In the eyes of Darkness

ALLIGANCES
SWAMPCLAN Leader: Deepstar: big jet black Tom with amber eyes

deputy: Prickleclaw: dark brown tabby Tom with blue eyes and long claws

Medicine cat: Petalwing: mottled light gray she-cat with bright blue eyes and white flecks

Warriors Flameheart: gray-and-Ginger Tom with green eyes

Nettleclaw: pale gold-and-Ginger tabby Tom with gray eyes

Tusslefang: huge dark gray Tom with black eyes

Berrytail: creamy white long-furred she-cat with bright blue eyes and a long tail

Shatteredface: gray tabby Tom with amber eyes and black legs with an oddly scarred face

Ashcloud: small pale gray she-cat with black flecks and pale blue eyes

Boulderpelt: huge pale brown-and-gray Tom with blue eyes

Spottedfrost: tortoiseshell she-cat with light blue eyes

Apprentices

Wingfeather: pale golden tabby she-cat with soft green eyes

Shimmerpaw: small dark gray she-cat with dark blue eyes

Hailpaw: thick pelted dark gray Tom with dark blue eyes and black ears

Fangpaw: dark Ginger tabby Tom with gray eyes and curled fangs

Queens

Flakefur: pale gray she-cat with blue eyes (mother to Prickleclaw's kits: Fernkit: pale gray she-cat with green eyes and darker gray ears, Hawkkit: light brown tabby tom with light blue eyes and black paws and tail tip, and Raggedkit: ragged pelted dark gray Tom with yellow eyes)

Waterbreeze: blue-gray she-cat with blue eyes (mother to Tisslefang's kits: Bluekit: blue-gray she-cat with blue eyes, and Nightkit: black Tom with blue eyes)

Elders

Shadespot: old gray tabby she-cat

Blackstripe: black tabby Tom with gray eyes

Sparrowflight: old dark tabby Tom with green eyes

PROLOGUE
"Do you think this is a good thing?!" growled a creamy white she-cat. "of course not, but with every death comes new life Berrytail!" growled a black Tom, his amber eyes were narrowed in tiny slits. "But with Scartooth and Deerflash's death there cannot possibly be new life" called out a tortoiseshell she-cat "There are no expecting queens and sickness is dragged over ALL of us!" as she spoke she coughed. "some may die of sickness, but I can assure you that most will survive, only about six cats have it, some are showing signs, we must keep them away from the fit cats and everything will be fine" assured a young mottled she-cat. "But how can you be sure Petalwing?!" cried out a blue-gray queen "Nightkit's starting to get a cough and no one in the nursery even has a cold!" "He will recover, his thick pelt will take his cold away! Just keep him away from the elders, most of them ARE sick!" called out the mottled medicine cat again. "Hope something happens soon!" called out a gray tabby with an odd face "No she-cat that's a warrior even has a mate!" "It is leaf-bare this isn't the best time to have kits Shatteredface!" growled the black Tom, clearly he was in charge. "Everyone, go to sleep! We can bury our clan mates in the morning" the black Tom called out. All cats returned to their den, while the black Tom returned to his own. He settled down in a thick mossy nest. "StarClan help us! First we lose one Waterbreeze's little she-cats, now were losing two important warriors! What will come next?" the great black Tom closed his eyes. He opened them immediately. A gray she-cat stood in front of him, he blue eyes store at him with an odd glow. "Wavesong!" gasped the big Tom "but I thought you were-" "Dead" Wavesong giggled "yes I am, how are our kits?" "Fine, Shimmerpaw and Hailpaw are almost done with training." The black Tom tilted his head to the side "why are you here Wavesong? What message does StarClan have to share with me?" "I'll show you!" Wavesong meowed. Her tail swirled and images were put into the leaders head. Moons from now every cat was free of sickness, even Ashcloud, the sickest of all the clan cats so far. Then he saw an unfamiliar she-cat in the picture. She had such glossy fur, golden and beautiful. Tabby with small delicate paws. Her dark blue wyes gleamed, and she was carrying two mice. The images ended. "Who was that?" questioned the leader "we have no cats in the clan that look like her, and it-it just seems odd" Wavesong padded up to her mate and touched noses with him then turned her back. "Goodbye my love, I must go into my ranks in StarClan, we will meet again" Then the graceful she-cat disappeared leaving the black leader on confusion.

CHAPTER 1
"Mousedung!" hissed a golden tabby. A snake had gotten away from her, and that was the first bit of prey she had seen in two days. Her stomach howled for food, and she tripped over herself. She was afraid her weakness was showing. Hunger, she hated it, she even hated the word. "Okay Alani, you can do this" she said her pelt spiking up "you can find some food, and get out of this annoying swamp." She found a small mouse, crouching down she stalked it on light small paws. Leaping she grabbed the tiny creatures in her jaw and killed it in one swift bite. "Finally!" Alani suppressed a sigh. She gobbled down the small creatures in a few bites. She licked her lips and kept going. "I have to find shelter for tonight" Alani meowed to herself. She closed her dark blue eyes for a second and sighed. "Of only mother was still alive, she would know how to help me." Alani's mother: a light brown tabby named Stripes was once a great mother, along with Alani's father: Bracken: a golden brown tom. Then one day, the both of them were killed by rogues of the area, and Alani had escaped by the fleas of her pelt. Just barely running far away enough for those rogues not to find her. Then she came across this swamp, and merely wished she had gone south, not north. The swamp seemed to go on forever, and the worst part. There was a thick cat smell deep within the swamp, and Alani wanted nothing to do with that. "I wish finding shelter was as easy as hunting a mouse" she mumbled under her breath. Padding along the swamp she felt hungry again. "I just ate!" she grumbled. She fell to her paws, there was thick bracken around this swamp, if she curled up just right in the bracken, she would blend right in. Alani's golden tabby pelt managed to fit right in with the furled bracken, and finally she got a doze of sleep.

CHAPTER 2
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