The Legend of Shade
Ten rogue toms stood at the top of a hill, overlooking the Forestclan cats. It was well into the night, and a fog was rolling in over the camp in the hollow below
"Man boys! Think of all the she cats we will get when we kill them all off! And all the food! Oh, this is too easy! They probably won't kill us because of their stupid warrior code! Oh, they beat us before, but now we greatly outnumber them! There is no way we can lose now boys!"
"So what, Marv? Do we attack now?"
Marv, who was a large, orange tom with many battle scars, including one that spanned unattractively across his right eye, replied, "No. We wait till the fog goes. Then we strike! I want to see the fear in their eyes when we slaughter them."
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The toms fell asleep after talking and dreams of she-cats when Soldier, who was guarding the "camp" noticed some ferns moving just outside the entrance. Soldier, who was a small white tom with unusually long claws, unsheathed them.
"Who's there?" he asked nervously. "I'm going to attack you if you don't leave me alone."
Immediately, the shaking ceased, and Soldier backed off, and said, "Pussy." However, fearing that whatever it had been was still around, he kept a watchful eye open.
A little later, Soldier was looking at the ground when he noticed his shadow moving. "But I'm not moving," he said.
A heartbeat later, he collapsed to the ground, under the weight of another cat, with fur black as night. Soldier heaved upwards and threw the cat off. They locked eyes for a second. Soldier noted that his eyes were piercing blue, so shocking that he doubted he would forget the look. The cat's claws glinted like ice against the moonlight, and the cat charged. The speed of which the cat attacked surprised Soldier from the look on his face, and his face would stay that way, as blood poured from the tom's throat. All Soldier could think was, "How… Is he… so… fast….unghh…"
The tom looked up, blood glimmering on his paws. The other toms had surrounded him, probably from the noise Soldier made while fighting for his life.
"You killed Soldier!" Marv said in disbelief. "He was one of my brothers! You'll pay for that! Attaaaaack!"
The black cat's eyes glinted, and his face was expressionless other than those eyes. He took one huge leap into the sky, and seemed to touch the moon. The rogues looked up awestruck as the cat leaped over them all, seemingly with no effort. They charged after the cat, but he was ready. With a spinning slash on his rear legs, he gashed two of the tom's bellies, who immediately squealed in pain like kittens, and jumped back. He silenced one of them with a graceful bound forward followed by and upward slash that raked the tom's throat and glazed over his eyes. He quickly clawed one of the fleeing tom's tails and with one quick cut, that tom's tail was no longer there. The tom's howls of pain were silenced with a bite to the throat, and the other toms let out panicked yowls as he mauled them one by one as they ran through the forest.
Finally, only Marv was left, and he had one broken leg. Unable to run, he looked fearfully into the eyes of the black tom. "Who are you?" he asked.
The tom's voice was quiet, like the breeze flowing through trees or a stream over rocks. "I am Shade, the protector of the clans. I was once a clan cat of Forestclan. My name was Shadestar, the fastest cat in the clans. I am the one who protects the lands of the clans from evildoers like you. And for that, you must pay. I'm sorry I have to do this." Marv's howls of agony spread through the forest like wildfire, then all was quiet.