Nightshade's Parting/Book

## Book

This book was written by Bright as an original book for the wiki. Contact them for details.

This book features Nightshade as the protagonist.

## Chapter 1

"Everyone up!" Brambleshadow hollered, the sun lighting up his already bright pelt.

Nightshade sighed to herself, she was still exhausted from yesterday's work. Juniperstar had insisted that she would work with Mothwhisker on creating plans for the Clan. *She needs cats to do what has to be done, but I wish she was kinder.* She stretched her back and bounded down to Brambleshadow to receive her instructions.

Her mate, Duskblaze, arrived last, earning a scowl from Brambleshadow. Nightshade's belly churned at the dark look aimed at her mate. "Alright, Mistfur, Ravensky, and Nightshade, you are coming with me for a patrol. Graywater, Dustwisper, and Foxclaw, you scout out the west side of the forest, there are badgers coming closer to camp, I suggest you kill them, or at the very least, drive them out across the river." Brambleshadow instructed. "Juniperstar is going to review the work for the rest of you later."

Nightshade joined Mistfur, Ravensky, and Brambleshadow, padding toward their "medicine cat". Graywater gave each of them a few paralysis berries for their patrol. "The bushes for these are withering, we might have a shortage of them in a few days," he added to Brambleshadow, who hissed unpleasantly.

They patrol swepted through the entire east side of the forest, encountering nothing except the usual insects, rodents, and plants.
Along the way, they caught a few rabbits in the undergrowth for themselves. It wasn't until they started back toward their makshift camp did Mistfur spy a claw indentation on a tree, and smell a slight whiff of an unfamiliar scent on a few rocks did they know that another cat had been here.

"We should report back to Juniperstar," Nightshade suggested, nodding her head at the new find. *I wonder who...*

Brambleshadow said that they would all go to report this rare sight, "We need to know if we will have an attack soon."

Juniper was her usual interested self. "Do you think it's that new cat?" she hissed excitedly after Bramble gave their report. "We would do with another warrior on our side."

"That would be very helpful," Bramble agreed, nodding.

Just then, Graywater, Dustwisper, and Foxclaw burst into Juniperstar's den, their faces alight with enthusiasm. "We killed the badgers!" Dustwisper cried. His sudden appearence and outburst was greeted with a scowl and hiss from Ravensky, Brambleshadow, and Juniperstar.

"We were just reviewing our report for Juniperstar," Brambleshadow snarled. "I suggest that you tell her after *us*."

"Let them speak first," insisted Juniperstar, she seemed to be more interested in their news than Brambleshadow's. "You can listen to them and finish your report afterward."

Grumbling, Ravensky, Mistfur, and Brambleshadow sat in a line near the wall of Juniperstar's den. Nightshade joined them, with less anger.

Graywater continued, "The badgers were closer than expected, the mother was gone and her offsprings were the only ones there. So we killed the little badgers and then went of to find their mother. We had to fight her but we managed to kill her too."

"Did you make sure not to leave any evidence of a fight?" Brambleshadow shot.

"No worries, the others forgot, so I reminded them and we cleaned up," reassured Graywater.

"Very well," Juniperstar dismissed them with a flick of her long tail. She turned to Brambleshadow. "I should think that we need to find this cat, and see who this cat is and what he or she is like."

"I agree, I will send our best trackers to search for this cat," Brambleshadow promised, twiching his wiskers for Ravensky, Mistfur, and Nightshade to follow him outside. Nightshade looked back at Juniperstar and thought, *She’s not what I thought she was like...*

## Chapter 2

Nightshade followed Duskblaze, Mistfur, and Locust through brambles and vines towards the place where they found the remains on the new cat. Nightshade circled around the tree with the claw indentation, sniffing it. *It seems vaguely familiar*.

"I feel like I know this scent," Locust echoed Nightshade's thoughts.

A yowl cut through the crisp, still air, startling Nightshade out of her thoughts. A white she-cat had leapt on top of Dust, pinning him down so that he couldn't move. Nightshade unsheathed her claws and sank her teeth into the intruder's pelt.

"What are you doing here?" Mistfur demanded, then added. "You're out numbered, so don't bother fighting."

Nightshade dragged the new cat off Dusk and deposited her on a pile of wet, decaying leaves.

"So," Mistfur snarled, after Nightshade was finished. "What are you doing here?"

"That has nothing to do with *you*," the she-cat spat. "Or maybe it does." At a sharp look from Mistfur she added, "My name is Snowflake."

"We'd better tell Juniperstar about," Duskblaze cut in, glancing at Mistfur.

"Oh *Juniper**star***, yes, I'll talk to *her*," Snowflake agreed with suprising relish.

Nightshade flicked her tail, motioning to the other cats to make sure that Snowflake wouldn't run away. *I hope she can be resonable,* she worried.

Nightshade, Duskblaze, Locust, and Mistfur each took a place around Snowflake, guiding her back to their camp. On the way, Duskblaze leaned toward her, "you're going to have kits, I can see it." His eyes showed that he was worried.

Nightshade gave a small gasp, she had never thought of having kits. "I'm going to try and stop it," she promised. *I don't really want to, but I should...*

Back at camp, they brought Snowflake straight to Juniperstar. The she-cat was looked highly irritated when Snowflake arrived, "You!" she hissed unhappily.

"Me," replied Snowflake without showing feeling.

"Why are you here, of all places?"

"I heard that you were building an army of vengence, I want, and will, stop you before you hurt my mate." Snowflake said defiantly.

Juniperstar's lips curled into a snarl, "That's not going to be easy, not like rolling over a pebble."

Nightshade jumped forward, "If you are going to fight, I suggest out in the forest." Juniperstar agreed to this, but Snowflake just scowled, "I don't care if I rip this place out. I'm going to kill you if it is the last thing I do!" She lunged at Juniperstar but Duskblaze and Mistfur tackled her to the ground, hauling her outside and out of the camp. Nightshade followed, not wanting to miss out on the quarrel.

Outside the camp, Snowflake had stood up and was pacing back and forth. After most Clan gathered around her and Juniper, she spat, "I've wanted to kill you since you started DarkClan, I won't let you kill my mate, your former mate, Blaze, which I'm a hundred percent sure you will!" with that, Snowflake lunged toward Juniperstar.

*Former mate? Juniperstar? The one that would kill my kits, the one that wears a look of disgust every time she sees two cats that are mates together? **Juniperstar**?* Nightshade didn't believe it, and could tell that her Clanmates didn't either.

"Stay out of it, this is my fight!" Juniper called to her Clanmates as she raked Snowflake's face, slashing her muzzle. Nightshade still felt uneasy. She looked around, the gathered cats looked as queasy as she did. "Relax, will you?" Bramble asked, he had just arrived at the fight, looking very calm, considering that his leader was in the middle of a very bloody scuffle. Nighshade thought that he had not heard what Snowflake had said, otherwise he would not be so calm.

Snowflake had just climbed a branch, it turned out to be a bad idea. Juniper had grabbed a giant thorn, as big as Dusk, and thrust it towards her. Luckily for her, the thorn only whacked against her head. Snowflake toppled down and face planted in a patch of grass. Juniper leaped on top of her, but suddanly, the air filled with a special kind of mist. Nightshade passed out from the unexpected fogginess, her last thought: *What just happened?*

## Chapter 3

When Nightshade woke again, Snowflake was gone. Waterflea, Bramble, Locust, Gray, and Moth were stirring from their heavy sleep, and Dusk and Mist were standing up, like Nightshade. Juniper was still asleep, so Nightshade walked over and shook her shoulder.

"What happened?" Juniper mumbled sleepily.

"We don't know," Nightshade answered. Bramble came over to her and helped Nightshade guide Juniperstar back to her den. Graywater hurried in, pressing his paws to Juniperstar's head.

Juniperstar shook herself, "We have to search for them! Ravensky, Pythontail, Brambleshadow, and I will lead different patrols to find her."

Outside, the Clan gathered around Juniperstar. "Was Blaze your former mate?" Earthtail asked, which Juniperstar answered by nodding reluctantly. "He abandoned me after my kits were born, the kits died soon after, I couldn't save them," the Clan leader said.

Before leaving, Graywater approached Nightshade, "I can see that you are going to have kits." Nightshade's heart sank, "I know, but I'll try to stop it."

Graywater handed her a few green and red leaves, "Eat these, these should stop them."

"Thank you, but, please don't mention it to Juniperstar and Brambleshadow, at least for now," Nightshade pleaded.

Graywater agreed, and departed to join Ravensky's patrol while Nightshade headed toward Juniperstar. *Will I eat them?* she thought, she wanted kits, but she knew that she would never be able to keep them. *I'll eat one, just for now,* she promised herself.

When Juniperstar's patrol arived at the site where Snowflake was first sighted, there was no trace of Snowflake or even another cat. Juniperstar hissed when they arrived, she flicked her tail to the other cats on the patrol to search the area. They searched the area twice but did not found anything. They eventually met the other patrols when they spreaded out.

"We have to search again, we can't have a loss like this, Snowflake could round up some SpyClan cats and attack us," Juniperstar insisted.

Nightshade thought, *We searched everywhere, but if Juniperstar is right, we should move, but I feel like I don't agree with the things Juniper decides...* She approached Juniperstar, "If you're right, we should leave after we search, we can't let others know where we are."

"Yes, that would be a good idea," Juniperstar gave her a small, rare smile.

The patrols came back to camp without news *or* prey. Juniperstar annonced that they were going to move to another place. Her annoncement was greeted with agreements. Nightshade was happy that the Clan was getting along so well.

The Clan spent three days traveling but eventually settled next to a great lake. Some trouble kicked up when Lionleaf, Waterstream, and Crocodilefeather showed up after a patrol and announced that they had seen a few other cats on the other side of the lake.

Juniperstar had sprung out of her den, alarmed. "Who were they, what did they look like?" she gasped.

Crocodilefeather responded, "One was white, one was gray, and another was yellow."

"The gray and yellow cats must be Stripetalon and Lemonstorm, from SpyClan," Brambleshadow suggested.

"You said there was a white cat too? Was it Snowflake?" Juniperstar added.

"No, the other cat looked different," Waterstream answered.

"Last thing," Juniperstar meowed. "Did they see you?"

"No, we don't think so," Waterstream, Crocodilefeather, and Lionleaf answered in unison.

Nightshade felt relief sweap through her, though it was not enough to conceal the looming problem rising ahead of her. *What about my kits?*

## Chapter 4

The seventh day near the lake brought a half good half bad suprise. During a patrol, Nightshade snuck into a bush and had her kitting there.

It was *very* painful. Her body convulsed many times, each time she groaned silently, she was afraid that the other cats would see her and know that she had kits, which was against the DarkClan rules. She was glad that it had taken very little time, the other cats would not have a reason to question her about anything out of the ordinary.

She had three kits: Mesquite was pale orange she-cat with yellow-green eyes, Whitefly was a white tom with silver stripes and blue eyes, and Bumblebee, a white she-cat with black stripes and bright green eyes. They were fairly adorable, when Nightshade was honest to herself. Later, she hid them in some reeds.

Back at camp, Duskblaze noticed that Nightshade's belly was looking better. "It looks normal again," he meowed, his face relaxed with comfort.

Nightshade nodded but her heart was thumping faster, "I guess I made my kits go away, Gray gave me some herbs to eat, they worked." *Please believe it,* she pleaded in her mind.

Her mate squinted at her, as if he was not sure if she was telling the truth, but he relaxed again after another moment, "I'm glad that you did not break any rules."

*I wish*, Nightshade sighed. She twitched her wiskers, then instantly regretted it, hoping that no one had noticed.

Graywater noticed that Nightshade was no longer pregnant too, he came over to her and congratulated her on not having kits. "Now you can stop worrying about them," he had exclaimed. Nightshade had to pretend to agree, though her kits were still a worry to her.

Nightshade kept on checking her kits the following moon, Mesquite was smaller than the others, Whitefly's claws were growing very long, and Bumblebee was getting very powerful with her teeth. They were all growing well, and she was becoming proud of them.

Juniperstar was the only one who noticed that she was always volunteering to go on patrols. "Why are you going on patrols all the time?" she had asked.

"I want to make sure that the Clan is safe, after, you know, some of SpyClan was spotted," Nightshade muttered, half truthful.

"Well, this Clan has strong, capable warriors, you don't need to worry," Juniperstar gave her a look that said she was going to keep an eye on her.

Nightshade shuffled her paws, uncomfortable. Juniperstar sighed, she let Nightshade leave. "You deserve some rest," Juniperstar called unexpectedly. Nightshade turned her head and noded back, signaling that she understood.

Before she reached her nest, Brambleshadow stopped her. His face was livid, and it was aimed right at her.

## Chapter 5

"Traitor!" Brambleshadow screeched at Nightshade, fiery rage in his eyes.

Nightshade stopped immediately, she heart pounded so much that she thought it would burst. "What?" *What when wrong?*

Juniperstar ran over to them, "What happened, what is wrong?"

"This *cat*, had kits, so she broke a DarkClan rule!" Brambleshadow snarled.

Juniperstar whipped toward Nightshade, "You did?"

Nightshade started, taking a few steps back. *How did he know?!* At a flick of Brambleshadow's tail, Pythontail jumped on top of Nightshade and slammed her to the ground. She squirmed around in Rat's grip but she pinned her legs to the ground. She managed to shift her face to aim toward Brambleshadow.

"Here are her kits," Brambleshadow pointed, Nightshade's heart sank. The kits were in a pile, looking scared and curious at the DarkClan warriors.

"Nightshade had kits?" Duskblaze cried.

"Yes, I saw her playing with them when she was on patrol," Bramble assured him.

"You never told me! Why did you do it?" Duskblaze sounded horrified.

"Let me deal with her," Juniperstar growled, she had disbelief and anger in her eyes. Juniper motioned Pythontail to release Nightshade, she shoved Nightshade up. She stumbled forward, still in a daze.

Juniperstar grabbed Nightshade's shoulder and raised her other paw, claws sheathed. "So," she growled. "You have broken a rule, you had kits, you will not be killed, but your punishment is deep wounds and banishment. If we so much *smell* you near DarkClan, your neck will be snapped by me, personally." She raised her one of her claws.

Nightshade twisted away from Juniperstar which caused Lionleaf, Mistfur, Brambleshadow, and Ravensky to jump at her, each trying to kill her themselves. Nightshade fought them, but she knew that she could not outfight all of DarkClan.

"Face me," Duskblaze taunted, he lashed his tail, unsheathing his claws. "I'm not going to be your mate now, you broke rules, you *lied* to us, you deserve what is coming to you!"

Now all DarkClan warriors were fighting. Nightshade looked away from Dusk and dodged a blow from Brambleshadow and sprinted towards her kits. Duskblaze unleashed a jet of lava from the ground, separating her from her kits. Needing to get rid of the jet of lava, Nightshade ran to Dusk and bit down on his temple, using a bit of her venom.

Duskblaze howled in pain resulting in the stopping of the lava jet, Nightshade could finally reach her kits. Juniperstar was waiting there, she sneered. "Trying to get your kits? Your never going to get there, rogue!"

Juniperstar threw herself at Nightshade. Nightshade dodged her and lashed out, clawing out Juniperstar's right eye. Juniperstar staggered back, Graywater stopped to drag her back to her nest, washing away most of Juniperstar's blood.

Nightshade knew that she did not have time to take all of her kits. Brambleshadow was still fighting her, determined to get revenge on her for clawing out Juniperstar's eye. So she dodged on last blow from Brambleshadow, grabbed Mesquite by her scruff, and sprinted out of DarkClan's camp. *I'm not part of DarkClan now, I'm free to do what I want*.

She ran until she could barely see anything. She spent the rest of the night curled in a pile of leaves, Mesquite sucking her milk. Eventually, she fell asleep, her last conscious though was: *I'm going to be fine, Juniperstar banished me, she won't be going after me so fast, relax.*

## Chapter 6

Nightshade woke suddenly, a claw was around her neck. She stiffened, wondering why Juniperstar had sent a cat to find her.

But it wasn't a DarkClan cat, it was Snowflake. Nightshade's heart still sank. *She must want to know where Juniperstar is...*

"I am here to kill Juniperstar, where is she?" Snowflake growled, confirming Nightshade's suspicion.

"I don't know if she is in the same spot where I last saw her or if she has moved to another place," Nightshade choked out.

The grip around Nightshade's neck tightened, "I asked where is she!"

"I was banished, and I ran all night, I've lost track of where I am, so I can't help you!" Nightshade cried.

Snowflake laughed, "And what did you do to get banished?"

"I had kits," Nightshade pointed to Mesquite, who Snowflake had somehow failed to notice. "This is one of them, Juniperstar has likely killed the others already."

Snowflake suddenly removed her grip from Nightshade's neck, "If you want me to believe you, fight me!"

Nightshade gasped at the sudden clearance in her neck, she staggered up, "If I have to fight you to make you believe me, then I'll accept!" She had no idea what Snowflake would do if she had not accepted.

Nightshade nudged Mesquite away, under a fallen juniper branch, Nightshade wished she had not made that choice, Juniperstar still was on her top five list of cats she didn't want to encounter.

Snowflake back a few steps, then pounced at Nightshade's shoulder, Nightshade lunged and her forepaw struck Snowflake's shoulder, then quickly struck Snowflake's shoulder on the side. Snowflake's leg buckled. Nightshade did the same for Snowflake's other shoulder. Snowflake rolled over, Nightshade knew that she could not feel her front paws. She jumped on to Snowflake but the other cat managed to knock her off.

As Nightshade tumbled to the ground, she heard Snowflake let out a long, high screech of agony. Mesquite had bit Snowflake's tail before she could claw Nightshade's tail off.

Nightshade spun around, she tackled Snowflake before the other cat could hurt her kit. Snowflake began to chase Mesquite, so Nightshade joined in the chase, "Stop and face her!" Mesquite did as she was told and she turned quickly to face Snowflake.

Snowflake nearly knocked Mesquite over, but she managed not to hit her. Nightshade tackled her again, forcing her down. "There, you can't move, you should accept that you lost."

Snowflake hissed, but did not argue. Nightshade cautiously removed herself from Snowflake's body. Before leaving, she spat, "I'll get Juniper one day, don't you worry!" *Not like I will,* Nightshade thought.

She walked over to Mesquite, "Great job! That's your first battle!" *I can't say how much I am proud of you.*

Mesquite grinned, "That was amazing!"

"That must of been, but please don't get into battles that often, you might get killed!" Nightshade warned.

"I won't!" Mesquite puffed out her pale ginger chest.

Nightshade licked her kit's fur, "There has been a lot of excitement, you need rest." She prodded Mesquite until she fell asleep. Nightshade hid her in a bush, and departed to find some prey. *It's a whole new day.*

## Chapter 7

Nightshade caught two plump pigeons for herself. One was roosting in a tree, she climbed silently and pounced, the bird never knew it had been killed.

Her second pigeon was scavenging the ground. Nighshade pounced on it as it started to flutter into the sky.

When she returned to the spot where she had left Mesquite, she saw three cats carrying Mesquite away. She dropped her prey and ran towards the other cats. "Hey, what are you doing!"

A red tom twisted his head to look at her, he flicked his tail to the other cats. Instantly the others were in battle mode. "I know you," a white tom with blacks stripes hissed. "You're one of the DarkClan cats!"

"I *was* in DarkClan, but not anymore," Nightshade huffed. "And that's my kit you guys are kidnapping."

A white cat dropped Mesquite, who had been clutched in her jaws, "We though she was abandoned by a loner or escaped a fox."

"You had kits, so you got banished," the red one said, "I'm Flamestar, the white and black one is Snakethorn, and the white one is Icefeather. Oh right, we know the DarkClan rules."

Snakethorn snapped at Flamestar, "Don't go giving names to strangers. Even though she is banished, she still *was* from DarkClan, and they deserve to be killed!"

Flamestar narrowed his eyes, "Kits are important too, and she's a queen, she has a kit."

Nightshade chimed in, " I promise that I won't do bad things if you let me live and nurse my kit."

"I say yes," Icefeather agreed.

"I don't," Snakethron snarled.

"Well I say yes too," Flamestar meowed, "She gets to live, at least right now."

Icefeather turned to Nightshade, "If you do even *one, small, bad thing,* we are going to come after you and kill you. I bet that's a hard rule, to you, I bet."

Nightshade stiffened, *I'm not a monster now*.

"Good luck," Flamestar wished, he motioned the others to leave.

"I hope your paws fall off," Snakethorn growled.

Icefeatger shot Snakethorn a look, the turned her head back to Nightshade and her kit, "Keep your promise."

Nightshade nodded to her, and started to lick Mesquite, clearing off the twigs that had gathered in her kit's fur.

"I don't want to stay behind anymore," whined Mesquite.

"You won't anymore," Nightshade promised. "Starting now, I'm teaching you how to hunt and fight."

"Yay!" Mesquite squeeked.

Nightshade gazed proudly at her kit, *I still miss Whitefly and Bumblebee, I wish that they're still alive, but at least I have Mesquite, it shouldn't be too bad.*

## Chapter 8

"Drop and roll out of the way," Nightshade instructed. She charged at Mesquite, her kit dropped and rolled towards the side. Nightshade had to hook her claws into a birch root to stop herself from smashing into a tree.

"Very good!" Nightshade panted. She straightend up, she was just in time to see Mesquite pounce on top of a plump mouse that had just been strolling across the sandy hollow.

"I got it!" Mesquite squealed after she bit its neck.

"Very good," Nightshade praised. *She's growing fast.* A rustling of leaves alerted her. She turned around and spotted gleaming orange eyes.

"Who is it?" yowled Mesquite.

"Come out!" called Nightshade.

More rustling came, and a gray cat, a brown cat, Flamestar, and Icefeather jumped out of the bush. As they were doing this, Icefeather scolded the gray cat. "It's your fault we were noticed, Stripetalon."

Stripetalon shurged, "I'm sorry, I'm just not the best a stealth."

"Sorry doesn't get things done," Icefeather snapped.

Flamestar flicked his tail, signaling the others to remain quiet. "We saw you training your kit, we wanted to make sure you were not training it to do bad things," he informed Nightshade.

Nightshade bristled, "I'm teaching her to be able to defend herself and hunt to survive. You saw!" *How dare you spy on me!* she thought.

"We saw," Icefeather acknowledged.

"So please leave me to deal with myself and Mesquite," Nightshade asked.

"You have shown us that cats can change such drastically," Flamestar answered without answering. "Do you want to join SpyClan?"

"I'm not ready," Nightshade answered, taken aback by the unsuspected offer.

"Of course she not!" the brown cat spat.

Flamestar shot her a quelling look, "Needlefur!"

"You will keep being spied on because you are a rogue, you live neither with Twolegs nor with us," Icefeather informed Nightshade.

Mesquite squeaked, "Who are they?"

"We are cats who spy on the evil," Needlefur announced.

"Wow," replied Mesquite, her eyes shining with admiration.

"Maybe when you're older, and we know what your power is," Nightshade said sternly. *Don't admire them too much, it could be dangerous.*

"Okay, okay!"

"She's cute!" the cat named Stripetalon piped up.

"Like *all* kits," Needlefur rolled her eyes. "Come on! We've wasted enough time here already!"

Flamestar nodded, he and Icefeather motioned the others to follow them. The SpyClan patrol bounded into the forest thicket, Flamestar was the only one who looked back, his eyes flashed wistful, then back to *Remember your promise*.

Nighshade looked back at her kit, "Let's go back to training, alright?"

"Alright," the kit agreed, bouncing on her paws.

## Chapter 9

Nightshade and her kit met a few more SpyClan patrols, each time, they were always not guilty of breaking their promise.

A DarkClan patrol had past dangerously close to them, but they managed to avoid capture by them.

What intrigued Nightshade most was the conversation that was going on during the DarkClan patrol.

"Snowflake has been spotted again," Earthtail grumbled.

Mothwhisker twitched his ears uncomfortably, "Let's hope that she's never near us again, we don't want to endanger Juniper's life again."

"Ratpounce thinks that we should move again."

"He's not the smartest cat of the Clan."

"Still, moving..."

The voices faded as the patrol faded into the distance. *Snowflake was seen? Maybe she ran towards one of their patrols and they spotted her, but she didn't see them.* She hoped that Mesquite would not be in danger like last time, she felt a stronger surge go through her that made her want to protect her kit from dying so soon.

She would never forsee such a suprise like the one should would have soon.

Three moons had past when Nightshade and Mesquite met another cat.

A pair of blue eyes were looking down from a tree that night. Mesquite what the one who saw them.

"Now who in the world is spying on us again!" Nightshade was *seriously* exasperated.

The cat jumped down from on of the high branches of the tree and quickly introduced herself. "My name is Leaf. I'm considered as a rogue, like you two." She had an accent, like a mountain cat's.

Nightshade twitched her whiskers. "You know?"

"Yes, I heard Juniper talking about it," the she-cat shrugged, like it was no big deal. "I heard that you defied one of her rules, if you want, you can join me in stopping them."

"I thought only SpyClan did that," Nightshade tilted her head. *What kind of cat would do something like that, only one cat, in fact.*

"SpyClan isn't the only one who can stop others," Leaf shook her head. "They have their own way of stopping others, I have my way."

"I suppose that it would be alright, My daughter is older than the time SpyClan asked."

"SpyClan asked you to join their ranks? That *is* unheard of."

"I'm going to be a *spy*!" Mesquite puffed out her chest.

Leaf laughed, "That's a spirit."

Nightshade was touched by her kit's courage and longing. *If I choose this, will she be fine?* She shook herself, *If she thinks so, I know I can, I have experience, I have the knowledge, I just have to tell myself.*

"We will join you," Mesquite spoke. *She must know what I think and feel, she knows that I'll try my best, she knows me, the entire me, so I should let her.*

"I agree," Nightshade agreed. "We will help you in the battle with evil." *I have choosen this life, I just have go with it.*