Back with Love-a three shot challenge. This time we've got Crookedstar and Mapleshade, with their ADORABLE kits. So, what did you think of the last one? P.S. Snowcrystal, in Part 2 of BlueThistle, we might find out...

Part 1. Write about the incompatible cats and their kits.

The tortoise-shell and white she-cat yowled into the thick, unforgiving air of the Dark Forest.

"Silverhawk!" She shrieked. "Fetch Crookedstar!"

"But- but I can't cross into StarClan!" He said, eyes wide with panic.

"You can now!" She dug her claws into the ground, clenching her teeth. "It's an emergency! And get Redsky here, too!"

"O- Okay." The silver tom hared away, the slimy, dark trees encasing him as he ran to fetch the Dark Forest medicine cat and Mapleshade's mate.

She hissed, trying to keep control over herself.

"I'm here! I'm here!" A voice she knew well echoed across the peaty earth. "Mapleshade, where are you?"

"Over... here!" She managed, unsheathing and sheathing her claws.

"Crookedstar?" The hiss of the medicine cat, Redsky, reached her flattened ears. "What's a StarClan cat doing here?"

"I'm her mate!" The brown tom insisted, coming into view with the ginger Dark Forest medicine cat on his tail. "They're my kits!"

"Old Mapleshade's having kits again, huh?" He snarled. "With a StarClan cat, no less."

"Stop bickering and get over here!" Mapleshade yowled.

They came to her side, Redsky looking sullen and Crookedstar looking terrified.

"The last time..." He trailed off, eyes filled with memories of a pretty silver tabby howling in pain, then another cat, similar, yet different, also yowling as she gave birth.

"It will be different." She hissed. "Now remind me why I'm comforting you while I give birth?"

"Sorry, sorry!" Crookedstar lay down beside her, wrapping his tail over her neck.

"Out of the way, StarClan filth!" Redsky hissed, pushing him aside so he could feel Mapleshade's flank.

"Hey!" Crookedstar objected.

"Just two." Redsky's mew gentled for a moment.

"O- okay." Mapleshade gritted her teeth.

The strongest spasm yet racked her body as she gave birth to the first little kit.

"Hello." Crookedstar greeted his new daughter quietly, nudging her ginger, golden, and brown flank gently with his nose.

"One more." Redsky told Mapleshade, looking bored.

"Aargh!" She yowled as another painful ripple passed across her flank.

"And there she is." Redsky bent and nipped open the slimy membrane of the second daughter, a tortoise-shell.

"They're beautiful." Crookedstar whispered.

Mapleshade puffed out a breath, exhausted. It was over.

"Well, I'll be going." Redsky rolled his eyes. "Sappy StarClan fools."

Crookedstar paid him no mind, comforting his mate.

"What shall we name them?" He murmured to her.

"I- I don't know." She whispered hoarsely. "You choose."

"This one has the colours of dawn." Crookedstar gave his brown, golden, and ginger kit a lick on the head. "Perhaps Dawnkit for her?"

"Yes, that's a good name. A new dawn." Mapleshade muttered.

"And I can already tell these kits will be opposites, so we could name this one Duskkit?" Crookedstar mewed tentatively, watching as one of them squirmed towards her mother for milk, and the other began to explore the new world.

"Duskkit and Dawnkit. The beginning and the end." Mapleshade whispered, love filling her eyes as she looked up at Crookedstar. "Just like you and I."

Suddenly, a white light shimmered in the air.

Mapleshade. A strange voice whispered. Mapleshade, it is time.

"For what?" She hissed, digging her claws into the soil. "I can't leave!"

Do not be afraid. It is time... for you to join Crookedstar.

"What- what do you mean?" She whispered, glancing around fearfully.

It is time for you to join StarClan. Your black heart has been cleaned by the light of true love. You have found true happiness. The voice became almost musical.

"Really?" Her eyes filled with hope.

Go to the border, Mapleshade.

"Come on!" Wasting no time, she picked up Duskkit and hurried towards the harsh white light that seperated StarClan and the place of no stars.

"Where-" Crookedstar cut himself off as Mapleshade bolted away, energy mysteriously renewed.

He picked up Dawnkit by the scruff, and followed his mate through the white light and into StarClan's pristine hunting grounds.

You have found your destiny. The voice faded away.

"I can stay here!" Mapleshade turned to Crookedstar. "I can stay! I never have to return to the Dark Forest!"

"How..." Crookedstar trailed off, pressing his muzzle against his mate's.

"I love you." She whispered.

Ah, true love. A beautiful thing. I love their kits. I've always thought Mapleshade deserved a happy ending, and there it is. For those of you who don't have the complete list of all warrior cats ever on their wall, Redsky is not a CC, he's my friend's OC.

Welp, that was part 1 of CrookedMaple. FuNfAcT: I almost made it have a sad ending, where their kits died or something as a price for Mapleshade's freedom, but I didn't want to do that to Mapleshade, I love her far too much. And for those of you who are confused about how a dead cat gave birth, well, ya see, when a cat dies pregnant, they give birth in StarClan, so I figured, what the heck, a dead cat can get pregnant. Sorry if you don't like it :(

Stay tuned for part 2 of BlueThistle, coming soon! Until next time :3

~Pondfrost