Thanks for the great reveiw! Here's the next chapter of Ratpaw:

Disclaimer: I do not own Warriors. I do, however, own Ratpaw.

The bright morning sun shone through the ferns. Ratpaw groggily opened her steel-gray eyes. She looked around for Whitepaw, then she remembered. Whitepaw was Whitepelt now. And she had kept her vigil last night, meaning she'd be sleeping the warriors' den from now on. Ratpaw felt a pang of sadness.

Dustpelt, Shrewtail and Brambleclaw were hanging around together.

"Ratpaw!" Shrewtail called, "Could you get Birchpaw for me?"

"And Hollypaw!" Brambleclaw added. Ratpaw nodded and turned to the apprentices' den once again. She poked the two six-moon-old cats with a sheathed claw. Ratpaw walked back to the mentors with Birchpaw and Hollypaw right behind her.

"Hi, Birchpaw. Ready for your first day of training?" Brambleclaw mewed.

Birchpaw nodded excitedly.

Suddenly, the dawn patrol, which consisted of Graystripe, Cloudtail and Brackenfur, burst into the clearing.

"Rogues!" They cried, "Rogues are attacking!"

"Hollypaw, Birchpaw! Go to the elders! Grasspaw, Ratpaw! Come with us!" Dustpelt commanded.

When the warriors, Grasspaw and Ratpaw arrived at the training hollow, they found at least twelve rogue cats there, waiting.

The leader, a dark, muddy brown tom with blue-gray eyes, stepped up."ThunderClan! We wish to bring you no harm. We only ask that you let us hunt for a few days inyour territory. Prey is scarce where we live." The tom's eyes scanned the cats and his gaze landed on Ratpaw. She shivered.

"You," The tom hissed, his eyes narrowing, "What is your name?"

Firestar hissed and stepped up. "You asked if you could hunt in ThunderClan territory. The answer is no. You do not have the right to inquire about my apprentices," he snarled.

"But that apprentice is not Clan-born, is she?" He insisted.

"No she is not."

"You stole her from us!" The other cat cried.

"No, they didn't!" Ratpaw growled, "I was abandoned. They found me."

"Your original name was Rat, was it not?"

Ratpaw nodded.

"Rat, you are my neice. The rogues had a fight with ShadowClan, and that's where Maple, your mother and my sister, gave birth. She saved your brother, Tsunami, but she died soon after."

Ratpaw's eyes widened. A handsome silver-blue tom stepped forward. How did her brother end up like that and with a respectable name while she ended up ugly and the name Rat?

"Rat," Tsunami said.

"Tsunami?"

"Look! the Rat has a brother! A rogue!" Spiderclaw jeered.

Tsunami glared. "Rat-- Ratpaw, come live with the rogues! You have no family in ThunderClan.

Ratpaw looked helplessly at Firestar. Se loved ThunderClan,but the prospect of living with her family-- she didn't know what to do.

Firestar just stared. "It's your choice."

"Tsunami-- I want to get to know you, but ThunderClan's been my home for so long, I can't leave it."

Tsunami nodded. "Alright, Rat."

Firestar spoke up. "Tsunami, if you want to know Ratpaw better, you could join ThunderClan.

"What!" Spiderclaw and Grasspaw yowled together. "More rogues!"

Tsunami's gray eyes sparked. "Yes!" Then he turned to his and Ratpaw's uncle. "If... that's okay, Oak."

Oak narrowed his eyes but said nothing. The rogues began to leave, and the depu, a calico named Tina, turned and snarled, "You are traitors."