Lost: The Quest

Sequel to Lost: Death of the Clans

Prologue
After a week of travelling, and looking for a place to call home, Birchfoot and Sunsplash finally found it. The tunnel was quite large, and covered by thorn bushes in the middle of a forest near the Lake territories.

Sunsplash delivered her kits not long after. The pain was almost unbearable.

"Here, bite down on this," Birchfoot instructed, dropping a stick at Sunsplash's paws.

Sunsplash clamped her jaws around it, and after what felt like ages, three healthy kits lay at her side--two toms and a she-kit, who was much smaller than her brothers.

Birchfoot gazed at them in pride, his amber eyes gleaming brighter than ever. "What should we name them?" He nuzzled each kit before praising Sunsplash. "You can get two of them."

"The she-kit should be Tigerkit, because she's a brown tabby like you," Sunsplash purred. "And the brown-and-white tom could be Snakekit."

"The last kit could be...Firekit, because he's ginger-and-white, like you," Birchfoot meowed without ever taking his eyes off his kits.

"No harm shall ever come to them," Sunsplash promised, curling up to her kits so they could feed. "They'll be raised here, safe from the clan's rivalry."