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Chapter 2

Brandon stared at her. The deep wound in her cheek was dripping with dark crimson drops. Brandon glanced down at his white paw now covered with red drops that had started to dry. He had acted out of defense. He hadn't meant to hit her or even scratch her.

Maddy was still staring at him and panicking rose up in his chest and he spoke with surprise as the words tumbled out of his mouth-

"What the heck happened?" He stuttered, his paw falling soundlessly to the ground. He blinked quickly glancing around. His gaze traveled over everybody, Brad and Emily were staring at him with wide eyes and River was standing behind Maci for safety.

"You-You hit me!" She snarled furiously. Her eyes were alight with a fury and he could feel the hatred start flow from Maci and River.

"Look," He defended even though there wasn't much to defend, "You attacked me, and I was only defending myself!" He spat, his tail lashing angrily.

"You were going to attack River." She spat right back in his face, teeth barred. Her ears were flattened to her head and she looked mad.

"He called my baseball career trash!" He snarled once again. His baseball career was not trash.

"It is trash! They just felt bad for you so the invited you to play in the practice season. They wouldn't allow you in anyway; you're sixteen flipping years old!" She snapped, she took a step forward. Brandon faltered, he hadn't thought about it like that before. He was sixteen and the major leaguers were at least twenty-one.

"That's not true!" He said, his voice rising, "It's not true!" He shouted, his ears to his head. He took a few steps back before turning and stalking angrily into the forest. The ferns swallowing the white tom up.

Maddy stared after him, anger boiling steam out of her ears. She was mad and in the pain. Her cheek stung with a fire that even surprised her. She had never felt pain like this and by the look on Brandon's face it must've been deep.

"Maddy, come here." River meowed as the silence of the forest suddenly erupted and birds started twittering. She padded over slowly, and winced as she felt her nose twitch and her whiskers, blood still slowly fell down her cheek.

She sat beside him and he padded up and licked her cheek softly. She let out a yelp through her teeth and pulled away.

"Maddy," River scowled, his eyes narrowing dangerously. "You want it to be infected?" He snapped as she grunted and turned to face him again.

"Why did you save me?" He asked curiously as he cleaned her cheek. She winced every once in a while and she answered carefully.

"I needed a reason to tackle the idiot." She mumbled quietly and her tail wrapped tightly around her paws as she sat.

"Did you really?" He asked glancing up at her, being a little bit shorter than her. That look- I don't believe for a second- crossed his face.

"You think I was trying to save your sorry little butt- you think I like you?" She asked her nose scrunched up in disgust.

"Well-" He said blushing, glancing down at his paws, "Sort of."

"No, I would never. I mean no offense or anything but you're a nerd." She said pulling away shaking her head. This little kid thought that she liked him? No.

"I'm sorry, River, but you're just not my type." She muttered shaking her head turning away from him.

"It's all right." He meowed quietly and turned away to sit quietly. She turned to face the others and saw them talking quietly among themselves. Brad looked up his amber eyes were dark.

"I'm going to go get Brandon, he's going to get himself killed." He meowed, his voice harsh and seemed to just spew out hate.

"You do that," She meowed and then added quietly, "You're not going to be missed." His head snapped in her direction before stalking off into the ferns after Brandon.

"Why did I have to come?" Thrushstorm whined, his head thrown back as he padded along the well-trodden path into the south side of the territory. Sunfall flattened his ears trying desperately to block out the noise. It hadn't taken much to convince the dark tortoiseshell tom to come. The memory flashed in his mind as he found his distraction.

Sunfall padded out of Lilystar's den and spotted Thrushstorm still talking to the younger warrior.

"Thrushstorm!" He shouted, his ears pricked as he waited for his brother's response. Thrushstorm looked up as did the younger warrior apparently it was Jaynose, the small gray tom was frowning as he flicked an ear trying to get an annoying piece of moss out.

"Sunfall! What do you want?" He grunted as he flicked a piece of moss in front of Jaynose who stumbled away.

"Lilystar wants both of us to go with her to the south border, she won't tell me for what reason but she wants both of us to go." The pale orange tom meowed dipping his head to Jaynose.

"Who will run camp?" Thrushstorm meowed and gathered the moss up with a paw. He tossed some more at Jaynose and glared at him.

"Shadowpelt can." Sunfall suggested shrugging and glanced towards the dark warrior. She was resting in the shade of the warriors den, snoring softly.

"But, she's not responsible enough." Thrushstorm whined. "She's plenty responsible enough, now she's watching camp or Lilystar will punish you." Sunfall hissed and both the warriors in front of him froze. Sunfall never got angry.

"Fine but Jaynose has to clean up the moss." Thrushstorm said stubbornly. Sunfall sighed and turned to look at the warrior mentioned.

"Fine." He muttered and Jaynose started to clean the moss and that's when Lilystar showed up and they left.

Sunfall chuckled to himself and Lilystar's tail shot up suddenly. He silenced himself and Thrushstorm's ears pricked up and he stared ahead into the bushes. Sunfall peered over his shoulder and saw four cats sitting quietly in the forest in front of them.

Brandon paced back and forth in his hidden clearing. Fury boiled up inside of him, they had lied to him! I mean yeah it did seem a little weird that they asked him to join the spring team but didn't they ask every teen boy that wanted to be a major league baseball player?

He shook his head furiously and countiuned to pace back and forth. He had left the private school for baseball. He had run away from the place he had grown up in. He didn't run away from the place it's self but for the person that had entered into it.

Not River, not Maci, but Maddy. She had been the only girl ever not to fall down at his feet to worship his good looks. She would scoff and scowl at him when he flattered himself. He would make fun of her and joke about her but it didn't faze her. She countiuned her attitude towards him and he realized with a shock that he couldn't capture this girl's heart.

He had run away from her because she had intimidated him, showed him not every female loved him.

"You're not thinking about Maddy, are you?" Brad's voice broke his thoughts and Brandon turned to glare at him.

"No." He scoffed, "Why would I be?" He questioned quirking an eyebrow.

"You just slapped her, why wouldn't you be?" Brad said, insisting that the truth come out of him. Brandon turned away from the eyes of his best friend.

"Good point. I didn't mean to, honest it was just out of instinct. I guess." He shrugged, tail lashing as he turned to glare at his friend.

"I didn't say you meant too and I don't have anything else to say but let's go back, the sun is setting or at least it looks like it." Brad said glancing towards the sun and turning back in the direction of the sun. Brandon sighed and followed Brad back towards the group.

Sunfall watched them curiously, there were four and suddenly the bushes rustled and two toms walked out, six. The prophecy flashed in his mind and he froze briefly sharing a knowing glance with the dark brown tabby she-cat.

Sunfall watched Lilystar slid forward and she walked through the bushes. Thrushstorm and Sunfall on her tail.

Maddy sent a glare towards Brandon and suddenly the bushes rustled behind her and she spun around greeted the three cats walked towards them.

"Hello." The dark brown tabby she-cat meowed, her ears pricked in curiosity.

"Hello." Maddy greeted dipping her head. They seemed friendly enough but she was still cautious.

"You are on Fallenclan territory, do you know that?" She asked, her voice smooth and decisive.

"No…"

"Lilystar." Lilystar meowed dipping her head.

"No, Lilystar. We didn't know that." Maddy dipped her head and Maci and River padded behind her. Emily sat next to Brandon and Brad was standing.

"Well, we will gladly accept you in the clan if you are looking for a place to sleep and rest." Lilystar said, her gaze traveling over every single one of them.

"We would like that, thank you." Maddy sighed in relief, her eyes closing. She would never be able to keep them alive.

"Your names." Suddenly Lilystar's eyes sparked and Maddy got the feeling that she did not want kittypets to join her clan.

"I am Midnight. This is Honey-" She gestured towards Maci, "River," Towards River, "Gold," Towards Emily, "Patch," Towards Brad, "And Hawk." She flicked her tail towards Brandon. Brandon narrowed his eyes at her and she mouthed, I'll explain later.

"Welcome to Fallenclan. Follow me." Lilystar purred and padded away the toms following her. Maci, she should start calling them by their rogue names now. Honey, River, and Gold followed them, but before she could follow as well Brandon, Hawk, stopped her.

"What was that?" He snapped. Green eyes sparking with anger.

"They would never accept soft house pets. We have to have rogue names to be accepted. Either you get Brandon back and die and or accept Hawk and live. I suggest you take the Hawk route." She flicked her ears and made sure to toss her head to show him her scratch for good measure.