Lemonkit

Backstory

Lemonkit was born to a litter of five in the alleyway of some two-leg town somewhere in the Dakotas. She was given the name Sunshine by her parents, Gale and Frosty, and her siblings were named Glimmer, Hope, Speckle, Kite, and Snow. They lived in a group of other cats in the alley but mostly kept to themselves and only stayed with this group for safety purposes. Sunshine loved her family and spent the most time with her father, Gale, as he showed her how to stay safe and well fed in this less than desirable home they had. She had a special kind of bond with her brother Speckle and they stayed pretty much connected at the hip every moment of every day. They did everything together from playing to talking to even sleeping together. There was one particular day that changed her perfect life forever and will haunt her dreams for many moons to come...

!!! T.W. Blood, violence, and animal abuse below !!!

It was a cloudy and gloomy day as a storm prepared to roll in and bring water to the small two-leg town. The group of cats had begun moving about for another day and gathering more food than usual to prepare for whatever the storm had brewing in case they couldn't scavenge for a couple days. Sunshine was walking around with her father, Speckle trotting along with them, when Gale stopped in his tracks and the unsuspecting Sunshine bumped into his leg. Looking up to see why he had stopped and a little excited that it would be food related she looked around where his gaze was frozen. Suddenly everything around her became slow. There was a huge monster sitting where the group of cats tended to rest and eat. It's mouth rumbling the ground as steam poured out behind it. Its black wheels and face painted red as it rested on the bodies of several cats who were either screaming for help and in pain... or not even moving as their last moment was immortalized on their faces. The sides of the monster's face opened and four two-legs stepped out from its head wielding large shiny sticks. A booming sound became deafening when its face opened and it disoriented the small kit and her brother. Sunshine looked up to her father once more to see him screaming in agony, tears streaming down his face as if he had been struck by that monster. Her gaze turned to her brother who was frozen with tears streaming down his face as well. She looked once more ahead at the bodies of cats on the ground to see her mother, Frosty, among the lifeless under the wheels. She continued to watch as the two-legs chased the cats in the opening, swinging their sticks wildly and grabbing them off the ground only to throw them in the air and swing... she didn't know what to do besides sit there and watch behind her father and a trash can as more of her siblings were crushed under the metal sticks and stopped moving... stopped screaming for mom or dad to help... she then watched as Gale ran into the chaos to save one of her sisters, Hope, before she could meet the same fate as Glimmer, Kite, and Snow. He had successfully swept up Hope and ran back to where Sunshine and Speckle were hiding, dropping Hope and running back out there. The two-legs chased Gale as he wove around to the bodies of his family, quickly checking for any sign to save them. The two-legs had smiles stretched on their faces as they laughed about what they were doing and the agony they caused. Gale wound up scooping up Kite in his jaws before returning to the other three terrified kits and yowling for them to follow him as he continued past them. The three scrambled to follow their father away from the scene and they rushing into a storm drain and into safety. They stopped running a few yards into the drain when Gale set down Kite to check on his son. Kite was barely breathing and was covered in blood as his body bent in a weird way at his shoulders. The broken family rested there as Gale tried everything to make Kite as comfortable as possible...

That wasn't the end of the terrible day. A few hours into resting Sunshine noticed her paws getting wet. She looked down to see a river forming below the family and rapidly getting deeper. Panicked, she pushed into Gale begging for them to keep moving or they wouldn't be safe anymore. Her father got up and picked up Kite once more, gently this time, and they began racing to find an exit to the drain. They found a ladder leading to an open hole and it seemed to be the only option for leaving the storm drain. Gale told Sunshine, Hope, and Speckle to stay put as he would climb the ladder and come back down for them. With that, he began climbing the ladder slowly, trying not to have Kite hit any of the bars as they ascended. After a while he made his way back down and grabbed Hope to make the journey up once more. Now two of the four kits were out of the storm drain and Gale came down for Speckle this time. The water level was getting quite high now and it was hard for Sunshine to keep herself stable as she tried desperately to wait for her father to finish with Speckle and come down for her. She saw him begin to come down for her when a sudden rush of water swept her off her feet and she went tumbling down the storm drain, never to see her family again.

!!! End T.W. !!!

When she opened her eyes again she was washed up on the side of a river not knowing where she was or how far from home. She got up weakly and began wandering aimlessly, hoping to find someone to help her... anyone that knew where her father and siblings were... After what seemed like hours of wandering she collapsed beside a tree exhausted and weak. She fell asleep shortly after, gasping for every breath she can get despite the burning in her lungs and the pain she felt everywhere. It was then she was found by a patrol of cats and brought into Roseclan.

Kithood

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