Silentsong's Cry

Prologue

                Softhollow raced into the forest, her mate, Sunleap at her side. She wanted to get some fresh air before she went back to the nursery, waiting for her kits to be born. Her soft belly was swollen with kits.

               "I win!" Softhollow teased as she reached the pond in the forest first, she layed down from exausten.

               "Mhhmm," Sunleap hummed and he layed down next to her. His orange ears twitched and he got into a hunting crouch.

        Sunleap slowly walked toward a bush on the side of the clearing and leaped into the bush. It was a thorn bush. Sunleap crawled out of the thorn bush with a vole in his mouth. He limped over to his mate and set down the vole.

          "For you," Sunleap laughed nervously, he sat down and started to pull out thorns out of his bright pelt.

          "Thank you Sunleap," Softhollow sighed, and helped him get the thorns out, "Mouse-brain."

          "Well," Sunleap started to argue, but Softhollow just put her tail on his mouth.

          "Shut up fur ball," Softhollow teased and ate half of the vole. She nudged the rest of the vole to her mate, "Eat up, then we are getting you to Creampond."

            Sunleap  happily obliged. He chomped up the rest of the vole and they started their way to the camp. It was a trip of silence, they  twined tails and the mates walked together. When they reached camp, Softhollow led Sunleap to the medicine cat den.

          "Creampond?" Softhollow called into the den to make sure either medicine cat was there, "Patchpaw?"

          "Creampond is collecting catmint," Patchpaw simply said as he pushed through the vines that covered the entrance to the den, "What do you need?"

          "Sunleap here," Softhollow smirked, "Decided to go and jump into a thorn bush."

          "Okay, come on in Sunleap," Patchpaw replied, and led Sunleap into the den.

     Softhollow dipped her head and turned to walk to the nursery. At about half way to the nursery, her front legs collapsed and she withered in pain. She fell to the ground and released a yowl. Cats gathered around her, asking if she was okay.

          "Do I look okay!" Softhollow snapped and let out another yowl as she convulsed.

           "Treepaw!" Greenflower ordered, "Go get Creampond, she should be by the training clearing,"

     Treepaw raced out of camp to get the older medicine cat. As Softhollow yowled again, Patchpaw and Sunleap rushed out of the den. A bright orange blur knocked down a few cats as Sunleap raced over to his mate.

          "Whats wrong?" Sunleap asked, licking his mate.

          "The...kits....coming!" Softhollow said between breaths and convulsed again letting out a screech. Creampond rushed into camp and ran over to Softhollow.

          "Get her into the nursery!" Creampond ordered and Sunleap dragged his mate into the nursery, "Sunleap stay out here,"

     Sunleap paced outside of the den. Brightflower, the other queen, tried to calm him down. Her small kits were only a moon old and were sleeping at her paws. Softhollow released a loud yowl from inside the den. Sunleap's pelt puffed out.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter! I know, Im leaving you with a cliffhanger. Please forgive me

-Nyx