THE LAST CHAPTER WAS SO AWESOME! REVIEWS! PLEEZ!
This time Smokewisp felt uneasy on his paws. Nightcloud was pregnant???
"Wh-what?" He stammered, is head spinning.
"Smokewisp? Are you alright?" Nightcloud asked, filled with worry and fear, both for her kits, herself, and Smokewisp.
"You're pregnant?" He whispered.
"Yes, and I'm sure you'll be the best father there ever was." She replied with all of the love and affection in her heart for Smokewisp.
"Shouldn't you get back to camp?" He questioned worriedly.
"I can still come with you." She said defiantly.
"But you belong in the nursery." He said, a bit confused.
"Now that I know that you are going on this adventure, I am definitely coming with you, I still have a very long way to go before our kits come."
"If that's what you want, then alright Nightcloud. But you must promise to be careful for me. Please, Nightcloud." He begged her.
"Alright fine, but only when we start coming back to the Clans."
"Perfect." He ran his tail along her flank and touched noses with her as they sat down in the little abandoned Twoleg nest.
They awoke in the morning and stretched, Smokewisp carefully watching Nightcloud as if something terrible would happen to her any second, although he knew that that would not happen.
Her beautiful emerald eyes gazed upon him.
"Good morning sunshine." She mewed playfully. She knew very well that Smokewisp was so sleepy, but they had to get a move on.
"Good morning." He grumbled from underneath his massive muscular heap of fur.
She purred delightedly.
"How about Rosekit for a girl?" She prodded him awake.
Smokewisp's eyes flew open at the sound of the kits that were officially on their way into the world. It would be quite a while before they arrived though.
"Rosekit….hmmm….sounds beautiful to me, just like you do."
She began to groom his ruffled fur.
"Lets get outside and look for a bit of prey. We need to get going, Smokewisp." She queried him.
With some difficulty, Smokewisp got to his paws and followed her out the door that was hanging off its hinges.
Nightcloud sent out all of her instinct and senses towards prey. She soon saw a rabbit, which were usually found on moorland, just like this. She wriggled her haunches and sprang up into the air, her beautiful eyes and coat glinting in the sunlight as she made her balanced landing with the rabbit underneath her paws. She took its like with one swift bite to its neck. All she could think about was her insecurity with kitting, this was her first litter, but Leafpool and Jaypaw would teach her everything she needed to know when they returned.
They shared the rabbit and began to charge down the hill that their ancestors had climbed so many moons ago.
They came up to a spiraling cliff, they had heard about this. A ShadowClan or WindCan apprentice had fallen here, he was just an apprentice, what a horrifying way to die, especially with his mother watching. There was a big gap about half way down the cliff. They had passed the Tribe already and the mountain that the Clans had walked on their journey to a new home. Smokewisp tried to be brave, but could not hide his fear as he prepared to leap across the gap.
Nightcloud stared in horror as her crouched down. He leaped with all his might, and landed safely on the other side. He didn't dare look down, and neither did she. She did the same, but somehow, the way she did it was graceful and had a perfect landing, while Smokewisp's leap was much more clumsy. He stared after her in awe as she continued on, her tail held high. He could feel the mocking pleasure coming off her in waves; she had done better than he! Stifling a mrow of laughter, he padded quickly after her.
A many days later they approached what seemed to be what the elders had all described as Mother Mouth! Nightcloud stared at it with awe and sadness. They crept inside. Her belly was already becoming swollen with the heavy burden she was carrying.
Smokewisp, I think we should come back when the medicine cats came to share dreams with StarClan. They came out of the huge cave and bounded towards what had been the old Twoleg place. All of the sudden there was a voice coming from one of the Twoleg nests:
"Firestar, is that you?"