A/N: I know some of you weren't happy with what happened in the last chapter, but If you waited until the Epilogue I bet it would change your mind! Well here it is the final addition to Terra, thanks all of you who stayed by me and helped me finish it with your reviews! I've also posted the synopsis for Terra: Blood Moon, be sure to check it out!
~Leo~
EPILOGUE
A yowl sounded from the bracken filled nursery, as darkness descended onto the forest. A warm New-Leaf breeze blew through the air, as petals fell to the ground ever so softly.
Sandfire exited the Medicine Cats den quickly, carrying as many herbs in her mouth as she could. Otterpaw padded behind her, although not a Medicine Cat apprentice, the gray she-cat still liked to help with kitting.
Pushing through the barrier, Sandfire nodded to her half-brother who stood at the entrance, and made her way over to a yowling Aquashine.
"I'm going to kill you Embersky!" she growled while tearing up the bracken, "You did this to me!".
With a look from her sister Troutstream, Embersky took the hint and left the nursery so they could be alone.
"Are you in pain?" Sandfire asked, pressing a ginger paw onto her light gray belly.
Aquashine chuckled, "Pain? I'd welcome pain right now! This is death! That's what it is!".
"Your so dramatic" a snort came from Poppyfern who was in the back of the nursery, her belly round with Timberfall's kits.
"Shut up Cow!" Aquashine retorted, throwing moss across the den at the bewildered queen. Sandfire sighed, both of her brothers mates were expecting, and both hated each other.
"We don't have time for herbs" she instructed, feeling the kits moving inside of her stomach, "They're coming now!".
"No herbs!?" she yowled louder than a grizzly bear, "Oh I swear to StarClan when this is over, Embersky is going to pay with his life!".
But she wasn't able to finish cursing her mate, as a spasm soon engulfed her. Sandfire nodded to Otterpaw, as another yowl came from Aquashine, and a tiny bundle of fur fell to the ground.
"Lick it" she meowed to the gray apprentice, who soon made the dark tabby tom into a soft ball of fur who was suckling on his mother in no time.
"I think about two more" Sandfire meowed, as Aquashine groaned.
Soon another spasm took over the queen, and yet another kit fell to the ground. This one was a black and silver tabby, and was mewling loudly for milk.
Otterpaw soon fixed her up, and pushed the fluffy kit to her mothers belly for milk.
"Only one more" the Medicine Cat meowed soothingly, "Push when I say push".
Aquashine simply grunted, and when the time came for Sandfire to yowl push, she did. With one last push, a tiny golden she-cat fell to the ground, howling louder than the wolves in the mountains.
Sandfire and Otterpaw continued to clean the three kits, and Aquashine up, and nodded to Embersky to enter as they left the den.
"They're beautiful!" he exclaimed with a loud meow of joy, rushing over to his mate and kits. "Can we name them?" he asked his mate, whose eyes were closing from the herbs Sandfire had given her.
"Fine" she simply yawned, "But name the silver and black tabby after my mother, you can name the rest." And that was the last thing the queen said, before she lowered her head in sleep.
Embersky turned to Troutstream, "What was your mothers name?".
"Lotusflower" she meowed happily as she gazed at her niece, "Its a tradition in our family to name every other generation after the Lotus Flower."
Embersky smiled as he looked down at his daughter, "Lotuskit it is."
He then preceded to look down at the tiny golden she-cat, and gasped as she rose her head.
"She looks just like my sister" he exclaimed, "I think I'll name you little Honeykit." The kit seemed to nod in response, although she was probably just tired or hungry.
And finally the dark brown tabby tom was to be named, and looked a lot like Embersky's own mother, Terra.
"Earthkit" he meowed at his only son, Terra had told him that her name was another word for the earth. Embersky smiled at his three kits and sleeping mate, but as thunder boomed across the forest, a peculiar feeling enveloped him.
There was something happening, and only one image popped into his mind, Dovemoon.
Bright white light flashed across the blacked sky, as hordes of rain battered the woods and slopes. The trees swayed as leaves fell during the storm, and the wind buffeted up the fallen petals.
Dovemoon sat atop a hill, staring off as the storm unleashed its wrath onto the forest. It was mostly hitting RiverClan and ShadowClan camp, and as she gazed forward, an memory flooded back to Dovemoon.
It was barely a moon after the death of Lightningcloud, and at that time Dovemoon and Embersky were meeting every night.
But as they both earned their warrior names, the meetings became more and more scattered. Until finally one day when Dovemoon was waiting for her secret mate, he didn't show up for quite awhile.
"What's wrong Embersky?" she had asked as he finally showed up with a sad look on his face.
"We can't see each other anymore Dovemoon, Aquashine's expecting my kits".
The news shocked her that night, "But I love you Embersky! Can't you see that we were meant to be together our entire lives?".
But her pleas did nothing to change Embersky's mind, and he had pressed his nuzzle into her fur and licked her on the ear.
"I'll always love you" he had said, but she knew he was lying. If he truly loved her than he would have stayed! But things never worked out for Dovemoon, never the way she wanted them to.
She could only picture what Embersky and Aquashine's kits looked like, he obviously wanted to have kits more with that stupid she-cat than her anyway!
"I'll be alright" she meowed into the darkness, "We'll be alright" she added, glancing down at her swollen belly, moving with Embersky's kits.
Someday her kits would meet their father, and he would see he made the wrong decision. But that was a day far from now, and who knows what may have happened to the clans by then.
That was the last time Dovemoon uttered her true loves name, before she padded back to ShadowClan camp, the tempest raging on behind her.
A/N: Yay I finished, so did you guys like it? Do you like the kits names? You'll know Dovemoon's kits names in the next book, considering there's like an eight-moon time lapse. Thanks again!
