Chapter 10: Bigggest News Ever!
CELEBRATION TIME! It's the 10th chapter! There will be A LOT of them in the future! I hope to have people be nicer in the future too… HINT, HINT! Not much to say so, TO THE STORY!
She woke up back in the scary forest.
"What was it called," she thought hard, "Place of No Stars?"
"You can call it the Dark Forest for short," a voice said. She whipped around and saw Mapleshade.
"Sandstorm told me not to come here," she scuffled her paws.
"Well, what do you want?" she asked.
She thought hard about the decision before she fell asleep, "Well, I want help training," she said, quietly.
"Then why not?" Mapleshade said.
"Ok," Bravespirit said, agreeing with the Dark Forest cat.
"Then let's start!"
They trained for what felt like moons! Then Mapleshade stopped.
"That's the end of training for tonight."
"Aw! But its fun training with you!" she protested.
Mapleshade laughed, "Told you, just like Petalkit!"
Her heart was racing with happiness, "Ok, can I come tomorrow night?"
"Well, duh!" she snickered, "If you want to, at least!"
"Ok!" she started padding away but turned around and said, "Bye Mapleshade!"
She woke up with a weird feeling in her stomach.
"Maybe a stomach ache," she said.
"What about a stomach ache?" Flameleaf asked, waking up.
"My stomach just feels weird," she assured him.
"Ok, let's go back."
When they got to camp, Bravespirit got a weird pain that came out of nowhere.
"Ow!" she yowled.
"What?" Flameleaf supported her shoulder.
"It's nothing," she answered, with her teeth clenched.
Kits came bounding out of the nursery.
"It's Bravespirit!" Featherkit exclaimed.
"But what's wrong with her?" her brother Larkkit asked.
"It-it's nothing kits," she told them, nicely, "Just got to see the medicine cat!"
"Ok!" Featherkit said, happily.
"When will Wavefoot's kits open their eyes?" complained Larkkit.
"Pretty soon," Flameleaf said, "Now we got to go!" They quickly got to the den and pushed through the entrance.
"Jayfeather!" she yelled when more pain came.
"What?" he asked shooting out of where he kept his supplies.
"Something is wrong with my stomach," she told him, "It hurts, but not in a stomach ache way."
Leafpool heard it and bounded over, "I know what it is!" she exclaimed, happily.
'How can you be happy when a cat is in pain!' she wanted to tell her so badly.
"Come lay down," Jayfeather ordered.
"O-ok," she said, bewildered. She laid down in a nest, while Jayfeather, with Leafpool helping, checked her.
"It's actually good news!" Leafpool said, her eyes shining.
"You're going to have kits," Jayfeather told the confused warrior.
"Kits?!" Bravespirit and Flameleaf said at the same time.
"Yes! This is wonderful!" Leafpool exclaimed, "Congratulations!"
She was too shocked to say anything, 'My own kits? But…"
"How many?" she asked eagerly, pushing the thought away.
"By what we're feeling, it's three," Jayfeather replied.
"And what's weird is… you've had them for about a moon."
"A moon?!" the two cats exclaimed again.
'How'd I not know?!" she thought, somewhat bitterly, 'That's how stuff works, I bet they will say!'
"How did I not know?" she asked.
"We don't know," Leafpool responded, which shocked Bravespirit.
"How long until they come?" Flameleaf asked, nervously.
"By the looks of it, one or two moons," the medicine cat said.
"Now, as your medicine cat," Jayfeather began, "I want you to go to the nursery and sleep."
Sleep. The word repeated in her head, 'Aw no, Mapleshade! What am I going to tell her?'
"Ok," she replied.
"But eat these first," Jayfeather passed a leaf or whatever it was, "It's Chervil, just in case of a belly ache."
She ate it and padded to the nursery. She saw Nightsky in there with Wavefoot.
"What are you doing back, Bravespirit?" Nightsky asked.
"Oh, it's just…" she began, until kits leapt on her back.
"Is this Bravespirit?" one kit asked.
"Yeah!" the other kit said.
"What happened?" another one said batting to where her ear should have been.
"No, Volekit! Don't ask that!" Wavefoot scolded. (I accidentally forgot to add the name in the last chapter)
"So it is Bravespirit?" the first kit ask.
"Yes, Tinykit!" she breathed.
"Yeah, she gave me my name!" a kit boasted.
"Yeah right, Loudkit!" Volekit snorted, skeptically.
"Actually, I did!" Bravespirit told them, "Um, Wavefoot? They're kind of uh…"
"Oh! Kits! Over here!" she called to her kits.
"OK!" they chorused and scrambled over to their mother.
"Where are Featherkit and Larkkit?" she asked Nightsky.
Before she could answer two shadows came out of the darkness of the den.
"Yes!" Larkkit squeaked, "She didn't see us!"
"Did you see us?" Featherkit asked.
"Nope! You kits are doing well!" she told the over-excited kits.
They started skipping around, happily.
"So why are you here, Bravespirit?" Nightsky asked.
"Well," she finally began, "I found out that almost a half a moon ago that I'm going to have kits!"
"Really?!" Nightsky exclaimed, "It's about time! We've been waiting forever!"
"Wait, how did you not know?" Wavefoot asked, "Have you been feeling weird things in your stomach?"
"Now that you mention it," she started, "Yeah! I have!"
Nightsky and Wavefoot looked at each other and smiled, "Well, you're welcome here!"
Bravespirit dipped her head respectively, "How about you 5 get some fresh moss for her?"
Without responding they all bolted off. She chuckled.
'I wonder what my kits will be like,' she thought happily. Not even a minute later, the hoard of kits were tumbling through the entrance.
"We got it!" Larkkit called.
"Great Job!" Wavefoot told the kits, "Put it…"
"There?" Nightsky suggested. She was pointing to the empty spot near to where they were laying.
"That'll be good!" she responded.
"Now, let's make it comfortable!"
'They're fussing over me?' she thought, 'That doesn't happen a lot… except for Flameleaf. Aw great! He's going to fuss over me more!' she realized that right away.
Nightsky's call snapped her out of her thoughts.
"It's done!" Nightsky told her. She padded over to the nest and laid down in it.
"Thank you," she told the two queens.
"Now you get your sleep," Wavefoot said. They padded to their own nests and lied down and fell asleep.
She looked outside and it was dusk. So she decided to sleep a little longer.
She woke up, but it wasn't the Dark Forest. It was… StarClan?
A pale brown tom, with broad shoulders and holly green eyes.
"Hello," the tom said, "I'm Appledusk."
"Aren't you," she stuttered, "I mean… weren't you Mapleshade's mate?"
"Yes, but that's not why I'm here," he said, "Why are you training with Mapleshade?"
"Well… uh…" she stammered. He seemed intensely calm, "I wanted to prove that I'm not a kittypet and more of a warrior..." She trailed off into a whisper.
"You have to step up for yourself or do what your sibling Rabbitleap did," he told her, "Not try and prove yourself."
"What are you doing with my apprentice?!" Mapleshade shot through the bushes.
"Doing the right thing!" he told her.
"No! She has to prove herself!" she snarled, "Not look for help!"
"She can't turn out like what you did!" he hissed.
'Oh no,' she thought desperately. She was caught up in drama.
"Oh?" Mapleshade said, "And why can't she be a good warrior?!"
"You killed me and your own kits!" he snorted, angrily.
Bravespirit's blood went ice cold.
"Wh-What?" she whispered, "You killed cats?"
"Not my kits!" she told her, "I killed him! But only because he betrayed me for that snotty cat, Reedshine!"
Then out of nowhere, three kits bounded up.
"Mommy!" they yelled, and bounced to their mother.
"Larchkit?" she said, startled, "Patchkit? Petalkit?" For once, you saw her smiling in happiness, and not evilness.
"Yes, your kits," he said, calm again, "They want you back, Mapleshade."
"Yeah!" Larchkit pleaded.
"Please stay!" Patchkit looked at Mapleshade with big pleading eyes.
"Don't go!" Petalkit whined.
"I'm so sorry," she whispered, but it was towards Appledusk.
"Mapleshade," Appledusk got her attention, she looked into his eyes and he continued, "Do you regret killing us?"
"I… I'm sorry! I really am!" she cried.
"Then StarClan is allowing you here, instead of the Dark Forest," he said, smiling.
"Really?" she asked, astonished.
"Do you promise not to harm another cat, and live by the warrior code again?" he announced.
"I do!" she said, proudly.
"Then the warrior ancestors will grant you the ticket into StarClan!" he yowled.
Mapleshade's pelt wasn't dark and menacing anymore, it was filled with stars and light.
"My kits," she told the amazed kits, "I am home!"
"Yay!" they all called.
Bravespirit sighed in relief. It was so tense and now it was happy!
"Does this mean I don't have to go to the Dark Forest anymore?" she asked, "Because I woke up with scratches and bites and I had to cover them myself."
"No, you have your kits," Mapleshade said, "And live a happy life!"
"You knew?" she asked, bewildered.
"Of course!" she laughed. They all faded away but before they did she yowled, "Thank you!"
She woke up a while later, and it was sunhigh. She got up and walked out. The camp was busy.
"What's going on?" she asked Fawndapple, who was passing by.
"Oh hi, Bravespirit!" she greeted with a nod, "It's just a regular day mostly. But I heard about the news! Congratulations!"
"Thanks!" she replied, "But you said mostly. Why 'mostly'?"
"Well, I'm not for sure but you could ask Brambleclaw!" Fawndapple said padding away, "I have a busy day today."
She padded up to her father, "Um, what's going on?"
"Hello, and congrats!" he told her, "It's because we're getting ready for a battle. I don't know why, but I guess it's just in case."
"Ok, thanks!" she padded off to the leaders den.
"Firestar, may I come in?"
"Yes!" he said, quickly, "Your probably wondering what's going on," he said, when she walked in.
"Kind of," she replied, skeptically.
"Jayfeather went to the Moonpool and got a little bit more answers."
Jayfeather padded over and sat down.
"I did find out more," he said, "I found out that a new cat went from the Dark Forest to StarClan." His eyes narrowed at Bravespirit. She shrank back a bit.
"But anyways: the part 'Silver Lightning and Brave Rabbit leaps' is Brambleclaw's and Squirrelflight's kits; Silverstorm, Lightningstrike, Bravespirit, and Rabbitleap. Then the 'help of a gentle fawn and the Stars above' is Fawndapple, because she's calm, and Stars above, is StarClan."
"Is that it?" she asked.
"Yes," the blind cat nodded.
"I have to tell them," she sprang up and was about to run out but stopped at Firestar's call.
"You can't tell them."
"What? Why? We tell each other everything!" she said, all of it slipping out. 'Or at least everything,' she added silently to herself.
"Well, this is one you can't tell them!" Jayfeather snorted.
"You are dismissed," Firestar said quickly after he said that.
Grumbling, she stomped out.
"I need to go on patrol," she said to herself.
"Absolutely not!" a voice said, sternly.
She turned around and saw Daisy.
'Aw no!' she thought bitterly.
"You have kits to think about!" she nearly yelled.
"It's one little patrol!" Bravespirit protested.
"No, you have to go and rest."
If you had seen inside her, her body was engulfed with flames of anger. She padded off madly to the den. She got to her nest and flopped down.
"Daisy stopped you?" Nightsky guessed.
"Yup."
Nightsky leaned in closer, "Sneak out!"
"What?"
"Sneak out! Like you did when you were a kit!" she whispered.
She smiled at that memory. Finding Spiritheart (Winnie), and bringing him into the clan.
"Ok, I could try that," she agreed, "But cover for me!"
"Will do!" Nightsky exclaimed, "Right Wavefoot?" The cat who had been listening had agreed too.
"Yes, my brother did for me," she said, quietly, "When I met up with Ravenheart."
"He knew?!" Bravespirit nearly shouted.
"Yeah! He was the best brother any cat could have!"
"Yeah, I feel the same too," Bravespirit agreed, "Alright I'm going!"
She started padding out, but before she left, Wavefoot whispered, "Good Luck!"
She went passed to where Brambleclaw was assigning patrols. She got close to the entrance, and then bolted through. She was running so fast everything was a blur of brown and green. Bravespirit skidded to a stop when she heart a mouse. It bolted through the bushes and ran away.
'Mice are fast, but not as fast as me!' she thought, determinedly. She ran after it and once she got close, quick as a fox, swatted it. Then she leapt on it and bit the neck.
"This is great!" she meowed.
"Hi, Bravespirit," a cat said to her. She looked behind her, and she saw a black cat with a white spot around his ear, and had brown eyes.
"Hello, Swiftfoot!" she greeted her friend.
"How're you doing?" he asked, looking down a bit to see she was getting fatter… I mean plumper.
"Um, well…" she stuttered, "I found out I'm having kits!"
"Wow! Congrats!" he cheered, but there was a look in his eyes. It was a look of… sadness?
"So, how is being deputy?" she asked after a few moments.
"Well, it's actually great!" he exclaimed, but he still had sadness in his eyes, "I wonder when you will be deputy!"
"Well, are you able to keep a secret?" she whispered. (DO NOT hate me for doing this at the wrong spot! I'm not following the series, because it's my story!).
"Of course," he replied.
"Well, Firestar is on his last life," she said, sadly.
"Oh." he said, quietly.
There was rustling in the bushes, and Flameleaf came out.
His fur bristled, "What're you doing here?!"
"Just saying hello to a friend," he said back. Flameleaf hissed at him.
"Cat from different clans can't be friends!"
"Yes they can!" Bravespirit countered. Flameleaf relaxed.
"Sorry, Swiftfoot. I thought you were attacking her," he apologized walking away.
"I wouldn't do that!" he called after him. Then there was a cat calling Swiftfoot.
"Swiftfoot! Where are you?"
"Uh oh. I told them I found a mouse but… I actually didn't." His eyes were wide.
"Here!" she tossed him the mouse she caught. Swiftfoot looked down at it and looked back at Bravespirit with happiness in his eyes.
"Thanks!" he picked it up and ran off, and said good bye with a flicked his tail.
She sighed and walked back to camp.
It was a couple sunrises later and Bravespirit felt like a lazy kittypet. She hadn't done anything after the encounter of Swiftfoot. She was very confused at why he looked so sad. There was squealing coming from the kits. Larkkit bounded up to Bravespirit.
"When are your kits coming?" he asked eagerly.
"In about less than two moons," she answered, tiredly.
"Aw! But that will be forever!" Larkkit whined.
"Why do you want my kits to come?"
"Well…" he shuffled his tiny paws uncomfortably, "We were going to make our own kit clan!"
"And what's it called?" she asked, curiously. Featherkit, Tinykit, Volekit, and Loudkit stopped playing and walked over to the two cats.
"It's going to be called, ForestClan!" he called out.
"Why is it called that?" she piled questions on the little kit, without knowing. That's what it's like when you're curious.
"Well, Volekit is named after an animal, and Tinykit is named after the small animals and plants in the forest. Featherkit is named after feathers on a bird, and Me, Larkkit, is named after an animal. And then Loudkit is named after all the loud noises in the forest!" he said, over-excitedly.
"ForestClan! ForestClan!" the kits called. Bravespirit chuckled.
"I'll think of names that'll fit with 'ForestClan,' Bravespirit laughed.
"Yes!" Larkkit squeaked.
Wavefoot walked in with a mouse. She sat next to Bravespirit.
"Ravenheart caught this for us!" she meowed.
"Tell him I say thanks!" Then the two cats started to eat.
"You know," Wavefoot said between mouthfuls, "You're going to be a great mother!"
"You already are," Bravespirit exclaimed, "You're a mother of three!"
"That's not so bad," Wavefoot replied, "It's three, they're not so hard."
"Easy for you to say," she snorted happily. Then Nightsky padded in with her own mouse.
"So you started without me?" she joked.
"When can we try fresh-kill?" Featherkit whined.
"Yeah! I want fresh-kill!" Tinykit wailed.
"Fresh-kill! Fresh-kill!" the kits chanted.
Nightsky and Wavefoot sighed, "Fine!"
"Yipee!" the kits squealed.
"And you said 'it's not so bad'," Bravespirit teased.
When Loudkit tried the mouse, he scrunched his face up in disgust.
"Ew! Bleh!" Loudkit spit it out, "Why does it taste weird?"
"I think it's great!" Volekit squeaked.
"Yeah!" Tinykit agreed. Featherkit and Larkkit nodded in response.
"I don't!" Loudkit protested, "I want something else!"
"It's this or nothing," Wavefoot warned.
"Then I want nothing!" Loudkit said before bolting out. Wavefoot was about to get up until Bravespirit stopped her.
"I'll talk to him!" she offered, and got up and walked out. She saw the 2 moon old kit sitting alone.
"Why don't you like the mouse?" she asked.
"It tasted weird."
"What'd taste like?"
"Well," he began, "It tasted like blood… and death." She held her breath.
'That's not what mouse or any fresh kill tastes like!' she thought scared, "and how do you taste death?!'
"I'm going to take you to see Firestar and Jayfeather!" His eyes widened.
"Why?" he asked, nervously, "Is it bad I didn't like it?"
"No, but it might help with something." He slowly nodded.
They padded up to the Highrock where Firestar was lying down.
"Firestar!" she called, "Come down here!" He looked down and when he saw her, he got up quickly and jumped down.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Do you think it's odd that a cat tastes death when eating a mouse?"
"Um, I didn't know you could taste death," he responded, bewildered.
"Well, Loudkit here," she flicked her tail to the kit, "said he tasted it while the others tasted something different."
He leaned in closer to her and whispered, "Do you think it's part of the prophecy?"
"That's what I think," she whispered back. He nodded.
"Ok, thank you Loudkit," he told the young kit, "you've helped a lot?"
"I did?" he asked.
Firestar chuckled, "yes, you did. You two are dismissed."
They started padding away, and when they were near the nursery, Bravespirit looked down at the small kit.
"Great Job!" she said, happily. He stopped, and it confused her.
"What did I do?" he looked up at her with his blazing orange eyes, "I want the truth."
She was lost for words. She didn't know what to say, "Well… It's part of a dream. And that's all I know!" It made her feel sad for not saying everything to the poor kit.
"A dream?" he asked, excitedly, "Who had it?"
"I did," she whispered.
He just stood there. When he looked up, he had even more excitement in his eyes.
"Wow! I hope I get to have a StarClan dream!" he bounced around.
"I'm sure you will!" she laughed.
Before got back to the nursery, Bravespirit remembered something. She went to the fresh-kill pile, and grabbed a squirrel. She set it down in front of Loudkit.
"Try it this time," she insisted him.
"Will it taste yucky?"
"No," she said, 'I hope not.' He bent down slowly, still unsure of this action, and took a small bite. His eyes brightened instantly.
"This is great!" he squeaked. Half of the squirrel was left, "You have it!"
She dipped her head and then ate the rest. Loudkit yawned.
"I hope you get to be my mentor," he told her, sleepily, "Because you're great!" He could barely stand up, so Bravespirit picked up the tiny kit and brought him inside.
She tiptoed inside and laid the tiny kit by his littermates.
Bravespirit went to her own nest and curled up.
Before she went to sleep, Loudkit's words echoed in her mind, 'I hope you get to be my mentor! Because you're great!'
"I hope I get to be your mentor too, Loudkit," she whispered before she went into deep slumber.
This was also great! And it's long… very long! And don't make fun of the StarClan part of the story! 'Cuz I thought it would be great if Mapleshade got to go to StarClan.
Also 'whitestripe' his review said that Stripeclaw was his best friends warrior name… oops, sorry, I didn't know. If you want it changed I can change it. I was rushing to get it finished, so I made up the names. But it is a BEAST name!
I hope you enjoyed 'Chapter 10: Biggest News Ever!' It was an 'anniversary' type chapter but… hope you enjoyed and tune into 'Chapter 11: Kits' PEACE OUT EVERYBODY!