Hmm…

STARS

I'd always wondered what it was like to die.

I was just a kit, though, and hopefully, I wouldn't find out soon.

I asked my mother that sometimes, but she said she didn't know because she wasn't dead yet.

Once I heard her and my father talking.

"Yes, Skykit is very…interesting," Mother told him. I frowned. Interesting in a good way or a bad way?

I awoke to screeching and hissing outside of the nursery. Mother was in front of my brothers, Sparrowkit and Rockkit and me. "Stay behind me," she instructed us, and we did.

Suddenly, a large gray cat barged into the nursery and swatted Mother aside. "Mother!" Rockkit wailed. He grabbed Rockkit by the scruff and raced away.

"Rockkit!" Sparrowkit yowled. "Mother, they took-" The gray cat was back again, and snatched up Sparrowkit, too. He dashed out of the nursery. Was he coming for me next? Who was this cat anyway?

There he was. I tried to bat at his face with my claws, but he picked me up and carried me away. He darted away from the camp and finally dropped me in another camp that looked a bit like ours. Sparrowkit and Rockkit were huddled beside me.

"Welcome to ShadowClan, little kits," he meowed. ShadowClan? Why did that sound familiar? I soon found myself in another nursery, just like ours. "Take care of them, Nightsky," he told a black queen with white flecks. She dipped her head and pulled us close.

"You're not Mother," Sparrowkit mewed.

"I am now." The queen gazed at us gently.

"Mother!" I squealed, hoping she would hear me and come get us. "Where's my Mother?"

"She's not here!" Nightsky meowed. "Now shush!"

I kept on going. "Mother! Mother! Where are you?"

Soon the big gray cat came in. "What is going on, Nightsky?"

"This one won't keep quiet," Nightsky growled, flicking me on the head with her tail-tip. The gray cat nodded, snatched me up, and carried me to the center of the camp. He placed one paw on my belly, and I could barely breathe.

"Let…go!" I squeaked, but it was no use. He lowered his head and bit down hard on my throat. Pain seared through my body and I tried to yowl. Suddenly, my vision was black.

So that's what death was like.

I found myself in a hollow with stars all around me, even underneath me. Darkness covered my sight. "Where am I?" I wondered aloud. A gray she-cat with stars in her fur padded over to me. "Greetings, Skykit. You're in StarClan."

"StarClan?" I asked. "I'm dead, aren't I?"

She nodded, her expression sad. "I'm sorry you didn't get to live your life fully. Come with me, little one." She began to leap across the air, and I followed her to the stars.

Pretty short, but whatever. Poor Skykit. D:

xx-Starfall-xx