Beautiful (Fanfic)



"How do you feel?"

"Broken."

"You seem so happy though."

"That's because it's easier to smile when you start hurting"

The Blurb
Midnightpaw felt unloved, so she hid herself away. Trying to be pretty, she wasted her life, hoping for someone to care about her. But with nobody on her side, Midnightpaw began to wither away, with nothing else left for her. With her past haunting her, and her future uncertain, the young she-cat felt unable to do anything right at all...

Prologue
She was there

She was trying

But inside

She was dying

"Midnight! Midnight!"

The black and white she-cat looked for her sister, desperate to find her in the fire. The nest they had lived in was burning to the ground, and Coral was trapped somewhere in the crumbling rubble.

"Coral!" Came Midnight's cries. But no answers came from her sister. She could feel the nest crashes down around her, and the ash getting inside her lungs. But she pushed herself further into the wreckage, ignoring the soot that was pulling inside her.

"Help me.." The whisper came from even deeper in the fire, and Midnight knew her sister was still there. She wasn't about to give up on Coral.

Then the branches crashed behind Midnight. She was trapped. With no choice left, she shifted the rocks, and delved inside the moss coated cavern. "Coral!" Midnight yelled. The cries became fainter, and fainter, until there were no more cries at all.

Midnight kept pushing, and at the bottom of the burning fire, she found her sister's once beautiful white pelt, blackened by soot and ash.

"No..." She whispered. "No..." She collapsed next to her sister. "This is all my fault..." She could hear the rain outside starting to put out the fire, but it was too late. Coral was dead, and Midnight felt like a piece of her was dead too.

"Coral..." She croaked, before the embers singed her face.

~

Moons later, and miles away, Midnightpaw woke with a start, the nightmare of many moons ago still fresh in her young mind.

"Oh Coral..." She murmured, her eyes weak. "Could I have saved you?"

The other apprentices stirred, but none of them woke. Midnightpaw sat alone, her blue eyes glowing with tears. "Coral, what have I done?"