Chapter 2
Brambleclaw awoke in his nest. He blinked his sleepy eyes open. He looked around the den, the only cat in there was Cloudtaill, his snowy white pelt slightly lifting, then falling.
As he got up, he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. He looked to see his shoulder stained with dry blood. He began to lick his shoulder, getting the blood stain out.
As he got up, his mussels were crying for him to lay back down.
'I hate the dark forest.' He thought to himself. He hated how whatever injury you got in the dark forest came into the whacking world.
As he walked out of the den, a beam of sunlight blinded him. He squinted his eyes, as he looked up at the sky. The sun was shining brightly, warming his pelt as he stood there, and not a single cloud in the sky. Green leaf is certainly on its way.
"Brambleclaw!" He heard his name being called as Sandstorm padded up to him. He dipped his head at the pale ginger she-cat's approach. "greetings, Sandstrom. What can I do for you?"
"The fresh kill pile is empty, Birchpaw just gave the last of it to the elders." She said looking worriedly. "this has been the worst new leaf yet." She said disappointedly. "Don't worry, Green leaf is certainly on its way." He said, feeling the warm breeze on his pelt.
"Ok. Take a hunting patrol near the old twoleg nests. There has been much more prey there lately. You lead it, and take Brightheart, Thornclaw and Brakenfur with you." He said, seeing that Thornclaw was in camp, and he figured Brakenfur was in the nursery checking on Sorreltail.
"Brakenfur is out training Whitepaw." Sandstorm said to him, twitching her tail impatiently.
"oh, ok." Brambleclaw said, remembering CLoudtail still sleeping. "Take Cloudtail with you. He's still in the warriors den sleeping." Sandstrom padded to the warriors den to wake up Cloudtail.
He was hungry, as he could hear his stomach growling, but, as Sandstorm had said, the prey was all gone.
He looked at the sky; it was almost sunhigh. He better gets going to meet up with Hawkfrost.
He began running towards the boarder. As he got closer, he stopped. He was almost at the border, but he heard a rustling in the bushes in front of him, but he couldn`t see anything on the other side.
He sniffed the air, he smelt thunderclan, a thunderclan cat, and he also smelt riverclan. "oh no!" He raced forwards, as he came in ear shot, he heard the familiar voice of Firestar saying "Please, help me, please." He was choking as he said it.
As he ran, he finally saw his leaders pelt, as he came closer, he froze in absolute horror. He tried to move, but he couldn't. "Firestar!" He screamed in a panic stricken voice. His leader was caught in a fox trap, and it was around his neck!