Post by Dragon on Oct 7, 2018 14:31:14 GMT
Ceder returned to the rogue camp with a rat and a shrew dangling from her mouth. She set the rat on the freshkill pile but took the shrew to her nest and laid down quickly eating the shrew in a couple of bites then curled up with her tail over her nose and drifted to sleep. As she slept she began to dream.
Longstep lay curled around her three newborn kits. She stared down at them happily and purred softly as they nursed. "Swiftfur what should we name them?"
Swiftfur lay at her side slowly grooming his mates fur. But as she asked him about names he stopped and turned to look at the kits. He pointed his tail to a light brown kit. "I was thinking Treekit for this one. Her fur fur is the same color as the bark of a beach tree."
Longstep purred softly and nodded in agreement. "I was thinking of Shadowkit for the tom for his pelt is such a light grey. And then for the other She-cat I was thinking of Honeykit."
Swiftfur nodded his head. "Those are perfect names for our kits."
A few days passed and Shadowkit and Honeykit both opened their eyes and began to get more and more curious but Treekit had yet to open her eyes. Whenever they asked their mom why Treekit wouldn't wake up and play with them yet she would just tell them that she wasn't ready yet. But finally on the fifth day Treekit opened her eyes and saw her family for the first time.
Treekit stood up on wobbly legs and stumbled forward into her brother Shadowkit waking him.
"Get off me," Shadowkit growled and shoved his sister off without realizing what he as doing for he wasn't awake yet. But when he opened his eyes and saw Treekit laying sprawled on the ground with a look of shock on her face he quickly apologized. "Sorry Treekit you surprised me that's all."
Treekit blinked and looked up at her brother. "S'okay." She mewed softly then got up and shook her fur out. "Want to go outside to play?" She looked around trying to find the exit to the nursery. She knew there was one just not where. Then she spotted it and headed towards it only to feel a paw clamp down on her tail.
"And where do you think you're going Treekit?" Her mother smiled down and purred as she saw her daughters eyes were finally open. "You've finally opened your eyes, I take it you want to go out and explore now?"
Hearing her mothers voice Honeykit woke up and jumped excitedly to her paws and ran over to her siblings. "Can we mom please?"
Treekit turned to her mom and gave her the biggest eyes she could. "Please mommy?"
"Ok but stay together and don't bother the warriors."
Treekit led the way and pushed her way out of the nursery....
Ceder felt someone poke her in the side. "Time to wake up your needed to scout clan territory." With that they turned and left leaving Ceder sitting there confused and thinking about the dream. Who were those cats Longstep, Swiftfur, Shadowkit, Honeykit and Treekit. She felt like she should know them. Sighing Ceder shrugged her dream off and got up and got to work. She took off leaving their home and headed for clan territory. As time went by Ceder found herself heading for Ivyclan her paws just led her there. She ran through the tree tops like a squirrel until she heard voices up ahead so she stopped and crouched low to the branch.
"Honeyfur nice catch"
Honeyfur? Like Honeykit but obviously a warrior name. Ceder peaked around the branch to try and get a look at the cat. She spotted two cats one was light grey the other was honey colored.
"Thanks Shadowstep" the honey colored she-cat purred as she picked up a rabbit from the ground.
Ceder gasped they were the kits from her dream but they were fully grown now. How was it possible for her to have dreamed of them? Was this Treekit with them? What was her warrior name now? She followed the two Ivyclan cats for a while but as the sun rose high in the sky they returned back to camp and she turned and headed back to the rouge camp. When she returned she told them she learned nothing new and didn't mention her dream or the two cats she had found while scouting. After a quick meal she headed out to go hunting returning as the sun set with a mouse and set it on the freshkill pile and returned to her nest where she groomed herself until she drifted to sleep.
"Treekit wake up come on lets go outside it's stopped snowing lets go out and play," Shadowkit nudged his sister once more then bounded out of the nursery.
Treekit groaned and stretched each limb before finally opening her eyes and following her brother. As she left the nursery the cold and the snow grabbed the breath from her at first after the nice warm nursery. Treekit gave her fur a shake then began to run through it laughing. She was a moon old now. An idea came into her head and Treekit scooped a pawful of snow and threw it at her brother hitting him right in the head. "Gotcha," she laughed and darted away as Shadowkit tossed snow at her as well. Before she knew it all three of them were having a big snow war. Treekit pounced on her brother and bushed his head into the snow so he got a face full then leaped off and laughed only to be knocked over by her sister as she tried to do the same thing to her. But she rolled over knocking Honeykit off. This continued until about sunhigh when their mom called them in to get warmed up. Tails and paws dragging they headed in. Treekit's jaws opened wide in a yawn as she curled up next to her mom and began to nurse.
"Did the three of you have fun?" Longstep asked softly.
"Mhm lots of it. We had a snow war." Treekit yawned again and began to fall asleep.
Ceder woke and stretched each limb before opening her eyes much like Treekit did. She smiled happily and wondered what Honeyfur and Shadowstep were going to be doing today. It was still early so Ceder headed out and decided to go back to Ivyclan before anyone woke up and told her to do anything. She ran as fast as she could pushing herself to run faster and faster. When she reached a tree nearest to their camp she crouched down and waited hoping they hadn't left already because it might be impossible to find them then. Then she spotted him Shadowstep as he left the warriors den and headed towards a group of cats. She couldn't hear what they were saying but she spotted him as he left the camp with a group of cats. Honeyfur wasn't with him though. She turned to look back to the camp her eyes looking all over for her. Finally she spotted her heading out of a den but it wasn't the den that Shadowstep had come from. She tilted her head and wondered if the she-cats had different dens from the toms. But then a kit leaped out of that den. The nursery, was Honeyfur pregnant? She looked again and could see the she-cats stomach did look a little round. She purred happily, she didn't know why but she felt a connection with her and was happy the she-cat was going to become a mother.
Ceder stayed and watched the camp until Shadowstep returned with his patrol. They were laden with prey squirrels, voles, mice and birds. She purred happily. She was so proud of him he had more prey then the others. Sighing Ceder knew she had to return so she turned and left the Ivyclan territory. Once out she did some tree hunting in Mistclan and managed to catch two squirrels and a bird before heading back to camp. She placed the bird and a squirrel on the freshkill pile then once more headed to her nest and ate her prey in private. But before she could go back to sleep to see if her dream would continue one of the cats from her group approached her.
"Where were you today Ceder? We were going to have to scout again today but you were gone before anyone was awake."
"Forgive me Owl, I thought I'd try and do some hunting in the clan territories. You know steal some prey from them. I caught two squirrels and a bird in Mistlcan." Ceder hoped that would please the tom.
Owl gave her a look then sighed and nodded before turning and heading out. "Next time wait to see if your needed." With that he left.
Ceder let out a sigh of relief and tried to relax by grooming herself. She was lucky that she didn't get into more trouble. She would be more careful in the future. Ceder yawned and curled up and fell asleep. Once more she began to dream.
It was the middle of the night and Longstep lay curled around her kits. All was quiet it had to bee after moonhigh and everyone was asleep except for the cat keeping guard at the entrance when a noise woke Treekit. She opened her eyes and looked around. Her mother and siblings were still asleep. The noise came again and curiosity got to her. Carefully she crawled out of the nest so as to not wake her family. She slowly padded towards the back of the nest and tilted her head. There it was again, then a paw reached through and her eyes grew big. Who was that? She turned to call to her mom but then she felt something grab her and she was whisked out of the nursery before she could alert her mom. The cat that grabbed her turned and ran off. She let out an alarmed cry but the cat hissed and gave her a shake.
"Do that again and you'll regret it kit." Treekit was scared but she wanted her mom so she opened her jaws and cried out as loud as she could. "MOMMY HEL.." Before Treekit could finish the word the cat dropped her and swiped their paw against her head knocking her out before picking her up and continuing to run again. But the cry had woken Ivyclan cats up and the rogue knew that they had to get out of there. Looking around he climbed a tree and began to clumsily run through the trees climbing down only once he had finally left the clans territory. The kit didn't wake up for the entire trip. When he got back to the camp for the rouge group he headed to a she-cats den who had recently lost her kits. "I have a gift for you Lily."
The queen looked up and brightened when she saw a kit. She quickly began to lick the clan scent off of her and curled herself around the kit so that when she woke up the only scent would be her own.
The next morning Treekit woke up. "Where am I? Where's Longstep and Shadowkit and Honeykit and my daddy Swiftfur. Where is my family. I want to go home." She began to cry.
Lily gave the kit a lick, "Darling you are home. I'm your mother don't you know that? Oh dear that fall must have been worse then we thought." Lily began to cry though not for real. Forcing tears to come to her eyes. "My own kit doesn't know me."
Treekit blinked at her confused. "But my mommy is Longstep...." What was going on this was so confusing.
"No Ceder I'm your mother, my name is Lily not Longstep. Curse those clan cats first they kill my mate and now my only surviving kit thinks they belong to a clan." She began to cry even harder.
"I'm sorry... mommy forgive me don't cry." Ceder? But wasn't her name Treekit? Or was it really Ceder and that everything had been a dream caused by the injury from her fall? Her head did really hurt.
Lily smiled with watery eyes. "Yes darling I'm your mommy, everything was just a dream that needs to be forgotten." She gave Ceder a lick and began to purr.
Ceders eyes flew open and she gasped. Treekit was her, she was Shadowstep and Honeyfur's sibling. She belonged to Ivyclan. She leaped out of her nest and fled the camp in search of the one person she felt she could trust. Paper Towel the tom she had met in an alley. He would know what she should do.