Chapter 11: Kits!
Well, Chapter 11… is gonna be GREAT! I'm so excited! I did a little planning, and I'm ready! Here we go!
About… let's say a moon later, Bravespirit was more… plump, than ever! She was supposed to have her kits in a couple sunrises. Fawndapple, two and a half moons ago, was told she was supposed to have kits! Riftclaw had given up being a medicine cat and became a warrior, with Lightningstrike training here a bit. But tonight was the Gathering. Bravespirit padded up to Firestar. But before she could say anything, he turned to her, his green eyes looking into her dark brown and emerald green eyes.
"Are you fit to travel?" he asked, nicely, "I know pregnant queens can't go to Gatherings but you've been to every single one, and I don't want you to break your record!" He chuckled.
"Yeah, and I was about to ask too!" she laughed. She was bursting with pride, "Is Fawndapple coming?"
"Well," he was considering, "Sure, I guess. See if she wants to."
"Yes, Firestar," she dipped her head. She walked over to the nursery. Fawndapple was asleep, so she had to sit there and wait.
She pondered in thought on what she would name her kits. There were many names: Ashkit, Owlkit, etc. Finally Fawndapple stirred.
"Oh, hi!" she said, sleepily, "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were waiting."
"Don't worry, it's fine!" she told the sleepy cat, "Do you want to come to tonight's Gathering?"
"Of course! If you don't mind, I'm going to go to sleep," she requested, "Rabbitleap was talking to me about our kits' and what they will look like and what will they be named."
"How about these," she exclaimed and told her the 2 ideas.
"They sound nice! Maybe you should use them," she replied, "Rabbitleap will probably name them!"
"That's Rabbitleap for you!" Bravespirit laughed. Then she yawned, "I'm going to sleep too."
Bravespirit curled up and fell asleep.
A paw was prodding the young cat's side, "Wha?" Bravespirit muttered, blinking sleepily.
She saw Fawndapple was the cat doing it, "Sorry, but it's the Gathering!"
Bravespirit slowly got up, "I forgot! Let's go!"
They got to the Gathering, and saw the rest of the clans. She saw Swiftfoot, but he was by the other deputies. When they made eye contact, he had sadness in his eyes. This broke her heart, she didn't like other cats being sad. But she didn't get to talk to him, because it was starting.
Onestar went first, "There isn't anything to report for WindClan."
"RiverClan has much more prey in the lake than usual," Leopardstar said.
"ShadowClan is all good and Rosetail is going to have kits in a moon or so," Blackstar said, quickly.
"Rosetail! Rosetail!" Lastly, Firestar padded up.
"Great news, Fawndapple is going to have kits in about a moon, and Bravespirit should be having hers in a couple sunrises!"
"Fawndapple! Bravespirit!"
She looked at Fawndapple, and caught her brown eyes shining brightly at the mention of her name. All the cats split up and met with cats from other clans.
Bravespirit bounded over to Swiftfoot. She really wanted to ask him what was wrong. But stopped when he was by Darkheart. Her ears flattened against her head, she didn't like that cat. She stalked away, but ran into a grey tom with brown ears, tail tip, and left forepaw. She stared into his sky blue eyes.
"I'm Wolfleap!" he exclaimed, "Are you 'Bravespirit'?"
"Yes?" she answered. She never met Wolfleap, he smelled of ShadowClan.
"Oh! Congratulations on the upcoming kits!"
"Thanks," she said, shyly, "Do you have a mate?"
Wolfleap shook his head, sadly. He looked over at silver dappled she-cat.
"That's Dapplelight," he told her, "She's beautiful!"
"Tell her that."
"What, I-I can't!" he whined.
"Dapplelight!" she called. The dappled she-cat looked over from where she was and padded over.
"What is it?" She said in a kind voice.
"Wolfleap has something to tell you!" With that said, she padded over to Flameleaf.
"Another friend you have Bravespirit?" he joked.
She nudged him playfully, "Oh be quiet." She saw Wolfleap jump in the air and ran over to her, with his eyes shining.
"Thank you, Bravespirit! Thank you!" he cheered. He saw Flameleaf, "Oh, congrats to you too!" He padded away to his new mate.
Flameleaf was surprised, "You helped him?"
"Yup!" she said. They touched noses, and padded to the rest of ThunderClan.
"We are leaving!" the leaders called. And they all padded away.
Bravespirit was partly tired, she went straight to the nursery. Wavefoot was in there with her kits, along with Nightsky.
"How'd it go?" Wavefoot asked.
"Good," she yawned, happily.
"You seem tired," Nightsky said.
"I'm more hungry than tired."
Fawndapple padded in with a squirrel in her jaws, "Let's share!"
Bravespirit sighed happily, "Good timing!"
The squirrel was finished quickly. The two cats were stuffed.
"I'm tired," Fawndappled yawned.
Bravespirit yawned too, "Yeah." She curled up in her nest and fell asleep.
Bravespirit woke up in a dark place. There was whispering coming everywhere. It was scaring her because it was… well, scary.
'You have to wake up,' a familiar voice said. The world turned to the clearing she knew of.
"Spottedleaf?" he whispered. The tortoiseshell she-cat padded out, with two other cat with her.
"This is Brambleberry of RiverClan," she said, nodding to the cat on her left. Then she flicked her tail to the other tom on her on her right, "This is Hawkheart of WindClan. There was supposed to be someone else coming." Then a cat burst through the undergrowth.
"Sorry I'm late," the tom said.
"That's Runningnose of ShadowClan. As you can see, we were the Clans medicine cats," Brambleberry said.
"But we have come to warn you," Hawkheart said, "A battle is coming. And fast."
"You have to warn the clans!" Spottedleaf pleaded.
"Why didn't you tell Jayfeather?" Bravespirit asked, "I'm not a medicine cat."
"Because you know who will be the cause of it," Runningnose said, sadly.
She remembered one part of the prophecy, 'To defeat the Darkest Hearts of all.'
She gasped, "Darkheart?!" They nodded and started fading away.
Spottedleaf padded up to her and rested her muzzle on Bravespirit's head, "You've grown a lot, now you must protect the ones you love, especially the kits that will be coming when you wake up!" She smiled and winked, then faded.
"What?! They're coming!" she shouted.
She woke up with so much pain.
"Fawndapple!" she yowled.
Fawndapple bolted up and saw her, "Oh no! Wavefoot! Nightsky! Wake up!"
The two cats blinked awake, but bolted up too.
"I'm going to get Jayfeather!" Wavefoot called and ran off.
It felt like moons before she got back.
"Ok, get the kits out of here," Jayfeather ordered Wavefoot and Nightsky. They nodded and rounded up their kits and padded to the elders den, where Longtail, Mousefur, and Purdy were awaken.
"Fawndapple, you stay here and comfort her," he told the cream colored she cat. She knelt down next to her friend, and used a soothing voice to comfort her.
"Ok, push when I say push," he instructed, "PUSH!"
She did was she was full of pain. She yowled.
"It's a she-kit!" he said, "Another one's coming!"
She pushed with all her might.
"You're doing great, Bravespirit!" Fawndapple cheered. Through the pain, she forced out a smile. She could hear the kits outside.
"Why can't we see the kits?" Featherkit whined.
"I want to see if Bravespirit is ok!" Larkkit agreed.
Bravespirit chuckled at the kits' complaining. Finally a second kit came out.
"It's a tom!" Jayfeather yowled to Flameleaf who was waiting outside with the kits.
The pain still came though. She yowled with even more pain.
"This one's tuff," Fawndapple told her, "This kit will make a good warrior!"
"Y-Yeah," she stammered. Finally it came.
"And it's a she-kit!" Jayfeather meowed. The pain finally subsided.
She looked up at Fawndapple gratefully, "Thanks!"
"Your my friend, I can't leave friends alone," she said calm and happily.
"I will stay with you when you have your kits," she muttered and fell asleep, feeling the kits starting to drink her milk.
By the time she woke up, it was sun high. Flameleaf was beside her while she slept, and he slept a bit himself.
"Flameleaf?" she said, confused. But remembered she had three kits. She didn't see them yet, but when she looked down, she saw her beautiful kits, sleeping at her stomach
One she-kit was white with orange patches.
The tom was ginger with dark orange stripes
The last she-kit was a pale orange color.
"They're beautiful aren't they?" Flameleaf said, waking up.
"Yeah," she sighed happily.
"What should we name them?" he asked.
"Should we wait until their eyes open?" she said.
Flameleaf thought about it for a moment and said, "Let's at least name one of them!"
"Ok," she agreed. She looked at the tom, his leg looked twisted a bit. "How about Twistedkit?"
"That's a great name!" she nuzzled it.
"Oh! That one should be named Missingkit!" he pointed to the white she-kit.
"Why?" feeling kind of hurt about the name.
"Well, she has a spot on her right shoulder," he touched his muzzle to her shoulder, "But on the left shoulder, there isn't one!" She felt better about the name now.
"Missingkit!" the white and ginger she-kit squeaked.
Bravespirit looked at the pale orange cat. She reminded her about a kit; and what shocked her is the kit opened her eyes for a second, revealing amber eyes, and closed them.
"Did you just see that?" she asked Flameleaf, who was looking at the kits.
"See what?" he asked, bewildered.
"Nothing." She muttered, "Let's name that one Maplekit," she smiled at the name.
"I thought you wanted to name one when it opens their eyes?" he said.
"Well, I named it already," she stated, "So there is no reason to not have it."
Flameleaf rolled his eyes, but before he could answer back, Lightningstrike padded in.
"Flameleaf your on patrol," he told him, "I got back to hunting patrol, so we have some more fresh-kill."
Flameleaf nodded and walked away.
"Wow! These are your kits?" he said astonished.
"Yup! Meet Twistedkit, Missingkit, and Maplekit!" she said, nosing each kit as she said their names.
Lightningstrike was happy, "More of my kin born!" He sniffed each kit, "I'm going to tell Silverstorm, Rabbitleap, Squirrelflight, Brambleclaw, Flowerpetal…"
"Ok! Ok!" Bravespirit interrupted, "I get it!" They started laughing.
"Well, I'm going to tell everyone else!" Lightningstrike said before bounding off.
She already was feeling restless, 'This will be a while.' Her prayers were answered.
"You know, I can take care of your kits," Nightsky said.
"Are you sure?" Bravespirit asked, looking at the dark brown she-cat.
"Of course!" she exclaimed, "I love kits!"
Bravespirit smiled at her friend, "Thank you!"
"Why did I ever hate you when I was a kit?" Nightsky asked, mostly to herself. Bravespirit rolled her eyes.
"Thanks again!" She said and padded out. The sunshine on her white pelt felt good.
"I love new-leaf!" she exclaimed.
"I know!" Squirrelflight said from behind her, "I'm so proud of you! You didn't let your injury stop you!"
"Thank you!" she dipped her head to her mother.
"What did you name the kits?" she asked, "I want to know the name of my kin."
"The white she-kit with orange patches is Missingkit, the ginger tom with dark orange stripes is Twistedkit and the pale she kit is Maplekit."
"Beautiful names! I will come see them later today!" she exclaimed as she padded away. Flameleaf got back from his patrol and padded over to her.
"What are you doing out?" he asked her with concern. She nudged him.
"Don't worry so much! I'm just getting fresh air!" Bravespirit laughed. He opened his mouth to ask something else but she stopped him, "Nightsky is taking care of our kits."
"Want to go on a walk through the forest with me?" Bravespirit nodded and they walked off. Once they got far enough away from the camp Flameleaf spoke up.
"Are you ok?"
Bravespirit was shocked, "Yeah, we have a son and two daughters! Of course I'm ok!" Actually that was a lie. Her dream was haunting her.
"Bravespirit, I am your long time best friend and mate, I know what's wrong when I see it," he said, sternly but not that stern.
"I had a dream and Spottedleaf, Brambleberry, Hawkheart, and Runningnose were there," then she explained the whole dream. Flameleaf stood there in shock.
"A battle? We got to tell Firestar!" he jumped.
"I was going to do that when I had the time," she said.
"You have the time now. Let's go!" he started running away, and Bravespirit followed. They got back to camp within a minute, because she was very fast. They got to Firestar's den quick.
"Firestar?" Flameleaf said.
"You may come in!" They walked in and saw Firestar with Sandstorm, "What's the matter?"
"Well, I had another dream," Bravespirit told him.
Firestar looked at Sandstorm and back at Bravespirit, "Continue." So she told them the whole dream.
The leader was on his feet within seconds, "Now we have to tell the clans. Would you like me to?"
"Yes, they need to be ready!" Bravespirit replied, urgently. Firestar nodded and called the clan. When they gathered Firestar started.
"There is a battle coming!" he yowled. There was multiple murmurs in the clan, but he continued, "We need to get ready! Brambleclaw!" he called to his deputy, "We need to have more training sessions, but not a lot to exhaust the warriors and apprentices." Her father nodded with determination. Then Firestar walked back to Bravespirit.
"Thank you for telling us," he nodded and padded back to his den.
The sun was already setting. Bravespirit went to the warriors den and saw her sister, Silverstorm in there. Silverstorm got up instantly.
"You had the dream didn't you?" she asked.
"Yes and I have something to tell you." Bravespirit told her the prophecy and said that she was part of it.
"I… I'm part of a prophecy," she stuttered, "Does Rabbitleap, Fawndapple, and Lightningstrike know?"
"I'm going to tell them," which, as if on cue, Rabbitleap and Lightningstrike walked in. So she got right to the point with them. She told them about the prophecy.
Rabbitleap and Lightningstrike were wide eyed. They looked like deer caught in the headlights. Then Lightningstrike spoke up.
"I'm kind of surprised," he admitted, "The non-stop talker is part of a prophecy, huh."
"I'm part of a prophecy? So is Fawndapple?" Rabbitleap said. Bravespirit nodded.
Rabbitleap got up, "I'll tell her!" Before Bravespirit could object, he bounded away.
"I better get back to my kits," she said, "If you were wondering Silverstorm, their names are Missingkit, Twistedkit, and Maplekit!"
"I hope I get one of them as my apprentice!" she said.
"Me too!" Lightningstrike skipped.
"I'll make sure you guys get one of them! Especially Rabbitleap," she exclaimed. She flicked her tail in a 'see you later' way and padded away. She got into the nursery and saw Fawndapple look at her with a shining light in her eyes.
"I know what the part about me is!" she said, happily.
"Really?" Bravespirit was excited.
"My family! They're going to help!" she couldn't help the shake in her voice.
"I can finally meet them!" she jumped. A kit walked up to her. It was Larkkit.
"What are you talking about?" he asked, blue eyes shining.
"Oh, a prophecy," Bravespirit replied.
"Ooh! What's it about?" he asked again.
"A battle," she whispered. Larkkit gasped.
"Featherkit!" he called. His sister walked out.
"What? This better be good because I was in a good dream!"
"There's a battle coming!" he told her. Featherkit's fur bristled.
"What?! They won't get passed me!" she swiped at thin air.
Bravespirit chuckled, "Not yet, Featherkit! Probably when you two are apprentices and my kits are apprentices, the battle will come. Possibly even Fawndapple's kits!"
"You never told us what your kits' names were!" Larkkit reminded.
"Oh! It's Missingkit, Twistedkit, and Maplekit." She said that while flicking her tail at each kit.
"Those aren't forest names!" Featherkit whined.
"Actually they are!" she smiled when the kits had confused faces on them, "You can go missing in the forest, the roots of the trees look twisted, especially the tree that is twisted in many directions, and there are maple trees in the forest!"
Featherkit brightened up, but Larkkit was looking at Twistedkit's leg, "Will he be a warrior?"
"Of course! You see me, with only one ear, still a warrior, and a mother!" she told the kit, "Now let's get some sleep, tomorrow I'll show you my own battle moves." The two 3 moon old kits squealed and ran to their mother and curled up. Fawndapple had grabbed Bravespirit's kits and set them next to her.
Fawndapple spoke, "In less than a week I get to have my kits!"
"That's great!" Bravespirit exclaimed, "Does Rabbitleap know?"
"Not yet," she scuffled her paws, "But I'm going to tomorrow!"
Bravespirit chuckled, "Ok, good night!" She felt Fawndapple lie down beside her and fall asleep. So did Bravespirit.
Her dream was scarier than usual. She was stuck under a rock pile. But then she got out. The world was black then. Bravespirit heard voices.
"Find the holly that is trapped between two worlds," the voice whispered.
"Find her," it kept repeating.
"Mommy?" a different voice said.
She woke up instantly and a tiny face was in front of her. It was a white she-kit.
"Missingkit?" she said, astonished, "Y-you've opened your eyes!"
"Yeah! So did Maplekit!" she pointed to Maplekit prodding Twistedkit's leg.
"Don't do that!" she said, softly, "It might be injured."
"Oh." She looked into Bravespirit's mis-colored eyes.
'They are amber!' she thought happily.
"When will he wake up?" she asked.
"Whenever he's ready," she said.
"Don't worry, Twistedkit! Open your eyes whenever!" Missingkit chanted.
"Do it when your ready! Then we can meet our family!" Maplekit squeaked.
This brought back a great memory.
Flashback to Chapter 1…
"C'mon Bravekit! You can open your eyes! I know you can!" I heard Silverkit chant.
"Yeah! C'mon! We can meet the clan!" Lightning kit shouted.
"If she opens her eyes! And I hope now," Rabbitkit said impatiently.
"Oh knock it off Rabbitkit, quit being so stubborn!" Silverkit giggled.
"I'm not stubborn! I'm just bored!" He said defensively.
"Yes you are!" I said. I shocked myself when I spoke because I opened my eyes!
"Finally! Welcome to the waking world shut eyes!" Rabbitkit said, excitedly.
End of Flashback…
"They can come visit us whenever," Missingkit countered.
"Yeah, but it's better if we visit them first!" Maplekit hissed back.
"Can't you two stop fighting," a new voice said. Twistedkit!
"You've opened them!" Maplekit squealed.
"Yeah?" Twistedkit said, "My leg feels weird." He was sniffing it.
"Try walking on it," Bravespirit prompted. He stood up and hobbled around on it.
"I need to do it more, but yeah!" Twistedkit squeaked, "I'm going to be a great warrior!"
"Can we meet the clan, mommy?"
"Yeah! Can we?"
Bravespirit laughed, "Ok, ok! Yes, you can. But you should meet Longtail, Mousefur, and Purdy! They tell great stories!" The kits scampered off, except for one.
"Twistedkit? What's wrong?" she was scared for her kit.
"Could you show me around?" he looked up and she looked into his beautiful, blazing blue eyes.
"Yes," she got up and helped her son to his paws. They both walked out and saw Missingkit and Maplekit run to the elders den.
"Well that was the elders den!" she laughed, "That's the warriors den, apprentices den, and medicine cat den." She pointed to each den while walking around. She realized Twistedkit stopped.
"Do I have to be a medicine cat apprentice?" he asked.
"Why would you think that?" she said, baffled.
"Because of my leg."
"No, but what do you want?"
"Warrior!" he said, with more determination.
"Then be a warrior apprentice!" Bravespirit liked the top of Twistedkit's head.
"I bet I will be called Twistedleg!" he squeaked, "It sounds cool! I want to be like you! To never give up!"
She felt her heart grow bigger at those words. She showed her kit the rest of the camp, and at the end he was tired. But Firestar called to the clan. Her two other kits went by her.
"I have to announce Bravespirit's kits!" he yowled, "Missingkit, Maplekit, and Twistedkit!"
"Missingkit!"
"Maplekit!"
"Twistedkit!" ThunderClan yowled all the way to StarClan. That's when she looked up and saw stars twinkling. But one brighter than all the others. She had a vision type thing go through her mind. But the vision she saw, was her!
'That's going to be my star when I have to go to StarClan,' she thought.
The brightest star of all.
Sorry for the delay! School ended June 5th! But now you know why it's called that. How do you like it?
Also for that person who said this is just like the story Starkit's Prophecy. I read that and it was amazing! So you're saying it's amazing?! OH THANK YOU! You're too kind!
Review on it was! THANKS!
~Brave!