Welcome to another chapter of this story! Thanks to everyone that reviewed! *sigh* School starts tomorrow so it might take me a while to update some of the future chapters. Anyway, I don't own Warriors and read on! (Echo, Snow, and Rain are six months old now)
"Come on, get up."
Echo opened one eye. She saw Meadow trying to rouse Snow and Rain. Echo opened the other eye and yawned.
"Eat breakfast and come back here," their mother meowed.
"What's going on?" Snow mewed, trying to blink the sleep from his eyes.
Echo took a quick look at his once-injured paw. Four months ago, Snow fell from a tree and broke his paw. Now, the injury had healed but Snow sometimes can't put any weight on his paw.
Meadow was speaking. "It's your special day," she mewed. There was pride as well as sadness in her eyes.
'If it's our special day, why does Meadow look so sad?' thought Echo. She looked at her brothers but they looked as confused as she was.
"Let's go eat," said Rain as he led the way.
Snow walked beside Echo, matching step-by-step.
"What do you think Meadow meant about this day being special for us?" he asked.
Echo shook her head. "I don't know."
Echo tried to sit still as Meadow cleaned between her ears.
"There, all done!" Meadow meowed.
"Now will you tell us what's going on?" Rain asked.
Meadow faced them with her tail wrapped around her paws. "Today's the day," she mewed. "The day that you're going to live with other housefolk."
"What?!" meowed Rain.
Echo couldn't believe her ears. "Why?" she meowed.
"It's natural for kittypets to give up their kits," Meadow mewed sadly. (Not sure if they call themselves kittypets or not)
Echo wanted to wail like a kit. She wanted to stay here with Meadow, Snow, Rain, and their housefolks.
A chime sounded.
Soon after, a different housefolk with Echo's housefolk came around the corner.
"I just wanted to say that I'm proud of you all," meowed Meadow. She walked over to Rain. "You're first. Goodbye, my kit."
Echo quickly darted over to brush muzzles with Rain. "Bye," she mewed. 'Even though you're a pain, I'll still miss you' she thought.
Snow ran his tail over Rain's flank. "Have a nice life," he mewed.
Rain gazed at them. "I'll miss you both," he meowed as his housefolk picked him up and walked away.
"I wonder how his destiny will be like?" Snow mewed aloud.
"Destiny?" echoed Echo. (I just had to write that…)
Snow nodded. "I have an idea of yours."
"What?"
"Your destiny might have something to do with that dream you had a few months ago," he mewed, serious.
Echo blinked. She had almost forgotten about the dream.
The chime rang and another housefolk came around the corner.
"Your turn," Meadow mewed to Snow. She licked the top of his head. "Be fearless," Meadow mewed.
Echo entwined her tail with Snow's. "I'll miss you," she mewed.
Snow nodded and mewed," So will I." He went.
Meadow started to lick Echo's pelt again. Echo would miss being cleaned by Meadow.
The chime rang once more and Echo's soon-to-be housefolk came around the corner.
'My turn.'
"Goodbye, my precious," Meadow meowed sadly.
"Bye, mother," Echo mewed as she was picked up.
'My life is just beginning' she thought. My destiny will come soon.'
So, how was it? Coming up next, the bonus chapter about the knowledge of Snow!
