The Setting Summer Sun

WillowClan
Leader: Hopestar- Gray-brown she-cat

Deputy: Whistlebreeze- Black tom

Medicine cat: Fallowstorm- grey tom

Apprentice,Riverwind

Warriors:

Jemstone- White she-cat

Apprentice, Timberpaw

Emberglory- Black and white she-cat.

Runningsky- Handsome brown tabby tom.

Apprentice, Featherpaw

Icegleam- Gentle gray tabby tom with black paws.

Apprentice, Mousepaw

Apprentices:

Featherpaw- Gray she-cat

Mousepaw- Blue-gray tom.

Timberpaw- Small white she-cat with brown stripes.

Riverwind- Tall,large brown she-cat with white stripes

Queens:

Whisperdawn- black and brown she-cat

Poppycloud- Auburn and ginger she-cat.

Elders:

Gingertail- Ginger tom with a long tail and white paws.

RobinClan
Leader: Pouncingstar- Brown tabby tom with black paws

Deputy: Tallfoot- Black she-cat with white ears and a brown tail

Warriors:

Flyingbird- Ginger she-cat

Firesky- Blue-gray tom

Apprentice, Deerpaw

ReedClan
Leader: Cloudstar- White and brown tom.

Deputy: Trouttail- Lean gray tom.

Medicine Cat: Berrywhisker- Ginger she-cat

Warriors:

Auburnpelt- Auburn tom

Sunstone- Golden she-cat

Breezewhisker- gray she-cat

Apprentice, Cherrypaw

Apprentice:

Cherrypaw- red and brown she-cat.

Chapter 1
Winter is cold.We all shiver in our nests.Imagine snowdrift upon snowdrift till you can't even move without feeling snow.Imagine dens piled with ice crystals.Nests covered in frost.Kits freezing to death.

My world is filled with ice and snow.I've never known anything.My mother tells me stories of warmth and sunshine.But I fear they are just that....stories.There is no sun.No warmth.No glowing flowers and running prey.

Just cold,bitter winter.

My name is Rustlekit.I shouldn't be alive.And with this storm,I may not be for much longer.

Chapter 2
Cold.Cold.Cold.COLD!It's all I've ever known.I can't even imagine warmth.Not now.The closest I've ever been to warm is not freezing.And even that seems far off now.

My mother can't keep me.I'm not supposed to exist.I can't even say her name to anyone.It's such a pretty name.But if anyone knew...

Riverwind.

Her name is Riverwind.She is a medicine cat apprentice.Apprentices shouldn't have kits.

Especially Medicine cats.

I should be dead.Sometimes I wish I was.No nursery for me.I sleep in a hollow far underground.Yet still the winds reach me.

No queens to warm my den.Just my mother,and she must stay with Fallowstorm.

My brother is dead.He froze in just a few moments.Now I must struggle.I envy him.I envy the “normal" kits.I envy the cats in StarClan,who have no brutal winter.

I envy every cat.I have nothing.

My name is Rustlekit,and I envy everyone.

Chapter 3
My name is Riverwind.I have a secret.

I have a kit.

I should have two,I should have none.I can't just settle for in between.Rustlekit deserves to die.She wouldn't have to hide from StarClan.Would she?

Maybe StarClan would tell Fallowstorm...he could tell Hopestar...she would know.

I must hide her.I wish I could keep her.I wish I could keep Lakekit.

But I can't.I have broken the medicine cat code.I am sorry,StarClan.I wish I could make things right.

I envy the queens who do not need to hide their kits.The medicine cats who have nothing to hide.

I envy Runningsky,who does not run from his kits.He is nit sad that Lakekit is dead.

He is lucky.He has no secret.I must care for Rustlekit,not him.

I envy him.

My name is Featherpaw.I am worried.

I worry about the kits who starve,the kits who freeze.

I worry about my mother,Hopestar.She is so thin...and she is having kits.She refuses to eat and she won't move to the nursery.

My mother is ill,I'm sure.Fallowstorm tries to help and she won't accept it.

Chapter 4
My world is winter.My world is darkness.I'm trapped underground.I deserve to die.My life is secret.My mother is scared.

We will be caught.It will be over from there.My life is a hole.Dark and deep,cold and full of sorrow.

I wish I was Lakekit.That's my brother.He knows what warm means.He is lucky.

I will always envy him.