Hello! As you may have noticed, I keep changing mintypaw/pebblepaw/petalpaw's name. This is because I can't find a suitable name for the silly cat :slaps head:. She is inspired by my cat, gus, and eaglepaw is inspired by eddie, my other cat. I think I will keep it as petalpaw now (maybe). Oh, and thankyou flamespirit of the storm for your great reviews! Can I use you (flamespirit) as a character? I would love some reviews from the other 417 people who have read this book! Thanks!

I put the last piece of moss on graystripes nest and sigh. Finally I'm finished. I walk out, and see the sun shining. Its sunhigh, so I take a bird from the fresh kill pile, and start eating. Its almost time for the border patrol. Brightheart showed me all the borders yesterday, and she wants me to go on patrol today to see if I remember where the markers are. We are going with Alderblaze, Birchfall and larkpaw.

"Sparkpaw! Time to go!" Brightheart calls. I go through the bramble tunnel, and jump ahead of the patrol. We walk to the border, near the lake. This is one of the best spots for hunting. I smell the border, but something has changed. There is a new scent marker. In thunderclan territory. Marking this beautiful place as shadowclan territory.

"They've moved the scent markers!" I tell brightheart.

"Go get backup" birchfall hisses at Larkpaw. Larkpaw runs towards camp. I see a shadow, of a cat, tensing to jump...

"Watch out! They're in the trees!" I screech, and just in time too. shadowclan cats jump down, and are ready to fight. There are too many of them. I count. 13 cats to 4. Not the greatest odds. An apprentice falls in front of me. She looks like a Russian blue with light green eyes and a siamese build. This must be petalpaw.

She is shaken, so I jump on top of her and try to scratch her as much as I can before she regains focus. This isn't long, just a few seconds, but she gets a nasty gash down her side.

Petalpaw leaps at my face, and aims at my ear. My ear! I totally forgot about it! I still can't hear from it though... Petalpaw reopens the wound, and it hurts really badly. But I jump on her back, and rip her ear, and when she tries the drop and roll, I jump and land on her belly. I scratch her belly like theres no tomorrow.

I hear a wail. Brightheart! She is surrounded by five shadowclan cats. I go and jump on ones back. He drops and rolls, and I do the same move I used on petalpaw. Or the same countercountermove. I scratch his back as hard as I can, when the reinforcements come. Larkpaw with sparkfire, brackenfur, squirrelflight, Ivypool, dovewing, rosepetal, blossomfall, fernsong, sorrelstripe and stormcloud. Thats all? Wheres the other half of the clan?

I run to attack a shadowclan apprentice when I am caught by my scruff... By a shadowclan warrior! He starts to scratch my back, and I feel helpless.

"Pick on someone your own size!" Brightheart yells, and leaps on the warrior. He drops me, and I am free to fight someone else.

I see sleekpaw from the gathering charging at me. I leap behind her, and grab her tail. I drag her around, and She goes limp. But that just makes it easier to drag her around. Then I suddenly jump on her back and start ripping it apart.

I am pulled off by a tabby tom.

"Get off my apprentice!" He hisses, and throws me against a tree. I climb it, and survey the battle. Thunderclan is losing. I jump on tigerheart, knocking the breath out of him. I scratch him real hard. He easily throws me off. I see petalpaw in the midst of the battle, biting anyone who goes past. I leap over a shadowclan cat, giving him a quick scratch, and land on petalpaw scratching like my life depends on it.

She gives me a bite on my leg, and I bite her ear, and pull, numerous times. Eventually there is a big tear in her ear. She lets go of my leg, and runs to help tigerheart with beating brightheart up.

I go and help brightheart, but we are losing badly. We outnumber them, but only by one cat, and four of us have already been beaten up. It is inevitable. We are going to lose this part of the territory.

"Retreat!" Squirrelflight calls, and we run into the forest, towards camp. We run and we run. When we get back back to camp, we see other warriors, also with battle scars, looking triumphant. I don't know why.

"Squirrelflight!" Bramblestar calls. "We were triumphant at the windclan border". I wonder what he means.

"We lost" Squirrelflight sighs, and flops down next to Bramblestar. I hear them start to talk, but I go and sit down next to honeypaw and leafpaw, who are sharing a rabbit.

"Hello" I say, and sit down. "Whats this talk about the windclan border?"

"Oh, right. Remember the gathering a quarter moon ago?" Honeypaw says.

"Yes" I say.

"Well, after windclan and shadowclan heard of our weakness, they both decided to attack. At the same time. So half of our warriors could go to each place. We won against windclan" honeypaw says. I take a bite of the rabbit.

"You should really go see jayfeather" leafpaw says. I agree. I walk to the medicine cats den. I see a long line of cat waiting to go in. I think of all the warriors books, where cats have their first battles. They are always won. It is unfair, but realistic. I wish I was on the windclan border, where they finished the battle in a haze of glory. But it is unrealistic. The books are always favouring thunderclan, when in real life, they would have no advantage. I remember a saying grumpy george always told us, when we complained at the high prices of the toys he sold. Life isn't fair. Life isn't fair...