The Great Clans

LeopardClan

Blindingsun watched as her grand kits; Sunkit, Sandykit, and Shadowkit; raced toward her with a large fish. "Blindingsun! Blindingsun! Look what we brought you!" Sunkit mewed and helped drag the fish to her.

"I see, a nice plump fish. Did you bring that to me all by yourselves?" Blindingsun said, laughter filling her eyes.

"Will you tell us a story?" Sandykit asked and settled down beside her grandmother while her brother and sister set the fish in front of Blindingsun before lying down.

"Alright, which one do you want to hear? The one about the rouge cats our ancestors met when they traveled here? Or perhaps you want to hear the one about Blackheart?" Blindingsun asked kindly and wrapped her tail around Sunkit, who had settled on Blindingsun's other side.

"Ooh! How about the one about when we moved here? I really like that one!" Shadowkit said eagerly.

"No, we heard that one too recently. I'd say the one about Blackheart, he's scary." Sunkit said and Sandykit nodded vigorously.

"Alright, the Blackheart one it is.", Blindingsun said, "It all began when a Clan, SapphireClan, was let into our Clans be a very ambitious warrior, who wanted power and nothing less. He was a lying murderer whose lust for power caused him to disobey the warrior code and bring havoc on us all. His name was Blackheart, which fitted him well seeing as he brought the end to our ancestors' ways and caused them to move into unfamiliar territory. Blackheart had lied his way to being deputy before it was found out that he murdered the leader and since he was good friends with the deputy at the time, he became deputy. After that he wasn't satisfied with just being deputy, he want to become leader then take over the entire forest. He knew he could not do this by himself so he first brought a band of rouges into LionClan's territory and set them loose to weaken the strongest Clan at the time. The battle was immense and CheetahClan was asked to join them. They did but the rouges were too strong and almost destroyed both Clans and TigerClan took LionClan in while Blackheart's own Clan helped out CheetahClan. During this time it was said that Blackheart mated with a CheetahClan she-cat and she bore four kits, two of them died of greencough a moon later and one of them died in his first battle as an apprentice. The one who survived, however, was a great cat, wonderful fighter and loyal to his Clan. He became the great Whitestar of CheetahClan, as you now know him. Moons later, after the other Clans had gone back into their appropriate territory, Blackheart struck again, at TigerClan. This time however, he was found out and was exiled. Although he was exiled he still found a way to become a Clan leader. He was accepted into LionClan, because the other Clans had no idea of his treachery. Blackheart soon became Blackstar and said that LeopardClan was going to try to take over the forest, breaking all their alliances and LionClan got them. Later Blackstar drove out his birth Clan and his son's Clan so there was only LionClan and TigerClan left in the forest." Blindingsun had to take a deep breath at this time and she took a few bites of the fish the kits had brought her.

"TigerClan happened to be stronger than LeopardClan was so Blackstar went and found more of the rouges he had allied himself with earlier and learned that they too were a Clan. They called themselves SapphireClan and were willing to help him if they could have a large enough territory to support them, which was the size of CheetahClan and LeopardClan's old territory. Of course Blackstar said yes and led them to attack TigerClan, who had warning of this because Serenekit ran into their territory to tell them, was prepared and brought LeopardClan and CheetahClan back into their camp. It was a horrible and terrifying battle but eventually SapphireClan was driven away, along with Blackstar." Blindingsun said and finished off the fish that Shadowkit and Sunkit had been helping her eat, Sandykit was to into the story to eat anything.

"I wonder who Blackstar's decendents are?" Sandykit mewed, "If I were one would cats not like me?"

"Of course not!" Blindingsun said, "No one judges a kit because of their heritage!"

"Why would you think that? Are you having troubles with the Clan?" Flowerheart asked gently. Before Shadowkit could answer a screech filled the camp and Specklepool and Windpaw rushed to Sweetheart, who was about to have her kits.

"Now remember, when a kit comes out, lick it good and clean, then try to warm it up." Specklepool said, "Sweetheart, relax, it won't end well if you don't." Windpaw watched curiously and tried to keep Sweetheart a wake and calm.

"Shush, your kits will be healthy and beautiful. And look, here comes their father now." Windpaw whispered as Mudpelt ran over and took her position. Specklepool had managed to get a kit out and told her to help it. She began to lick softly at first and then became rougher as another kit came out so she could attend to that one. Windpaw passed the dark brown kit she had been given to Sweetheart and took the other kit to Mudpelt. She ran to get some cobwebs to stop the bleeding and when she came back Sweetheart was looking much better and cleaner but the cobwebs were still needed. (They had some cobwebs to start off with.) Before she could get there another kit came.

Hours later Mudpelt was still beside Sweetheart and you could now tell what each kits pelt looked like easily. The firstborn was a dark brown and had a white tail tip and the second one was a pale tabby she-cat. The last one however was completely white and looked nothing like her siblings. The brown one was a strong enough looking tom and the second one was positively beautiful, the third however was neither. She was small and unnaturally thin, even for a Clan born newly-born kit. Sweetheart and Mudpelt had decieded to call the first one Logkit and the second one Palekit but they were still wondering what to name the white one.

"Have you named them yet?" Windpaw asked.

"Yes, but we need one for the white kit. I was thinking Cloudkit but Mudpelt wanted something different." Sweetheart answered looking lovingly at her kits.

"Littlekit would work out just as well." Mudpelt protested.

"Hmmm, well I don't know how to fix that but you don't have to name them yet. It'll be a while before they actually need a name." Windpaw stated and bent down to lick the white kit.

A.N.- FEEDBACK! It's something I really want.

New Rule of mine, I must have at least THREE REVIEWS before I will update again. AND I DON'T WANT THE SAME PERSON REVIEWING ALL THE CHAPTERS! Three DIFFERENT reviewers okay?

Readers Poll

Do you want the white's name to be . . .

Littlekit (Littlepaw, Littlecloud)

OR!

Cloudkit (Cloudpaw, Cloudstorm)

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-The Dread Pirate Roberts