Hello readers! Next thing I will be uploading is the next story! I know in my authors not I said it would be "The Lion, the Vixen, and the Mallow" but I'm changing it, it will now be "The Lion, the Shadow, and the Mallow" Not sure if there should be a prophecy or not and I think I'll be writing it in first person, because I think it'll be more interesting like that :D Hope you enjoy this little epilogue.
The queens shrieks of pain brought nearly the entire clan running into the nursery. The small kit huddled against her mother and looked to the two queens writhing in pain.
"It's rare to have two queens birthing at the same time" her mother muttered softly. Her sisters stirred from their sleep and lifted their heads drowsily.
"What's the matter with Snowflower and Greycloud?" one of them asked.
"Their kits are on the way." the ThunderClan medicine cat informed, giving a smug look to her mother.
The kit began to bristle, but a tail wrapped around her, soothing her bristling fur.
The two queens screeched in agony and her mother was up on her paws instantly.
"Sit back down Blueleaf, you are no longer a-" the medicine cat snarled, beginning to lecture her.
"Listen here Flamedapple, Leafstar has not stripped me of my title yet, which means I'm still a medicine cat!" Blueleaf snapped, lashing her tail in fury.
The tortoiseshell tom began to grumble as he went to go feel the grey queen's stomach and Blueleaf went to Snowflower.
The two queens thrashed around in pain, causing Wildfur to place her tail protectively around her kits.
The small kit looked at her mother, mixed feelings coming from her belly, a mixture of pride and love, along with disgust and hatred.
Her mother was the medicine cat of ThunderClan and she had broken both the warrior code and the medicine cat code. Their father, Rainstrike, had given up his life in RiverClan and began a life as a warrior in ThunderClan, much to RiverClan's dismay.
The kit watched as a kit plopped out of Snowflower and turned to see the second kit of Greycloud tumble out. She turned and watched her sister's look at Blueleaf with awe as she preformed her duty to the clan, finishing with Snowflower as the third kit tumbled out.
As soon as the screeching had subsided two toms immediately entered the nursery, the fiery tom going to Snowflower and the russet colored tom going to Greycloud.
The small kit looked to her sisters who were excitedly chattering about new kits they could play with. She rolled her eyes and jumped out of the nest, stumbling over her still too big paws as she looked at the kits.
"What's their names?" she squeaked loudly, quieting the entire nursery.
Snowflower was the first to speak. "Well Mallowkit this right here is Vixenkit" she meowed, pointing her tail to a russet colored she-kit with a fluffy tail that was tipped white.
"This is Sandkit" the snowy white queen continued, pointing her tail to the cream colored tom who happened to be the largest of the litter.
"And finally this is Rosekit." Snowflower finished, pointing to the pale ginger she-kit with four white paws and a patch of white on her chest.
Mallowkit looked over the kits and felt a purr rumble in her chest.
"I'm next!" Greycloud boasted. Mallowkit spun on her paws and was quickly looking at Greycloud's kits.
"This one is Ashkit, after my mother Ashflower." Greycloud meowed softly, pointing to a dark grey she-kit with a lighter grey stripe going down her body.
Greycloud moved her paw over a small tom that was the runt of the litter. "This is Stormkit" she continued, pointing her paw to the next tom.
"This is Patchkit" the grey queen finished, the light grey tom with darker grey patches on his body mewled in protest as his mother placed her paw on him.
Mallowkit sneaked her sisters a smug look for being addressed personally by both queens.
Suddenly a golden furred tom stood next to her and gaped at Brackenflame. "Wait so Snowflower is the mate of the deputy?" the golden tom meowed, slightly shocked.
"Lionkit come back here this instant!" the golden she-cat hissed quickly.
Brackenflame pinned his ears to his head and Mallowkit tilted her head in confusion. "Technically I'm just standing in place for the real deputy" the fiery tom admitted, sneaking a peek at Snowflower.
Snowflower let out a huff and looked crossly at her mate "I shouldn't even be deputy! Just because Flametalon is a good warrior doesn't mean I'm meant for the duty" Snowflower muttered bitterly.
"You know very well that's not why I chose you as my deputy" Leafstar's silky voice flooded through the entrance.
Blueleaf scrambled back and picked Mallowkit up by the scruff.
Mallowkit thrashed around and mewled in protest. "Mama! I've never seen the leader before! How come Moonkit and Pebblekit get to?" Mallowkit protested, flailing her big kitten paws in the air.
"I- I don't want her to see how special you are" Blueleaf murmured, laying her kit down, covering her eyes with her blue-grey tail.
"Now get some rest little one, you will see her soon enough" Blueleaf promised, none of the cats knowing that not to far off that there was another cat just as special as Mallowkit was.