Chapter 3

Jayfeather woke up when Ivypool wailed, he had decided to sleep in the nursery the past three days since Halfmoon had given birth to four kits two she-kits Cloudkit and Snowkit both white like their mother, Cloudkit had blue eyes and Snowkit her mother's eyes sand two toms Rockkit that looked like exactly like Jayfeather but with a black paw and green eyes and Nightkit a fully black kit with Jayfeather's blue eyes. Rockkit and Nightkit were names after Rock and Midnight. StarClan had let him see during the birth of his kits. It was also a way to keep an eye on Maplekit. Now three days later it was Ivypool's turn.

"I'll go wake up Hawkfrost" Daisy offered.

"Yes, please" Ivypool replied between gasps, "and Dovewing."

Ivypool wailed again as Daisy ran out of the nursery. Jayfeather could feel the gaze of the other kits staring at him.

"What's happening," Snowkit asked her mother.

"Be quiet Snowkit, Ivypool doesn't need kits asking questions every seconds" Halfmoon told her daughter.

Cinderheart and Hollyleaf were ordering their kits to stay in their nest while they came closer to Ivypool. Ready to wash the kits as they were born.

"Come on Ivypool, push!" Jayfeather meowed.

Ivypool wailed and a kit fell out, Hollyleaf took the kit and heard her tongue licking the kit. Jayfeather felt Ivypool's stomach.

"Two more, that I can feel" Jayfeather explained, "come on, push!"

"Why is she screaming like that mommy?" Maplekit asked.

"Shhh Maplekit, be quiet" Hollyleaf ordered gently.

Now Jayfeather could hear Hawkfrost and Dovewing pacing outside the nursery as Daisy came in. Ivypool wailed as another kit tumbled out, Daisy took the kit and licked him. One more Jayfeather thought. Then finally the last kit slid out and Hollyleaf took him to wash. By the smell of it, I say two toms and a she-kit.

"Hawkfrost! Dovewing! You can come in," exclaimed Daisy.

"Congrats Hawkfrost" Jayfeather mewed, "two toms and a she-kit."

As Daisy, Hollyleaf and Cinderheart placed the kits next to their mother and went back to their own, Jayfeather went to Halfmoon.

"What do they look like?" whispered Jayfeather.

"The she-kit is a copy of her mother silver-and white, one of the toms looks like Hawkfrost, a brown tabby with a white belly and the other tom is the same brown as his father but with a silver paw, tail and stripes," replied Halfmoon.

"They're perfect!" exclaimed Hawkfrost.

"Grrr," went the little brown kit, lashing his silver paw in the air.

"He thinks that he's a warrior already" laughed Ivypool. "What do you think of Wolfkit for him?"

"Yes! That fits him." Hawkfrost replied happily.

I hope he's happy enough here, not to go back to the Place of No Stars, Jayfeather hoped to himself. Here, he has everything he needs…

"What about Stormkit for our she-kit" asked Hawkfrost, knocking Jayfeather out of his thoughts?

"Yes! And Tadkit, in memory of your brother Tadpole?" offered Ivypool.

For a moment Hawkfrost didn't answer, and Jayfeather was brought in Hawkfrost's memories:

Hawkfrost then Hawk was looking down in a twoleg how and water was rising, Mothwing then Moth was having difficulties climbing up and a black kit was still at the bottom

"Tadpole, I-I can't!" Moth was exclaiming, "It's too hard!"

"I'll help you! Just hang on, I'll be right there!" Tadpole replied.

"That's it Moth! Come up here beside me!" Hawk was urging his sister.

"Tadpole can you…" mewed Moth between coughs.

"There-unh- there!" Tadpole managed to say while he was being dragged further in the water by the current.

"Children! Come on, get out of there!" a tawny-colored she-cat mewed.

"Mama! It's Tadpole! He's still in there!" Hawk exclaimed.

"Help him, mama! Help him, please, please" Moth added.

In a split second Sasha ran back and tried to save her son but it was to late.

"Let me go! He needs me! I have to go back!" Hawk exclaimed about to jump in the water, "I have to… have t…"

"He's gone, Hawk. Tadpole's gone," Sasha's words come out flat.

The only response was Hawk crying out for his brother "Tadpole… nooo, Tadpole…!"

For a moment Jayfeather felt bad for Hawkfrost. He can change, after all Bramblestar is his half-brother. Bramblestar is a loyal warrior and a noble leader, why can't his brother be the same? Thought I wouldn't want him to be leader… Then all was black again, Jayfeather was blind again.

"Hawkfrost? Are you all right?" Ivypool's worried mew echoed, "We can call him otherwise if you would prefer…"

"Uh… no… Tadkit is perfect" Hawkfrost mumbled.

"What was that all about?" Halfmoon asked Jayfeather quietly. "Both of you didn't seem to be here for a while!"

"Oh, I was brought back in Hawkfrost's memories of when Tadpole drowned." Jayfeather whispered back.

It was time to go to the gathering; Jayfeather couldn't wait for his kits to be mentioned. I'm probably the first medicine cat that was ever allowed to take a mate and have kits! Jayfeather joyfully thought to himself.

"Well you look happy" Hawkfrost came to walk next to Jayfeather.

"Our kits are going to be mentioned." Jayfeather replied "Its quite exiting."

"I know, I can't wait either, though I would of preferred if Ivypool was there," Hawkfrost explained, "but Wolfkit, Stormkit and Tadkit are too young to be without there mother."

"Same goes with Halfmoon," Jayfeather commented, "but Daisy, Hollyleaf and Cinderheart could of taken care of them."

"True, and it's also going to be my first gathering as a ThunderClan warrior" Hawkfrost added.

Jayfeather could smell RiverClan and WindClan as they approached the fallen tree. As Bramblestar waited for the two other Clans to reach the island, Jayfeather realized that Hawkfrost was a little nervous.

"Seems like ShadowClan isn't here yet" Jayfeather commented.

"Oh, here they come," Hawkfrost replied, "I think I can see them crossing our border over to WindClan territory. Oh and it's our turn to cross the tree."

On the island most cats were sharing tongues, Jayfeather, went to sit with the other medicine cats and waited for the gathering to start.

Rowanstar announced that a ShadowClan patrol has seen a loner close by but they chased him away. There was nothing knew in RiverClan though Jayfeather realized that they were staring at Hawkfrost a lot. Onestar said that there have been two dogs on WindClan territory, they chased them out of Clan territory but warned that they might come back.

It was Bramblestar's turn to speak "two new litters have been born, Halfmoon had gave birth to Jayfeather's kits, Cloudkit, Snowkit, Rockkit and Nightkit four days ago. And Ivypool to Hawkfrost's kits Wolfkit, Tadkit and Stormkit last night. All is going well in ThunderClan."

"Haven't your queens realized that it's going to be leaf-fall soon!" a cat meowed, "what if the kits get sick, you're not going to have enough herbs to treat them all! And the prey is going to get rare. With four litters in the clan, how are you going to feed everyone?"

Jayfeather tried to find out who said that but he felt his claws dig into the earth. Now the only thing he could hear was Hawkfrost spitting and Lionblaze growling.

"Lionblaze! Hawkfrost stop that!" Bramblestar ordered, "Jayfeather! Put those claws of yours back in!"

"If everyone is done, the gathering is over," Onestar said.

"How dare they!" Ivypool exclaimed.

Hawkfrost was telling what happened at the gathering last night. Hollyleaf couldn't believe it. How could they say that we can't take care of our kits! But that cat did have a point, Jayfeather and Leafpool should stock up the herb store with more herbs than they normally do. And also send out more hunting patrols.

"You're the mean cat from the gathering," Hollykit squeaked jumping on Nightkit, the biggest of Halfmoon's litter. "Now we're going to attack you."

Then Sorrelkit, Fernkit, Ravenkit, Rockkit all jumped oh Nightkit. At that same moment Jayfeather entered the nursery.

"No! you can't fight at a gathering," exclaimed Snowkit, "It's against the warrior code and you're going to make StarClan angry."

All the kits got off of Nightkit, but then Maplekit jumped on Snowkit and attacked her. Hollyleaf was about to tell her daughter to be carful but Jayfeather caught her eye. Hollyleaf had the impression that Jayfeather could see what was happening, his eyes turned as cold as ice and his expression was unreadable. Jayfeather got up and walked towards Maplekit.

"Jay's Wing!" Halfmoon screamed, "No! Come back here."

Maplekit stopped fighting with Snowkit and looked up at Jayfeather with the same expression in her amber eyes. Hollyleaf didn't understand what was going on between the two of them, but she got up and picked Maplekit up. What was that all about? Hollyleaf wondered. There was something happening there and Halfmoon knows something. Jayfeather ran out of the nursery.

"Ivypool can you watch my kits for a while," Halfmoon asked before running after Jayfeather.

"Could you also watch mine please, thank you," Hollyleaf followed the couple without waiting for Ivypool to answer.

Jayfeather was heading for the forest Halfmoon running after him, If Jayfeather finds out that I'm following him this is going to be bad! After a while Jayfeather and Halfmoon stopped running.

"Oh! Jay's Wing…" Halfmoon murmured. "What did she tell you?"

"I will win, I will have my revenge, the revenge I deserve after what ThunderClan did to me…"

"Jay's Wing…" Halfmoon said no more, but got closer to Jayfeather until there fur brushed against each other comfortingly. What did she tell you? Maplekit didn't say anything! So who were they talking about? What is going on?! I'll have to figure it out on my own.

hopefully chap 4 is going to be out soon but im also thinking of a new story called Ivypool's True Self but i think it'll be better that i continue with my current story like that i wont mix them up

im thinking of having some fighing in chap 4, it's been to quiet so far

dont forget to review and if you have any ideas for the next chapter you can tell me

thanks