Clan Struggles

Prologue
A faint rustle of leaves signaled the toms arrival, as he came in, he see his three littermates in the moonlit clearing, as well as the curious eyes of all the other cats around him, hidden in the shadows. Four circles were drawn in ground. He dipped his head in greetings to the present three.

"Greetings, my littler-mates, Snow, Moon, Orchid. Forgive me for being late to our call. What is the idea Orchid spoke about?" He raised his head in curiousity for a moment, before taking his place in front of the final circle. The one of his three sisters looked at him with playful, amber eyes. The other sighed, and flicked her grey dappled tail.

"You weren't listening? It's about the group, there are to many mouths to feed. We are competing for leadership, we believe it's best the cats split into four groups, all of us as one leader. We will all go our separate ways, to a new territory." Orchid looked over to the she-cat that spoke, she looked worried, and sad. A longing look was in here eyes, as if...as if she didn't want to split up.

The tom honestly couldn't blame his sister, he blinked i'm sympathy for her. Orchid had been the most kit-like of their group, Moon was the most serious, Snow had been more caring and gentle than anything. But him... He was the reason they competed for leadership, he had been saying that there couldn't be four leaders. Now, it had come down to this. He swallowed back grief of the thoughts of not seeing his littermates again, then finally spoke.

"I....I understand, it's honestly for the best. You are right: there are to many mouths to feed in this territory. Splitting into smaller groups will keep us all fed and well." Moon let out a nod, and turned her icy blue gaze to the cats, their group-mates, their friends.

"Now that the final leader has agreed these terms, we can now use the flowers to say who will go where." Slowly, cats started to come forward, each holding a flower in their jaws, one that caught his eye, Lightning, the she-cat was quick on her paws, though, she was stubborn. As she had to learn from the others, she would normally disobey, or sneak off on her own.

Lightning put her flower in Moons circle, he didn't know why. Moon was strict, Lightning was reckless. Those two would surely clash, he shook the thought away, others started to put their flowers in the circles, he watched who put their flower in his circle.

''Fern, grass, Pine, Day, Morning, Night, Swift, Dusk, Mist, Lake, Puddle, Bee, and Scorch. ''He sighed in relief, at least the group would be large enough to defend themselves. Of course, Fern and Scorch also had kits, Lark, Birch, and Oak. But they couldn't hunt, or fight. He sighed, finally. The cats got done, and they began to say their goodbyes to one another, the tom ran over to Orchid, and nuzzled her.

"I'll miss you, Orchid, i'll miss all of you." Orchid sighed, and looked at the tom.

"And we'll miss you, Cloud."