Cats of many colors standing in a vast white, sparkly world circled and stared at the unusual creature before them. Their furs were colors of bright green, purple, blue, and mixes of shades of yellow and pink and red, painted with strange colored dots and stripes. Their cat faces had been disfigured, like light had bent their features and smushed them inwards. Their eyes were alien, wide and curious, as they stared down at the black cat creature curled up within itself, cowering under the large cats. The cat creature had white, smooth and long fur tainted with bloody scratches made by the other cats and bright yellow eyes; ones that matched the perfect color of the golden sun.

They continued to stare as the cat creature kept on crying and crying, not moving a muscle. They didn't need to physically hurt him no more; he was in enough pain already. But the cat creature smiled slightly as they frowned, his eyes dazed and dark and broken.

He only spoke a few innocent words before he died;

"At least I had someone to love me...".

DeerClan was not hard to find. It was located right in the middle of a large, but thin valley; surrounded by Oak and Pine trees' and little streams and river here and there where they got their water. Above this valley was a darker place, filled with some trees but mostly their skeletons and the bones of cats and prey, one that I had been living in until the tom came.

I stared at the group of cats from the higher ground, seeing their bodies wiggle their way one place to another. That was another disgusting thing about this world.

I began to climb downwards, letting my claws settle in and prepare to take latch to the ground when I needed so. My body began to slide downwards past the naked shrubs and large ground plants, almost seemingly uncontrollably falling to my 'death'. But in fact, I was going to be fine. I was always going to 'live' no matter what.

Finally, I stopped myself right as I was about to touch the bottom of the valley's ground. I detached my claws from the vines and weeds caught in between my paws and whipped off the plant parts that were sticking to my legs. Sniffing the air, I walk towards the scent that smelled a whole lot like DeerClan.

Why was I doing this? I don't know. It was my gut feeling telling me to go, for some odd reason. I even switched my eye color to green for this! I just felt like I had sensed an opportunity; an opportunity to get back to StarClan.

"Intruder!" A female cat yowled. "There's an intruder!"

Great StarClan, I thought as I stood by the leader's stone-gray den, how can I be so mouse-brain to let myself just WALK in here?

The rest of the cats stopped what they were doing and immediately went to where the sandy colored she-cat was. She was a beauty, bless her heart, but I had no interest in anything like this happening to me.

A gray cat growled. "Probably from the Northern Clans, I bet!"

"No, from the Western Clans!"

"No, the East!"

"Southern, mouse brains!"

They continued to babble on and on about where the 'strange' tom came from. I kind of want to tell them I'm actually from above, I thought, cause' I can't stand mouse-brains.

Then the cats paused as soon as a fairly old tom came out from the leader's den. He had striking yellow eyes, surprising for a cat at an age like him, and a black and white ruffly coat. His tail was also strangely long and his paws were speckled with pieces of dirt and some sort of nesting debris.

"What is all this racket I'm hearing?" The older tom said as he turned to look at the sandy beauty with dense, fairly cold eyes. "And you, Sandblaze; aren't you suppose to be on patrol?"

Sandblaze nodded. "Yes, but we found an intruder and brought him here..."

The clan leader looked at me with unreadable eyes, almost like he didn't even know who I was... which, he didn't... but it still kind hurt my feelings he didn't know great old' Death.

"Tom cat, who are you? What is your name?"

"Um... Dark. My name is Dark" I lied. Of course I wouldn't say my real name, sheesh.

"So are you a loner, a rogue, or... a lost kittypet?" The clan leader spoke.

"Um, I'm a l-loner." I stuttered. "And I-I don't have a home anymore... I'm alone now..."

The cats surrounding the two grumbled, sounding as if they doubted the story. It was in fact a lie, but I had hoped that at least it would sound convincing. Or do they always act like this when a new cat comes here? I didn't know, i mean, I only reaped souls here.

"Well, Dark, you can stay here for today. If you want to stay here for anytime longer, just stop by my den." The clan leader sighed. He immediately backed out of the circle, entering his den again. The cats surrounding him slowly dispersed, except for one cat who stayed; Sandblaze.

She had the look of death on her faith, which greatly amused me.

Oh, ho. She's starting to get a bit more interesting... I like that, I thought, haven't seen a look like that since the Dark Forest!

Sandblaze walked up towards him and scowled as she reached his face. "Don't even think of asking the clan leader to join this clan. Your nothing but a piece of stinking fox-dung."

She swiveled around, sashaying towards what I presumed the Warriors' den. I slowly began to laugh, reminded of my liking of hate. Gosh, it's such a funny thing!

'No, it's not!

Don't lie to yourself!'

I stopped, freezing. What was that... voice? My eyes turn my eyes around to the left side and then the right. No one. It was all in my mind...

... or was it?