The sun rose on a fateful day three moons later. Brokenstorm organized a patrol containing, himself, Tornpaw, Ashclaw, Tigerpaw, Swiftmask, and Featherfur. The six cats climbed the ravine at dawn unaware of the danger that waited for them.

"Brokenstorm?" Tornpaw mewed up to her mentor,

"Yes Tornpaw?"

"Are we allowed to hunt on a patrol?"

"Yes but it's a bad idea to hunt on the dawn patrol."

"Why?"

"You can get a stomach ache if we have to run." Swiftmask replied. His almost black eyes shifted from side to side trying to find the cause of the sounds he was hearing. Something was following them that was for sure. Out of the undergrowth a huge tom with pale tan tabby fur leapt onto Brokenstorm and sank his fangs into the deputy's back. Seven ore rouges leapt out onto the patrol and a fierce battle raged on.

"Tornpaw!" Ashclaw yowled from under a tom twice her size, "Go get help!" The ash colored she-cat hesitated at her mother's orders,

"But-I…"

"Hurry!"

She nodded and bolted into the under brush,

The leader threw Brokenstorm aside and yowled,

"Brushfire!" A tan tom with a black muzzle looked up from fighting with Swiftmask, "Don't let that apprentice get back to camp!"

He lunged at the underbrush but Featherfur grabbed his back leg in her teeth making him crash to the ground clumsily, a mountain lion colored she-cat smacked Tigerpaw aside fiercely and ran after Tornpaw yowling at the tom as she passed, "Can't you do anything right?"

The speed of StarClan was on Tornpaw's side, she flew through the under brush and soared over a fallen tree trunk skidding to a halt in the camp clearing,

"Help!" She yowled, Thistlepaw, Crookedpaw, Brackenpaw, and Cinderpaw ran over to her with worried looks on their faces, a deep cut above the apprentices' eye made Thistlepaw wince,

"I need help! Rouges are attacking the patrol!"

Russetpelt, Ravenheart, Flameflash, Redfall, and Clearwind leapt to their paws and yowled in distress. Sunstar silenced them with a deep yowl.

"Russetpelt, Flameflash, Redfall, and Flashclaw go,"

While he was speaking the apprentices slipped off into the forest and headed towards the battle. The mountain lion colored she-cat leapt in front of them,

"Where do you think you're going?" She hissed, her head was low and her teeth were bared.

Thistlepaw didn't wait to speak, she unsheathed her thistle sharp claws and scored them across the she-cat's left eye, the she-cat let out a caterwaul in pain and surprise at how sharp this ten moon old apprentice's claws were.

"C'mon!" Thistlepaw yowled and sped through the under brush as if she knew where the battle was. They leapt out of the under brush and Thistlepaw let out the battle cry she'd heard Tigerclaw yowl in so many stories that Tailchaser had told her.

The leader of the rouges had Brokenstorm pinned to the ground and he raised his head opening his mouth to reveal large razor sharp teeth inside of his slavering jaws, he stopped suddenly, his ears pricked when he heard a young voice cry, "Remember me to StarClan!" Something razor sharp hit his back and bowled his over front wards. A blinding flash of dark tabby fur swept across his face followed by a spray of red. This apprentice had sliced his belly open. He stumbled on his paws and ran awkwardly into the forest. A loud thump sounded then there was silence. One cat padded into the under brush where the large tom had ran. He suddenly burst out yowling, "Soulglaive is dead!" The warriors Sunstar had sent came skidding to a halt in the clearing to find the battle over. Ravenheart heard the tom yowl and his eyes went wide, "Soulglaive…here in the forest?"

"This is bad!" Redfall cried,

Thistlepaw looked horrified as all the cats turned to her,

"You killed him." Cinderpaw mewed quietly,

"I didn't mean to…" She blurted. The ThunderClan cats let out a cheer and the rouges fled. As they padded back to camp Thistlepaw stared down at her now red paws. The fur was soaked with blood, the blood of a once terrible leader.

"I didn't mean to kill him," She said to herself, "Did I?"