Warrior Cats meets Transformers

chapter 7: they took our brightest star

"mom? moooom" juniper kit meowed in squirrelflights ear, trying to wake her up.

"Wha.. huh?" squirrelflight groggily awoke to her kits. sparkkit was biting her ear, dandelion kit was batting at her tail and alderkit pawed at her face.

"Now, now, you four be a bit more quiet, brightheart is resting. " daisy spoke, flicking her ear over to brightheart.

"no its fine, im awake any way..." brightheart said, blinking the sleep out of her eyes.

" no deary, you need to rest" daisy gently meowed over to brightheart as squirrelflight hushed her kits to silence.

"i'll take them out to play, it will give you a bit of silence brightheart, ok?" squirrelflight suggested, already getting her kits outside.

"oh that's not necessary, im already aw-" squirrelflight was already outside the nursery with her kits, unable to heart brightheart.

it had already been nearly half a moon since the moonpool had been destroyed. the event had clearly shaken everyone up. brightheart could peak outside to the med den across the camp. it had taken a toll on the morale of both medicine cats and warriors.

"mrrrrp"

the sound quickly shifted brighthearts attention towards the noise. a purr came out of her as she licked the top of her one of her kit's heads. during that time period, brightheart had finally given birth to her litter of kits. 

"hello brightheart, im sorry i couldn't come any sooner, I've been a bit busy as of late." firestars head peaked thought the nursery. "i wanted to see the kits".

"oh , they just woke up." brightheart shifted a bit so that firestar could get a better look at them. "cloudtail said this one should be dewkit" she brushed the tip of her tail to the white-speckled gray kit. "and i named this one amber, she looks like my father abit" she pointed towards the pale-ginger kit, firestar could confirm, they looked like lionheart.

"and this little one?" firestar nosed the white kit.

"their name is snowkit, after speckletails, my grandmother, kit." brightheart licked the kits fur, making the kit give out a small squeak. 

firestar shifted his posture slightly." oh? well... did you get the medicne cats to check up on them?" 

"yes... i did, leafpool said that all three are very healthy." brightheart meowed.

"ok, ok good. meow if you need anything." fireheart waved his tail off as he left the medicine den. 

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a few days have passed, prey was getting alot harder to find, well... no. prey was easiy to find, just not living prey. it wasnt crow-food though, as if some animals ate it and then left. more like freashly killed prey that was left, seemingly for the clans. cats murmered among themselves about it.

"if firestar says its safe to eat, then it must be safe to eat. i mean he has eaten two-leg food before and lived, so he would know" ivytail meowed, curling her tail abit.

"true, true, im not saying that i dissagree with my father, just that i think we should take it with a grain of salt." squirrelflight retorted, cleaning sparkkits pelt.

"but squirrel, dear. you have eaten twoleg food before too!" daisy spoke.

"its called looking around and seeing if anyone else is doing it. if there are squirrels eating twoleg food and not dying, then its safe to eat." squirrelflight looked at sparkkit. " why are there so many thistles in your pelt?"

"but we're not eating twoleg food squirrelflight, were eating just normal prey" kinkfur commented.

" i beg your pardon kinkfur, but i dont think the prey is considered normal if it has already been killed and laid outside the entrance to camp" whitewing meowed polietly over to kinkfur.

" well... yes... yes.. true.. but it doesnt look like anything is wrong with it"

" next thing ya know, the foods been poisoned" nightcloud commeneted.

"cats have eaten it and survived, its just as if someone killed it for us." ivytail sighed. brightheart finally got up from her nest, stretching a bit.

" i think im going to take the kits over to the elders den" brightheart meowed, gathering her kits. they had just been learning to walk so it would be good exercise for their legs.

"be careful" kinkfur meowed to brighheart as she left the den.

brightheart walked over to the elders den, her kits tailing along. after finally getting there she saw briarpaw who was sitted near longtail.

" and you really fought a raccoon?" briarpaw said in amazement as she hear longtails story.

" yep, darn thing didnt know what hit him"

"hey longtail?" brightheart meowed, catching the two cats attention. "is it ok if i leave the kits with you for a bit?"

"sure, sure of course they can stay" longtail meowed, happy to hear the new members of the clan walking towards him.

"briar can keep and eye on them and i'll keep an ear on them" longtail joked. as brightheart left the elders den, she made her way towards the medicine cat den, to check up on the medicine cats.

"everyone ok?" she meowed inside.

littlecloud looked up at her from his pile of herbs. " im doing fine dear, uh... didnt cha have kits recently?" little asked, abit concerned.

"oh, yes i just wanted to see if i could help 'round, thats all..." brightheart meowed.

"oh good, for a second i thought something was wrong with one of your kits." littlecloud sighed in relief. brightheart made a confused face.

"wh.. what would be worng with my kits?" brightheart asked concernedly.

"oh um.. wasnt one fo your kits white?" littlecloud asked.

"yes?"

"well... you see brightheart, when kits with white-" littlecloud was cut mid sentance by leafpool.

"brightheart? what are you doing dear in the medicine den? shouldnt you have kits to look after?" she exclaimed in quick fashion, almost ushering brightheart out of the den.

" well... i ... i came to he-"

"well we dont need anymore help dear, bye!" brightheart knew that leafpool didnt mean to come off as rude, but it still stung a bit. as brightheart walked out of the med den she went over to the freshkill pile and took a mouse. while she was eating it, she got a glimpse of the inside of the elders den. longtail seemed to be teaching briarpaw a few moves, the moment almost reminded her of when longtail was a mentor to swiftpaw, her cousin.

a deep sigh came from her, eating her mouse quietly. the memorys of the old forest flooding her mind. the dog attack and how she lost swiftpaw was one of those memories, she tried blocking it out by remembering something else. speckletail, her grandmother, the cat who cared for her after the dog attack. brightheart loved her grandmother and cherished the memories she had with her, but then the thought of speckletail's kits came into mind. mistlekit and... snowkit...

"hey mum? we'ore kin'a sleepy right now, can we go back to the nursery p'ease?"

brightheart snapped out of her moment and looked back towards amberkit, who was looking at her alongisde dew kit who was dozing off a bit and snowkit, who just was staring off into something.

"oh, yes of course. come on everyone lets go rest a bit ok?" brightheart began to walk towards the nursery with her kits when she noticed that snowkit didnt move and was still staring off into the sky, she called out his name but he didnt seem to listen. she thumped her back legs onto the ground, causing the ground to slightly shake, which seemed to get his attention as he walked towards brightheart.

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"snowkit! snowkit! snnnnowwww kiiiiitt!" brightheart was trying to call over her misfit son, but he didnt seem to listen. it had been a few days since she talked to littlecloud. and in that time shes been having toruble getting her son to listen to her, she was beginning to get worried for him. 

"it looks like he has an ear infection" nightcloud spoke to brightheart, almost surprising her. "breezepelt, back when he was a kit" nightcloud paused for a moment before continuing "got an ear infection, almost mistook him for being deaf".

deaf. the word slightly shook brightheart.

" yes... yes... it makes sense, i'll go get some herbs from the med den, thank you nightcloud" brightheart bowed her head to nightcloud as she picked up snowkit by the scruff and carried him over to the med den.

"oh, brightheart! how are you doing? its been a while, im sorry for out last interaction i was a little mean, its just the den is kinda crowed at the moment" leafpool saw brightheart as she entered, meowing the greeting.

"hello leafpool, its ok, anyhow im worried about snowkit. nightcloud says that he might have an ear infection which is impacting his hearing."

leafpool stopped for a moment." his hearing?"

"yes. his hearing, he doesn't listen when i call, he has trouble talking clearly and.. and..." brightheart looked towards leafpool, who was staring at her. cinderpelt was also in the room, back faced away from the two as they talked.

"well, let me see him" leafpool meowed gently. brightheart nudged the kit to walk over to leafpool. leafpool checked his ears. "i don't see any signs of an infections, and he doesnt show any symptoms, hes healthy as a hare"

the room when silent, brightheart noticed that her heart seemed to beat louder than normal.

it was cinderpelt who broke the silence.

"bright.... i wanted to avoid telling ya this for a bit, but i think we need to talk." cinderpelt put down her mixture and walked over to the two mollies. " i think-"

"snowkits deaf, isnt he?" brightheart said it first, her head down low. cinderpelt was surprised but figured she knew eventually.

"yes, im afraid so..." cinderpelt meowed sympathetically.

silence again...

"snowkit wont end up like... like speckledtail's kit, right?" brightheart meowed, curling her tail around her son.

" no, no we wont let him get taken away by a hawk, or.. or attacked by a fox-" leafpool tried to soothe.

"no. i mean as in letting him become a warrior or a leader, even a medicine cat, whatever he wants to be! i dont want people to look down at him like they did to speckletails son!" brightheart interjected, her voice was almost fierce, she realized this and lowed her head to look at her son.

silence hit the room again.

"i just don't want him to think that Hes a burden." brightheart looked back again to cinderpelt, who walked closer and bent down to look at snowkit.

"he can be whatver he wants to be, from leader to medicine cat and everything in between."

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