Chapter 7
Crowpaw walked across camp, looking for Littlepaw. the small white tabby was nowhere in sight.
He spotted her mentor, Berrytail, talking with Leopardleap, while her kits run around jumping on each other. He padded up to the white she-cat. "Where is Littlepaw?" He questioned. The orange-tailed she-cat shrugged, "I don't know, I saw her going on a border patrol earlier." "Thanks anyway.." Crowpaw muttered as he padded away, looking around more. That's it! He ran out of camp, not caring who saw him.
He pelted through the forest, looking for Littlepaw, her familiar white and grey pelt. As he neared the Shadowclan border, he saw the reddish and blacked stripe pelt of the Shadowclan deputy, Antcloud. He heard him talking to some cat he didn't see, Crowpaw leaped out of the bushes as Antcloud turned around. Antcloud narrowed his eyes.
" Look who is a little stalker." He sneered as he stepped aside. Crowpaw's eyes widened. Lionpaw and Melodypaw, pinning Littlepaw to the ground, her pelt stained red.
"Let go of her!" he screeched as he leaped for Antcloud's throat. Antcloud leaped into the air and grabbed Crowpaw and whispered in his ear ,"Too slow, kittypet.", as he flung him into a tree. Crowpaw heard the tree crack as he was thrown into it. Crowpaw was still awake, but he was stunned from the blow. "Crowpaw..." Littlepaw whispered. He wanted to respond, but he couldn't, he just lie there, helpless. "Crowpaw.." she croaked. "How dare you, you Shadowclan flea-pelts!" She screeched as she threw off both Lionpaw and Melodypaw and kicked them into a tree. She lunged toward Antcloud, tripping him with her paws and pinning him down, raking her back claws into his side, and biting his face, seeming like she was trying to spill as much blood as possible. Lionpaw, who was just out of the nursery, and bigger than her, tried to bowl her over, but she grabbed his back leg in her teeth, right on the muscle. "I can permanently destroy your leg if I wish, now pick up my friend and take him back to our camp, or I won't think twice..." She dug her teeth slowly into Lionpaw's leg, making him squeal like a kit caught in a river. She released Antcloud but kept her teeth sunk into his apprentice's leg. Melodypaw tried to claw Littlepaw but her brother glared at her to back off. Antcloud picked up Crowpaw and carried him over the border and into Thunderclan's territory.
Crowpaw was still stunned and confused by the time they all got to the Thunderclan camp. "Another one!? Another clan at our camp entrance!? Has Shadowclan gotten beaten too?" Cats were murmuring to each other as Lionstar padded up to them. "What is your purpose here, Antcloud?" Lionstar growled. Littlepaw dug her teeth into Lionpaw's leg then said " Crowpaw and I found these three on our territory and they fought us and hurt Crowpaw." Lionstar narrowed his eyes. "Rainywind." Lionstar called. The she-cat walked over with Firepaw behind. " Yes, Lionstar?" She asked while she glared at Antcloud. " Take these three to the extra den until the gathering in a moon." He didn't take his eyes off the Shadowclan deputy. "Of course, Lionstar. Come this way, and out the apprentice down." She showed them to the extra den, across camp, and cats were all glaring at them. Leopardleap shoved Olivekit, Grasskit and Mintkit into the nursery, while watching the Shadowclan cats. Volepaw rushed over to Littlepaw and Crowpaw, carrying a wad of herbs and cobwebs. She placed them down and separated them while Hollyeyes was watching, making sure she didn't mess up. Volepaw took some herbs and chewed them up into a poultice and put them on Littlepaw's wounds. Volepaw stepped away and looked at Crowpaw. "Hey, what happened?" She asked. Crowpaw was still too dizzy to respond. Volepaw sighed and dove into his mind so she could figure out the facts. What happened to you? she pressed him. Antcloud threw me into a tree... and he splintered it with my body... Crowpaw said, slowly. Well, that is quite strange that you didn't die.. or that you at least didn't get any wounds. Crowpaw sighed. I am so tired... he croaked. Volepaw went out of his mind and picked him up, And took him to the medicine cat's den.