Post by Mariela on Mar 26, 2008 19:36:50 GMT -5
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Irishhorselover
Prologue
Irishhorselover
Prologue
Bright green eyes searched the ground for some sign that life existed here. Some sign that she wasn’t the only one. The ground, dark brown packed dirt with cracks running along it showing the dryness of this land, stretched in every direction and the sky, the brightest blue you could imagine, stood proud above her, but there was no sign of anything else.
Firefeather lifted her head up to the sky and began to walk. She walked toward the sun, not knowing what was ahead or behind her. This was her destiny, her fate to walk this barren land, alone but with others. She knew it.
The cats looked down upon her, their eyes shining with stars. It was them who had told her to do this. It was them who told her to leave everything she had ever known and start something new. It was Fireflower’s fate to start the new dynasty of warrior cats.
Chapter One
“I already won! Get back here!” Opalkit called to her brother as his black pelt ran into the center of camp. “I got your tail first, just like we said! You have to be fair!”
Ebonykit’s head turned around toward Opalkit and stuck he his tongue out at her while he kept running. Opalkit kept after her brother her white tail up straight in the air, like a flag calling surrender, ignoring the dash of pink directed at her. Ebonykit glanced behind him to see if Opalkit was still there. As he did he crashed into an older cat not paying attention to where he was going.
Ebonykit fell to the ground at the bigger cat’s feet. He quickly stood up and tipped his head back so he could see the cat that he bumped into. Seeing who it was his bright green eyes widen and he said, “Swampstar, I am so sorry. I-I”
The brown cat flicked his tail at the kit. “No need but if you want to become an apprentice you will have to start acting like one,” he said sternly.
Opalkit ran up behind Ebonykit as the black kit looked toward the ground, “What did you-“ she started talking to her brother then noticed the leader, “Hello Swampstar. I am very sorry about my brother, we will just be going back to the nursery now.” The little kit did her best to sound like her mother, getting very close. She placed her white tail on Ebonykit’s black back and whispered to him, “Come on, let’s go.”
Swampstar nodded to the kits and said, “Very well,” before turning away from the two and heading back toward his den. He would leave the kits to the queens.
The second Swampstar was far enough away that he wouldn’t hear the kits talk Opalkit jumped in front of her brother and started bombarding him with question, “What did you do? What did Swampstar say to you? Anything about us becoming apprentice? Did you find anything out?” she only stopped when Ebonykit began to mumble something. “What was that? I can’t hear you!” Opalkit said leaning closer to Ebonykit.
“I said, Swampstar said that if I wanted to become an apprentice I have to start acting like one.” Ebonykit said it louder to his sister but his eyes were looking at something other than the white cat in front of him.
“Oh great! We are almost seven moons already and he hasn’t made us apprentices yet, now with that we probably won’t be until we are 8 moons!” Opalkit cried beginning to pace back and forth in front of Ebonykit.
“Can you stop that?” he asked.
“Stop what?” Opalkit said not stopping anything.
“Everything?” he tried but added when he got a look from his sister, “How about you stop pacing first, it is giving me a headache. Then can you stop acting like some elder? All you are doing is telling me what to do! I already have a mother and a billion other cats who do that, I don’t need my sister to, too!”
Opalkit stopped moving and looked at her brother with her bright green, “But I-“ she started in a defensive tone.
“Enough.” He interrupted, “Start talking to me when you act you age.” Ebonykit turned away from his sister and ran through the camp clearing toward the back escape exit of the camp where he slipped out into the forest.
Opalkit started to run after him when her eyes were blinded by a flash of bright green, the same color as her and her brother’s eyes. She heard a soft yet forceful she-cat’s voice inside her head, Don’t go after him. It is time he found out. Opalkit jumped and looked around. Every cat was doing something and no cat seemed to be talking to her, and she had never heard that voice before. The fear began to take hold of her, who was that talking to her? She paused a second, her eyes wide with fear, then she ran toward the nursery.
She was about to enter the den and run toward her mother when it happened again. A flash a bright green then the same voice, Don’t say anything. They will find out soon enough, from us. Do not speak of us. Opalkit stopped moving but this time she didn’t jump, her eyes just grew wider.
Goldenmist looked out of the nursery to see her daughter standing there, her eyes as wide as the moon. The she-cat walked, eyes full of concern, toward her daughter. “Opalkit, is everything okay? Are you alright?”
Opalkit looked at the queen in front of her, then called out running toward her, “Mommy!” Goldenmist looked startled as Opalkit snuggled herself into her mother’s light golden fur.
“It’s okay. Everything is okay, you are fine,” the queen whispered to her daughter. She looked around for her other kit. When the kit pulled her head slightly away her, she asked, “Where is your brother?”
Opalkit looked up at her mother her eyes wide again. She wasn’t sure what to do. That voice had told her not to tell anyone but she told her mother everything. Goldenmist looked back at her daughter waiting for her to answer. Opalkit just kept her mouth shut as her green eyes stared at her mother’s brown ones.
Now Goldenmist looked even more concerned, “Opalkit, you have never been at a loss for words! What’s wrong?” she asked, puzzled, “Did Ebonykit tell you not to tell me where he is?”
Opalkit nodded her head at the chance she got to not tell about where her brother really went, into the woods where no kit was suppose to go. It was the first time she had ever lied to her mother and she looked toward the ground, ashamed.
Goldenmist shook her head, “That had never stopped you before. But as long as he is safe I guess that is fine, which I am sure he is.” She spoke softly then wrapped her tail around her daughter and said, “Come on into the nursery now.” And began walking into the cozy little den.
Opalkit took a step toward the inside of the nursery then turned her head to look out across the camp. She could have sworn that she saw green eyes staring back at her before she turned around and followed her mother into the nursery.
Chapter 2 Coming Next……What Happened to Ebonykit