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 ShadowClan territory.

I’ve always loved it here.

There’s something about

the air in the pine forest…

…Something about
the way the prey tastes.

1
 I’ve never wanted
to be anything but a That depends.
ShadowClan warrior.

Can I persuade
you to eat more than
two bites this
time?
Now, now, don’t
make fun of your
elders.

Your own appetite

will wither one day,
But sometimes… just you wait and —

Uhff!

…What a cat wants isn’t Poolcloud!

what StarClan has in mind. Are you all
right?

Would you
two get out of We’re
Nightpelt! Well!
the way? TRAINING
here!

That fine, juicy

mouse wouldn’t be for
me, would it?

2 3
 How rude! I suppose I’ve always had
that’s just young cats trouble breathing.
nowadays, though.

Not young cats But then one day —

everywhere, no, it the day of my last hunt —
isn’t.
I always preferred
hunting, myself.
But since Brokenstar became
leader, fighting is the most
important thing in ShadowClan.

I’m no elder. Not yet.

I couldn’t find my
breath at all.

koff koff
koff

hakk

But I’m no warrior

anymore, either.

koff

4 5
 And I’ve been looking
for it ever since. Hhahh…hhuhh… …while the rest of the
Clan is thinking about the
next battle.

wheeze

You should If you

go back to camp, can’t keep
brother. up...

...you’re no
good to the
Clan.

ShadowClan!

It’s not such a bad

So I retired. life, I suppose.

Brokenstar has been a

strong leader so far.
At least I can take care
of the elders…

To the elders’ den.

6 7
 He certainly commands Cats of the
a great deal of loyalty. Clan, you have fought I should get the
well in our recent medicine cats to check
battles. the elders for ticks.

Hmm…wonder if it’s
time to gather fresh
bedding for them.

Apprentices used to
do these things, but now
Brokenstar has them training
for battle all the time.
I can’t help but think I
might have done a few things
differently, if I were in
charge…
Even our elders
have a role to
play.

Huh?

The elders are no

use for fighting or hunting
...But the whole or having kits, So they
Clan loves him. can’t take up precious
room.

or prey.

And no cat is asking

for my opinion.

I know they
would do anything to
make us stronger and
more powerful.

And with that in mind,

I have decided that they
can best help their Clan They must
by leaving the camp.
koff koff go.
hakk
8 9
 Good.
It’s against We will go,
the warrior Brokenstar.
Code!

They might be
more comfortable away
from the camp.…

Move out at once,

and good luck with
your hunting.
Brokenstar
can’t do this
To us! I’ll make sure
I was Brokenstar’s you’re all safe.
mentor, a lifetime ago.
Not that it ever meant
I promise.
anything to him.

ShadowClan’s
medicine cats.

He can,
though.
Leave the camp?
Brokenstar is the
But…but…
leader of ShadowClan
now.

Yellowfang and
The elders have always been Runningnose.
an important part of the Clan,
sharing their wisdom with the
younger cats.

Good of them to
ESCORT us, at least.

But apparently not

under Brokenstar.

10 11
 This is wrong. The elders have worked hard
all their lives for their Clan.
They deserve to be part of it.

It isn’t good that That’s

he made Mosskit his far younger
than the six moons StarClan hasn’t
apprentice when he
To be taken care of the code calls done anything to
was only four moons
now that they’re old. for. stop Brokenstar,
old.
though.
The Clan needs
their wisdom.

And it isn’t
good to make the
elders leave the
Clan camp, either.

Raggedstar What Brokenstar’s

would never have done — what he’s doing —
allowed this. it’s all against the warrior
code that StarClan gave These things must
to the Clans. be their will, just
as much as HIS.
But since his
death at WindClan’s
paws…
...All Brokenstar has
wanted to do is avenge
his father.

Even when he was my

apprentice, all he ever
wanted to do was fight.
Let’s take
a look at that
Brokenstar hill.
wants to make ShadowClan That’s a
more powerful than any good thing —
other Clan. isn’t it?

12 13
 Just need to get
enough scooped out ...Deep…
so it’s deep...
Shelter. No
fox scent.

koff
koff

wheeze
No Twoleg
scent, either.

koff
hakk koff koff
koff

It only needs
a bit of work.
This will
make a good
den.

We’ll help. That’s

getting really bad,
isn’t it?

Some days…
wheeze are better
than others.…

14 15
 Listen… Why don’t you
we’ll finish the den. What sort of
scout around and see
All right? warrior can’t
if you can find any
even manage to
prey?
breathe? Maybe Clawface
and the others
were right.

All…
wheeze

All right.

Ridiculous.
If I can’t
keep up…what
good am I to the
Clan?

Still…the elders
don’t deserve this.

Embarrassing.

They’ve served their

Clan for so long.

16 17
 Don’t neglect Brokenstar might
your duties for our decide we’re not the
Brokenstar should be Well…I meant what only cats who need
sakes, you two.
serving them now, instead I said to them. banishing.
of sending them out on
their own.

You haven’t been

banished, Poolcloud!
I will keep them safe. None of you Feels like
have. banishment.

You’re still
I promise we’ll part of ShadowClan.
Time for us come and visit. You still live in our
to get back. territory.

I understand.
I’m glad they could
all get to sleep.

And we’ll bring

herbs so you can treat
Thank you both yourselves —
so much for all for anything minor,
your help. anyway.

18 19
 I might not be much
for digging anymore… Brother.
They’ve all worked
hard getting this den ready. or fighting…
And they need rest more
than I do. But guarding
them I can do.
Pleasant, uh…
pleasant evening, isn’t
it?

It feels much less safe

out here in the forest than
it was in the ShadowClan Seems like you’ve
camp — home. I can’t help found a good camp.
but feel on edge.

Paw steps…?
Clawface…
Mosspaw is big and
be honest with me.
strong, brother. He’s
ready, even if he’s not six
Do you really moons old yet.
think what Brokenstar’s
doing is right? And the other
kits…

Ah. My littermate,
Who’s there? Clawface.

Not just exiling

…They can’t wait
the elders. Training kits
for their turn to come,
to be warriors when
He’s devoted they’re so jealous.
they’re too young?
to Brokenstar —
fanatically so — but Taking Brokenstar honors
we’re still kin. them to attack the Mosspaw by making him
other Clans? an apprentice early.

20 21
 Besides, the other Patient? ...We’re going to have
Clans need to be afraid to depend on each other.
of us —

it’s the only way

to keep ShadowClan
safe.

WindClan
And the other Clans
murdered Raggedstar.
will be happy to attack us if
Don’t forget that.
we show them even the least
bit of weakness.

Leaf-bare is coming. If And all of them will

the elders and I are have to depend on me.
going to survive…

As for the elders…

once ShadowClan is safe — I’m sure of it. I won’t let them
once the other Clans have down…
learned to fear us —

Then you and the rest

of them will be able
to come back.

...But patience has

nothing to do with it.

The days pass

quickly.

You just need

to be patient.

Too quickly,
for my taste.

22 23
 We’re making good
progress, aren’t we?
Getting the camp ready
for leaf-bare.

Well, we might
have been thrown out
of CAMP…

Maybe not.
We just need to
...But this is still our be vigilant.
territory, And we all have
the experience of our
moons as warriors.

This is a
good, warm
den.
Make way!

It’ll do, Leaf-bare

no question. won’t touch us
in here.

Yellowfang —
Runningnose! I didn’t
There are Fresh herbs expect to see you
foxes in the woods, here! again so soon.
though.
Not that
you’re not
welcome!
I hope this will be
good enough.

Hollyflower –
we need to set an
extra guard tonight.
Can you do it? Well, we told you
we’d bring you what you
needed, didn’t we?

You’ve got herbs to

treat the aches and pains
Of course, of the elders — and some to
but why? Is something try to help with that cough
wrong? of yours, too.
24 25
 How are things Getting Here — brought
in ShadowClan? tougher and you some more.
tougher.

All Brokenstar Especially WindClan —

wants anymore is to he won’t stop until he’s
intimidate the other driven them all the way
Clans. out of the forest. Oh, thank you,
Nightpelt. That’s very
sweet of you.
No cat can say they
don’t deserve it — they Honestly,
murdered Raggedstar, I don’t think any cat
after all. in ShadowClan likes the
way Brokenstar is going I wonder…
about it. if we anchored the Would that
edges in the ground and make it stronger,
packed in some rocks do you think?
around them…

What son wouldn’t But as Runningnose said,

want to avenge his father? they all understand why he’s
What Clan wouldn’t want to doing the things he does. I think we
avenge ITS leader? should find
out.

Maybe it would be best

just not to think about
Brokenstar at all. That sounds exactly It does indeed!
like a job for a young, Good thing we have
strong cat, doesn’t it, one of those, then,
Hollyflower? isn’t it?

Concentrate on the ...and let Brokenstar

things I can do… just be Brokenstar.

26 27
 There. See it?
Oh no. No no no, koff
not now — wheeze

See it and
smell it.

Now it won’t just

be Clawface. Archeye
will see how useless
I really am.
I hope it doesn’t
hear my stomach
growling.
We should
come at it from
two sides.

koff koff koff koff

koff
HAKK

wheeze

28 29
 Of course
Sorry, I — not.
koff eeek!
Thanks, but…you
I just…scared don’t have to be
away our meal. I’m polite about it.
wheeze useless, I
know.…

Who’s being polite?

Nightpelt, listen —
I’m telling you how things
just because you’ve got
are. Maybe none of us IS as
a cough, that does not
strong or fast as We USED
mean you’re useless,
TO BE.
you hear me?
Should I apologize for
having stiff legs some days? But there’s
Or Hollyflower for not being still plenty
able to see as well as when we can do.
she was young?

Gotcha!
Maybe if ShadowClan’s
warriors had felt the same
way, I could’ve stayed one
of them.

Yeah, well. If a frog

had wings, he wouldn’t
bump his rear end when he
hopped. What’d I tell
you? It’s all about
teamwork.

“Now let’s go
catch something
tasty.”

Mmm-hm!

30 31
 Hey —
do you hear
something?
Featherstorm?
...He’s dead.

What? How?

What are you Featherstorm was in

doing here? the nursery with her kits when
we left ShadowClan’s camp.

Why is she stumbling around

in the woods by herself?

Brokenstar said
it was a …a training
accident. That’s… ...That’s all he
told me.

My other kits —
all the kits in the And Brokenstar
camp — are now told me that, since
apprentices, too. I’ve got no kits in
Take it the nursery now —
I…I… slow, now. Deep
breaths. They’re so young.
it’s time for
Too young.
me to join the
elders.

Has It’s — it’s my

something son. Mosspaw.
happened? He’s…

32 33
 I’ve never seen a cat
Brokenstar’s getting more devastated than
the mourning mother Some cat needs to do
something…but what? Featherstorm.
out of the way...

Day after day, Trapped

she just…sits. in her grief.

...So she can’t make a fuss about

him turning her other kits — All of us here are
Volekit and Dawnkit — old…weak…how could
into apprentices too early. we possibly help?

You’ll be safe HERE

with us, Featherstorm.
I promise.

You can
stay as long as
you need to.

And StarClan
help me...

Come with
me.

...I have no idea

You need how to help her.
rest.

34 35
 I’ve come to She’s terrified that
check on you all — her other kits will be
and Featherstorm. killed, too.

Runningnose…
you’re a medicine cat.
Can’t you and Yellowfang
get Brokenstar to see how
wrong all this is?

Nightpelt!
The kits are Brokenstar
ShadowClan’s doesn’t listen to any
future. cat who disagrees
with him.

She is here,
isn’t she?

Believe me,
Nightpelt, I know. And what
They need But as sorry as
to be protected until makes it worse
Well…her I am to say it — is that the most
they’re old enough there’s nothing we
body is. Losing Is there anything to become warriors, powerful warriors —
Mosspaw crushed can do. like your brother,
we can do for her, or ShadowClan won’t
her. have a future. Clawface —
do you think?
support him.

Yellowfang does speak

She’s mourning her up against Brokenstar, but…
kit — honestly, there’s I fear that won’t end well.
nothing we can do but You’ve got to understand,
give her time. Nightpelt.

In the end,
medicine cats advise
their leader, yes.
But the
It’s not just leader makes the
that she’s mourning, decisions.
though.
36 37
 Got some Help me make this a
more herbs from place where we can
Runningnose. all survive through
leaf-bare?

I know this…
Mind if I this situation we’re in here
sit with you is…it’s new, and strange,
for a bit? and none of us know how
to deal with it.

But we’re all still

ShadowClan cats,
And we look after
each other.

Maybe you can’t Featherstorm,

be there for your kits you can help me protect
right now, but… our Clanmates here.

Featherstorm
may be stuck…

Do you
think you could
do that?

38 39
 ...But the sun keeps ...Bringing leaf-bare
rising and setting for closer and closer.
the rest of us…

Now there’s nothing

else but to wait…

...And, StarClan willing,

survive.

I’ve done
everything I can
to prepare. Days pass. I lose
track of how many.

We all have.
But somewhere
along the way…

40 41
 ...The cats of the Elders’
Camp settle into a rhythm. Just let it out…
it’ll pass.…

Whether it’s increasing the

fresh-kill pile, or working on
the camp’s defenses, or storing the
herbs that the medicine cats bring…

We’ve got you.

Don’t worry. We’ve Ooh,
got you. this is a good
batch!
...We all learn to work
together.

Look what
Runningnose
brought! We —

koff koff
koff koff
wheeze
42 43
 We’re about ShadowClan won’t
to attack WindClan’s show them any mercy —
camp under cover not until they’ve been
of darkness. driven out.

Brokenstar
wants revenge for
Raggedstar’s murder.
We all do.

I can see it in It’s just —

your face, brother. driving WindClan
ShadowClan cats! You think this is a bad out completely?
Every one of them! idea.
It’s not. There have
ShadowClan’s growing always been four
larger, with all the kits Clans in the forest, And…
born over the past few I don’t mean to sound
seasons... cruel, but…

...So much that our

hunting grounds won’t
...Raggedstar was
support us for long.
killed in battle. It’s sad,
Clawface!
But once we drive out but it happens.
What’s
WindClan and take their
going on?
hunting grounds? Then we’ll This can’t be
have plenty of prey. StarClan’s will.

You’re wrong.

Led by Brokenstar
himself? What is this? WindClan’s
going to get what
they deserve.

44 45
 Listen, you’re bigger Warriors need to
Just look at your eat more than you and
and stronger than ever, Clanmates! Look how the elders do. Keep in
Clawface, but — thin they are! mind...

Maybe you should

Don’t mind if The elders and I are
be hunting for the
Clan, instead of I help myself to ShadowClan, Clawface.
going to battle. these morsels, ...Brokenstar still lets This is our territory,
though. you hunt on ShadowClan too.
territory, but you don’t have
first rights to prey.

Training to fight
is more important
than hunting.

Warriors don’t
hunt for the Clan
anymore.
.
Brokenstar
says every cat
can hunt for
themselves Besides, once we
win, there’ll be What? Clawface —
plenty of prey. I caught those for
the elders!

46 47
 Why can’t
Clawface see that
this is wrong?
ShadowClan’s cats
are powerful. More
powerful than the
other Clans!

Our apprentices are

ready to fight when other
kits are still useless balls
of fluff in the nursery.

No… Brokenstar is
taking kits that young
into battle?

After what
happened to
Mosspaw? Clawface!
Are we going? We need
to hurry, or they’ll leave
us behind! I don’t want to
get left behind!

They are You can’t do

not kits, Nightpelt. this! Lead a kit this
Not anymore. tiny into battle?
He’ll be killed!

Come on,
apprentice.

It’d be an As you said,

They’re apprentices — honor to die for Let’s catch up.
loyal to ShadowClan — and ShadowClan!
they’re glad to fight!

48 49
 It was a
ShadowClan battle
patrol. Passing by I don’t
on their way to even know how many
WindClan. cats Brokenstar was
taking.

He wants to drive
WindClan out of the
FOREST completely.

Nightpelt?
Are my kits
with the battle
patrol?

What’s
wrong?

Did you go back

to the ShadowClan camp?
You smell like every I didn’t see
cat. Volekit or — I mean
Volepaw —
They could have
Or Dawnpaw, but… been there. They
I couldn’t see all probably were.
the raiders.

I think I can’t
he was taking most say for sure.
of the Clan.

50 51
 I’m sorry I
can’t tell you anything
about your kits.

Oh.

I think…
I hear a cat
coming!
I think I’m going to
wait for the battle to Maybe I can catch
be over. I know I won’t the patrol when they There!
be able to sleep. return to camp? Over there!

That’s
our Clanmate
I’ll wait Ashfur.
with you.
Maybe he can
tell us about the
WindClan raid.

52 53
 Ashfur! He didn’t
Well,
Were the kits — get angry. Not that
of course, but…
the apprentices — what do you
I could see.
Were you in
are they all right? need?
the battle against
WindClan?

I — well…
The apprentices I questioned
fought bravely. None The battle went Brokenstar.
of them were badly well. WindClan won’t be
hurt. feeling secure in their I asked him, shouldn’t we
camp for a while. He just said that defense
be concentrating on hunting
against the other Clans was
for the Clan, now that leaf-
the most important thing
bare has come?
for ShadowClan.
Instead of
training for endless But then…
battles?

...After the battle

tonight, he — he thanked me
for my long service as a
warrior, and said…

Oh,
He said it was time
thank StarClan.
for me to retire! Retire,
and go live with the
elders.

Thanks for coming Well…actually…

to tell us. This has been I mean, I’m glad to bring
a long night. you news you were
hoping for.
You’re
But I’ve welcome to join
come to ask us, Ashfur.
a favor.

We may no longer be
warriors, but we’re all still
From us? ShadowClan. And we look
after each other here.

54 55
 Every time it comes back, …More and more
I find that I’ve forgotten cats peel away from
how cold leaf-bare gets. ShadowClan. From
Brokenstar.

It doesn’t stop us from hunting,

from scrounging, from doing
what’s necessary to survive.

It doesn’t stop Brokenstar And they wind up

from sending patrol after at our camp.
patrol out against WindClan.

He’s waging war, and no

amount of snow, or cold,
or hunger will stop him.

And yet…

Not that we mind.

As the cold creeps past fur
and flesh and settles into More paws make
bone…as the nights grow the work go faster,
longer, darker, lonelier… that’s certain.

56 57
 These hips aren’t
what they used to be, Prey might be scarce,
that’s for sure. but we’re working together,
and bringing in what
And halfway through leaf- we need.
bare, we got a pleasant Won’t surprise me
surprise… if they freeze solid
under my fur.

…When Featherstorm
came back to herself.

But for the rest of

ShadowClan, it’s every cat
for themselves. I worry
about how many of them are
going hungry.

Prey’s been scarce Featherstorm getting Hold on. I just

for a moon now. back on her paws — helping got…a trace of
us hunt — is more than something.
welcome.

58 59
 Maybe these
bones aren’t yet
frozen after all!

There you are! Nightpelt!

Ashfur!
Some skills just Fox scent!
never leave you,
I reckon!

Any fox in these And if it can scent

woods is going to be our prey…
hungry. it can scent us, too.

Foxes don’t attack full-grown

cats when they can avoid it, but if
one gets hungry enough, it will.

There it is!

Heading Warriors —
your way! get ready!
Got it!

60 61
 Yiiieeee

We don’t need
to beat it.

Just
No no no!

Drive it

Poolcloud!

RUN!

Away.

62 63
 yipe

RrrhhheEEEErrrh! No, no, StarClan,

please, no —

yipe
yipe
yipe

Poolcloud…

Oh no. I can’t
get it to
stop.

64 65
 The bleeding. “It’s my responsibility. “I’ll go.”
She’s my responsibility.”

Nightpelt,
I can’t make it
koff koff
stop.
wheeze
koff

We need a
hakk
medicine cat.
But… No no no no...

...Not now, not now!

Not when Poolcloud
needs help!

...That fox is still

out there – and now
it’s wounded.

I’ll go.

But—

66 67
 Hey. Stop where you
are, Nightpelt. You don’t Brokenstar —
belong here. it’s Poolcloud!

I need koff
I need a medicine cat.
wheeze

She’s been mauled

No. by a fox! Please, if
she doesn’t get help,
Yeah, I’d say you need I’m still she’ll die!
help, all right. But you still pant pant pant
shouldn’t be here. Go I’m still ShadowClan!
back to your camp. Brokenstar said so!
koff Poolcloud was a
brave warrior in her time,
it’s true. But perhaps her
time has passed.

The truth of the

matter is that ShadowClan’s
medicine cats must stay in camp,
We are in constant
in case any of ShadowClan’s
danger from the other
warriors need them.
Clans. We have to be
ready for attack.

And it’s An elder,

not for me. huh?
wheeze

This isn’t
right.

Eh. Fine. But you’ll

have to get Brokenstar’s
It’s for an permission if you want one
elder! of our medicine cats to
go with you.

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one medicine cat if
POOLCLOUD IS hurt
that bad.

Poolcloud’s an
Poolcloud’s
elder of the Clan,
time as a warrior
isn’t she?
may have passed,
Brokenstar.
I’m going with
That doesn’t Nightpelt, And I’ll see
mean we abandon that Poolcloud gets
her. the help she needs.

Uh…

Fine.
You need to
remember who
is leader here,
medicine cat. Go.

Come on, come on,

faster —

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 We were This is my fault.
Nightpelt! It’s koff I should’ve been
too late.
Are you all it’s my breath. faster.
right? wheeze I was
too late.

Or…just as likely…
her wounds were too
Don’t serious, and she was going
wait for me. Go. Help
Poolcloud. to die no matter what
koff koff happened. I swore I’d take
care of all these cats —
the elders, the other
outcasts — and I…
I let
Poolcloud
die.
StarClan, please…

No, Nightpelt.
Ashfur told me
what happened with
the fox.

Without you there

to drive it away, we’d be
looking at more than one
dead cat right now.
...Please.

You’ve been
protecting all of If any cat is to
these cats. blame for Poolcloud’s
death...

Hunting for them,

guarding them — you’ve even ...it’s
been learning about herbs Brokenstar.
so you can take better care
of them.

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 Nightpelt?

She was a good

warrior. Followed
the code.

Did
everything she
was supposed
to.

Should we bury
her now?

Oh.

We’re going Something

to miss her. occurs to me.
They want me
to lead them?

This little group of cats

who Brokenstar drove out Me, the cat who had to join
of the ShadowClan camp has the elders early because he
changed. was too sick to make it as a
warrior?

Maybe I have taken

We’ve always been Clanmates, care of the others.
but now we depend on each other
and trust each other more than
we ever have.

Maybe my coughing hasn’t

kept me from proving my worth.
Maybe Archeye was right…

This is what a Clan

should be.

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