Hey y'all! Joy here, bringing you the first chapter! :D Shout-out to Blue, the Guest, my only reviewer for the prologue! Blue, I will try my best to update frequently. Just for being my first reviewer, you get to submit a name for one of Ivypool and Foxleap's kits! :)
Lionblaze paced the clearing outside the nursery. He winced with every shriek or cry, as if feeling his mate's pain. Finally, finally, Jayfeather padded out to meet his brother, nodding.
"You can go in now," he said.
I hope she's okay, Lionblaze thought as he padded through the fen barrier to see his mate.
"She's fine," Jayfeather called, reading his thoughts.
"Lionblaze, meet your daughters." Cinderheart meowed from where she lay in her nest, watching the three tiny kits suckle. Lionblaze purred.
"They're beautiful," he said. "Shall we name them now?"
"Why not?" Cinderheart consented. She looked down at their daughters. One was tortoiseshell and white, one a golden tabby, and the third black with three white paws and one gray paw.
"What do you want for the tortoiseshell one?" Lionblaze asked her.
"Spottedkit." She replied. Lionblaze purred. After Spottedleaf, the medicine cat who had been killed in the Great Battle.
"I was thinking the same thing."
"You name the one that looks like you," Cinderheart told him, indicating their golden pelted daughter, who did look a lot like her father.
"Honeykit. For your sister." He replied after a pause. Cinderheart looked taken aback, but that soon turned into a look of pleasure.
"Then we have to name the last one Hollykit. For your sister." She said.
"Spottedkit, Honeykit, and Hollykit," Cinderheart purred.
"Perfect names for the perfect kits. They'll be the best warriors!" Lionblaze said proudly.
"Or medicine cat!" Cinderheart admonished, flicking him with her tail.
"Or medicine cat," agreed Lionblaze. I'm sure they will be.
So, what'd you think of Chapter One? R&R please! Seriously. It'll take fifteen seconds of your day. The first two reviewers will also get to name one of Ivypool and Foxleap's kits! (But PLEASE don't submit names until I've announced who the first two reviewers are!) :)
~Joy
