Chapter 7
Silence filled the busy clearing imediatly, leaving just the sound of birds chirping off in the distance. Dustpelt who was depostiting his fresh kill had stopped, a mouse still dangiling from his jaws. Leafpool had stopped mid way talking, her mouth still open as she talked to Rainwhisker, who's eyes were round with shook and disbeleaf.
"what?" Sandstorm demanded, her horrified meow filling the clearing. " How? " She shouted, disbeleaf in her voice as her whiskers quivered. " He got caught in a fox trap, I supose it took all of his lives. " Brambleclaw said, looking at his paws sadly. ' starclan make them beleave I'm sad. ' He preyed to starclan.
Leafpool and her sister Squirrelflight rushed to there mothers side for comfort. " where?" The medician cat asked, voice quiviring." Near shadowclan boarer. " Brambleclaw replied sadly, looking at the camp that was frozen shook and disbelief. The camp was heavy with sadness as the breeze shook the leaves upon the trees above there heads, birds chirping in the trees.
Nobody replied, as they were still taking in the shocking fact that there leader had been killed by a trap set from the twolegs, made for a fox, but had killed there leader instead. As he looked around the clearing, he swore he could still see the leaders face, filled with hope that Brambleclaw had done the right thing. ' I did do the right thing. ' He thought to himself, forcing him to believe it, but sill, something didn't feel right about the thought that he murdered his leader.
He jerked his head towards the thorn barrier as leaves rustled, distracting him from his thoughts. He quickly recognized his fellow clan mate Spiderleg casually walking in with two mice dangling from his jaws. He seemed to notice everyone gathered together right away, because he placed his catch at his paws and gave a questioning look at all the cats with round sad eyes. He opened his jaws, but Brambleclaw saved his breath by saying " Firestar was caught in a fox trap, and it took away all of his lives. " Brambleclaw meowed casually, hating himself for sounding happy. Luckily, no one seemed to notice, to distracted at the news. Spiderlegs eyes grew round, then dipped his head. " He was a great leader. " He said, before turning away to drop off his prey to the almost empty pile.
He looked around camp, expecting someone to say something, but nothing except breaths escaped there mouths. " Squirrelflight, Cloudtail, come with me, we're going to get Firestar. " He said, signaling his tail for the cats to follow as he exited the camp. He looked back at Squirrelflight, and he could tell she didn't want to carry her dead father back to camp.
He turned his head forwards again, looking through the bright green forest, sun shining brightly through the leaves. He heard footsteps following him, but didn't look bak, just kept going through the green forest, the sky clear and beams of light shining against the hot ground. He looked down at his paws, and just kept going, trusting his paws to carry him through the forest. So many thoughts were racing through his mind so fast he couldn't even tell what he was thinking.
His clan mates walked beside him, not saying a word, but just walking through the forest, there faces unreadable. He looked back down at his paws as the walked through the lush, green grass, unlike the grass from the dark forest he had visited last night. As he kept walking, he heard the foot steps of his clan mates stop dead. He looked up from his paws and looked back at them confused. He was taken aback by the horror on there faces. As he looked forward, he knew the exact reason of the looks on there faces. ' I took the wrong path! ' He thought horrified as he saw the lifeless, unmoving and bloodstained body of Birchpaw.