Warrior Cats meets Transformers

chapter 9: sensory overload

"Moma! moma!" a small flurry of white could be seen running though the dust and past the fallen debris.

it was snowkit.

"snowkit stop!" a cat called out to him. but he couldnt stop! the bird took his mother!

"Moma!" snowkits cries rang out like a crow, he ran as fast as his short legs could carry him. he could see the slight shape of the bird among the clouds.

but then the shape disappeared... among those very same clouds.

"moma! moma!" liquid drops came out of the small kit's eyes, watching as the bird took away the person most dear to snowkit.

his mother...

for a moment he stood, at that very second, he hoped that maybe his mother would come back, that with was all just a horrid dream, perhaps even starclan was going to rain down from the heaven with his mother, safe and ... and...

but nothing showed up, but... but that must mean... that.... that...

"Snowkit!" the ground seemed to shake as the three cats ran up to him. firestar, cloudtail and thornclaw. the kit turned his head over to look at the cats, his red-teary eyes showed all.

firestars worried expression changed into a understanding, he sat over near the white kit and wrapped his tail around.

the journey back, nobody made a sound.

snowkit was brought back into the nursery to his other siblings, amberkit and dewkit. all three were covered in dust from the attack, the worst was amberkit who had tear stains running down her face and a horrible cough. whitewing, daughter of brightheart and thus sister of snowkit, walked over to the three.

" The attack... im... i... we..." whitewing could barely finish her sentance. her curlyed fur seemed to droop slightly as she silently cried on the floor. snowkit walked over to whitewing and placed a paw on her side.

that night the kin slept, all but snowkit, who could on dream of saving his mother.

the next day wasnt any easier. the medicine cat den seemed to be bustling with cats, and those who werent hurt were busy helping with the destruction. the clan camp still had bits of dust in the air, making it almost unbearable to breath.

"dear starclan, did you see it shoot through the roof?" kinkfur questioned.

" it seemed to shoot lighting out of its head! its simply not of starclan!" daisy murmered in response. 

"it... it took my mother..." whitewing chocked out her response. nightcloud wrapped her tail around whitewing, confused whitewing glanced at her. all whitewing could see in those eyes was a understanding pain. she gave a sympathetic blink in response.

"i... i dont feel safe in this camp anymore... i mean... kinkfur you saw it! plus ivy here has newborn kits! what if it comes back?!" ferncloud reasoned, her body sat next to ivytail alongside kinkfur, as if she was ready and prepared to defend the new queen and kits.

" but where would we go? there's nowhere we could hide." kinkfur responded, trying to be level-headed.

"thats not actually true..." squirrelflight broke the silence. " when i went out moons ago... the strange twoleg and monster brought me across a thunderpath bridge of sorts, underneath it was a sort of hollow area where we could hide out, twolegs dont come there often so i think it would be safe."

the nursery went silent, but then ivytail spoke up, her voice hoarse.

"how- how far is from... from here?"

"its far enough to keep us safe, but not too far from camp in case something happens." squirrelflight looked up for a nod of approval from the queens. they all agreed.

" then its final, we'll tell firestar."

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squirrelflight headed the patrol, alongside her was leafpool who carried any herbs they might need. behind them were the nursery queens, their kits and the elders.

snowkit walked alongside dovekit, an older kit of the nursery.

" Hey snowkit?" dovekit thumped her back legs like a rabbit to grab his attention. snowkit cocked his head over to look at her. " you have small ear's ears". snowkit didnt know what she was talking about, or really what she even was saying actually....

"whats that supposed to mean?" daisy murmured, she was carrying one of ivytails kits.

" my mom said that my great-grandpa small ear had a very certain ear shape that made his ears look like dog ears, snowkit has that ear shape!" dovekit pointed her tail at snowkits ears.

"ooooh, that makes sense." daisy said with understanding. " brightheart and cloudtail used to talk about some of the elders like smallear, said he was very grouchy..."

"you wanna talk about being grouchy, there was this old stink-bat, forgot her name, something like... lire stripe maybe? she was the nastiest and meanest cat i knew up until she died." tallpoppy, an elder from shadowclan interjected with her tale.

"mom, careful, your tail almost hit some cats again" crowfrost, a warrior that came along spoke. snowkit looked up at the black cat and noticed how he had a black bird feather on his chest. Did... did this cat kill one of those black birds before? snowkit thought. 

"were almost there everyone! just a bit longer" squirrelflight shouted. dewkit walked over to amberkit with a heavy sigh.

"it smells here" dewkit mentioned. which was true, the stench reeked of thunderpath and unnatural stone. 

at the new "nursery" the ground was covered in a sort of stone-like material which had cracks of green grow around. it was covered overhead by a overhead thunderpath and off to the side a bit was a tunnel and across from it another tunnel. squirrelflight help get ivy situated inbetween twoleg-stone trees and a wall.

"wow, whats this?" dovekit pranced over to a soft boulder, it had a cut on its side which revealed that its insides were bird feathers.

"great job dovekit, this will make perfect bedding for ivytail" leafpool congratulated the young kit, making dovekit beam proudly.

"oh! oh what about this?" ivykit pawed at another soft boulder, this time resembling a dog...sort of...

"oh thats great too!" leafpool looked around the place, seeing all sorts of twoleg rubbish around. " maybe stay over here kits, near ivytail, she needs defending after all." the kits padded their way over to ivytail.

"we need to do some hunting before it gets dark..." morningflower said as she observed the sun setting.

"i can do it! i still got a kick in my legs" tallpoppy resonsed back with a jump.

"and i'll come with you, mom..." crowfrost sided with his mother. the two cats went outside the area to go hunt. the kits, curiously watched them.

"whys he going in the open space? shadowclan dont hunt in the open space!" ivykit questioned.

"crowfrost and tall poppy are going in the open space?" kinkfur questioned. crowfrost headed for cover as tallpoppy limped around on three legs, as if she was injured. an eagle flew overhead.

"oooh. i know what their doing, look and watch." kinkfur had a glint in her eyes as she watched her clanmates. snowkit, who watching looked up towards the eagle who darted for tallpoppy. but then suddenly, crowfrost at the last moment leaped from the bushes and drew his claws into the eagle's back, causing it to fall on the floor. the two carried their catch back over to the group.

"weoaw!" snowkit excitedly chirped, his eyes sparkled with the amazing thing he had just seen.

" wow, what was that move crowfrost?" sparkkit called out.

"yeah! ive never seen that before!" juniperkit jumped up. "i didnt knowshadowclan cats did that!"

"that's because they don't, tawnypelt told us about it when she went to the tribe." tallpoppy answered. "We dont get to try it much since our territory is usually covered with trees, but during leafbare its great for extra prey." tallpoppy then bent down to reach the kits size. "wanna learn it?" she said with a eyebrow raised and a smile. the kits began to explode in amazement and excitement.

"mom, calm down a bit. dont you've think that you've over extended yourself?" crowfrost padded up towards his mother.

"oh crowfrost, im not that old, plus i think those two are pretty excited" tall poppy flicked her tail over to snowkit and dovekit, who bristled with excitement.

"maybe tomorrow? i mean look the sun is going down, we wouldnt really be able to see much anyway" tallpoppy looked up at the sky, agreeing with her son that indeed, it was getting a bit too dark.



the cats ate and talked, the kits about the new move they had just seen, the adults about possible nightwatch shifts.

"i can take the first shift, crowfrost can take the second and pouncetail can take the third shift. after that we can repeat until morning" squirrelflight ordered. " nightcloud, if we get attacked, i need you to run as fast as you can to the camp and warn everyone". nightcloud nodded her head, her two foster kits preparing to sleep.

"im tired, whitewing" ivytail commented.

"me too" amberkit replied.

"im not, and neither is snowkit" dovekit meowed, snowkit also sharing the exact sentiment.

"well then dont stay up too long. as for me, im going to sleep" whitewing meowed, hopping onto some soft rocks and falling asleep immediately after. 

squirrelflight noticed the two trouble makers hunched over, moving around rocks as if they were constructing a plan. she didn't pay to much mind to it, however she did keep her eye on them.

surely the two troublesome kits wouldn't do anything too reckless now whould they?

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AUTHORS NOTE:

hey, so i know this chapter took waaaaay too long to post and i am really sorry for that, my reasoning for why it took so long was because i really didnt plan out the story before hand. sure, i had a few scenes in mind for what i wanted to do, but i wasnt sure what to do with the middle parts. plus also my writing has gotten so much better since i last posted (meaning that if i do post more chapters, they are going to look alittle different, structure wise)

other things to note, i have a few ideas in mind for what i want to do in later chapters, but i wanna here what you guys think i should do. 

anyhow, see ya and thanks for reading