Okay, this is a prequel to Sun's Ice so you half to read that first!
Shadow's Snow
Shadow was a smoky colored kit with white paws and green eyes. Her sister was named Berry. She was a creamy color with blue eyes. Shadow snuggled deeper into her mother's fur. Her mother was named Metallic. Her father was Scourge the leader of Bloodclan. She heard the cries of war against the clans as she first opened her eyes were over. Half the clan came back. Brick entered the nursery. "I don't…know how to put this." He stammered. His pelt was ragged and his eyes were dull with grief and shock. She closed her eyes already knowing what he was about to say. "Scourge… is… dead." Metallic wailed with grief and then murmured, "How did this happen?"
"A ginger tom killed him." Brick replied.
Metallic growled and picked Shadow up by the scruff. "Hey!" She said.
"We must follow the clans!" She declared.
"WHAT?" Brick yelped.
"With no scourge there is no reason to stay." She mewed.
Berry clambered up onto her back. Metallic pushed her way out of the den. Black bumped into her. "Sorry. I was about to come in to tell you." He glanced at Shadow. She stared at him with her green eyes narrowed. "I already knew he was going to say he died. His eyes said it." She meowed.
"I see." He looked at her again. "You look a lot like Scourge minus the color of your eyes."
"Well, we were planning on leaving. Following the clans."
"I'll go."
Oh, great, another cat that thinks that they are better than everyone, She thought.
"Okay, let's go then."
"Patience!" She growled. "First we must find the forest. Let us speak to Night."
They passed several allies until they found one where the twoleg nest blocked off one side of it.
"Night!"
A shady looking she-cat sat behind some twoleg rubbish. "Over here." They followed here scent to the rubbish and sat down.
"we need to find the clans. They already left that forest of theirs. We probably could have taken over without a fight!"
"Where do we find them?" Black was a very impatient cat.
"Follow their scent through the Thunderpath. One more thing."
Night's eyes switched from shady to sorrow. "Please… take my kits with you. They'll have a better life with the clans."
Two toms and a she-cat crawled out from behind Night.
"I just named them. The tall gray tom is Storm. The dappled she-cat is Lilly. And the striped tom is Tiger." She moved the kits in front of them.
"Why can't you just come?" Shadow squeaked.
"I have to stay with my mate and he dislikes the clans."
"Oh…" Shadow mewed.
"Well ,if we're are ready let's MOVE!" Black growled.
"I want to walk." Shadow meowed. He neck was beginning to hurt from bumping against her mother's chest.
"Careful."
Shadow set her paws on the ground. She stared at her paws as she walked. She continued to wobble down the path until Black whispered, "What are you a three-legged badger?"
She soon noticed he was hopping about every time a piece of clear sharp stuff was under his paws. "What are you, a one-legged crow?" She meowed.
"If I was, I would probably be squawking as much as you do with Berry!" He said.
"Oh really?" Shadow searched her mind for a comeback. "Well then you must be a mouse for how scared you are of clear sharp stuff!"
"Oh what did you say?" He asked.
"You're a mouse!"
"That's low for a kit!" He said.
When they stopped talking Shadow realized that they had finally reached the edge of twoleg place. They began to climb a slope and then dashed across the open moorland. She felt the wind slice through her fur and sped up. Berry had jumped off their mother's back and had started to race her to the twoleg bridge. "Wait! Don't go near the gorge!" Tiger yowled.
"Okay!"
Lilly was starting to pass her so she pushed herself to go faster. "Hey!" Storm called. They had seemed to get over the fact they wouldn't see their mother again. Or just didn't realize it. Berry reached the bridge first, Tiger second, Shadow third, Lilly fourth and Storm fifth who had gone into a coughing fit when he tried to catch his breath. The crossed the bridge and found a stream where stones formed and stuck out of the river. Black picked her up and Metallic picked Berry up. The others were older by two moons and jumped be themselves. They rested on some rocks by the river where the sun slanted down on them to make the perfect sunning spot. They found little prey but it was enough for the cats of Bloodclan. They followed the scents of cats that lead them to yet another twoleg place. They stared at the mountains as the stars came out and the moon surfaced in the sky. Just for a moment, Shadow though she saw dark figure moving up, up the mountain to the other side.
Shadow woke up and yawned. She had been stretched out next to Tiger and Berry who were still asleep. Next to Tiger, she realized how small she was. He was probably about six moons old. She was four. She got up and sat looking at the sunrise. "Cool!" Tiger had woken up and sat next to her.
"Yah."
The remaining star began to disappear as they gave into the might of the sun. Tiger's brown fur turned ginger in the light. She soon caught herself staring at his pelt and turned away. She looked at her paws instead.
"Never."
She looked around. Had she heard something?
"Never."
She thought back to when she was two moons old. The high pitched voice and icy blue eyes belonged to her father. She listened intently.
"Listen my daughter."
She pricked her ears.
"Love brings weakness. Look what being in love with Metallic brought me!"
She growled.
"Something wrong?" Tiger asked.
She stared at her paws again.
"No."
"Well okay."
Black, Lilly, Storm, Berry, and Metallic began to wake up.
She glanced at the sky, got up and padded over to her sister who was still a bit drowsy from sleep.
"Hey!" Berry yelped when her sister prodded her in the stomach.
"Just trying to wake you up," She said innocently.
They began to walk again. Tiger talked to her about how a twoleg had been stupid enough to leave a window open with some twoleg food sitting there. They had taken the food and left the twoleg mad. Shadow purred at the thought of seeing Tiger trying to drag twoleg food away with a yowling twoleg on his tail.
"I'd like to see that," she meowed.
They followed the crisscross paths of the twolegs and met dozens of dead ends.
"Hey, what about we speak to that kittypet?"
"Hello!"
"Hi. Yah so have you seen a group of cats come past here?"
"I've seen you." The kitty pet said.
"How can a cat be this stupid?" Storm asked.
"The kitty slop might soak into their brains."
"Whatever, we don't need your help." Lilly muttered to the kittypet.
They walked away.
"Mother?" Shadow mewed.
"Yes?"
"I thought I had seen cats head through the mountains." She said.
"Then if you saw it with your eyes that's where we must go."
Shadow nodded and off they went to the mountains.