Fang and Blood entered ThunderClan. "Go back," Fang whispered. The two cats went to the border, and stayed. Wait for the patrol. That's what Deathblaze said.
"Who are you?"
The voice broke Fang's thoughts. "My name is Fang."
"Blood."
"What do you want, cats?"
"We wish to join this Clan."
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ShadowClan. I need to go there. Deathblaze had remembered when he ran away from his mother, and tried to get to the dark Clan. That's how all this happened, but with Skystorm gone and weakened, there's not much I can do. Deathblaze stopped at the border. Now I wait.
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"Why would you want to join? You're rouges."
Fang spotted a mouse a few tail-lengths away. The mouse fell limp. "Look at that mouse." The two ThunderClan cats turned to the dead mouse, then back at Fang. "Did you-"
"Yes, yes I did kill that mouse."
"Impossible. You were standing in front of us."
Fang slipped up behind one of them. "Was I?"
"Now get us to your leader, or die. You will say nothing in front of him." The cats nodded.
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"What do you want, Deathpaw? To kill our leader?"
"Deathblaze, and I don't want to kill Russetstar, you can trust me with that."
"What do you want," the cat asked again, irritation showing on his face?
"I want to join this Clan."
"No."
"It's not your call Ferretclaw." The cats turned to see Russetstar. "I'll let you in, but if I lose a life at your claws, you will be exiled." Deathblaze dipped his head.
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"Who are these cats Wavepelt?"
"We want to join this Clan."
"Why should I let you?"
"Because we lost our home and we've been living on crowfood for moons. We don't know how to hunt, and if it hand't had been for my mother, we both would have died from greencough when we were kits. We need a home."
"Very well. You shall stay."
"Brackenstar are you mousebrained? They have blood, I can tell."
"You're not the deputy, Wavepelt." Wavepelt dipped his head and padded into the camp.
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So, I'm here at last, Deathblaze thought. Maybe things can be better and no. Don't think of a pretty life. Don't. Deathblaze went out of the camp. Darkness is where I belong. Deathblaze kept walking. He went as far as the thunderpath. 3...2...1...Now! He ran across. He found a lone tree, and he made a makeshift nest, and slept.
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I'll see you sometime, Deathblaze, Feathermist thought. They had met at a gathering, and she had loved him at first sight. He, on the other paw, didn't. That was a moon ago. Maybe he changed his mind, she thought as she went to the Fourtrees.
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I shouldn't be doing this. It's against the Warrior code and my own, Deathblaze thought. There was no mistaking that love was a weakness to him. He had heard how Greystar had loved a cat once. She was silver, and when a battle came, he pleaded to Firestar to let her go. I love her. That's the end of it.
