Chapter 7- Taking Back

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Ripplestar stopped at the edge of the ThunderPath, his patrol of Lepordspots, Ebonyfur, Ivoryheart, Scarpaw, Moonlight, Thornpaw, Bluepaw and Whitepaw. Ripplestar crossed first, padding cautiously across the hard surface. The cats went in a line and Bluepaw went last. She stepped on the cold concrete of the Thunder Path. She padded forward and a monster started coming up fast. Her heart pounding, she jumped back and it zipped by. She, more carefully, started crossing again. She was about halfway there and, yet again, a monster approached. Just before it came forward and hit her she jumped to the edge of the path.

The patrol padded along, racing into ShadowClan. When they reached the edge of the camp, Ripplestar gave quiet orders.

"We wait for a few minutes. Soon it will be dark. Just before it is time to send out a patrol, we attack."

The cats sat and waited until the moon was high in the sky. Most cats would be sleeping at this point and just before a patrol went out, the ThunderClan cats burst into the ShadowClan camp.

Ripplestar gave a fierce battle cry and the cats started attacking. Bluepaw leaped from behind onto an apprentice named Foxpaw. The cat pushed and fought but Bluepaw held him down. Bluepaw started clawing his back, giving him some scratches to think about. Foxpaw limped away and Bluepaw saw Whitepaw struggling to hold down another apprentice called Russetpaw.

Bluepaw jumped onto Russetpaw and told Whitepaw that she had it handled. Whitepaw stalked off, looking like he was somewhat mad. What had Bluepaw done? She didn't have time to think about it now though.

She started running across the camp when she lost her balance fell. She was in a ditch. Right next to her was Sunshine. She was ragged and scrawny. Her fur was dull and thin and her bones were starting to show. The bright fire that once was ablaze in her eyes was starting to die down. All in all, Sunshine looked tired.

All the same, Bluepaw gave a squeal of exictment. She ran up to her and they touched noses.

For the first time since she was there, Sunshine smiled. She was so happy to see her apprentice alive!

"Come on!" Bluepaw hissed. She started scrabbling up the ditch. Her paws slipped and she fell right back down.

"No use." Said Sunshine. "Its to wet. The only way to get out of this tiny ditch is to have a cat pull us out."

"RIPPLESTAR" Bluepaw started calling.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Sunshine said.

"Getting someone to come get us." Bluepaw replied. She picked up some mud and threw it as high as she could in the air, hoping a cat would see it.

"ANYONE? RIPPLESTAR? LEPORDSPOTS? MOONLIGHT?" She screamed at the top of her lungs.

After what seemed like forever, Ebonyfur came running up.

"Help us up!" Sunshine said.

"right.." Ebonyfur said. He leaned down a paw and Sunshine went first. She scrabbled across the wall when, finally she was out of the muddy hole.

"Come on Bluepaw!" Ebonyfur said.

"Coming!" Bluepaw said and started scrabbling up the side with Ebonyfur's paw. At last she was out of the ditch and the three cats burst into battle.

"THUNDERCLAN RETREAT! WE HAVE SUNSHINE BACK!"

''RIPPLESTAR ARE YOU CRAZY!" Yelled Moonlight. "WE'RE WINNING!"

"Still!" Ripplestar said. "All we wanted was Sunshine. Could you really hurt these cats any more than they're hurt now?" He asked.

"I agree!" put in Sunshine. "I don't care what they did to me. This is the way it is."

"And as of now, SnakeRocks is ours. ShadowClan have seen what we can do to them, so I'm taking the SnakeRocks back."

And with that, Ripplestar took off back towards ThunderClan territory, the ThunderClan patrol trailing behind.