The Official Clan War series - A RuneScape Fanfiction by Manaphy (a.k.a Mana)

Chapter One: Saved by a spy - Cleft and Mouse meet Jinx, a young spy who helps them to escape.

Disclaimer: I do not own RuneScape, Jagex or any of the programs in which it is controlled and functioned. I do, however, own Cleft and the other characters, and their personalities.

Author's Note: The chapters in this series are kept short, to avoid any confusion and keep them in neat episode-fashion.

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The next thing she knew, Cleft was awakened by the sound of the cell door openening. Mouse turned back in surprise at the noise. It was just a Silver Serpents' guard, grinning evilly at the two as he placed a small bowl down at the foot of the door.

' Enjoy your food, kids, ' he joked, and laughed at them before leaving and jamming the door shut again, double padlocking it and stumbling away. Mouse didn't go near the food. She knew he would rather die than touch Silver Serpent food. What if there are other hostages? Cleft thought sadly, wondering what the progress of the Golden Dragons were. Maybe they had already been attacked? There was no hope of finding out now. They were going to die, Mouse was right..

' Cleft, wake up! Cleft, Cleft! ' a voice reached her ears and she woke drowily, rubbing her eyes to see Mouse peering over her. ' Wake up! Look, look! ' She got to her knees and blinked as she turned to the door. A figure was standing there, with a pair of keys in his hands. He looked about the same age as Cleft, and was grinning at them.

' What? It's rude to stare, ' she said, not wanting to make the Silver Serpents any happier that she had taken them. The boy grinned again.

' I'm here to rescue you! ' Cleft opened her mouth wide. He was wearing the Silver Serpents' clan robes. Silently he unbelted his robes to leave the Golden Dragons' clan drapes instead. He's from our clan! she thought wildly, scrabbling up to her feet.

' Who are you? ' Mouse piped up. He was naturally suspicious, but he had woken Cleft up, after all.

' I'm Jinx, a Golden Dragon spy. I help rescue the hostages that the stupid idiots here take. They never even notice. They were going to starve you like they do to all the others, ' he explained. Cleft raised her eyebrows in surprise. ' Anyway, I better get you two out of here! ' Raising the keys to the door, he opened it as quietly as he could, and the two clambered out of the door. He handed them two sets of Silver Serpents' robes to put on whilst they went around the camp. I wonder where we are.. she thought. After all, they had never set foot in any other clan camps, and therefore had no idea where they were.

' We're high up in the Wilderness, ' Jinx explained, as if he had known what she had been thinking. ' This is the Silver Serpents' base - we're lucky, there's not many clan members around, they've all been called out to do a huge whole-clan attack on us. ' Cleft knew by 'us', he meant the Golden Dragons. As soon as they had got the robes on, they swiftly departed. Neither Cleft nor Mouse asked where they were going. They were far too excited! The corridor walls were dressed in similiar drapes to the Golden Dragons' hangings, but instead of being red and gold they were green and silver.

Now they were out of the dungeons they felt that they knew where they were going - the camp had been built in a similiar way to the Golden Dragon's camp. Soon they turned sharply to reach another door. Slyly raising the keys to the door, Jinx led them inside and they realised they were in a weapon store, class A. Gaping, Mouse rushed over to a huge line of poisoned daggers, his favourite kinds of weapons.

' Take your pick, ' Jinx offered, grinning. Cleft picked up a magnificent glass-like light-blue bow, hand crafted. She knew it was almost impossible to break. This was the fabled Elf Crystal Bow, there weren't many left nowadays. Indeed, there was only one of them amongst the store-room. Mouse picked up a poisoned black dagger like his own, and the other two laughed.

' Go on Mouse, you can have anything you want, something better! ' but Mouse shook his head stubbornly. Placing it in the same space in his waist, he also chose a main weapon, a rune scimitar. Jinx himself had a dragon scimitar tucked into his belt. Cleft and Mouse gaped as they saw it.

' My father's got a high rank in the clan, so I can have basically any weapon I want, ' he said, shrugging. Then the three of them left the room, carefully locking it again. Cleft grinned as she imagined the expressions on the Silver Serpents's faces once they realised they were gone and had stolen three great weapons.

' Oh, by the way - what are your names? You know mine, after all, ' he added fairly. Cleft grinned.

' I'm Cleft, and he's Mouse, ' she explained. He nodded.

' We better check where the army is through the telescope at the High Wall, ' Jinx said. ' Unless you'd rather leave straight away? ' Cleft felt weird in the green and silver drapes, but felt warm with the red and gold ones underneath.

' Let's check the army! ' Mouse piped up, and she nodded.

' Alright, this way, ' Jinx said, leading them up a flight of stairs. Cleft's stomach was twisting again, but for a completely different reason this time!