"Ready?" Honeykit whispered to Silverkit, angling her tail in the direction of their destination. Silverkit nodded, a mischievous grin on her face. "Blossomkit?" Honeykit questioned, anxiously searching her sister's green eyes for the telltale sign of betrayal. She muffled a sigh of relief when she saw only worry mixed with confidence harbored inside them. "She's gonna snitch!" Silverkit complained in doubt, flexing her grey paws menacingly. "N-No I won't!" Blossomkit insisted, raising her voice just a bit more than a whisper. "Kits?" Called a groggy Tsunamiwave from the nursery. Honeykit whipped her head around and peered through the piercing cover of darkness that encased the nursery. Blossomkit gasped and jumped in alarm, but Silverkit pinned and silenced her quickly. Honeykit crouched low to the snow-covered ground. She stifled a defensive hiss, praying the cover of darkness would shield the runaways. Tsunamiwave gave a sigh, which she quickly renounced with a groan of pain. The gray queen whimpered and shook a bit, then yowled. "HELP, THEY'RE COMING! GO GET CLOUDFROST!" She screeched, shaking violently. All the queens woke up and gasped, murmuring amongst themselves anxiously. Halfface, Silverkit's, Cariboukit's, and Dogkit's mother dipped her head and turned to leave. The runaways ducked to avoid her vision and scampered behind a clump of snow.
"Now's our chance!" Silverkit growled quietly. Honeykit's heart ached to comfort the kitting queen and her paws itched with excitement to meet her new denmates. She also knew that if they were caught, everyone would be more furious that they'd left during such a horrible time - but her need to escape Beeflower was much, much stronger. She reluctantly nodded and realized her sister, Blossomkit, and her truest friend, Silverkit, were waiting for her word of approval. It had been, after all, her own idea to run away. She'd decided on such a bizarre thought because of the shared hate she and her mother, Beeflower had developed.
Silverkit had agreed to come because she'd been 'excited for some action in this stupid borrriiiinggg clan'. Timid Blossomkit had agreed to come because she refused to be anywhere Honeykit wasn't. They'd tried the other kits but all had refused. In fact, Blossomkit, Silverkit, and Honeykit had had a horrendous fright when Briarkit, Rubykit, and Dogkit had tried ratting them out; but the three had quickly interrupted with distractions. And, now, here they were, their paws thundering against the snow as quiet as they could manage. They slipped through the dirtplace tunnel and headed Northeast, towards the abandoned two-leg nest.
The plan was to leave for a bit, then return heroes, their jaws filled bountifully with the prey their clan needed. They would start at the abandoned nest in hopes of coming across rats. Silverkit had come up with the two-leg place idea that they could steal food from there. 'It might not be actual prey,' Blossomkit agreed, 'But it'll be food nonetheless and they'll be happy to get at least something in their stomachs!' Although Honeykit cared deeply about her clan's wellbeing, she had a secret vision in her mind, too. Returning with all that food, a hero and a leader to the journey, the small kit hoped Beeflower would finally accept and love her just as she did Blossomkit. She hoped that her mother would be so worried about where they'd gone that she'd immediately love her as queens normally did to their kits. She wished Beeflower would protect her with the sheer, fierce power of motherly love from the start, but that had not been her fate. Maybe it was Blossomkit's, but not Honeykit's.
She sighed and watched her paws moving one in front of the other. She walked slowly, ears and tail drooping as she thought of her mother. Her fur bristled in alarm as she felt two cats by her side. Then Honeykit realized it was only her comrades and allowed the tension to subdue. Silverkit smoothed her tail across her friend's back in comfort and watched Blossomkit staying strictly at her sister's side. Suddenly, there was the sound of a branch cracking and quiet pawsteps. "Ugh, I'm mouse-brained!" A voice hissed angrily, making more awkward noises.
The kits crouched, paralyzed with fear and praying that darkness was on their side. "GRAAAGH!" Roared a fluffy cream-colored apprentice springing from the bare trees. Flowerpaw sniffed the air then smiled, clearly satisfied with herself. "A-ha!" The awkward, bubbly apprentice squealed. She pranced over to the kits like a proud hunting dog, with her head held high as though she'd caught the largest prey. But apparently, she couldn't see them. She could smell the kits but her eyesight refused to prevail. "Hmmm, I smell a…A wild Blossomkit! A wild Silverkit, and a wild Honeykit! Aaaand you should be…" She sniffed again and placed one paw on the ground and stepped forward. At that very moment, Honeykit signaled and the kits bolted.
"Hey, no fair!" Flowerpaw whined, then got up and started after them. Honeykit ran for her life, as far as her paws could take her. She felt Flowerpaw hot on their tails and forced herself faster with a new wave of fear. Blossomkit skidded to a halt, hoping to be able to turn oast Flowerpaw in a moment of surprise. It didn't work, however, and Flowerpaw swiftly grabbed her. Blossomkit let out a yelp and struggled, but Flowerpaw held on firmly and kept running. 'I'm so sorry,' Honeykit thought regretfully, 'I don't know what to do, Sissy. I don't want to make stupid mistakes by having all of us caught and taken back. Maybe you have a reason to return but I don't besides you guys and I can't turn back when I'm this close.'
Silverkit screeched and snarled angrily as she was grabbed, kicking and clawing. Honeykit didn't turn around, forcing herself to keep moving. Every inch of her body told her to help but she needed to escape. Her pnly objective being to run away, Honeykit surged forward blindly. The dark night clouded her vision, but she could still hear it when Flowerpaw skidded to a halt and shouted: "HONEYKIT, LOOK OUT! " Honeykit tried to stop but the momentum senf her flyjng forward into a frozen lake. She heard screams of fear and struggled on the ice, drifting. She had screams of her own, too. Then, she tripped and hit her head - hard. Her eyes fluttered open and close dizzily and she heard thd ice cracking beneath her. She screamed and shot up, trying to outrun the ice and ignore the blood gushing from her head. At every quick pawstep the ice cracked. She could barely make out the shore and leaped to it, sticking out her paws. But she missed and fell down with terrified screeches. She braced for impact but felt none, only a tight hold on her scruff.
Author's note: Yay! I've finally figured out how to download FF. Hiya, I'm Daisy, a new member here. This is my very first story thing. Criticism and advice is very much requested since I kind of need help navigating lol. Silverkit, Halfface, Dogpaw, and Cariboupaw do not belong to me. They belong to my best Amino friend Peach Sofa. Peacho has given me her permission to use her ocs for this and gives me advice sometimes, so kudos to her. Well, byeeeee!