That's right people, Sol is going to be in this story. I got to thinking that it might be interesting if he didn't just not like the clans because of Skyclan, but also because he had a run-in with Bloodclan. Please don't kill me if you don't like the idea, I just thought that it might be interesting. Please comment!

The next morning, Scourge woke up, stretched, walked outside, grabbed the food left for him and jumped onto the dumpster. He ate quickly then gave himself an unusually thorough wash and looked around for Eclipse.

He found her talking to Sol while they finished up their breakfast. Scourge didn't know why, but he didn't like Sol. He was like a fox, slippery and deceiving. He seemed like a cat who liked to deceive, with that smooth talk that probably got him out of a lot of trouble. In fact, Scourge would have killed him to but he didn't want to hurt, or fight, Eclipse.

'Could she be Velvet?' Once again this thought nagged at the back of his head and he felt his mood become slightly sadder as he remembered his old friend and he began to think of the first time he had met Velvet.

FLASH-BACK!

Little Scourge, also known as 'Tiny' back then, hid under an old flower pot and sighed. He was trying to hide from his mean siblings, Socks and Ruby, who had just made fun of him and wouldn't let him play with them, again. 'I wish I could grow, then maybe Ruby and Socks would let me play.'

Suddenly Scourge heard paw steps. He shrank back, thinking that maybe Ruby and Socks had gotten bored with 'Chase the Feather' and were coming to torment him some more.

A face peered into the small hole that he had slid through to get into the pot and blinked. The she-kit's face immediately lit up. "So you're the one I heard back here."

Scourge stared. The she-kit wasn't Ruby but wasn't familiar either.

The kit looked at him curiously then said "hey come on out, I want to at least get a good look at the new kit."

Scourge hesitated then crept out into the sunlight of the back of his Twoleg nest and looked at the new comer.

She was the same age as him, and like every other kit his age, bigger than him. She had fluffy black fur and excited blue eyes. Her collar was bright and and, like his, had a small golden bell at the front.

The she-kit seemed to look him over to then asked, "what's your name?"

Scourge hesitated then mumbled, "Tiny."

"Well come on, don't be shy, I could barely hear you! Say it again."

"Tiny." Scourge said a little louder.

The she-kit nodded. "Suits you."

Scourge shrank back a little, knowing what was coming next.

The she-kit looked a little startled and seemed to realize that she had offended him. "I mean, it suits you cause you're so small."

"Yeah, I know. Everyone says that." Scourge looked away, starting to feel bad all over again.

"Well, I like small."

Scourge looked up, shocked. "You do?"

"Yeah! And well, I think you're kind of cute, like one of the stuffed animals on one of my Twoleg's bed."

"Really?"

"Yeah!" She reached over and ruffled the fur on his head with a paw. "You're so small you're cute!"

"No one's ever called me cute before."

"Well then everyone around you is a blind nutcase." She leaned down in a playful position. "Wanna play?"

Scourge gawked. "Y-you want to play? With me?"

The she-kit scoffed. "Of course you, who else would I be asking, the flower pot?"

Scourge laughed then said "okay!" and copied the she-kit's position.

They played all day and when Quince, his mother, called for him he was reluctant to leave the only cat that was nice to him. The she-kit promised to meet him tomorrow and went to leave.

Scourge hesitated then called out "wait! What's your name?"

The she-kit looked back. "Velvet."

END OF FLASHBACK!

Then his mood lifted as he clung to the slight hope that Eclipse was Velvet and stuck with that feeling as he approached her and her father.

"So, I was thinking that we would go out and get a good idea of the territory," Sol was saying. "Then we'll come back here a bit past sun-high, have something quick to eat then join a patrol or something like that."

"Um, that's a good idea," Eclipse said nervously. "But-"

"She's coming with me to show me her skill level in fighting." Scourge interrupted. He looked at her and flicked his tail. "Come on, I don't like having to wait," he growled.

Eclipsed nodded and, with a quick good-bye to Sol who wasn't looking very pleased, hurried after the Bloodclan leader.

Scourge led her a few blocks over to a quiet alley that was out of the way of the normal chaos of the day and sat down facing her, his fur blending into the shadows. "Okay, first of all." He said once Eclipse was sitting opposite him. "Attack."

Eclipse nodded.

Scourge stood up and moved into a fighting position. "Attack me."

Eclipse narrowed her eyes and they flickered to his left.

Scourge smirked inwardly. 'Eyes always are the fatal flaw.'

But when Eclipse lunged forward she didn't go to the left, she went to the right. Scourge snarled as he felt her claws dig into his side and lashed out. He felt his claws meet their mark and he went to follow it up with another but suddenly she was on top of him and he was on his back, staring into Eclipse's eyes and he felt like a kit again.

"Velvet?" He blurted.

"Tiny?" Eclipse cried.