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Before the new chapter, I realized just now that I had accidentally skipped a chapter before "Punishment." So right now, I just deleted "Punishment" and I will post it again right after I post this chapter. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Chapter 12

It was time to tell Wrenstar the truth about Eagleclaw. Sagepaw walked out of the medicine den to find Tigerstripe. She found him waiting outside of the warriors den while cleaning himself. Sagepaw walked over to him.

"Tigerstripe, are you ready?" Sagepaw asked.

"Yup. Let's go" Tigerstripe replied. And with that, Sagepaw and Tigerstripe started to walk over to Wrenstar's den. As they were about halfway there, Tigerstripe had spotted something because he exclaimed,

"Get down into the bushes now!"

As Sagepaw and Tigerstripe jumped into a bush beside the leader's den, Eagleclaw walked by holding a mouse in his mouth looking smug as usual. It looked as if he had just been talking to Wrenstar.

"Good spotting Tigerstripe!" Sagepaw exclaimed after Eagleclaw was out of hearing distance.

"Well, I wouldn't want him to ask where we were going and follow us." He replied. "Let's keep going before he passes again."

So Sagepaw and Tigerstripe continued across camp and finally reached Wrenstar's den.

"Wrenstar?" Sagepaw asked.

"Who is it?" Wrenstar replied.

"It's Sagepaw and Tigerstripe."

"Come in." Wrenstar meowed. Sagepaw and Tigerstripe walked in and found Wrenstar in her nest. "What do you need?" She asked in a tired voice.

"Well, we needed to tell you something important. It's about Eagleclaw." Sagepaw started.

"What about him?" Wrenstar asked, no longer sounding tired.

Sagepaw spoke first. "Eagleclaw murdered Duskfur with Clawslash as his partner in crime. I know this because I was there."

"WHAT!? Why didn't you tell me this before!?" Wrenstar screeched.

"Because Eagleclaw said that if I did, that he would kill me too." Sagepaw meowed. She looked over at Tigerstripe, who hadn't known this before. He looked at Sagepaw with utter shock in his eyes. Then, Sagepaw dared a glance at Wrenstar, who looked horrified.

"Why… why did he do this?" Wrenstar meowed shakily.

"Because he thought that he could become deputy or Clawslash would, and if one of them did, they would pick the other as deputy when they became leader." Sagepaw responded. But this time, Wrenstar didn't say anything, but just looked off into space with a look of horrification on her face.

Finally, Wrenstar snapped out of it and turned to Tigerstripe. "Then why are you here?" She asked him.

"Because… because Eagleclaw scratched me hard today because I am friends with Sagepaw. He said if we continued to be friends, he would kill me."

Wrenstar now looked even more horrified, but she shook it off, got up, and said, "I will take care of this mess tomorrow, but for now, we will go to sleep. Don't worry, Eagleclaw will be punished."