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Chapter 3: Mintpaw

When Mintpaw woke up the next morning, the sky was still dark. Featherpaw was clambering out of her nest. Before Mintpaw could say anything, Featherpaw had rushed out of the den.

"Where are you going?" Mintpaw called after her. She ran out of the den in time to see the gray tabby apprentice disappear into their mother's den. What in the name of StarClan is Featherpaw doing? She edged toward the leader's den.

"Featherpaw, are you sure you heard Smokesplash and Sootsong?" Leafstar was asking gently.

"Yes, I know they're your kits and my siblings, but I promise you it was them! Sootsong said she was going to warn OakClan, and Smokesplash didn't have to worry!"

Leafstar sighed, "Featherpaw, I'm sure you aren't lying." Featherpaw looked relieved. "However, I refuse to believe that my kits are behind this. Either you dreamed it, or you misheard and different cats were speaking. No matter what, even if OakClan is warned, we will win this battle, and all the battles to come before this war is over."

"Okay," Featherpaw muttered, padding out of the den with her head down.

"Featherpaw! You think Sootsong and Smokesplash are betraying our clan?" Mintpaw asked her sister, shocked.

Featherpaw shot her sister an angry glance. "Mintpaw, I know what I heard. You don't have to believe me, and you can hate me for it if you want. But our brother and sister want to betray this clan and I don't intend on letting them," she hissed. Then she stalked away, head and tail high. Mintpaw stared after her littermate. Be that way, then. It's only going to get you in trouble. She padded over to Slatestorm, who was standing by one of the battle patrols.

"Good," he meowed. "You're here. Leafstar's going to lead this patrol. Your sister is on the other patrol."

"Okay," Mintpaw meowed. She was glad she wasn't on Featherpaw's patrol. The gray tabby apprentice would only go on about their siblings betraying the clan. She looked at the cats around her. The other cats on Leafstar's patrol were Crowtail, Mossfang, Slatestorm, Smokesplash, and Sparrowheart. On the other patrol were Doveheart, Fawnlight, Sootsong, and Willowwind. Thunderstrike was at the head of the group. The rest of the clan stood at the den entrances. Creekkit, Stonekit, and Hollykit scuffled outside the nursery, pretending they were fighting OakClan.

"Take that, OakClan intruder!" Stonekit squealed, pouncing on his sister.

"You'll never win!" Hollykit gasped, struggling to free herself from him.

Then Creekkit bowled Stonekit over, mewing, "I'll save you, Hollykit!"

"LakeClan!" Leafstar yowled. "Let's go!" She led her patrol out of camp, Thunderstrike's following close behind. Soon they split up; Leafstar headed toward the waterfall on the main path, and Thunderstrike took the smaller one, to be the reinforcement.

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"LakeClan, attack!" Mintpaw was standing on the territory line in front of the waterfall. An OakClan patrol was passing by. At Leafstar's yowl, LakeClan jumped the rocks that stood on the border and attacked the patrol. Soon, LakeClan had overtaken them. We're going to win! Mintpaw thought.

"PineClan, attack!" Shock coursed through Mintpaw, hearing the yowl. They got help from PineClan? But how? Then she saw Leafstar across the clearing. She was facing Sootsong, Smokesplash, and a tom and she-cat from OakClan. Oh, no… Featherpaw was right. Mintpaw forgot the hostile cats around her and raced over to her mother. Featherpaw was suddenly beside her.

"Why, Sootsong? Why, Smokesplash?" Leafstar was asking, her voice low and angry. "Why would you betray your clan?"

Sootsong gave her mother a glare. "I have never loved swimming or fishing. The day I met Stormshade, I realized that OakClan is the clan I should've been born into. Climbing trees is much better than swimming. So, now, I am going to join OakClan." She sat down beside the tom, who had to be Stormshade.

"Fine, then." Leafstar hissed. "You are no longer a member of LakeClan, and you are no longer my daughter." She wrenched her gaze away from the young she-cat, and turned to Smokesplash. "What about you? Do you wish to join OakClan as well?" The leader scowled.

Smokesplash opened his mouth to speak, but before he could, the silver she-cat standing behind him did. "Wait. It is not fair for me to make you join OakClan, when I know you will never like it." Then she turned her gaze on Leafstar. "Leafstar, I would like to join LakeClan," she meowed.

"What?!" Flamestar, who had been watching the argument the whole time stopped and stepped forward. The rest of the fighting cats also stopped.

"Father," the silver she-cat meowed. "I am truly sorry, but OakClan will never be my home."

"Silverriver, I accept your request to join LakeClan, on one condition," Leafstar broke in.

"Yes?" Silverriver asked.

"You cannot fight in this war, at least for now."

"That's fine with me." Silverriver said, shrugging.

Flamestar glared at Leafstar. "Well, I do not accept Sootsong into my clan. If Stormshade joins LakeClan, fine. But I do not want a LakeClan warrior to join OakClan."

Stormshade stepped forward. "Then I will join LakeClan," he meowed. Leafstar looked overwhelmed by the craziness of these cats and not pleased at the idea of another cat joining her clan.

"Fine, Sparrowheart, take them home. Put them under guard and come back." She meowed. "If I recall, this battle is not over!" With that, she threw herself at Flamestar, hissing in rage.

Mintpaw found herself facing an apprentice, a grey she-cat. She swiped at the apprentice's face, leaving a cut across her ear. Soon, she had fought the she-cat off. She whirled around to face her opponent, and realized she was staring at her father's eyes.

"Mintpaw!" Thunderstrike gasped. He was limping and bleeding heavily from scratches along his back. "Go get help from Flowerstar! StreamClan!" Then he ran off into the battle, leaving Mintpaw behind.

Not stopping to figure out what to do, Mintpaw ran as fast as she could to the StreamClan border on the opposite side of the territory. Jumping the river, she followed the strongest scents to what she hoped was the camp. She burst through the entrance, which to her surprise wasn't guarded.

"LakeClan!" A ginger she-cat screeched, leaping to her paws. She and a few other cats started to attack Mintpaw.

"Please! I need to speak to Flowerstar!" Mintpaw screeched. "We need help!" Slowly, the cats backed off, bristling.

A ginger she-cat lighter than the one who attacked her, appeared in front of a den. "I am Flowerstar," she meowed calmly. "What brings you to our camp?"

"I'm, um, Mintpaw." Mintpaw mewed.

"Oh, you're one of Leafstar's kits." Flowerstar nodded.

"We're fighting OakClan. But they got help from PineClan and Thunderstrike told me to come here."

The leader dipped her head, "We will come." She turned to look around the clearing. "Darkspots, Shiverwhisker, Mistfeather, Fernspark, Swimspirit, and Breezepaw! We're going to help LakeClan!" The cats she had called were already in the clearing, and quickly came to stand by their leader. Flowerstar touched her nose to Mintpaw's head. "Lead us," she whispered.

"Okay," Mintpaw meowed. She ran out of the camp, through the forest over the border, and back to the waterfall, Flowerstar and her patrol following. When they arrived at the battle, the warriors immediately disappeared into the battling cats.

"Good luck," Flowerstar meowed and ran over to Leafstar. Mintpaw saw Featherpaw fighting a light gray she-cat and ran over to her sister to help.

"I'm sorry I didn't believe you," Mintpaw mewed, swiping her paw across the warrior's side. The she-cat whirled around and slashed Mintpaw in the face with her tail.

"It's okay," Featherpaw replied, shoving the she-cat back. Before she said anything else, Mintpaw heard a blood-chilling scream. The battling cats broke apart and Mintpaw saw a white tom falling to the ground, blood pouring out of his neck.

"Oh, no!" Mintpaw whispered. "What's Honeyfrost going to say?"

So, who is dying?

And what's your opinion: Should Smokesplash and Silverriver and Sootsong and Stormshade have kits?

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