As the moon began to fall, Shadestar yowled for her clan to leave. Rainstar and Cinderstar followed moments later. The Thunderclan cats gathered together, and Darkheart turned to Nightpaw, who was talking with Owlpaw.
"How was your first gathering?" he mewed.
"It was great!" Nightpaw mewed. Owlpaw nodded.
"The best part was Barkstar got humiliated." Darkheart turned around to see Sageleaf behind him.
"How sweet it was." Rockfall, who was behind them mewed.
"Just remember," Darkheart mewed to Nightpaw, "don't expect every gathering to be like that. At the gathering before this one, blood was shed."
The warriors around them nodded. The cats were about halfway back to camp when Shadestar stopped short. She raised her tail. Darkheart heard her hiss a single word, "Fox."
Darkheart looked around, but he didn't see a fox anywhere. "There's a burrow over there!" Owlpaw mewed from behind. The clan turned to where she was looking. There was a hole there.
Stonecloud and Rockfall walked over to the hole in the ground to see if there was a fox inside. Rockfall looked in then turned around and nodded. Shadestar then mewed, "This is the ideal time to drive it out of our territory. Rockfall, lure it out, then, we will chase it out of our territory."
Rockfall went inside, and emerged moments later. The fox followed him out. Shadestar yowled, and the group of cats ran after the fox, all the way to the Riverclan border.
"Darkheart and Sageleaf, go destroy the den." Shadestar mewed.
Darkheart turned back to the den, and Sageleaf followed him. "Let's jump on it until it collapses." Sageleaf mewed.
Darkheart looked at him like he was crazy, but went along with it. The den fell in after a few jumps. They then caught up with the patrol.
"That was fast." Shrewfur mewed.
"It was a weak den." Sageleaf answered.
Upon returning to camp, Darkheart saw Longfur stood guard. The group of cats walked past her into their dens.
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It was almost past sunrise when Darkheart awoke. Longfur has entered the den and had found a spot in between him and Shrewfur, who was curled up with Bluetail.
Shadestar then gave her call, "Let all those who are old enough to catch their own prey gather beneath the high rock for a clan meeting!"
The warrior's den stirred, as the cats got up and padded out into camp, to see Shadestar was standing on top of the high rock. As soon as the cats had gathered, she began, "Last nights gathering had little of interest. Oaktail of Windclan died of Greencough, and Shadowclan has some new warriors and apprentices. Aside from that, the only thing that happened was Barkstar trying to get the other clans to attack us again, but his plan didn't work." The leader paused, and then mewed, "Tinyberry has had her kits. Their names are Spottedkit and Barkkit."
The clan chanted, "Spottedkit! Barkkit! Spottedkit! Barkkit!"
"That is all." The leader mewed, jumping down from the high rock.
Darkheart looked around for Owlpaw. He saw her going towards the elder's den. "Not today." He mewed.
The apprentice turned around. "What?" she looked confused.
"Have Lionpaw or Nightpaw do that. Today we start battle practice."
The apprentice suddenly looked excited. "Really?" she mewed.
Darkheart nodded. "Follow me to the training hollow." He mewed.