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Chapter One

"How much longer?" asked Heatherkit.

"I don't know admitted their mother, Willowface. "I suppose we could stop here and rest for a while," she sighed. They were all weary. They had been traveling since the middle of the night and it was just past sunhigh now.

"Dewpelt," called Willowface. "We need to rest."

"Thank Starclan," murmured Dewpelt as she settled down on the grass. "I don't think my paws could have held me much longer."

"My paws ache," mewed one of Dewpelt's kits, Thistlekit, a little tortoiseshell.

Bramblekit looked around. They had traveled a long way, and he was very hungry. He looked up at his mother and asked, "Why did we leave Shadowclan?"

"Because Brokenstar is a cruel leader, and we may all have died if we stayed," she answered.

Heatherkit's eyes were wide. "Died?"

"Yes," mewed Dewpelt gently. "Your mother and I knew that we had to leave when he started making kits who were hardly strong enough into apprentices."

"But I want to be an apprentice," meowed Bramblekit, puzzled.

Willowface's eyes softened. "I know you do, and you will be an apprentice, but only when you're ready.

Just then, Thistlekit ran over excitedly. "Look! Rushkit caught a mouse!" Thistlekit's sister, Rushkit scampered up with a mouse held proudly in her jaws. Despite her weariness, Dewpelt jumped up and began to lick Rushkit's ears. "Well done," she exclaimed. Just then, a brown cat came hurtling through the trees and pinned down Willowface. Bramblekit watched, shocked, as the cat bent it's head and snarled into his mother's face. "What are you doing here?"

"Get off of me," spat Willowface.

"What I want to know," growled the tom "is what six Shadowclan cats are doing on the border of Windclan."

Sorry I haven't updated in so long. I have loads of homework and have barely any time to write, but I'm workin' on it