Chapter 4

"No don't go!" Dawn yelled but the patrol didn't stop. Dawn chased after them but Snow stopped her. Dawn started to cry. "She's not out there, there's only a monster! We have to save them!" Dawn wailed.

"Dawn, we have to stay ok. You can't go." Snow mewed and Dawn walked over to Snow and cried in her fur.

Dawn woke to Leaf and Snow running out of the Kit-Care den. Dawn sleepily padded behind them Owl and Dust next to her. They heard a scream and rushed out and saw the patrol. Dawn gasped at the sight. The warrior were covered in cuts, wounds reopened. Thorn was missing an eye.

"We-we found her. She wasn't Somke though, she was something else. We were running up to her when she attacked us and she was huge. As big as a full size cat but she was, skilled. We couldn't bring her down but we retreated when we had distracted her." Dusk said and Rush ran out to help.

"Sunny, come help." Rush mewed and a pale ginger Trainee with black spots came trotting over. Dawn watched as Sunny and Rush helped. Dusk limped over to her.

"How did you know." He demanded.

"What?"

"How did you know she was a beast. A monster."

"I was told."

"By who?"

"A voice. It told me and I tried to warn you but you wouldn't listen."

Dusk thought then Rush came over and started treating his wounds. "Come talk to me and RuneStar when you can." He mewed and hissed at Rush as he dabbed herb juice on his wounds.

"I knew Smoke was going to be a monster!" Owl hissed.

"Oh come on bro, something probably got to her. She can be saved." Dust mewed.

"No! She's lost now and I don't want her to come back, now that I know what she's capable of." Owl mewed his fur bristling. Dawn blinked her blue eyes and licked them both on the head.

"When we become warriors, we will fight and bring her down. Just you watch." Dawn said and Owl and Dust smiled. Snow padded back into the Kit-Care den hearing mewling and Dawn followed her.

"More is to come, more you shall see, Smoke is not done, until she kills thee. Train up very fast, and train up very strong, because Smoke isn't waiting for you for very long." Dawn heard in her head and she looked at the kits. When she looked at Smoky he seemed to smile.

'It was Smoky?' She thought. "But how..." Dawn said somewhat to herself. Snow looked at Dawn with frightened eyes.

"You can hear him too?" She mewed, her voice shaking.

"Smoky?" She whispered. Snow nodded and looked at Smoky. 'What's going on?'

Snow seemed to sense the question and reached down and moved a little bit of fur around his chest. A mark appeared it had a big corner, and a little corner. A smaller corner in the bigger corner and a dot in the center. Snow's eyes widened and she moved some chest fur. Same marking. Dawn moved her chest fur and there was the marking. All their markings were black and Dawn looked. "We have the marks of the Rune. Only special cats get this. Sometimes it follows down a family line, sometimes it is random. But if you have the mark of the Rune you are special, able to learn things about somecat that nobody knows.. You can see the bad about to consume cats. Smoke was consumed and Smoky knew what was happening due to their name similarity. He can give us information about her, and her darkness." Snow whispered.

"You are a descendant of an original RuneClan cat. RUneClan was formed log ago and some of the descendants went away. Your family is of that line. You were given the Rune. You are a RuneClan cat." Snow whispered her gaze locking with Dawn and Dawn got a chill.

"You are, a RuneClan cat."