Sorry I have not updated this FOREVER. I was working on other finfics and I forgot about it!

"Jaypaw, wake up."

Jaypaw stood and stretched herself. The morning light trickling into the apprentice's den showed her a warrior standing in front of her. "Dustpelt? What is it?"

Dustpelt, a tom with gray fur, looked worriedly at her. "Have you seen Firestar?"

"Firestar?"

Dustpelt nodded. "Neither Sorreltail or Brackenfur have seen him since Cloudtail got really mad at Ashfur, Stormfur and Birchleaf. And Brook. I'm worried that cats might start accusing Ashfur of trying to kill him again. The last thing we need is a war within our own Clan."

Jaypaw nodded. "You're right, but I haven't seen him anywhere."

Dustpelt frowned. "I wonder…" He turned and padded back out of the den.

Jaypaw leaped after him. "Has any of the Clan seen him?" she asked as they walked into the clearing that was the ThunderClan camp.

"No," Dustpelt meowed. "But I still need to ask a few cats." He flicked his ears as Brightheart padded by with Daisy. Daisy was a cat from the horse-place, and she had come to ThunderClan because Twolegs were going to take her kits away. "Hey, Brightheart!"

The she-cat looked up at him. "What?"

"Have you seen Firestar anywhere? No cat has seen him for a while."

Brightheart snorted. "He's a leader, Dustpelt. For StarClan's sake, you can't expect a leader to stay inside camp all of the time where you can see him. He's probably on a patrol or something, even if Brambleclaw didn't ask him to go on one. Maybe he's hunting."

Dustpelt drooped visibly. "Oh, okay." He started to pad towards the gorse tunnel leading out of the camp. "I'll go hunting or something. The fresh-kill pile is really low."

Jaypaw glanced at Brightheart as Dustpelt left. "You were kind of hard on him."

"Firestar can be responsible for himself," Brightheart mewed. She walked off with Daisy.

Brambleclaw padded up to Jaypaw. "So no cat knows where Firestar is?"

Jaypaw shook her head. Brambleclaw sighed. Jaypaw flicked her tail at him. "Look, he's probably hunting. That's what Brightheart said."

"Yeah, but what if he's not? Usually he would tell some cat if he was leaving for this long."

Cloudtail was just coming into the camp with the dawn patrol. "Firestar's gone?" he asked. Brambleclaw glanced at Jaypaw. "Yes…"

"Let's guess why," Cloudtail smirked. "Does any cat know where Ashfur has been?"

"Stop it!" shouted Jaypaw. All eyes in the camp turned to her. She could feel a dozen gazes burning into her fur. "Ashfur is not a traitor! He didn't do anything! He wasn't helping Hawkfrost!"

The camp was silent for a heartbeat. Then Cloudtail hissed. "You're his apprentice! You would side with him, like Birchleaf!"

"Only because you're accusing him of betraying his Clan!" retorted Jaypaw.

"What the – what's happening?"

The cats turned to see Ashfur stalking into the camp with a mouse in his mouth. He dropped it onto the fresh-kill pile. Cloudtail snarled. "What have you done with Firestar?"

"Firestar?" Ashfur sounded incredulous. "Did something happen to Firestar while I was hunting?"

"Don't pretend you don't know!" spat Cloudtail. "You killed him, didn't you! That's why you were gone all night!"

"It's not true!" The pale gray tom blinked. "I told you, I was hunt-."

"Quiet!" Cloudtail yowled, nearly unsheathing his claws. But Brambleclaw pushed in front of him. "Cloudtail, leave it."

The white warrior glared at the deputy, but he didn't try to oppose him. Brambleclaw narrowed his eyes. "I'm in charge while Firestar's gone because I am the deputy. No cat will attack Ashfur."

Cloudtail hissed and stalked away. Great StarClan, Jaypaw thought.

Suddenly there was a yowl at the entrance to the camp. All heads swiveled to look there. Through the tunnel burst Sandstorm, Brackenfur, Rainwhisker and Lionpaw.

Jaypaw rushed up to her brother. "Lionpaw! What happened?" He had a gash on his shoulder that was bleeding, and his eyes were wild with fright. Rainwhisker meowed first.

"Badgers are attacking!"

I am sorry that was such a pitiful ending. But I needed a place to stop and I couldn't think of any other way and anyway this works for what will happen in the story next. Even though I think that Ashfur is not a traitor, I haven't come up with who is the traitor, so I will take suggestions for who it will be as long as it makes sense.