Prologue & other stuff

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Here's the main character/cat's profile!

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I don't know why the other clans are smaller than Thunderclan or maybe because they're JUST the other clans? If there's a mistake or a cat I should add in specific clan just comment on it

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I don't know why the other clans are smaller than Thunderclan or maybe because they're JUST the other clans? If there's a mistake or a cat I should add in specific clan just comment on it.

------------------------The Prologue------------------------





Moonlight shone on the dark clearing brushing away the shadows creeping along the edges of bush. A brown she-cat crept among the trees and grass sheltering the empty camp. She wavered on her paws and collapsed back. She sighed. It was no use, her kits were coming soon and she was just a rogue living around the edges of Clan territory. But now Reed needed help. Her mate, Cloud, was crushed under the merciless paws of a TwoLeg monster. And with no mate to protect her clumsy self she was very fragile in this strange, dark forest. I traveled this far. I will make it. For myself and my kits.

Reed missed her footing and fell into the hollow. She tried twisting upright but her swollen belly made it hard for her to. The hard ground knocked the breath out of her and for once, her kits were dead still. No! She wailed in panic, hoping for at least one of her kits to jerk. Nothing happened. The moonlight shone on her as her breathing quickened. Please let my kits be alive!

"Is someone out there?"

Reed held her breath. No cat must know that she was here! She tried to roll to her paws but instead one of her paws snapped a twig. Fox dung! A cat crept cautiously out of the shadows and spotted Reed. She yowled and finally managed to scramble to her paws. "Stay away from me!"

Amusement lit the strange cat's eyes. "I'm not going to hurt you" 

She looked at her swollen belly then relaxed, though embarrassed to have her clumsiness to be pointed out. "So?" Reed managed to hiss out. Reed remembered her still kits. Wrong time to be reminded! She felt some movement rolling in her belly. Finally!  Reed slowly backed away from the other cat's gaze and turned tail and fled through the hole behind her. Now I look like a coward! Who cares, it only matters if my kits are safe.

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Night and dawn comes as birdsong wove through the tree trunks and leaves. Reed was grooming herself in the warm sunshine trying to ignore the movement from her kits. It had been several sunrises from when Cloud died in the escape. If only Cloud was here. She could remember his handsome face, the way his body shook when he laughed and the love in his eyes when he looked at her. Reed sighed. It seemed like there was nothing else to care about except herself and her growing kits. They would be due at full moon apparently. Leaves rustled as she struggled to get onto her paws. With a jolt she remember where she was. She was at some tall, large rocks, a place where Clan cats call 'Highstones'. She scoffed. They weren't that high. She looked up. Never mind. Highstones towered over her, merely looking towards the sunrise as if it had power over the land spread before it. 

She groaned. Sitting out here was tiring. She looked around for shelter and spotted a dark hollow. Better than nothing. She walked towards it shifting her feet uneasily. She wasn't use to tight spaces. Soon enough she was closed off from the winds and sun, walking slowly along the pathway in the mountains. Reed's heart stopped when she bumped into a wall. No! She moved alongside it and felt relief fill her. There was a cave if she kept on walking along the wall. She entered the cave, and jumped when a single piece of rock fell. It's okay Reed, just keep going! She sighed. Her paws won't move a budge. Instead she settled down and realised that it wasn't pitch black. There was a hole in the ceiling where light came out. As she listened to the wind she realised that it was sunset already. How long till I find my way out? 

Pawsteps entered the dark, gloomy cave, echoing through the darkness as Reed stiffened, claws unsheathed, preparing for an attack. Reed stiffened. She listened. Her tail twitched. Nothing. No one was there. What did I hear? Suddenly bright light blinded her eyes, shooting around the cave and shining on two cats. What? Reed crept behind a rock and peered out at the two strange cats. One of them was that tortoiseshell she saw days ago. Another was an older cat with blue-grey fur now silver in the light. 

Reed realised that the grey she-cat looked injured, as if she suffered a massive battle earilier the day Reed came to High

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