Alright, I managed to fit some Amity Park and Derek into the last chapter. I do realize that I'm centering a LOT of this around Danny, and that is un-intentional. I also realized the last chapter had no Speckle. Oops. A little cussing during this chappie lol.
Dani: Poor Speckle
Me: I'm sorry Speckle!
Speckle: That's okay ^.^
Jay, Dani, and I: O_O..
Me: Back into the story Speckle! *takes her back to IceClan*
Vamp: NOO, WHY WRITER, WHYYY T~T
Me: You get back too! DX *punts back to IceClan*
JayFeather: Anyway... Writer Vamp doesn't own Warriors.
Dani: ...or Danny Phantom
Vamp was thinking some things over. She and Danny had been accepted. It came at a surprise to her, and it was a good thing too. But at the same time, it was a bad thing. It would just make it harder when the two had to leave. No matter how much she wanted to, she couldn't live there forever, and she knew it.
Speckle was sitting on her usual perch on top of Vamp's head. All of the cats had long-since given up on trying to catch the elusive mouse. She inched forward and looked down at Vamp's troubled face. "What's wrong?" she asked, in her usual happy tone of voice, even though it showed a hint of concern for her friend.
Snapping out of her thoughts, she said "just thinking of some stuff."
"Like what?" she asked curiously.
"It's nothing" Vamp said, not wanting to explain the truth of her thoughts to the mouse.
Speckle shrugged. She'd say something eventually. "Well, okay then!" she said, with her usual wide smile on her face.
Both of them looked over as OceanBreeze approached them. "Hey there" he said, looking at Speckle, still amused that the mouse preferred to stay on Vamp's head.
"Hey" she replied to the blue tom. He had grown much friendlier to Danny and her since they had started to become actual clan members. "What's up?"
"You haven't gotten out of camp much lately. Wanna come hunting with FeatherDrift and I?"
Vamp chuckled. "You know, there's a reason I haven't been called on any patrols."
OceanBreeze laughed. "Yeah, I know. But still, things like that never happen twice. If you wanna go, come on" he said, heading towards the entrance.
Vamp rolled her eyes and said "Speckle, get off, I'm going hunting."
"Okay. I'll come with you!" she said.
"Look, I'm trying to be considerate here. I'll be hunting mice too!"
Speckle giggled and said "That's alright, none of the other mice really ever liked me anyway."
Vamp sighed and said "Gee, I wonder why" sarcastically.
Taking the comment literally, Speckle moved her paw to her mouth and said "so do I."
Vamp slapped her face with her paw and sighed. 'This will be fun' she thought as she walked towards OceanBreeze and FeatherDrift.
OceanBreeze gave Vamp a skeptical look as she walked up. "Speckle's going with us?"
"She wants to come" Vamp sighed in annoyance.
Speckle giggled. "Yeah, I really don't mind!"
FeatherDrift sighed and shook her head. VampVixen's little friend was almost as strange as she was. Almost.
As the others left, Vamp made one last attempt to get Speckle to stay. "Speckle, I really think it would be better if you stayed" she told the persistent mouse. It wasn't just that she didn't want Speckle on her head. That was only half of it. She really was trying to be considerate of the mouse.
"I don't know what you're so worried about!" Speckle said with a wave of her paw. "The others have left" she pointed out.
Vamp sighed. It seemed Speckle wasn't going to listen, so she would have to learn the hard way. Shaking her head, she rushed to catch up to the other clan cats.
"Let's branch off, but don't go too far" OceanBreeze said. Smirking at Vamp, he said "and don't bring home any more little friends."
Vamp glared at OceanBreeze and walked to the right. Now she knew why OceanBreeze invited her. Speckle sat on her head, un-usually silent as Vamp scented the air. She figured that the mouse was being silent on her behalf, since making noise wasn't good for hunting.
Scenting some kind of bird she couldn't identify, she began to slowly head in its direction. Soon after, she caught sight of it and crouched down. This should be fun, seeing as she had never in her life had to hunt anything with wings. Speckle ducked closer to her head, grabbing clutches of fur in her small paws. Vamp sighed and thought 'I warned her but she didn't listen.' She shook away her thoughts and creeped closer to the bird, keeping her gaze fixed on the creatures. Timing her distance, she leapt at the bird, which shot into the air right before Vamp's paws landed where it was before. "Well that was a fail" she mumbled.
Returning to her usual self for a moment, Speckle giggled and said "you'll get it next time!"
"Eh, thanks for the support Speckle" she said with a roll of her eyes and started hunting again. She flicked her ears, listening for any sound. But since the bird, everything had fallen silent. No wind, no rustling of small animals, no Speckle talking. Hell, even her paw-steps seemed silent. Something wasn't right. Speckle shifted un-comfortably on her head. "So you noticed it too" Vamp mumbled to the mouse.
Even though Vamp couldn't see it, Speckle nodded and said "what just happened? Everything's just so silent."
"I don't know." If Speckle was worried, then there had to be something wrong. The annoying mouse had never been serious about anything, or that's what it seemed anyway. She scanned the area and moved slowly, before heading back in the direction she had come from. As she was walking, she heard a rustle behind her. It was only slight, but with the current silence, nearly anything could be heard. There it was! Another one. Looking nervously, she looked in the direction it had come from and backed up. Something scrambled up a tree and she got a flash of piercing yellow eyes. That was it. She took off running.
Speckle turned around on her head, looking behind Vamp as she ran. Whatever it is was following them. "It's chasing us!" she shouted down at the frightened cat.
Vamp turned her head slightly as she ran to see if Speckle was right. Of course she was. She turned back to watch where she was going and widened her eyes, immediately skidding to a stop. Unable to stop in time, she crashed head-on into OceanBreeze, sending Speckle flying over the two and into a near-by bush.
"What the heck VampVixen!" OceanBreeze yelled, pushing Vamp off of him. "What happened this time?"
Vamp got up and glanced nervously behind her. Was it still there? She couldn't find whatever it was. Had it been her imagination? She didn't know, and was too scared to speak. She didn't even acknowledge the cat she had crashed into yet.
OceanBreeze calmed a little, seeing Vamp's freaked expression. He tapped her on the shoulder. "Hey, VampVixen, what happened?" he asked again.
Vamp whirled around and jumped back, thinking whatever it was had touched her. Seeing a confused OceanBreeze, she calmed and took a deep breath. "N-nothing" she said, still shaken. She listened for a moment to her surroundings. Still nothing. That wasn't a good sign.
"VampVixen, that's a lie and you know it. What happened?"
"Something weird and scary was chasing us" Speckle said, leaping out of the bushes and under OceanBreeze, going back on Vamp's head.
"Did you see what it was?" asked OceanBreeze skeptically.
"Just a shadow and yellow eyes. I didn't wait for whatever it was to come out into the open" Vamp replied, her eyes never focused on one area for long.
"I'm sure it's gone" he said, seeing Vamp's un-focused gaze.
"It's here somewhere" she whispered. "Do you hear that?"
"Hear what? I don't hear anything" he replied.
Turning her gaze to OceanBreeze and staring at him, she whispered "exactly."
Meanwhile, up above in StarClan...
The spiritual cat was watching the events going on. He had sent one of his recruits from the dark forest into the forest when the three cats had gone hunting, with hopes of getting at least one of the two cats he was interested in. He chuckled, seeing she still knew his little recruit was still after her. He shifted his gaze slightly to the blue cat. He could be a problem. 'Attack them anyway. Don't worry about the blue one. Kill him if you have to' he thought, sending the silent message to the evil cat down below.
Back on the ground...
OceanBreeze blinked for a moment, confused by Vamp's words, before realization hit him. She was right. The forest was silent, which meant something was wrong. "Let's find FeatherDrift and go back to camp" he said, already heading in the direction FeatherDrift had gone.
Vamp nodded and, not wanting to be separated, quickly followed OceanBreeze. For once, she'd love nothing more than his company at the moment. She jumped a little when a rustling came from the trees above. Whoever it was, it was following them. "OceanBreeze..." she said, her voice filled with fear.
"What is it?" he asked, before catching scent of FeatherDrift.
"It's following us" she whispered.
He looked around. Everything was so silent. "Come on, I've found FeatherDrift."
She nodded and they both headed in the light gray she-cat's direction.
Evil Cat...
The cat sat in the dark, an evil grin spread across his face. His bright yellow eyes glowed brighter and he slowly and silently rushed past the two. Soon, he came across the cat they two were looking for. She seemed to have noticed the silence as well. The grin never leaving his face, he leapt out of the darkness and tackled her to the ground. He only laughed when she screamed.
Vamp and OceanBreeze...
OceanBreeze's eyes widened in fear when they heard a scream pierce the silence that could only have come from FeatherDrift. Looking at Vamp with fear for his friend in his eyes, he said "come on!" and dashed off before Vamp could respond.
Having heard the scream as well, Vamp instantly got a determined look and ran after OceanBreeze, old instincts to save those who are in trouble kicking in.
She caught up to OceanBreeze and both cats reached the area where the scream came from, and both froze. "What the..." OceanBreeze almost whispered, looking in wide-eyed fear at the glowing cat who pinned FeatherDrift down. He was black with a gray stripe down his back and a gray tail with piercing glowing yellow eyes. This was NOT one of the rogues. No. This was much worse. It only terrified him more that he recognized the cat.
'Danny we need you' Vamp thought with dread. The yellow eyes, she recognized instantly as the same eyes she had seen not too long ago. Her face went to one of a mix of anger and determination. "Let her go!" she hissed.
OceanBreeze looked at her. Where was the fear she displayed only moments ago? He closed his eyes and sighed, before opening them again, and said "right now!"
The evil spirit laughed manically, still having FeatherDrift pinned down, seeming to have no intention of letting her go. "No" he laughed.
"Now!" Vamp hissed, ready to tackle the ghost even though it probably wouldn't do much good.
His gaze turned to Vamp and remained fixed on her, causing her to cringe. He grinned and said "is he for real? Girl, are you a normal cat or not?" His voice chilled both cats.
"Of course she's normal!" OceanBreeze told him, in the same battle stance Vamp was in.
For what reason was this cat asking her if she was normal or not? Well, she wondered if he would believe her lies. "I'm normal" she said, a look of caution working its way to her face.
"Heh, I wonder why he wants you then" he said, the chilled look of amusement never leaving his face.
"Who wants me?"
"My master" he said simply.
"You're not leaving here with anyone!" OceanBreeze growled and tackled the cat.
"OceanBreeze, I'm afraid I'm an opponent you cannot beat" the cat laughed and threw OceanBreeze off of him, sending the blue cat slamming into a tree.
Now free, FeatherDrift tackled the cat from behind, but met the same fate as OceanBreeze.
Vamp moved Speckle off of her head and lunged at the cat screaming "leave them alone!"
The cat laughed and went intangible. "That isn't going to work girlie."
"Damnit" Vamp mumbled as she went through the cat. This was not good. Not at all.
In camp...
Danny paced back and forth with a troubled expression. Something was wrong. He could feel it. His troubled face turned to the entrance to the camp where the three cats had left just a short time ago.
"What's wrong?" asked RedFur, approaching him.
"Something" Danny mumbled.
"Something?"
"I don't know exactly what's wrong, just that something is wrong" he said.
"Maybe you should go find out what it is then" RedFur said.
"Yeah maybe..." Danny said. Looking at RedFur, he said "I'll be back" before darting out the opening.
RedFur watched him leave, before continuing on his way to the nursery.
Danny didn't even know where to start looking, but didn't have to wander around long before his ghost sense went off. 'Here?' Danny asked, his guard going up. Turning into his ghost form, he flew in the direction he figured it was coming from. It didn't take long before he spotted OceanBreeze and FeatherDrift at the base of a tree, looking in pain as they struggled to stand. Looking a bit to the right, he spotted the ghost and Vamp. The ghost was grinning from ear to ear and Vamp was glaring at him.
Managing to get back to his feet, OceanBreeze flung himself at the cat, catching him by, only slight, surprise. OceanBreeze clawed the cat's shoulder, drawing... what was supposed to be blood. He didn't know quite what it was.
Growling, the cat quickly changed the situation, easily getting OceanBreeze off of him and slamming him onto his back and pinning him down. "You'll pay for that" he growled, and raised his paw, claws extended and glowing yellow, to aim a killing blow at OceanBreeze. As he was about to bring it down, a green beam blasted the cat off OceanBreeze.
Danny darted down and stood in front of OceanBreeze. "You won't be killing or taking anyone today" he growled as the cat got to his feet.
'THANK YOU WHOEVER SENT HIM!" Vamp thought, having never felt so relieved in her life.
OceanBreeze just stared at the cat who had saved his life. Wait, wasn't this the cat DarkCloud was asking about? What was his name... Phantom? FeatherDrift also couldn't help but stare. 'Thank StarClan' she thought.
"Who are you?" The cat hissed, eyeing Danny.
"The one who's gonna kick your ass if you don't leave here right now!" Danny growled.
'Master, what should I do?' the black tom thought, sending a silent message to StarClan.
The powerful cat narrowed his eyes as he watched the events from above. So this was the cat that had his pawns on edge. 'Fight him.'
The black cat nodded, and got into a fighting stance. "Make me leave then" he said dangerously, before taking a flying leap at Danny, claws bound in yellow ghost energy extended.
Danny narrowly dodged the attack, leaping to the side and whirling around to face the frustrated ghost cat. "My turn" he said, and flew faster than the other cats thought possible into the cat. As soon as his paws connected to the cat's fur, his paws lit up and he fired a blast from his paws, sending the cat flying into the trees. 'Is he gone?' Danny thought, staring into the spot where the cat had just flown. 'I wish I had my thermos...'
"OceanBreeze, who is that anyway?" Vamp whispered.
"Which one?"
"The one trying to kill us."
OceanBreeze's gaze hardened. "That's ShadowSoul. He took ChillStar's last life and tried to kill SnowStar before she could become leader and assume the role himself. He was one of IceClan's best warriors and it took everyone's effort to bring him down."
Vamp nodded and looked back to the fight. "I hope this cat can defeat him" she mumbled. 'Danny, please win' she thought.
ShadowSoul grunted and stood up from the spot where he had landed. "He is going to pay for that!" He growled and went to leap back into the fight.
'No. Come back' his master called. 'I've seen enough. You can't win.'
ShadowSoul's eye twitched in annoyance, but he complied with the order, returning to what was left of StarClan.
Danny went to see if the ShadowSoul was still around. Sighing in relief when he didn't spot him, he looked to the three cats. "He's gone now."
Coming out of the bushes where she had run, Speckle said "he just randomly ran off."
Danny looked at Speckle and nodded. 'Why would he do that though?' he thought, but decided to think on it later. "You guys should go back to camp."
Still afraid ShadowSoul would come back, FeatherDrift asked "can you come with us? You know, in case he comes back..."
Oh this should be fun. But he wasn't going to leave them when ShadowSoul could still get the jump on them. He had planned on following them anyway. "Yeah" he said. "Lead the way."
Speckle moved back to Vamp's head and the four cats headed back to the camp. Vamp slowed to match Danny's pace. "You had perfect timing. What made you come out looking for us?" she whispered.
"I just had a feeling that something was wrong. And it's a good thing too."
"Whoever ShadowSoul's master is, he's after us" she said.
"What? Why?"
"I don't know Danny. I honestly don't know..."
It wasn't long before they made it back to camp. "Alright, this is where we part" Danny said, and went to turn around.
"Wait!" OceanBreeze said, blocking Danny's path. "Come into camp!"
"For what reason?" He asked. He would just fly off if he needed to. That's what he did to the others.
"Well, we're going to inform our leader of what happened, and it would be really helpful if you came. She'd probably believe us better."
He glance at Vamp, who nodded, mouthing 'he's right.'
"Fine" he said, and all four headed through the opening. Danny instantly received glances from every cat in the camp. Some were surprised, some were hostile, and others were filled with fear.
"DarkCloud, look" NightWind whispered.
"What is it?" she asked, and she was speechless at what she was. That was Phantom! She thought he'd left! Immediately, she ran in front of him. "You!"
Danny chuckled. "Me!" He said.
"I thought you left!"
"I didn't realize you were looking for me" he said. That was the truth. He didn't know.
"Well where have you been?"
"Here, there, and around the tree" he laughed.
Vamp facepaw'd. 'Really Danny? Just really?' she thought.
DarkCloud's eyes twitched in annoyance. "Why are you here?"
OceanBreeze cut into the conversation. "We need him or you'll never believe what we have to say."
Looking between the two cats, she nodded and said "this way."
'How is it I always end up in SnowStar's den?' he thought as he followed DarkCloud with the three cats.
"SnowStar" DarkCloud said, getting her leader's attention.
SnowStar was agitated, and she had told her deputy to leave her be unless it was important. She was about to snap at her, before she spotted Phantom and the other three cats. Okay, so maybe it was important. "What is this?" she asked calmly, eyeing Danny.
"SnowStar... something happened when we went hunting" OceanBreeze said. "We were attacked."
"Who attacked you?" SnowStar asked. "Some of the rogues?"
"No" OceanBreeze answered. "It was ShadowSoul..."
"ShadowSoul is dead OceanBreeze" SnowStar and DarkCloud both said at the same time.
"Well so am I" Danny pointed out.
Vamp had to keep from looking at Danny with an amused look in front of the cats. Well, technically, he was telling the half truth.
"You are?" DarkCloud asked in surprise.
SnowStar looked at her. "Yes, he is. He told me so." Looking back to Danny, she asked "how do you fit into all of this?"
"I came across the attack" he replied simply.
"Oh, and you just so happened to come across an attack at a perfect moment to stop an attack from a cat from the dark forest" DarkCloud said, suspicion on her face.
"Well, I have this little power that helps me know when another ghost is near. So I investigated, drove off ShadowSoul, and came back to camp with these three upon their request."
"SnowStar, he was working for somebody" Vamp said. "He wanted ME for some reason."
"ShadowSoul was after you? Do you have any clue why?"
"I don't know. He said his master wanted me, though he didn't say the reason" she said, looking confused and scared.
Speckle spoke up. "After this cat blasted him, he looked like he was about to attack again, but he didn't. He got a frustrated look and ran off." Her expression wasn't what it usually was. It was one of seriousness, a rare expression to see on the normally happy-go-lucky mouse.
'Why would he do that?' Vamp thought. "Unless.." she mumbled.
"Unless?" DarkCloud asked, hearing the word.
"Huh? Oh I was just thinking. Guess I spoke out loud on accident."
"Well, unless what? What were you thinking?" SnowStar asked.
"Well, this is going to sound a little crazy. But then again, this whole situation is crazy. I think ShadowSoul might have been given a mind connection to this 'master' of his. And that might explain why he halted his attack and ran off."
SnowStar wondered who ShadowSoul was working for in the first place, before she remembered something. 'There's an evil spirit roaming StarClan and cutting off communication with the clans.' Could the spirit DewDrop spoke of be ShadowSoul's master? She guessed it was possible.
Danny saw it. The look on her face. "You know who it is, don't you?"
"No, I don't know who exactly it is, but I have an idea of where our mysterious enemy is. But I'm keeping this to myself" she said. "Phantom, would you please stay?"
"We've been through this before" he said plainly.
"Please!" She said.
"It would be better if you did" FeatherDrift said.
"Please stay" OceanBreeze and DarkCloud said. With the new ghostly threats, they wanted him around.
"I'll keep an eye out, but I won't stay" he said.
"Why not?" SnowStar demanded.
"My reasons are my own" he said, and went into the ground before anyone could reply.
"I hate it when he does that" DarkCloud mumbled.
"Well, we can't do anything about it now. At least we know he didn't leave. You are all dismissed."
All four nodded and left SnowStar's den. "Now what?" asked OceanBreeze. "Are we seriously not safe out of camp anymore?"
"I don't know yet" Vamp said, before she saw Danny enter. She ran to him without a word and said "we need to talk."
Danny nodded and both went to a less-populated part of the camp, leaving three confused cats to wonder what just happened. "What is it?"
"Danny, you know it'll happen again, right?"
"If I'm not on a patrol, I'll send a duplicate to keep an eye on things" Danny said. "It won't happen again without me knowing."
"How are you going to do this without someone seeing you? You can't keep a duplicate forever, it'll tire you out!"
"I'll think of something!"
Vamp sighed for a moment, before saying "yeah. I guess it's all we can do. For now, I guess things will just press on like normal."
Both cats wondered what would happen next. There were too many enemies and not enough cats. Even with both clans combined, would it be enough? She hoped so.
OHMAIGAWD ITS DONE FINALLY ITS DONE! Roleplaying and Watching supernatural do wonders to help writing haha (How does Supernatural help? NETFLIX LAG! :D) RPing in Feral Heart helps with writer's block 3 And gives me some inspiration.
Guys, I promise Danny is NOT hitting on DarkCloud XD He just likes to mess with her as Phantom. There is only going to be a few more chapters before I end this and start on a sequel. I'm going to have a LEGIT battle between Danny and Our mystery master who I haven't thought of a name for yet... XD The rogues haven't had a large part in this story, and I'll try to change that by the next one. Some time WILL have passed between book one and two. Just a little bit of time though. I'll also do a massive update on the listings in the sequel because I can... and I'm too lazy to edit this one. Mini-Vamp will make an appearance in time... maybe I'll just do a one-shot for her o.o Or just a short story. (This could be the skipped time in between one and two. YES I'll do that one next) I don't even know WHY she's in the listings since she DOESN'T exist yet haha.
I'm also going to include wolf listings. No idea WHY I didn't include them but I didn't :S Vamp and Danny will be listed as being part of the actual clan. Whatever is going on with Alisha in LavaClan, use your imagination. I'll turn back to her about as often as I do to amity park haha. OH I took one of my comics and edited the text JUST a tad for when Vamp was telling Speckle to stay behind haha. OOC Speckle in this chappie, but hey, a ghost cat attacks and you expect her to laugh like Patty would? Nah :S