User blog:Forestpaw13/The Garden - A Tale of Love and Sacrifice

I'm glad to say I've come up with a new idea for a single story... and I swear to StarClan I won't add a sequel this time.

The Garden is a story about a ruthless Nazi-like dictator- Jaggedclaw- who has taken over ShadowClan and influenced the Clans into doing what he says.

Main characters include:

Jaggedclaw - the dictator himself. What does he think about all that is going on? (POV) Marshpaw - Jaggedclaw's loyal apprentice who tells the cats what to do. Robintail - His job is to transport the tiny, weak runt kits over to ThunderClan, who are forced to take them in both by the warrior code and Jaggedclaw himself (POV). Sparrowkit - a very smart kit, brought to ThunderClan by Robintail. (POV) Flower - a loving kittypet who has a couple of lessons to teach Jaggedclaw... in her own strange way. Rushstar - ThunderClan's gentle, submissive leader. Lilyheart - the queen who nurtures all the new ShadowClan kits. The question is, where is she?

The unique combination of characters will cause a plot to bloom from it- a tale of love, sacrifice, and war. Because when ThunderClan decide to rise up against Jaggedclaw, all could be lost.

...And on that happy note... the prologue!

00 - Prologue
A  she-cat pads through the gardens of Twolegplace, her collar jingling loudly as she leaps from one dry place to another, avoiding the rain puddles.

Her destination is a certain garden, owned by an old yellowish-looking Twoleg with hair on his face. He always feeds the she-cat, so she trusts him.

He will not be out tonight, she knows it, because he has not gardened since the light went of his eyes for the last time. She was the witness.

She stays away from the forest, which holds horror beyond her wildest imagination, and keeps close to the fence. At one point, she sees desperate eyes peering from the depths of the deep darkness, and she stares back.

The she-cat nears the garden, which still has the wonderful smells being emitted from it.

She climbs the fence with her claws easily and stands on the top for a heartbeat before leaping into the garden.

As she pads along the various pots scattered across the garden, the moonlight falls on one that held a plant that she favored.

She looks at the pot again and is suprised to find something strange.

The bamboo is growing again.

A  tom is alarmed. His eyes are wide with fear as he watches his mate give birth, her body convulsing over and over as the kits are squeezed out.

"Please hurry up," he mutters, staring into the forest towards the ThunderClan camp. If they don't find the kits first, they can still be saved.

He looks back to his mate, who has stopped convulsing, and the kits are suckling.

One is much too small.