Chapter 3- An Unneeded Prisoner

Bloodclan:

Leader: Scourge, a black tom with blue eyes and one white paw. Has purple collar

Deputy: Bone, a white tom with black patches and has green eyes. Has green collar to match eyes

Warriors:

Flower: a light brown she-cat with darker flecks and amber eyes. Has blue collar.

Magma (Mark): a reddish-brown tom with blue eyes and has a red collar.

Brick: a rusty-brown tom with green eyes. Has a rainbow collar.

Claw: A light ginger tabby tom with green eyes and has scars over both eyes. Has no collar.

Owl: A tom, brown tabby, and has black stripes and he has blue eyes. Has red collar.

Bird: has a pretty brown tabby pelt and her stripes are light brown, with tinges of ginger and her eyes are amber. Has red collar.

Cats outside of Bloodclan:

Angel: a white she-cat with black patches. Has green eyes and no collar. Scourge's mate.

~A few moons after those events~

Scourge's POV

I woke to the surprisingly bright sun of leaf-bare. I looked out of my rock-like structure and saw that all of my warriors are asleep. Its dawn and Angel would be awake. I padded toward the entrance of my alley and padded toward where the gray floor met the scaly, black, pathway for monster. A monster roared past me, my ears felt like exploding. After that, I streaked across the black pathway, making it to the middle where monsters couldn't reach, and I could tell why. It was full of rubbish that that smelled horribly. I heard two monsters coming close to me. It roaring growl went past me and the wind felt like I was going to be blown away. After they passed, I ran as if I were still a kit, running from that cat that almost killed me and made me what I am today. A strong cat. I was at the other side, and luckily, in time. A whole clan of monsters roared past me. I ran towards Angel's den. I found the entrance when I found her den. I was about to enter when I heard a yowl of pain.

I rushed in a screeched, "Let go of her!"

I found Angel on the ground, Bone by her side. She was kitting. There was a large leaf near her hindquarters. A kit was already near her belly, suckling. Bone and Angel looked so similar. "Are you..?" I trailed off, Bone nodded at my unfinished question. Angel grunted in pain. A kit slipped out. One kit was a brown tabby tom. The other was a pitch black she-cat that looked just like me. Only, she had a white tail and a grey chest. Another kit slipped out onto the leaf. Bone picked the kit up by the scruff, and carried the kit toward its mother's belly. The last one had a tortoiseshell pelt. It looked beautiful.

"What should we name them?" Angel looked up at me with weary eyes.

"You have two she-kits and one tom." Bone announced.

"What should we name them?" Angel asked.

"The one that looks like me will be…. Nightpelt." I mewed.

"The tortoiseshell should be… Hazel." Bone mewed and nodded toward Angel, giving her the signal that she should name the tom.

"I think the tom should be Percy." She mewed affectionately

"That's a good name. I love it, the way I love you." I mewed to her.

"I have to get going." Bone said sadly.

"Don't go Bone. Please." Angel mewed

"Okay, fine," Bone mewed, "But only if you let them live in Bloodclan."

"That is what I was planning, Bone." She mewed, "I would like them to live in Bloodclan once they are four moons old. Okay, Bone, Scourge?"

"Okay." Bone mewed with a hint of regret in his voice.

"I think that's a great idea. And Angel?" I was starting up a conversation.

"Yes, Scourge?" She mewed with weariness in her mew.

"I was wondering if Bloodclan could stay here if we needed a place to stay." I asked my mate. Bone was taken aback. I thought we are never going to leave our alley! Bone thought.

"Fine with me. Bone, can you bring Flower here? I need a cat to keep my kits and me safe." She asked Bone.

"Okay, sister." Bone answered her worrying question. He ran out of the twoleg nest to go and fetch her. One of the kits looked up, sort of looking at me, and opened her eyes. Nightpelt seemed to smile. She dropped her head down, closed her eyes, and resumed suckling along with her siblings. I heard paw steps of Bone, Flower and some one else.

"Aw. Their so cute! What are their names?" I heard Flower's mew.

"Why would we like to hear their names? That would just make the more annoying." I heard the other cat mew. One of the kits, Percy, stopped suckling and started wailing.

Angel wrapped her tail around her kits and laid her head down and closed her eyes to get some rest.

"The one Owl just made wail, is Percy." Bone mewed.

"Phh. It's not my fault. It chose to hear me." Owl retorted.

"What about the one that looks like Scourge?" Flower asked. I whipped my head around and looked at them.

"Nightpelt." I answered her. "The other one is Hazel."

"I love their names." Owl mewed sarcastically.

"I truly love them." Flower mewed.

"Me too. I wish they were mine." Bone mewed, with a loving look at the kits.

"Well, we have to guard the little whelps." Owl growled, "We are not here to take care of them."

"You have to do that too." Bone mewed. Owl drew his lips back into a snarl.

"Shut up, Owl! You'll wake them!" I hissed at Owl.

"Well, looks who mewing?" Owl retorted.

"Thanks, Scourge for letting us kit-sit." Flower glanced at the kits with a wondering gleam in her eye. "I think they'll open their eyes tomorrow."

"Yeah, as if." Owl mewed with an ungrateful glace at the kits.

"Well, good-bye, you two." I mewed to them, "Come on, Bone." Bone followed me out into the chilly outside. Once we stepped outside, the putrid tang of the thunderpath hit our noses. We padded to the edge, where we crossed to get to the alley. Several monsters roared past us, buffeting our fur, making the moment colder. Once there were no more monsters, we streaked toward the middle, where the monsters never reached. We were breathless. A few more monsters passed from behind. Lucky for us, there were no monsters passing on the side we had to cross right now. We streaked across, again. Our pads scraped the hard, rough, thunderpath. We made it across and padded down the gray, cold, floor beneath us. We padded until we found the wide entrance to our alley. Flower, Magma, and Bird were in their nests, sleeping.

"Their out collecting herbs." Bone piped up, answering my unsaid question.

"Thanks for telling me." I replied. Bird woke up from her slumber, with tiredness in her eyes. The prey pile was missing the two mice and the shrew. Guess they got hungry. I thought. Bird got up, padded over to the prey pile and picked up a mouse and started eating it. Her cheek wounds turned into scars. She finished her meal, padded toward me and Bone, passing us to dump the remains of the mouse near the entrance.

She padded back over to the prey pile and nosed out two mice. Then she stared at the pile, like Bone did a few moons ago.

"A bird, a squirrel, a vole, and a rabbit. We only have four pieces of prey, Scourge." Bird reported to me. I nodded my approval. She looked as if she has been eating a lot.

"How much have you been eating, a day." Bone asked her.

"Um… Three pieces of prey a day." She mewed, with a hint of worry in her mew.

"Okay. Stop eating that much. Okay?" Bone mewed.

"Err, Okay, Bone." She replied.

"Thanks." He mewed. He padded over to his nest, and lay down. Claw and Brick came into the alley with herbs in their jaws. They deposited the herbs a few tail lengths from my nest. They padded out of they alley a few seconds later. I shrugged to myself.

They came in what felt like a moon later with prey in their jaws. Claw had a squirrel and a bird. Brick had an adder and a mouse. The padded over to the prey pile and deposited their prey, before that they cleared the pile out and put their prey in, then put the older prey on top.

"So we eat the older prey first?" I asked. The only reply I got was a nod from Brick.

They padded over to their nests, lay down, closed their eyes, and fell asleep. Bird prodded Magma and Bone awake. I stood up, my fur bristling in anger, "How dare you wake them up! You should have asked me first if you could wake them up!" I hissed.

She looked at me in confusion. Bone and Magma awoke, looking at me.

"Were building a place to keep the herbs, beside your den." Magma explained.

"Oh. Well, how come no-one told me?" I asked.

"It's my fault. I thought Owl already told you?" Bone mewed.

"Well, he didn't." I replied, "You can go, if you want."

"Thanks for understanding." Bird mewed. Bone padded toward the end of the alley, where the red wall was. He bundled himself up, and leaped over the wall. Bird was next. She did the same. As well as Magma, who supposedly landed clumsily, from the noise he made landing. I padded over toward my den, entered my den, lay down on my nest, and closed my eyes so darkness could over-come me and take me away to dream-clan.

"Hello? Are you there, Berry?" I yowled.

"I'm right here. Why are you so worried?" A pale ginger she-cat with amber eyes asked.

"Angel had kits." I replied.

"Why are you so worried then?" She asked.

"What if they don't live through the beginning of new-leaf?" I asked Berry.

"I am their guardian. I am going to control their fate. Is that clear?" She asked.

"Yes but-," I was cut off by her mew, "No buts. I am your sister. I am tiny like you. Socks and Ruby made fun of me too. Remember that. I can only say that I am not your ghost anymore. I am their ghost. Remember what I mean by ghost." She mewed.

"Okay." I mewed. She started fading away. I awoke with a jolt. It was dawn.