BOOK 1~A Broken Beginning

Chapter 2

     Rainwing hissed under her breath as her kits came out blinking. Out of the corner of her eye she spotted addercall padded to lay under a bush.

     "This'll be trouble," she sneered to Blueclaw. Blueclaw pricked his ears and glanced at the kits in amusement.

     The kits stummbled over to Addercall and swatted at his tail. The large tom hissed and batting the large tom kit away causing the smaller kit to dart after her litter mate.

     "You okay?!" she asked frantically as her brother got up and shook the dust off his pelt.

     "Yea, cats are mean here," he muttered. Echokit licked Hollowkit's ear affectionately and rolled him over nipping his forehead playfully.

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     "Kits, I need to go get some food. Don't cause too much trouble while I'm gone, alright?" Songbird purred at her kits.

     "Got it!" The three kits said at the same time.

     Songbird nodded and her and her mate padded out. Songbird paused, then looked at the direction of Riverclan territory. She had grown up there, leaving after the chaos of the Clan and joined Skyclan. She found Leafclaw, and they had fallen in love quickly, and they soon had a family.

     "What is it?" Leafclaw asked the white queen.

     "Nothing... I just wonder how my family is doing." She sighed.

     "No worries, Songbird. They're fine." Leafclaw assured her. Songbird nodded and walked to the fresh kill pile and grabbed a fat vole. Leafclaw looked at her before grabbing a thrush and turning over towards a smokey grey tom approaching him.

     "Leafclaw, Thistlestar would like to see you." Dustpoppy told him.

     Leafclaw nodded and padded to the leader's den., while Dustpoppy turned to Songbird.

     "How are the kits?" He purred.

     "They're doing lovely," she replied, dropping the vole. "I'm heading back with the vole, would you like to visit them?" Songbird mewed.

     "Sorry, I can't... Daisyfeather is going to have her kits soon, and I have to treat Silvernight of White Cough..." Dustpoppy sighed.

     "Being a Medicine Cat must be hard... Having to care for all those cats..." Songbird sighed, twitching her tail.

     "It is... Especially when kits don't work with me." The Medicine Cat hissed.

     "Is there anything I can do?" Songbird said, a worried look in her eyes. Why is he acting this way?

     "I'll be fine. Just fine..." Dustpoppy growled, looking at the ground.

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     Echokit pricked her ears and lowered herself to the ground as cats began to sleep. Hollowkit flicked his tail saying that coast was clear and they darted through the emergency escape tunnel.
    
     Hollowkit took a deep breath, letting in the sweet scents of the pine trees enter his jaws.

     "Hollowkit lets run away together," echokit begged.

     "We can't, they'll find us," hollowkit sighed, lowering his head sadly. Echokit sighed as well and batted a leaf around dimmly.

"Mom doesn't like us, does she?" echokit asked.

     "No, but we have eachother!" Hollowkit purred bowling his sister over and chewing on her ear while purring. She cuffed his head and nipped his shoulder before shoving him off.

     "Well one day I'm going to run away," echokit sighed, slumping as she sat.

     "I'm going to try to get into another clan like Skyclan or Shadowclan." Hollowkit mewled proudly. "Then I'll become leader!"

     "I can't wait!" Echokit purred.