(Warrior Cats)SmokeTrail's fire

Chapter 11- Cold And Hungry With Kits On The Way

Smoketrail

I don't know if I can say that we were kicked out, exiled, sent away, temporarily banned, I don't know, but we were definitely not in a good place.

Splitstar made us leave so that more food could be available.

Even in leaf-bare I wouldn't normally see too much problem except for one thing...

We had a queen with us.

Freckleface was definitely not too far from her due date. The snow was bad and there was no way that she could make it much farther before she couldn't go on anymore.

She was already limping, and endlessly whimpering and whining. She was starving and in a lot of pain. She would complain how it seemed like she could feel each kit slowly dying.

Goldeneyes had a strong worry that she wouldn't make it.

"Please..." she begged and we stopped to look back at her. She was shivering madly until she finally collapsed in the Snow.

"We have to stop here. There's nothing we can do. " Aceclaw hissed.

I nodded "brothers."

Silentnose and Roughfang stood at attention.

"I need to you guys and Aceclaw to scavenge. We need whatever we can get to build a den. Hunt whatever you can find. Go now. We can't wait much longer." I snapped.

The three younger warriors scattered.

I looked back to freckleface.

Her mostly white face was flushed red, and she was breathing very heavily.

I looked up at vixenpaw "What's wrong with her? Do you know?"

Vixen nodded "she's exausted, starving, sore...smoketrail...I don't think she'll make it through this....She has the same sickness that Angelwing did....We have to do something or else we'll lose her..."

I nodded an looked at goldeneyes "Baby, try to clear some snow. My paws feel numb..." I meowed softly.

Goldeneyes nodded. He was used to freezing pads, so he didn't mind that much and began to clear the snow from around us.

"I can't go on like this..." freckleface whimpered.

"No way in the darkforest can we let her die! Redtail-!"

I freeze before looking back to where goldeneyes had been standing, however he was now near a bush. I gasped softly, quickly glancing around the mostly empty space around me.

"You couldn'do it, huh?"

"S-shut up." Goldeneyes hissed, but I could even hear the flusterdness in his voice.

This made freckleface giggle in a slightly raspy voice.

Vixenpaw smiled "don't worry, freckleface...the others will be back soon, and we'll get you nice and warm, hopefully with some fresh food and water, alright? Just hang in there."

....

My brothers and Aceclaw took a long time. As soon as they got close, silentnose collapsed to the ground, Scarlett blood staining the white snow.

Roughfang drug him over to me "he accidently touched Aceclaw in the wrong way and she clawed his face, chest, belly, and....uhm..."

I got the hint and nodded.

I looked at Aceclaw who was quietly tearing up. I was about to open my mouth when Redtail covered my mouth with his paw and whispered in my ear "she's sensitive...besides...." he trailed off

I flinched as if someone had scared me again.

She couldn't be like this now of All times.

"You're kidding right...?" I murmured nervously.

He uncovered my mouth and shook his head "she's acting strange." He pointed out.

He explained to me what he meant.

She waved her tail high in the air, as well as rubbing up against things, including the young Toms.

She brushed her tail under Roughfang's nose and he bit her tail making her shriek.

From both sides a tom tackled him, silentnose on one, redtail on the other, Goldeneyes from behind.
I glanced at Vixenpaw "they'll rip each other to shreds. I'll let 'em. We can't deal with her being a queen...."

Vixenpaw nodded "she's old enough, and very tough for a petite cat like herself, but with her leg all messed up, she might hurt herself even more."

"But..."

The fur on my neck stood.

"We're too late."

I shrieked in surprise and spun around. She was right.

Roughfang had Aceclaw pinned, her scruff trapped between his jaws, the three other Tom's defeated, groaning in pain. He hadn't hurt them too bad, but he definitely showed them what for.

They took the walk of shame back to us.

I gave all three a cuff on the ear.

"Control yourselves!" I hissed at red and golden.

Their ears pinned to their heads.

"Sorry...I couldn't help it..."

Redtail whimpered to accompany goldeneyes' shameful mew.

Even freckleface had the energy to scoff at her mate.

After a while of fighting I heard ace and rough drop into the snow.

Ace locked eyes with me, that same shameful look on her face.

Roughfang on the other hand was panting like a twoleg dog, having been unable to control himself either, he had yet to come back to his senses.

"Looks like we'll have another queen to feed..!" Redtail snapped, bringing Roughfang back to reality.

He lacked the energy to stand and confront the tom.

"You idiots just had to go on and do it didn't you?! Do you know what you've done?! You've just made our lives harder! Queens eat more than three of us alone!"

Roughfang finally stood and came nose to nose with Redtail and they began to fall out and argue. Then it got physical, as the two began to bite scratch and tumble.

Aceclaw burst into tears, as did freckleface as their mates fought each other.

In the end....it didn't turn out well.

Roughfang stood over Redtail, his claws piercing his neck.

"Roughfang that's enough, we can't risk it! We can't let you kill Him!"

The words seemed to ring in the sudden silence.

Roughfang's legs gave out and he fell too.

Vixenpaw gasped.

Rough was bleeding from his lower body, a large slash diagonally across his body, and he was losing blood fast.

Redtail was badly hurt, but rather than bleeding he was knocked out from a hit to his head.

Vixenpaw was speechless.

She rushed around everywhere. It took long for her to stop the bleeding.

He was dying. I now realized that.