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Chapter 3- Blackstar

The dappled golden and brown tabby blinked her beautiful green eyes. She arched her back in a luxurious stretch. Yesterday she had spoiled Crowfeather's date, but today she felt like heading over to Shadowclan. She wanted to annoy that leader, Blackstar. As she pushed her way out of the den and towards the dirtplace tunnel, she was caught off guard by Mousefur. Oh great! Shade barely restrained herself from saying it aloud.

"Hello, Shade," Mousefur's tone was curt. Even better!

"What do you want?" Shade mewed.

"Don't you sass me woman, I'm the only one who can be sassy around here!" Mousefur snapped back.

Shade started to walk away and muttered under her breath, "Okay, miss queen of sass." Mousefur sassily walked away. Shade took her chance and raced out through the dirtplace tunnel. This time she headed in the opposite direction of Windclan.

It seemed to take ages to get to Shadowclan. The whole time Shade was thinking of how many ways that she was more sassy than Mousefur. She only thought of three ways before a Shadowclan patrol spotted her. She instinctively started limping and pretending to be in pain.

"Oh, what have we got here?" a thick brown tabby tom meowed.

"Back off buttface," a tortoiseshell she-cat stood at the edge of the border. The brown tabby looked taken aback. The tortoiseshell turned to Shade, "Are you okay?"

Shade shook her head. The tortoiseshell cat jumped over the border and offered Shade a shoulder to lean on. Two more Shadowclan cats popped out of the dense undergrowth. One was a small cream-colored she-cat and the other was a gray tabby tom.

"I am-" the gray tabby cat started, but Shade cut him off.

"I don't need to know your names, like I'm going to remember them anyways."

The tortoiseshell just nodded and the patrol walked into the Shadowclan camp. Shade felt trapped with all the trees surrounding her. The tortoiseshell she-cat finally broke the awkward silence when everyone was staring at Shade.

"Littlecloud!"

"Who's that?" Shade asked.

"Our medicine cat," the tortoiseshell replied. Then she bent over and whispered in Shade's ear, "My name is Tawnypelt by the way."

Shade smiled, she liked that name, but there was no time to gossip, she needed to find Blackstar. A small cat emerged from one of the dens followed by an apprentice almost his size. Shade assumed that this was Littlecloud and his apprentice. Littlecloud beckoned her into his den and she followed, willingly.

Once inside the den the strong smell of herbs hit her like fog. Their dense smell blocking out all of her other senses.

"I'm just going to check you, okay?" Littlecloud assured the dappled tabby she-cat. She let him sniff her. "You seem fine," he meowed.

"Yeah, I'm just-" she was saved from an explanation when Blackstar entered the den. She sat up.

"I heard we have a trespasser," he turned on Shade.

"No, no I wasn't trespassing, I just needed to tell you a message from a Thunderclan cat." She smiled.

"Go ahead."

She looked at Littlecloud suggesting that he leave. But he stayed where he was.

"Littlecloud, you better go, this sounds like something private," Blackstar ordered. Littlecloud left. "So what do you have to tell me?"

Shade looked around to make sure that no one else was in the den. She looked into the eyes of the big leader. Then she leaned in and whispered something in his ear. "I was sent because..." she paused. Shade really hadn't thought of what she was going to say until now. I could tell him that Firestar ate all his waffles. Or I can tell him that Berrynose likes him. Or... her thoughts were cut off when Blackstar cleared his throat. He was getting impatient. "Because Mousefur likes you and wants to marry you." Shade finished and raced out of the den all the way back to her side of the border before Blackstar could claw her ears off.

She stopped on her side of the border to catch her breath. Over the sounds of the forest she could hear shrieks of protest from Blackstar. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I CAN'T MARRY HER, ANYONE BUT MOUSEFUR!" It went on like that for a while. Shade finally heard the protests die down, but what arose was a new muttering, as all of the Shadowclan cats judged Blackstar.

Shade meowed outloud, "Geez, Shadowclan are so judgmental."