Eep! Sorry for the late update! I was at a concert in ESU all day, which is East Stroudsburgh University for those who don't know, and after that I was waiting until I got enough reviews, and than I sort of had to study for a History test which is in two days. So I'm sorry, I'll try and make this chapter as long as I can!

Moonstreak1 - I'm not entirely sure what I can tell you than if fanfiction won't let you upload...Maybe it's your computer? Try signing in with a different account or something. Like I said, I'm not entirely sure then what the problem is, sorry :(

Chasonbird or Butterfliee - That sucks! I can't imagine being limited to the computer, though I'm getting close to freaking my mother out...sadly I'm not doing too well in college, so I suppose I will have to wait and see...

flareon200 - ah my best friend and reviewer on this site^^ You've reviewed every chapter in all of my stories, and for that, you've earned a mega load of plushies! Hmm, how plushies from every cat in ThunderClan? That good enough?

On to the story:


Stars gleamed coldly under the watchful eyes of the cats who guarded the entrance of their home camp. Dawnstar let out a fierce hiss as another rogue tried to steal away Flightpaw, a ThunderClan apprentice. She lashed out and struck his nose with her claws, and he stepped back, glaring at her in the process.

"You won't get away with this!" Foxwhisker of ThunderClan yowled. His eyes were narrowed as he glared at the rogue. The dark tabby just lashed his tail and stalked away.

Dawnstar shook her head, suddenly wondering if she would see Scorchfur or her Clan again. These rogues had caused a good deal of damage on the others. Flightpaw's eye was closed and badly wounded. It was closed, and a sticky looking ooze was coming out.

Shrewfoot was bleeding badly, though thank StarClan the rogues weren't treating her with such severity as the others. Her belly was already getting bigger, thanks to the kits she was expecting. She wondered if StarClan would accept these kits, considering who their father was. She shuddered as she remembered discovering them together in that cave. If it hadn't been for Cinderstar, she wasn't sure she would have handled them so cleanly.

"Why are they keeping us here?" mewed Lucustpaw, a black-and-white RiverClan apprentice. Dawnstar recognized her as the medicine cat apprentice. Normally she probably would have taken care of the wounds, but now she just crouched to the ground, and her eyes were wide with fear.

"I don't know," answered Sedgepelt, a light brown tabby. She whisked her tail gently over the young cat's shoulder, and Lucustpaw glanced up at her thankfully.

"We'll get out of here," Toadfoot growled. "I'll find a way out."

Dawnstar stared at her Clanmate for a few moments. Such bravery, she thought as he rose to his paws. Than she narrowed her eyes. And stupidity. They were outnumbered. There were plenty of rogues who looked ready to claw their fur off.

And some of these rogues were just the age of apprentices. They were all lean looking, and they had a desperate, hungry look to them. She closed her eyes as Toadfoot bounded into the fray of rogues.

A desperate screech escaped his lips, and the yowls of the rogues followed. Suddenly, the sound of tearing fur could be heard, and Dawnstar instinctively flinched from it. The stench of blood surrounded her nose, and when she opened her eyes, she saw that Toadfoot's body lay uselessly on the ground, surrounded by a pool of blood.

The rogues stood around him, looking at each other through malicious eyes. The killer, a tabby she-cat with a deep scar around her eye, looked pleased with herself. Dawnstar saw that her claws had been stained with blood from many moons of killing.

"This is what will happen to any cat who tries to escape!" A silver tabby with dark stripes and amber eyes yowled. His muscles seemed to bulge beneath his thick pelt as he glared at the captured cats. "Any who dares to make another move will get their throat cut out."

He snorted and padded away, leaving Toadfoot's torn body on the ground to gather dust and larva. Dawnstar shuddered at the thought of what might happen if she tried to escape.

Would she lose all of her lives at once, like Tigerstar? Or would she give her Clan and the others enough time to escape?

"That was well said Stripes," the voice of a young cat came. Dawnstar narrowed her eyes again when she saw a cat standing with the big tabby. "They will make fine kit barers," he added.

Dawnstar saw that this cat was different looking from the other rogues. He had long, thick fur that was a deep shade of gray. The gray fur was mixed in with blotches of black and lighter gray, and his eyes were the most cruel looking. They were a bright gray color.

"Yes, Claw," Stripes replied. "But I can't help but wonder if there are those in this group that are afraid of our ways..." Stripes trailed off and stared into the distance. "Perhaps BloodClan should leave while they can..."

But Claw bared his teeth and lashed his tail. Suddenly Dawnstar realized where she had heard that name before. BloodClan, she whispered to herself. They were the cats who had tried to take over the forest, only to be thwarted by Firestar and the rest of the old forest's leaders.

Tawnypelt had told them this story over and over again. Their mother had actually been part of the battle. In fact she described how she felt unwanted in ThunderClan, and how she just wanted to feel accepted into a Clan. That was why she left to join her father, Tigerstar.

"BloodClan!" Dawnstar turned to see that Sorreltail had hissed the name. "What are they doing here?"

"Perhaps they traveled here in search of a home," Sedgepelt replied. But her eyes were clouded with confusion. "What is BloodClan? And what makes them so dangerous?"

So the cats who remembered described everything. Dawnstar even put in what Tawnypelt told her three kits. And as the horrors of the ruthless Clan was revealed, so were their most ominous secret.


Sorry! I said it would be longer, and here it's shorter than the last chapter! I'll try to update when I can, and again, I'm sorry!