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Ambushed

Stormshade was out of the den like a shot, she had to tell Bramblestar, fast.

She stood outside his den, contemplating whether to just go straight in or wait, he was the leader of course, but, this was important. She ddin't know how long it would be until they attacked again.

Why was she in the dark forest anyway, she hadn't chosen to go there, she had just, woken up there. Didn't some dead cat have to take you to the dark forest, a bit like Starclan, you only went to Starclan if they wanted to talk to you, or you died obviously.

She was about to go in when Bramblestar came out.

"Stormshade, what are you doing here?" He asked.

"I need to talk to you." She said.

"Ok, come in." He said as he made his way back into the den, Stormshade following him.


"So what do you need to talk about?" Bramblestar asked.

"Last night, I saw the dark forest." Stormshade sighed.

"What!" Bramblestar exclaimed.

"I know, I just opened my eyes and I was there, I don't know how I got there, no one was with me, but I heard something." Stormshade explained.

"What did you hear?" Bramblestar asked.

"Well, it was a bunch of apprentices talking, a bunch of dead apprentices and kits." She explained.

"What did they say?" Bramblestar asked.

"They wanted revenge, they thought that they should still be alive and then they said thry were going to destroy the clans and rule over them, with the help of the shadow cats." Stormshade sighed.

"The cats that attacked us?" Bramblestar asked.

"Yeah," Stormshade sighed, "And one of them spoke, it said that this time they would win like they should have done before."

"Oh." Bramblestar said.

"Yeah." Stormshade said.

"Did you hear anything else?" Bramblestar asked.

"Yeah, they were talking about Shadetail, and how everyone was going to trust him and how soon no one would trust me." Stormshade explained.

"Anything else?" Bramblestar asked.

"They were saying that I was the only one that could stop them and soon I would be dead." Stormshade explained.

"I'm going to talk about this with Ivypool, you can go now." Bramblestar sighed.

"Thank you." Stormshade said as she left the leaders den. She was really worried about all of this, way too worried to put it into words.


"Good catch." Stormshade praised.

"Thank you." Mudpaw said through a mouthful of thrush feathers.

"Bury it and we'll pick it up later." Stormshade said.

Mudpaw just nodded and started scrabbling at the dirt.

Stormshade's mind wasn't really on the hunting today, she wanted to be able to forget about the dark forest for a tiny bit so she could train Mudpaw properly, but it wasn't possible.

Whatever she did, whatever she said, she couldn't forget about what she'd heard.

"Stormshade." Mudpaw said.

"Yeah?" Stormshade replied.

"Can you smell that?" Mudpaw asked.

"Smell what?" Stormshade asked.

"Shadowclan." Mudpaw answered.

Stormshade sniffed, it was Shadowclan, it was definitely Shadowclan, and she knew exactly who it was.

"Go back to camp." Stormshade ordered, Mudpaw didn't have any battle training, she wouldn't have a chance in a fight.

"But-"

"Now!" Stormshade ordered again. Mudpaw nodded and scampered off, running as fast as her legs would carry her.

Stormshade let out a sigh, "Come out Shadetail, come out now."

Shadetail stepped out of the bushes, "Hello again Stormshade."

"What are you doing here?" Stormshade asked.

"Don't act like you don't know." Shadetail spat.

"Well I know you hate me, and I know you want to kill me, and Duskheart, anything else I should know about?" Stormshade asked.

"No, oh actually, turn around." Shadetail said menacingly.

Stormshade turned round to see a shadow cat leaping at her from the bushes...

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