Chapter 8
"You're that Clan cat." the scarred tom growled in the dank alley of Twolegplace. "Shadeclaw."
How does he know Shadeclaw? Moonpaw wondered.
"Yes," her mentor said. "I have come with an offer for you."
"The one we talked about?" a beautiful red-brown she-cat said suspiciously.
Shadeclaw nodded his head. "Yes, Larkblossom."
"Larkblossom?" Moonpaw asked. "Are you a Clan cat?"
Larkblossom sneered. "As if I wanted anything to do with the Clans!"
Moonpaw shrank away, closer to Wolfheart. The warrior gave her a sympathetic glance and laid his tail on her shoulders.
"Will you do it?" Shadeclaw asked, a malicious glint in his eyes. Moonpaw shivered.
A black tom you had introduced himself as Cinder spoke. "Yes, we will do it but you have to let us join your Clan if we want to."
Shadeclaw nodded his consent.
Amberstar hadn't said that! Moonpaw thought angrily.
Twig, a skinny brown tom stepped forwards. "We shall live in your camp untill the battle takes place."
Shadeclaw led the way out of the alley with Cinder, Twig, Larkblossom, a she-cat called Frost, and a she-cat with one eye and half a tail named Shiny following.
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"Cinder from now on you will be called Cinderfur. Twig you shall be called Twigleg. Frost you shall-"
"Hold it." the white she-cat said, cutting off Amberstar.
"Larkblossom and I will fight, but we have no interest of joining your Clan."
Shiny nodded.
Amberstar nodded. "As you wish."
Cinderfur and Twigleg padded over to Amberstar and touched noses with her.
"There is a Gathering tonight," Amberstar mewed. "Archpaw, Swallowflight, Overstep, Twistfoot, Badgerfang, Cinderfur, Ridgepath, Thornpaw and Moonpaw shall come."
Moonpaw jumped up happily and followed her leader out of camp.
"This is the first time all three of us have gone to a Gathering together," Archpaw said happily. Thornpaw nodded and bounded up front with his brother.
"C'mon, sis!" he shouted to Moonpaw.
She felt an ache in her heart.
I'm not your sister, she thought.
I don't even know who I am.