Hi! So, I apologize to some of you people who like cliffhangers in every chapter, I'm not as amazing as the Erins and I cant make action appear. And if my chapters are late, blame him! *points at school* But hope you enjoy!

Thank you KittyLovesManga for reveiwng. It really means a lot to me, and iPads just hate dont they? XD

And Lilypaw/Guest: Ooooooh you're a tricky one XD

I'm doing KittyLovesManga's suggestion...

Welcome to DarkClan.

~Chapter 9~

-Daggerpaw's POV-

I glanced around camp. Nothing much going on. Blackblossom was fading at camp entrance, Spikechain was eating a mouse, Poppypaw was standing in the center of the clearing, trying to get some herb off her paw, and Swiftstrike was talking with Deathstar. I saw Boneshatter, my brother, grooming his pelt in the corner. I smiled and fixed my eyes on a spot behind him. I felt it get really cold, and the world started to get blurry. Pretty normal if you want to Shadow Travel. Then, everything went black.

I waited imaptiently, I wasn't so good with Shadow Travel and I didn't get immediate response. Finally, a thin ray of light shone down on Boneshatter, still licking his pelt. I smiled triumphantly and felt myself floating toward him. Of course, he couldn't see me. I was just a shadow. I urged myself to go faster and I shot straight toward my brother at full speed. I blinked and I was halfway across camp, standing the same place I had set as my destination. First off, I was annoyed cause that took a while and would do me no good during battle when I had moving targets. Boneshatter shifted, and I decided it was now or never.

"HI!" I said really loudly and Boneshatter jumped a foxlength into the air. I laughed as he lunged at me and we tussled onto the floor.

"EarthClan intruder!" I yelped and batted him with my paws. He froze and I scrambled up and backed away.

Fox dung! I almost had him. Now he was gonna do that "special" warrior only move. He started to glow with black light and I hissed. "No fair!"

He smirked and suddenly a deep black hole was opening in front of me. Wait a minute, now I remember what Swordstone had told me. One of the powers we had was trickery. The hole was just an illusion. I focused on Boneshatter's image and leaped. I slammed into his sideand the hole flickered and vanished. "Hah!" I yowled in triumph.

"Get off me you great lump of fur." Boneshatter growled.

"Daggerpaw!" At my name I jumped up and perked my ears. Deathstar was calling me! "Patrol." He said simply and I nodded and bounded toward Silentecho, Shardshatter, Darkshadow, Deathstar and Swordstone. We all padded to a large black stone arch. I heard stories about it from Meltingfang.


When DarkClan was first made, we used to trade. WaterClan would trade fish in leaf-bare when fish still swam the rivers and mice were hiding. We were the only Clan with catmint back then, and rumor was that an EarthClan kit had fallen gravely ill with green cough. The EarthClan leader came to us herself and said they had been digging and found a large clump of shiny black rock. Our leader agreed for an arch made of the rock in exchage for some catmint.

"Good thing that lil' kit got tha' catmint too!" Meltingfang had chuckled after telling the story.

"Why?" I wanted to know.

Meltingfang had yawned and meowed, "Cause that lil' kit became leader."


We stopped at the arch. Only solid stone lay behind it. Only cats who could Shadow Travel could get in.

But, if you were to make contact with a cat in the middle of Shadow Traveling, you could get in too.

Deathstar's eyes closed and he faded. A few more cats had begun to fade when I closed my eyes. I imagined a rock on the outside of the wall. The world went black and I opened my eyes to find myself standing on the rock with the rest of the patrol infront of me. "Lets go!" At Deathstar's meow, we all raced into the pines.

Let me tell you, walking is no fun. Shadow Travel, thats another thing. I was walking along and trying to mix up things in my mind. Thats a weird habit of mine.

Bah... Boh... Bar... I thought. Deathstar was cursing as he accidentaly stepped in a stream branching off WaterClan's territory. Shardshatter was flickering around a mouse, confusing it. She was in front, then behind, then a foxlength away.

Shadow Travel like that is pretty advanced.

Bat... Bert... Baht... Butter! I burst out laughing at the word. Swordstone looked at me funny and Darkshadow rolled his eyes. I flattened my ears. Silentehco poked me with her paw and guestured to a rustling. I crouched and focused. Then I was up in a tree, over looking the patrol and... A robin!

I closed my eyes and shivered at the cold, and opened them to find a robin less than a mousetail away. I grabbed it and killed it swiftly. Smiling, I padded back to the patrol.


So thats a glance at DarkClan life! Remember to request Clans and REVEIW :D