Chapter 5

Back at the camp, Silverclaw carried on with his duties quietly and without objecting.

Once night came, all his thoughts came flooding back. How Redstripe had abandoned his life in CringeClan, how he'd broken the warrior code to be with the RiverClan warrior Sparrowfrost, and everything that happened the previous night.

It wasn't a huge deal though. All Silverclaw had to do was forget all about Redstripe. Plus, the mouse-eating contests were tomorrow anyway. Best to forget about Redstripe and Mathpaw and that lovey-dovey RiverClan warrior for now.

The next day

Several warriors were arguing about who got to be first in line to go to the food eating contest.

"Hey! Stop pushing! I wanna be first!" Silverscreen screeched, bopping Tigerstar III on the head with her tail.

"No, we're gonna be first! Isn't that right, HOWkit?" WHATkit was saying. The three tom-kits bounced around the line, trying to find the front.

Tigerstar III growled menacingly. "NO! I want to be first because my ancestors in the Dark Forest will be HAPPY!"

Halftail snorted. "Puh-leeze. Do you know how pathetic you sound right now?"

Tigerstar III was enraged at this point. "HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE ME?! You're nothing but a little purple FOOL!"

Firestar suddenly ran into the camp and screamed, "I'M GONNA KILL YOU TIGERSTAR!" Then Spottedleaf appeared and took him back to StarClan.

Tigerstar III laughed his head off, and his Clanmates took it to the bowling alley to play with.

"Yay! Bowling!" Stormfur yowled as the cats ran off with Tigerstar III's head.

Suddenly Brook appeared in the bowling alley and killed Stormfur because he wasn't the real Stormfur.

Meanwhile, Silverclaw just watched all of this, confused as heck. Somehow, everyone else seemed to know what was going on.

Suddenly, the unbelievable happened. Redstripe ran into the camp and said he was sorry for running away. But he had a super deep voice for some reason.

"Redstripe! OMG! It's really you!" Silverclaw shrieked, and ran up to him. But when he tried to touch him, his paw went right through and his image glitched a little bit.

Silverclaw started chasing Thisisstupid around the camp because he'd turned on a projection of Redstripe's image.

Thisisstupid kept dodging Silverclaw's blows, which made him even more mad.

Silverclaw could feel himself starting to turn red, and everyone else backed away.

Then his body started smoking, and he felt himself getting bigger.

"He's gonna blow!" Screeched Pregnancytragedy, who guided his kits toward a shelter.

Silverclaw got bigger...

and bigger...

and bigger...

until...

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

He exploded into a giant cloud of dust and soot. Then he was granted another life by StarClan so he appeared again next to his Clanmates.

Then, Dustpelt and Sootfur appeared and started chasing everybody around.

That night

It had been one of the craziest days of Silverclaw's life. The food contest was even crazier than before the food contest, and you won't even want to know what happened AFTERWARD.

All Silverclaw was thinking of now was the fact that the Clan was getting careless and un-orderly. Maybe this was what Redstripe's prophecy meant. It wasn't much of a prophecy, since it just said you're all doomed, but Silverclaw knew what StarClan was trying to say now.