A few days passed and all Darkstorm had done was be put on hunting patrols and help the apprentices practiced a few battle moves which annoyed him since he was a warrior, not another apprentice. He finally got a break when he was told as he returned to camp that tomorrow he would be going on a sun high patrol tomorrow with Snaketooth and a few others to the River Clan border.

Darkstorm purred curling his tail a bit before he quickly went to drop off the mice he had spent half of the day catching having wanted to stay away from the camp and enjoy the forest. He went to groom himself before he frowned at spotting Starlingpaw padding over to him with a Finch, surprising him a bit since Finches were mainly Thunder Clan prey and he had thought he had gotten the young apprentice off of his back the day before.

He scowled at the apprentice sitting down beside him placing the finch down before giving him a shy smile, "Hi.. I thought we could share this.." She whispered out softly making him sigh and give up his scowl softening his features. Darkstorm gave a shrug guessing they could but he pulled the finch closer to him and began to pull the feathers off of it keeping his gaze down not wanting to look over at Starlingpaw.

"I saw those kittypets from the twoleg nest today when hunting the Finch," Starlingpaw stated suddenly while Darkstorm was almost finished with removing the feathers, "They didn't seem that dangerous 'cause they saw me and didn't attack me.." She trailed off when he glared at her and hissed.

"Those two flea-bags would have killed you, they must have already killed something early or you wouldn't be alive" Darkstorm snarled, feeling angry that she had said that. Those two kittypets each new one those twolegs get when the others die were killers, murdering young cats and lone warriors whenever they got a chance, "Or maybe they thought you were pretty" He sneered before he tossed the featherless finch away, "Go eat your finch somewhere else you mouse-brain apprentice" He snapped angrily turning away and going over to the warrior den and flopping down outside of it with a huff.

Darkstorm flinched a bit when he felt claws in his ears before he glanced up his gaze flickering down at seeing it was Nightpath and he felt guilty since he had now understood what he had said to Starlingpaw, "..I didn't mean it" He grumbled before the older tom growled softly at him and stormed off to his daughter making Darkstorm feel worse since he had now screwed up his friendship with Nightpath for being mean to the tom daughter.

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Darkstorm dragged his paws as he followed behind Snaketooth, Redpelt, and Beetlewhisker heading towards the River Clan border not feeling as excited as before about being on this sun high patrol, he sighed heavily before he straightened up at the deputy telling him to focus and look alert or he'll be back to cleaning the elders den. He wanted to apologize to Starlingpaw for his harsh words but if he tried to get close Nightpath would show up and force him away or the she-cat would run off to her mentor making it impossible to get close.

"Looks like we'll get to make conversation with a few catfish" Snaketooth grumbled to them making Darkstorm glance ahead at seeing the river clan patrol of seven which made his fur bristle at the number. He quickly prepared himself for a fight if the River Clan warriors started something.

"Greetings Oatwhisker.." Snaketooth spoke slowly stopping their patrol a good tail length from the border, "Any reason to why you have such a large amount of cats on this patrol?" the deputy asked voice evenly calm eyes sweeping over the larger patrol.

"There is" Oatwhisker spat the normally friendly tom had venom in his voice making Darkstorm curl his lips knowing that something bad would happen, "My apprentice, Gingerpaw has gone missing.. Her scent trail leads deeper into your territory from what we can tell. We will give you till the gathering to return her unharmed before we will personally come and take her back" He snarled out the other six warriors giving low growls bodies tensing with the need to attack.

Snaketooth look taken back at Oatwhisker's sudden claim though the deputy recovered quickly with a frown, "You're apprentice isn't here, You should have watched her more closer since she had trespassed on Shadow Clan territory" He hissed before he flicked an ear, "And by the time of the gathering you'll see you shouldn't blame us for your lost cats" He spat before he turned and headed back to the pine trees.

Darkstorm scrambled after his clanmates when Snaketooth ordered them to follow, he couldn't believe River clan had claimed they had taken one of their cats but he guessed they would believe it since the apprentice scent seemed to lead into their territory. He made a face at what would have happened if that River Clan patrol had attacked them instead of letting Snaketooth speak but he knew things would get worse if that apprentice didn't show up soon for both of their clans.