Warriors Fanfic: Snowstorm

Prologue

A wail broke out in the middle of the night and came from the nursery cave. It echoed all out of the nursery cave and the entire cave system that houses the clearing and the dens of those in the Clan.

Many of the cats were woken up by the sudden wail. Only some ran out of their respective dens into the crisp dark and quickly crawled under the frozen, ice-cold vines that protected the dens' entrances from the cold.

They saw the dark ginger queen with a white chest and dark brown swirls with blood rushing down her flank and a pool of blood forming under her.

She was losing blood quickly. A cat turned around and moved out swiftly as they yowled the name "Polarclaw!" repeatedly.
What seemed like painfully long hours only took a minute or two as a handsome white tom's head poked in under the vines and quickly thrust his body through with a bundle of leaves between his jaws.

The tom took a few steps toward the queen, and his eyes widened as he saw a kit lying near her flank.
He spat out of the bundle, quickly dragged the kit, and set it in front of one of the cats who came after the wail broke out. The white medicine cat hissed.

"Lick it to get its blood flowing!" The cat didn't hesitate to rasp their tongue over the kitten.

Polarclaw turned back to the queen. Her breathing was shallow, and her eyes pale. She barely blinked as she gave birth to another kit. Polarclaw bent his head down to pick up the kit and set it in front of a cat. Just then, he heard the crying of the first kit.

Polarclaw looked back at the queen, who was looking weaker now, he went to unravel his bundle of leaves, but as he did, he heard the queen meow weakly. "Tell...Nightshadow...I love him...'' Her eyes closed, and her last breath turned into a sigh as she went limp.

Polarclaw looked at her lifeless body, devastated, and he felt his ears twitching and his paws trembling. It was too late, and Polarclaw thought it was all his fault.

The room went silent except for the crying of the kit, and was soon joined in by the wail of the other kit. Just then, a black tom with dark-brown swirls and yellow-green eyes crawled under the vines and took a step forward until the tom laid eyes on the lifeless body. He staggered forward and stared at it in shock as if what he saw couldn't be real.

''A-Autumnheart! No!'' He ran to his dead mate and buried his face into her fur, wailing with grief and overcome with shock. Nightshadow was shaking terribly. Polarclaw sat next to the queen's lifeless body and mourned with Nightshadow.

"I'm so sorry...so very sorry..."