(Warrior Cats)SmokeTrail's fire

Chapter 16- Again

"Freckleface"
"Vixenpaw"
"Wildkit!"
"Adderstar"
"Splitstar"
"Sakurabloom"
"Hopekit! Emberkit!Splitkit"
"Aceclaw! Roughfang! Silentnose!"
"Iceglare! Sunsetstreak!"
"Redtail!"
The names flew from my mouth so fast it was a blur of words as the memories flooded my mind.

A reddish colored she-cat looked up at me with wide watery eyes. "Smoketrail, I'm glad you came. This is vixenkit." She meowed, gently nudging a tiny reddish brown kit with her nose.

A beautiful queen with charred fur watched me carefully. "Take frecklekit and go!"

I saw nothing but darkness, but heard shuffling and cries around me. Then the voice of what seemed to be another angry she-cat. "Adderstar! You promised you would give them to us!" The angry cat hissed. "Can I at least say goodbye? Please? They're my kits...."

"This is what you get!" The voice of my first born rang in my head as well as the accompanying screams of my lastborn kit.
"IM SORRY!"

"Well that's sad...,"the abrupt mew of kit iceglare sounded from behind me.

"I look strange...I am strange...why can't I be normal?" The doubtful mew of my first-to-die kit came from the small chimera kit in front of me.

" My name is Splitscar. I'm the new deputy. Hollowtail's death is a shame...She lied to us about her health with all that reckless fighting she did." The calm kind voice of the leader sounding.

"Not funny sis!" The body of my younger littermate squirmed beneath me. My quiet little brother nodded in agreement to the other. I giggled "oh come on, roughkit Toughen up!"

"What happened?" The beautiful black and white medicine cat asked, cocking her head.  "Sakurabloom...I hurt my leg....." I whimpered. "Oh smokepaw..."

I found myself gently eyeing a fire-pelted tom with a burn on one side of his face, talking up frecklepaw, his eyes glimmering with charm. "Take care of her, Redpaw!" I called playfully.

A messy-furred kit stared up into my eyes "play!" She sqeaked. "Wildkit it's time for your nap!" Aceclaw called, and the small kit returned to her mother, curling up and falling asleep as her mother hummed her a soft tune.

I looked up and around, gawking at the sight of the four large trees surrounding the clearing and the leaders sitting atop the great rock. Suddenly something taps me lightly on my shoulder and I turn around to look.
"Smoketrail, this is my little sister, sunsetstreak. She's actually from another clan." Goldeneyes meowed, and I found myself staring down into round amber-gold eyes that belonged to a she-cat not much older than an apprentice.

Then finally two familiar voices hit my mind.

I snuck around to the apprentice den, peeking in, and caught my older brothers in a dark conversation. "My mate is dead, ruffledpaw, I have nothing else to be here for!"
"Stop being so insensitive, Twitchpaw! What about smokepaw?" Ruffledpaw hissed back.
"She's going to die, that's What!"

My eyes flew open, and I was surrounded. One side darkness, one side light, but where I stood was nothing but air.
"Smoketrail." I jumped and looked to my light side.

" The fire will burn higher and the smoke will rise and Reach the top as the water attempts to put it out for good. And when the smoke finally ceases to rise, the embers of its fire will live on." Meowed a strange white she-cat with Crystal eyes.

"Fire? What Fire?" I asked frantically, but light flashed in my eyes and I was back. But by now I was no longer in pain.

Goldeneyes licked me on the head. "I'm so sorry we couldn't save them..." he murmured, licking my cheek affectionately.

Even though I should have been upset about the loss of my kits I felt too much confusion. Fire? The words of the she-cat spin in my head making a shiver run down my spine but instead I shook out my fur.

Suddenly, my mind returns to thinking about kits and I ask "How's freckleface doing? She must have been upset about her kit's sudden death..."

"I'm doing fine. I've been thinking about his death alot. He was my first kit of my first litter. My other kits had died after a few hours of birth." Came freckleface's voice from outside the den.

I smiled. "Oh that's what happened...but for the record, how old is wildkit and rascalkit?" I asked.

"Hm? You haven't met rascalkit yet. "

"Yes I have! I was there at his birth! " I snapped fiercely.

She didn't respond for a moment but then meowed "I know. " before leaving the den "three moons. "She added as she dissapeared from view.

"You-" started my mate but I cut him off first. "I remember now. I remember almost everything,  but one thing still is shaking me..."

Goldeneyes cocked his head curiously "What is It?"

"Adderstar is my mother?"

Goldeneyes laughed gently, his voice slightly broken with tears. "Well yes..I was a bit shocked about that too. I mean, after that gathering where you came to shadowclan I would have never guessed." 

I blinked a bit, still not believing it myself.

"Sorry." Adderstar meowed as she walked in as if knowing that we were talking about her.

A small ginger kit padded beneath her.

"She's been following me all day, I'm so confused!" She meowed, laughing nervously. The kit mewed.

"Oh yeah, she doesn't have any parents..." I muttered.

Adderstar flicked her ear.

"Her mother died after giving birth to her. Her father became mates with splitstar, then killed himself after their daughter and her mate committed suicide."

"Would you...mind if...if I kept her?" Adderstar asked quietly.

I looked up at her, surprised. "You're not afraid of not getting to watch her-"

"No I just...I just want to feel like a mother again. That's all...after I had to give you away, nothing could really fill that void of no longer having my kits with me. Even though I could see you when I wanted, Dawntail stopped letting me, and sooner or later, you were tossed from her life like nothing more than crowfood, and there was nothing I could do becuase- because, well I wasn't your mother anymore...."

I sighed. "then why?"

"why...? Why what..?"

"why did you give me up to her...? Why would you give me up to a cat like her? Didn't you know what she was capable of?" I meowed, beginning to raise my voice without really noticing it.

"I..I didn't know....back then she was so agressive towards me, and she threatened my position as leader, but at least...at least she's dead now, and I can finally have my kits back. I promise never to leave you again..."

"wait, she's-" I glanced at her paws, stained with scarlet blood.

"you....." 

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