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THANK YOU SO MUCH to all who reviewed.

I think that you all will really LOVE the next five chapters... and some of you may hate me. I can't promise all of our favorites will survive.

Dawnkit is still missing.

Thornstar hasn't reached Spotty yet.

Alice and Robin's fates are unknown at the moment...

Yeah, you get the point. So read! *All reviewers of last chapter get a Liontooth plushie*


Chapter Seven: Thornstar

Thornstar watched silently as Whitestar discussed things with her deputy. Brackenfoot. That was the deputy's name. He was also the cat that had attacked him and knocked him out and brought him here.

That was six sunrises ago. Whitestar had kept him captive and forced Silverbreeze, their medicine cat, to make sure he wasn't infected and becoming a Walker. Now they were discussing whether he should be kept alive and added to the clan or whether he should be fed to the Walkers.

Suddenly a golden tom strode over to Whitestar. Thornstar recognized him as Liontooth, one of the GrassClan warriors. He whispered something to Whitestar and after a moment's hesitation she nodded.

Thornstar quickly averted his gaze as the cats padded back over to him.

"We've decided that we'll keep you alive, but you must join the clan as one of our warriors."

"What?" Thornstar was shocked. "I can't be one of your weak and stupid warriors! I'm on a misson and can't stay here, not to mention I was clan leader of ForestClan!"

Whitestar's eyes narrowed. "Well we can always knock you out and feed you to the Walkers if you think thats better. Now what was your warrior name?"

"Thornfang." he muttered quickly giving up on convincing her to not change his name, he was surprised that Whitestar could even hear him.

"You will now be known as Thornfang as long as you're in my camp!" she declared. "Now since being in this clan will be new to you Liontooth here has offered to be your mentor and teach you our ways."

"You must be crazy! I'm not going to be an apprentice! I'm older than him for StarClan's sake!"

Whitestar flicked her tail. "Silence! He will teach you and this is the end of this discussion." with that she padded away from the golden brown tom with Brackenfoot trailing after her.

Thornfang mumbled something under his breath and sent a death glare towards Liontooth. The golden tom didn't flinch. "What would you like to do first?" Thornfang snorted. "Leave this place."

Liontooth glared at him, then frowned. "Why do you want to leave so much? GrassClan is a utopia. Walkers never find our camp, we have shelter and lots of food even in leafbare."

Thornfang growled, "I'm on a misson from StarClan!"

"A misson from StarClan eh? What's this so-called misson about?" Liontooth questioned.

"I have to find three other cats. I know that they're in the mountains. I almost caught up to them until you all came and forced me here." Thornfang growled. "I also had to deal with Slash..."

Liontooth became more alert. "You know Slash?"

Thornfang's eyes widened. "Of course! Do you know him t-" Thornfang was cut off by loud screeching. He instinctively turned and unsheathed his claws. "I thought you said Walkers can't find the camp!"

"They can't" the golden tom answered. "Those aren't Walkers... those are cats."

Thornfang relaxed. They were cats. One had sleek dark ginger fur and the other had a gloss black-and-silver tabby pelt. Then it hit him. He recongnized Robinfeather.

It wasn't exactly a joy filled happy reunion. Many cats gathered around to see why the two newcomers had come into their camp. The two she-cats looked around warily, that is until Robinfeather met his gaze. Her eyes blazed with fury and she pushed her wait out of the crowd and flung herself at him.

Thornfang fell to the ground and felt the air rush out of him. Robinfeather stood above raising her claws to kill him. Thornfang tried to heave her off of him but it was no use. Before she could sink her long, sharp claws into his throat he saw Liontooth grip her by the scruff and haul her off of him.

"What's going on?" Thornfang saw Whitestar and Brackenfoot run over to them. "And who are these two?"

Before Liontooth could answer snarls came from the entrance of camp. Walkers were pouring inside the camp chasing after the living cats for a snack.

"You led them to us!" Whitestar snarled, but before she could do anything a Walker that looked to have once been a young tom leapt onto her back. "Ahhh!" Whitestar screamed in terror.

Thornfang quickly went to Whitestar's aid and slashed the Walker off of her. "Run!" he hissed to her. The white cat took off instanty and headed for the other end of camp where a secret emergancy exit was located.

"Run!" Thornfang shouted. He spotted the black-and-silver tabby, Liontooth and Robinfeather dash to the exit. He headed after them. He wouldn't be caught. He couldn't be caught. He couldn't end up like one of those creatures. He couldn't fail the prophecy. Like he failed Honeytail...

The cats continued to run towards the exit in a desperate attempt to escape alive.

Thornfang leapt through the hidden exit. Robinfeather and Liontooth were a few cat-lengths ahead. "We have to get out of here!" Liontooth called to his clanmates, it looked like everyone escaped unscathed.

"Where will we go?" cried Runningtail, swiping her tail around her kits.

Whitestar remained silent as if she couldn't believe what had just happened.

"We have to leave this place fast!" Thornfang raised his voice above the snarls over the approaching Walkers. "We must head to the mountains!"

"Never!" it was Robinfeather who spoke. "You're just trying to kill Spottedfur and stop her from saving the clans!"

"That was my original goal. But I've changed. I must help you."

Robinfeather snorted. "Over my dead body."

The Walkers had finally come through the back entrance. Cats yowled and ran in many directions, Thornfang used this as a way to escape GrassClan clutches. Liontooth pelted after him. "I'm coming with you!" Thorngfang hissed. "Why?"

"I have my reasons." the golden tom mewed.

Thornfang gave a brisk nod. He had no time to argue while they were being attacked. He neatly wove by the fighting cats to try and get away just before he could leave the fray the black-and-silver tabby and Robinfeather emerged towards them.

"I don't care if you want to help us or not." she growled. "But I'm going to kill you and no one can stop me."


I hate this chapter. It took me around two weeks to write this (Sorry for the wait!) and I have writers block.

Next chapter I guess Spotty will meet with Robin again so we can get this plot back on track.

Note: GrassClan will be important later so if you made a GrassClan cat your characters will have more screen time later in the story.

Also, Liontooth probably joined with Thornfang because of an odd rivalry/respect thing... I know it's weird.

Lastly: Leave in your review the cat you would like to see killed.

Ummm... yea :D

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