Secret Meeting

Dog raised an eye brow. "Knight, you're crazy." He said.

Frost looked at Dog like he was the crazy one. "But Dog, Knight could be on to something."

"Well obviously not. Because Knight already tried helping the clans and it didn't work." Dog reminded them.

Knight stood up. "Look, we all made some rather large mistakes well living. Fighting a badger isn't going to cut it."

Dog rolled his eyes. "Then it's not worth it."

Knight growled. "You're telling me you want to stay here."

"To be frank, Yes!" Dog shouted.

Then Abandon said her first line of the meeting. "Actually, I agree with Knight." That stunned Dog. Abandon got up and cross over to him and Knight. "Personally, I don't want to spend the rest of eternity here. If we want to get out, we help Knight." She turned to him. "So Knight, what's the plan?"

That was the one part of the idea Knight didn't know. Luckily, Flame did. "Well, you know that crazy cat Death Trap, and Dinosaur?"

"You mean the one from the group you were part of?" Dog pointed out, smiling innocently. "Yes, vaguely."

Flame growled. "Well, apparently they're releasing the dark ones."

Frost blinked. "They exist?"

Knight nodded. Flame continued. "We could help the clans, when the dark ones come."

Knight nodded. "And they're going to need all the help they can get."

The cats there looked at each other. It wasn't exactly like the majority of Dark Forest was there, but the place was huge. There were enough cats at the secret meeting to help the clans. "Well, I'm in." Frost agreed.

"Me too." Rock agreed. And the other cats there began agreeing. Even Dog said he'd come. But he was lying there. Knight suspected he was.

As soon as the meeting was over the cats went their separate ways. They didn't want to cause suspicion among the truly evil Dark Forest cats. Dog slunk off; he was going to warn Death.

That is, until Knight snuck up on him. Knight jumped out and pounced on him. Dog was taken by surprise and Knight got the chance to pound his head into the ground a few times before he could recover. Then Dog kicked him off, sending him into a tree then jumped at him with unsheathed claws. Knight rolled out of the way so Dog slammed into the tree, getting his front claws stuck in the trunk. In a panicked, he started trying to pull them out.

Knight got back up and brought his unsheathed paw across Dog's face. Dog spun into the ground and Knight quickly pinned him by the ear. "You can insult me and claim I'm getting soft all you want," Knight hissed, "but I am and will remain the better fighter."

He could see fear cross Dog's face. Then he kicked into Knight's stomach. Knight fell off, taking a bit of Dog's ear with him, and Dog went running off. Knight chased after him. The only problem was they were in Dark Forest, and Knight quickly lost him in all the darkness.

Knight hissed into the darkness and stalked off.

Spring felt the press of cats all around her. She still couldn't believe this had happened. In fact between this and finding out the starry cats were real, it had been a pretty overwhelming day altogether.

She pricked up her ears when she heard Leader talking. "Put them in the cave with the other initiates."

Spring was no fool, she knew initiates meant beginners. It was the other part of the sentence that bothered her. Cave. We're going to a cave. Sure enough, she was shoved into a cave. She could hear panicked mews further on, but at least here she was with her siblings again. Summer whimpered. To Spring's relief Autumn comforted her. It gave Spring a chance to talk to Winter.

"Winter, I'm sorry." She said. Winter gave a grunt and kept walking. Spring followed after him. "You were right about the sparkling cats. I saw one."

"You don't have to lie, Summer won't hear." Winter replied coldly.

Spring stopped dead in her tracks. Was Winter really that mad? True, she hadn't believed him, but it was a pretty unbelievable thing.

There was a shove at her back. She went sprawling forward as one of the rouges pushed her. "Move." He said. His voice had absolutely no tone to it.

Autumn helped Spring back on her feet. "Spring, what's wrong?" she asked.

"Winter's mad at me. I mean, really mad."

Autumn tipped her head. "Why?"

Spring opened her mouth to answer, when they reached the end of the tunnel. They were now in a large cavern filled with, for the most part, younger cats. "Tell you later." Spring whispered.

Leader entered the cavern and stood in front of them all, on a taller bit of rock. "Greetings everyone." He said, sounding about as pleasant as a cat threatening your life can. "I'm sure you're all a little confused right now. Well, I can explain everything to you. I am afraid your family left you. They have a lot of problems; they didn't want to deal with you."

"Yeah! Problems you cause!" Spring shouted. A large number of the kits looked at her and she could hear whispers bouncing around.

This clearly angered Leader, but Spring had to admit he did a good job hiding it. He shook his head. "I'm afraid you're wrong there. Your parents fed you those lies so you would blame us instead of them for their weaknesses." The kits looked at each other, they were actually buying it.

"Nice try, but you can't fool me. I'm an adult. And I know you captured us, and the others here."

None of her siblings helped with this argument. However to her surprise, one of the kits did. "Th-that's right. You killed our mom. I-I saw one of them do it." He waved his tail at the numbered cats in the back.

Now Leader wasn't hiding his anger as well. He stalked up to Spring. He snarled softly so only she would hear "You're rather clever, and that's unfortunate. I don't like clever. But there's no need to worry, no one survives Apocalypse." Then he turned and spoke to the group at large. "Now, I think we should all get some sleep!"

No one was planning on sleeping, but they weren't going anywhere either. Slowly everyone did get tired. "Stay awake!" Spring shouted, bringing a few cats out of it. "Don't sleep!"

Leader was snarling in the back-round. If Spring had been paying closer attention she would've seen him give a silent order to one of the numbered cats. They stalked up to her and slammed their claw over Spring. She went towards the ground and the last thing she saw before blacking out was Winter, looking horrified.