Chapter 5

The group stared at the three cats in front of them.

"I've asked you three times, who are you!" the dark brown cat spat again.

"Dustpelt, calm down they look only to be eight moons." the flame-colored tom meowed.

"Fireheart! How do you know they're not with Tigerclaw!" the cat known as Dustpelt hissed.

"Dustpelt, do they really look like cats who would be working for Tigerclaw?" the gray cat said.

"Graystripe is right, I don't think they even know who Tigerclaw is." Fireheaty said.

Dustpelt growled but didn't say anymore. Graystripe sighed and looked at his friend who shook his head.

"I'm sorry about my friend, he's just a little on edge lately. My name is Fireheart. The gray cat next to me is Graystripe, and the brown cat who clawed your fur off would be Dustpelt." Fireheart meowed.

"Nice to meet you Fireheart, my name is Death the Kid or Kid for short." Kid introduced.

Graystripe looked at Kid with wide eyes and looked at Fireheart.

Maka smacked Kid with her tail. "Idiot! I don't think they know about the kinds of names we have!"

He sighed and looked up at the two confused confused cats in front of him. "I'll introduce the rest of my group, the she-cat next to me is named Maka. The other black cat behind me is named Tsubaki. The two dirty sands over by the tree are named Liz and Patty. The black tom with the mark on his face is Ragnarok. The pale tom is Crona. The white tom with the bored expression is Soul. And the-" Kid broke off. "Where did he go?"

Maka looked at the two cats who looked half-dead with all of the names they had just learned. Then she heard the all-too familiar yowling of her hyper and loud friend.

"NYAHAHAHA! I am too great a cat to be introuduced by the lowlifes! For I am the great BLACK*STAR! Yahoo!" he yowled.

"Dustpelt, Graystripe go back to the camp I would like to talk to these cats alone." Fireheart whispered.

Both toms nodded and headed back Dustpelt grumbling to himself about a too-trusting kittypet.

Black*Star jumped down and landed in front of Fireheart.

"So you are the leader of this group?" Fireheart asked.

Maka's eyes widened. "No way!"

Fireheart looked at Maka confused. "So he was born with the name Blackstar?"

Kid nodded his head and turned to Black*Star, "Show Fireheart how you spell your name."

Black*Star surprisingly agreed and signed his name with his tail.

Fireheart tilted his head. "That's... odd."

Maka sighed. "It may be odd to you, but it's normal for us."

Fireheart nodded his head before looking at the nine in front of him and thought, Hmm... these cats maybe apprentice aged, but there's more than meets the eye about these kits. He shook his head and said, "I can see that you are all strong kits," getting the looks from the nine he continued, "And ThunderClan is going through a tough time right now. So I will ask you, would you like to join ThunderClan?"