This is the final part of SkyClan and the Stranger. In case you never read the manga, this chapter quickly explains just exactly why SkyClan hates Sol.

"What in the name of StarClan do you think you're doing?"

Leafstar had the mottled tom pinned down on the ground. Nearby were her 3 kits, watching under the cover of a bush.

You stole my kits, she angrily thought, you will pay for this.

"I just wanted to prove I could be a warrior too," the tom yells, "By finding the kits."

Worthless mange-pelt. "But you stole them in the first place!" She retorts. She lets go of him but still stays within nipping range.

"I had to," he replies. "This was the only way to get you and the rest of the Clan to take me seriously."

"The only way?" Leafstar trails off. He stole kits to become a warrior? "Are you out of your mind?"

His eyes flash in defiance. "I'm always overlooked," he wailed. "Never made leader of a patrol, always scorned because I used to be a kittypet!" He started to bang his rear paw on the ground over and over. "I can be a warrior!"

A warrior?! He is a scorn to the name of SkyClan.

"No," she growled. "You can't. You have no understanding of the warrior code at all. What you've done here proves it."

She slowly padded forward toward him. "You've risked the lives of very young kits," she hissed. "By leaving them alone here. Anything could have happened to them. They could have gotten lost." She began to raise her voice. "They could have died. My kits could have died!"

Leafstar knew that wasn't the end of his transgressions. "But you didn't just betrayed me," she growled. "You betrayed the entire Clan."

She began to circle the tom. He was definitely losing his look of defiance, and fear began to emerge on his face.

"You did all this," Leafstar yowled, "And you never even considered how it would make any of us feel." She stopped her circling. "The Clan is a family, Sol, a community. And you're incapable of thinking about anyone but yourself!"

Sol's face was now mostly fear. Fear of Leafstar, fear of SkyClan, fear of what she may do to him.

"I banish you from SkyClan," Leafstar decided. "You've betrayed my trust, betrayed the warrior code, betrayed everything I thought you believed in."

Sol transformed from fear to open defiance again. "Oh, just because you say it, that makes it so, does it?" He starts padding around Leafstar, as if preparing for battle. "Well, let me tell you a few things, Leafstar, I-"

"Go ahead, Sol." He was interrupted by a large patrol of Leafstar's Clanmates. It was her deputy, Sharpclaw who cut off Sol with a menacing growl. "Tell us how things are going to be."

Sol was immensely surprised. "I… I," he stammered.

Another cat decided to pipe up. "I'll tell you you're leaving, Sol. You're going far away, and you're never coming back."

Sol lashed his tail in fury. "You're only going to be as strong as your weakest elder or your littlest cat," he hissed. "I curse all Clans for this foolishness!"

SkyClan watched him leave in a fit of rage.

Leafstar knew they got rid of a traitor, but couldn't shake the feeling that was the last they would see of him.