It had been a few moons since the cats had found there new home. Much was the same but Graystripe was still missing. In a way Brambleclaw was the new Deputy, but Firestar would never admit it. "Fancy going hunting with me" Brambleclaw asked Squirrelflight. "Can't Firestar has some big announcement for the clan."Brambleclaw knew that wasn't true she just couldn't stand him or his half-brother anymore. Just as she finished speaking Firestar walked over to them "Brambleclaw can I have a word with you" asked Firestar. Slightly confused he walked away with Firestar. "Birchkit is ready to be apprenticed and I think you should be his mentor," said Firestar. "Sure why not" he replied. Firestar walked away, for some reason Brambleclaw was staring at the nursery out walked Sorreltail she was going to have kits soon. "If your done staring at the sky you can join us on a patrol" said an outside voice. Brambleclaw looked over to see Cloudtail and Brightheart. Only Cloudtail would have made a comment like that. "Sure" replied.
"Lets take WindClan border first," suggested Brightheart. "Then we should head for ShadowClan, StarClan only knows what they could be up to" added Cloudtail. Brambleclaw nodded in agreement. Not long ago ShadowClan attacked WindClan. The only good thing in that battle was that Tawnypelt didn't have to fight. When they reached WindClan border the saw a WindClan patrol, on the patrol was Crowfeather, Owlpaw, and the new leader Onestar. "Hey Crowfeather how's prey running?" asked Brambleclaw "Really good." Said Crowfeather. "Brambleclaw come on," shouted Cloudtail. " I better go bye," Brambleclaw said running to join his Clan mates.
When they got back to camp Firestar was ready to start the apprentice ceremony. "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey come here to high rock" Shouted Firestar. "Firestar you said it wrong," whispered Cinderpelt. But Firestar just went on."Brambleclaw you will mentor Birchpaw" Said Firestar. "We'll start tomorrow at Sunhigh" Brambleclaw Said to his new apprentice. All of the sudden Brambleclaw felt something brush up against his flank he looked over to see Squirrelflight. "I wanted to be the first to congratulate you" said Squirrelflight. "Thank you, do you want to come with us on patrol tomorrow" asked Brambleclaw. "Sorry can't I'm going on patrol with Ashfur and Thronclaw" Replied Squirrelflight
Brambleclaw couldn't help but envy Ashfur he remembered all the good times he used to spend with Squirrelflight. That night he couldn't sleep all he could think about was not being with Squirrelflight. Brambleclaw decided to step outside for a while when he saw Leafpool leaving camp. He decided to follow her She went all the way to the edge of ThunderClan Territory. At the edge he saw another cat Brambleclaw immediately recognized the cat it was Crowfeather. Shocked he didn't even hear another cat come up behind him.
The cat was Hawkfrost "Come with me" he meowed. Brambleclaw followed him they arrived at the island were they met up with some other cats there was Webfoot, Nightcloud, Blackclaw, Oakfur and some other cats Brambleclaw didn't recognize. "You all know why were here" meowed Hawkfrost, "Yes" the cats replied back. Brambleclaw sat there looking puzzled he had know idea why they were there. "To take over the forest," Hawkfrost whispered in Brambleclaw's ear. Then he knew that Squirrelflight had been right all along.
Brambleclaw darted off the island and headed straight for ThunderClan camp. It was dawn by the time he arrived there and all the cats were looking at him like he had bees in his head. Birchpaw padded up to him "I'm ready to go on patrol" Meowed his apprentice. "No time where's Squirrelflight?" asked Brambleclaw. "She in her den" replied Birchpaw. Brambleclaw raced toward the warrior's den. "Squirrelflight" Cried Brambleclaw "What" hissed Squirrelflight "You were right all along Hawkfrost is evil and can not be trusted, I should have listened to you and I'm sorry" Meowed Brambleclaw. " I accept your apology but why do you believe me now?" Asked Squirrelflight "Because last night I couldn't sleep all I could think about was you and Ashfur and how much I hated you not speaking to me. So I left my den ad I saw Leafpool leaving camp so I decided to follow her, I followed her to the edge of are territory and saw she was meeting Crowfeather. Then Hawkfrost came up to and asked me to follow him and I did he was meeting some other cats. Then they said something about ruing the forest and that was there waster plan so I ran back her to camp to tell you all of this" Said Brambleclaw running out of breath.