"Where have you been?" Demanded Breezepelt. Sandbreeze was once more dreaming her way into StarClan, for the first time since their warrior ceremony.
"I've been busy." She replied, confused by her night mentor's hostility.
"So that's how it is then? You become a warrior so you have nothing else to learn? You get to mentor some kit and you suddenly know everything there is to know?" He spat at her, making her squirm.
"O-of course not, Breezepelt, I know there is things that I still need to learn." Sandbreeze meowed shakily.
"Good. Now, we are going to go on a little adventure." Breezepelt meowed, settling down a bit. "Follow me, and I'll show you my home..."
He led her into a tall, dark forest with no moon, no stars.
"Wake up sleepy head! You don't want to miss the dawn patrol, or Cloudtail will nag you about it all day." Willowfrost meowed to Cloversplash. She had not slept well since the gathering with Pineheart, and the dawn patrol only made it worse.
"All right, I'm coming," she meowed back. Making her way out of the warriors den and then into the clearing, she found Firepaw already up and waiting.
"Finally! You're here, I can't wait for the dawn patrol! I bet it'll be so exciting!" Firepaw meowed breathlessly.
"Settle down, it's not like we're going to the mountains or anything." Cloversplash told her apprentice.
"I know, but still! This is only my second day out of camp and it's just soooo exciting! I bet we'll find tons of stuff like more WindClan trespassers and-" Firepaw was cut off by Cloversplash's tail swiping over her mouth. She had heard something, possibly dangerous, like a marching army.
"Brackenfur! There are intruders in the camp!" She whispered the nearby deputy.
"What? How do you know?" He asked, still whispering.
"Not now, go warn the clan!" She hissed silently back at him, then watched him stop ant everycat and warn them, telling the queens and elders to hide in their dens, then preparing an emergency battle line.
Bramblestar was in the lead, howling out into the morning sky. "We know you are there, come out and face us, cowards!"
At once a small light brown tabby steped out and faced Bramblestar nose to nose. "Bramblestar, you invade our camp, we invade yours."
And just like that, the battle broke out once more, causing cats to go hurtling across the clearing to leap onto their opponents. Before Cloversplash decided who to take on, a large weight crushed her back, causing her to drop to the ground. The weight on her back was of a cat Cloversplash recalled as Boulderfur, one of the trespassing WindClan cats they'd caught the other day. I'll just have to add to his scars from yesterday, she thought. She neatly squirmed out from under him, but before she even lifted a paw, she heard a shriek coming from a terrified Firepaw, who was against two half grown WindClan apprentices. Leaving Boulderfur, she raced to her side and helped claw their ears until they ran whimpering from the camp. Looking around, Cloversplash tried to find the other untrained apprentices. Frostpaw and Moonpaw were fighting side by side, pushing a WindClan back towards the thorn tunnel, Redpaw was clawing out paw fulls of fur on a she-cat named Furzepelt, and Coalpaw was laying unconscious by the medicine cat den, with blood spilling out from a gash in his ear, and his front paw stuck out at a horrible angle.
"Coalpaw!" Firepaw shrieked when she followed her mentors gaze to her injured brother.
"What happened?" Cloversplash demanded him when she got to him.
"Jayfeather! Help Jayfeather!" He rasped out. Firepaw stayed with her brother while Cloversplash raced inside to find a two WindClan cats, Harespring and Heathertail, facing Jayfeather while another cat, an apprentice, took catmint and shredded some of his supplies.
"Firepaw, fetch Sandbreeze! And hurry" she meowed to her apprentice before entering the den.
She returned soon enough with Sandbreeze on her heels.
"Firepaw told me." She whispered to her. "Let's go kick some moor tails!"
Sandbreeze leaped on Heathertail and Cloversplash quickly swiped the apprentice away from his work and gave him a sharp nip on his spine to have him sprinting away towards his own territory. The apprentice took no longer than ten seconds to beat, so she soon wound up with Harespring. This was the cat that murdered Squirrelflight a little more than a moon ago. Shaking with rage, she sprang at him and filled him over onto his exposed belly and nipped at his neck and belly, with him squirming and screeching him pain. Finally, she took one paw and sliced his belly from the neck to his tail, not enough to take his life, but enough to have him run away from the medicine cat's den, leaving a trail of blood marking his path as he ran.
"Retreat!" Onestar yowled, causing all of his forces to stop and back away towards the camp entrance then turn tail and flee.
"This isn't over!" The WindClan leader growled as he backed away slowly.
"Oh, it's over all right. No matter how many battles we take to each other, ThunderClan will win, because we have the stronger force, and something to fight for, revenge. You killed my mate, and I will not forget, now leave, before we make you." Bramblestar growled. And at that, Onestar fled the camp.