Betrayal by Fire

Story by Silver :)  For Ginger's contest.

Rated Moderate

Prologue
"It's coming." The medicine cat's voice was calm, soothing. The queen felt another spasm of pain along her stomach. "Just get it over with!" she yowled. The medicine cat looked surprised, but he hid his emotions quickly. "Well, they seem to be taking their time," h meowed in an effort to cheer her up, "They'll be strong." "They just want to torment me longer!" The queen hissed. "Don't be ridiculous. And look, here comes one now."

Soon there were 4 bundles of fur pressed against the queen's side. Instead of rejoicing, or even licking them, the queen picked them up by their scruffs and padded unsteadily into the forest. The medicine cat hurried behind her, thinking that the queen wanted to go somewhere more private and peaceful.

Instead, the queen placed them on a rock, and unsheathed her claws. The medicine cat raced forward. ''She wouldn't kill her own kits! ''he thought desparately. But he was wrong. The queen slashed her paw towards a kit. Then she killed the other two. Finally one remained. She raised her paw, and slashed. The kit fell down, motionless.

The medicine cat skidded to a stop beside the queen and he dead kits. "What did you do?" he gasped. "They wanted to kill me. So I killed them first." The queen's eyes glinted with a crazy light. One of the kits, wailed in pain and churned it's little paws in the air. The queen raised her paw again, but the medicine cat bundled it out of the way.

"A she-cat. You will not kill this one." "Fine." "Well, what will you name her?" The medicine cat was strggling to hide his disgust at the queen. "Deadkit. It is dead to me."

Chapter 1
Deadkit struggled to her paws. Her maimed ear, neck, and shoulder sent waves