The Heart of a Leopard

==Prologue==
"She's dead!" A brown cat yowled. "Her and her kits!"
Berrywillow came out of the nursery carrying three tiny, limp bodies in her mouth. One of them, a large, fluffy, golden she-cat started to twitch her paws. Then the dark ginger tabby tom flicked his tail.
"They're alive, Dustfur!" Berrywillow purred. "Two of them!"
Dustfur rushed over to Berrywillow, licking her white fur with black spots. "What about the she-cat?"
"She didn't make it..." Berrywillow meowed sadly, nudging the golden, spotted she-cat toward her father. Berrywillow's green eyes widened as the spotted kit's flanks started to feebly rise and fall.
"She's alive, but weak..." The medicine cat announced. "And their mother's dead. I'm not sure they'll survive the night."
Hollycloud, another queen with one kit, stepped forward. "I'll nurse them and warn you if anything happens."
"You won't have to warn me," Dustfur rose from the body of his mate, Rosespeckle. "I'll stay awake here, in the nursery."
"But what about the vigil for Rosespeckle?" Hollycloud asked.
"I'll sit vigil, and watch the kits." Dustfur said. "But Berrywillow, can I ask you something?"
Berrywillow nodded her spotted head. "Can I be a medicine cat? I want to save lives, like you. Not destroy them."
"Sure, but wait until the kits are strong enough." Berrywillow meowed. "That way you won't be distracted. What shall you name them?"
"I'll name them Tigerkit, Lionkit, and Leopardkit." Dustfur meowed, looking to the stars.
"Those are strong names," Hollycloud acknowledged.
"I know. I hope it will give them the strength they need." Dustfur licked each of his kits' tiny heads.
==Chapter 1==
"You can't catch me, Lionkit!" Leopardkit squealed as she ran around the nursery. "I'm as fast as a leopard! And there's nothing you can do about it!"
"Oh yeah?" Lionkit flicked his tail and Tigerkit pounced on his sister.
"Get her, Lionkit!" The ginger tabby meowed as Lionkit pounced on the spotted she-kit.
"Hey that's cheating!" Leopardkit slipped out from underneath the golden tabby. "You have to catch me, yourself!"
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Category:Hazeleye's Fanfiction
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