New born kittens but death along with it

[whitetiger]

Ivorystorm yowled in pain, she was losing too much blood. Three kits already beside her. Two females and one male, but it wasent over just yet. Ivorystorm wailed in agony and pain.

A Hour later there was two females and two males huddled beside their mother, but was she alive?

The answer was...not known.She was limp but there was still some life left in her, but would she survive?

Rose ran into the nursery and screeched with sadness as she saw ivorystorms limp body. She began to yell for help desperatly."HELP!!!PLEASE HELP!!!SOMEONE PLEASE!!!"

Ivorystorms eyes open just a bit."Rose..."She whispered because of the lack of strength she had left.

Rose ran to her mentors side."Ivorystorm...hang on...hang on please..I can't loose you...I don't think I can make it without you and my mother, and my aunt.Please, You can't...You can't leave me ivorystorm."

Ivorystorm smiled."I'am...sorry...rose..but it is my time..."Ivorystorm quinched her eyes in pain."Please..Rose Name the kits for me...I'am sure you will choose the right names."Ivorystorm closed her eyes.

Rose yowled."No ivorystorm....you can't..please you can make it..just hang on..."

Ivorystorm opened her eyes once more."Tell my brothergood-bye for me......Then I need you to go to angel and your other brother......in rageclan..and tell them what....has happened..."Ivorystorm voice was becoming even more faint."Please....Watch over my kits has I have....with you and your family....Please.....they need a mother.....good...."Ivorystorm gasped and then what life was left in her died away and her eyes closed completly and forever.


Rose cried there as she yowled for help. She couldn't believe it, ivorystorm dead? Why?Why did this happen?Rose stayed there deside the kits and their mother, crying never moving surrounded by blood. Her thoguht streaming away slowly, the only remaining thought was...where was the father in this difficult time?

[dove]

OOC: Where is she?

[Fallentear ||]

ooc- I'm guessing Blazeclan camp, since it was posted under that category?

bic- Death bounded to the center of camp. He hadn't been sleeping in a den yet, having not been made into an apprentice. So he was instantly awake, and by the side of both cats. As Ivorystorm passed on, an unreadable emotion passed through his eyes. His face grew stony, as he turned to look at the kits. "Life without a mother is terrible. I hope these kits learn to cope." He glanced at Ivorystorm once more, his face not changing at all, and then back to Rose. "Should we get them to Thrushtalon? They need nourishment, even if it's herbal, if we can't find them a surrogate mother, and fast."

Sin opened a yellow green eye from where she lay, her head resting on her paws. She didn't even bother to get up, merely closing her eye again. She'd seen enough death in her time to be used to it. She figured that when vigils came, she would be notified, and so could just let Death handle the matter with Rose presently.

[whitetiger]

Rose hissed."Do not suggest anything to me. There is only oone who can take care of these kits. That is my sister angel of rageclan. She should have had her kits by now or I will go to firefly or.......most likely Icystrikes......daughters." Rose looked at death."Oh thats right, you don't know the story, anyway why do you care what happens to these kits?"

Firefly walked into the nursery."Rose....name the kits so we can leave already. I will take care of them, it's the only way. We shoul dnot ask icystrikes daughters for help, they are going through some.....things right now. Death...you know that even if these kits have no mother...they can become strong. Just like those three sisters, I believe their names were Nesa, kristy, and paula. They've become strong."

Rose grinned."Your using twilightstrike for information, again?Your to close to fernclan."

Firefly grinned."Well lets bury ivorystorms body and death hows it like being a clan cat instead of a.....R.."

Rose cut off firefly."Firefly!!! We have no time for that, lets hurry up and get out of blazeclan. Theres nothing left for us to do here. Ivorystorms brother...can handle blazeclan. Lets move on to the next clan and make peace there. First we wil carry out ivorystorms dieing orders, she will always be our mentor and we will do as she says. Death tell blazeclan that were leaving for good, I bet that so called friend of ivorystorms will make an annoucement. Good-bye, and known we loner are stronger than rouges may think."Rose turned to firefly."Go get my brothers, then come back and help me carry the kits."

Firefly nodded and ran into the shadows, disappearing.

Rose licked the kits and then curled her fluffy tail around them. Then she thought of names for the four kits. She turned to the pure midnight black male with a full moon shape on his forehead."Your name shall be midnight" she whispered to the small midnight male.Rose breathed then turned to the sleek white female kit."Your name shall be hurricane, just like ivorystorms mother you shall be a great loner and maybe warrior." Rose's eyes fell on the biggest male kit, that was the color of the sky at midnight but had paws the color of a cloud during a hurricane strike."Your name shall be striker."Then rose whispered to the oldest female, with the fur the color of the ice in iceclan."Your name shall be Icywind, close to the name of icystrike. You shall contuine the path of the warrior icystrike."


Rose sighed and looked at ivorystorms body."These kits shall return and contuine missions that you have set by your death."Rose looked at death and did not remove her eyes. Her eyes showed no sorrow, or any form of sadness, they showed of great anger."Leave us alone if you want to live."

[Fallentear ||]

Sin opened one eye just a peep as Rose hissed at her brother. She said nothing herself, but glanced at him meaningfully. Was he seriously just going to take that kind of talk? He had done nothing to deserve it, and she herself would have whipped out a cold retort. But the matter being that she had not been adressed, she let her eyelid drop again and curled tighter, trying to go back to sleep dispite the disturbances.

Death did not even look over at his sister, not needing to consult her for everything. Instead he merely dipped his head in submission. Clearly Rose did not accept him as a friend, for she had hissed at him angrily when he had only tried to help. However, he did do her the favor of answering her question. "Why do I care? Because these kits were born in my clans camp, and should get a fair chance to decide how they will live their lives. Just because you are their guardian, or relative, or whatever you are to them, doesn't mean you can just dictate their lives. Maybe you should let them stay long enough to decide for themselves? I know I certainly prefer the life in a clan to the life of a loner any day."

Looking at Firefly to show him that he'd been answering his question in that statement, his eyes glinted with slight defiance. He didn't like to be called a rogue, not having been exiled from the clans. He'd done nothing wrong, and would not be addressed with a name so given from wrong-doing. "Yes." He rumbled, "I know they can become strong. I did, didn't I?" He had never known the love of a mother, and his father might as well have utterly rejected him, turning him off to the clans when he'd finally found him, after moons of searching.

Turning, the white tom dissapeared. It looked like he'd left to go back to sleep, but he reappeared out of the shadows with two bundles hanging from his mouth. Each were the herb packets needed for a long journey for a full grown cat. "Here." He said in his low monotone after he set them at his paws. "If you split these each in half, there should be just the right amount for four kits. Strong bloodline or no, they're still newborns, and still will need something to get them through the night. It's your choice to accept my help, but because it is in the warrior code to help a kit, I will try to help in any way I can," He paused, and the last bit of his statement was a bit venomous, "whether you like it or not." Then he padded back over to Sin and sat beside her, his pale green eyes shimmering eerily across the clearing. He looked very much like a ghost; a small, pale ghost.

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[whitetiger]

Rose sighed and smiled."So you have finally show your true self to me, very good. The kits will stay here for as long as chancestep will request. He is the brother of ivorystorm so I think he should have a right to see the kits for a while, but I doubt ivorystorms father will want anything to do with these kits, he still seems like he hasent accepted his daughter and her dicison of leaving blazeclan the night she turned into an apprentice.I feel bad for ivorystorm and her father, they had such a bad relationship." Rose turn to the shadows outisde."I wonde when that silentdeath is going to come back, he spent most of his time trying to find his loved one, it's been more that 10 moons already and he still hasent came back."



Rose turned towards death."Thank you for your help, but may I ask a favor of you?Will you please watch the kits and when firefly comes back tell her I've gone to him and will be back in a moment?"Rose eyes stayed on death and she would not remove them unless he answered.

[Fallentear ||]

Death met Rose's gaze; his own was unblinking and his answering tone was sincere. "I will do more than watch them. I will protect them with every tooth and claw." Moving- or more accurately, gliding- quickly across the clearing, he sat down next to the tiny kits, his tail moving out to sweep them closer to his haunches. Death nodded slowly, once, and watched Rose with his facial expression carefully held. Was it respect that one could detect in those haunting orbs? It was hard to earn such a thing from this wary young tom, but clearly Rose had earned it with her mentor-like way of adressing him.

Sin had fallen asleep again, and while she was always ready to leap to her paws if a cat so much as walked within a foxlength of her, she heard not a word the two spoke. If she had, she would have warned Death not to get too attached, for he clearly was trying hard to become a part of Blazeclan.

[whitetiger]

Rose nodded."Thank you, death. But I remind me when i get back to explain a few things to you, this time without your sister listening in on the conversation. Good-bye" Rose disapeared into the darkness.

After a few moments firefly came back with her sister, starlight next to her.Firefly looked at death."Where's rose?"

Starlight rolled her eyes."Who cares, right now we need to dispose of ivorystorms body."

Firefly hissed at her sister."Do not speak so harshly about it sister. Even silentdeath wouldn't say things like that."

starlight shrugged and then walked over to the body of ivorystorm on one side and firfly on the other. The two sister sat there staring at each other for a few moments.

[Fallentear ||]

Death looked behind him, and his sister looked like she was sound asleep. But only he would be able to tell that, because indeed her quick breathing made it seem that she was listening intently. She was pretty tricky, even in her sleep. He nodded, watching her leave. He meowed to Firefly, "She has gone to him. She'll be back soon." His statement was vague, and Death himself didn't even know who 'he' was, but that was what Rose had told him to say, so Firefly surely would understand the message.

Death watched the two prepare to haul Ivorystorm's body from the clearing. Again, his face was impassive. But underneath, he was feeling revulsion. He had nothing against Ivorystorm in particular, he was just tired of death always occuring whereever he went, even in the clans. He would have offered to help, but he was keeping his word and hadn't stirred a muscle from where he sat beside the kits. He glanced down at them every few moments, to check and see how they were faring. A few of them were opening their mouths wide and mewling in hunger. He pushed the bundles of herbs towards them and spoke soft words of encouragement. "These will make your stomach pains go away little kits. There is naught for you to eat but this at the moment, I'm afraid. You'll get a foster queen soon though, so for now eat these and be strong."

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[whitetiger]

Firefly and starlight left with ivorystorms body and then came back a few moments later. Firefly look at death."Wow, you look like a good father."

Starlight smiled."Firefly I'm leaving. I have to do a few things. I think I may be able to find our brother soon."

Firefly looked back to starlight."Why do you want to find him so much? Our two brothers left us, then silentdeath retunred to us and left us a again. They are just going to leave us, their too afriad to face the truth."


Starlight growled."Firefly, our other brother is different. He only left us because silentdeath told him to come with him. Now good-bye. Make sure those rouges that you stole form don't get on your trail like last time."Starlgiht then left into the shdaows of darkness.

Firefly stared after her."I don't see how I'am related to them." Firefly walked over to death and sat down beside him." So rose went to see that stupid tom. I don't see what she see's in him, oh sorry you don't know who he is or you shouldn't yet. Im not sure what to inform you of before we leave after the kits get old enough to travel. Oh by the way do you know two she-cats named kristy and nesa, cause their comming here soon I think." Firefly sighed and then laided down."well you can go ahead and ask me anything you want to cause since you have been accepted into blazeclan, you have the right to know."

Firefly looked at him and waited for his reply.

[Fallentear ||]

Death heard how Firefly had called him a father, and he couldn't help but swell up with pride. The four young bodies nestled beside him were not his, yet he still felt a kinship to them already. He had promised to watch them, and so he would watch them as they grew. The more he thought about it, the more he realized that he actually might have to be the father figure for these young cats.

With his normally stoic features, he watched the two cats talking and then watched Starlight leave in search of a brother. After the second time being adressed, he chose to reply. "No, I don't know them." The tom lied well. "But I've heard of them. They are those loners that joined Fernclan, correct? Why would they be coming now to join Blazeclan?" His eyes were truly curious, for while he knew the whole reason as to why the two had come to the clans, he hadn't been informed of their activities since they'd arrived.

As the sunlight slowly spread to touch the tops of the trees, it spilled into the clearing and onto the pelt of the calico feline sleeping in the shadows of the camp. Stretching, Sin sat up and looked around, her eyes narrowed as she watched her brother talk to Firefly. If she weren't all the way across the clearing, she would have stepped on his tail to remind him not to give out too much information. Clearly, a normal clancat wouldn't take much interest in the activity of a couple of cats from another clan.

Sin got to her paws and trotted around the edge of the camp and out of the entrance. She would leave the two some time to talk while she went hunting, and maybe Death would have something new to report to her later. Her filthy tail swung carelessly behind her as she bounded up a tall ravine, looking out into the distance before she headed down the other side and dissapeared into the forest below.

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[whitetiger]

Nesa and kristy laughed at the same time as comming in.

Kristy grinned and replied."Wrong."

Nesa laughed again."Definatly not correct."

Firefly smiled."We caught up to nesa and kristy, also their sister paula who had followed them."

Rose entered and smiled."I see you met kristy and nesa."

Nesa looked ta rose."Hey rose where is paula?"

Rose looked at nesa."Acually I don't know.....firefly? Do you know?"

Firefly nodded."Yeah, she went to the rageclan territory again"

Kristy gaped."Again, jeez....has anyone ever figured out why she goes there so often?"

[Fallentear ||]

Death blinked in confusion as Kristy and Nesa appeared, and seemed to know Firefly and Rose. "Ok, what's going on?" Came a low growl, not quite threatening but more of a playful growl. Maybe it was true, he had lied, but that was because he hadn't known that these she-cats would take well to the fact that he knew the other two well, and they had arrived at the same time as he and Sin had. His pale yellow-green eyes flickered with both confusion and amusement as he glanced at the Nesa and Kristy.

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[whitetiger]

The two sisters grinned but it was kristy who spoke first."We like the loner life much better than the rouge or clans life, so we decided to join firefly,rose, and rose's brother that didn't leave for rageclan. It's fun traveling with them, you help loner, tribes, and clans when they want it."

Nesa frowned."We try to help rouges but they just keep attacking us when we try to."


Rose nodded."Mainly because they think firefly will steal their food again."Rose looked at firefly with a bit of anger in her eyes.


Firefly frowned."It was the only way I could get food back then. I was young and stupid, Im older now and I won't do it again."


Kristy sat infront of death."We told them everything about lucifers group and lucifers plans."


Nesa went back to smiling."Did you really think that we would just change into a rouge because our mother was one, would we really join the group that she joined when all she did was make a stupid decision and leave us when we were only a couple days old?"


Kristy answered the questions."Not a chance. We thought we would tell sin what we did and she ould report back to your father that we betrayed them."


Firefly growled at the thought of rouges."I really really hate rouges and they really hate me."

[Fallentear ||]

Death's eyes flashed with slight anger. He had considered these she-cats friends, but couldn't they see that betraying the rogues was betraying him too? True, he was rather confused about who he was at the moment, and he wasn't sure whether to forget his father's plans or not, but he wouldn't betray him. All those cats living with Lucifer were families too. Cats that were just like clanners, only their lives were so much harder.

But he knew that there was no way the clans would accept those cats forging territories with them. While clanners were kind, they wouldn't risk their prey to feed so many hungry mouths. A few, maybe. A whole gang? There was no way. Those rogues and loners would not stand a chance if they didn't have inside help.

"Why would you tell me this?" He hissed softly, "Do you think I would approve? You do know that with one report, I myself could tell my father what you've done, and he'd be quite quick to come after you." but I won't he added in his mind. He wasn't the kind of cat to betray his word. Once he promised something, he kept his word. His green eyes glared challengingly at the cats, and he instinctively swept his tail around the kits and moved them closer to him.

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