A few moons after Clearwing had her kits she taught her kits how to eat meat and returned to her warrior duties almost immediately, and Bramblestar welcomed her.

Snowkit and Rosekit poked their noses out of the nursery hoping for Cedarstorm or Clearwing to pass by and bring dinner. Their mother had never loved them that much, but their father did.

Cedarstorm would make sure that everyday he would come visit his kits and play for a while and then leave. Instead of Clearwing who gave them their meals and dropped a hello! And Good bye! Before leaving her kits again to return to her warrior duties.

"It's uncle Pineshade!" Snowkit squeaked. "Hi!"

Heatherkit, Stonekit and Shadekit squirmed out of the nursery to meat their adventurous uncle. This time Pineshade told the kits about his journey to RiverClan territory and about his twists and turns, barely making it out a pair of menacing fangs in a border scuffle on the way.

"You're amazing Pineshade!" Shadekit yowled. "Can you show me how you did that dodge form that RiverClan warrior?"

Pineshade let out a deep rumbled purring and indicated how to do the dodge. Wolfkit and Silverkit ran out of the nursery hissing. "We were sleeping!"

"My apologies." Pineshade replied. "Catch you later kits!"

Stonekit growled at Wolfkit and Silverkit. "You just chased away our only family! Do you know what it's like to have a mother that doesn't love you?"

Silverkit rolled her eyes and Wolfkit couldn't suppress a laugh. "You've no idea little kits. I have no family and Silverkit's mother and father abandoned her." Wolfkit snarled.

"LITTLE KITS?" Stonekit roared. "WE'RE STRONGER THAN YOU!" The brothers and sisters nodded at each other, exchanging looks of confidence. They leaped as one at Silverkit and Wolfkit.

Silverkit dodged everything the sisters threw at her as usual and Wolfkit was locked in battle with Stonekit and Shadekit. Silverkit smiled at Wolfkit trying to throw both kits off him when she felt a heavy weight on her back.

She hissed and flung off Rosekit who then tumbled into Snowkit. Heatherkit growled and unsheathed her claws. Silverkit smirked and jumped up as Heatherkit tried to claw her.

"NOO!" Bramblestar yowled from the center of camp. The kits stopped fighting and looked at what was happening. Squirrelflight was being brought into camp drenched in blood with a scent of death.

Bramblestar sniffed at his dead mate and leaped onto high rock. "A new deputy must be chosen." Bramblestar announced while holding back tears. "The new deputy will be.."

The clan took a breath together in deathly silence waiting for the prophecy to be done with. Bramblestar gritted his teeth and looked from Clearwing to Mapleshade.

"C-Mapleshade is the new deputy of ThunderClan." Bramblestar yowled. Cheers and yowls of outrage exploded in camp. Mapleshade happily skipped onto high rock and dipped her head at Bramblestar.

"Wrong decision." Clearwing snarled. Agreeing murmurs rippled across the clan. "If I'm not deputy of this clan, I'll create my own. ClearClan members join me at the camp entrance to search for a new camp."

Mapleshade was shocked to the bone as of what Clearwing had just said. Her own clan? Blossomfall joined Clearwing right away, followed by Cedarstorm, Heatherkit, Snowkit, Shadekit, Stonekit, Pineshade, Twiglake, Silverkit, Wolfkit and Duskbreeze joined her.

"Rosekit? You are my kit, are you coming?" Clearwing asked. Rosekit shrunk back and hissed at Clearwing. Clearwing padded forward and glared coldly at Rosekit.

"Anyone that defies me will be punished." Clearwing growled with malice. She brought her unsheathed claw down on Rosekit's face forming a forever lasting scar. She shook of the blood from her paws and walked back to her new Clan.

"Let's go ClearClan!" Clearwing yowled. Half of ThunderClan left to join ClearClan.

StarClan cats had never thought of the probability of Bramblestar making the wrong decision in one million generations, but he just did.

"Didn't I teach you anything Bramblestar?" Firestar yowled in StarClan.

Sunshade lay a tail on Firestar's shoulder comforting him slightly. The clans would never survive ClearClan. "Clearwing was supposed to be deputy."

Moons later...

ClearClan chose to have a temporary camp at the abandoned two leg barn. There were new rules in ClearClan, kits would become apprentices at 3moons old and train how to fight most of the time. Silverkit, Wolfkit, Heatherkit, Snowkit, Shadekit, and Stonekit became apprentices.

The only warriors were Blossomfall, Cedarstorm, Pineshade, Twiglake and Duskbreeze. Each had an apprentice including Clearstar. The dark forest agreed to help ClearClan train to defeat the rest of the clans and granted Clearwing her nine lives when StarClan refused.

the deputy was Silverpaw because she could defeat any ClearClan warrior and had a naturally born leadership ability. Today was their warrior ceremony.

"All cats of ClearClan get her under Woodledge!" Clearstar yowled. "Silverpaw is young but has a gifted ability of fight. I present her as my deputy and her warrior name, Silverfrost!"

Wolfpaw became Wolfclaw, and the other apprentices became Heatherstream, Snowmist, Shadeheart, and Stonefoot.

ThunderClan camp...

There were no more kits left in camp, except for Nightblossom's one kit, Stormkit. Bramblestar looked down on the gloomy and empty camp, his heart heavy with regret.

He should have known that Clearwing was supposed to be deputy! How come he was so mouse-brained? Squirrelflight was gone forever, never to be seen again. Mapleshade walked into the leaders den.

"You need to pick the cats to go to the gathering tonight," Mapleshade reminded Bramblestar.

"Everyone." Bramblestar replied.