Littest Joys

[mkgb]

Dreamwhisker sat lonely in the nusery for all kits and queens were asleep expect for her. She licked the head of her only awake kit who white fur stood up on her head. "Springkit" dreamwhisker whispered then mrrowed laughter as the tiny kit mewl to the name. The largest of the kits looked up in surprised at the mewl. His tiny black tip tail flipped up, his white fur had tiny scraps of moss in it. Taking off one peice a black spot shown in the dull sunshine that shown through. "Spotkit is going to be your name" she whispered

[Brambleclaw]

[[There is also a reply on page 3 flameh]]

Otherstar blinked sleep from her eyes and smiled.
"You had your kits. Lucky there are only five." She joked, looking down at her own nine kits with a sigh. "Didn't Pebblefur want I name one Happkit because he was happy to be your mate?" She asked with a shrug. Funny how she had had three kits, then five kits, and now nine kits. Any more would end up killing her!

[mkgb]

"I do not know... Pebblefur hasn't even took the time to come see his kits." Dreamwhisker said sadly staring at each and every kit. "This one can be Happykit" she sad softly licking a white and golden one that look as if it had a smile on it mouth. "Those kits of yours must be a handful" she said to her leader, "How do you keep up with them all"?

[Brambleclaw]

"Nine kits is nothing. Try... Well, you may not want to hear about it..." Otherstar said, shaking her head sadly. "But I guess I've said too much already. It isn't hard, just tiring. And they're due to open their eyes in another sunrise or two, which will make it much worse..." Otherstar shook her head and tried not to think about it too much. She hated thinking about what had happened to her son, and possibly one of her daughters. And their father... It was all too much for the leader and queen to think at the time.

[mkgb]

"Oh... Still don't think I could handle it. Also one of your little kits going to be a good tracker." Dreamwhisker said pointing to Littlekit as she slept. "I think her eyes already opened. She followed me before I gave birth." Dreamwhisker moved around as the kits started to move roughly.

[Brambleclaw]

Otherstar shook her head and sighed.
"She hasn't opened her eyes. Not yet. See, if she had she'd be interested on searching the world. I know she's an expert tracker." Otherstar meowed softly. "All nine of them... Ripplekit, Indigokit, Fawnkit, Pantherkit, Pebblekit, Stalkkit, Minnowkit, Applekit, Littlekit. Born in that order. All of them beautiful, special, and perfectly unique." She said with a purr of amusement. She could remember all their names. That made Shadowkit, Angel's-kit, Devil's-tail, Googolpaw, Hundredpaw, Twopaw, Gigapaw, Thyme, and then the other nine. All the names made her head spin.

[mkgb]

"Well I guess if you can run a clan you can run a pack of kits" Dreamwhisker said quietly with a hint of laughter.

[flameh]

Darkshard nodded to Pumpkinpelt. He raced back to camp, he was going to tell her. He skidded to a halt and slid into the nursery. He paded over to Dreamwhisker. He leaned towards her. "I love you" he whispered "no matter what, I always will."

[mkgb]

Dreamwhisker stared at her crazy ex-mate in a baffled look. The sparks of love shown in her eyes and she knew it was showing, she couldn't hide that she loved him still. "I love you too" she whispered into his ear, then licked the tip affectionate. Her tail laid across the kits as they began to squirm around. "Next time you want to tell be a bit quietier" she said with a smile then pointed out Spotkit, and Springkit. "Those are your kits"

[flameh]

Darkshard's eyes sparkled proudly. "They're all so beautiful" he mewed. He returned the affectionate lick. He didn't care if Otherstar was watching. "Does that mean I still have a chance?" he asked with a hint of humour.

[mkgb]

Dreamwhisker couldn't help but say at the spot yes. "yes" she whispered, then looked over at Otherstar to see if she was spying on their convostation. "I wish I could run out this nusery, one day and already I'm going insane."

[Brambleclaw]

"Mate troubles are the least of it. I nearly killed Chasernight because of my cruelty, and my ex-mate before his time killed his only son." Otherstar said with a sigh, shaking her head. She hoped that there would be no sparking questions as to her ex-mate was, because not even Chasernight knew that. But that couldn't be helped.
"I still call him Sweepingwind in my heart. I don't know, I guess I liked that name much better..." She said, shaking her head sadly. She certainly wasn't a fan of Othernight, or Otherstar, either. But that was her name, as it had been from the start. The name her kits had given her, a true name. Fallingfeather was just a name from birth to her realization of fate. She shook her head and shrugged again.

Pebblefur padded quickly back to camp with a scolding Pumpkinpelt on his tail. She nagged him about this and that, and he listened happily. Thyme wished that they could get back to camp, because he had heard this conversation before. Once was enough, but twice was insane. At least this was the last time he'd hear it. When they reached camp, Thyme vanished into his den and Pebblefur nervously approached the Nursery. One final thing to do. Pumpkinpelt touched him encouragingly. He nodded and padded quickly into the den, to see Otherstar, Darkshard, Dreamwhisker, and an assortment of kits.
"We never were meant to be. You and Darkshard make a much better couple. Enjoy a nice life together, you two." He said, exiting after a quick glance at the kits. His kits. He was met by a soft nuzzle from Pumpkinpelt.
"I'm very proud of you." She meowed softly, and he licked her ear. Yeah, he did feel proud.

[flameh]

Darkshard looked at Peeblefur in shock. "You're giving her up?" he mewed confusedly.

[mkgb]

Dreamwhisker eyes began to close slightly but she tried to look at Pebblefur. She was tired but wanted to say something. "We will always be friends...you promise to take me fishing" she said silently slurring the last words in a drowsy voice.

[flameh]

Darkshard looked at Dreamwhisker, as she fell asleep. She was his now, they could finally be together.

[mkgb]

Dreamwhisker woke to see darkshard had stayed. "opps, i guess i was tired" she said boringly. She streatched her legs numbly and gave a smile. "i love you"

[flameh]

Darkshard smiled. "I love you too" he mewed. "And of course you were tired, you ran, you gave birth and traveled back here" he mewed "you should've been tired."

[mkgb]

She placed her muzzle agaisnt his shoulder with a soft purr rumbling through her body. "I always loved you, Pebblefur was never right for me"

[flameh]

Darkshard smiled. Her nuzzled her affectionately. "I could see that you weren't happy with him" he mewed,

[mkgb]

"I wish I could go running with you again but i'm a bit rooted to here." she meowed with a laugh giving a moving kit a swift lick. "Palmkit..." she meowed as she stared at that one kit.