Torrentclan & Gladeclan: Shattered

I guess I was lazy to write two separate challenges for one title. Sorry.

Blazesight didn't deserve this.

Why must Lilystorm and Thistlepaw die?

They didn't deserve such cruel deaths.

He remembered.

Horrendous thoughts that haunted his life.

It had happened on two separate nights.

Blazesight's two worst days that he could ever have.

The feeling of losing two loved ones was too hard on him.

Why them, why them, why them...

The Grief of Blazekit & Thistlekit~

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"Shadedpool? Where are you going?" Blazekit mewed, his big amber eyes staring up at the beautiful queen, his brother, Thistlekit, beside him, also staring in wonderous curiosity.

"I'll be back soon," The soft brown cat nuzzled her two kits, trying her best to comfort them.

Recently a small group of foxes had been wandering around in the territory of Fireclan. The clan leader, Spirestar, and dismissed the patrol who spotted the foxes, assuming that it was only a small fox group that was just passing by.

Only until the next Gathering, Treeclan had announced that a big group of foxes had come to invade their camp, and they only barely won. Spirestar panicked only then.

A half moon later, five foxes had done a surprise attack on a border patrol.

Blazekit's and Thistlekit's father was killed, as well as one other warrior in the patrol with him.

Shadedpool was still expecting kits back then.

Now the foxes were expanding rapidly; they needed more land. Spirestar had organised patrols to see how far the foxes had come and never allowed anybody to leave camp unless in a minimum pax of three. The medicine cats had to be accompanied by two other warriors of the clan when they went for their half-moon meetings at the Moonpool.

The medicine cats received a sign about the foxes that were coming to invade their camps.

Volunteers came around to help.

It was a big surprise when Shadedpool, whose kits were now fully weaned had volunteered to fight together with the others.

"Why?" Blazekit had asked her.

Shadedpool looked down at her kit with tired eyes. "For your father. He died on a border patrol, by the exact same foxes that are now..." Her voice trailed off in grief, the memory of her mate dying was too raw in her head.

Blazekit and Thistlekit weren't born at the time, so they didn't know what it was like to lose a loved one.

Not helping but feeling a prick of sadness stabbing his heart, Blazekit mewed pitifully.

"Hush, my little kits. I'll be back soon."

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"No!" Blazekit mewed, as soon as he saw a ragged body of Shadedpool on Elkfoot and Shimmerclaw's backs.

Darting forward, he watched as they laid the tortoiseshell queen's body on the floor. No warmth radiated from her pelt. A hollow feeling filled up Blazekit's chest.

"No. No. No. NO. This can't be happening."

A whimper escaped his throat, and he threw himself on her cold pelt, hearing the patter of Thistlekit's pawsteps behind. He, too, made an anguished sound and barreled for their mother's body.

"Shadedpool."

The hollow echo of his voice made matters worse. Blazekit pressed himself to his brother. "I'll take care of you. Blazekit, I'll take care of you." Thistlekit mewed in a fatherly manner to his brother.

"Thanks."

Stepping behind, calmed, Blazekit looked longingly at his mother. The metallic scent of blood filled his nose, all of a sudden. Looking at the grass in horror, staring as the bloodred liquid seeped and stained the earth, the grass.

"A fox killed her."

A warmer, bigger cat with blue eyes that normally twinkled with mischief, now dull with raw grief, sat softly beside him. His brown pelt was covered with claw marks, but not too deep. Blazekit looked up at the brown warrior. It was Patchsight, Shadedpool's brother, and his late father, Falconclaw's best friend. Blazekit wondered what it was like to lose a loved one.

Now he did.

He didn't want anybody to experience that now, much less himself.

"I'm going to sit vigil for Shadedpool." Blazekit halted.

"Vigil? What's that?"

"When you sit vigil, you stay awake for the whole night with your fallen one and share tongues with them for the last time. By morning, the elders will bury them, like they're gonna bury Shadepool tomorrow morning." Patchsight's eyes glimmered with sadness. "I loved Shadedpool, and as her brother, I will sit vigil for her."

"I'm gonna do that for her too." Blazekit mewed, perking up after hearing the meaning of vigil.

"Me too," Thistlekit's mew sounded, and Patchsight nodded.

"Sure."

HIII PEOPLE! I know this was supposed to be two deaths, but Watermist was too lazy and...

BYEEEE!

~Watermist