Nighttime soon fell over Shadowclan territory as it was clear things were changing for the entire clan. Tawnypaw was sleeping in the nursery with her kits when one of them was odd to her.
"Hey mama?" Berrykit mewed.
"Yes dear?" Tawnypaw mewed as she was groggy and half asleep.
"Why is it that Stormkit hasn't opened his eyes yet?" Berrykit mewed.
"He's just taking his time Berrykit, give him a little while." Tawnypaw mewed to her kit telling her to be patient. Reedsplash caught wind of this plan.
"Who are you talking to Tawnypaw? Your kits were born yesterday, right?" Reedsplash mewed as she was confused.
"Yeah, but this one's still got his eyes closed." Tawnypaw responded as she pointed her tail to Stormkit who was still had his eyes closed.
"But, I mean he's one day old. That's normal for a kit?" Reedsplash mewed as she was trying to reassure her to make sure that the kits were normal.
"Oh I can't wait for my brother to wake up; we will become warriors and fight for our clan." Berrykit mewed excitedly. Reedsplash was becoming more afraid of Berrykit.
"Wait wait, you were just born and these are fully formed sentences. This isn't how cats work! What is going on?" Reedsplash mewed as she was beginning to fear Berrykit. Soon some crackling was heard as suddenly a nearby sheltering tree soon fell down onto the camp but Reedsplash looked out to see that Falconwing was holding the tree up.
"Oh woops sorry, this tree was about to fall on the nursery. Don't worry; my powerful cat arms can handle this." Falconwing mewed as he was holding the tree up.
"Hey uh hurry up with the tree, I'm doing medical surgery with this rock and that is really distracting." Mudpool mewed to try to move that tree out of the way. Soon a bunch of Shadowclan cats moved the tree over so it wouldn't fully crush Falconwing. Falconwing went to the medicine cat's den to deal with his tree karma as his adrenaline finally drained.
The next day, Crowstorm and Featherstar padded back to Shadowclan as they were ready to collect what they wanted. Pebblestar greeted them like usual.
"Featherstar you're here to get the cats right?" Pebblestar mewed.
"Yes I am actually." Featherstar mewed as she padded up to the nursery. Tawnypaw and Frostcloud were prepping their journey back to Thunderclan territory. She soon padded up to make sure they were ready.
"You ready in there?" Crowstorm mewed. He was waiting in anticipation for his apprentice to come out. Tawnypaw slipped out of the nursery as she was looking lean again as she was ready to spring into action.
"Tawnypaw! You kitted, I'm so happy for you." Featherstar mewed excitedly to see her apprentice was looking fit for training once more. "How was it?"
"It was painful as I couldn't really feel for anything but I'm glad that's over." Tawnypaw responded as she recalled how the whole ordeal went for her.
"Did you name the kits?" Featherstar mewed.
"Yes, their names are Stormkit and Berrykit." Tawnypaw responded. She soon disappeared into the nursery as she was carrying one of the kits while Frostcloud exited carrying the other one. They were ready.
"I hope I will see you again." Reedsplash mewed bidding her farewell for the apprentice. "Take care of the kits."
"I hope we could meet again as I think we could speak more sometime later when you become a warrior. Take care my sweet apprentice." Robinflight responded as he mewed. He soon gave an admirable glance at the apprentice. Soon the four cats bounded off as they were running along the territory to get back to Thunderclan. The sun was shining and the sky was bright blue. Soon they got back to camp as Featherstar and Tawnypaw was still chatting.
"So what happened to Yewberry?" Tawnypaw asked.
"He snapped saying we ruined his life as he wanted to be your mate and when I became leader, I banished him from the clan and we haven't seen him ever since." Featherstar mewed.
"Who is the new deputy?" Tawnypaw mewed.
"Snowstorm." Featherstar mewed. The cats soon went into the nursery as the cats were beginning to settle down once again. Daisyflower was in the nursery as well as she felt miserable.
"We can see what happened to you when you're having kits." Tawnypaw teased.
"Yeah and It's only fair to her to be having her brother's kits." Frostcloud mewed. They began laughing as Daisyflower was looking glum as the two cats were teasing her.
"Now you can tease her for having kits yourself." Jaypaw mewed as she peeked into the nursery.
"Also we can't have another cat named berry, didn't they forget I existed, I'm going to call her Hazelkit so we don't have an identity crisis." Berrypaw mewed.
"Okay so Hazelkit seems more appropriate?" Tawnypaw mewed.
"Seems that way." Jaypaw responded. "We can't have two cats with the name Berry."
"Also speaking of berry, what happened when Yewberry got exiled?" Tawnypaw mewed.
"We just driven him out and we chased him off of Thunderclan territory almost like a get out and stay out type of message.
"Seems legit." Snowstorm mewed as he looked into the nursery as he takes a look at Hazelkit and Stormkit.
"Well we got our newest additions to the clan." Featherstar mewed as the kits began to feed again.
Meanwhile the Yewberry was in the very outskirts of Windclan territory where a voice called out. Yewberry tensed up as he was wondering where that voice was coming from.
"Who said that?" Yewberry called out confused as he was wondering where the voice was coming from. Soon familiar faces began to pad out. Rosepetal was among the rogues and the one leading them all was Briarstar.
"So you found us just in time." Rosepetal mewed as her one good eye looked at him; she was blinded in the other eye.
"Yeah they didn't want me here anymore and the leader made sure of that." Yewberry mewed.
"What do you think we should do?" The former Windclan deputy mewed.
"We should try to recruit as many cats as possible then we will attack all of the clans and drive them out for good. Then the territory will be all ours." Briarstar mewed as her smile turned devilish.
"The few of us against all of the clans?! You're out of your mind Briarstar, we won't last one battle against the five clans." Rosepetal mewed. Rosepetal was expecting kits again herself.
"I have a plan, we'll create a new clan and it will be better than all the other clans we have, we will get as many cats in there as possible and we'll have a clan big enough to wipe out all of the clans in no time. I will call it Darkclan after our glorious leader, Darktail." Briarstar mewed as she was getting the ideas for a new clan that she was ready to form up to attempt to wipe the clans out.
"How are we going to do that, all the clans are hostile to us and we would have to move somewhere else to get the strength we need." Yewberry mewed.
"I know a place, it is risky but if we do it correctly, we could have many cats by our side as we drive clans out of the mountains for good." Briarstar mewed as she was getting herself ready.
"You mean the place where the monsters roam?" Rosepetal mewed nervously as her voice trembled.
"Yes I do, we'll get those cats soon enough. Let's move out of here before we are discovered." Briarstar mewed as all of the rogues began down the mountain towards where she was talking about.
Time soon flew by as all the cats were busy with gathering prey as Shadowstep was farming his herbs. Tawnypaw stretched herself out as she was ready to begin training again. The kits were not as dependent on her compared to when they first entered the camp. She padded up to Crowstorm who was eager for her.
"Ready to resume your training?" Crowstorm mewed.
"Yes please." Tawnypaw mewed as she was excited.
"I don't want to take you out for long periods of time so you can have time to feed your kits. At least you don't need to be constantly by their side compared to a moon ago." Crowstorm mewed.
"I would enjoy the training again." Tawnypaw responded as the two cats padded off to resume their training. "Maybe things are looking up." Tawnypaw happily mewed as she padded off.
Greenleaf flew around as many cats were busy with their business as usual. Tawnypaw was making up for the time she missed while nursing the kits. Hazelkit and Stormkit were growing up like normal kits as they were playing like normal and there was no sign of Rosepetal or the rogues for much of the season. But there was an interruption to all of this.
"Tawnypaw, how are you feeling with those kits?" Featherstar asked as she was excited for the kits.
"Yeah their growing up fast and I'm ready to start feeding them some fresh kill. Stormkit seems a bit meek but he's just as eager to fight thinking they are the enemy. Hazelkit is wondering when she will be an apprentice." Tawnypaw mewed as she was watching her kits play fight like normal kits.
"I'm glad that they are outside of the nursery since Daisyflower gave the clan her newest additions." Featherstar mewed.
"She had her kits?" Tawnypaw mewed a bit confused.
"She did, she had four kits. She will become a wonderful mother. Like you." Featherstar mewed.
"How about you be Briarstar." Hazelkit taunted him.
"I was Briarstar the last time." Stormkit playfully mewed at his sibling. He tackled her playfully as they were beginning to test out their own strength.
"I wonder what kinds of messes these kits will get themselves into." Frostcloud mewed as they realized they have six kits now.
"Well its best not to think so far ahead, but it's best to prepare for it. We maybe not sure about what's going to happen." Tawnypaw mewed.
"Featherstar might make you a warrior before we go into our deep sleep again." Crowstorm mewed. "She is impressed on how your training is going and she even agreed to speed it up."
"That's great, I feel like I'm no longer confined to the camp." Tawnypaw happily mewed.
"I'm excited to hear that. Let's go get the salmon before they release their spawn." Crowstorm mewed as they padded to the river. Maybe things will get better.
[A/N]: I know it's kind of odd for me to be uploading chapter midweek but I definitely got a couple of great things to say so far. This story has reached 500 people reading it this month which I am so proud of even a little over that. And this story has reached nearly 1,000 people reading the chapters overall so I am so happy about this and how this is following along. I thought this story wasn't going to get this much attention to it and I was expecting about 1 or 2 reviews overall but I am enjoying on where this is going. Keep reading my readers.
Also Tawnypaw is making the cutest mother ever, her kits are growing up and everyone seems to be happy. Briarstar has left the clans with the rogues for now as she is pretty much chicken to be fighting the clans all at once. Keep reading and reviewing to see where this is going to go.