Warriors: Ivysplashes sorrow

Prologue

"I have to see my mate!" Brackentail yowled above the terrifying thunder in the thunderstorm.

"I'm sorry Brackentail", Fawnleap mewed. "You can't see Fallowfern right now. She's lost a lot of blood. It's too risky to have you in there right now".

"Did you give her Poppy Seeds for the pain?" Brackentail yowled angrily at the dark brown she-cat.

Fawnleap sighed. Brakentail was always a little bit irritating. Burntclaw padded up to Brackentail and put her tail on his flank to calm her brother. Her kits, Stumpypaw and Snakepaw, stared at the nursery with wide, scared eyes as Fallowfern yowled, "Fawnleap, please come here! I think the first kit is coming!"

Fawnleap gasped and dashed into the nursery. Soon enough, the cats outside heard three tiny mewls coming from three cats. Brackentail broke away from his sisters grasp and sprinted into the nursery.

"How many?" Brackentail mewed as he appeared in the damp, bloodstained nursery.

"Three. All she-cats", Fawnleap mewed. The medicine cat poked her shiny brown head out of the nursery. "It's okay for you three to come in now."

Burntclaw went in first, Stumpypaw close behind. Snakepaw was a little cautious to go into the bloodstained nursery, but followed behind his brother. The two other queens, Streamheart and Berryeyes were in their dens, with their kits. Streamhearts kits, Silverkit, Tansykit, and Tigerkit, looked on with anxious, excited eyes, clearly excited to be able to get to know their new denmates. While Berryeyes's kit, Brightkit, was sleeping.

"Their lovely", Burntclaw mewed to the new parents.

Snakepaw prodded the gray and white she-kit and brown she-kit. "These two are awfully small", he mewed.

"Shut your mouth about it or you'll be crowfood", Berryeyes mewed dangerously. "I was the same size of them when I was born, just a tiny scrap of fur. And every cat knows I'm no bigger than a newly made apperintice. You and your brother were also very small when you were born, so shut up about it!"

Snakepaw flattened his ears in fear. "What should we name them?" Fallowfern mewed to her mate.

"I want you to name them", Brackentail mewed. "You went through all that pain to give birth to them, after all."

"If you say so", the brown she-cat mewed. She prodded at the gray and white she-kit. "I want her name to be Ivykit. This one will be Mousekit", Fallowfern prodded at the brown she-kit. "And this one will be Breezekit", she meowed, prodding at the black and white she-kit.

"Those are perfect names", Brackentail mewed to his mate.

"When will we be able to play with them?" Silverkit mewed.

"Ivykit and Mousekit will still be very small when they are apprenticed Silverkit", Streamheart mewed. "If you want to play with them, you'll have to be very careful. They are very fragile".

"But WHEN will we be able to play with them?" Tigerkit meowed impatiently. "We don't have a lot of time. We'll be apprentices in two moons!"

"That's plenty of time", Streamheart meowed. "It's Fallowfern's decision when she thinks they will be old enough to play, not mine", the mottled gray tabby pointed out.

"No matter how small they are, they will make fine warriors in the future", Fallowfern meowed. "I will protect my kits with my life if I have to. I will try to be the best mother I can and make sure they turn into loyal cats of Cloudclan".

A/N: Thank you guys so much for reading, voting, and commenting on this story <3. I'll try to get chapter 1 up soon, but I've been really busy this weekend and haven't been able to go on my computer to start writing it.
~hollyleaf517~