How Misty's Kits Were Born

[Willowishness]

A little white she-cat rushed along beside a tabby and white queen, both of them trying to outrun the cats following her. They were Rogues, and that was all she knew.
SnowBlossom and MistyFlower were trying to reach camp before the rogues reached them. What in the world were Rogues doing on CelestialClan territory anyways?!
SnowBlossom felt her own breath becoming shallower and shallower she glanced side-ways and saw that MistyFlower looked about to stop and give up. MistyFlower was pregnant with kits, and she and SnowBlossom had just been getting out of camp for fresh air because MistyFlower would soon be suck in camp, unable to.
She risked a glance backwards and saw that the Rogues were only a single fox-length away: three of them, big flea-bitten creatures that smelled of twoleg alleys and carrion.
SnowBlossom yelped as one snapped at her heels. She looked up just in time to see that she and MistyFlower were going to run head-first into the foot of the ice plateau her clan lived on top of. She skidded to a halt, the three cats crashing into her and MistyFlower. She unsheathed her flimsy white claws and slashed at the thing nearest to her. It slashed back. She squirmed out of the pile of snow and other cats and yowled a challenge, knowing this would likely be her death. She scented the air; no other cats appeared to be around near enough to help her and MistyFlower.
Then suddenly her cousin Mayhem was there. He had probably been out, hunting alone. He tackled one of the rogues and flashed his claws down it's sides. It took off running, shocked. The other two rogues advanced on the cream and gray tom.
SnowBlossom knew how useless she was at fighting. She tried to stay away from battles and she had learned virtually nothing in her apprentice battle training. On a whim, she leaped at one of the two Rogues and decided it would be better to die trying to help Mayhem than to die after they killed him.

"What are you doing?!" Mayhem's outraged voice reached her ears,
"We'll all die if you stay here! Run, you idiot!" It took SnowBlossom a moment to figure out that he was yelling at MistyFlower, who had been about to try to fight too.

The pregnant queen scrambled up the slope on Mayhem's orders, glancing backwards with flattened ears.

"I hope she has the sense to get us help," Mayhem commented.

SnowBlossom wondered at his words, then noticed that the third Rogue who had run away before was coming back, two more battle-ready Rogues at his sides.
The white she-cat cringed; how were they supposed to survive when it was two against five and MistyFlower was too tired to run the whole way to get help? But she knew they could leave because then the Rogues would keep running up the slope to catch and kill MistyFlower and her unborn kits.
She searched out Mayhem's brilliant blue eyes and saw her same dismay reflected in his eyes. They were going to die, and he knew it too.
"You can run," He whispered, too quietly for the advancing Rogues to hear,
"It's a waste of life for us both to die here."

SnowBlossom nodded, about to run, then froze.
"I cant just leave you here. That would be... unfair."

"Unfair?" His voice rose an octave in disbelief,
"Just run."

"I'd rather go to StarClan early, proud of what I've done, than go to them an old she-cat, half crazy with guilt."

"Whatever. Have it your way, then." Mayhem muttered, unsheathing his claws, as the Rogues closed in.



= 3 hours later =


EbonyChains was leading a patrol of four cats(anyone can role play the other three) when he stumbled across MistyFlower's scent and the scent of kits.
"MistyFlower?" He asked, stepping into the warm cave where her scent was strongest. There were five kittens beside her.
"Where is SnowBlossom? Did you ask her to go get help when you began kitting?" He asked in bewilderment. MistyFlower never left camp these days without SnowBlossom. He put together in his mind that she must have started kitting outside of camp, but that didnt solve the question of where SnowBlossom was.
"Did you two split up?" He asked when she didnt answer. Then he noticed the pallor under her fur.
"Are you... okay? Mom?"

"She and Mayhem are at the bottom of the plateau with the Rogues." MistyFlower finally answered.

EbonyChains paused for a moment, confused.
"Will you be okay here alone?"

"I managed it for the other three hours, didnt I?" MistyFlower snapped.

EbonyChains quickly backed out of the little cave.
"MistyFlower thinks there are Rogues at the bottom of the plateau," He explained to the patrol,
"Let's go check it out." The patrol bounded down the slope to see the bloodied bodies of two nearly unrecognizable cats.
EbonyChains slowly padded forward to recognize SnowBlossom and Mayhem; both were dead. He felt disbelief drag at his fur. Both these cats were good friends of his. They were his cousins, children of his uncle, AzureSky. He felt shock crash over him,
"We need to get their bodies back to camp for vigil." He meowed through clenched teeth.
"The Rogues will pay for this."


((Just informing u all of the deaths of Mayhem and SnowBlossom.))

[ellegantillusion]

FloraFur was on patrol along with Vengeancepaw. She looked at her mom with,her eyes huge as moons. "Mom..." She meowed then caught herself. She pushed her way up beside her brother, EbonyChains. Her eyes narrowed, "These rouges...They'll pay." She hissed, her claws dug into the icy ground.

Vengeancepaw almost yelped, Snowblossom had been his mentor! Rouges had done this...he was a rouge... This wasn't right.

He trotted up to Snowblossom, his gaze simpethetic, "I'm so sorry Snowblossom...for everything..." He whispered, the others not hearing what he was saying.

[Willowishness]

"I cant recognize the Rogue-scent." EbonyChains commented,
"They must have been from a small group, definitely not the Cavern Rogues or Alley Rogues. Why would they even come here? It just doesnt add up... what type of Rogues would want to live on a snowed-in plateau anyways?" His eyes flicked across his fallen kin,
"Maybe they didnt want to live here. Maybe they were just here to scare us?" He paced; none of it made sense. He resolved to ask SongStar if he could leave the clan tomorrow in search of his uncle AzureSky. AzureSky would probably know what the Rogues' motives were.

[~*Snowy*~]

((Uhhh... they have apprentices... Oh well.))

[ellegantillusion]

FloraFur looked at her half brother, "EbonyChains, I want to help. I want to do anything in my power that will help you, our clan, and you mother." She meowed.

Vengeancepaw moved away from Snowblossom, to his father. "Mayhem." He meowed, "Even though I hated you for what you've done to our family...I still...I will miss you." He licked his fathers cheek.

[~*Demon*~]

HarmonyGalaxy screamed as she saw Mayhem's body "No... no no no no... No.." she blinked tears in her eyes and held back the sobs

[Willowishness]

"Calm down," EbonyChains meowed, lying his tail across HarmonyGalaxy's shaking shoulders.
"And I might just take you up on your offer, FloraFur." he meowed, glancing back to meet his half-sister's eyes.

[~*Demon*~]

HarmonyGalaxy looked at EbonyChains with an almost angry hateful look "Calm down??? calm down!" she snarled for once the peaceable sweet creature looked angry... o-m-g... this was truly frightening "You expect me to calm down when all the people I have loved just keep dying?! I wouldn't be surprised in ninety percent of my family was dead by now!!!" she spat "First PlutoFrost, second Mayhem???" she glare at him her golden eyes narrowing her nonexistent claws stretching into the snow and retracting in her mind "Both of the fathers of my kits are dead!" she spat

[ellegantillusion]

FloraFur nodded, her eyes shinned with determination. "Anything."

[Willowishness]

EbonyChains sighed in agitation. Didnt the silly she-cat know that Mayhem's death was hard on all of the cats present? Did she have to go crazy about it and make it worse for everyone else??
"FloraFur, come with me to the Rogues tomorrow. I need to find a friend of mine and ask him a few questions."

[ellegantillusion]

FloraFur nodded. She glanced at her two dead kin. "Let's get them to camp." She meowed, and walked over towards Mayhem. "You were very brave." She whispered, she grabbed him by his scruff and heaved him towards camp.

Vengeancepaw watched as his father was being drug away, his gaze rested on Snowblossom. How could they think of killing her? He thought with fury. He nosed her fur, "I'll need help bringing her to camp." He meowed softly.

[Willowishness]

EbonyChains picked up SnowBlossom's scruff and began dragging her up the slope.
He shuddered with agony of the loss. Dear SnowBlossom had been a sort of emotional replacement of his sweet little white-pelted sister, IvoryPaw, who had died a very long time ago.
Loosing her now was like loosing a second sister.

[ellegantillusion]

Moonrock poked her head out of the nursery.
Oh no!
"EbonyChains..." She whispered, and looked down at young Snowblossom. She licked the dead cats face then licked her mates. "Do you know what happened?" She asked softly, her eyes deepened.

Florafur placed Mayhem in the center of camp. She licked his cheek once more, "Mom." She meowed, then helped her carry her new born kits. FloraFur's thick tail was placed gently on Mistyflowr's shoulder.

[Willowishness]

MistyFlower's eyes focused on the dead cats, then unfocused again, eyes still on her fallen niece and nephew. She shuddered and picked up one of her kits. AzureSky was her much loved brother. His kits may as well have been her own. It was only adding insult to injury that they had died saving her.

"Rogues," The black-pelted deputy meowed, grimacing sourly.
"I dont know what they were doing here..."

[ellegantillusion]

Moonrock nodded. "Rouges." She bit back a hiss of out rage. She moved to Mayhem, she put her tail lighting on his unmoving pelt. "Oh Mayhem, my dear Mayhem." She spoke very softly. She just starred down at him, her round moon like eyes not moving off of his body.

FloraFur picked up the other kits and placed them gently beside Mistyflower. "Mom, can I do anything for you? Anything at all?" Her eyes looked pleading.

((Do you want to make the post aobut Ebony and Flora heading up to the rouges?))

[Willowishness]

((Go ahead.))


"No, darling. I'll be fine once I get back to camp and settle into the nursery..." The look in her wide innocent brown eyes was sorrowful. She just needed to be left alone for now.

[ellegantillusion]

She dipped her head. "Call if you want to talk." She meowed, "Do you want me to get AutumnLeaf? Or should I tel him to give you some peace?"

[~*Snowy*~]

WeedKit walked around playfully.