Cinderpool's Journey

Chapter 1

"Cinderpool!" Flower, Cinderpool's mother called. "Come in here right now!"

"Yes mother?" Cinderpool padded into the barn. "Look what you did to your brother!" Flower pointed her tail towards Cinderpool's brother, Apple. Apple was much older than Cinderpool and her only sibling, who had scratches all down his back. "What were you thinking?" Flower scolded Cinderpool. "We were only playing!" Cinderpool pleaded. "Its not my fault his isn't good at fighting like me!" Cinderpool didn't know why she could fight so well. She never had any training and her family only lived in an abandon barn. Life was good for Cinderpool. She had a warm place to sleep in, no intruders, and she was the best hunter out of her whole family so she decided to catch all the food.

"Well I don't care!" Flower was angry but then calmed down. "Please, your good at healing can you please go get something to patch him up?" "Yes" Cinderpool replied. She was also good at healing. She didn't know why but it was a gift as her father, Tree, would say. He always seemed to sound awkward when she would always ask him questions like "Why don't I have the same colored fur like you daddy?" or "Why can't any of you fight but I can?" She couldn't think about that right now, she needed to find cob webs.

Cinderpool searched. She loved the way the sun warmed her pelt and the wind billowing so soft, that Cinderpool felt like she could walk forever. She then came to a bridge. She sniffed the air and found some cob webs. Being careful, she took the cob webs and started to pad away.

Suddenly, a wonderful smell went through her nose. Squirrel! She was so happy! She hadn't seen one in moons and she couldn't wait to feel the nice, soft, warm taste that made her mouth water. She dropped the cob webs and fell into a crouch. This way of hunting always was easy for Cinderpool to do. None of her family members could do it so that made her feel special.

She stalked the squirrel. It hadn't noticed her yet as she kept quiet. Moving slowly through the grass, she came up behind it. She was so close! She could almost taste it! Then without realizing it, she stepped on a leaf. Crack she felt like it scream. The squirrel looked up at Cinderpool, freighted; it ran with all its might. It was fast, but not as fast as Cinderpool. She raced after the squirrel with all the energy in her. She grabbed for it with a swift bite to the neck, the squirrel was dead.

"Yay!" Cinderpool yowled in triumph. She couldn't wait to feel the nice warm taste of the- her thoughts were replaced by a screech cut off by a bark. There were dogs at the barn! What was she thinking of leaving her family in danger while she was hunting? And was that her mother screeching! Oh no! Cinderpool thought. With all the energy she had she raced back to the barn. She needed to make sure her family was ok. They couldn't even beat a bug if the had to! The barking was getting louder. It sounded as though one dog was there and fear sent was all she could smell, from her family that is.

Cinderpool headed for the barn as fast as she could I'm almost there! She cried to herself. She raced into the barn only to find a massive dog staring at her with her brother's blood stained body in his jaws. They were all dead, except for Flower who was bleeding endlessly.

Cinderpool jumped on the dogs back. This dog was struggling but Cinderpool wouldn't let go. She sunk her claws into its back leaving blood to soak the floor, the dog howled. It tried to leap back and crush her but Cinderpool was too strong. She sunk her teeth into the dog's neck leaving it to die. The dog barked and then there was silence, it was dead.

Cinderpool yowled with joy. She had won! But then her happiness disappeared completely when she saw her brother and father lying limp on the floor, their fur coverd with blood.

Cinderpool ran over to her mother. "Oh Flower this is my entire fault!" she cried. I went to hunt squirrels and now this has happened! Oh let me get you some cob webs!" Cinderpool was filled with tears. Her whole family was going to die.

"Hush young one" Flower meowed calmly. "It is too late for me but there is something I need to tell you." "Oh what is it!" Cinderpool was devastated. She needed to hear her mother's last words. "You are not my kit" her mother's voice shook with pain and sorrow. "What?" Cinderpool needed to be forgiven not crushed by these words. "What do you mean I'm not yours!" She always thought that it was wired that she was grey with orange patches and her family was brown and white but she always thought that this was her family!

"Many moons ago" Flower began, blood spilling from her wounds. "Your father, brother and I were out hunting and a clan cat approached us. She said she couldn't keep you." "What?" Cinderpool was astonished that her family wasn't really hers but now she came from a clan that her brother always told her about in horror stories? "Yes," she sighed. "And I am sorry that we never told you before. I want you to know that we all love you very much and we always treated you like you are our own." "I don't know what to say" Cinderpool was heart broken. She felt like she was going to die right there too.

"Please forgive me" Flower pleaded desperately. "I forgive you" Cinderpool lied. It was her "mothers" dying wish and she couldn't deny her of that. And as she spoke these words, Flower shut her eyes and was dead.

What will I do now? Cinderpool thought desperately. She had no one to talk to and she was all alone. Her family wasn't hers and it sounded like her real mother was a good for nothing clan cat that didn't want her. How would she survive now? That night Cinderpool cried her self to sleep, it was all she could do.

Was it good? Please R&R!