Part 1: Downfall

A single leaf floated gently towards the ground. The forest was still, like ice that had struck in a silent, but deadly storm. leaf-fall had arrived in the forest. But deep in the mashes, a single pale gray cat that looked like a shadow, stood in the water, ripples forming around her feet. She did not move or blink. Her amber eyes stared at the territory across the swamp. Her belly fur was soaked, but she barly felt it. Her musles were powerful and she was very lean, but not hungry. Her name was Shadowcloud.
Shadowcloud and an attacking party all stood at the edge of the marsh, ready to invade WindClan's territory. She was of ShadowClan, her heart born of evil. Claw unsheathed unerwater, Shadowcloud gave the signle. Cats swept past her like a shadows, their eyes like amber and green lamps. Shadowcloud leapt towards the front of the seven cats, yowling her battle cry. In the dead of the night, they sailed like birds over the grasslands, not making a sound.

Suddenly the WindClan camp came into view. Shadowcloud dove through the entrance, knowing it would be easy enough to sleek into the dens of the WindClan cats and kill some in their sleep. That was what they were planning to do and then when war broke out, snatch the many kits they had. Shadowcloud thought this was to easy and laughed silently as she crept into the warriors' den with five other. the other two were going to invade the apprentices' den. Later own, Deathstar, the leader of ShadowClan, would come and make sure Windstar, the leader of WindClan, didn't get out of his den.

Shadowcloud appraoched a sleeping female warrior, her scent masked by the smell of water and mud. Each cat came towards the females, there were only five. With a deadly silence, each cat in turn lowered their heads, their jaws open. Then Shadowcloud bit down, hard. The cats gave a starled gasp and then lay still. Around them, others began to arise to find five of their warriors dead, blood spilling around them. A screech of fury silce through the silent night. That was when the battle broke out. Shadowcloud snapped at the four remainin warriors and darted out of the warriors' den and straight towards the nursery. She glanced at the apprentices' den. Nothing was moving except two black shapes. All of the apprentices were dead.

Every female in WindClan was going to die. This was WindClan's downfall, they could no longer be a Clan as all of the males died, no one to have a mate as. Shadowcloud whisked into the nursery, finding only one queen with eight kits. She gave this one a warning. The claws raked across the queen's brown face. Statled, she bolted up, her claws slicing Shadowcloud's chest. Shadowcloud hissed and leapt at the queen. The eight queen's kits squealed in fear and scutled away, their eyes barly open.

Shadowcloud takled the queen, killing her with a swift bite to the neck. She then snatched up two kits and raced off back to camp. The warriors of WindClan were battling like mad in the Warriors' den, the thick brambles were being broken. Deathstar was already holding back te Clan leader, slamming im into te wall everytime he tried to escape. ShadowClan would rule the forest at long last!

When Shadowcloud reached her camp, she sat the kits in their nursery and then signled Dawnflower to come with her. They were going to get the remaining six kits. With Blacktail's help, he was fighting in the warriors' den for the moment though. When they got back to the WindClan camp, the warriors' den was shredded to pieces and the cats were fighting out in the open. "Blacktail!" yowled Shadowcloud, her voice like a soothing bell.

A black cat broke away from a male cat that he had ganged up on and was tearing to pieces, the whiote cat ha become a bloody mess! Blacktail bounded over, glancing at Dawnflower. All three cats darted into the nursery only to find Windstar snarling at them. Deathstar was in the den, blooding heavliy. Shadowcloud's paw struck out, along with two others. Togeather, the three cats ran the leader towards the edge of the nursery. It was Blacktail who rammed him, demolishing the side of the nursery and flinging the WindClan leader out of it. Spinning around, Shadowcloud snatched two more kits, the the others did the same.

Deathstar limped out of the leader's den, his eyes flashing. But they lightened as he saw Shadowcloud, Blacktail, and Dawnflower carrying the other six kits. Shadowcloud was deputy of ShadowClan and he knew she would be the best leader ShadowClan ever saw. She was like him, but smarter and faster and even stronger. She lead every attacking party, stole kits from every Clan, but TunderClan. Deathstar knew why to, she had come from ThunderCLan, but she never hesitated to attack them, but didn't steal from them. Of course she was his daughter and also the daughter of Lightstar, the ThunderClan leader. She was pale gray like Shadowcloud, but Shadowcloud had his amber eyes, not her mother's green ones.

Shadowcloud stole food from ThunderClan too, and even killed their warriors, but never before had she harmed a hair on Lightstar's pelt. Brought up the way she had been, Shadowcloud knew only to kill and to love to hear the cries of pain. Deathstar didn't know why the she-cat cat, leader of ThunderClan, had broken the warrior code and liked him. He liked her back, but wasn't afraid to kill her if he had to. Shadowcloud's faith to him had never falter either. Even she would kill her if she was ordered to. She believed that StarClan made the warrior code for a good cause, but she killed still.

Leaping over the torn entrance, Sadowcloud raced across the wind blown territory and back through the marshes, her paws sinking into mud and water. The two kits she had were cover in muddy water and mewed loudly, they were very unhappy.

WindClan

Back in the nursery, a single kit hid in the torn brambles, she watched the fight rage on before her eyes. She was older than the other eight kits had was almost ready to leave the nursery. She was covered in a thick blanket of bramble, her fur was rich brown, almost amber. The dried bramble hid her well. When her denmates were srolen, she watched in terror. Her leader was tossed through the nursery like a rag doll. She covered her mouth with her paw as she gasped quietly. Then the three cats left, carring the six kits.

With her eyes streached wide with terror, she tentivly stepped out o her hiding place, the only female cat in WindClan to survive. She peered at her leader, his cover dripped with blood. A trickle of it came from his mouth. The kit poked her leader with a paw and saw that he wasn't moving. She flipped him over onto his belly and saw a thorn sticking in him like a sword. The kit wailed with terror, death was taking her like a claw out of hell. She wailed as tears formed around her eyes.

Windstar was dead! Her father was dead! Then she swore an oath, saying it aloud, she spoke before StarClan, "I Amberkit, swear that I will kill the black cat that has killed my father. I will avenage him in the best way I can, even if I die trying. I swear that Blacktail will die whether it will be me who kills him, or someone else, he will not live. Whether I am a warrior, kit, apprentice, or elder he will die." she swore, Amberkit knew that she would be sure that Blacktail would be killed.

ShadowClan

Shadowcloud smiled at the helpless kits in front of her. Here were eight more warriors for ShadowClan. They would have the most warrior's in all of the Clans! They already had nine, plus three apprentices, and now eight kits! That meant they would have twnety warriors! She knew how all twenty warriors would be fed. They would steal food from each Clan, turn WindClan into slaves for them! And now was the perect time to gather as much prey as possible because leaf-bare was coming. Shadowcloud decided to share her thoughts with Deathstar, noting knowing that she had killed the WindClan leader.

"Oh Deathstar!" she called, padding into his den. Deathstar looked up from a mouse he was eating. "I have a plan, a good one that we can live off of even with all of these mouths to feed!" she annouced.

"Oh? And what is this plan you ave come up woth now?" he asked.

"I say we take WindClan and turn them into our slaves. They're helpless right now, they have not one female so they can't have kits now. If we take them into slavery, no one would starve because we'll feed them, but of course that is even more warriors for us!" her eyes sparkled as she though to this.

"But what if they turn on us while we sleep or if in battle?" asked Deathstar, his voice thick with thoughts and concern.

"Oh that will be easy. If they turn on us in battle, we threaten their kits and them. They can not attack us in the night because I found this Twoleg thing. If you close it, there is no way out unless anouther cat fromn the other sie opens it. It reeks of dog, but we can stick it outside of camp and put all of the cats in there. I think it's a cage, but it's very big and it will take every warrior we have to move it. It will be a job, but it will be worth it. I think we can give them at least three rabbits and watch them fight over. Don't you?"

Shadowcloud mewed, her eyes growing wider with her thought swerling in her head.
"I must say that is a very good plan. I think we can manage to move the cage. Then we can send all of our warriors over to WindClan territory. If anyone refuses to come, then I will have them either beaten into obidiance, or killed." Deathstar growled cheerfully. "In fact we'll go tonight."

WindClan

At the WindClan camp, every cat was mourning for their lost leader and the lost queens. No one had expected to be attacked in the dead of the night because it had been so peaciful latly, but maybe ShadowClan had not ever wanted it to be calm. They sat, gathered around their lost loved ones, knowing their CLan would soon be swept out of exsistance. They all knew Shadowcloud had planned this because she came up with every plan. Their deputy was dead and there was nothing they could do. Amberkit hadn't shown herself yet because she was still frighten and death was still raking her heart.

She knew that a cat could die of fright as easliy as a cat could die of Greencough. Greencough was a deadly desease that came in new-leaf. Amberkit silently mourned for her losses, but her heart was not full of sorrow, but of great anger and a death-killing feeling.

Suddenly a loud yowl came from the thorn entrance. She turned her head fromt he shadows. ShadowClan had returned! But this time all nine warriors were there! Only six warriors remained in WindClan.

"Everyone, if you come without a fight, we will not harm this kit or your yourselves!" snarled Shadowcloud, holding up a white kit for everyone to see.

Mnay cats growled, but approached them, dragging their dead. One brave cat, Windcloud, stepped forward. "Would you allow us to bury our dead first?" he asked.

Shadowcloud nodded. The cats all dragged their lost loved ones to the graveyard, Shadowcloud ollowing them. Amberkit crouched in the shadows, spotting Blacktail. Anger leapt into her heart, but she did not move from her spot. She knew that she was about to become an outcats, a cat that learne to survive on their own.

When the cats came back, their paws were covered in dirt, but they followed ShadowClsn to their camps, going off into slavery.