"Ravenfur!" yowled Sunstar. Ravenfur whipped his head around, dropping the piece of fresh-kill in his mouth to the ground.

"What?" he asksed in a mew.

"Tell me about RiverClan." Demanded Sunstar.

"Uh…" meowed Ravenfur, trailing off.

"Hm…" edged Sunstar.

"What about them, their a Clan, and they eat fish-" he mewed uncomfortably, as Sunstar cut him off.

"No, tell me why you keep disappearing into their territory!" She demanded.

"Uh…" he began, only for a yowl to cut him off.

A little grey-blue, saturated purple-eyed apprentice, Dragonpaw, skidded into the territory, her mentor, Cinderleaf, light grey with amber eyes, followed her as they ran screeching.

"Whats going on?" asked Sunstar, turning her attention away from Ravenfur, to the two cats.

"The dogs…. in out territory… two ShadwoClan Warriors killed by the dogs- near- ne- near, our border." mewed Cinderleaf.

"What?!" Came Thorntail's frightened yowl from the back of the group of cats now surrounding in a throng.

"We met at the edge, and we had saved a ShadowClan kit from a trap. There were four warriors on a border patrol, and one escorted the kit back to camp. But, then, us and the other three warriors heard barking, as dogs leapt from behind the pines. Us five against three dogs. It was so difficult, and at first we had the upper-paw. But then, one giant dog killed a ShadowClan Warriors with one blow. And the other was killed two. Luckily, we chased the dogs off, but I don't think their gone forever." Cinderleaf spat the story, obviously out of breath.

"Will you be okay?" asked Duststorm, Cinderleafs brother, a brown-grey pelted, amber-eyed cat, as worry struck his eyes.

"Of corse I'll be fine mouse-dung." she joked, liking her chest fur, and she lay down.

"You've got a lot of cuts." came Violetheart's mew as she swiveled her way to the front of the crowd. "Stonepaw!" she yowled when she reached the tired Cinderleaf and Dragonpaw. "Stonepaw, bring these cats dock and cobwebs. Also maybe some poppy seed and marigold."

"Alright!" Stonepaw yowled back from the medicine cat den, as the other cats began to part, the elders gossiping about other times dogs have attacked.

"Remember the time we heard the story about the dogs that attacked ThuderClan, and Killed Bluestar?" Ashpatch, a younger elder with green eyes and a white pelt with smokey gray blotched all spread around his pelt, asked the older female elder, Primrosenose, who had been his mentor when FireClan first started. Smokefur remembered that story well. How Ashpatch and Primrosenose chased off a fox together.

"Of corse I do!" Primrosenose mewed back. "Kestrelflight, the WindClan medicine cat told us that story at a gathering once." she finished, as she began to groom herself.

"Ah yes, without Kestrelflight, we wouldn't have the wonders of Violetheart." said Ashpatch. "She inspired Violetheart at a very young age to become medicine cat." he said.

"Well, it obviously wasn't Mossfang. He's hard to work with." said Primrosenose.

"He was always grumpy." mewed Ashpatch

Redberry padded by, she too, gossiping with Nightfeather about dogs. As Smokefur walked by, he could hear voices coming from the medicine cat den.

"You know I'm not safe!" came Sunstars voice.

"I know." came Violetheart calmly. She had left tending Cinderleaf and Dragonpaw to Stonepaw.

"Listen, those dogs could kill me! Their going to, I know it!" wailed Sunstar.

"Don't worry-" Violethearts voice came, but Smokefur blocked out the rest.

"Sunstar could die." he muttered to himself.

He turned his head to see Duststorm and Lilyfrost, tails Twined as they ate fresh-kill together. 'That could be me and Sunstar one day unless those dogs kill her' he thought. Then he paused.

'When the time is right, I'll take action, but now is not the time.' was his final decision, before he headed to the fresh-kill pile.