Hi everyone! It's me again! I've got Chappie TWO all put up now! Please, please, PLEASE review more on it, or I will be forced to stop writing it. I am dreadfully sorry if I am forced to do so. BUT anyways, R&R people R&R!!!! PLEASE!!!!
Breaking Through
Chapter 2
The sun shone down it rays into the clearing that was ThunderClan camp. The members of ThunderClan were just waking, padding sleepily out of their dens and blinking in the light. One cat, a pale brown tabby queen, made her way to the fresh-kill pile in the center of the clearing. A tortoiseshell tomcat with a ginger tail met her there.
"'Morning, Redtail," She greeted the deputy. "Nice day, right?"
The tom nodded. "Definitely, Dawnlight." He watched as she picked out a vole. "Are you taking that to the kits?"
Dawnlight looked up and nodded. "Yes," she mewed. "I'm going right now. See you around!" She waved her tail and she trotted back to the nursery with the vole in her mouth.
Once inside, she set the vole down and looked about. "Dustkit! Dustkit, come here!" Almost immediately, a dark brown tabby tomkit sped around the corner. He looked up at his mother.
"Is that for me and her?" Dawnlight nodded, affection glowing in her eyes.
"Yes, sweetheart. You can eat a little while I find her. Just save some for her share!" Dustkit nodded and started to munch on the animal.
Dawnlight padded toward the corner. "Sandkit! Sandkit, breakfast!" Then she was as the tiny, hunched figure of Redtail's daughter, Sandkit, drag herself around the bend.
If you really looked at her, Sandkit was a pretty she-kit. Her pale ginger pelt was glossy and her light green eyes were the color of newly budding trees. But it wasn't her fur or her eyes that other cats noticed, unfortunately.
Sandkit was hopelessly disfigured. Her spine was curved and hunched her over. Not only that, she couldn't even stand up. Her front paws were turned completely backwards and her hind legs were so scrawny and twig-like, any cat would think they would snap right then and there.
But none of this ever stopped Sandkit. She had the determination of her deceased mother, Snowflower, to be able to move, whatever the sacrifice. When she was 2 moons old, she finally found a way. She'd place her front paws in front of her and pull, dragging her hind legs and the rest of her along. Redtail was almost in tears, half at her victory, and half at the fact that it would always be her only way to move.
Dawnlight remembered one time when Sandkit asked her, "Why don't the other kits move like me?" She had frozen, unsure what to say. She couldn't tell the poor she-kit that she was a cripple, she was only 2 moons! But still, Dawnlight had lied and told her, "Because they're not like you. Everyone should move like you, but some are different."
Now, Dawnlight watched with bittersweet smiles as Sandkit dragged herself over the floor of the nursery. The little kit looked up at her. "Is that vole for me and Dustkit?" Once again, Dawnlight nodded.
"Yes. Now go have some before he eats it all!" she joked and nudged Sandkit carefully. "Now I have to go talk to the elders for just a moment, so stay here. Understood?"
"Uhndershtwood!" the two kits said with their mouths full. Dawnlight chuckled and left through the small entry way.
Sandkit swallowed her mouthful and looked at the entrance. She narrowed her eyes. She'd never been allowed to go outside before and she didn't know why. Were there terrible monsters outside? No, then why did Dawnlight go out? Maybe she could just have a quick peek...
Sandkit left Dustkit and pulled herself toward the nursery entrance as quietly as she could. Once there, she paused behind it and slowly turned around it. Almost there...
"Get away from there!" Sandkit heard the shriek and tried to pull back. She was too late. Dawnlight had run to the nursery when she saw her there and swept her far from the doorway. She set her down and stared at her hard.
"Just what do you think you're doing?!" Dawnlight spat. She was really thinking, That was too close! "You know you're not allowed outside!"
Sandkit eyes were unreadable and she lowered her head in apology. "I'm really sorry, Dawnlight. I'll never do it again."
Dawnlight huffed and stood back up. "Good." She paused that leaned down to her again. "Now Sandkit, I'm only doing this for your good. You know that, right?" She smiled and she saw Sandkit nod, her head still down. "All right then. I'm going back, so just stay here."
Dawnlight left the nursery and Sandkit finally lifted her head. But the look in her eyes wasn't one of guilt or regret. It was one of wonder and betrayal. Dawnlight had gotten there too late. Sandkit had seen the outside. And everyone was walking!
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