Badgerstar had called over his most loyal cats in the clan to his den.
"Mollystep, Fang, Wolf...you are the cats that I can truely trust in this clan. I give you these collars, as a sign of your loyalty."
Mollystep nodded, and saw the two collars on the ground.
"This silver one is for you, Mollystep. You are my deputy, after all."
Badgerstar watched with pride as Fang helped to put the collar around Mollystep's neck. The dog teeth on the collar seemed to be clean and shined in the early morning light reaching the camp.
"This blue one is for you, Wolf. If anything were to happen to Mollystep, I know that you would be a great deputy."
Wolf nodded, and once more Fang helped. Within a few heartbeats the blue collar with dog teeth was around Wolf's neck.
"But what about me?" Fang cried.
Badgerstar stood up, and revealed a pile of dog teeth. One by one he put them into her purple collar.
"Why you had this collar before you joined our clan no longer matters. Even if you were a kittypet in the past."
He looked at the three cats in front of him.
"From now on, you all must report any cat that you believe is not loyal to our clan. The journey will be long, and we must be able to stay together."
They all nodded in agreement.
A few heartbeats later, Badgerstar called his clan to begin a clan meeting.
These words were said once before in the Dark Forest...and those words will work. I just have to change a few words...
"Let all cats old enough to fight and defend against our enemies gather to hear my words!"
Mollystep, Wolf, and Fang stood proudly behind Badgerstar as the BloodClan cats quickly gathered in front of them, where a tall blue dumpster stood.
"Cats of BloodClan, this may be the place where Scourge began his clan...but he was right when he wanted to take over the forest and twolegplace. However, since that time, the forest has been destroyed. There is another place that we can go...and that is where the clans are right now!"
Yowls of approval came from the crowd.
"But where is this place?" Mittens asked, "If the clans are gone now, then where would they be?"
"Tigerstar knows where it is. They are at the lake now. It's far from here, but to get there...we need to travel through twolegplace."
"Why go to the lake when there's another place to go? When my apprentice left us...she said she would probably live at the farm. She mentioned that there's lots of mice there."
"We are going where I say we go, and that is final!"
With a flick of his tail at her, Wolf and Fang pounced. Mittens screamed in pain as they dug into her left ear.
"Enough! She's learned her lesson." Badgerstar said.
As Fang and Wolf walked away from Mittens, she gasped for breath. Blood dripped onto the ground from her scratched ear.
"One day, StarClan will show you that what you're doing is wrong. And when that day comes, you will regret it."
"Mittens is not to be trusted by anyone, and anyone is free to take her prey."
"But-"
Wolf and and Fang growled at her, showing their teeth. Mittens quickly flicked her tail and start to walk near an empty spot in the warriors' den.
Badgerstar leaped down from the tall blue dumpster, with his tail in a erect position waving from side to side.
"We're leaving now, Mittens. Follow."