Shattering Earth

Allegiances
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Prologue
“Starleaf!” I was yelling as loud as I possibly could, but I heard no answer.

“Help!” I heard a shriek coming from behind me.

“I’m coming!”I cried, but I knew she couldn’t hear me over the snapping trees. When I finally got to the screeching, what I saw horrified me. There, lying under a fallen tree was my mate Starleaf. My heart felt as if I would split in two. Next to the corpse I saw three little, lifeless bodies. Two were black, one was gray.

Okay, let me tell you this a little bit slower, so we will start from last moon.

Chapter 1
It was a bright sunny morning; another good day in Nightclan and my clanmates were all sitting, relaxing in the sun, though most of them were sleeping. The thing was, in Nightclan most cats slept during the day and we hunt and patrol at nighttime. How does this work you say? Well it was very tricky but we use scent and hearing to do those things. Plus we’ve been doing this since we were kits, so most of us are pretty good at it. How do we sleep in daytime? Well, our nests are in ditches or caves, where it’s dark. Now, let’s get back to our story.

“Well someone looks happy.” I turned and saw my mate, Starleaf, beginning to lie down beside me. I was leader so I laid beneath the great ledge which was beneath a large cliff of stone.

“I’m just happy there aren’t any foxes or badgers near the camp anymore.” As soon as I said that memories started flooding my brain. I remembered that horrid moment. My mother, Stormmoon was defending the kits with her life. I remembered seeing her slash at the ferocious badgers and snarl at them.

Then I saw it.

One of them bit deeply into her neck. Then I heard the screech, and I knew she was dead. Tears rolled down my cheeks and I couldn’t stop them. I buried my face in my paws and sobbed. My mates comforting words did nothing.

“Don’t worry, it’s over.”

Then, just as if those words triggered it, a large fluffy badger ran through the thorn bushes and lunged straight towards the kits den. I stood up and ran straight for the huge badger. Not noticing my clanmates waking up and letting out gasps of shock, I ran even faster. I knew Starleaf was right behind me and that she would fight until the end. I could feel the wind flatten my fur, yet I knew I was still several fox lengths behind the badger, and it would take a while to catch up. I saw ahead of me the plains, where there was a ditch where the kits and mothers lived. It was about 30 fox lengths from the great ledge and it was about level with it.

Just as I was about to reach the badger, the memories all came back at once. I remembered the badger killing the gray kit, Mountainkit. I would never let that happen again. As hard as I could I rammed into the badger, ending up winded on the ground.

But the plan worked. I caught its attention.

Chapter 2
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