"After you told my siblings and I to tend to the elders, we sorta smelt like mouse-bile. So Swiftpaw brought me down to the lake, without my siblings because they didn't want to, so I could wash the stench off of me." Eaglepaw said, with the whole clan plus the Shadowclan patrol staring, and listening intently. "We guess that Barkkit followed us down to the lake, but before we could get him back to camp, a vixen attacked us. He took Barkkit over the border, and…." He trailed off sadly. "I ran after the vixen, but Swiftpaw reached the vixen before me and killed it. He got injured in the process which caused his limp. I began to call for help, but I fell asleep soon after. Shadowclan found us after the gathering, and you can guess the rest." Eaglepaw finished.

Lilyflower was huddling close with Swiftfire, soothing her and avoiding eye contact with her son. Duststripe looked on in horror of what his apprentice had gone through. Or a better guess, what he caused. "Like Barkkit's death." Eaglepaw thought bitterly. Fawnstar stared at the two apprentices with an unreadable face. Barkkit's siblings looked out of the nursery, curious about all of the commotion. Nightpaw, Stormpaw, Leafpaw and Willowpaw, stared at the two of them in shock. Swiftpaw looked down at his feet disappointed of himself.

Fawnstar took a deep breath. "Nightstar, thank you for taking care of our apprentices. We deeply apprecitate it. You may leave now." Fawnstar said softly, and as calm as she could. Nightstar dipped her head and turned around. Ravenpaw quickly looked back at Eaglepaw with empathy, and left the camp. Fawnstar looked at the apprentices. "Both of your warrior ceremonies will be held back for a moon. Eaglepaw's eyes widened. "What? No!" Swiftpaw and Eaglepaw protested. But their leader had already disappeared in to her den.

Eaglepaw lied sadly, and silently in his nest. "That is sooo unfair!" Leafpaw was saying. "Leader's word is the law." Stormpaw said with no empathy in his voice what-so-ever. "I'm so sorry you guys." Nightpaw said. "Yeah, it really stinks." Willowpaw added. "You know you guys," Eaglepaw grunted, it had been the first time he'd spoken since the meeting at sun-high and it was now moon-rise. "Your not being too optimistic about it."

"What's there to be optimistic about?" Swiftpaw hissed sourly. "I'm not going to be a warrior for another moon now, and who knows when Eaglepaw will become a warrior. He's a mouse-brain" Swiftpaw said as if Eaglepaw wasn't there.

Eaglepaw's anger flared. "You say I'm not good enough?"

"That's not what he's-" Willowpaw said trying to calm them down.

"THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M SAYING YOU MOUSE-BRAIN! IF YOU CAN'T SAVE A LIFE OF A KIT how ARE YOU GOING TO BE A WARRIOR?" Swiftpaw shouted.

"GUYS! Your being un-realistic. What does saving kits have to do with this?" Nightpaw said.

"No! SWIFTPAW IS BEING UNREALISTIC! HE'S THE PIECE OF FOX-DUNG THAT VOLENTEERED TO BRING ME DOWN TO THE LAKE!" Eaglepaw argued

"YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SO MOUSE-BRAINED TO ACCEPT THE OFFER!" Swiftpaw yowled.

Eaglepaw hissed and leapt on Swiftpaw. He batted him with his paws, and Swiftpaw's claws were now unsheathed. Swiftpaw kicked Eaglepaw off of him, and slashed his eye. Eaglepaw yowled in pain.

Nightpaw gasped

"SWIFTPAW YOU MOUSE-BRAIN!" Stormpaw yelled

"See? He can't even take one blow." Swiftpaw hissed.

Eaglepaw's eye was burning in pain, his eye was watering and he couldn't see out of it. "HAWKEYES!" Willowpaw yelled.

Hawkeye came running in to see what was wrong. He saw Eaglepaw on the floor, withering in pain. "What happened?" he asked.

No one answered. "Fine, it's not important now anyways." Hawkeye said through gritted teeth. "Willowpaw, help me get him to the medicine den."

"Okay!" Willowpaw said, and they quickly left to treat Eaglepaw's bad eye.