Silverkit and Foxkit played together in the nursery for what seemed like hours, one minute they where wrestling, the next Silverkit was blowing a feather around while Foxkit begged her mother to let her out of the nursery.
The kits stayed up together until midnight chatting together about a variety of things, until the other queens scolded them to go to sleep, causing them to giggle even more at the queen's outburst.
One night, Foxkit and Silverkit where playing in the nursery when they noticed something was off, Barrytail had left the den with another pale queen named Blossemfur.
The kits looked at each other confused, Barrytail never left her kits during nightfall.
They scattered to the exit of the den, stopping just so they could take a peek into the camp.
"I saw her go over there with Blossemfur, is that Ambertail's den?" Asked Silverkit. Foxkit shrugged.
"I think so, she is the medicine cat after all, if Blossemfur's kits were coming they'd go to her." She stated. "Maybe somethings going wrong, we should go check on them, for instance reasons of course."
Silverkit nods and follows Foxkit outside nervously, what if they got caught? Instance reasons of course! Foxkits words rang inside her mind. The worse thing to happen to them if they did get caught a warrior would shout at them, and at this point, the two could care less.
They look around amazed, the camp had their own waterfall! Since the camp was inside a gorge; rocks covered the sides, there was no trees, but a rock staircase leading up to the forest.
"I wonder if Mistclan is the most biggest clan in the forest!" Silverkit squeaks.
"Nah I heard from Hawkpaw Pineclan was huge!" Giggled Foxkit as they made their way to the medicine cat's den.
"I doubt that, Hawkpaw is such a lair! Look at that den over there! It's humongous!" Says Silverkit gesturing towards a den made out of a fallen tree and rocks.
"That's the warriors den, Berrytail used to live there before she has us!" Foxkit mews. "Hawkpaw says he'll be living there soon, right now he lives over there along with the other apprentices."
Foxkit showed her sister a semi-big den, which was basically just a cave inside the walls of the gorge. Inside they saw the brown pelt of Hawkpaw who appeared to be sleeping with another sandy pale apprentice named Autumnpaw.
"Look! Berrytail!" Silverkit said excitedly. Foxkit covered her mouth with her paw quickly.
"Shh! They look like their dealing with something serious!" Foxkit scolds. They sit outside the medicine cats den just enough to see what's happening inside. Berrytail sat next to the moaning queen; Blossemfur as her mate Leaffang talked with the medicine cat Ambertail.
"What do to you mean you think the kits aren't gonna survive?" Leaffang gasps.
Ambertail sighs, "She's going into labor to early, the kits are supposed to be due in another moon!"
"So! A moon doesn't matter at all! Why don't you do your responsibilities and save her before she ends up like the kits!" Leaffang shouts.
Foxkit and Silverkit flinch at Leaffang's words. The black stripped tom looked over to them and snickered.
"Berrytail looks like we have some uninvited visitors."
Berrytail looks up from the weeping queen and makes eye contact with Foxkit and Silverkit.
"Berrytail, they can help us out with this, just tell them to help with the herbs or something." Mutters Ambertail while gathering poppy seeds to feed to Blossemfur.
"I don't want some stupid kits to make the problem even worse, tell them to leave before I-"
"Before you what Leaffang?" Berrytail growls. "You will do nothing to harm my kits, they will leave as you wish, but do know they can help make this go much faster for Blossemfur." Growls Berrytail. Leaffang clears out his voice nervously.
"Very well, they may stay and help." Silverkit and Foxkit quickly scattered into the den Silverkit went over to Berrytail while Foxkit helped Ambertail with the Herbs.
"Take this to Blossemfur, make sure you don't inhale that." Ambertail tells Foxkit. She nods and carefully brings the herb over to Blossemfur.
"Here, eat this." She says.
"Thank you." Blossemfur mutters carefully taking the herbs and chewing slowly.
"Berrytail will she be ok?" Asks Silverkit.
Berrytail doesn't answer, instead she mummers words of comfort to the queen.
"There coming!" Mews Blossemfur. "Ambertail!"
"I'm coming!" Ambertail raced over to Blossemfur as she wept. Berrytail took a few steps back along with her two kits.
"You need to push Blossemfur! Push!" Yowls of pain coming from Blossemfur could be heard from miles away. But she didn't care, the pain was so much that she could possibly forget her own name.
The labor was long and painful, mewing kits laid against the exhausted queen. Ambertail exams the kits one by one, there's 4 kits, 2 females and 2 males. One of the females had a beautiful white pelt, Leaffang decided to call her snowkit in honor of her snowy fur. The other females was a darker shade of grey with white paws, Blossemfur named her Swankit. The two toms looked exactly the same. They had streaks of orange strips along with white muzzles and sandy pelts like Leaffang's. The only difference? One was much weaker than the other, struggling to breathe.
"This ones not gonna make it." Ambertail quietly says. Leaffang bows his head.
"I shall name him Flamekit in honor of my father, who passed away a moon ago, for he shall see him in starclan." With tears in his eyes, he looks up and mews, "My dearest father Ashstripe, please look after our kit in Starclan." He looks back down only to watch his son slowly pass. Blossemfur nuzzles her surviving kits.
"I will name this one Redkit."
"Why?"'asks Ambertail.
"You see, the red is apart of flames, Flamekit will always be apart of Redkit."
