"Come on!" a dark tabby hissed.
"Slow down, Cloud," another she-cat said quietly. "You know I haven't been feeling well lately!" She padded forward to him, and licked his cheek.
"I'm sorry Tiger, I know you're expecting kits but I want to get to a safe place where we can rest and stay for the night," he started to pad forward a bit more slowly. "I think a cave would be a good place for you and the other she-cats to rest while me and the toms go and hunt."
Tiger nodded and started to look around for a safe place to rest, "There!" A little father away was an abandoned fox burrow, where her and the others could stay and build nests.
"Let's go!" another she-cat meowed excitedly.
Tiger started to bound towards the little den, as the others climbed in and started to get settled. Cloud and some of the other toms gathered into a hunting patrol and headed out of the den. Tiger started to build a nest, when all of a sudden the group's healer started to say something to her, "Your kits will be great cats one day, make sure you help them to make the right choices."
"O-Okay." She was deeply troubled by these words. What did the healer mean, help them make the right choices? Whatever it meant, she knew she would help her kits be the best cats they could be.
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When Cloud got back it was time to eat some fresh-kill. She told Cloud about what the healer had said, and he told her not to worry. The healer had also said that her kits would be part of a great prophecy, one that would change their lives forever. "Two will become one, Thunder and River, and they will save the forest." Tiger did not know what this meant and she was troubled by this also. Her kits would be great and there would be nothing that could stop them from doing what they had to do to save the rogues. But what did the prophecy mean, Two will become one? Did that mean that whatever Thunder and River were would have to work together? What would this mean for the rogues?
She padded over to the fresh-kill pile and picked up a plump rabbit. Two will become one, Thunder and River, and they will save the forest.
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Puddleshine's Choice
General FictionPuddle is a rogue who travels in a group with her mother, father, sister, and other cats who seem like family to her. Little does she know that before she was born, her mother was told a prophecy by the rogue group's healer. Soon they come across fo...
