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This is the second book in the Malevolent Shadows Trilogy! If you haven't read my first book Malevolent Shadows: Book 1: Amnesia Then you should read that first. I don't want any readers unintentionally spoiling it for themselves.
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The prologue is a bit strange but... hope you don't mind.
The allegiances are for: SkyClan, BloodClan, and ThunderClan.
Anyway, I'm really pleased that I'm starting the second book. I'll be updating constantly, and I hope a few of the people that read my previous book will be wanting to continue on and read the sequel. (:
Also, apologies for the... not-that-good image right now. I'll replace it soon.
SkyClan Allegiances:
Leader: Breezestar-slender smoky black she-cat with faint silver stripes and pale silver paws with icy blue eyes
Deputy: Thistlespots-dark brown tabby tom with fur that sticks up in tufts and black spots with dark amber eyes
Medicine Cat: Poppywish-dark red furred tabby she-cat with a tortoiseshell and white tail and pale green eyes
Apprentice: Tinywing
Warriors:
Tigermist-pale brown she-cat with dark brown stripes and dark brown paws with bright amber eyes
Apprentice: Morningpaw
Ripplestreak-pale gray tom with darker silver stripes and a black striped tail with dark yellow eyes
Briarsong-dark brown furred she-cat with light brown dapples and white paws with amber eyes
Nettlestrike-dark brown tabby tom-cat with a black chest and underbelly with a black ringed tail and amber eyes
Cloudpath-long furred white tom-cat with a dark gray streak running from nose to tail tip and blue eyes
Speckledash-white furred tom with light brown speckles and light brown paws with blue eyes
Stormstrike-pale gray tom-cat with dark gray stripes and black dapples with stormy gray eyes
Apprentice: Duskpaw
Fallowsplash-white furred she-cat with pale gray tabby splotches and pale yellow eyes
Flamelight-dark ginger furred tom with dark red stripes and dark red ears with pale green eyes
Spottedraven-tortoiseshell she-cat with red, black, brown and gray dapples with dark brown eyes
Apprentice: Scarletpaw
Tallsun-pale golden tom-cat with dark ginger dapples and green eyes
Coldsnow-white furred tom with a silver striped tail and silver ears with blue eyes
Nightgaze-black furred tom with silver stripes and silver tail tip with pale blue eyes
Apprentices:
Tinywing-small white furred she-cat with pale gray speckles and dark blue eyes
Duskpaw-dark blue she-cat with a black splotch on her face and a black tail with yellow eyes
Morningpaw-pale gray she-cat with dark gray streaks and yellow eyes
Scarletpaw-dark red she-cat with a pale ginger striped tail and pale ginger paws with light green eyes
Queens:
Swallowfern-white furred she-cat with light brown stripes and amber eyes, mother to Coldsnow's kits (Lilykit-silver tabby she-cat with brown spots and pale blue eyes, Dovekit-smoky gray she-cat with a white splash on her chest and forehead and amber eyes)
Heatherdawn-light brown tabby she-cat with white paws and a white tail tip and green eyes, mother to Nightgaze's kits (Mintkit-white furred she-cat with light brown spots and a light brown tail tip and green eyes, Fawnkit-light brown tabby she-cat with white paws and light brown ears with amber eyes, Wolfkit-dark gray tom with silver dapples and silver paws with amber eyes, Darkkit-dark smoky gray tom with black markings and ears and green eyes)
Mistynight-pale gray she-cat with a silver paw, a silver tail tip and silver stripes with pale blue eyes, expecting Speckledash's kits in a moon
Elders:
Willowcloud-pale gray she-cat with silver stripes and silver markings and pale blue eyes
Stonepine-pale gray tom with dark gray stripes and brown paws with amber eyes
Dawnpool-cream furred she-cat with white paws and a splash of white on my chest and gray eyes
BoneClan Allegiances:
Leader: Demonstar-black furred she-cat with a silver tint and odd blood-red eyes
Cats:
Rook-shaggy jet-black furred tom-cat, a long and bushy tail, tipped fangs and sharp claws with piercing ice blue eyes
Silver-silver furred she-cat with a dark gray paw and pale yellow eyes
Moon-silver furred tom-cat with a dark gray tail tip and pale yellow eyes
Cloud-fluffy white furred she-cat with gray tipped ears and dark blue eyes
Pine-thin, lanky light brown furred tom-cat with a dark brown striped tail and green eyes
Raven-dark gray mottled black she-cat with dark amber eyes
Falcon-silver tom with dark gray dapples and light blue eyes
Blue-blue furred she-cat with gray paws and gray eyes
Flora-tortoiseshell and brown she-cat with white spots and blue eyes
Lily-ginger furred she-cat with dark red ears and paws with dark green eyes
Sharp-dark ginger tom with green eyes
Fire-dark ginger tom with amber eyes
Blaze-red and ginger dappled tom-cat with yellow eyes
Shadow-silver and black striped she-cat with dark blue eyes
Maple-tortoiseshell she-cat with red spots and brown spots and dark blue eyes
Spencer-dark brown tom with black paws and a black tail tip with dark gray eyes
Jasper-black furred tom with pale gray stripes and pale yellow eyes
Striker-gray tom with black stripes and blue eyes
Furze-black and white spotted tom with dark green eyes
Smear-white tom with a black streak on his back with dark amber eyes
Flicker-white she-cat with ginger speckles and red ears with forest green eyes
Crow-dark gray tom with smoky black paws and smoky black striped tail with dark blue eyes
Slash-dark gray and silver tom with amber eyes
Hazel-white she-cat with pale gray spots and pale gray stripes and pale blue eyes
Black-black tom with dark gray hardly visible stripes and dark gray paws with pale yellow eyes
Blossom-tortoiseshell she-cat with red paws and blue eyes
Cali-calico she-cat with brown spots and amber eyes
Cherry-dark red she-cat with ginger spots and ginger paws with dark green eyes
Cross-silver and black tom with green eyes
Cedar-dark gray tom with black spots and blue eyes
Cinder-pale gray she-cat with black spots and green eyes
Ash-pale gray tom with dark gray speckles and black dapples with shadowy blue eyes
Fallen-broad-shouldered long-furred silver and black tabby tom-cat marked with battle scars and dark amber eyes
Queens:
Misty-pale gray she-cat with dark gray splotches and pale blue eyes, mother to Cross's kits (Smokekit-smoky gray tom with blue eyes, Dawnkit-cream furred tom with a golden tail and blue eyes)
Winter-white she-cat with blue stripes and blue eyes, mother to Pine's kits (Antkit-light brown tom with dark brown stripes and dark green eyes, Sharkkit-dark gray tom with pale gray paws and blue eyes, Thornkit-golden and white she-cat with blue eyes, Whitekit-white furred she-cat with blue eyes, Rainkit-dark blue furred she-cat with dark gray stripes and white paws and blue eyes)
Rose-dark cream furred she-cat with red dapples and a red tail with blue eyes, mother to Fire's kits (Redkit-dark red furred tom with ginger spots and blue eyes, Brownkit-dark brown and russet spotted she-cat with green eyes, Russetkit-russet furred she-cat with red paws and a red tail with blue eyes)
Stream-silver she-cat with blue stripes and blue eyes, mother to Jasper's kits: (Lilykit-dark brown tabby she-cat with white paws and green eyes, Aquakit-pale blue furred she-cat with green eyes)
Fern-golden furred she-cat with pale gray paws and pale gray tail tip, expecting Cross's kits
Silver-silver furred she-cat with a black tail and green eyes, expecting Furze's kits
Turtle-tortoiseshell she-cat with white and red dapples and pale blue eyes, expecting Falcon's kits
ThunderClan Allegiances:
Leader: Whitestar-broad shouldered white tom with icy blue eyes
Deputy: Tigerstorm-dark brown and black tabby tom with a splash of white on his chest and amber eyes
Medicine Cat: Dawnriver-cream furred she-cat with pale blue eyes
Apprentice: Skyfeather
Warriors:
Pinefeather-light brown tabby tom with a white underbelly, tail-tip, ears, paws and amber eyes
Snowflash-white tom with a splash of silver on his chest with blue eyes
Apprentice: Willowpaw
Hazelcloud-white and brown dappled she-cat with green eyes
Rosepelt-red and brown dappled she-cat with green eyes
Jayleaf-pale gray tabby tom with jay-blue eyes
Apprentice: Mosspaw
Feathersnow-silver and dark gray tabby tom with blue eyes
Leafstream-light brown tabby she-cat with green eyes
Apprentice: Poppypaw
Sunfeather-golden tabby she-cat with a white underbelly and amber eyes
Redfire-red and ginger mottled tom with amber eyes
Cloudfrost-white tom with blue eyes
Vixenrose-dark red she-cat with a bushy tail with a black tail-tip and green eyes
Apprentice: Cherrypaw
Thistlefrost-golden tabby tom-cat whose fur sticks up in tufts with amber eyes
Apprentice: Lynxpaw
Flowercloud-tortoiseshell and white she-cat with blue eyes
Raintail-silvery blue tom with blue eyes
Nightmoon-black tom with amber eyes
Darkshade-black tom with dark gray paws and amber eyes
Flameowl-bright ginger she-cat with green eyes
Stormhawk-cream and gray dappled tom with blue eyes
Berrywhisker-cream furred tom with blue eyes
Blossomsky-tortoiseshell and white she-cat with a golden tail-tip and amber eyes
Apprentices:
Skyfeather-light brown tabby tom with a white underbelly and paws and sky-blue eyes
Mosspaw-light gray and white dappled she-cat with blue eyes
Willowpaw-light gray and white tabby she-cat with blue eyes
Poppypaw-tortoiseshell, white and red she-cat with a red tail tip and amber eyes
Lynxpaw-red and brown mottled tom with amber eyes
Cherrypaw-ginger and red dappled she-cat with red paws and amber eyes
Queens:
Fernsnow-brown and golden tabby she-cat with blue eyes, mother to Raintail's kits: Bluekit (blue furred tom with blue eyes) Lionkit (golden tabby she-kit with a white underbelly and amber eyes) Vinekit (golden tabby tom with brown stripes and amber eyes) Ashkit (pale gray she-cat with blue eyes)
Pantherlight-black she-cat with a splash of gray on her chest and amber eyes, mother to Snowflash's kits (Lightkit-white furred she-cat with silver spots and amber eyes, Crowkit-black tom with a splash of gray on his chest and amber eyes)
Dappleleaf-red and brown dappled she-cat with a white tail-tip and green eyes, expecting Feathersnow's kits
Elders:
Larkheart-gray tabby she-cat with blue eyes
Talonclaw: dark gray and black tom with amber eyes
Prologue:
A dark furred she-cat slunk out of the shadows, her queer eyes gleaming. A cold smirk of satisfaction and pleasure was curled on her muzzle, twisting her probably once angelic and beautiful features into a mask of bitter amusement. She sank her claws into the ground with each step, her tail flicking, eyes staring into nothing, head lost in thought. Thoughts filled with revenge, with blood, with gore, with destruction and flames and death. She pictured it once more; her, poised lightly and deadly as a panther, claws unsheathed and dripping with crimson blood, fangs out and eyes alight with a icy fury. She would be undefeated. There was no way she would lose the upcoming war. No way at all. She shuffled forward, the shadows blending with her dark pelt, helping her meld into the darkness.
"I know you're here." She spoke, her mouth opened slightly and eyes narrowed. She didn't show any concern or fear, nor did she show anger, or happiness, or just plain surprise. She was expressionless and emotionless, the smirk seeming to peel off her lips and her face returning to a cold, stony mask of nothing. "I know you want to talk to me." Her tail flicked slightly, as if beckoning the other cat forward. The tom stepped out of the shadows, his pelt gleaming in the darkness. His eyes were dark with the lust for revenge. However, she was not afraid, as she knew the lust and the vengeance boiling beneath his pelt, so close to erupting, was not felt for her. No, it wasn't. It was felt for something much more reasonable, she thought. The vengeance was held for the clans. She suspected there was hate for her as well, although tiny compared to the large amount for the clan cats. But this time, they weren't to talk about business. This was about something much more personal.
The tom said nothing, just gazing at her. He was silent, his expression a mixture of so many that she couldn't even tell which one he was feeling at the moment. He dug his claws into the ground, rage making his eyes seem almost black. However, he still did not speak. His posture was stiff and tense, his muscles flexing as he stood there.
"Well?" She snapped, impatience clear in her voice. "Speak." Clearly unused to the silence and unwillingness to cooperate with her, she was slightly taken back. Her perfect posture was broken. Also frustration that he was refusing to speak about…. About him. "Fine." She snarled, her fur fluffing up. She whirled on him, her eyes flashing with defiance and frustration. "It'll just be me talking about him." She scowled fiercely at him. "Lets see, he is a great fighter. He is about to be a father, as young as he is. He is incredible at hunting. He surprisingly is a very good swimmer. However, he is not a climber. He is pretty good at controlling his fury." Her eyes glinted as she added the last part. "He is almost mine."
"Interesting." The tom mused, wreathing himself around the she-cat. His eyes sparked with slight dark amusement as she stiffened at his touch, yanking herself away from him. The one thing she was afraid of. Never would she admit it, but somewhere in that frozen heart of hers, past all the layers of ice and walls and thorns, there was one vulnerability. And to his great delight it was him. He was the one. The one who had abused her innocence, betrayed her trust, broken her heart. "His looks?" He stated. Although trying to push it down, a small spark of curiosity built in his chest at the thought of him. After all these moons and moons of searching, they had found him. Finally.
"A mix." The she-cat's voice was stiff and cold, eyes narrowed. "He has your silver pelt, but he has black markings that came from me. He has your strong build and icy blue eyes."
The tom's eyes lit up in amusement and cruel excitement. "Shame." He sneered. "All those traits from me, and only the measly black markings that shows he's even related to you." The black she-cat's eyes flashed, the familiar blood-red he had looked into so many times. Sudden coldness and anger whirled in them, like a storm, and she took a threatening step forward. She curled her lip, her fangs showing. The tom suddenly felt a small trickle of fear, something he had never before felt for anything. Her protective way of acting, her fury when he taunted her, the small spark of pride in her voice… He couldn't hold back the peal of laughter that erupted from his throat. The foolish she-cat had fallen in love with him. Their son. The one they had planned as an asset to destroy the clans. The one they didn't care if he died or not, but only if he fulfilled the destiny his parents had put out for him. "You love him!" He chortled. "Still the same naive she-cat, I see."
"Every mother loves her kit." She retorted, however her voice was even. Her tail trembled slightly, and the tom noticed. She inwardly cursed for showing that bit of vulnerability to him. He noticed everything. It was how he got to his title. His position.
"But does every kit love their mother?" He murmured, his voice no louder than a whisper. His breath tickled her ear, and she flinched away from him. She hated the way she flinched from everything he did. The way she would wince at his words, flinch from his touch, shiver at something as plain as the sight of his familiar, taunting, cruel face.
"I came to discuss how we would use him. In our plans." She snapped, taking the topic off of her unwanted affections for her son. "Not to discuss me." Her voice was sharp as she spoke.
He turned away from her. Perfectly still. Not budging.
She sighed with frustration. She turned away from him as well, not moving. If he didn't wish to cooperate, then she would wait. She gazed forward, her red gaze raking across the clearing. She was at the edge of the twolegplace, and they were both standing only a few fox-lengths from a Thunderpath. She growled lowly, imagining herself throwing him and his smug face right into the dangerous path of a monster. She looked across, as there were no twolegs walking anywhere. It was dead silent. The breeze was harsh, pushing against the twigs of the trees. They picked up a few rare, rotten leaves off the ground and carried them away. It was so quiet she could hear her own heartbeat. She could hear his breathing. She continued to draw her gaze up. It was midnight, so the sky was a dark vivid blue, melding with the blackness of the shadowy darkness. The moon glowed eerily, amongst an empty sky without any stars. It was not half-moon yet, but three days before. This was when she always met up with that despicable tom. She growled under her breath.
"That's easy. Convince him that he's on our side." The tom meowed suddenly, breaking her line of thought. "We can keep doing this, you know. Since not every soul is strong enough to harbor… a 'demon' in it, we can test them. Next half-moon we will meet here with seven cats each. They will be the strongest of the strongest. And Fallen will be their mentor."
She felt her heart skip a beat. White flashed across the sky. A loud rumbling noise came. Lightning and thunder. Sudden, icy sheets of water came escaping down from the sky, pounding down on them. Sheets of ice water doused him and her, and icy wind started to buffet them. However, her heart did not jump because of that. It was because he had used the name. Her son's name. The name she had specifically picked out due to her fury and rage at him.
"How do you know I would be able to convince him?" She responded. "Why don't you come too?"
"It's storming." He noted.
"I know." She meowed, flicking rain water out of her ear.
"We should split ways. Come at the half-moon." The silver tom growled.
She opened her jaws to say something, her heart squeezing. She longed to ask him to come with her, just once, to meet their son.
He turned away from her. She watched as he padded away, her heart squeezing.
One step further… Then another. She watched his silhouette slowly disappear from her sight.
That was when she got the courage.
The courage to ask him, the one single cat she had loved, to come visit their son. Their creation.
"Asher!" She shouted after him.
Her one vulnerability.
The one thing she could never defeat.
Her only weakness.
Blood roared in her ears.
The silhouette stopped for a heartbeat and her own heart stopped.
She opened her jaws to shout something else.
He turned away from her, padding swiftly.
She gazed, a soft sound slipping out of her mouth. His silhouette melded with the blackness, disappearing as he faded into the night. He was gone, and now he would never meet their son. Never know who their son really was, before he became a villain. A villain like her. A villain like him.
She couldn't hold it in anymore.
She crumpled to the ground, her ears flattened and her heart pounding harder than she could ever before. The one good thing that had come out of their love, the one good thing that she had created. It was about to be taken away, all because of her. It was going to be taken away before it got a chance to meet its own father.
She did something she had never done before.
She let out all the anger and sadness and fury that was building up inside of her.
She broke down.
Well, that prologue wasn't all that informative. It was mostly just discussing Fallenpaw, but if you read carefully you can pick out quite a lot of important information about their future plan, and also the main weakness of Demonstar. (:
Anyway, I apologize if it's not that good. I'm jet-lagged and my brain is kind of messy, but I just wanted to post this because I was excited. c:
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