Warriors: Second Strike: Book 4: Embers

Prologue

It was just turning night and the dark ginger female felt kicking and a sharp pain. She knew that was her kits wanting to come out. She winced and looked at the two fellow queens in the nursery with her. The ginger tabby looked at her with her eyes wide then quickly got up to go find the medicine cat. The dark ginger queen looked at her stomach for a moment. She knew her kits were coming and she may not survive it.

Soon the cream furred medicine cat came into the nursery. She settled herself with the kitting queen and gave her a stick to bite on for the pain. The two other queens left the nursery quickly to go get some more moss that they knew the new kits would need.

"Just give some pushes. Remember to breathe Flamefur. It's just two kits. We can make it through this." The medicine cat said as she looked at the other's belly blindly since she was blind. She put her paw on her belly to steady herself and frowned. They were big. It was going to hurt Flamefur a lot.

"Get them out of me, Creamspots. I trust you." The kitting queen said quietly and bit down on the stick. The blind medicine cat got ready and felt the first one coming.

"Thank you, just continue to pushing." She whispered to the queen and turned her head toward where some cats were gathered outside.

"I need some help in here with the kits. Swirlpool, come and tell me when the kit is here. Rainpaw, come and lick the kit until he or she meows and warm them up." She yowled to the group and heard the pawsteps coming her way. The two cats came.

"First one is coming. She's black." The soft voice of Swirlpool sounded. Once the kit was out he handed her to Rainpaw who quickly licked the kit until she meowed. Creamspots took the kit and placed her at her mother's stomach.

"Creamspots, she's bleeding a lot. What do we do?" Rainpaw's quivering voice asked. The medicine cat looked at the female who was kitting and sighed.

"Flamefur, keep pushing. I will make sure you live to see your kits." The cream furred shecat meowed and looked back toward the crowd. "Metalclaw, I know you know the medicine cat den well. Find some cobwebs and come back to me quickly. Also get a poppyseed." She said and focused back on the queen.

"Second kit is coming. Brown furred shecat." Swirlpool announced. There was anxiety in the air as the last kit came out. Flamefur was letting out too much blood.

"Metalclaw, name them after the two that looked after me. They will now continue to look after the clan as these kits." Flamefur purred in her last dying breaths. Her eyes fluttered close and her breathing stopped.

"She's dead..." Creamspots meowed as she looked at the female and put a paw on her chest. The female that had helped saved the clans from the first battle, had died giving birth to her two kits.

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Well that's a lovely way to start the book! I feel bad for killing her off but she needed to die.