Remember, this Ice, is my own Ice.

Ghost's Pov


Well that was anticipating. I was Scourge's trainee. Not exactly what I wanted or expected, but I guess you had to take the mouse you were given, right? No matter how mad it was your deal and you had to deal with it on your own. I carefully watched his emotionless icy blue eyes that always had a reputation he had to keep up.

Angel was standing there with her tail hanging down and her eyes widening. It was rather shocking, wasn't it? One minuet I was almost dead laying in the streets, the next I was being adopted into a Clan known as Bloodclan that wore collars with dog teeth, and the final rotten mouse on this pile of crow-food was that I was the leader's apprentice thing.

I nodded slowly trying not to jump out of my fur, "Okay." Angel turned around and led me out of Scourge's rather big den. Angel's white paws skidded down the dirty streets and she stopped me behind a giant two-leg can. She peered around for a while to make sure we weren't being followed.

"Look now Ghost, you've got to be careful now. She-cat's here would kill brutally to be Scourge's apprentice around these parts. You, unlike the others, don't want to be his apprentice I'm assuming. Well that's exactly why he chose you. He likes the ones that are different. Anyways, Penny, the one other she-cat that lives down our alley, she's obsessed with Scourge, be careful around her. She killed Jay because Jay used to be Scourge's apprentice," Angel hissed in warning.

I blinked a little bit. Okay...that was dumb. Why in the streets name would you do that? It's just...brick-headed. I think Angel read my mind or something because she looked at me and said seriously, "I know what you're thinking. But Penny was never right in the head, so just watch your back." I nodded and watched as a frost white tom ran up to us.

He was slender and had smooth white fur and sky blue eyes with silver paws. He was kind of skinny and his tail was rather plumy. Around his neck was a deep blue collar that had about three teeth in it. He looked at me curiously, "Hi I'm Ice!" He looked me over, "Your name really suits you, ya know?"

I smiled, "I get that allot. And yours does too now that I think about it." It was true his sky blue eyes looked like they had an icy glaze over them and his fur was white as snow, his silver paws giving it a frozen effect. I imagine Scourge's suited him to, evil and uncaring.

Ice glanced at me carefully as if he was trying not to offend me with what he was about to say. He swept his tail over his paws and whispered, "So you're Scourge's apprentice?"

I nodded, "Unfortunately, I wasn't looking forward to that."

Ice nodded, "I imagine not, but just imagine, you'll probably get a collar. All of Scourge's apprentices do. They become part of The Guard. I'm part of it, and Angel is training to be in it. If you get good enough, I imagine you'll replace Bone as deputy! Though it won't be that hard I imagine..." Angel nodded and laughed. Ice had a wicked sense of humor. Remind me how these two got into Bloodclan?

We padded down to our alley which consisted of about eight boxes. When we reached the alley a well built golden brown she-cat with brown spots glared at me with amber eyes. Nothing was in those eyes but hatred.

"So you're Scourge's new apprentice, hmm?" She said mockingly. I'm guessing this was Penny?

I looked up at her, "So you're that cat that lives in the trash can? What's it like in there? Dark and smelly?" Sorry but there was no way I was letting a cat here getting the upper paw of me. She just scowled and her fur bristled up.

Ice purred in amusement, "Get some Ice for that burn! Oh wait no, I don't want to touch you. Never mind then." Dear bricks what was wrong with this cat, was he on cat nip or something?

Penny's lip curled over her teeth in a snarl, "Well, we'll see if you'll make then, shall we?"

I looked Penny straight in the eye and whispered in my eerie voice licking my paw, "We'll see who makes it out alive, now won't we?" Penny flattened her ears to her head, growled and stalked off. She was a friendly one wasn't she?

Angel sighed, "You know she's going to make this place horrible for you now, don't you?"

I nodded, "Yes, but nothing is never easy. What doesn't kill you makes you ya know?"

Angel and Ice both nodded. Penny had better not start anything...