Chapter two

"Mom!" Wing meowed, the blue gray she-cat looked at Wing and it was indeed her mother Robin, "Wing!" Robin meowed and then ran over to Wing and started to lick her franticly. "Mom you're smothering me." Wing complained, then Wing's siblings reached them as they were happy to see their sister.

"So this is your mother and family Wing." Meowed Leafstar as she walked up to the cats.

"Yep and this is the rest of the group, every cat is here right?" Wing meowed turning to her mother.

"Yes we were lucky to have gotten out before the nest was destroyed." Robin meowed. A black she-cat walked up to the two cats, "So this is where you've been Wing, we were worried that a predator got you." She meowed.

"Hi Arrow sorry to have scared you guys I want exploring and then a dog chased me away, then some nice cats brought me here because they didn't know where the group was and I didn't know how to find you guys." Wing meowed to Arrow.

Arrow turned to Leafstar, "Thank you for taking care of Wing." She meowed. Leafstar dipped her head and then turned to Clovertail, "Clovertail can you take Wing and her mother to the nursery wile I talk to Arrow." "And Leaf too right?" Wing meowed, hearing her name Leaf turned to them, Clovertail nodded and led Wing and the others to the nursery, when they got to the nursery Wing and Clovertail introduced Robin and Leaf to Cherrytail, her kits and Tinycloud, after that Wing and the other kits in the rouge group went to play with Cherrytails kits.

As the kits play Wing noticed the Skyclan deputy talking to a blue gray she-cat, "Who's that talking to dad?" Blazekit asked, "That's Splash, she the general of the Arrows Rouges." Wing meowed.

"What's a general?" Brownkit meowed.

"A general is like your deputy; the general is second in command of the group and will become leader when the former leader dies." Wing explained to them.

"Can you tell us more about your group, how do they different from Skyclan?" Whitekit asked.

"Well other then the leader and general the group is split between solders and hunters, the solders fight to protect the group and the hunters hunt for the group and only a solder can become general and leader." Wing meowed.

"How come only a solder can lead the group?" Brownkit asked.

"Arrow and Splash believed that a leader needed to be able to protect the cats in the group." Wing meowed. "That makes since." Blazekit meowed.

"Our parents are hunters and one day I'll be a hunter too." Ginger meowed.

"Not me I want to be leader someday so I'm going to be a solder." Nettle replied.

"What about you maple, have you decided if you'll be a hunter or solder?" Wing's sister gray asked.

"Not yet." Maple meowed.

Some time later Wing and the other kits where back in the nursery taking a nap and Wing's mother was pacing at the entertains to the den. "Robin you need to stop pacing, you'll wear a hole in the floor." Clovertail meowed.

"I know, but want they are talking about could decide the fate of our group." Robin meowed. She then looked outside of the nursery to see two hunting patrols each had a hunter and a hunter apprentice, Sharpclaw had allowed Crow and Feather along with Black bird and Claw to join the two patrols, Crow and Feather led the two apprentices over to where Sharpclaw said the rouges could put their catches. The four cats placed their pray down and then Crow walked over to his mate Aqua with a mouse in his jaws. Robin then turned back to the pile of pray, other than the mouse that Crow brought to Aqua there was a rabbit, a shrew and two birds. "Where going to need more prey then that to eat." Leaf meowed beside her, "I know." Robin replied. She then got up and walked over to Sharpclaw, "Sharpclaw, we need to talk." Robin meowed.

"What do you what to talk about?" he asked her, "We are going to need more pray then that." She meowed pointing her tail at the small pile of pray. "Ok, who should go out next?" he asked looking at a group of cats from the rouge group. "Thunder and Dusk haven't been out yet; they could go and get some pray with the help of one or two of your warriors." Robin meowed.

Sharpclaw nodded, "Ebonyclaw and Morningpaw could do with some hunting, but whatever Morningpaw catches goes to the Elders. Rockshade could also go to." He meowed.

"I'll go let Thunder and Dusk know." Robin meowed, she then walked over to where the two cats where, "Thunder, Dusk you two are on hunting patrol, with the warriors Ebonyclaw, her apprentice Morningpaw and Rockshade." She meowed. The two cats nodded and went to meet the three Skyclan cats. Robin watched them leave before she grabbed the rabbit and headed back to the Skyclan nursery.

~Squirrel's group~

Squirrel walked through the streets of the town with a mouse and a shrew in her jaws, behind her Acorn had a rabbit and Bracken had two birds and a small shrew. She led the small group to an ally way where Beech was standing guard, Squirrel dipped her head to him and walked past him, she placed her pray in a small dip in the ground, she then picked up the mouse and walked over to a tortoiseshell she-cat, "Ivy, I've got a mouse for you." She meowed; Ivy gave a purr and started to eat the mouse. Squirrel looked down to see Ivy's two moon old kits, Cloud, a light gray and white tom and his sister Mist a light gray she-cat.

"Squirrel." Came a call and she looked to see her mate Dragon a black tom, "Dragon." Squirrel purred and walked over to him rubbing her muzzle agents his. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with your house folk?" she asked him. "There's something I need to show you." He meowed and led her out of the ally; he led her to an abanded twoleg nest. When he came to a broken down fence he turned to Squirrel, "It might be best if you wait out here." He meowed. She nodded and Dragon walked through one of the holes in the fence.

"Who are you?" came a meowed a few moments later; Squirrel looked up to see a brown tom on top of the fence. "I'm Squirrel, who are you?" she asked the brown tom.

"I'm Jack; I live in the nest next to the abanded one with my house folk." Jack meowed. "Are you here about Surfer and Rowan?" he asked her.

"Who?" she asked, "Surfer and Rowan." Came a meowed and she looked down at the fence to see Dragon walking through one of the holes in the fence, he stepped out to revile a blue gray she-cat and a ginger tom. "Squirrel this is Surfer," Dragon meowed placing his tail on the blue gray she-cat, "And the tom is Rowan. There mates and Surfer is now expecting Rowan's kits." He told her.

"Ok, so what does that have to do with me?" she asked. "Both Surfer and Rowan where house cats, but then Surfer was abaned by her house folk when they found out she was expecting kits and Rowan left his house folks to be with Surfer." Dragon explained to Squirrel. "I was hoping that you could lit them join your group, at least until the kits are old enough to live on their own." Dragon meowed.

"Why not just let new house folk take them in?" Jack asked from his spot on the fence.

"NO." Surfer meowed. "After what my house folk did I don't want that to happen to any of the kits I might have." Surfer replied. Squirrel nodded, "I can respect that, follow me." She meowed. She led Surfer and Rowan along with her mate Dragon back to the ally way that the rest of her group was staying at. Moments after they arrived Surfer gave birth to three healthy kits, a gray and ginger she-cat, a light gray tom and a ginger tabby she-cat.

~Skyclans camp~

It was a moon since the Arrows Rouges came to Skyclan; Wing was playing outside the Skyclan nursery with her siblings and Clovertail's and Tinycloud's kits. "Gray, Twig, Ash, Wing be careful with Tinycloud's kits their only a few days old." Robin meowed to her kits.

"We will mom." Wing meowed. She turned back to the others, "How about we teach them how to play moss ball." She meowed to the other kits. "Let all cats old enough to hunt gather around the rock pile for a clan meeting." Came a yell. "That's Leafstar." Whitekit meowed. Cats from Skyclan and the rouge group gathered around the pile of rock too see both Leafstar and Arrow on top, as the groups gathered Wing noticed that Tinycloud started to gather her kits back to the nursery, "Cats of Skyclan and of Arrow's Rouges it has been a moon since the rouges came to stay with Skyclan and Arrow tells me that the time has come for some kits to become apprentices." She meowed and stepped back for Arrow to step forward.

"Nettle, Maple, Ginger please step forward." The three kits walked up to the rock pile, "These three kits have reached their fifth moon and today they with start their training, Nettle, Maple you two have chosen to be solders Nettle your trainer will be Summer." Nettle walked over to Summer and Summer placed her muzzle on Nettle's head and then looked back up at Arrow, "Maple your trainer will be River." She meowed and Maple walked over to River and like Summer, River placed his muzzle on maples head and then looked back up at Arrow, Arrow then turned to Ginger, "Ginger you have chosen to be a hunter so your trainer shell be Dusk." Ginger walked over to Dusk who did the same thing as Summer and River, then the cats of both the clan and Arrows Rouges started cheering their names, after the cheering died down both leaders jumped down from the pile and the new trainers toke their apprentices out to begin their training.

Wing watched them leave until she was tacked to the ground she looked up to see Snowkit, "Hi." She meowed. "Hi Snowkit." She meowed as Snowkit jumped off of her and then she got to her paws. "What're you up to Snowkit, and where are your brother and sister, I thought your mother toke you three to the nursery?" Wing asked Snowkit.

"She did, Nightkit and Flamekit are with Tinycloud, now." Snowkit meowed. "Snowkit it's nap time." Tinycloud called. "You better get back to the nursery." Wing meowed to her. Snowkit nodded and headed to her mother, Snowkit is a small white she-cat like her mother; Nightkit is a black tom like Tinyclouds' brother Rockshade and Flamekit is a ginger and tortoiseshell she-cat. All three kits have blue eyes like their parents.

"Hi Wing." Wing jumped up not hearing some one walk up to her, she looked to see Morningpaws' light gray tabby pelt. "Hi Morningpaw." She meowed. Morningpaw was a daylight warrior apprentice who was planning on leaving her two legs when she became a warrior, but was not ready to leave them when she first joined. "Hay Morningpaw, what's your kitty pet name?" she asked.

Morningpaw blinked a couple of times before she gave a murmur of laughter, "My kitty pet name is Grace." Morningpaw meowed. "But when I became a fulltime Skyclan member I'll be putting that name and past behind me." Morningpaw replied.

"Morningpaw you're to help clean out the new caves for the rouge group." Meowed the Skyclan deputy Sharpclaw as he walked over to the two she-cats. Morningpaw nods her head to Sharpclaw, says a goodbye to Wing and ran off to where the new caves are.

"You should head back to the nursery." He meowed. He then turned and walked over to a group of Skyclan cats. Wing watched him leave and then turned around and headed back to the nursery where the other kits where.