Gingerwhisker woke the next day a little after dawn. Darkstorm wasn't in camp and she guessed he was hunting. The dawn patrol was getting ready to leave. there was Rattail and Sunheart and, the leader of the patrol, Blackspot, who's also the clan deputy.

She decided to find Mountainpaw and go do battle training. When she looked in the apprentices den Mountainpaw wasn't there.

"Cherrypaw! Where's Mountainpaw?"

"I think she's on a hunting patrol." She said sleepily.

"Oh, ok."

Gingerwhisker backed out of the apprentices den and looked around the camp. She saw Darkstorm putting his prey on the fresh kill pile. A few heart beats later Gingerwhisker's best friend, Mistycloud, walked out of the warriors den. She looked around and when she saw Gingerwhisker she ran over to her.

"Hi Gingerwhisker!"

"Hi Mistycloud. You should've gotten up earlier. Crestpaw will be itching to get going."

"Oh yeah! I was planning on taking him to the Shadowclan border. See ya later!"

She went into the apprentices den and came out with Crestpaw with her

"I think I'll come too."

Gingerwhisker mewed.

"Mountainpaw is on a hunting patrol so I don't have much else to do."

"Ok then."

She followed Mistycloud and Crestpaw out the the thorn tunnel. Right when they got out Mistycloud went running to the Shadowclan border. Gingerwhisker followed swiftly behind Crestpaw then suddenly Mistycloud stopped and Crestpaw bumped into her.

"Watch it!"

"Sorry..."

Mistycloud started leading them along the Shadowclan border. Suddenly rabbit ran across the border and a cat followed it. Gingerwhisker recognized Moonrise from Shadowclan. She looked back at the border and saw Rockfur and Pinetail standing at the border looking at the ThunderClan cats with hostility in their eyes. Moonrise came back, with the rabbit dangling from his jaws, saw the ThunderClan cats and immediately he ran onto his side of the border.

"Why are you trespassing?!" Mistycloud asked angrily.

"I didn't notice the border when I was chasing that rabbit!"

Moonrise yelled back. Gingerwhisker noticed they were acting unusually hostile. Rockfur stepped forward so she was on the border and curled her lip in a snarl.

"Why don't you mind your own business?!"

She snarled.

"It is our business since you crossed the border!"

Gingerwhisker retorted. Suddenly Rockfur jumped at them along with the rest of the patrol.

"Go find help!"

Mistycloud yelled to Crestpaw. He quickly ran off towards camp. Gingerwhisker knew, as she fought with Rockfur, that they wouldn't win. She was pinned down by Rockfur only for a few heartbeats then the weight was lifted off of her. Looking up she saw Darkstorm battling with Rockfur. He quickly made her back off and started fighting both Moonrise and Pinetail at the same time. Mistycloud staggered up and watched in amazement as Darkstorm caused both cats to back off.

"Traitor!"

Rockfur yelled before running back into Shadowclan territory. Darkstorm seemed unnerved by what she said and stalked off.

"He's a ray of sunshine..."

Mistycloud muttered. As they continued walking down the Shadowclan border she wondered what Rockfur meant when she called Darkstorm a traitor.