Icebelly padded back and forth, their nerves all on edge. Cherrycloud had gone into labor when the snow began to fall, she had been kitting since sunhigh. The clan was either out on patrol or held up in their dens.
It had only been two days since Cinderpaw and Brackenpaw's assessment. They both had done fantastic according to Bluestar and Lionheart. They also said they would be warriors in no time.
He had other things to worry about as well. Rabbitwhisker had told him that Fogpaw wouldn't be able to walk properly for the rest of her life. Duskstar had named her Moonheart at her request. Icebelly had been worried that Windclan would cast her out but Rabbitwhisker put his worries to rest when he also told him that Duskstar had given her a new role in being a camp guard and helper around the clan. Whitekit had become an apprentice under Duskstar, while Moonheart's second litter had been born, she named them: Ploverkit, Crescentkit, Rosemarykit, and Curlykit.
Volekit came back to the clan a few days ago, making Cypressflower cry tears of joy and was named an apprentice under Graystripe. Lightkit and Patchkit were apprenticed under Darkstripe for Lightpaw and Lionheart for Patchpaw.
He met his younger siblings at the last gathering and he was more than worried for their well being just from that as well as his talk with a Shadowclan queen.
-Flashback-
Icebelly had spent most of the gathering having a stare off with Blackfoot, small chatting with Wetfoot and Littlecloud, sly flirting with his two Slivers or chatting with Rabbitwhisker and Morningflower. He heard many things:
From Riverclan: Mosspelt had given birth to a molly named Dawnkit, sired by Frogleap, Condorpaw and Lakepaw became warriors named Condorwing and Lakewillow, Emberpaw had gotten her warrior name in Flameshell, Sunscar had recently given birth to a littler of three named Bluekit, Black-kit, and Dark-kit sired by Blackclaw and Stonestorm, Mallowtail had a singe kit named Gullkit and Dawnstream had a litter of two named: Mink-kit and Garkit as well as Swanlight and Mistyfoot expecting litters.
From Windclan: Aspenfall was killed by a Shadowclan attack leaving behind his kits in Whitetail and Webfoot as well as Smokekit, Tawnykit and Rushkit were apprenticed. Tawnypaw is Barkface's apprentice while Rushtail is mentored by Mudclaw, Eaglekit became Eaglepaw and is being mentored under by Cloudrunner, They welcomed addition of Thrushpaw and Stonepaw, a molly named Larksplash had given birth and they were apprenticed: Thrushpaw to Runningbrook and Stonepaw to Webfoot.
From Shadowclan...well it wasn't pleasant to remember the news he heard from Badgerfang.
He had drifted into the coward along the way, wanting to speak to other cats outside his group. He did not expect to find his mother and younger siblings.
"Icebelly" Dew-whisker mewed plainly, she bore scars along her back and shoulders.
"Mother" he replied with the same tone
"Is this one of our older siblings mama?" a tortie molly asked
"Yes Jump-paw this is one of your brothers"
Icebelly stared at the three apprentices. A tortie and white molly with amber eyes, a golden striped tom with blue eyes, and a black scared molly with yellow eyes.
"Umm hi?" he started "It's nice to meet you three, I've heard you three will be warriors soon" he hoped that sounded real when he had been doing the opposite, mostly trying to avoid Dew-whisker getting any info on them from Littlecloud or Badgerfang.
"Yeah" Beepaw purred, puffing out his golden chest "We'll be better warriors than Buzzardpaw or Hollypaw"
Icebelly was confused, Badgerfang had told him that Buzzardpaw and Hollypaw had died so why would Beepaw boast at being better than them. "How?"
"We're not weak like them" Jump-paw sneered "We're not afraid to kill"
"We won't back away from battle" Beepaw boasted "Then Brokenstar will have to make us warriors"
Dew-whisker wore a emotion that Icebelly couldn't tell for a moment but realized was sadness. Sadness that her kits were eager to kill. His relationship with his mother is and will never be perfect. He's in a place where their both awkward and cold to together at the same time. Flameshell is the same way while Moonheart has mostly forgiven her. Tommy never had too many issues like the rest of them did.
/
He drifted away from the large coward when the ringing in his ears started. He would have went back to the others if not for hearing the sobbing of a molly. He padded over to some bushes and saw a golden and white tabby queen sobbing. He recognized her as Dawncloud. He saw some of her clanmates a little close by in the form of Toadpelt and Deerfoot but they didn't seem to care.
Icebelly slowly padded over to her, he laid his paws gently on her side "Dawncloud?"
Dawncloud lifted her head to see him "What do you want Thunderclanner?"
"Nothing really" he kept his voice soft "I just heard you crying and your all alone"
Dawncloud sat up and tried to rid her tears "I'm fine, why would you care to know?"
Icebelly shrugged "I don't know, maybe you just need to tell someone outside your clan your struggles, a complete stranger who won't use it against you"
Dawncloud stared at him, seeming to question his words than pulled him aside away from nosy ears. She tossed him onto his back and she laid beside him.
"How many litters do you think I've had?"
Icebelly looked at her swollen teats and could take a guess at three "Three?"
"Four" Dawncloud corrected him "I'm a young cat, I shouldn't have had this many litters in this short amount of time, I'm around your clanmate Fogtail's age"
Icebelly's jaw dropped at that.
Dawncloud continued to spill her guts about how horrible life was in Shadowclan since Brokenstar took over and Icebelly had felt sick to his core by the end of it.
He asked Dawncloud to meet with him, to help her escape.
She agreed, tears in her eyes.
-Flashback ends-
She wasn't the only one he meet with at night away from prying eyes of the clans. He had a whole system for it. Rabbitwhisker five days day before the gathering, Morningflower four days, Sliverstream and Silvertide three days, Littlecloud and Whitethroat two days, Badgerfang the day before and now Dawncloud the day after the gathering. Icebelly has always been open about his relationships to his partners so everyone knew about everybody.
"Icebelly" Icebelly snapped out of his thoughts. He turned to face Thymepaw, who looked happy. "You can go see your kits"
His kits, that thought brought joy to Icebelly. He slowly padded into the nursery, pleased with the sight of Cherrycloud. The nursery had two parts: one for the expectant mothers and the other for queens with kits. The ginger and white molly was laying on her side, staring lovingly at the little bundles of fur at her belly.
"Glad you're okay" He purred licking her head
"Same, these little ones didn't want to come out" Cherrycloud joked
"Their perfect" Three little kits. One looked just like him, another looked like Fuzzypelt and the last one was a tortie.
"What should their names be?" he asked
"I want to name your lookalike Flurrykit" Cherrycloud mewed
"Great, What about Sunnykit for the tortie?"
"Lovely and I can't wait for my father to hear his grandkit is named after him" Cherrycloud purred
"Flurrykit, Sunnykit, and Fuzzykit" He smiled "Welcome to Thunderclan"
/
It had only been three days since the birth of his kits and just the thought of them gave him strength to hunt and fight. He was already a good fighter to begin with though, his own knowledge of fighting as well as Tiger-roar, Bluestar, and even Swanlight's methods helped as well. He had recently gotten into a little scuffle with Toadpelt on Dawncloud behalf's only coming out of it with a nick in his right ear and a lip cut.
He headed back to camp with five fat mice and a squirrel. It was his most impressive catch since leaf-bare had began. He had been hunting in twolegplace for a while now, he ran into Scourge and she and Snake showed him some good spots to hunt and he got to meet Scourge's little of Joker, Quince, and Domino.
He didn't think his catch was that impressive to others but he guessed wrong when Nightshade went wide eyes on his catch. The scarred black molly dropped the pitiful bone from her mouth when she saw his kills.
"Where in the name of Thunderstar's ass did you catch those?" Nightshade nearly screeched. Cats saw the prey and looked at it with greed.
"I caught them in Thunderclan territory?" he lied, what others didn't know wouldn't hurt them. He was pretty sure Nightshade or Tiger-roar would slit his throat if they found out he was hunting in twolegplace.
"Where? my patrol only found one small mouse and Ebonypaw only barley manged to catch it" Miststrike mewed from beside her sister "Anything else has been too skinny or to sick to eat"
"Uh by the owl tree, I was probably lucky" Icebelly replied
"I'll note to send hunting patrols around the Owl tree for a while" Lionheart stated "Take some to the queens and medicine cats than the pile if there's spare"
Icebelly nodded, as he padded to the nursery he was some of his clanmates namely Darkstripe glare at him. Their ribs were visible and their eyes looked a little crazed with hunger. He hoped they wouldn't start fighting each other for food like he heard was happening in Shadowclan from Wetfoot and Badgerfang.
"Hungry anyone?" he mewed as he entered the milk-scented den
"Nice catch" Mossthorn purred lifting her head from her one kit, Sagekit.
"Is Nettlesong back yet?" Cypressflower asked from her place beside Redtail.
"No he's still hunting he'll be back soon" Icebelly replied as he dropped a mouse for Mossthorn and Speckletail. Speckletail's kit, Flamekit had died leaving Mistlekit and Snowkit left. He didn't see Snowkit only Mistlekit by Speckletail's belly. He didn't ask. He ignored Robinwing as she was sleeping next to Speckletail. Her kits would be apprenticed after Brindleface's.
"Want some Redtail?"
"No Swiftrunner brought me a vole earlier" the tortie replied
"One for you Goldenflower" the golden tabby nodded in thanks, her bushy tail curled around her plump belly.
"And one for you my lovely Cherry"
"Oh Icebelly your to kind" Cherrycloud purred licking his cheek
Being icky boo sweet wasn't something Icebelly would do normally but if it would make someone else happy or make someone like Darkstripe, Chestutclaw, Robinwing, or Nightshade annoyed he would do it. He would do it often with Graystripe or Raveneye's help.
He made his way to the medicine den, carrying the squirrel and two mice.
"Yellowfang? Spottedleaf? Thymepaw? you in here?"
"Hush" Thymepaw shushed him "Snowkit is sick and I just got him to sleep"
Icebelly nodded, he dropped his voice into a whisper "I have prey"
Thymepaw touched her nose to him "Thanks Icebelly"
"Where's-"
"Spottedleaf has gone to Windclan for herbs and Yellowfang went to find more poppy seeds" Thymepaw mewed quickly
He dropped the two mice by the apprentice's paws "Poppy seeds are still growing?"
"Yellowfang has a stash of herbs near fourtrees for situations like this, we've used almost all the catmint though, Willowpelt's got greencough"
Icebelly winced "Yikes, I'll try to find catmint if I can find some"
"Better not be dried up" Yellowfang's voice slightly rang through the den. The elderly cat shook their fur, their left ear was bleeding.
"What happened to your ear?"
"Got into a little tussle with some youngins thinkin cuz I'm old means their stronger, they should know better than to mess with a Sliverblood" Yellowfang laughed, the old cat turned their head. "How's Willowpelt?" Icebelly saw the pale gray molly, the low rise and fall of her chest, he also saw the starry spirit of Rosetail looking over with love in her eyes.
"I gave her a poppy seed and some honey to help with the pain" Thymepaw replied, fidgeting her fluffy tail with her paws.
"Good kit" Yellowfang mewed, they glanced at Icebelly "You sick like Graystripe?"
Icebelly shook his head "No which I'm grateful for, I was bringing you prey"
"Good the less Greencough the better" Yellowfang said gruffly
Icebelly looked around "There's more patients?"
Thymepaw nodded sadly "Patchpelt, Fuzzypelt, Swiftpaw, and Snowkit"
"I'll leave, don't want it to spread more" Icebelly began making his way out but Yellowfang called him back.
"Make sure Graystripe stays in his den, will you? He's a strong warrior. If he were resting, his cough would be better"
Icebelly brought his paw to the bridge of his nose, sighing he knew where Graystripe probably was. He'd have to tell Graystripe to tone it down with seeing Sliverstream and Slivertide. He didn't need Graystripe getting more sick or worse infecting Riverclan. Those two Rivers didn't know when to cut back.
/
It had been a half-moon since then, he's manged to keep Graystripe in camp. Greencough was spreading Smokepaw had just gotten it as well as Wrenkit, Shrewkit, and Strikekit. Robinwing's other kits had been apprenticed, Redtail having Chivepaw and Speckletail having Stagpaw. He left camp shortly after Magpiethroat's ceremony, the depressing atmosphere finally getting to him at least a little bit. He found some catnip on his walk.
Two hunting parties had been sent out: The first consisted of Bluestar, Redtail, Chivepaw, Sandstorm, Whitestorm, Brackenpaw, and Duststorm and the second one had Goldenflower, Seedpaw, Fogtail, and Swiftpaw.
The thought of Princess and Tommy came into his head. Tommy was hanging around Princess and Olive's garden lately, he hoped to catch him.
Icebelly raced along the edge of the woods to the part of twolegplace where his sister's garden lay. When her fence was in sight, he dug down through the snow and buried the catnip beneath a layer of dead leaves to protect it from the cold. He leaped onto the fence and called out to Princess and Tommy. He quickly scrambled back down into the woods to wait for them.
The snow made his paws ache but fur soothe as he paced restlessly under an oak tree. He heard a familiar mew. He looked up to see her standing on top of the fence. Her belly was no longer swollen. She gave birth two moons ago after being very overdue. "Come see them" she purred, jumping back into her garden
Icebelly jumped down and looked and saw Princess, Tommy, and Olive laying down huddling the five little bundles in their fur. He padded over, a big smile on his face "What are their names?"
"The biggest kit is named Cloud, the second is Harvey, the third is Cream, the fourth is Meadow, and the runt is Cotton" Princess replied
"Harvey was my idea" Olive added
"I thought of Cream" Tommy finished, purring. He displayed a bright green collar, studded with teeth.
"I didn't think you'd call one of your kits Meadow, sounds like a clan name" Icebelly commented
"I know, I did it for a reason" Princess mewed, she slowly stood up "I want to join Thunderclan as well as my kits"
Icebelly was shocked "Princess, why?" Icebelly knew better than this. He knew the clan wouldn't like another kittypet let alone a litter of them.
"I've been hearing your stories about the clans and you said Smudge even joined so how hard could it be for me to adapt as well"
"I...I.." Icebelly stammered
"I'm going weather you like it or not?"
"Bluestar-"
"I'll tell her it was my idea" Princess argued
Icebelly glanced at Olive "Olive, you're okay with this?"
Olive shrugged "Princess made up her mind and I can't stop her, while I don't see the appeal I trust Princess though I'm taking Harvey with me"
"Princess can be stubborn when she wants to Snowball" Tommy added
"If they won't let me in then I'll join another clan like Luna and Fliou did"
Icebelly couldn't believe this was happening. He carried Cloud and Cream while Princess carried Meadow and Cotton. Snow started falling but not hard which was a blessing.
As they neared the camp entrance, he caught the scent of Raveneye and Graystripe. He turned his head to see them staring at him. Graystripe had dropped their kills and Raveneye looked stunned as well. The white splotches black tom smelled like the farm and Barley.
"What-" Graystripe started but Raveneye shoved his tail in their mouth.
"Icebelly will explain, right?" Icebelly could from that tone Raveneye was annoyed. The tom knew how to make his voice level and not revel anything but Icebelly could tell.
Icebelly flicked his tail in acknowledgement. They neared the entrance and Icebelly's felt his nerves go up. Raveneye and Graystripe entered, Raveneye ggiving him a side eye as they went.
Icebelly squared his shoulders padded through the gorse tunnel with Princess close behind him. Cloud let out a deafening wail as a thorn tugged at its fur. Several pairs of eyes turned to look in amazement as Icebelly and Princess emerged into the clearing.
Both hunting parties had returned. He saw Mousefur sitting close to Spottedleaf, hunched over, eyes narrowed while Spottedleaf looked sympathetic. Whitestorm, Sandstorm, Brackenpaw, and Duststorm were all in the clearing. One by one the rest of the clan were drawn out of their dens by the noise and the unfamiliar scent. None of the cats made a sound. They stared at Icebelly with hostile, puzzled eyes as though he were a stranger. It was worse for Princess but his sister seemed to refuse to be scared.
"This should be good" Chestnutclaw sneered, he eyed the kits with an emotion Icebelly didn't know but didn't trust especially with that twisted grin the reddish-brown tom bore.
He felt a rush of relief when Bluestar emerged from the medicine den, Yellowfang close behind with Thymepaw. But the pointed leader's eyes widened in surprise as she saw him, Princess, and the kits. "What is this?" she demanded
Icebelly was about to speak but Princess beat him to it. "I want to join your clan along with my kits"
The clan gasped in shock at her bluntness, even Tiger-roar and Nightshade seemed surprised.
"Oh do you know? I wonder how you got that idea in your head" Bluestar said, landing her gaze on Icebelly, her voice level, it made Icebelly worry for his level.
"She's my sister" Icebelly mewed
"Your sister?" Tiger-roar glared at him accusingly
"You have a sister" Speckletail called "Where?"
"The same place as Icebelly was born, of course" Chestnutclaw hissed with disgust "Twolegplace" the reddish-brown tom neared Princess.
Princess seemed to lose her sass when Chestnutclaw neared and Icebelly couldn't blame her, the older tom was twice her size.
"Is that true?" Bluestar asked, her eyes widening further.
"Yes" Icebelly admitted "As Princess has said, she wants to join the clan along with her kits" Icebelly stood infront of his sister and her kits, glancing at Chestnutclaw for a few seconds until Fuzzypelt pulled him away.
"Why?" Bluestar
Icebelly stammered nervously. This was a new feeling. "I told her about Clan life-how great it was..." His voice trailed away under Bluestar's incredulous gaze.
Bluestar stepped closer to him "How long have you been visiting Twolegplace?"
Icebelly snapped his head up "Not long, just since leaf-bare began. But only to see my sister." No one needed to know about his hunting. "My loyalty still lies with Thunderclan"
"Loyalty?" Darkstripe's yowl rang across the clearing "And yet you bring another kittypet here?"
"Isn't having two enough" Smallear croaked
"Trust a kittypet to find another" Nightshade snarled, her fur fluffing out
"Why did you bring them here?" Tiger-roar growled
"We do need warriors"
"The clan has enough to worry about already with this mess" Swiftrunner mewed
"They'll be nothing but burdens" Mousefur agreed
"They'll be too soft for Clan life" Chestnutclaw mewed
Icebelly bristled "I was born a kittypet, Am I soft?"
"I also ask that question" Magpiethroat growled standing beside Icebelly "Come over here and I'll show you how soft I am Chestnutclaw"
Bluestar stepped forward, her blue eyes clouded with worry. "Icebelly, I believe that you meant no disloyalty to the clan by visiting your sister, but why did you agree to bring her and her kits here? It is not your place to make decisions like this"
Icebelly said nothing, Princess sat close to him, her kittens huddled at her belly fur.
"Drive it out" Chestnutclaw snarled
"Silence" Bluestar ordered, she turned her gaze to Princess "Princess, you do realize Clan life isn't easy and you or your kits could die"
Princess held her head up high "Yes, Icebelly told me about the attack that killed a queen" Bluestar seemed to consider this, seeming to be lost in thought.
"My mother died fighting for a pointless battle" Seedpaw growled, Nettlesong curled his tail around her to calm his kit down.
Bluestar yowled for silence. "I've decided, the kittypets will join us"
Some cats gasped in shock.
"Bluestar must be slipping" Darkstripe muttered. If Bluestar heard that she didn't mention it.
"What are your kits called?" Bluestar asked
"Cloud, Cream, Meadow, and Cotton"
"Put -kit at the end of those and we're done with that, you're name shall be Snowpaw and Mousefur will be your mentor"
"What?"
Bluestar at Mousefur coldly, teeth slightly bared "Did I stutter?"
"Little bastards" Whitethroat muttered. He still felt the stinging bites of the vile rodents on his pelt, he honestly refused to get them treated until Littlecloud begged him to for his kits. He had been pretty distant from his kits since their birth, he just didn't feel the sudden bond that he was supposed to feel. Darkflower and Cedarwhisker took turns watching them but they did tell him he needed to step up before they were old enough to know what was happening.
It was hard though, he wanted to be there but he just...he didn't know how he felt at this point.
He remembered the tears shed by his mother,Rowanberry, Fernshade, Dawncloud when the rat patrol came back. Hollypaw, Buzzardpaw, Swamp-paw, and Comfreypaw had been killed by rats.
Brokenstar lead another attack on Windclan and Dirtpaw,Rubbleslide, and Marigoldpaw died as a result.
Murksnout had been pregnant with Rubbleslide's kits, Murksnout had been forced by Brokenstar to name one of the kitten Maggotkit, the other kitten was named Mirekit Lizardstripe had nearly killed Lizardpaw so Brokenstar made her a warrior named Lizardswipe.
He remembered the look of horror on Thornpaw and Quietpaw's face when Gingerpaw came back with the side of her lip torn reveling more of her teeth. It turned out Brokenstar knew a dog was around Carrionplace, when the patrol had been retreating Brokenstar had appeared out of nowhere and grabbed Gingerpaw and tossed her to the dog and told her to fight it. If it hadn't been for him and Russetfur, Gingerpaw would have been killed.
Brokenstar had renamed her to Houndtooth as a reward. Brokenstar had Quietpaw attacked and renamed her Shreddedpelt. Shadepaw had her tongue split and was named to Shadewhisper, thankfully Runningnose said it'll heal in a few days.
He also named the other apprentices: Thornblood, Oakfur, Elderclaw,Viperfang,Shaleclaw,Foxtrot,Smogcloud,Rotheart.
He named Snakekit, Lavenderkit, and Batkit apprentices to Clawface, himself, and Murksnout respectively. He didn't even give Hollypaw, Buzzardpaw, Swamp-paw, and Comfreypaw warrior names for Starclan because "they were to weak for Shadowclan so they don't deserve names".
His saving grace, Icebelly. The white tom manged to make him forget about his fucked existence at least for one night. Wetfoot had found him getting high on catmint and Runningnose and Hazepaw made sure he wasn't alone in the medicine den.
"So do we do Whitethroat?" Lavenderpaw asked "Why are we at Carrionplace?"
Whitethroat took the catmint he stored in his tail and inhaled it. Runningnose and Hazepaw were too busy helping a bleeding out Tangleburr to notice him snatching the herb."To watch the little fuck bags and kill a few for diner" he replied, his ear twitching as a fly landed on it then flew away. His tail-tip started flicking as snowflakes started falling.
Lavenderpaw looked a little frightened, the fur on her back began to rise "Are you sure this is a good idea?"
"No but Brokenstar told me I had to bring you here, I don't know why we couldn't just patrol the territory like Murksnout is doing with Batpaw or battle train like Clawface is doing with Snakepaw but whatever are darling leader says goes I guess" the words were just pouring out of him like blood.
Lavenderpaw took that answer and shut her jaw.
"Crouch like I showed you then when one of those little fuckers is close pounce" Whitethroat advised
Lavenderpaw knew how to follow orders and follow them well. She caught three so far. "Good, you won't starve" Whitethroat purred
"What do you mean?"
"You know how to hunt Lavenderpaw, most of the cats in Shadowclan don't know how to from Brokenstar's rant on "We need all our energy for battle and hunting is useless"
Lavenderpaw swiped another rat "If he says hunting is useless than why are we hunting?"
Whitethroat decided to let the fox loose "I lied about Brokenstar sending us here, we were suppose to tour the territory, the queens need to eat"
Lavenderpaw freaked out "But what about Brokenstar or Clawface or Nutwhisker"
Whitethroat laughed "I don't give a shit, the clan can't survive on crowfood alone so we are bringing some prey that won't come back up, it's leaf-bare Lavenderpaw we need as much prey as we can get"
Lavenderpaw looked concerned at Whitethroat "Are you okay? in the head I mean"
Whitethroat snorted another of the catmint "After being raped and being told "I'm not a tom" by my supposed "mate" and all the shit my clan has been through since my uncle took power, I'm fucking great Lavenderpaw thanks for asking"
/
The hunting went well. Nine rats to show for it. The queens were pleased with the catches while Brokenstar was not. Crowcloud had been watching his kits while she waited for her kits to come. Whitethroat had gotten close with Pineshadow and Crowcloud since they came.
"Whitethroat" the loud yell made the apprentices jump. Snakepaw looked scared to death, Batpaw tried hiding her fear while Lavenderpaw hide behind Whitethroat.
Whitethroat rolled his eyes "Lavenderpaw go to Scorchwind" he ordered "The rest of you go find your mothers"
"Yes Whitethroat" Lavenderpaw was gone like a light. The other apprentices didn't need to be told twice.
As soon as they left, Brokenstar let all hell break loose.
"You hunted when I wanted Lavenderpaw to tour the territory and teach her place in mating"
"Yep" Whitethroat could feel the catmint high going down, he didn't care though.
Brokenstar struck his left cheek "Frogbrain" he snarled
"I know what you are but what am I" he replied licking the blood as it fell to his mouth. He had a taste for blood he was trying to break but it was hard when it spilled all around him.
Brokenstar shoved him to the ground, claws digging into his chest. His clanmates were either watching or didn't care and did there own things. He saw Badgerfang, Littlecloud, and Wetfoot staring at this exchange.
"I should kill you right now" Brokenstar growled, increasing the pressure on his chest
"Nothing's stopping you uncle" Whitethroat mewed, laying his head on the ground staring at the night sky "Yellowfang's in Thunderclan, Runningnose is your punching bag, you half-blinded one sister and recently broke the leg of the other and Raggedstar's dead, I'm at your will"
Brokenstar looked shocked that Whitethroat phrased everything like that. Brokenstar dug his claws further in his chest, brought Whitethroat up then smashed him back onto the ground.
"You're as weak and foolish as your father Whitethroat you know that"
"He was better than you so that's a compliment"
Brokenstar struck him on his other cheek. Whitethroat thought his eyes would burn in flames from the fire that sparked in there.
Brokenstar got off him and padded to the high branch. "All cats gather round, I have new orders in place"
Whitethroat felt Wetfoot and Badgerfang pushing him to stand. "What were you thinking?" Wetfoot hissed
"Finally being free" Death didn't seem like a bad option anymore. His blood spilling in the camp didn't seem all that bad.
"Go to the nursery" Badgerfang ordered, his voice barely held any emotion anymore. He was killing machine by Brokenstar's design. "So you don't embarrass yourself further"
"No no I want to know what foxdung his spewing now" Whitethroat shoved them away from him
"Firstly, Jumpaw you will be known as Jumpwhisker, Flypaw you will be known as Flycatcher, and Beepaw you will be known as Beestripe." Brokenstar began "Also,It has come to my attention that mating has become reckless so, I've decided to pair and lock down" Cats looked confused at his words but Whitethroat could take a very good guess of what he meant.
"I will continue to allow mating in the camp but I want the pregnancies to be consistent" Brokenstar continued "My mates are Fernshade, Dew-whisker, Tangleburr, and Mottlepelt" Whitethroat could already tell Brokenstar had a type in his mollies, though Tangleburr threw him off but Brokenstar did sire Rotheart and Dirtpaw. "Blackfoot's mates are Ash-heart, Cinderfur, and Cedarwhisker"
"Wait, what?" Blackfoot blurted out "Brokenstar please I'm fine by myself"
Brokenstar's face turned from emotionless to wicked. "Ah yes how I forgot you preference for only toms, that's why I gave you Cinderfur he's just confused but if he's going to be a molly he's going to be bred like one"
Whitethroat could see Cinderfur's eyes widen in horror. She started to back away in fear but Nutwhisker blocked him. "If Blackfoot doesn't want her I'll teach her"
"Alright then it's settled, Nutwhisker will have Cinderfur and Applefang, Blackfoot will keep Cedarwhisker and have Goldendusk and Littlecloud"
Goldendusk looked shocked but not really opposed to much about this, Littlecloud just hid behind Badgerfang.
"Jaggedtooth you will keep Lichenfang as requested, Toadpelt you will have Dawncloud and stick with her unless I say other wise, Scorchwind you will be sharing Darkflower with Frogtail, Boulder you will share Sliverstorm with Wolfstep"
Boulder seemed to be the only decent cat beside Blackfoot that was in the elite, Whitethroat hoped he wouldn't have to worry for his mother.
He slowly made his is way to the medicine den as Brokenstar mewed that he would be shared with Mossclaw and Wetfoot. He just wanted to sleep now.
Let the fox loose = let the cat out of the bag
Thunderclan uses let the badger loose
Riverclan uses let the heron loose
Windclan uses let the hawk loose
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