This chapter is a tribute to meh e-buddies! Jaggedpaw - Spotted, Dapplepaw - me! Shadesoul - Blossom, Northfur - Northy, Grassfrost - Midnight. Enjoy!

What?!

A tortoiseshell she-cat padded along, looking around frantically to make sure no other cats were following her. "No one is out here..." she mewed quietly. Just as she said that, however, the bushes around her rustled, and a massive light-brown she-cat stepped out. "Oh, Northfur, it's just you," the tortoiseshell mewed, sighing in relief.

Northfur hissed and cuffed the apprentice over her ear. "Basil will have a fit if you keep addressing others by their warrior names. Call me North. You, Dapplepaw, are Dapple," she growled. Dapple rolled her eyes.

"And I am Shade, not Shadesoul," a black she-cat growled, padding out of the bushes and walking next to them.

Dapple looked at her in surprise. "Shadesoul?" she mewed, remembering how the ShadowClan cat had saved her life when she had eaten deathberries. "You're in the elite too?"

Shadesoul snorted. "First off, it's Shade. Second, I have been here before you were born, Dapple. So has North here," she explained. "Now, how did you discover the elite?"

The tortoiseshell was about to respond when two cats came from the bushes on either side of them. One, a brown tom with jagged fur, was very familiar to Dapple. "Jaggedpaw! I-I mean Jagged!" she called, and her brother came over to her. "What are you doing here?"

"Basilstar, I mean, Basil came and talked to me about it!" he purred, rubbing himself against his sister. "He told me I seemed like I would be a good member of the Elite, because I am smart and strong!"

"That's what he says to everyone," a new voice mewed. It belonged to the other black and white she-cat that had padded along with them. Dapple recognized her as Grassfrost of WindClan. "That's why there are so many of us. He gets Rain, Yarrow, and Silver to select cats from the Clans to come to the Elite meeting. Our mission was to make the four Clans into one, but we did not go through with it. Basil is going to tell us what we need to do now."

Dapple nodded, thinking to herself. Why did Basil start this in the first place?

North seemed to hear her thoughts. "Basil thought that only the strongest and most clever cats should lead the Clans. That is how he got this started. He wanted Elites to be leaders and deputies. I was able to become deputy of RiverClan, so now we can go through with whatever plan we are doing next." Dapple and Jagged nodded.

"We're here," Shade mewed as they approached a large, nearly hidden cave. "This is where we meet."

The group padded into the cave. Murmuring could be heard from all around them. Dapple and Jagged were surprised to see their father, Coaltalon, there also. "I wonder if Blackberryclaw used to come here," Dapple whispered to Jagged. Blackberryclaw was their mother, but she died giving birth to them.

Suddenly, a yowl erupted from one of the cats, and a ginger she-cat jumped up on the cave ledge. "Fellow Elites!" she cried. "Basil was murdered!"

"What?!"

Did I really just kill Basil? Oh nu!