Shadowkit Pov
I bounced on my tiny black paws, excitedly. My pure black pelt was shuffled as I gazed outside with light grey eyes. My Russet furred mother was telling her other two daughters, Flamekit and Skykit, to wait in the den for a while until she and I got back.
"How come the others don't get to come?" I asked, following my mother outside the den.
"We hardly ever to see each other, I think we should spend some time together, I can teach you to hunt" she replied, walking a little faster.
I smiled at her twitching my tiny black half-tail as I walked, "that would be nice"
Then it started to snow. A white snowflake landed on my nose and I sneezed.
It didn't take long for me to be belly deep in snow, freezing cold, trembling with cold as white snow coated my shadow black pelt. The clan territory had ended a while ago and I really wanted to go home.
"Mama, I'm cold can we go back home now" I asked. My mother's russet pelt stood out against the white snow. She turned and I saw she had an emotionless face.
She sat in front of me and I walked closer to her, needing body heat now to survive. She took a step away from me.
"Mama" I cried, "I'm Freezing, Mama"
"I'm sorry, but I really need to be deputy, and if I have such a disgrace as a kit then that could never happen" She said narrowing her beautiful eyes.
"What do you mean" I cried helplessly as tendrils of cold raced through my veins making me tremble uncontrollably and making my teeth chatter together.
"You are much smaller than your sisters, you have only half a tail and Your eyes… their… colorless"
I could almost feel my heart stop as I started bawling, "I'm sorry, I can't help it, I didn't want to make you upset, How can I make it up to you?" I asked my light grey eyes begging to help my mother, shining with innocence.
"You can stay here, Wait for me, I'll get your father and if he accepts your apology I will as well" she said racing off.
I smiled glad that I had made it up to my mother, only my paws and tail had become to go numb and I didn't think that was a good thing. I curled into a ball to conserve body warmth and waited for my mother to appear.
I waited… and waited. The rest of my body went numb. She didn't appear.
I forced my tiny legs to stand and forced my light grey eyes to open. I looked around, "MAMA" I called, shaking the snow out of my pelt.
Then it hit me- She had left me here to die.
My adrenaline kicked in- I was NOT going to die here. If my mother had banished me from the clan then I would just have to live as a loner- and not a dead one either.
My light grey eyes shone with determination that would be worthy of any warrior as I stood my small muscles contracting painfully as I stood and walked through the snow that went up to my shoulders.
No, I was not going to die here. For I had a knack for self-preservation, something my mother on the other paw- didn't have…