Prologue
Firepaw was sitting in front of the apprentice den. He had just come back from hunting with Graypaw, Ravenpaw, Lionheart and Tigerclaw. Tigerclaw had been picking on him as usual.
Firepaw was a whisker away from catching a big, fat, juicy mouse and than Tigerclaw jumped out at him and said it was time to come back to camp!
Firepaw shrugged it off his shoulders and wondered over to the fresh kill pile. He picked out a skinny, dry mouse and took it back to where he was sitting.
"Hey Kittypet!" mewed a voice from behind him. Firepaw rolled his eyes. Dustpaw!
Oh great! He thought grimly. Just what I need! Someone to come make my day worse.
"Hey Kittypet!" meowed Dustpaw. "Why don't you go back from where you came from?" Firepaw bit his tongue.
No! he thought. I'm in enough trouble as it is!
"Back…" Dustpaw started.
No don't do it…"To…"
You can't…"The TWOLEGS!"
Too late!
Firepaw jabbed his claw into his mouse. Dustpaw wasn't even funny and yet he was laughing his head off. Firepaw lifted his paw slowly. In one quick movement he flung the mouse at Dustpaw.
Dustpaw yelped in surprise and ducked from the flying mouse. It went over top of Dustpelt and (just Firepaw's luck) hit Tigerclaw square in the face.
Tigerclaw growled as the mouse fell and hit the ground. Dustpaw turned wide eyed and than to an evil sneer.
"Ooooo…" he cooed. "Someone's in trouble!"
Tigerclaw was staring at Firepaw and without another word he flung the mouse towards Firepaw. Firepaw looked surprised and dodged the mouse.
It just so happened that Graypaw was wondering out of the apprentice den when the mouse went flying over Firepaw's head.
"Hey Firepaw Ah…" it hit him in the face. Tigerclaw turned away and snorted a laugh.
Graypaw was mad and flung the mouse up randomly into the air. It went across the camp and hit Lionheart in the side. He looked down at the mouse and than up where it came from. Ten more mice were thrown by Tigerclaw and hit Lionheart in the muzzle.
His lip drew back into a snarl.
"Who… Through… those!" he yowled through bared teeth. Tigerclaw stopped laughing and through one last mouse. But Lionheart was prepared he grabbed the mouse in the air and trying throwing it back towards Tigerclaw.
As he did so, Lionheart slipped and the mouse went flying towards the High Rock. It bounced off of some cats belly and towards Bluestar's den.
Bad luck. Bluestar was walking out of the den when the mouse rocketed into her blue face.