eyes
Queens:
Ravenheart - dark gray she-cat with one green eye and one gray eye (mother of Shadowkit - black she-cat with blue eyes, Ryekit - sandy-colored tom with green eyes, and Yellowkit - gray she-cat with yellow eyes)
Elders:
Fireblaze - ginger tom with a lame leg and gray eyes
Venus - cream and ginger she-cat with blind green eyes (former loner)
Frostwing - very pale gray she-cat with green eyes