Rainstalker: Since eagle is busy ponaging people at a badminton tournament, I'll just do the disclaimer quickly. eaglenation does not own Warriors, only the plot and her own characters.

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MurkClan
Leader:
Frozenstar: huge blood-red tom with brown eyes with a streak of green in them

Deputy:
Scarpelt: sandy she-cat covered in scars and missing her tail.
Apprentice: Shredpaw (large tabby tom with yellow eyes)

Medicine cat:
Tallpine: Small tom with green eyes.
Apprentice: Honeypaw (black she-cat with purple eyes)

Warriors:
Shadowclaw: pitch black tom with long black claws
Tearpool: long-legged silver she-cat with pale amber eyes.
Shredheart: large tabby tom with yellow eyes
Spidersong: long legged black-and-white she-cat with red eyes
Creeperheart: golden she-cat with huge paws and yellow eyes
Apprentice: Deathpaw (red-and white tom with orange eyes with a streak of green in them)
Tigerleap: orange she-cat with black stripes
Apprentice: Reflexionpaw (tiny blue-grey-and-white she cat with grey eyes)
Poisontail: tabby tom with purple eyes
Pumadeath: light yellow tom with small ears
Crowfood: grey she-cat with a deformed jaw
Soaringfall: tortoishell she-cat with red eyes
Blackflower: pitch black she-cat with long claws and blue eyes
Crushjaw: white tom with a black tail and chipped tooth
Apprentice: Splinterpaw (long-legged dark brown she-cat with tiger-like stripes and silver blue-eyes with a streak of green in them)
Rainstalker: large blue-grey tom dappled white with grey eyes
Brokenwing: long-haired brown tom with amber eyes.
Apprentice: Dogpaw (big-eared, dark orange tom)
Darkfall: grey tabby she-cat with red eyes
Goldeneyes: jet black tom with a white slash mark on his chest and amber eyes.

Queens:
Moontail: light black she-cat with a crescent moon on her chest, mother to Goldeneyes kits: Fallenkit (large brown tom) and Vinekit (small white she-cat with green eyes.)
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"Legs back!" Splinterpaw stuggled to tuck her long legs beneath her stomach.
"Tail lower!" Splinterpaw hissed in pain as Crushjaw's powerful paw stomped on her tail, bringing it to the ground. The she-cat was out hunting with her mentor, and Crushjaw was immensely discontent with Splinterpaw's progress. No matter how much she tried, Crushjaw always seemed to find something wrong.
"Haunches back! Lower yourself to the ground!" Crushjaw hissed at her. "Why is this so hard for you?"
"Maybe ,cause I have long legs!" Splinterpaw snapped back, annoyed. Her attitude was immediately met with a strike to the back, claws unsheathed, from her mentor. She collapsed to the ground. Splinterpaw whimpered.
Splinterpaw knew that Crushjaw was a harder mentor from the tales of other warriors who had had him. She knew that this was a part of her punishment for protecting Vinekit from her father. He couldn't just leave her alone, could he? It wasn't enough that he nearly killed her. No. She had to end up with the worst mentor.
"I don't want to hear you speak to me like that again, are we clear?" Crushjaw hissed at her. Splinterpaw, blind with pain, nodded.
"Get up!" He hissed, impatient. Splinterpaw got up shakily, and lowered herself back into the hunting crouch she was trying to perfect. She made sure her tail was glued to the ground this time.
"Finally." Crushjaw hissed sarcastically. "If all our apprentices were as stupid as you, this Clan would be extinct."
"If all the menors were as cruel as you, we would all be dead too." A voice said calmly. It was the deep voice of Rainstalker, who was standing beside a large tree with Crowfood and Blackflower.
Crushjaw hissed. "Don't interfere, Rainstalker."
"No, I think I will." Rainstalker hissed back with hatred. Splinterpaw sensed some old rivalry between the two of them, and wondered why it was.
"Why are you protecting me so much?" She asked the grey tom suddenly.
"Because you are my cousin." Rainstalker purred, amused. "And anyway, this spider-brain mentored me, too."
That explains a lot! Splinterpaw thought. Rainstalker turned back to Crushjaw, who was kneading the earth with his unsheathed claws. "Leave, if you value your life, Rainstalker."
"And why would I listen to you?" Crushjaw spat. "You're a weakling, the son of-"
"We understand." Rainstalker cut him off swiftly, leaving Splinterpaw curious. "Just don't treat her like prey, and I won't hurt you." He said, then turned around, padding back towards his patrol. Splinterpaw would have sworn she saw him wink at Blackflower.
"Try that again, spider-brain." Crushjaw hissed angrily at her as the patrol left, Rainstalker in the front.
Thanking StarClan for the invention of older cousins like Rainstalker, Splinterpaw crouched back down, and this time Crushjaw nodded.
"Let's pretend that leaf is a black squirrel. I'd like to see you catch it." Crushjaw challenged, scoffing.
Splinterpaw stalked forward on her long legs, leaned back and unsheathed her claws, then pounced. Her strong leap took her about three tail-lengths to far in front of the large leaf.
"No, you stupid spider-brain!" Crushjaw snarled. "I don't care how fast you can run if you can't catch a single unfortunate leaf!"
Splinterpaw sighed and returned to her original spot, dropping back into her crouch.
"Go." Crushjaw hissed. Splinterpaw repeated what she had done before, this time making her jumps smaller. She landed squarely on the leaf, and Crushjaw muttered something under his breath and nodded. "Better, but still horrible." He growled, which Splinterpaw guessed was as much a praise as she would get.

Blackflower purred, running her tail along Rainstalker's back. "You really hate these rules, don't you?" She asked.
Rainstalker nodded thoughtfully. "Yes. I do. I pity the soul of that Splinterpaw, for many reasons."
"We'll have kits like that soon." Blackflower whispered.
"Isn't it time you moved into the nursery?" Rainstalker purred, amused.
"I want to serve my Clan as long as possible." Blackflower countered fiercely. "I can still fight, remember?"
Rainstalker nuzzled her, purring loudly.
"Excuse me, but this is a bit awkward to me, okay?" Crowfood growled from behind them. "We're on a patrol, not a night stroll." The grey she-cat muttered.
"Right." Rainstalker pulled away from his mate, amused. "Let's go patrol the borders to the horseplace."
"Thank you. It seems your more loyal to your mate than your Clan!" Crowfood spat with sarcasm.
"You're a typical MurkClan cat." Rainstalker commented.
"And that is what you should be. Maybe being half ShadowClan meddled with your brain?"
Rainstalker opened his mouth to reply, but Blackflower intercepted.
"You're right, Crowfood. He should be more loyal."
Rainstalker sighed. He could just vaguely remember another Clan scent, and feel his mother's rasping tongue. But that may have just been a muddled mind. It was a running joke amongst others he was half from another Clan, as his father, Frozenstar's brother, had brought him in when he was just a kit. The elder warriors said he smelled like Clan, but not. No one knew his mother, so some thought there may be other Clans than MurkClan.
"Crowfood, no one knows where I come from, but my heart is MurkClan." Rainstalker said finally.

Splinterpaw trudged to the fresh-kill pile and deposited her second kill of the day, a large hawk she had brought down with Crushjaw. Then she picked up a small mouse and walked to the centre of the dark MurkClan clearing, where she tucked her head under her paw and stared at the mouse. Behind her, she could hear Frozenstar talking to Spidersong and Scarpelt. She pricked her ears when her mind registered the word 'intruder' and she listened in.
"We scented it again!" Spidersong was saying. "Unmistakably Clan, I'm sure of it."
"And you're sure this wasn't just a rogue?" Frozenstar meowed anxiously.
"No, it was Clan." Spidersong said. Splinterpaw heard the shift of paws and guessed Frozenstar had turned around to face his deputy.
"This must be addressed as soon as possible. Thank you, Spidersong. You may leave."
Splinterpaw busied herself with chewing on her mouse as Sidersong padded past her to the warriors den. She craned her neck to listen for more.
"Let's go to my hollow, Scarpelt." Her father said and she heard the leader and his deputy pad away. Splinterpaw sighed, and finished off her mouse. What could that have possibly meant? She wondered. Someone nudged her and she looked up to see Deathpaw's mischievous eyes. She guessed he had been eavesdropping too.
"Can you imagine the look on Frozenstar's face if we brought him a Clan cat?"
Splinterpaw jumped with excitement, catching on to her brother's thoughts. "Yeah, everyone knows cats from other Clans are just a myth!" She exclaimed. "If we proved them wrong….."
"Yeah, yeah!" Deathpaw agreed, then dropped his voice to a whisper. "Tonight, when all the warriors are asleep, we'll sneak out, okay?"
"Oh yeah!" Splinterpaw confirmed, flicking her tail with anticipation. Tonight, she would make Frozenstar proud.