"Honeypaw! Rosepaw!" The clan cheered. Nightstar purred. Blackbreeze and Beesting looked proud. Honeypaw and Rosepaw were his sister's kits. Nightstar walked over to his mate, Bluewhisper. His kits, Firekit, Shadowkit, and Skykit were looking at the new apprentices with envy in their eyes. "When are we gonna be apprentices?" Shadowkit asked Nightstar. "In five moons." He replied to the anxious kit. The kits groaned. "Belive me, you don't want to be apprentices yet. If you are a apprentice, that means that you have to pick the elder's ticks." Nightstar said. The kits made faces. Nightstar laughed. "I'm going on a patrol. Goodbye!" He said and bounded away. He told Lemonleap and Blackbreeze to come with him. They patrolled the border by the twoleg dens.

Nightstar sniffed the air. "I smell intruders." He hissed. He spotted a kittypet. "There." He whispered. The patrol looked at a fat brown tabby. "Scare him off." Nightstar demanded. The forest cats leaped onto the tom. "Get out of here!" Lemonleap hissed. The tom's eyes widened. He turned tail and fled. Nightstar laughed. "Classic kittypet." He said. Lemonleap yowled. "Nightstar! Look out!" But it was too late. Nightstar saw the kittypet and a twoleg behind him. The twoleg grabbed Nightstar and ran away. "No! Nightstar!" Blackbreeze yowled. "We will save you!" But the twoleg was already by the twoleg dens. The twoleg went into one of the dens and put Nightstar down. Nightstar hissed at the twoleg. The other cat looked at Nightstar. "Hi!" He said. "I'm Tom."

Nightstar looked confused. "What? Tom? What kind of name is that!?" Tom looked offended. "It's a good name! And our owner will name you, too!" He said. "What? No! I already have a name! And I am not a fat, lazy, kittypet like you!" Nightstar said and stormed off. He jumped on a ledge by a clear wall. He thought about his clan, and his kits. His mate and his sister. I have to get out of here! Nightstar thought. Then he saw Tom. "Hey, look. When our owner gives you a new name, I will still call you what you want." Tom said. Nightstar sighed. "Fine. My name is Nightstar. I am leader of Dawnclan." Tom wrinkled up his nose. "And you say that I have a weird name! Wait.... Did you say Dawnclan?" Tom asked. "Yes, I said Dawnclan. Why?" Nightstar replied. "My

mate and the other cat who lives with us, Chloe, said she used to be in Dawnclan." Nightstar was shocked. "CHLOE!?" He yowled. "She is a traitor!" Tom hissed. "Hey, don't talk about my mate like that!" Nightstar scoffed. "I'm not listening to a kittypet!" He said, then ran away. He ran into the twoleg. It called him something. Nightstar didn't know what. Finally, Nightstar found a place to sleep. He went to sleep, and in the morning, he felt like this was all a bad dream, but it was real. Tom was standing over him with another cat.... Chloe! "Hello, Nightstar." She said. Nightstar was too overwhelmed to be hostile. "Hello, Acornflight." He said. Tom looked at Chloe, confused. "That was my old name." Chloe explained. Tom nodded. "Today we found out what our owner is calling you."

Tom said. "She's calling you Victor." Nightstar glared at the twoleg. "I hate that name." He said. Tom rolled his eyes. "Come on. Time for breakfast." Nightstar was confused. "What's breakfast?" He asked. "It's mealtime." Chloe explained. Nightstar nodded. He followed the cats, hoping that it was a juicy rabbit or a plump mouse. When they got there, Tom and Chloe started eating..... rabbit droppings?! "Why are you eating rabbit droppings?!" Nightstar asked. Chloe rolled her eyes. "They aren't droppings. It's food." She said, then kept on eating. Nightstar wrinkled his nose up and started eating. It wasn't bad, but mice were better. Nightstar then drank some water. It tasted horrible. Even muddy puddles tasted better! Nightstar spat the water out. "Ewww!"

He whined. "Shut up." Chloe said. "You may be leader in Dawnclan, but in this house, it's Tom and I who are the leaders." Nightstar scoffed and stormed off. The next day, The twoleg put a collar on Nightstar. It felt horrible. That day, Nightstar saw his chance to escape. The twoleg went outside and left the door open! Nightstar bolted toward it, but Chloe jumped on top of him, hissing. "You will not make our twoleg sad, Victor." She hissed. Then got off of him. Nightstar hissed at Chloe and slashed her! Tom's eyes widened. Chloe slashed back. Nightstar then gripped Chloe's collar and swung her across the room! Then he ran for it, but sadly, the twoleg came back and grabbed Nightstar. After a couple days,Nightstar had a plan. Every day, at mid-sun, the twoleg

opened the clear-wall in their den. All Nightstar had to do was get in the room, (were he wasn't allowed,) and jump out the window. Nightstar was going to get his plan into action today. Nightstar sneaked into the twoleg room. He leaped onto a table. (That's what Tom called it.) Then he tried to leap on the "windowsill." He missed and fell. There was a large 'thump' when Nightstar fell. Nightstar started panicking. The twoleg wasn't here right now, but Chloe was. Nightstar knew Chloe wouldn't let him escape. He heard shocked meows from the main den. Nightstar jumped again, this time making it. He gave one last look at the den. He saw Chloe looking at him. "TOM! HE'S ESCAPING!" The cats ran into the room. Nightstar jumped out the clear-wall. He was free! He ran toward the

forest, hoping that Chloe didn't follow him. Nightstar realized he had been in the twoleg den for almost seven days! He ran toward Dawnclan. He sprinted into camp. Cats looked at him, surprised, then cheered. Beesting, his deputy and friend nuzzled him. "Your back!" He cried. Nightstar purred. "I'm back." Then, he ran over to his mate. "Bluewhisper!" He cried. "Nightstar!" She yowled. They nuzzled each other. Nightstar clawed at the collar around his neck. "Will you get this off?" He asked. Bluewhisper nodded and tore the collar off and buried it behind the nursery. "Thanks." Nightstar said. Then he heard squeaks. "Who is he, Shadewing? I have never seen him before!" Nightstar beamed with delight. "Shadewing? Do you have kits?" He asked Shadewing who