{Chapter 1}

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August 24, mid leaf~fall
Featherkit padded along the sodden Dewclan camp after a well needed rainfall, enjoying the wet feeling underneath her paws. She happily bounded around, full of energy when her twin brothers Moonkit, and Ashenkit came bounding up to her, Ashenkit tackling her and wrestling with her in the dirt, completely smothering themselves in mud before Moonkit joined, and they all had to be broken up by their mother, Leafheart.
"Now, now you three...look at yourselves! You're all muddy!"
She mewed in amusement. Featherkit stood to her paws, and leaped into a puddle of rainwater left on the ground. She stood up from the puddle revealing her smokey-grey, white and tan tortoiseshell patterning in her short, fluffy fur. Her two littermates Following her, washing off the mud. As they stood, Ashenkit's light grey and white speckled pelt fluffed up after he gave his pelt a shake. And finally Moonkit stood and his long, deep black and grey-striped pelt dripping with water.
The three kits beamed up at their mother, proud of themselves for cleaning up, each looking at her. Featherkit, with her deep emerald eyes, Moonkit with his sky blue eyes, and finally Ashenkit, with his honey-amber eyes. Leafheart just let out an amused pur and turned back towards the centre of the camp, waving her tail beckoning her 3 kits to follow. The 4 cats split a rabbit given to them by their clan leader, Emberstar. A ginger and brown torbie she~cat with pale green eyes.
After every cat was finished eating, Emberstar joined every cat for a brief clan meeting. This is the first meeting that Featherkit and her littermates ever been to. The meeting included of some big news, first off, Snowpearl was expecting kits soon, and there are 4 kits becoming apprentices, Leafkit, Ivykit, Rootkit, and Flowerkit. But the last piece of news wasn't that good..Emberstar reported that a few clan members were getting strange scents of a sort of chemical..she requested that everyone keep an eye on the strange scent and report back to her if any changes in the scent occur. After the meeting was finished and the new apprentices were assigned their mentors, every cat retreated to their dens and slept for the night.
August 25th, 1:37am
Featherkit was jolted awake by her mother Leafheart carrying her and her brothers out of the den by the scruffs of their necks, running away from the den and across the Dewclan camp with the sounds of cats wailing in terror and pain. Leafheart sped up hearing fire roar from each side of them. Featherkit and her brothers looked around in horror, and saw nothing but pure CHAOS. Fire was everywhere, there were corpses of clan members, memories burning, and cats running frantically trying to escape. Leafheart was cut off by a shrub in front of them engulfing in flames, leading her left, further into the blazing bonfire that was once the peaceful camp of Dewclan. Leafheart's pelt got snagged on some hawthorn trees as she desperately tried to yank herself free, wincing each time she moved, feeling her fur being ripped off and Leafheart was free from the plant. The 4 cats were just about to reach the river, When Leafheart was hit by a burning tree that fell over, crushing her back legs, leaving her stuck, slowly burning.
"RUN!! ILL BE WITH YOU SHORTLY!! MOONKIT, TAKE CARE OF YOUR YOUNGER SIBLINGS! I LOVE YOU!!" Leafheart wailed as all 3 kits skidded in a group of three, hearing their mother's wails of pain..with teary eyes and broken hearts, the 3 kits ran..Featherkit couldn't take it anymore..their mothers yowls kept echoing in her head. Without thinking, she scampered off and squeezed in between a log pile made by twolegs. Moonkit and Ashenkit had to get her out of there, somehow. Ashenkit tried to get his sister out of the pile first before it was to be set ablaze by the growing fire literally inched behind them. Ashenkit padded to the far side of the log pile, trying to entice Featherkit out of there. Moonkit leaped up on top of the log pile to try and squeeze downward when the logs became loose under his paws and the logs began rolling downward, impacting Ashenkit and killing him instantly. The yowls of her older brother Moonkit, snapped Featherkit out of her transe of horror and she looked up as the logs rolled off the pile and exposed her to the sky, full of thick black smoke. A rogue piece of burning tree bark came flying down and hit Featherkit in her left eye, burning it and leaving her unable to see from that eye. She stood up from the weight of the impact and poked her head out from the woodpile to see the crushed body of Ashenkit and hear the pained yowls of Moonkit in the distance of the forest. Featherkit, with her entire family gone in one day, skidded off and ran through the blazing forest fire, over to the starledge. She padded over the starledge and leaped down into the river, cooling off her pelt and skin from the heat exposure and to rinse out her eye. After Featherkit re-emerged from the river, she stared at the forest where her once peaceful home of Dewclan, was being burned down to ashes... Featherkit trudged for what seemed like moons she got so tired and shaken up, she just flopped over, blacking out.

"Brakenstar!! It's a kit!"
"Is she alive?"
"She's breathing!! Get her to camp, now!!"

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⏰ Last updated: Apr 15, 2017 ⏰

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