The Great Clans: Part Two, Moonstorm's Legacy

by Hergan

Sequel to Moonstorm's Attack, Moonstorm's Legacy is about the trail of destruction that Moonstorm left behind, even in her death. Grasstail has become a proud mother of four kits, but something surprising happens during the dilivery. R&R!

4. Chapter 2

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The first thing that Sightkit saw as he opened his eyes was a gigantic cat with a large rusty furball around its head. It was snarling in the most hideous manner, and some spittle flew out of its mouth and landed on Sightkit's head. It roared and moved closer to Sightkit, who backed up into another large and furry object. He turned around and saw the large speckled pelt that he knew to be his mother. Three blind creatures smaller than Sightkit were suckling a bit further up on his mother, and he could see her eyes widened in fear for them. Instinctively he moved towards them and began to nudge at them.

"Guys!" he meowed frantically, "follow me!" He licked the nearest to him and she looked up at him with blind eyes. She whimpered in a pathetic way, and he wondered how he was to ever complete this hopeless task. Sighing, he tried dragging her from the nipple, but he was too week. Suddenly, the enormous head of his mother looked over at them. She was torn between the needs of her kits to feed and the lion that was slowly advancing on them.

"Mom!" Sightkit frantically meowed. "Fight him!"

Grasstail snapped her head back as she heard her son speak too early. "Rabbitkit," she slowly named, as in a trance. "Rabbit." She looked over at the tiny kitten and she seemed to come to some horrible decision. Looking back at the tiny kits she slowly nudged them away from her body and stood up.

All three were screaming now. They could see nothing and were hungry. Gently, the tiny newborn herded the cats together and lead them to the side of the cave where they would be out of the way. They huddled together frightenedly, but Sightkit stood slightly apart from them, watching what was going on. The body of the cat that he knew to be his dad from the vision was between the lion and his mother, who was fighting to stay on her feet. The lion jumped over the body and onto Grasstail the same instant that she fell in pain. He missed the exposed piece of her neck that he had been aiming for, and instead landed claws outstretched on her butt. She flipped down onto her side, leaving her belly slightly exposed.

Sightkit looked around for something he could do to distract the lion from the opening his mother had just provided and only saw a small hole in the back of the nursery. Wait! he thought, A hole!