A new story! This is just the prologue and the story is not that developed as I just came up with the idea. I just wanted to post to see if people would be interest in it. It's pretty short but I hope you like it!
The fiery red she-cat dug her long claws into the ground. Her friends, family, life, everything was dying right in front of her. What made it even worse is that she could do absolutely nothing about it. Snarl escaped her throat as she tilted her head up and yowled curses into the starry night sky.
After a few moments, her head dropped back down, her sides heaved as she stared helplessly around her. Her ears were filled with the sound of groans and whimpers of pain. Her nose filled with the smell of sickness so strong that she could almost taste it. Whatever happened, she did not think that this memory would ever fade from her mind.
It would haunt her forever.
The large gray apprentice hurried back and forth, his breathe coming in short gasps. He tried to not gag at the musty smell that reeked of sickness and death. He had to focus, his clan needed him. He was their last hope. His mentor was no longer able to help, she was too weak, all she had the strength to do was breathe. The gray tom had seen this enough to know that she would be gone by morning.
Deep down he knew there was no saving any of these cats, but that didn't mean he would stop trying. He neared a ginger she-cat. In her prime she was one of the fiercest warriors he had ever known, had things been different she would have been an amazing leader on day. But now, her eyes rolled back in her head and blood dribbled from the side of her mouth. After a few moments, she jerked up and started hacking violently and blood splattered onto the ground.
The tom desperately shoved some herbs down her throat to try to ease her coughing. She dropped to the ground as her coughing stopped. Whether it was from exhaustion or the herbs, the tom had no idea.
He hurried to patient after patient some better than the ginger cat, others worse. Before long, the tom dropped to the ground exhausted.
He soon fell asleep and his dreams were plagued with nightmares of his dying clan.
The pale calico she cat stared blankly ahead. Her dark green eyes were dull and lifeless. The haunting echoes of pain seemed to go in one ear and out the other. Her usually glistening pelt was muddy and tangled. She recalled the days when she used to carefully clean her pelt till it shined. Now, she had no idea if she would ever care to wash it again.
She couldn't help wonder why she was healthy while all those around her died. Her mind kept replaying watched her older brother and best friend twitching and convulsing on the ground. She thought that would be the worst thing that ever happened but she was dead wrong.
After watching the convulsing for a few moments longer, he stopped moving, his sides were stilled. He was dead. Forever. Gone just like that.
The she-cat was startled as a pelt brushed against her side. She turned to see her tortoiseshell sister. They were from the same litter, their brother, the dead one, was from an older litter.
The two sisters pressed against each other silently grieving for all they had lost
The small kit pressed his head into the soft underbelly of his mother's side. She was cold. He licked her gently mewing for milk. The kit realized that she felt a lot like his siblings before they were taken away. The older kits said that they were going elsewhere to play and to get milk to drink. The light gray tom kit had a feeling his mother was going to join them. Sure enough, as he was thinking, two apprentices came in. The dark brown tom dragged the tiny kit's mother out while the black she-cat curled around him blocking his view.
She was very quiet. He knew a lot of cats were joining his siblings and mother. He didn't know why the black cat was so sad, he had been told they were going to a happy place.
The kit did not realize that his innocence would not last much longer, he would soon realize that life was not as kind as he made it out to be.
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