I KNEW IT! I knew getting a review would motivate me! :) For those that are reading and not reviewing REVIEW PLEASE! And yes, Nightpaw and Redpaw didn't get to finish their assessment. :( This chapter will be from Thunderclan and Windclan's point of view.
"You're finished," a silver-brown tom mewed, padding over to his former apprentice and her littermate. "Go and get some rest."
"Thanks Birchfoot," mewed Dawnstorm gratefully. She gave a huge yawn and began padding to the warriors den with her brother, Flamepaw, now Flameheart, in silence; they were both too exhausted to speak. Birchfoot watched them go, then turned his attention to Moonglow, the Thunderclan deputy, who was padding over to him.
"I want you to eat now," she meowed, "because I'd like you to lead the morning patrol."
Birchfoot dipped his head. "Whom shall I take with me?" he mewed.
"Take whoever's already eaten," the black she-cat replied, padding away. Birchfoot called Thornpelt and Silverpaw over.
"Border patrol?" Thornpelt mewed. "Alright then."
The three cats set off along Windclan's border first. When they stopped to mark the borders, Silverpaw noticed a big rabbit grazing on their territory.
"I'm going to catch that!" she announced, crouching low. The toms watched her as she sprang after the rabbit, chasing it all the way to the other side of the border.
"No! Silverpaw!" her mentor cried. "Come back!"
Silverpaw couldn't hear him; she ran too far away. Leaping on top of the rabbit, she killed it with a quick bite to the neck. "I got it!" she shouted back, picking up the prey. She started to walk back to the patrol, but a big white Windclan tom stood in her way.
"Well, well," he mewed as two more Windclan cats came over to him. "What do we have here? It looks like a couple of Thunderclan thieves."
"The rabbit was on our side of the border," Thornpelt mewed firmly, beckoning his apprentice with his tail.
"But it ran into our territory," the ginger apprentice mewed. "Wouldn't that make it our prey?"
"Precisely," the tom mewed, his claws unsheathing. Silverpaw took a step back and dropped the rabbit. Then she ran back over the border to her clanmates.
"There!" she meowed. "Have your silly rabbit then!"
The cats turned around, claws unsheathed and crouching low. "Not before we teach you a lesson!" Doveflight spat, throwing himself at Thornpelt.
"We're under attack!" Goldenpaw shrieked as she ran into camp. Warriors looked up from their meals and queens drew their kits closer.
"Where?" Lostfoot meowed, limping out with support from Ruffledfur.
"At the border," her daughter replied. "Doveflight and Sandpelt are fighting them right now!"
"And they sent you back for help?" remarked Ravenstar, who was emerging from her den. "How hard can it be to push off a few intruders?"
"It's more than a few intruders!" the ginger she-cat's tail was fluffed with fear. "Even Swiftstar is there!"
"Swiftstar?" Ravenstar exclaimed, then yowled, "Dapplepool, Dirtsnarl, Cloudshine, Crimsonclaw and Sprucepaw, follow me to the border! Every one else stay and guard the camp!" and with that, Ravenstar, her chosen cats and Goldenpaw dashed out to the border to help their clanmates.
Birchfoot threw Sandpelt off of Silverpaw, hissing. Then he and the silver apprentice leaped forward and pinned her down. They gave her a few scratches before they let her go running back to camp. He flicked his tail angrily as he saw Windclan warriors running right at them.
'All of this over a piece of fresh-kill?' he growled to himself. 'What have we come to?'
Dirtsnarl launched himself at Birchfoot, who was knocked over in surprise. "You'll never steal from us again!" he snarled. The Windclan cats managed to overpower Thunderclan, hissing and swiping at them until Thunderclan was back on its side of the border. Ravenstar flicked her tail, and her warriors sat down, licking the blood off their pelts. Then Swiftstar stepped forward.
"That rabbit was rightfully ours!" she growled. "You cannot accuse us of stealing from you again!"
"Whether or not the rabbit was yours is beside the point," Ravenstar replied calmly.
"Then what is the point?"
"The point is that your clan must be desperately weak to start a war between our clans over a piece of fresh-kill."
"Your cats attacked mine," Swiftstar spat. "If anyone is desperate, it's you! You blame your lack of prey on us, when we never cross the border!"
"You crossed today," Goldenpaw mewed curtly. "We were just defending our borders."
Ravenstar flicked her tail in warning, and the ginger apprentice fell silent. Then she walked over to the rabbit that Silverpaw caught earlier, padded over to Thunderclan, and dropped it at Swiftstar's paws.
"Keep it," Ravenstar mewed. "I do not wish to lose any cats over a quarrel as small as this." Then she flicked her tail once more, and the Windclan cats returned home. Silverpaw picked up the rabbit, and the Thunderclan cats returned to their camp, with Birchfoot looking back over his shoulder the whole way. 'What have we come to?' he wondered again, shaking his head in dismay.
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