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Post by guesswhoicepaw1 on Dec 26, 2007 14:23:03 GMT -5
Pantherheart heard a yowl, he looked at Gallantkit and Gladeshadow, then looked at Spireflame and Dawnash. Gladeshadow sighed, "Don't look at me, I only have 1 kit and she's perfectly healthy" she mewed. Pantherheart padded over. "How is anyone supposed to know what's going on?" He murmured. Gallantkit looked at Pantherheart as he bounded over to the helpless she-cat. Gallantkit wondered what was going on.
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Post by Silverflash // Jayrunner on Dec 26, 2007 22:56:32 GMT -5
Dawnash continued to thrash in her nest, her yowls and struggled visably fading. Spireflame's eyes blazed as he realized that he was loosing his mate and began to push on her flank, stopping her thrashing and sending a spasm down her side. A small orange kit fought it's way into the world, it's pelt wet and bloody. Dawnash's thrashing grew stronger as the kit was born and it took plenty of pushing, hissing, and licking before the she-cat's struggles had lowered enough for another kit to be born. This one was also orange, but considerably bigger. It had a black front paw and a white tail-tip. Dawnash's struggles continued, and Spireflame watched, dismayed. How many kits will she have?! The she-cat managed to calm herself on her own to allow another kit to be born. Pure ginger with nothing else on it. Dawnash's thrashing slowed until she was merely trembling in her nest. A huge pool of blood surrounded her, and her breath was short and shallow. Spireflame placed the kits beside her; he had licked them all pretty clean and awakened them, and they began suckling greedily. The first was a she-cat, the last two toms. The instant they began to suckle Dawnash shuddered and went still, as if the effort of giving birth to three kits was much more complicated than it sounded. Spireflame's fearfilled eyes calmed as he saw her faintly breathing, as if unconscious. The ginger tom settled down beside his mate and stared off into space, worry and pain showing in his eyes.
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Post by guesswhoicepaw1 on Dec 27, 2007 8:28:54 GMT -5
Gallantkit looked at them speechlessely. "Wha just happened?" she asked Gladeshadow. "Well, you could say... ummm... she's dead. Or in other words, gone" Gladeshadow mewed softly to her beloved kit. Gladeshadow padded over. "I'm very sorry about what happened. If you need any help with the kits, I can always be of assistence" she meowed sorrowfully. Gallantkit padded behind her mother.
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Post by Silverflash // Jayrunner on Dec 27, 2007 22:12:24 GMT -5
Spireflame turned his troubled gaze to Gladeshadow, blinking in confusion. "You're sorry my mate just had kits?" He blinked uncertainly as if he knew this wasn't what the queen meant, and turned back to Dawnash, washing her ears soothingly. "She's just tired, that's all," he mewed, realiazing what Gladeshadow meant. "Most volcano cats only have one kit, like you." His green gaze traveled down to Dawnash's black legs. "Most volcano cats are also only ginger, but Dawnash is also black. She's different." His eyes narrowed sympathetically at Gladeshadow. "You thought she was dead, di'n't you?" he meowed playfully, knowingly. "I did too, but I know she's ok. I remember a dream I had of a trtoiseshell kittypet who had six kittens." He lowered his gaze to the cold stone. "Her friend, a lithe brown tabby, had eight." He shook his head as if to clear it. "I've heard that a she-cat can have as many as twelve kits, since it happened several times, but..." He shook his head in confusion and nestled his head on Dawnash's black paw, closing his eyes and forcing his breathing to make him look asleep; he still hadn't told his Clanmates openly that he had visions of elsewhere in his eyes. Usually it was useless, but sometimes his mate could look into his eyes and see exactly what he saw.
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Post by guesswhoicepaw1 on Dec 28, 2007 9:06:25 GMT -5
"Well now I feel stupid" Gladeshadow murmured. Gallantkit chuckled, batting her tail. Gladeshadow noticed her dead kit in the nursery. "Pantherheart, why is that thing still in here?" she asked. Pantherheart shrugged. "What am I suppose to do with it?" he asked. Gladeshadow thought for a second. "Don't know, just get rid of it!" Pantherheart nodded and took the dead kit out of the nursery and buried it near a tree not so far from camp. He padded back to camp and headed into the nursery at almost lightning speed. Gallantkit blinked, then shrugged. She leant against Gladeshadow.
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Post by Silverflash // Jayrunner on Dec 28, 2007 12:54:04 GMT -5
Spireflame lifted his head, green eyes blazing into Gladeshadow's pelt. "If that kit had lived you wouldn't be calling it "that thing" would you?" Before she could reply he growled, "Oh, no, of course you wouldn't. But because it's dead you give your own child no respect. My mother made the same mistake, and her dead son haunted her for eight moons before his spirit guided her to the fire pit and pushed her in." Eyes smoldering he licked Dawnash again. "You wouldn't want the same to happen to you, would you?"
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Post by guesswhoicepaw1 on Dec 28, 2007 13:27:33 GMT -5
Gladeshadow chuckled, "So? A little ghost, oh i'm sooo scared! Haha!" Gallantkit looked at her mom, a bit clueless. "Ghost?" she mewed. "Some believe their real, but their really just figments of you're imagination! They're said to be cats coming back from the dead to do scary things!" she chuckled, leaning down and licking her kit. "Figment?" She asked. "make-believe, un-real, you think their there, but there not" Gallantkit nodded.
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Post by Wolf Tears on Dec 28, 2007 14:49:18 GMT -5
Novastreak's head shot up at Gladeshadow's yowl, and, with an apologetic nod to Lavaheart, sped over to where the she-cat was lying on the ground, images of blood and death dancing in front of her eyes; she had heard about some of Spireflame's dreams before, and now, faced with an actually birthing, she was pertrified that one would come true.
When it became clear that her Clanmate was going to be alright, Novastreak backed off several feet, purring as she watched the family. But she didn't have long to celebrate; soon enough there was another yowl, then a series of them, and the deputy was up again and flying over to where Dawnash lay thrashing. She allowed herself to get close to the she-cat this time, crouching low, her tail lashing in worry as she murmured encouragement softly. "Hey, Dawnash. Hey, Dawn. It'll be alright. You'll be fine, okay? Everything is going to be fine."
And it was, more or less. The kits all seemed to be fine, and Novastreak felt a surge of maternal instinct for each one, but she let Spireflame handle them; they were after all his kits, and he seemed to be doing fine. The VolcanoClan cat was more worried about their mother; her breathing was shallow, though when Novastreak put her head to the she-cat's chest, her heartbeat seemed to be steady.
"I think she'll be fine," she said, speaking to no one in particular but knowing it needed to be said. And then she raised herself on her hind legs so that she towered over the other cats and, a challenge in her gold eyes, added, "And any cat would probably find it easier to recuperate if her Clanmates weren't bickering around her!"
And having nothing more to say, the orange she-cat slowly set herself down and pressed her nose into Dawnash's fur.
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Post by Silverflash // Jayrunner on Jan 4, 2008 17:26:18 GMT -5
(lol just finished firestars quest a week ago and felt like implying it to the new clans, since they are the old clans renamed...)
Dawnash's eyes twitched open and she blinked thankfully at Novastreak. She turned to her Clanmates and meowed in a high-pitched wail of discomfort, "If you all don't stop bickering you might as well go live with the cats across the water! They screech loud enough to scare all the prey from here to the other end of the ocean!" She narrowed her eyes and then murmured in a low voice to Novastreak, obviously a bit calmer with sudden realization, "Nova, if the rumors are true and there truly are cats across the water, don't you think we should go check them out? They might be the four Clans that chased our ancestors across the sea!"
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Post by Wolf Tears on Mar 14, 2008 11:18:45 GMT -5
A burst of laughter streamed out of Novastreak's mouth at Dawnash's comment; she stifled it quickly, but nonetheless it was likely that most of her Clan had heard, and there was still a twinkling in her eyes that revealed a great deal of mirth.
It was, ironically, Dawnash who calmed the deputy down; the orange cat nodded at the other queen's words, and then sat still for a moment, think. Finally she said, "I think you might be right, Dawnash. It's an interesting theory, if nothing else." She dipped her head in respect, but could think of nothing else to say.
(OOC- O.O Ohmigosh. This post sucked.)
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Post by guesswhoicepaw1 on Apr 11, 2008 14:48:55 GMT -5
Gladeshadow shrugged. She lied down and let her kit suckle.
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