Firestar turned off his laptop and walked out of his den. He stood on the Highledge just as Leafpool ran from the medicine cat's cave trailing leaves behind her.
"NOO! No more high-speed internet access!" she screamed, crashing into Thornclaw. He stared at her for a moment and then yowled.
Brambleclaw walked across camp as Thornclaw ran away from Leafpool, who had burst into tears. "What do you mean, Leafpool? Is it that thing about you missing the dream?"
"Yeah," sobbed Leafpool. "But… I don't want any cat to know that it's my fault. They'll all kill me."
"I'm sure they won't," Sandstorm meowed, padding over to her. "They won't kill you, just injure you so badly that you'll be scarred for life."
"Thanks," Leafpool mewed, rubbing her eyes with a paw.
Firestar looked around hoping that no other cats had figured out that Leafpool had failed them all. He had just relaxed, but then suddenly Lionpaw ran from the apprentices' den.
"Hi Leafpool? Why are you crying? Are you crying because of the-."
"Shut up!' hissed Brambleclaw, but Lionpaw ignored him.
"-because of the dream that you missed, so that Bluestar didn't give you high-speed internet access and ThunderClan will be destroyed because we don't have a fast enough connection?" He stared at her with wide eyes.
"AHH! THEY ALL KNOW!!!" Leafpool yelled as cats turned to glare angrily at her.
Cloudtail spun around to face her growled. "It's all your fault, Leafpool!"
"I know," whimpered the medicine cat. "It's all because of me. I've failed my Clan and my duty as a medicine cat!" She lay back and curled up into a ball.
Lionpaw bounced up and down again, enjoying this attention. "Yeah, and Mothwing missed it too, because she doesn't believe in StarClan!" he blurted out.
There was absolute silence that could have lasted for a moon. Actually it lasted one minute and fourteen seconds, because Firestar checked it on his new Official Digital ThunderClan watch as he waited for some cat to speak.
"What did you say?" Squirrelflight asked, appearing randomly from the thorn tunnel and breaking the quietness.
"Mothwing doesn't believe in StarClan!" Ferncloud wailed, making Icekit and Foxkit scream and run in circles around the camp.
Firestar leaped up so all of the cats could hear him. "Now we must go to RiverClan and tell Leopardstar!" he yowled.
"No!" yelled Leafpool, sitting up. "It's not Mothwing's fault!" But they all ignored her.
Hollypaw, Honeypaw and Poppypaw started chanting, and the cats grouped into a large patrol that marched out of camp leaving Leafpool curled up on the ground. Lionpaw stayed too, jumped around Leafpool shouting, "Yeah, we won't have as good internet access as ShadowClan or WindClan!" which made Leafpool start crying again.
Firestar checked his watch once more as they entered the RiverClan camp. "IT TOOK A WHOLE TWENTY-FOUR MINUTES AND FIFTY-SEVEN SECOND TO GET HERE, YOU LOUSY CATS! YOU NEED TO MOVE FASTER!!" he shouted, forgetting that he had been at the head of the patrol and they had all gone at his speed.
"Yeah, faster like we need faster internet access!" piped up a voice, and in the middle of the group Brightheart turned to see Lionpaw following them into the camp.
"Lionpaw, go away!" she shrieked.
"Now we should tell RiverClan that their medicine cat doesn't believe in StarClan1" Firestar yelled, not paying any attention to Lionpaw and Brightheart, who were arguing loudly. He turned and stalked around the rival Clan's camp but no cats were there.
Firestar hissed. "RiverClan has been kidnapped! Look for clues!" He grabbed a magnifying glass that mysteriously appeared and starting inspecting the ground. Then after a minute he screeched. "Look! If you tilt it like this you can let things on fire!" He turned the magnifying glass towards the sun and focused the rays onto a branch, which smoldered.
Brambleclaw stepped forward. "I don't think that you should do that, Firestar," he said, pushing the leader away from the burning branch. "I thought you knew about fire safety when you're in a forest."
Firestar complained and looked put out. "Then how are we ever going to find RiverClan?" he grumbled.
"Follow the scent trail?" suggested Sorreltail.
Firestar glared at her because she had a better idea than he did. "Fine, if we must." Stubbornly he sniffed the air. "Hey, wait – you're right, the scent leads over here!" He bounded off toward the lake.
The patrol followed him, and he was waiting by the lake when they stopped.
"THAT TOOK A WHOLE THIRTEEN SECONDS!!" he criticized.
"Look over there!" exclaimed Lionpaw suddenly, ignoring his leader's disapproving look, and he jumped up while pointing to the lake.
The RiverClan cats were swimming in the glistening stretch of water. Some were lounging on inflatable rafts and drinking sodas, while others were having swimming races and catching fish.
"Hiiiiiiiii Firestar!" shouted Leopardstar, bursting out of the water in front of the rusty-colored tom. "Have to come to swim?"
"No! RiverClan has been kidnapped! Do you know where they are?"
Leopardstar thought for a minute. "Hmmm… I'm not sure. Let me check." She dived back into the lake and swam up to her Clan. Mistyfoot, Leopardstar's deputy, muttered to her leader and Leopardstar went back to the ThunderClan cats lazily.
"Yeah, I think RiverClan is over there," she mewed, pointing to the cats on the rafts and the ones swimming.
"ThunderClan! We must save them!" yowled Firestar, and plunged into the water. The patrol watched as he struggled out again, shivering. "Whoa, that's really cold!" He shivered.
Leopardstar blinked in confusion, then her eyes brightened. "Oh, want to see something really funny?" Without waiting for an answer she sneaked up to an inflatable raft where three cats were eating sandwiches and poke the side with a claw. The air hissed out of the raft and the cats fell screeching into the lake.
Leopardstar swam back to the ThunderClan warriors. "See? Isn't that funny?"
"Shouldn't you help them?" asked Thornclaw.
"Help who?"
"Those cats."
"What cats?" Leopardstar cocked her head to one side.
Thornclaw sighed. "Never mind."
Suddenly Firestar remember why they were in RiverClan territory in the first place. "Leopardstar1 I bring grave news!" he growled.
"What?" Leopardstar stopped grinning. "Grave news?"
"Yes." Firestar paused dramatically. "Mothwing doesn't believe in StarClan."
"Oh, that." Leopardstar waved a paw in the air. "We already knew that. Is that all you had to say?"
Firestar looked confused. "Uh… well…"
"Oh, and RiverClan will fall from lack of fast information!" Lionpaw yelled, darting up to sit by Leopardstar. But she wasn't listening anymore. The RiverClan leader had gone back into the lake.
Firestar gave up and the patrol went back to ThunderClan. And overall, no one got anything accomplished and it was just another random day.
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