FRAMED

CHALLENGE FOR SOULCLAN

Me and my best friend, Silvershine, were hunting. We heard there were foxes in the forest, but they were no problem, right? Wrong. Everything went wrong.

"Hey, Willowbranch, I think we should leave now.. I smell foxes.." Silvershine told me.

"It'll be fine, we can just kill 'em, right?" I said.

"Uh.. Okay." Silvershine said and continued hunting.

Now that I think about it, the area smelled strongly of fox.. And the scent was fresh.

"Okay, Silvershine.. Let's go." I said.

My friend looked relieved, but just as we were leaving, a fox jumped out at us, barking. Two other foxes followed him. They attacked us, they showed no mercy.

And then, they did something that made me angry, no I mean really really angry. They. Killed. Silvershine.

And I made sure that they wouldn't get away! I killed one of the foxes, which made the other two back away. Good. I thought, and carried Silvershine's body back to camp. But, instead of grieving for Silvershine, they looked at me in shock.

"What did you do?" They screeched.

"Why did you kill her?"

"She was your best friend!"

"I never knew you were a murderer!"

"Have you been the cause of all those other deaths too?"

That's what they said. Maybe the saw the blood on my teeth and claws, and it really doesn't help, having the same fur color as a fox.

"But I didn't kill her! The fox did!" I protested.

"She knows how to fight a fox."

"Yeah right!"

"You should be exiled!"

"No, killed!"

I backed away, "No! It wasn't me! It was the fox! I killed it!"

Some cats laughed, other chanted "Murderer! Murderer!"

Then, the leader padder out of his den, and asked what was going on. I opened my mouth to reply, but my obnoxious sister beat me to it.

"She killed Silvershine and lied, saying the fox killed her!"

The leader, Stripestar, glared at me. "Then she will be exiled!"

"Willowbranch, you are striped from your warrior name, and will now be known as Darkheart. I exile you from SunClan. If any cats of our clan see you in our territory after sunhigh, they will have permission to kill you!"

I growled. "Those cats weren't even there. They didn't see what happened. The fox killed her, not me!"

"I don't care! Silvershine knows how to fight a fox!"

"Ugh! Fine! I'll leave, but I'll be back. So watch out." I padded to the entrance of my former camp, not looking back.

I am back, with many cats following me. We will take over SunClan, they will not get away for exiling me for something I didn't do! We barge into their camp and demand to see Stripestar. The cats, afraid of us, call him outside.

"Stripestar, will you willingly give SunClan to us, or will you die trying to keep it?"

"I'll fight, you'll never win!" Stripestar replied.

I growled and lunged at him, putting a paw around his throat before he could react.

"I repeat, will you willingly give SunClan to us?" I asked again.

"Never!"

So I choked him to his death. "SunClan! I am your new leader, Darkstar!"

The cats live in fear of me, even to this day. And that's exactly how they should live.