"That's not to bad, you'll catch up in no time." Rockpaw mewed sympathetically, he had returned from battle training not long ago. I had been sentenced with seven days no battle training, and one day confined to camp for attacking Stonepaw.

"You got off lucky, if Stonepaw hadn't been in the Healer's den while Nightstar was deciding your punishment it would be so much worse." Ivypaw mewed, glaring at the orange apprentice, who sat, cobweb plastering her flanks so that the healing herbs would stay in the wounds.

"I'm still confined to camp until sunrise the day after tomorrow, and in that time I can't find out what Zodiac is up too." I grumbled. I may not have ever known Zodiac well, but my instincts told me that he was up to no good more often than not.

"I could." Duskpaw mewed.

"How?" I asked, "You don't even know what he looks like."

"I could get close to Stonepaw, she'll let me, and I've done it before." Duskpaw mewed, "She wants me on her side, and I bet Icepaw knows something about it as well."

"I'm not sure," Ivypaw mewed, "If she's meeting with a rogue she's not likely to share information about it to just anyone."

"It's worth a shot," Jasperpaw mewed, "Stonepaw is powerful, and she knows it."

"Teamed up with Zodiac, and Zodiac's other friends they could try to overthrow the leadership." I added.

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I awoke to see Duskpaw pad quietly out of the den after Stonepaw.

"I hate this," Ivypaw growled, "He's pretending to be her follower for information."

"It'll be worth it." Rockpaw mewed.

Nightshade poked her head into the den, "Rockpaw, hunting patrol." She mewed shortly.

"I'm coming." He mewed and padded out of the den.

"I still don't like this." Ivypaw grumbled, padding out of the den with me.

"Neither do I." I mewed, "But what's done is done."

"There you are." Nightstar mewed, "Are you ready for your assessment?"

"I'm always ready." Ivypaw mewed, stretching her legs.

"Let's go then." Nightstar mewed, padding away with Ivypaw.

"And I'm left in camp alone." I muttered to myself, "Great."

Jasperpaw padded up to me with a mouse hanging from his jaws, "Hungry?" he mewed.

"Thanks," I replied, taking the mouse from him.

"I just caught it, so it's still warm." He purred, puffing out his chest.

"It tastes great." I purred, licking the top of his head.

"Jasperpaw!" Leopardstripe called, "Jasperpaw, we're on sunhigh patrol."

"Right." Jasperpaw mewed, shuffling his paws before turning and darting towards the other cat.

I finished off the mouse, looking around camp. I had never really thought about how busy I usually was, today was going to be a long and boring day.

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Duskpaw's POV

I followed Stonepaw into the forest, she told me not to tell anyone about anything that happened after we left camp. I had promised, although I had no intensions of keeping that promise, she seemed satisfied.

"Zodiac!" She called, "Zodiac where are you?"

"Stonepaw, so nice to see you again." a voice came from behind a bush, out stepped a cream colored cat with black paws, face, and tail. He looked very much like Darkmask, but with shorter fur.

"Duskpaw came with me." Stonepaw mewed.

"Hello Duskpaw." The cat mewed, this must be Zodiac. I had to admit, his voice was eerily calm, Cinnamonpaw had a right to hate it.

"Hello," I mewed; this was going to be a long day.

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Cinnamonpaw's POV

The day dragged on as I watched cats come and go. They were all busy; they all had something to do. I, however, had been confined to camp, and therefore had nothing to do. I saw Ashtail wander sadly into camp. Suddenly I remembered the strange prophecy that Redfoot had told me.

"Of all cats big and small, five shall come together, all with different backgrounds, and unearth the truth." I murmured.

What could that mean? Well, first I had to think of five cats with different backgrounds. Ivypaw had been a kittypet before coming to the clans, there was one. I had been a loner, so there were two. Fogpaw had been a halfclan, and that was three, but Fogpaw was dead, so I was back down to two. All the other cats I knew were clanborn for all I knew, so that was only three. But that was two, with the rest of Leafclan, which was much more than five. This was so hard! Why couldn't Redfoot have just told me what it means? Then maybe I would understand it. I guess I would have to sleep on it, since the moon was rising anyway. I wonder how Duskpaw's day went; I hope he found something out.