A/N I just want to say that this is my first fan fiction and give a few warnings to the reader.
I make no guarantees that I will update this regularly, or ever update it again for that matter (cause I'm the worlds biggest procrastinator)
I am dyslexic and very bad at punctuation, so please be kind about any spelling errors or problems with my punctuation. I welcome constructive criticism as long as it's actually constructive worded kindly.
Even though I am open to constructive criticism I may not fix any mistakes in this because again, I'm the world's biggest procrastinator.
Thank you for your understanding.
P.S. I just want to let everyone know that this plot and many of the characters are not mine, this was originally a Role Play on Warrior Cats: Ultimate Edition, it was a lot of fun and I thought it would make a good fan fiction so here we are! I also couldn't remember all the names of the characters (sorry) so I had to change about half of them. Most of the background characters (if not all of them) are mine, along with the queens in this chapter, but at least for now all other characters were from the roleplay only having name changes for those I couldn't remember.
Finally I'm not sure if I need to do this but… DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE WARRIORS BOOK SERIES!
Prequel
It was utter chaos in the Riverclan camp as five of the six queens all went into labor. While a young, ash gray tom was running back and forth between the Medicine Cat den and Nursery with herbs, the one remaining queen kept her nearly five moon old kits on the other side of the camp. All of the apprentices were out training with their mentors while the remaining warriors did what they could to help the young tom in the chaos while also trying to stay out of the way.
The young tom skidded to a halt in front of a black and orange queen, "Eat these." he instructed her before darting off again.
Suddenly one of the queens, a white tabby, shrieked in pain. The young tom was instantly by her side, "Breath Moonglow." he soothed running his tail down her spine, "You'll be-" he cut himself off as black and white kit was born, with a lot more blood than there should have been.
The young tom instantly shot up, "Someone get me cobwebs!" he snapped at the surrounding warriors and swiftly washing off the kit, a tom, towards his mothers stomach to nurse.
As the warrior who had gone to get the cobwebs returned with as many as he could carry, the young tom realized it was to late for the queen, she had lost too much blood already, "Hey Moonglow," he said softly hoping the queen might at least be able to name her one kit before she died, "You have a son, do you know what you want to call him?"
Moonglow barely opened her eyes but managed to mumble out, "Pouncekit, after his father." before she went still.
The tom gave the now dead queen a sad look before turning to the warrior who had brought the cobwebs, "Treefang, keep that kit warm and awake." he instructed taking the cobwebs just in case.
As he turned around two more queens, a small all black cat, and a large bright orange tabby, each gave out a cry of pain, "Move Blackleaf over by Sunheart!" He instructed the nearest warriors.
After the warriors put Blackleaf next to Sunheart the young tom sat down between the she-cats and started telling the queens to focus on breathing. After what felt like an eternity but in reality was only a few heartbeats Blackleaf suddenly gave birth to a black tom, quickly cleaning him off the young tom sat the new kit next to his mother as Sunhearts' own kit started coming into the world only to stop halfway out, "Fox-dung" the tom growled under his breath realizing the kit was stuck.
He gently worked his paws over the queen, trying to maneuver the kit into a better position, it was arduously slow but eventually he got the kit out, however after cleaning off the kit the young tom realized that Sunheart wasn't moving, "Fox-dung fox-dung fox-dung." he muttered to himself upon this realization, "It must have taken too long to get the kit out…"
He gently moved the kit, a golden tom, over to Blackleaf knowing the kind queen would happily nurse her friend's kit. After making sure the kit was fine he began moving to check on an old brown she-cat.
"Are you doing alright Mosspelt?" he asked the queen.
"Y-yes," the queen panted clearly exhausted, "Thank you Stormclaw."
He nodded, about to leave to check on the other queens again when she suddenly let out a shriek of pain. Stormclaw instantly turned back to her as a brown and white she-cat was born, rapidly followed by an all brown tom. The queen looked at her kits with joy for a moment before laying her head down and shutting her eyes.
"No no no no no no." Stormclaw cried desperately realizing what was happening instantly, "This can't be happening, I can't lose another queen today." he started shaking her wildly in desperation.
The old she-cat barely opened one of her eyes, "It's ok Stormclaw." she murmured weakly, "We already knew having kits at my age would likely kill me. My kits will be fine, and I'll get to see my mate again…" she trailed off as she too went limp.
Stormclaw stared at the old cat in shock, eyes filled with grief as he ordered someone to take the kits to Blackleaf.
Numbly turning towards the one queen left to give birth, Blackleaf suddenly gave out another shrill cry. He was by her side in an instant as another kit, a calico she-cat, was born, "Stay awake, stay awake, stay awake." he repeated to Blackleaf who was clearly having trouble with that as he cleaned off the kit, "Keep her awake." he ordered before running off to the last queen.
Right as he reached the last she-cats side the Windclan Medicine cat Cloudbreeze, ran in with a bundle of herbs in her mouth only to drop them in shock at the sight before her, "Great Starclan what happened here?!" she exclaimed.
Stormclaw looked over at her seemingly utterly defeated, "A bunch of hard kittings." he stated flatly.
"Here let me take over, you go rest Stormclaw." she urged getting over her shock.
"No, I have to do my job." he responded, "Eagleflight is the only cat left to give birth."
Cloudbreeze gave a long sigh, "FIne but I'm helping, that's what I came to do." With that the two Medicine cats began working, taking turns helping Eagleflight, and checking on Blackleaf.
By the time the sun was setting the Apprentices and their Mentors were back, waiting for Eagleflight to finish her kitting so they could sit vigil for the other queens.
When she finally finished her kitting Eagleflight was weak, looking at her two kits, a tan she-cat with black stripes, and a black she-cat with tan stripes, it was obvious there was nothing the two Medicine cats could do for her, she two would die.
Looking over at Blackleaf, who was nursing all the other newborns, and down at the kits Eagleflight murmured with the last of her strength, "I'm naming the black striped one Blackkit, and the tan striped one Pebblekit." and with that she was also gone.