Chapter 8

Shadekit's POV:

Shadekit was snapped awake as a yowl of terror rang around camp. Flowerstream's tail wrapped protectively around her kits, a small murmur of fear leaving the queen's lips. Shadekit flinched as Stormkit squeaked loudly in his ear. "What was that?!"

"Let's go see." Shadekit stood up to investigate, but Flowerstream held him back.

"No, stay here little ones. You've already gotten yourselves into too much trouble." The light grey she cat meowed, glancing pointedly at Stormpaw's foreleg- which was wrapped in cobwebs from their encounter with Tigerstripe.

"Aw, but I wanna see! I promise we won't go anywhere bad!" Shadekit mewed.

"Also," Darkkit added, "Tigerstripe is dead so we have nothing to fear."

Flowerstream sighed despairingly. "You kits need to be careful." She looked at Stormkit, Darkkit and Bluekit. "You three stay close to Shadekit and Blossomkit. I don't want you getting hurt."

"But we're older than Shadekit!" Stormkit muttered, rolling his eyes.

"Only by one day!" Shadekit snapped back at the grey dappled tom kit.

"Hush." Flowerstream ordered, her tail flicking. "Just be careful, alright? The camp isn't safe for kits."

They all nodded and and trotted out the nursery tunnel charging past the guard to see cats crowding around the Prison. Shadekit pricked his ears in interest, trying to see what they were looking at.

"My tail!" Came a shriek of terror from inside the prison, making a few cats jump in surprise.

"What's going on in there?" Floss muttered, her green eyes narrowed.

"Cannibal!" A Ravenclan cat dashed out of the Prison, his eyes wide. "She ate her tail!" He tried to push past the crowd of Dark Forest warriors, but was stopped when one tom slit his throat with their claws. The tom let out a wail as he fell to the ground, his fatal wound bleeding.

"Who ate who's tail?" Blossomkit murmured to Shadekit, seemingly not effected by the dying Ravenclan tom.

"I don't know.." Shadekit crept through the crowd, hearing his den mates' light pawsteps behind him. He made it to the front of the group and peered into the dark den, trying to see what was going on. There was no way he was going back in there after what happened the last time he broke the rules.

Suddenly, Iceheart burst from the den with a wail of pain, her ice blue eyes wide as she collapsed on the ground at the kits' paws. "Help me!" She cried, whimpering and wailing.

Shadekit gasped as he saw her tail- half of it was missing and the rest was coated in dark blood. So someone really did eat Iceheart's tail... The dark furred kit shook his head in dismay. It must be pretty bad in there... He peered back inside the Prison just as the crazy Smallclan she cat from last time emerged, a crazy grin on her lips. Blood covered her muzzle, and her eyes gleamed with insanity.

"Come back Iceheart! I just want another bite! I'm soooo hungry!" She darted for the white she cat, her jaws opening to grab Iceheart's tail.

Iceheart scrambled away. "Echopool stop!" She gasped, kicking at her with her hind legs. "Snap out of it!"

"Just one more bite and I'll let you go!" Echopool lunged for Iceheart and pinned the she cat down.

Almost immediately after, Dime appeared in the scene. Shadekit's father shoved Echopool off Iceheart with a snarl, kicking her down onto her side. The crazy she cat let out a wail. "No! My food!"

"Enough with this nonsense!" Dime growled, slicing his claws across Echopool's neck. The Smallclan she cat wailed and writhed, her blood quickly soaking the ground.

Dime left Echopool to die, turning to Iceheart. The white she cat had sat up and bowed her head as Dime circled her. "Please don't kill me." She begged.

The dark furred tom chuckled lightly and pushed the Lightclan she cat back into the Prison. "I'll let infection do that for you." Then he turned back to the crowd. "Blast," he called for one of his warriors, "dispose the bodies." Dime spun around and stalked away from the crowd, disappearing back into the leader's den.

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