Finchsong's point of view
" Ya I have something that I would like to say" Bayblossom meowed steeping up beside Bramblestar and Squirrelflight in front of the clearing.
Finchsong sat speechless what would Bayblossom want to say about Lilyheart she had never seen him talk to her for more then a minute.
" I'm leaving I can't take this any longer " Bayblossom announced his meow echoed throughout the dead silent air.
Without another word Bayblossom bounded past Bramblestar and out of the camp.
" Bayblossom get back here right now!" Dewnose practically hissed pushing his way out from the crowed chasing after his son.
" Bayblossom comeback! Bayblossom please!" Myrtleflower cried rushing past Finchsong after her brother.
All of Thunderclan sat there speechless about what had just happened what could anybody say after a performance like that.
" Well alright then" Squirrelflight finally broke the silence in that what the Dark Forest just happened? tone that's only used when something truly shocking happens.
" Would anyone else like to speak about Lilyheart before she is laid to rest" Squirrelflight meowed.
" I would like to" Brackenfur meowed from the back of the crowed making his way up front.
Finchsong sat starstruck not fully grasping what had just happened.
Brackenfur began speaking about his beloved daughter but Finchsong wasn't really paying attention to what the old tom was saying she doubted anybody was.
Then an idea came into Finchsong's mind the tortoiseshell she cat reacted on it before she could stop and think about the idea or even to ask her brother if wanted to join.
She was going to look for Bayblossom.
Slipping through the crowed Finchsong made a beeline for the log bridge off the island were she assumed Bayblossom would have went.
Applepaw's point of view
Applepaw rose from her sleeping position shaking the snow and dirt from her pale yellow tabby pelt.
The Windclan camp was quite in the morning mostly because Owlkit and Runningkit weren't awake yet and it was just the adults and apprentices awake right now.
Unfortunately for Applepaw the morning hunting patrol wouldn't be sent out for another half an hour.
To pass the time Applepaw decided to groom herself beside the camp wall.
" Hay Applepaw" Brindlewing greeted Applepaw.
Applepaw could tell from her voice that Brindlewing was excited by something.
" You sure sound excited about something"
" Applepaw your not gonna believe it!"
" What is it"
" Hootwhisker thanked me for helping with camp repairs!"
" That's it?"
" No then I asked him if he wanted to go on a hunting patrol later and he said yes!" Brindlewing practically squealed.
" Huh well go for you"
" Oh my Starclan did I hear you say something about Hootwhisker" Woodpaw blurted in the middle of her conversation with Songpaw.
" Smokehaze come quick you've got to he this" Woodpaw hollered before rushing over to gossip with her sisters.
Applepaw personally couldn't give a horses rear end about Brindlewing's aspiration to become mates with Hootwhisker maybe it was because she wasn't interested in having a mate anytime soon but of all toms in Windclan why did Brindlewing have to chose the tom who's whit was about as sharp as a rabbit's fur.
But then again from the snippets she heard about what Crowfeather and Breezepelt were like in there younger days maybe making questionable choses in love was a family thing.
Applepaw quietly slipped away from her sisters gossip to hopefully get some time to herself but was cornered by Songpaw.
" What was that all about?"
" Oh nothing just Hootwhisker agreed to go on a hunting patrol with Brindlewing"
" Oh my Starclan really! so are they like mates now?!"
" Oh Starclan no you know how dense Hootwhisker is"
" Well at least it gives the elders something to gossip about"
" True"
" I can't wait to tell everyone" Songpaw meowed in excitement.
" Songpaw can you please be quite just for my sisters sake"
" Alright fine" Songpaw resounded.
" Songpaw Applepaw can you come here" Crowfeather's meow cut the two apprentices of from there conversation.
" What is it Crowfeather?" Applepaw asked.
" Harestar wants you to go on patrol with him to Riverclan" Crowfeather responded.
" Ok " both apprentices responded.
" Good he want's you at the camp entrance" Crowfeather pointed to his left.
Applepaw and Songpaw bounded over to the camp entrance to join Harestar.
Starling's point of view
" Alright don't worry nothing's wrong here" Starling assured himself as the familiar streets near The Kin's base came into view.
They would buy his story he was captured by Skyclan and they wouldn't think he was hiding anything right?
" Hay?" a bright golden tabby hissed from an ally way.
He quickly realized the cat was Viper.
" Viper don't worry it's just me Starling"
" Starling!" Elephant cried out in joy rushing past Viper to greet Starling.
" Where were you we all thought you where dead"
" Well clearly I didn't die"
" You still didn't answer the question you were gone for a quarter of a moon" Viper approached glaring at Starling.
" I was captured by those Skyclan cats" Starling replied trying his hardest to sound angry about it.
" But thankfully I was able to get out of there camp in the night and now I'm here"
" Excellent it's always good to have more members in The Kin" Viper resounded.
" Follow us home" Viper signaled with her tail.
" It's so good to have you back me and Dragon really missed you"
" Yah I missed you guys every day I was stuck in the Skyclan camp"
Starling joined the rest of the patrol on there way back to the Kin Camp.
" Your never gonna believe who's at camp" Elephant meowed in an excited tone.
Well walking the rest of the patrol flooded him with question's.
" What was Skyclan like?" Fox asked
" If I was there prisoner I would have clawed there brains out" Xavier Commented.
" It must have been terrible" St John added.
" Has the camp changed in my absence?"
" We got a few more recruits" General replied roughly.
" Oh and Starling your not gonna believe who's in the camp now" Pancake meowed.
" Who?"
" Shadowmaw!" Elephant blurted out excitedly.
" What Shadowmaw the wolf!"
" Yes we were coming home from feeding him and he followed us back to camp he lives in that old Twoleg cage in camp" Viper explained.
" Were here" St John announced as the hole in the fence that marked the camps entrance came into view.
As Starling slipped through the camp entrance Starling felt extremally uneasy about the idea of sharing camp with a monster like Shadowmaw.
" Oh my Twoleg place is that Starling" Darkness meowed in surprise.
The black tom rushed over to greet his brother followed by one of his sister's Mint.
" Where were you bro I was worried sick"
" Long story short I was captured by Skyclan"
" You were captured by Skyclan" Starling heard his sister Mint meow in surprise.
" Yup thankfully I was able to get out" Starling responded.
" So anyways I heard Viper say something about Shadowmaw?"
" Oh ya you better show you that" Mint resounded.
" Follow me" Darkness pointed with his tail to the old Twoleg cage that sat at the very back of the camp.
" There he his Shadowmaw"
From the gloomy corners of the old Twoleg cage Starling could see the piercing dark yellow eyes of Shadowmaw peeking staring straight into Starling's soul.
Starling's fur stood straight on edge at the sight of the wolf no matter how much Sleekwhisker insisted Shadowmaw wouldn't eat them Starling would never feel safe around him.
Shadowmaw raised his hackles a low throaty growl rumbled from his throat.
" Sheesh he's looking pretty hungry" Mint commented.
" What!"
" Nah just messing with you Starling we feed him like an hour ago" Darkness laughed.
" So you guys have just had him here for a few days?"
" Yep he's gonna be a big help when we invade the clans tomorrow"
" Wait invading the clan's tomorrow?"
" Yup but this time it's gonna be Shadowclan, ThunderClan and Riverclan" Elephant resounded from behind Starling
Starling began to feel even more nervous from what he had scene the clans defiantly had the numbers to take The Kin on in a fight and wouldn't be able to get Shadowmaw between three clans that didn't even border each other.
" How are we gonna get Shadowmaw between those three clans"
" That's the neat part we don't" Darkness resounded.
" What?" now Starling was truly confused.
" Were only gonna send him to Thunderclan there the strongest clan if were able to defeat them it sends a message to the other clans"
Starling sat there as his friends explained the plan to him knowing full well he had to work against risking their life's in order to keep his own.
Applepaw's point of view
Applepaw and Songpaw walked along the Thunderpath headed for Riverclan.
The patrol consisting of Harestar, Crowfeather, Emberfoot, Sedgewhisker, Slightfoot, Featherpelt, and Fernstripe Applepaw and Songpaw approached the bridge heading across the river towards Riverclan's camp Applepaw could see Songpaw darting her eye's back and fourth between the ground and to Fernstripe.
Applepaw knew what she was thinking about.
Applepaw gave Songpaw a stern stair.
Songpaw staired back her pupils darting between her and Fernstripe.
" Songpaw don't you dare" Applepaw whispered.
"Look there's the Riverclan camp" Emberfoot pointed to over the bridge were the Riverclan camp was.
In the five seconds Applepaw looked away from Songpaw to Emberfoot the tortoiseshell apprentice turned to gossip into Fernstripe's ear.
" What really!?" Fernstripe meowed in shock.
Fernstripe then turned to to Featherpelt and whispered into her ear.
Applepaw watched in horror as the patrol proceeded to whisper into each other's ear until everybody knew about Brindlewing and Hootwhisker's potentially budding romance.
" Great going Songpaw" Applepaw growled.
" Sorry couldn't hold my tongue" Songpaw replied sheepishly.
" If Brindlewing ask's about this it's 100 percent on you"
" There's Windclan " Applepaw heard from the other side of the bridge.
" Yes it's Windclan Harestar replied.
At the other end of the bridge was a Riverclan patrol consisting of Softpelt, Nightsky, and Lizardtail.
" Brackenstar sent us here to escort you to Riverclan camp" Lizardtail meowed.
" Thank you please lead us there" Crowfeather responded.
" Gladly" Softpelt responded " Follow us"
The Windclan patrol followed the Riverclan patrol down the bridge towards the Riverclan camp just outside the camp Brackenstar, Icewing, Mothwing and Willowshine were waiting for them.
" Greeting's Harestar" Brackenstar greeted the Windclan leader huskily.
Applepaw could tell that something was off with Brackenstar the tortoiseshell she cat had large dark bags underneath her eyes her fur was matted and unkempt and held a general air of tired stress.
Applepaw couldn't blame her to go from an average warrior to leader of a clan would be a shock in the best of times let alone when The Kin threaten to destroy the clan you just got appointed to leading.
" So Brackenstar what did you want to talk about at the gathering?"
" We wanted to talk to you about The Kin"
" Yes what about The Kin"
" I'm sure you know that The Kin have been attacking the clan's left and right"
" Of course we have both of are clans have been attacked by The Kin"
" I think that it's apparent we need better security to avoid another attack"
" How do you propose that we do that?" Crowfeather asked.
" What we propose that the clan's need better commination" Icewing replied.
" The clans need to talk more often" the white she cat explained.
" We think if we open up a communication link between Riverclan and Windclan would only benefit be a benefit for both of us" Mothwing explained.
" How would you propose we go about that?"
" Simply having are patrols communicate anything of there findings to one another at the border would be a start" Brackenstar answered.
" have you talked to Shadowclan about this?" asked Emberfoot.
" We talked to Tigerstar about this yesterday and he's completely on board with the idea" Willowshine answered
" Well if Tigerstar and Shadowclan are on board with it then we at Windclan give are full support"
" Thank you Harestar we here at Riverclan will report anything suspicious that we find"
" We should get going don't want to keep are camp overly exposed for to long"
" Thank you for attending Harestar"
" You're welcome Brackenstar"
Finchsong's point of view
" Bayblossom! Bayblossom! " Finchsong cried out into the forest.
" Good Starclan how far could he have gone with a minute head start" Finchsong thought to herself as she padded through the snow ladened forest.
" let me think where would it make sense to for Bayblossom to go?"
" I got it check up by the abandon Twoleg nest" the thought pooped into her head as the tortoiseshell she cat bounded through the snow towards the abandoned Twoleg nest.
" Bayblossom! Bayblossom! were are you!" " Bayblossom! get back here right now!" Myrtleflower and Dewnose called out in the distance.
A sudden flash of gold in the tree's caught Finchsong's eyes there was only one thing that could be.
" Bayblossom! Bayblossom!"
The golden tabby and white tom kept on running deeper into the woods.
Finchsong bounded through the snow she could see Bayblossom getting closer and closer.
" Bayblossom please it's just me Finchsong"
The tom suddenly skidded to a stop in front of a large oak tree.
" Finchsong what are you doing here?" Bayblossom panted.
" What in the Dark Forest was all that back there?"
" Honestly Finchsong I don't even know what all of that was"
" Bayblossom! oh thank Starclan it's you" Myrtleflower appeared from behind Finchsong.
" Bayblossom you know that it's ok to tell us how your feeling right?" Myrtleflower whispered softly.
" Ya Bayblossom were your best friend and sister" Finchsong replied.
" Bayblossom! Bayblossom! get back here right now!" Dewnose's cry echoed throughout the forest.
Without warning Bayblossom rushed past Finchsong and Myrtleflower further into the forest.
" Bayblossom! you are in so much trouble when you get back!" Dewnose roared the gray and white tom's fluffy figure appeared in the tree line.
" Finchsong we have to get to my brother before are dad dose the last thing he needs right now is a verbal lashing " Myrtleflower shudder her pale brown pelt shaking in distress.
Finchsong nodded in agreement.
Without another word the two she-cats bounded into the snow after Bayblossom and not looking back.