"Gorsestar, control your warriors!" Honeystar said.
"Oh, I'm sorry, but I told them to do it." Gorsestar said sitting down.
"But why?" Leopardpaw interrupted.
"Because your warriors steal from me. So I-"
"That's a lie!" Honeystar blurted out. "My warriors have never ever stolen from anybody. Especially Riverclan. Our warriors don't even like fish."
"Oh but they do. Just yesterday I caught-"
"You caught who?" Came a voice from the brush.
Leopardpaw looked toward the voice and out of it stepped Hazelnose, a Thunderclan warrior. She looked at the Riverclan leader expectantly, waiting for an answer.
"Well, who?" She said again.
"I caught your leader as a matter of fact." Gorsestar said.
"What?! I can't believe you, Gorsestar. You blamed me? How could possibly think I would steal from your clan? You don't even have any proof!" Honeystar said.
"Oh but I do have proof. Isn't that right, Blackclaw?" He said looking at the black tom.
The tom nodded and looked over at Leopardpaw and continued.
"Blackclaw here saw your leader trying to fish. But, she missed and fell into the water. That's when Blackclaw and his patrol heard her splash into the water." He explained.
"She didn't even come back wet!" Leopardpaw yowled. "How could Honeystar fall in if she didn't even come back wet?! In this cold it wouldn't dry by the time she got back to camp. Right Honeystar?" She glanced at Honeystar.
"T-that's right. I couldn't have fallen in." She meowed.
"Then why do you-"The Riverclan cat she-cat was about to speak.
"Be quiet, Goldenpelt. Let me do the talking." He said then looked over to Honeystar. "Why do you look so nervous, hmm Honeystar? Why? Because you were stealing from my clan! That's why!"
Honeystar hung her head and sighed.
"This is true." She said.
"Honeystar, why?" Gasped Hazelnose.
Leopardpaw held her tongue.
"You want to know why? Because our clan is starving! That's why!" She yowled. "We have almost no prey left this leafbare and it's making us weaker by the day! The twolegs and their yappy dogs won't stay away and they are scaring all the prey away! I thought if I could catch at least one fish for the elders, then it wouldn't be so hard to take care of them! But obviously it didn't work, did it?"
"Honeystar, we just need to send out extra hunting patrols, that's all." Leopard explained.
"That's all? That's all?! How could you think that? There has never been so little prey then there is now in the forest. Warriors are starving and kits are dying! That's not all there is to it! Don't you understand?" She said before walking off muttering to herself.
"Honeystar, wait!" Hazelnose said before hurrying after the leader.
"Well little apprentice. Looks like you are all alone. What are you going to do know?" Gorsestar said and his warriors stalked up to her.
"You have two choices. Run off and tell the rest of your clan what happened and risk a battle, or you can have another day with your birth clan and come join us tomorrow. We'll leave you to think. But I want the answer tomorrow night at moonhigh." And with that he stalked off, flanked by Blackclaw and Goldenpelt.
What am I going to do? She thought. I don't want to leave my clan but I don't want to risk a battle either. I got it! I'll tell Honeystar about Gorsestar's offer and go with Riverclan. Then I'll learn how to fish and swim and meet up with a Thunderclan patrol everyday and give them fish to strengthen the clan. Then I'll go back to Thunderclan and help them to fight Riverclan before leafbare is over!
And with that, she ran off to tell the clan her news, her body filled with satisfaction and anxiousness to learn the ways of Riverclan.
