Warriors A Tale Of Two Brothers
Chapter 2
Jay and Wisp had arrived back in camp to find out that their daughter Ivy had been killed by a fox somewhere in the forest while out with her brothers. She had sacrificed herself to save them. Dawn and Oak were sitting near their dead sister's body with Spirit comforting them. Wisp and Jay immediately ran to their kit's side and Jay thanked Spirit for sitting with them.
"How did this happen?" Jay demanded, facing his other two kits. Their faces were full of shock and Wisp leaped in front of them, her expression pure rage, her neck fur was raised and she had her teeth bared.
"How dare you?" She hissed at Jay. He sat back in disbelief at what he had just done; he looked at his kits who looked terrified.
"I'm… I'm sorry, I just…" Jay stuttered. Wisp flattened her neck fur and looked at him with understanding
"It's alright, I'm upset too but you didn't have to take it out on them, it isn't their fault," Wisp mewed, understanding. Jay nodded and looked at his two sons.
"What happened out there?" He meowed, being a lot more sympathetic towards his kits. They both shuddered but then Dawn stepped forward.
"After Oak was done getting looked over by you, Ivy and I waited for him. Then we all went out to explore, but then the…" Dawn shuddered. He looked down at the ground and then at Oak who had also stepped forward now.
"Then the fox showed up and Ivy told us to go, we didn't want to but she made us!" Oak admitted, the two of them looked full of shame. Jay wrapped his tail around both of them.
"If you hadn't, all three of you would have been dead now. Ivy made the right decision in telling you to go…" Jay comforted. Wisp came over and leant down to look at the two of them.
"No matter what would have happened today, we are always going to proud of you," She purred, giving each of them a soft lick on their heads.
Suddenly, Spider leaped onto a large boulder that looked over the whole clan, he yowled to get their attention and then began to speak.
"As most of you may know, we have lost something today that cannot be returned. Ivy, a kit from Wisp and Jay's litter has been killed by a fox!" He yowled out so that each cat could hear. A few looked shocked by this news but someone just nodded in grief.
"We must find the fox and kill it!" Jay looked at who had shouted out. It was one of Jay's close friends, Swoop.
"I understand and we will but right now I need to tell all of you something… No kits will be allowed out until they are six moons old," Spider decreed. The whole clan gasped, most of the kits 'awed'.
"That's not fair!" Speckle, a small brown tabby she-cat burst out of the queen's den, quickly followed by Poppy, her face full of anger. Poppy quickly looked at Wisp and mimed a sorry toward her. Wisp nodded.
"Why not? I'm protecting future cats from danger, plus you can leave when you are apprentices and are learning to be a hunter," Spider explained. Speckle glared at him.
"Sweetie, you've just woken up, come back to sleep," Poppy whispered. Speckle turned to face her mother; they were starting to make a scene.
"I want to see outside the camp though!" She groaned. Poppy gave her ear a quick rasp with her tongue.
"And you will, but not for a few more moons, it's for your own protection," Poppy meowed. Speckle looked away from her and then saw Ivy's limp body, her face filled with horror.
"Ivy!" Speckle split apart from her mother and bolted to her friend's side. She sniffed her pelt and gave her head a few nudges, a few cats looked away as the kit began to become frantic, licking her friend's cheek and nibbling her ear slightly.
"Speckle, I'm sorry," Dawn went to her side and she immediately fell onto his chest and began to cry.
"She's dead!" Speckle screeched into his chest, as if the words had been a trigger. Wisp began to sob, collapsing to the ground in tears. The clan fell silent and lowered their heads, Spider leaped down from the boulder and approached Wisp.
"We will bury her body beside the river at dusk," He meowed, walking away after. Wisp stood up, shaking, and signalled for her two sons to come over to her and Jay. They watched as Poppy and Spirit took their kits into the queen's den.
"At dusk we are going to have a formal burial for your sister. Spider and Bark will be there and then it will be us," Wisp explained to her kits. Oak and Dawn nodded sadly.
"For now we will sit with her and make sure she is clean and perfect before then," Jay added. They all padded over to Ivy's body and began to lick her fur clean. Oak and Dawn collected a few a flowers from around the clearing to bury with her. By the time they were done grieving, it was dusk. Spider and Bark came to their side, nodding slightly. Jay picked up Ivy's body gently and Oak, Dawn and Wisp each carried a flower. They headed out of the clearing through a makeshift tunnel and went towards the river.