Stoneflight padded out of camp.
She's waiting for me! Stoneflight's thoughts screamed. Get to her now! Stoneflight hurried as inconspicuously as he could. Once in the forest, he bounded off into the forest. Silverpool, his pregnant mate, was lying on the Sunningrocks.
"I'm kitting," she whimpered. "It hurts. Please, Stoneflight. Get a medicine cat." She was breathing heavily, and Stoneflight was panicking. Suddenly, Amberfleck pushed her way out in the open. Clamped in Amberfleck's jaws were herb used for kitting
"I thought I could find you two here," she murmured. Stoneflight looked at Amberfleck expectantly.
"Redwing?" Stoneflight asked.
"Kitting," she meowed. "You are lucky."
"Who's Redwing?" Silverpool asked.
"My other mate," replied Stoneflight. "I took a mate from ThunderClan to prove my loyalty, but you are still my mate." Silverpool smiled, then winced in pain.
"Eat these," Amberfleck meowed. Silverpool licked up the herbs.
"I can't watch," Stoneflight winced as Silverpool yowled in pain. He padded into the forest. When he came back, four kits were huddled against Silverpool's belly. Blood was everywhere.
"Something went wrong," Silverpool whispered. "We should name them."
"The silver tabby she-kit can be Silverkit," Stoneflight meowed softly.
"The gray tabby tom is Stonekit," Silverpool murmured. "And the silver tabby tom is Dewkit, in honor of my father."
"The gray tabby she-kit is Stormkit," Stoneflight mewed. Silverpool shuddered.
"I lost too much blood," she whispered softly. "I see them. My mother, Willowstream, is waiting for me." - Silverpool closed her eyes and spoke even softer - "Silverkit and Stonekit are coming with me. Goodbye my love. May we meet in StarClan." Silverpool took one shuddering breath, and then she left Stoneflight to hunt with StarClan.
"No!" Stoneflight yowled. He bowed his head.
"I want to give Dewkit to RiverClan," he meowed. "I want to keep Stormkit."
"Dewkit looks like Silverpool and Stormkit looks like you," Amberfleck murmured. Stoneflight nodded. Together, Stoneflight and Amberfleck buried Silverkit, Stonekit and Silverpool by the river. The ThunderClan cats left a message along with Dewkit at Sunningrocks and left, just as the RiverClan border patrol came by and picked up Dewkit.
I love you, Silverpool. I always will. I hope you will wait for me.
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Roaring Thunder: Rising Flames
FanfictionYoung Stormpaw and her littermates are the kits of Stoneflight and Redwing of ThunderClan, and all is normal, but when Stormpaw meets Dewpaw of RiverClan, everything changes for her: she is burdened with the knowledge that she is not who she thought...
