The sun shone brightly at its highest point. A black-and-white tom cat prowled silently toward the river followed closely by a sleek silver-and-white tom with a furry silver tail. "Stonestar, I believe one of the apprentices is giving us away" the silver-and-white tom murmured, indicating with his tail a golden tabby tom that was jumping around. "Hush Berrypaw!" Stonestar growled to his son. "Sorry" he mewed quietly. "Bluetail, go get the rest of the patrol" Stonestar meowed quietly. The silver-and-white tom nodded and walked back silently. He returned with a small dusky-brown tom and a small brown tabby tom. "Let's go" Stonestar meowed to his patrol and bounded toward the RiverClan border.

"Wait for my signal" Stonestar mewed quietly. A sleek silver-and-white she-cat appeared along with a gray tom and a tabby she-cat. "Go!" Stonestar mewed to his deputy, Bluetail. "Pooleyes!" Bluetail hissed quietly. The sleek silver-and-white she-cat's ear twitched and she meowed something to her companions. The gray tom and tabby she-cat began walking away. "What is it, Bluetail?" Pooleyes mewed and her ocean blue eyes widened as she saw the rest of the patrol. "Ashwater, Leafwing help!" Pooleyes called to her patrol. They spun around and raced toward her, only to see they were outnumbered. The gray tom ran away immediately. Bluetail pinned the tabby down before she could do anything and quickly the other cats helped. The tabby struggled furiously and began running away. All the other cats ran after her. "What are you doing?" Pooleyes growled angrily. Stonestar padded over to her and ran his claws down her neck. "That" he meowed. "Greet StarClan for me!" he purred. "But why? she gasped as she began rapidly losing her life. "Because it will hurt Riverstar like she hurt me!" he hissed angrily.

Stonestar heard his patrol returning. Changing his tone, he began to mew: "Pooleyes? ...Don't die, please ... that fox is gone now!"

Stonestar stared horrified as Bluetail approached his leader cautiously. "What happened Stonestar?" he asked. "The fox...it attacked her...there was nothing I could do!" Stonestar lied. "It's alright, let's head back to our territory" Bluetail meowed. The patrol and Bluetail went ahead to be sure it was safe.

Stonestar looked back at the lifeless body of Pooleyes and purred with evil gleaming in his ocean blue eyes.