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She came to a halt next to him as they stood facing the newcomers.
One of them was a mottled brown tom with white patches and pale amber eyes. The other was a very young and very beautiful black she-cat with delicate blue eyes that matched her collar.
"Who are you," Scourge growled.
The tom blinked at him evenly, "I am Sol. And this is my daughter, Eclipse."
Eclipse. A beautiful name to. Pine began to feel uneasy as she felt something shift in Scourge, something soften, as he looked at the she-cat who was looking at him curiously.
"And may I ask," Sol said, snapping Pine out of her thoughts. "Who are you?"
Scourge broke his gaze away from Eclipse and looked at him. "My name is Scourge, the leader of Bloodclan. And if I'm not mistaken, you two have been stealing food from my territory."
Sol dipped his head respectfully. "I'm very sorry about that, we didn't realize that we had trespassed. We had just arrived here and didn't know our way around."
Scourge was looking at Eclipse again, she was looking back at him and her tail flicked a little.
Pine decided that she didn't like the way the she-cat was looking at him, like as if she thought she knew him but couldn't quite figure out from where.
"Well, since you just got here and don't really have a place to stay maybe you would like to join Bloodclan?" He seemed to speak mostly to Eclipse.
Eclipse's eyes sparked. "I would love to."
"Yes, I think that we would like to," Sol said, giving Eclipse a look but she didn't seem to notice.
Scourge motioned for the two cats to follow him and they headed back to the Bloodclan camp.
Scourge walked right next to Eclipse. "That was pretty smart to come only at night to get food. Most cats and even dogs are asleep at night and are most likely not to get in the way when you get food."
"Thanks, it was my idea." Eclipse seemed a little embarrassed as she spoke.
Pine glared and moved so that her fur brushed Scourge's, hoping to show the she-cat to back off.
But Eclipse was too busy telling Scourge that even though they got the food at night she didn't mind killing, or blood.
"I'm just finding food at night until I learn exactly where everything is so that way I can find out exactly where the best places to corner and kill someone and the best food areas and stuff are."
"Oh, you fight?"
"Yeah, I'm, I guess you can say, an assassin."
Scourge lit up like the windows of a Twoleg nest at night. His ears perked up and he moved closer so that they could talk better as a late night monster roared by. "Really? I've never met an assassin before."
"Yeah, someone wants someone dead I take care of it, for a price."
"Hm… I like the idea of having a trained assassin in my clan." He looked at her. "You're going to go far here Eclipse."
"Thanks," Eclipse's electric blue eyes twinkled.
Pine narrowed her eyes then turned her head. She gave Scourge a slightly rough nudge.
He whipped around and glared at her then, realizing that they had been about to pass the Bloodclan camp, grunted. But as he passed Pine he hissed, "if you had done that at any other time your guts would be decorating the sidewalk."
Eclipse and Sol followed behind Scourge as he nodded to Brick, the guard on duty, and into the Bloodclan camp.
Pine hurried to her den. She peeked out and watched as Scourge yowled out "all Bloodclan cats gather out here for a message!"
The Bloodclan cats all immediately leaped out of their dens and off their perches and gathered in front of the dumpster.
Sol and Eclipse sat in the front while Scourge stood on top of the dumpster, glaring down at all of the assembled cats.
"Everyone, we have two new members of Bloodclan." He flicked his tail at Sol and Eclipse.
They will be assigned a den and will get some food. That is all."
The Bloodclan cats began to disperse.
Brick, a dark red she-cat with green eyes and a dark purple collar, showed Sol and Velvet to a crate and a cardboard box. And to Pine's surprise, Scourge trotted over to Eclipse.
Luckily the new cats' dens were right next to hers so she could hear what they were saying.
"Hey Eclipse," Scourge was saying.
Eclipse turned. "Yes Scourge?"
"I was wondering if you wanted to go on a patrol tomorrow, maybe show me some of your moves?"
Eclipse's eyes widened. "Of course," she dipped her head respectfully. She looked back up. "Is that all?"
Scourge nodded and the two parted.
Pine curled up in her nest of rags and thought to herself, 'what am I going to do now?'
As Scourge lay in his den, he thought to himself as he drifted off to sleep 'is it really you Velvet?'
And as Eclipse got comfortable in her new den she thought 'Tiny, have you come back from the dead?'