Another Litter - Firestar and Sandstorm AU

Another Litter is a fanfiction if Firesand had another pair of kits

Deputy - Squirrelflight (Dark ginger she-cat with one white paw and forest green eyes)

Medicine-cat - Jayfeather (Silver tabby tom with blind blue eyes)

Warriors -

Greystripe (Grey tom with a darker stripe running down his back and amber eyes)

Dustpelt (Dark brown tabby tom)

Brackenfur (Golden brown tabby tom)

Cloudtail (Long-haired white tom with blue eyes)

Millie (Striped grey tabby she-cat with blue eyes)

Thornclaw (Golden brown tabby tom)

Leafpool (Light brown tabby she-cat with amber eyes, formerly the medicine-cat)

Spiderleg (Long-limbed black tom with brown underbelly and amber eyes)

Birchfall (Light brown tabby tom)

Whitewing (White she-cat with green eyes)

Berrynose (Cream tom with a stubby tail)

Hazeltail (small gray-and-white she-cat)

Mousewhisker (Gray-and-white tom)

Cinderheart (Grey tabby she-cat)

Lionblaze (golden tabby tom with amber eyes)

Foxleap (Reddish tabby tom)

Icecloud (white she-cat)

Toadstep (black-and-white tom)

Rosepetal (dark cream she-cat)

Briarlight (dark brown she-cat)

Blossomfall (tortoiseshell and white she-cat)

Bumblestripe (very pale gray tom with black stripes)

Dovewing (pale gray she-cat with blue eyes)

Ivypool (silver-and-white tabby she-cat with dark blue eyes)

Queens -

Daisy (cream long-furred cat from the horseplace)

Brightheart (White she-cat with ginger patches and one blue eyes; mother to Dewkit, Amberkit, and Snowkit, foster mother to Lilykit, a dark tabby she-kit with white patches, and Seedkit, a very pale ginger she-kit)

Sandstorm (Pale ginger she-cat with green eyes; mother to Firekit; Fluffy ginger tabby tom, Hollykit; tortoiseshell she-cat with emerald green eyes)

Elders -

Purdy (plump tabby former loner with a gray muzzle)

## Prologue

"Firestar, no!"

Rain poured down. Sandstorm cowered over her dead mates body.

*Our kits will never get to see you!*

Suddenly, Sandstorm slunked down onto Firestar, gasping.

"Sandstorm?" Leafpool bent down. "Are you okay?"

"My kits are coming!"

Leafpool's eye blazed with shock. She turned to Squirrelflight.

"Get a stick, and Jayfeather! Run!"

Squirrelflight nodded and raced away.

"Jayfeather!"

The silver tom turned. "I know. I'm not deaf too."

He ran towards the direction of wailing, and Leafpool's voice.

Jayfeather leaned beside Sandstorm.

Squirrelflight handed him the stick Leafpool had requested.

Sandstorm bit down on it.

Sandstorm's belly wiggled as a fluffy ginger tabby slid out.

Jayfeather sniffed at it.

*Tom*

Jayfeather handed him to Squirrelflight, who was watching anxiously.

"Lick it's flank."

Jayfeather turned back over to Leafpool, who was rasped her tongue over a tortoiseshell kit.

"Tom or she-cat?"

"She-cat."

Squirrelflight placed the ginger kit inside the curve of Sandstorm's belly.

Leafpool did the same with the tortoiseshell.

"What are their names?" Squirrelflight asked gently.

Sandstorm, tired as ever, looked down.

"Firekit for the ginger one, in honor of Firestar."

Sandstorm's eyes struck with grief.

"Hollykit for the tortoiseshell, in honor of Hollyleaf."

Leafpool purred. "Those are wonderful names."

## Chapter 1

Sun shown through the nursery entrance as Hollykit leapt onto her brother.

"Gotcha!"

Firekit squealed, blinking in shock.

Sandstorm admired her kits lovingly.

*If only Firestar were here to see them.*

Hollykit flicked her tail. "You're always zoned out, looking at leaves or something!"

Firekit stared at his sister. "It's been lonelier in here since Lilypaw, and Seedpaw left."

Hollykit huffed. "Amberkit, Dewkit, and Snowkit are still here!"

"I guess so."

*Why is he always so gloomy?*

Hollykit padded up to Sandstorm. "I'm gonna go to the clearing. Seeya!" She mewed.

Passing the dirtplace, she wriggled through the entrance.

*It stinks!*

Hollykit noticed light shining in through a crack.

Curious, she padded over and sniffed it.

*I wonder if I could fit through here,* she thought.

Suddenly, a shadow loomed over her.

"Hollykit, what are you doing?" Jayfeather snapped.

The she-kit gulped. "I had finished using the dirtplace-why?" She lied.

*He's blind-so he couldn't see me...right?*

"You were sniffing at that hole." Jayfeather pressed.

*How does he know that?*

"How do you know that?" Hollykit squeaked.

"I could hear you." He flicked his ears.

Hollykit sat down. "I was just curious..." She pleaded.

Jayfeather huffed, rolling his eyes.

"Whatever."

Hollykit wiggled around next to her brother. Crickets chirped as she stared at the camp.

It was cold and breezy.

Sandstorm's purr radianted onto Hollykit's pelt, like a storm of peace.

*I wonder if I could sneak off to the secret dirtplace exit.*

Hollykit moved her tail.

*I hope Sandstorm doesn't wake up...*

As Hollykit wriggled out of her mother's grasp, a small whisper spooked her.

"Is everything alright, Hollykit?" Daisy's soft mew was like a breeze.

"I just need to use the dirtplace."

Daisy nodded, tucking her head back between her paws.

*Phew, that was close,*

~More coming soon~