A/N: 6 reviews, yay! Thanks for everyone who reviewed, although I did see a lot of you were reading, good to know. Well I still haven't gotten The Fourth Apprentice, I gotz no money :( Anyway here's chapter 1, from Saffronpaw's POV!

Okay before I stop rambling and let you read, let me just tell you now that some of what you are about to read may be slightly disturbing. I tried my best to describe the scene without it sounding disgusting or to adult, but I did do my best! This shapes the rest of the book, so pay close attention! And please review, can I reach 15?

~Leo~

CHAPTER 1

Rays of crimson light filtered through the tree lines. Flocks of geese flew beneath the setting sun, their outlines nothing more than black figures streaking through the sky.

The forest was silent, all except a ginger cat who stepped out from behind a bramble bush.

Her pelt was a light silky ginger shade and her eyes a pale yellow. The cat was small, her paws nothing more than tiny acorns with sharp claws poking out.

Saffronpaw peaked her head out from the side of the bush, but still no sign of prey. Jaggedfang had sent her off to hunt down by the lake a while ago, but still the young apprentice had nothing.

Some apprentice I am, she felt discouraged. It was Saffronpaw's first day as an apprentice, and already she was a failure!

I bet Lionpaw and Crescentpaw are doing better than me, her sisters were great at hunting! Especially Lionpaw, her sister was a born warrior, she had strong battle skills and not to mention claws that could cut through stone.

As Saffronpaw lifted her head to look at the setting sun, she noticed a scent spiraling through the warm New-Leaf air.

"Squirrel!" Instantly Saffronpaw gazed madly around the clearing, but no signs of the russet creature were present. "Where are you?" she dropped to a hunts crouch, sniffing through the air for any signs of where the little rodent went.

It was coming down from the shore of the lake, but why would a Squirrel be at the water? Shaking her head of the nonsense, Saffronpaw carefully followed the scent down to the waters edge.

Her nose and eyes preoccupied on the ground, the ginger apprentice barely noticed a large figure standing in front of her.

"Hello Saffronpaw" the voice spoke, coming from a massive dark gray tom who stared down at her with piercing blue eyes.

"Jaggedfang!" Saffronpaw gasped in surprise, she hadn't expected her mentor to be down here. Hadn't he just sent her to go hunting?

"What...What are you doing here?" she stuttered, still bewildered from his presence. But Jaggedfang was paying no attention to what his apprentice was saying, his eyes were locked on her shiny pelt.

"Your fur reflects the sunset beautifully" he commented, his eyes flickering.

Saffronpaw felt a weird feeling in her stomach, like a rock had just fallen on her. Something wasn't right with this, she didn't like this.

"Let's just go back to camp" she suggested, slowly backing away from her mentor.

But as she turned, Saffronpaw tripped over a pile of bracken, and fell to the ground. At first she thought Jaggedfang was moving towards her to help her up, but he stood directly over her.

"You know Saffronpaw, a cat as pretty as yourself doesn't deserve to be alone. Your special, I can tell" his words came out like cold drafts of air.

"Let me go" Saffronpaw struggled but Jaggedfang slammed his paw down on her tail, making her whimper in terror. Why was this happening? Saffronpaw just wanted to go home and be with her mother and sisters, she didn't like this!

And then the ginger she-cat began to wail like a kit as Jaggedfang's tail moved to her underbelly, this wasn't happening! But then as soon as she wailed, two pelts came bursting out of the tree line.

"Get away from her you freak!" a yowl came from Lionpaw as she and Crescentpaw bolted into Jaggedfang.

The gray tom growled as the force of the two sisters bowled him over, and he began staggering towards the edge of a rocky overhang.

"No" Saffronpaw shrieked, Jaggedfang was going to fall over!

She realized what he had tried to do was wrong and sick, but he didn't deserve to die! And then the dark gray tom lost his balance, and staggered over the edge of the cliff.

Saffronpaw closed her mustard colored eyes as a splatter sounded from below, and soon the smell of blood filled the air.

"Are you alright?" Instantly Lionpaw rushed over to her sister, as Crescentpaw peered over the edge.

Saffronpaw was at a loss for words, she felt numb, she felt dirty. This had all happened so fast, most of it was nothing more than a blur to the young she-cat. She couldn't grasp how a cat could do something so terrible to an apprentice, let alone their own apprentice!

"He's dead" Crescentpaw reported, as Lionpaw comforted her sister. Saffronpaw dug her muzzle into her sisters fluffy gray fur, she just wanted to go home.

"But what do we do now?" Lionpaw asked as her golden eyes rounded in the sunlight. Saffronpaw didn't know, but as she began padded to the edge of the cliff and say Jaggedfang's broken body.

She knew that the three of them had murdered one of their own tonight, these three sisters were killers.