Here we are with Chapter 7, enjoy!
Destinykit, Mosskit and Darkkit were pushed out of the nursery into the clearing. It was four moons since Creekfall had died and Fallenlight had confirmed that Weathertail was expecting kits. She was having them now so the trio wasn't allowed into the nursery until they were born.
Destinykit was close to Weathertail, so she was worried when Fallenlight had said that something was going wrong. They saw Darkenstar sitting on the High Rock looking towards the nursery. He and the three destined kits saw Oceanblast and Firewind trying to see what was happening.
Fallenlight yowled "There's one!" Grassmoss was desperate to see his mate and new kit. "There's kit number two," now Grassmoss was nearly ready to claw the ears off of Fallenlight to get to his mate and two new kits. "There's kit number three," yowled Fallenlight. "There we go four healthy kits." She yowled. Weathertail was very weak. Grassmoss and Destinykit were allowed in. Everyone else had to leave.
Weathertail rasped "Grassmoss, I love you, take care of our kits."
"'What? Weathertail, don't leave me!" cried Grassmoss.
"Goodbye Destinykit," Weathertail groaned, "Make sure that Grassmoss doesn't screw up taking care of the kits," she joked as she groaned. Weathertail then jerked and fell limp. Her breath cut short.
Just like my dream. Thought Destinykit sadly. '
"She's…" Grassmoss gulped "…dead!" he cried. He then stared at his kits. "Destinykit," meowed Grassmoss. Destinykit looked up in shock. "Would you like to name one?"
Destinykit meowed "Sure." Weathertail's dragon looked in at the limp she-cat and roared. Destinykit gave an all-mighty squeak and raced behind Grassmoss and covered her ears with fright. She heard the loudest footsteps ever in her five moons of life and looked up. The dragon was padding over to the Dragon's Lair.
Destinykit then emerged from behind Grassmoss and looked at the kits. She saw a black tom with brown splashes on his underbelly and everywhere else. Splashkit. Thought Destinykit. "What about that one Splashkit?" asked Destinykit, pointing her tail at the black tom with the brown splashes all over him.
"Yeah," Grassmoss meowed. He pointed at the brown she-cat with white streaks on her paws. "Streakkit," he meowed. He then put his tail on a dark grey tom with white 'socks' and white spots on his chest. "Jaggedkit," and he let Destinykit name the last tiny, white she-kit with creamy spots on her back.
"Frostkit," she meowed.
"Well, we better tell Darkenstar." Meowed Grassmoss.
"I'll tell him," whispered Destinykit. "I'm good at delivering bad news to leaders." Without saying anything more, Destinykit was racing out of the nursery, but first stopping to Oceanblast. "Oceanblast," Destinykit panted. "Can…you feed…Weathertail's kits…She is…dead…" she panted with all her might.
Darkenstar heard Destinykit's panting and padded up to them, his sly eyes seemed to rest not on the nursery, not on Grassmoss, not on Oceanblast, but on five moon old Destinykit. He raced to her and stood on her with his front-right paw up to her throat. "What did you say about Weathertail?" he yowled. The whole clan saw him abusing a kit and Mosskit and Darkkit looked at their leader, wide eyed in shock that he was doing this to their sister. Firewind tried to stop him but he gave his 'Don't you dare or I'll banish you' look to him and Firewind raced back to the clan cats.
"I…I said that Weathertail was d...d...d...dead sir!" wailed Destinykit.
He released his paw from the terrified she-kit. "Fine!" he snapped and he stepped off her and the clan heard him mumbling as he padded off to his den with rage.
"That was scary, Destinykit!" Yowled Berrypaw.
"Uh-huh!" cried Mouseflecks. "I told you he'd be evil!" he snarled sternly and sneakily.
"Mouseflecks, we all knew he'd be evil but not as evil as this, attacking a kit; has that tom got any respect for the warrior code?" yowled Featherfur.
Yarrowshadow replied "He has no respect for the warrior code and - KEEP THE STARCLAN DOWN!" he snarled deeply and sharply.
"Yeah," whispered Darkkit.
"We need to teach him a lesson!" growled Mosskit keeping her voice as low as possible.
Bouncefoot meowed sternly "We need a plan, tonight, every cat in this clan go to MossyGrounds; even Destinykit, Darkkit and Mosskit. But we just need one cat to stay behind and take care of the newest kits,"
"I'll do it," whispered Oceanblast, "I'll go get borage leaves from Fallenlight." Oceanblast padded up to the medicine cat and the gathered cats heard her whispering.
"Grassmoss, what are the kit's names?" asked Berrypaw, bringing it up made the Clan whisper and wonder what the kits were like, Darkkit and Mosskit especially.
Grassmoss growled "SILENCE!" and the Clan stopped talking. Destinykit padded up to Grassmoss. "Their names are Frostkit and Splashkit" Destinykit started.
"Jaggedkit and Streakkit" Grassmoss finished.
"You may go in and see them now," Fallenlight mewed. "Oceanblast ate the borage leaves and she's feeding them now." The Clan scampered across to the nursery to see the new kits with their foster mother. They were nearly climbing up onto each other but Darkkit and Mosskit weren't afraid to do that.
Darkkit leapt on top of Swallowheart, who was nearly at the front. Mosskit hitched a ride on Firewind, who wanted to see the new kits and see his mate. Firewind and Mosskit were leaping across the other cats and Mosskit nearly fell off about 30 times. Destinykit laughed at her littermates and didn't go in for she had already seen them.
Grassmoss introduced them to the cats. He pointed his tail as he said "Splashkit, Streakkit, Jaggedkit and Frostkit."He meowed proudly. All the cats saw Darkenstar pad in and all the cats stayed out of his way.
"The kits' names?" demanded Darkenstar with no hesitations.
Grassmoss stammered as he pointed his tail to each one "Splashkit, Streakkit, Jaggedkit and Frostkit" he meowed.
"Okay!" snarled Darkenstar. He stared at the clan's newest kits. "We've got one dead warrior and four new kits. That shall be good for the clan," he spat coldly and whispered into Oceanblast's ears. "You better take care of these kits or I'll banish you!" he spat unkindly into her ears.
"Okay," she replied back quickly. All the cats started to pad out behind Darkenstar.
"I wish Weathertail didn't die!" cried Mosskit.
"Whoa!" meowed Darkkit. "Four new denmates!"
"Yeah for a moon!" teased Mosskit and they again broke out into a little mini-fight.
"In a moon we need to stop behaving like kits!" yowled Destinykit outraged at her den-mates. Mosskit and Darkkit ignored her and they continued. Darkkit then yowled as they continued to 'fight'
"We are learning the moves to fight WHILE we play-fight!"
Destinykit sighed, giving up. She saw Grassmoss, Mouseflecks and Firewind dragging out Weathertail from the nursery and into the clearing for the burial. "She was a good warrior." meowed Firewind as he dragged her out, muffling under her fur.
"I agree." muffled Mouseflecks before adding "I knew her since she was a kit."
"Wow, your old!" teased Grassmoss under his breath.
"Ha-ha!" the destined kit giggled at Grassmoss's remark. Mosskit and Darkkit finally snapped out of their fight and padded up to Destinykit, wondering what was going on.
"Hey, what are you giggling at?" asked Darkkit. Destinykit whispered what had happened with Mouseflecks and Grassmoss to him. Darkkit laughed a bit too loud and Grassmoss gave him a weird look. Darkkit whispered the joke to Mosskit and the three were laughing their tails off until the sun was setting.
All for now! :)
