chapter 2

The she-cat launched herself at Thunder, with a screaming yowl. He was too shocked to react, but the cat pinned him by the chest. "Who are you?" She questioned, her messy black fur bristled. She's from the pond. Thunder instantly recognized her.

Stilled pinned down, he turned his head to Fox and Drizzle, "Don't attack." He rasped, "I know her." Fox nodded his head, and stepped in front of Drizzle, ready to attack at any moment.

She pushed harder on Thunder's chest, "You don't know me!" She hissed, Thunder quickly tried to escape from her grip with his legs, but the position of her body was unreachable with his limbs. She lowered herself to Thunder. "Who are you?"

He gasped for air, and smirked, "Rock wouldn't be happy I died." She looked shocked, and mouth the word, 'Rock'. Thunder grinned, and she gazed at him.

"You're from the pond." She meowed, and released him from her death grip. Thunder cough for air, and nodded.

Fox ran toward his brother with concern, he bared his teeth at her. "You could have killed him!"

She ignored his comment, and padded up to Thunder, "You brought company, great." She mewed sarcastically, and flicked her long black tail toward the coughing Thunder. "I'm Shadow, and I'm not afraid to kill."

Drizzle starred scared, and bolted toward her mate. Fox comforted Drizzle, Thunder stepped closer to Shadow, " I'm Thunder, and this is Fox and Drizzle."

She nodded her head, and looked up at the shinning moon. "There's two other cats." Shadow told. "Hope they don't bring company." She hissed under her breath.

Drizzle trembled to her paws, her eyes glowed with fright, "Why do you hate other cats?"

Shadow stared, her green eyes looked emotionless, but their was extreme pain in them. "I don't have to tell you!" She snapped, "I don't even know you loners! As far as i'm concern your all my enemy." She crept away into the shadow of one of the rocks. Her fur seemed to disappear in the darkness. All that was visible were her leafy eyes.

Thunder turned toward his friends, "Go collect some moss for nest; I'll talk to Shadow." They nodded, and scampered away for moss. He slowly approached her, her eyes narrowed as he came closer. "I just want to talk."

One of her paws stepped out of darkness, her long clean claws shimmered in the moon light, "About what?"

He flinched at the claws, "If we're in a prophecy we should try to know each other." He tried to sound as friendly as possible.

Shadow stared for a moment, "I'll start," She ordered, "When I was young I lived in the pine forest, with my brother Stone, and my mother Ghost." Thunder sat, as she continued, "One day, a group of foxes attacked us. My mother was very clever, and hid us, but one of the foxes found Stone. My mother saved me and herself, but one of her black ears where cut off. We ran as far away as possible, but the death didn't end there." Thunder dropped his ears, but before he could say anything she continued.

"When we thought we were safe, a group of rogues killed Ghost, I just laid helpless as my mother's life was taking away. She never deserved to die!" She snapped, tears flooded out of her eyes. "I joined the rogues, to learn how to fight, so I could plain revenge on them. When I was experience I killed them all. Not one of their lives were spared. Now all I can do is dread the death of my family, and promise to Ghost and Stone, I'll never run from a fight."

Tears ran from her eyes, she turned away from Thunder to hide the tears, "Leave me alone!" She snapped. Thunder started to walked away, he sat near the opposite rock. Drizzle and Fox came back, with moss.

Drizzle turned her head toward the rock Shadow was sleeping in. "Is she still there, she's like a ghost." Thunder flinched in concern, Ghost was her mother's name. A small whimper came from Shadow's directed, "Is she ok?"

Thunder quickly came up with an excuse, "Yeah, just a bit grumpy, maybe we should get some sleep."

Fox perched, and tucked his tail under his legs, "I'll take first watch, after all we're in the open, and I don't trust Shadow." Thunder remained silence, if they knew, all the deaths she went through they wouldn't judge her. Thunder curled in is nest, thinking about his family.

"Thunder," Shadow hissed, he slowly opened his eyes, he looked around for his cave-den, but he looked up at Shadow. "Hurry up mouse-brain." She cursed, he pulled himself, and flicked off tiny pieces of moss stuck in his ginger fur. Shadow rolled her eyes, "You look beautiful," She meowed sarcastically, "We need to hunt, but make sure you don't break a claw." She teased.

Thunder playfully bristled his fur, "I want to make myself look good." She gasped at the comment, and swatted his head.

"You never say that to a she-cat."

She watch bored, as Thunder groomed his fur, she's acting like her back round doesn't affect her. He told himself. When he finished, Shadow pounced up, and pushed him aside. "You're following me." Thunder obeyed the matted cat. He quickly glanced at his sleeping family, they must have been up all night. He concluded. She led them to the piney forest Thunder arrived through, she lowered herself into a crouch. Thunder scent the air for the prey being stalked, and scented a vole. He crouched not to scare the animal.

With a massive leaped, the vole was crushed under her paws, she quickly gulped it down. Thunder quickly followed and scent the air for the next prey, there was a faint smell of squirrel, but they followed the scent to an old pine tree, Thunder smelled the air, for the squirrel. There was another smell too, it was a cat scent.

Shadow looked as if she smelled the cats too, he crawled over to Shadow, "No blood shall be spilled today."

She let out a snort, "Your not the boss, you can't tell me what to do."

His fur prickled with anger, "We need to find the two other cats, if they attack you can defend yourself." She nodded her head, and the two cats sneaked on the side of the trees. He noticed two scrawny she-cats, they had flea-bitten paws, and blood stained fur. The smaller one was light brown, while the other had cream-colored fur with black stripes. Shadow flicked her tail at the brown cat to show that cat was from the pond, he nodded his head. Thunder closed his eyes to hear Rock, but he didn't answer.

Thunder tried to think of a way to approach the she-cats, he quickly decided, and slid out of the bushes.

"You must be looking for Rock."

Any guesses this time? LOL

I tried to make Shadow aggressive, but with her tragic back story, it was kinda hard, Review what you think.

congratulations to all of you that guess Shadow, and as I was writing this I thought about ShadowXThunder, BECAUSE Thunder is the only cat that knows who Shadow is, and Shadow warmed up to him faster, theirs kit would be like Squirrleflight LOL.

And big thanks to comedymaster333 for editing tips.

HOPE YOU ENJOYED!