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Greycloud's POV
Greycloud padded into the entrance next to Snowflower and Brackenflame and spotted Redfeather pacing the clearing nervously. "I've been up waiting for you!" Redfeather called to her.
Greycloud purred quietly to Redfeather as he pressed his face to hers. She was grateful for his supposed loyalty to her. She knew he had meant those words to Willowflower.
Greycloud heard a small gasp and spotted her leader with her face scrunched up in pain. "Leafstar are you alright?" Greycloud asked softly, scenting stale blood.
"The kits are coming I think" Leafstar grunted. Greycloud turned to her sister and began to spit out orders.
"Snowflower go get Flamedapple! Brackenflame go with her and get some extra moss for Leafstar!" she ordered, surprising herself as she led Leafstar to the nursery.
As Leafstar let out a hiss of pain Flamedapple was in the nursery with borage and other herbs. "I'm afraid this is going to go all sorts of wrong" Greycloud muttered as she watched Leafstar writhe in pain.
"It's happening fast Leafstar! Push!" Flamedapple ordered.
Leafstar screeched in pain and Greycloud pressed her ears down to try and shut the sound out. Suddenly a wet bundle was shoved to her paws.
"Lick!" the medicine cat ordered briskly.
Greycloud gave the kit a sniff and began to lick the kits fur the wrong way. Snowflower poked her head in the nursery as Leafstar screeched again.
"It's a tom" Greycloud announced pushed the small kit to Leafstar's belly.
A wail of grief flushed over the camp as the second kit tumbled out of Leafstar. Greycloud perked her ears and stared at Flamedapple, but he seemed to busy shoving the kit to Snowflower as she began to lick the kits fur.
Greycloud heard another wail coming from Nightpaw and she knew what had happened. Cinderpaw was now with StarClan. She noticed Snowflower was too busy to realize the death of the apprentice.
Before Greycloud could speak another kit was given to her. She began to lick it vigorously and noticed it looked like Sunstar.
"A tom" Greycloud announced again. She looked to her sister and noticed she was curled around the small grey she-kit.
Greycloud noticed she had a pained look in her eye, and Flamedapple finished licking his kit announcing it was a tom.
Snowflower reluctantly pushed the she-kit towards Leafstar and Greycloud purred softly, nosing the little bundles of fur.
"Welcome to ThunderClan little ones" she purred. She noticed that Leafstar had stopped breathing and Greycloud fluffed out her fur in fear, forgetting her leader had nine lives.
"She's losing her first life" Flamedapple informed them. Snowflower dipped her head in respect and the three cats watched as Leafstar gasped for air.
"Leafstar?" Flamedapple asked softly.
"I'm alright; Sunstar informed me I lost too much blood. But he also said our kits were beautiful." Leafstar purred.
"I'll name this one Kinkkit, in honor of the warrior Kinkclaw who lost his life defending ThunderClan against RiverClan." She murmured
The golden tom let out a small squeal of satisfaction as he began to feed. "Greycloud how about this one?" Leafstar asked her.
Greycloud looked to the one she had cleaned and smiled a little. "Sunkit, looks just like his father" Greycloud murmured.
Leafstar nodded in agreement and pointed to the one that looked like her.
"Spottedkit, he looks a bit like your father right?" Leafstar asked the two sisters.
Greycloud watched her sister's eyes fill with tears and she purred in agreement.
"Snowflower you name the she-kit. You helped out too." Leafstar prompted Snowflower.
"Cinderkit" Snowflower muttered sadly.
"Oh my beautiful kits, I'm so glad you've come tonight" Leafstar purred proudly, cleaning her kits as they fed from her.
Greycloud noticed that Snowflower had disappeared and she padded out of the nursery and she spotted her sister carrying Cinderpaw's still body to the clearing. It was already scented with lavender and mint.
As Snowflower put the body down she let out a wail of grief and cried out into the sky. "I've failed to protect her! I promised her to do some battle training when I was better!" Snowflower wailed.
Greycloud stood and watched her sister grieve. There was an unspoken bond between the two she-cats.
Cinderpaw had taken a liking to Snowflower when she was a small kit. She was never intimidated by Snowflower's rough exterior and admired her for being strong.
Greycloud looked on as Snowflower began to weep.
Snowflower's POV
Snowflower cried silently as she pressed her face into the grey apprentice's fur. Brightcloud, Bluepaw, and Nightpaw had joined her as moonhigh passed. She heard the quiet whimpers emitted from her sisters.
Snowflower unsheathed her claws and swore revenge. Her plan would soon move into action. Her body began to become stiff and she didn't want to stretch. She wanted to keep by Cinderpaw's side.
The promise she made was broken. New grief swept through her and she let out a cry of despair, making the cats around her jump slightly.
Newly formed tears flowed down her face and knew dawn was there. The sky turned pale and the elders were there, to go and bury her.
Snowflower lashed her tail as the elders heaved the apprentice on their back and headed out the entrance.
Snowflower felt her body become heavy with exhaustion and she stumbled and tripped towards the warriors den. She noticed that Brackenflame had given her some extra moss and she purred softly and curled up around him.
Maybe it was time to take him as a mate. Becoming mates didn't mean kits; it meant love, and then later on kits.
Snowflower was finally succumbed to slumber and had dreams of kits and the scent of milk.
Snowflower grudgingly padded to the training hollow. A moon had passed since Cinderpaw's death and Leafstar's kits were under every cat's paws. Though no one minded at all.
Kits were the best thing that had happened since the gathering. Snowflower arrived at the training hollow and spotted Brackenflame training Gingerpaw.
Brackenflame waved his tail in greeting as he watched Gingerpaw perform the belly rake. His small body rocking on his arched spine.
"Good you're getting better" Brackenflame informed his apprentice.
Snowflower rolled her eyes and shoved Brackenflame aside. "Don't listen to him. That belly rake was pretty sloppy. You're arching your spine Gingerpaw. You need it to be flat like so" Snowflower informed the apprentice bluntly and performed her belly rake, her spine flat on the ground.
Brackenflame looked at Snowflower with dismay and Snowflower stuck out her tongue playfully.
Brackenflame padded up to her as they watch Gingerpaw begin to perform the belly rake, struggling to keep his spine straight. "You're doing better" he murmured to her.
Snowflower looked away and let out a small sigh. "I don't want my grief getting in the way of my warrior duties" Snowflower confessed.
Brackenflame let out a small purr and licked between her ears "You're so strong Snowflower, but you shouldn't keep everything bottled up. You're going to explode as some point" Brackenflame began to explain.
Snowflower sighed and lashed her tail. She did need to let off steam and she looked to Gingerpaw, remembering he knew the apprentice who had killed Cinderpaw. "Gingerpaw do you remember the apprentice that attacked Cinderpaw?" Snowflower asked softly.
Gingerpaw got to his paws and screwed up his face, trying to remember. "I think he said his apprentice Fishscale told him to do it and that he felt happy doing it because all ThunderClan apprentices think they're all that… His name was Pikepaw" Gingerpaw muttered.
Snowflower scoffed and looked to Brackenflame "Is every cat in RiverClan named after water related things?" Snowflower chuckled.
Gingerpaw shuffled awkwardly and Snowflower looked to the apprentice
"Did he say anything else?" Brackenflame asked, comforting his apprentice.
"I think he said he was going to be made a warrior so he might have a new name." Gingerpaw mewed nervously.
Snowflower purred loudly and nuzzled the white apprentice. "You've done good today, go get something to eat" Snowflower mewed sweetly.
Gingerpaw's eyes lit up and he scampered away, happily waving his tail.
"What are we going to do?" Brackenflame asked, his eyes lighting with a dangerous lust.
Snowflower looked around and scented around. No cat was scented near them and she looked to Brackenflame
"We're getting revenge tonight."
