Chapter 1

"May all cats old enough to catch there own prey gather beneath the highledge for a clan meeting." Wildbramble looked up and saw Maplestar addressing the clan. Tonight was the gathering and she'd be picking who would go.

"Dawnspeck, Bearclaw, Wildbramble, Freezecloud, Fishglide, Mousetail, Ripplepelt, Redpaw, Stripepaw, and all the elders will be attending the gathering." She swished her tail in dismissal and the clan broke apart. Wildbramble was about to offer to share a piece of freshkill with her littermate, Freezecloud when the deputy, Mistpelt padded up to her.

"Wildbramble, I want you to lead a border patrol. Take with you Lilystorm, Twigpelt, and your apprentice, Specklepaw."

She nodded and headed off to find the cats for the patrol.

Wildbramble bent down to sniff a bush and caught a whiff of something. I'd know that scent anywhere! She signaled for Lilystorm and Twigpelt to come and check it out.

They both scrunched up their face in disgust (I'm sure scrunched up was the wrong thing to say but I couldn't think of anything else.)

Twigpelt was the first to say something.

"Mistclan, sneaking onto our territory, what else would we expect? They probably stole our prey! We should wait for the next patrol and rip them to shreds!"

Specklepaw leapt to his side and yowled in agreement, But Lilystorm was much more reasonable.

"C'mon guys, we all know that the other clans don't like the taste of fish."

"Yes, but we have other prey on our territory like water voles and-" Wildbramble cut him off.

"We should just go and report this to Maplestar before we do anything mousebrained"

All three of them nodded in agreement and followed her back to camp.

"I see," Maplestar pondered, (again, bad vocabulary?) "Well we should just wait for the gathering and see what happens them. Thanks you for sharing this with me though, Wildbramble."

When Wildbramble arrived at the gathering, she with some of her friends from Pineclan, Cloverbelly and Timberstripe. Cloverbelly announced she was expecting kits.

"Really? Who's going to be fathering the kits?"

Cloverbelly wrapped her tail around Timberstripe. "Who else?"

"Aww that's so sweet. Best of luck with your new family!"

Timberstripe was about to say something but was cut off because the gathering had started. Shadestar from Pineclan spoke first, then Breezestar from Airclan was next. While they were speaking Wildbramble looked around at all the cats. They all looked at peace but she knew with most the Mistclan and Frostclan cats, it took everything they had to not rip eachother to shreds.

Rainstar spoke next. He had a hoarse voice, he was never sick and he always spoke like this. It gave her the chills.

"All is well in Mistclan. Our prey is better than ever." Wildbramble thought she heard Twigpelt cough. "But, one tragic event happened a few sunrises ago. One of our apprentices, Emberpaw, died from battle wounds while helping scare away a fox. That is all." He dipped his head to Maplestar to speak. Wildbramble looked around the clearing. Most cats were dipping there heads in honor of Emberpaw, but she thought she saw a glint of amusement in some of the Mistclan cats. What kind of fox-hearted cats were these? She breathed out a long sigh and was glad she wasn't in Mistclan. Then Maplestar started speaking.

"Our prey is running well also. But recently we have scented another clan in our territory. We did not find any evidence of stolen prey, and I will not mention names, I am just warning all clans to stay out of our territory." She nodded her head and jumped down from the branch she was sitting on which signaled the gathering was over. Wildbramble admired Maplestar's smart and brave choice of words.

On the way back to camp, they came across something unusual. It was a tom, who looked like it would be in the middle of its warrior training, who also looked very hungry and smelt like fear, dirt, and crowfood.

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