Later that evening, after Skyclaw's throat had been healed, Ivyblaze decided to go hunting. She wasn't expecting to catch anything, as twoleg monsters had scared away all the prey. She just wanted to at least try to feed the clan. She quickly noticed movement. Squirrel! A fat squirrel was eating an acorn. She started stalking it. Slowly, carefully. She could not miss this squirrel. She was almost a whisker's length away when suddenly the squirrel's ears perked and the squirrel darted away. Ivyblaze straightened up. What had scared it? Ivyblaze suddenly heard pawsteps and whispers. Kittypets! She leapt through the foliage to find Waterpaw and Tulippaw with a dead bird.

"We can't take prey from Cloudclan's territory!" Tulippaw was saying.

"Look Tulippaw," Waterpaw snapped. "The kittypets said we have to hunt for ourselves until we get our own Twoleg. We're taking this bird!" Ivyblaze leapt from underneath a bush.

"Prey-stealers!" she hissed. Waterpaw and Tulippaw's eyes blazed with guilt.

"Run Waterpaw, run!" Tulippaw screeched.

"You don't get away that easily!" Ivyblaze snarled. She had almost caught up to them when something caught her eye. A huge monster's claw was about to land flat on top of her. Ivyblaze gasped and ran away. Just when she thought she was safe- thwack! The claw crushed her hind paw. Ivyblaze screeched in pain. The two apprentices stared at her for a second, horrified, and then ran away. A twoleg came out the monster and started toward Ivyblaze. Ivyblaze disappeared into the forest. Slowly, she started to crawl her way back to camp.

It took Ivyblaze the whole night to crawl back to camp. Early at dawn, a search party went out and found her covered in leaves and brambles. Quickly, they brought her back to camp. Meanwhile, Moonshine and Cloverpelt were letting Gingerpaw test her leg again.

"Don't walk too quickly," Moonshine warned. "We don't want your leg to get hurt again."

"Don't worry," Gingerpaw said. "I can walk fine now." Just then, the search patrol of Snowfang and Vixenstep arrived, carrying Ivyblaze.

"We have an injured cat!" Snowfang screeched.

"Another injury?" Clovereplt whined. "We just finished healing Gingerpaw! Can't we have a break?" Moonshine bounded forward.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Well, I was out hunting, and I caught Waterpaw and Tulippaw stealing prey," Ivyblaze said.

"How could they?" Gingerpaw hissed.

"I chased them through the woods, but then a monster hit my paw," she continued.

"And Waterpaw and Tulippaw didn't even try to help? So much for clan loyalty!" Skyclaw scowled.

"Well remember, they're not part of the clan anymore," Sunstar reminded her. Then she padded over to Ivyblaze. "Come on," she said. "Let's get you to the medicine cat's den."

Later that night, Sunstar was talking to Moonshine. "Any ideas on what the prophecy means?" Sunstar asked. Moonshine shook her head.

"No, none." She replied. "All I do know is that we must heal Ivyblaze quickly, so that we can attack the kittypets. Hopefully we can drive them out, and when the Twolegs find their kittypets scarred and beaten, maybe they'll want to leave."

Sunstar nodded.

"Whatever we do, Starclan will light our path."