Nightmare's P.O.V

One moon ago, Stoneclaw had given birth to five wonderful kits. I was one of the first to see them after her mother died. Y/nkit, Thistlekit, Heatherkit, Crowkit, and Breezekit. I took a particular interest in one of them and watched over her with great care. I knew Ravenheart was not the cat he claimed to be and I knew that Stoneclaw deserved to know but I did not want her hating me for telling her. Larkfeather still stayed away from me, even after all this time. She couldn't bear to look at Tigerstripe, after all, I had named him after her dead kit. I sat, paws outstretched in front of me, watching as the kits played, Flykit, and Eaglekit trying to keep up with them while Hawkkit stared intently at Y/nkit. I watched as Y/nkit slid down the rocks and I leapt to my paws, but Ravenheart was faster, he leaped into the air and grabbed her scruff as he passed, setting her down on solid ground. I stood there, fur bushed up and growling. He started to scold her and I walked over, growling and telling Y/nkit to go back to Stoneclaw. She ran off with Thistlekit back to the nursery and I got into a fight with Ravenheart. "She's not your kit, Nightmare! You don't need to get in the way!" He growled. I got angry and hissed. "She's not yours either Ravenheart so don't act like it!" I lashed my tail and walked away. I felt his eyes burning holes in my flank but I did not care, I couldn't stand it when he tried to act like the father he wasn't. I went out to hunt and when I came back I felt better, my head didn't burn, I didn't have the familiar burning in my paws and I was more relaxed as I added my rabbits to the fresh-kill pile. I went to the nursery and checked in on Stoneclaw. "Stoneclaw you might want to practice fighting with Ravenheart, he may or may not be a little upset." I flattened my ears and flicked my tail. "Sorry." I muttered as quietly as possible before backing out of the den. I knew I upset all of them so I left the camp, yawning. I stayed by the river for I don't know how long and when I finally got up to go back to camp, I heard yowling coming from somewhere nearby. I got up and raced towards the noise. I saw Ravenheart crouched beneath a fox. I growled when I realized that Ravenheart would not last much longer without some sort of assistance. I raced forwards without thinking, I knew Stoneclaw and Y/nkit would be heartbroken if he didn't come back. I clawed the fox and stood protectively in front of him, trying my best to protect him. By the time I sent the fox running, Ravenheart was laying on the ground, breathing shallow and his eyes dull. I whimpered. "Come on Ravenheart you've got kits to take care of you can't leave them..." I pawed softly at him and tried to drag him back to camp. He groaned. "Nightmare just leave me here." He muttered. "You watch over Y/nkit and the rest..." He shuddered and I widened my eyes as his eyes glazed over. "NO! Come on Ravenheart you have to get up! You just gotta!" I kept dragging him back to camp, my eyes stung and my throat burned. When I got back to camp with him, finally I set him down in the middle of the clearing and started to groom him. Larkfeather seemed to notice, as she was laying outside and she rushed over, pushing me away and crouching over him, her eyes wide with grief. "Look at what you've done!" She hissed. "You've killed them both! You've killed both of my kits!" She howled. I coughed and even though you couldn't see them, I started to shed tears.

Half a moon passed and Ynkit would wound around my paws and sit in between them. Her f/c fur fluffed up and her soft e/c eyes looking up at me with admiration. Once again the thought that I wasn't able to save her father flashed through my mind and I had to look away, guilt tearing at my chest. I couldn't bear to think that maybe, if I had been there earlier then maybe he'd still be alive. Her eyes wouldn't be quite as dull and she wouldn't lost some of her spunk. I watched her walk over to Hawkkit, her eyes slightly brightened and I growled softly.

Six passed and Bravekit was chasing after Hawkpaw and Y/npaw, I watched her and felt relieved. Tigerstripe walked over and looked down at me. I looked up at him. "Do you want to go hunting with me?" He asked, ever since I had revealed I was his father he had been steadily trying to get closer to me and learn more about Goldleaf. I would tell him about her every once in a while. We went hunting and when we laid down by the river before hunting. "Goldleaf was beautiful... She had beautiful black fur and her eyes were blue... She was kind and everything I wasn't." I whispered, resting my head on my paws and looking away from Tigerstripe. He knew that I wished to speak no more and he got up.

Soon after he left, I got up and went back towards where I came from, the Twolegplace. I went to the only nest I remembered. Two familiar pelts lay outside and I perked up, leaping on top of the fence. Sure enough, it was Dusk and Shimmer. The gray around their muzzles was clear but I knew it was them. I called out to them and they looked at me in confusion. "Who are you?" Shimmer asked. I waved my tail. "I'm Night!" I purred. Shimmer and Dusk's eyes both widened and they padded cautiously over, sniffing me. "You don't smell like Night..." Shimmer said, looking crestfallen. I crouched and managed in my kits voice. "You're much nicer than mother!" I exclaimed. Dusk growled and glared at me. "How dare you come in here and claim that you're our kit?!" He hissed angrily, his eyes filled with a deep hatred and sorrow. He lashed at me and I leaped back with a yelp, my cheek bloody. narrowed my eyes and tried to back off, trying to surrender, but that didn't stop Dusk, he leaped forward and grabbed my hindleg, yanking on it really hard, I could hear the fur rip and my leg pop as it was pulled out of place. I yelped and I limped over to the fence, leaping over it and knocking my leg on it. It hurt and I whimpered. I started to limp back to camp and struggled to move. He had dislocated one of the strongest legs I had so it was harder to move than it should've been had he dislocated one of my minor legs.