Night fell onto the last rays of the sun very fast. The stars burst out into the dark sky, glittering in all its glory. The party had to move. And this time, they have to move fast. With a delicious meal of raw salmon from the fishery again in the day, they stole into the night–bellies full–ready to approach the wall.

Justicar quickly led the cats in single file down the black paved road, careful not to pass too close to one of those whirring monsters. He could feel his heart pounding heavily in his chest; his breathing was hard and heavy. His ears twitched and he hoped that he didn't hear Blood Clan coming out from behind them. There was no need for trouble tonight. They wall was enough to deal with already.

They doggedly carried on with their trotting down the street, until they finally arrived at the base of the grand white wall. They all gasped in amazement. Mazy seemed like she was going to fall on her back with her head tilting higher and higher.

The wall at its base, extended into the sky, reaching for the stars, for it seemed not to let the smallest detail of the other side into view. It was as if the humans were trying to block something unknown out from their community. Justicar pressed his paws into the wall, and it was smooth as a tile floor in the fishery and not a single crack pervaded through its massive structure. It was nowhere close to budging.

"Mazy?" Justicar asked. "Have any opinions on this?"

There were a few moments of silence. "No. I really don't." Mazy really meant it; for this was the first time she had seen such a wonder.

"The wall is totally smooth and it seems very thick, for I cannot budge it." Then Justicar's head brightened up with an idea. "Let's all try to push on it. Put all your weight on it. GO!"

Every cat, even the old Mazy pressed their paws into the wall, and forced all the strength they could muster, into the wall, but there wasn't even the slightest budge.

"That's not going to help you know?" A deep meow sounded from behind.

The cats snapped their heads back to the unknown voice and it came from a puny black cat with a white-furred collar and a white tail.

"Who are you?" Justicar demanded. He tried to assume a position as authoritative as possible, but that wasn't really possible with the small black cat sitting on top a nearby tree.

"Just another cat," he answered. "Been here all my life. Tried everything I could. Got a few friends killed here and there, but no biggy. What about you?" He seemed to be a very chill cat and his voice sounded like there was nothing that surprised him about this place anymore.

"Been here most of mine. I want out. As do these cats," Justicar meowed gruffly. "Know how?"

"Oh, good sir," the small black-white cat began while inspecting his neatly cut claws. "Getting past the wall won't do you any good. You need to take a detour. The only way out is through one of those trucks."

Justicar's face cringed in confusion at the sound of that strange word. "What is a truck?"

The small black cat blinked and purred amusingly, "One of those bigger 'monsters' that come in and out of this human villa with food and supplies. I would think it's rather hard to accomplish such a thing with what so many friends you have." He looked around, smirking at the determined faces on the cats. "Don't try anymore, comrades. There is no gentle way out."

"We will! You just watch us, we will!" Justicar was close to a hiss. His fur seemed to tilt up into the air. Neria nodded her head in agreement as did the rest.

The small black cat purred in amusement and meowed coolly, "Remember the cat you killed yesterday?" His eyes narrowed in evil delight.

Justicar's jaws dropped and he meowed, "How did you know?" He dropped down to his haunches. Dawn and Neria led Mazy around and into an alley between two buildings built into the wall.

The small black cat adjusted a spiked collar around his neck, full of teeth from some animals. "You killed one of my friends. How would I not know?" His teeth became bared and saliva spilt out of his miniature mouth. He leaped off the tree and prowled towards them in the dark of the street. His yellow eyes glowed in the shadow of the tree. Then a white cat came out from underneath a bush and a bulky black and white cat came out from underneath a bench. A ginger tabby emerged from another bush and a silvery gray tomcat leaped out from another tree. They padded closer, as a group of five, on their haunches, in an intimidating stance. What was most menacing was the fact that they had spiked collars full of rather large teeth.

Justicar hissed a dangerous hiss, and Sparrow joined in. Before he knew it, they were hissing their faces off at each other in a game of intimidation.

"Don't think you can run away from this again, you filthy pieces of crowfood!" The tiny black cat hissed as he laid one paw in front of another, closer and closer to Justicar. He quickly charged, tackling into Justicar. He was surprisingly heavy for his size.

Justicar flicked his powerful hind legs into his belly, but the cat wouldn't budge, even when blood came seeping out of his belly. The small cat bit into Justicar's neck and blood poured out but was quickly interrupted by a flash of gray. Cloud had tackled the tiny cat off of Justicar.

Cloud grinded his fangs against the tiny cat's neck, causing blood to seep out all the while blinding it in the eye with a swing of one paw. The small cat hissed in pain as he stumbled back.

"Get away from us!" Cloud yowled angrily, looking back at a bleeding Justicar, limping towards Neria inside the alley.

The humongous black and white tom came up to the small cat's side, "Are you alright, Scourge?"

"Leave me alone, Bone! That witty cat is my prey!" Scourge raged.

An orange tabby tom behind Scourge launched his bulk into Cloud, rolling him backwards while sinking his claws into his back. He bounced painfully on Cloud's stomach and launched himself back to where Bone was inspecting Scourge's wounds. Cloud hissed as he struggled to his paws. Sparrow padded up to him to see to it Cloud was okay.

Yarrow, a russet-colored cat padded up from behind Sparrow and Cloud and meowed to Blood Clan with a singsong accent, "Don't step any closer."

"We will not walk away until we kill another one of you!" Scourge spat rudely charging towards Cloud and Sparrow, with the orange tabby tom and Bone at his sides.

Yarrow grimaced, for he knew this was going to be ugly. He hated seeing blood spilling out of his own kind, but defending his teammates is first priority and if that meant spilling blood, then so be it. With lightning reflexes, he easily sidestepped the large orange tabby tom's charge. He swung back and just as the charge missed, he latched onto the tom's back, with steel-like cutter claws sinking into his flesh. The orange tabby tom let out a shriek and tried to kick back at Yarrow, but missed horribly.

Cloud was engaged in battle against the already-injured Scourge. He didn't want to hurt him, but in this case, shedding no blood was not an option. They danced around each other for a few moments, but Scourge got impatient and threw himself into Cloud, bowling him over. Cloud flicked his hind legs back into the cut on the belly Justicar gave him earlier and managed to fling him off. When Scourge was flung into a tree, he flipped himself back on his paws and hissed madly in intimidation.

Bone and Sparrow wrestled each other, spitting and hissing into each other's faces. Paws were swinging and teeth were flashing. Tails were whipping and claws were raking. Finally, Sparrow managed to shove the Bone into the trunk of a tree while delivering an unsheathed punch to the face. There came a low grunt from Bone, and he slumped down, unconscious.

"Bone!" Scourge shrieked, rapidly dashing towards Bone. But Sparrow flung himself into the incoming Scourge and flattened him with his weight. Scourge struggled to get up from under the heavy weight. He finally flicked Sparrow in the stomach with his hind claws and Sparrow flinched, falling off of Scourge. Scourge hissed dangerously while guarding his deputy.

The silvery tabby that had done no fighting prowled invisibly behind the bushes. When Cloud started to pad toward Sparrow, the silver tabby rammed into his side, pounding him into the ground. Cloud was caught surprised, for he had completely forgotten that there was another cat. He felt a sharp claw rake down his pelt and he yowled in pain.

Yarrow lifted his head from the orange tabby's unconscious body. He made sure he wouldn't wake up for some time, but didn't have the guts to take his life. Seeing the wrestling going on with Cloud and the mysterious silver tabby, he flung himself into the wrestle, raking the silver tom's shoulders and whipping his tail into his eyes. There was hissing and spitting and yowling, but Cloud and Yarrow came out of the entangled mess victoriously. The silver tom was unconscious; not dead, but wouldn't wake up until some hours later.

Scourge blinked in surprise. It was the first time in moons that they had lost a battle with another party of cats. Scourge hissed in the most menacing, malevolent way and he fled, leaving all his team members behind.

"And don't come back again!" Cloud spat, waving his tail in victory. "I'm surprised we didn't lose anyone today, except receive a few injuries."

"Me too," Sparrow grunted, his tail rubbing on a new scratch he received while in combat with Bone.

With that, Cloud, Sparrow and Yarrow padded into the alley where all the she-cats were hiding and where the ones who didn't join the brawl stayed, as well. Justicar seemed relieved to see such little battle scars upon his comrades. He dipped his head respectfully to his teammates and said, "Today we have won an uneasy battle. And even though I suffered some hard injuries, I'm sure we still can all go on." He coughed. "Mazy said the gash in my neck would heal in time, but I will not battle any time soon. Sparrow, you are now leader of battle. Thank you comrades, for fighting on behalf of us. Thank you so much. And with the sun coming up and the day about to start, I recommend we send out rested cats to bring us back some food." He smiled warmly at his mate Neria, and turned back to face his teammates. "Who's going on this mission?"