Novawhisker

[frost2fur]

"Mom! Mom! Where are you? Why don't you love me?" an apprentice form of Novawhisker was yelling. He was having a dream again... The shape of a female cat formed on the horizon, but as he approached it, it faded into the more muscular form of his fake mother.

"Novapaw, my little kit," a kind voice whispered, "I am here. You are okay."

"You aren't my mother!" Novawhisker yelled back. "You were never my mother! You lied to me! My real mother hates me! You're voice is too kind to be hers!"

Novawhisker was shaking and yowling in his sleep. "Mother! Please come back! Please..." He woke with a jolt, only to find that he was not in the DolphinClan warriors' den. He was somewhere starry, and somewhat peaceful, even soothing.

He realised where he was after several seconds. "I am in Silverpelt. I am part of StarClan now... No family will ever come to join me. If only I had reached out and had a family..." His torn ear stung in painful memory, as he remembered his mother had warned him to stay away by biting off its tip.

"I am alone in Silverpelt."

[Mosstar]

Chesnutfur was padding along with Darkclaw when she spotted Novawhisker. "i remember you,"she meowed," i saw you when you were only a kit, you looked so cute then. but what happened to your ear?"

[frost2fur]

"My... my ear..." Novawhisker remembered sadly. "I finally met my mother, moons after you had died. I was only an apprentice.. She did not understand why I had tried to defend my clan. She remembered me all too well, how she had chosen her legion of rouges over my life and my sister's. We wandered the forest for days. She died before we made it to other cats..."

"My mother told me to just let her kill me. I told her my clan needed me, and that if she ran away she would be safe. I would come see her..."

He trailed off and looked toward the shining ground under-paw.

"She became enraged with my weakness. She didn't want me back in her life. I insisted to guide her to safety, but it made her even madder. She hit her point, and as a warning to leave her be, she bit the tip of my ear off."

He looked back up, eyes welling. "I was never the same. I was determined to become strong and worthy in her eyes. I became rude and inconsiderate. I went to her legion's hide-out. She told me that in order to earn her trust, I had to kill her leader. And that is how I died... alone... and without a family." He blinked a tear away, still trying to be strong, even though he had learned a never-ending lesson. "I wish I could have gotten her to join DolphinClan. I could have brought her here. We could have been family again..."