Pawsteps echoed through the forest, leaves stained with orange, yellow, and red colors. The pale sun was just beginning to rise over the treetops, leaving a yellowish mist on the ground below.
Black fur was visible, like a shadow cast against the bright colors and light. A she-cat with a bulging belly appeared to be traveling, perhaps looking for a good place to birth her kits. The leaves on the rough ground barely crackled. She was too nimble and light-footed to make any noise at all.
A cat would think she, the black-furred soon-to-be mother, would settle down, lay down, and do the things that any expectant she-cat would do. The opposite soon proved to be true.
The cat unsheathed her claws and sharpened them on a scrawny, unhealthy birch tree. It proved to do little good, as the wood inside the trunk was half-rotted and soft.
Next, she ran her claws down her belly. Blood poured out as if it were escaping from a prison. They went deeper and deeper each time, until she had to stop for a moment to escape from her own lightheadedness. After a grueling few moments, the skin of her belly hung off, and blood became a pond on the forest floor. The black cat dropped to the ground, she had lost too much blood to stand up.
As a final stand, she took her red-stained claws and dug into her gut. She scooped three lifeless underdeveloped sacs of kit, as mangled and bloody as she was. With the last of her ever-draining energy, she tore the kits to shreds. All that remained was a pile of halfgrown fur, bones, and blood.
The she-cat's heart was still beating, and her lungs breathing, although faint. She was not able to move, and suffered endlessly the entire day, pain becoming a part of her, until finally, she died at nightfall.
Bye, Tainter. I hope you had a good time destroying my life.
Allegiances
ShadowClan
Leader: Thistlestar: A medium brown tabby tom with a spiky texture to it at the tail. He has white paws and yellow eyes.
Deputy: Mottlemist: A slightly diluted, graceful calico she-cat with amber eyes that have hazel and brown flecks in them.
Medicine Cat: Barktail: A mostly white tom with a dark brown tabby tail and face, he has blue eyes.
-Warriors-
Hawkfur: a dark brown tabby tom with a white chest and belly, blue eyes. Barktail's brave brother.
Cloudmask: a pale gray tom with a black mask-like spot on his face, amber eyes
Milkyheart: a white she-cat with extremely pale gray swirls, cloudy copper eyes
Blackwhisker: a black tom with green eyes which have white specks
Weaselfoot: a gray-brown tom with yellow eyes
Lilysight: orange tabby she-cat with sharp yellow eyes
Spottedpounce: strong calico she-cat with shining bluish violet eyes
-Apprentices-
Raccoonpaw: a dark gray tabby tom with dark yellow eyes
Pinepaw: a brown she-cat with a small white locket and green eyes
-Nursery-
Featherheart: pale ginger tabby she-cat with 3 kits (listed below)
Palekit
Mistykit
Stormkit
Coalstripe: smoky black she-cat with ghost tabby markings, white belly, blue eyes (expecting)
-Elders-
Redstorm: a russet tabby tom with a graying muzzle, clouded blind yellow eyes
Darkscar: a black tom with blue eyes and a huge scar down his face and chest
Loners/Rogues
Soot: a very dark gray she-cat with fiery amber eyes
Essence: a muscular golden tom with gray eyes
Ania: a plump pale brown tabby she-cat with dark copper eyes
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