A/N: Yay here's chapter one! Thank you for everyone who reviewed last chapter, let me remember. Oh yes, thanks xXSunstarXx, Nianque, and Akari-Miniwara. Lets hope you'll like this chapter, you get to meet the main characters! Anyway please review if you can, should update on Friday hopefully. Or maybe sooner depending on reviews? Thanks!

~Leo~

CHAPTER 1

Ember stalked stealthily through the undergrowth, keeping his body low to the ground as he focused on a plump mouse. It was chewing on an acorn next to an oak tree, totally unaware that he was watching it.

Ember's stomach growled as he approached, he hadn't eaten in two days. It had been almost a moon since his mother and sister had died, but it seemed like seasons!

Just a little closer, he told himself, and you'll have a meal.

Stepping a few more pawsteps towards the mouse, Ember focused his gaze and launched into the air, knocking the mouse into the air. Dazed as it fell to the ground, the rodent tried to scurry, but not before Ember stopped it with his paw, and killed it with a quick bite to the spine.

Feeling a bit better after eating his meal, Ember turned his gaze to the sky. It was almost sunset, and if he was to do as Terra requested, then he needed to reach RiverClan by nightfall.

"I have to show the clan all of Lightningcloud's treachery" he vowed, Terra had told him how evil he was, and how he planned to overtake his leader.

Suddenly a twig snapped behind the young tom, and he whirled around to see three huge cats standing before him.

"Well what do we have here?" a light brown she-cat sneered, "A kittypet feasting on a ShadowClan mouse. Don't your twoleg's feed you enough?".

Ember was about to retort that he wasn't a kittypet, but one of the other cats beat him to it.

"He obviously isn't a kittypet Cougartooth" a dark ginger tom stated, "He's way too skinny, and how many times have you seen a house-cat catch a mouse that skillfully?".

The she-cat snorted, as the third cat, a black tom stepped forward. "Shall we take him to Smokestar?" he asked, "Firestorm you know how he hates intruders on the border."

"How about letting me talk?" Ember growled, stepping forward to face the warriors.

If he was going to get out of this mess, then Ember had to tell them why he was here. Behind the three figures, he saw a pure white head poke out from behind a bramble bush. The she-cat looked about the same age as Ember, perhaps a little younger.

"Well, are you going to explain why your on ShadowClan territory?" the black tom growled, "Or not?".

Ember cleared his throat and stepped forward to explain his story. He told the ShadowClan cats of how his mother and sister had recently died, and of who his father was. Apparently the ShadowClan cats liked the thought of a RiverClan cat getting into trouble, and told him to go on.

"And that's why I'm here" Ember sighed, "I need to show RiverClan that their deputy isn't who they think he is."

After he finally explained his story, the three ShadowClan cats looked at each other, a bit shocked by the tom's story.

"Well it appears like he's on our side. None of us like Lightningcloud, he's so full of himself" the ginger tom meowed, turning to the black tom, "What do you think Venomfang?".

The tom gave Ember a curious look, "I think we should let him pass, who knows maybe It'll stir up some trouble in RiverClan" he meowed with a smile.

Ember smiled as well, he didn't exactly want to cause trouble in RiverClan, just for Lightningcloud.

"I don't know" Cougartooth growled, "He's a rogue, I say we chase him out or give him some scars to remember us by."

Ember shuddered, there was no way he could take on even one of these cats, let alone three.

"Don't touch him!" a voice growled, coming from the pure white she-cat he saw before.

"Dovepaw!" Firestorm scolded the young cat, "What are you doing here? I thought you were back at camp with Twilightfern!".

Dovepaw stepped forward and glared at the warrior, "Well obviously I'm not. And If I remember correctly, Moonclaw told you to take me on the patrol. Not drop me off in the paws of some pregnant queen!".

As the mentor and so called apprentice argued, Ember couldn't help but suppress a chuckle. The young cat certainly didn't know the term, respect your elders, or at least she didn't follow it.

"You aren't seriously going to attack a cat as skinny as him are you?" Dovepaw hissed, "Let's just leave him to go cause trouble in RiverClan."

The warriors Firesky and Venomfang nodded in agreement, and finally so did Cougartooth.

"You may leave rogue" the dark ginger tom told him, "But be aware of the borders, the next ShadowClan patrol you meet won't be as nice as this one."

Ember narrowed his eyes, Terra told him about ShadowClan cats as well. She said they had bitter attitudes, that matched the way they smelled, and by the looks of it she was right. Ember nodded in goodbye, as the ShadowClan warriors turned to leave, all except the pure white Dovepaw.

He looked at her curiously, "Is there anything else?".

She shook her head and stepped forward, "No, I just wanted to know what your going to do once you get to RiverClan?" Dovepaw asked curiously.

Ember lowered his gaze in confusion, he hadn't really thought about it. "I guess I'll just go in there and tell everyone the truth about my father. They'll just have to believe me." He had no other plan than that, it was rather simple.

Dovepaw snorted, "You think Fernstar and the others will believe you if you just prance in there and claim Lightningcloud is your father?".

Ember nodded, "I guess so...I didn't really think about it."

Dovepaw looked behind her, then turned to face him in the eye. "Here's what you have to do, If you really want to reveal him to RiverClan. You have to go in there, claiming you want to join the clan. And then you have to think up a real plan of what to do. Who knows maybe you'll get some cats to help you".

He never met a cat that talked as much as this Dovepaw, but the apprentice did make sense, he needed to think up an actual plan.

"Will you help me?" he asked nervously, would a ShadowClan cat even want to help him?

Dovepaw turned her head to the side, "I do have a life you know, but I guess I can help you. Only If I can get revenge on Eelpaw after what he did to me at the gathering, I swear I'll never look at mud the same way again" the white cat shuddered at the memory.

Ember looked at her curiously, but he didn't want to ask or know anything about what happened.

Finally Dovepaw stopped remembering and nodded, "Fine I'll help you, but first you have to blend in with the rest of RiverClan."