Rosevenom

Chapter 1: A world I musn't live in
"Hi, Lilyclaws!" Rosekit squealed as she was playing with a leaf. Lilyclaws snarled and trotted away, not saying a single word. "Don't worry, Rosekit!" Applekit replied, obviously noticing the disappointment in her eyes. "Lilyclaws is just a big mousebrain, anyway."

"Don't talk like that, Applekit!" Meadoweyes sneered, eavesdropping on their conversation. "You're a kit, not a deputy." "Sorry, momma..." Applekit groaned. Rosekit stopped playing with her leaf, and trotted over to Sundove, the eldest queen. "Sundove, can we play outside today? Please???" Rosekit begged. Sundove simply laughed and purred. "It's leafbare- we couldn't possibly go outside!" She replied. Rosekit moaned and cried,"Why not? I want to see leafbare!" Badgerteeth, Sundove's mate, snorted loudly, trying to stop Rosekit's pointless argument. "Because it's too cold! You don't want greencough, do you?" Sundove challenged.

"I do if I get to go outside!"

"Outside in StarClan?"

Rosekit stared at Sundove in horror. "N-No, of course not!" She wailed. "Then stay in the nursery, where it's warm." Sundove replied bluntly. "It won't matter soon, anyway! In a moon, I'm going to be an apprentice, and I'll be able to go outside!" Rosekit bragged. Sundove kept quiet, knowing that Rosekit could never be a warrior due to her missing hind-leg.

The sun was setting, leaving water trickling down the entrance to the ShadowClan nursery as the snow around it melted. "Flowerdust, tell me why my name is Rosekit, again?" Rosekit asked, tucking under Flowerdust's fur. "Your mother loved collecting roses.." Flowerdust started, but didn't seem very happy, but instead seemed quite worried. "Her love for roses went into your genes, and StarClan wanted to create a cat that would please your mother dearly, so they made your tail like the stem of a rose, they made your fur the color of the most beautiful rose in all of the forest, and your name became Rosekit." Rosekit smiled with pride. "And what about my leg, was mother proud of my unique leg?" She asked. Flowerdust kept silent for a moment, swallowed, and then said slowly,"No... You're mother was very sad..." Rosekit stared at Flowerdust in disappointment. "Why would she be sad? Did I not make her happy?" She wailed. "...I don't know why, your mother died long ago, I couldn't possibly remember." Flowerdust answered, licking between Rosekit's ear, causing her to fall asleep. Flowerdust looked at the stars and said to herself,"Dear StarClan, please let Rosekit know the truth in the best possible way..." And then she went to sleep.

Flowerdust was in the forest. She smelled rabbits and mice everywhere, she saw catmint grow as far as the eye can see, and she felt a beautiful breezze through her fur. However, a chill ran down her back as she realized she was all alone. She then smelled, then saw a huge forest fire, drowning everything around her in flames. A strange, large, muscular shadow of a cat stood in front of her. "I WILL GET MY DAUGHTER I WILL GET MY DAUGHTER I WILL GET MY DAUGHTER..." The voice of the shadow screamed. A bright shadow crashed into the dark shadow, and chased it away into the flames. The bright shadow unfaided into a beautiful, sweet smelling cat, a very familiar cat. "Rosekit must know the truth..." She stared into Flowerdust's eyes, which were crying, confused and scared. "The truth must come out soon..." The shadow whispered, fading away. Flowdust was frozen with horror as she realized the shadows were Lightsoul and Bloodheart, Rosekit's parents.