The bees were all over the sky now. The sunlight which usually lit up the floor was covered in a way you couldn't imagine.
"Great StarClan!" Windfur murmured. The group came back to camp alright, and he alerted Leafstar right away.
"Windfur," the leader meowed. "Tell me. How many bees are there… in the sky?" She gazed upwards.
"It looks like six colonies… but how? Just this morning it was one!" He ended his sentence in a pitiful yowl of fear and confusion.
"I have no idea, but I guess the bees are reproducing faster then we think."
"That can't be!" Windfur protested. "All those bees are fully grown. Even a bee can't grow that fast!"
"That's true." Leafstar seemed troubled.
Waterpaw stared at them both, her head tilted to one side. "Are you guys talking about the bees?"
"Yes. The whole sky is covered." Windfur meowed solemnly.
"Oh…" Waterpaw stared into space for a second or two. "What will we do then?"
"I don't-" Windfur stopped as Mapleclaw padded over to them.
"Leafstar," he hissed urgently. "The Twoleg nests are all empty. Every single one left the forest!"
"What?" Leafstar exclaimed. "Even Twolegs do things for a good reason. Is it because of the bees? Is it that serious that they had to leave?"
"I can think of no other reason, Leafstar." he meowed.
"Then we must act. Go patrol the border, check for Twolegs… anything. We must make sure."
"I saw the Twoleg nests smothered in honey." Mapleclaw added. That made Leafstar's fur stand on end.
Waterpaw stood up and padded over to her leader. "It's ok, Leafstar! If anything bad happens, then at least we'll have honey!"
Windfur shook his head. "Your optimism will be respected, but not now."
His apprentice frowned. "Fine. The we're all going to die! The bees will take over the forest and we can't do anything because we are defenseless to the sticky floor and stinging bees in the sky! All the Clans will perish to the power of the bees and their stingers of death and woe!"
"Ok… stick with the optimism." Windfur decided.
"I knew you'll see things my way." Waterpaw said, smiling.