The WindClan cats are found. Fireheart and Graystripe work to bring them back to their home. They shelter for the night in an abandoned Twoleg home that Barley leads them too. Fireheart and Graystripe also get to see Ravenpaw who is very happy with his new home. Fireheart goes to sleep thinking maybe Bluestar is right: clan life was not for Ravenpaw.
In the morning the WindClan medicine cat, Barkface, looks at the red clouds in the sky and announces that their will be an unnecessary death that day.Everyone is uneasy after this proclamation but Deadfoot (WindClan's deputy) points out that the message could be for any clan and that nothing says it has to do with them. Tallstar (their leader) points out that no matter what StarClan has in store for them, today they are going home.
Everyone reaches the WindClan camp safely. Fireheart and Graystripe leave with two of WindClan's warriors to escort them to Fourtrees. However, after they set off Fireheart suggests they cut quickly through RiverClan territory, shaving time off of their trip. They have to pass by the gorge, but RiverClan is almost never there. Deadfoot agrees - both to save time and to show RiverClan they are home and no longer welcome in WindClan territory. They pass quickly by the gorge but a passing RiverClan patrol catches them and attacks the exhausted warriors. Tigerclaw is out patrolling with some ThunderClan cats and hears the battle, coming to their rescue. During the fight Sandpaw is almost accidentally knocked over the edge of the gorge but Fireheart saves her - much to her anger. Graystripe is not so lucky, though. The RiverClan cat he is fighting is knocked over the edge. He tries to save him but cannot. The RiverClan cat plunges to his death. Barkface's words about a needless death echo in Fireheart's head. Leopardfur, the RiverClan deputy, calls off her cats but she assures everyone this is not over.
The WindClan cats return home, as do the ThunderClan cats. Tigerclaw, Fireheart, and Graystripe immediately go to Bluestar to tell her what happened. She tells Fireheart and Graystripe that they were in the wrong to cut through RiverClan territory but what is done is done. She then tells them that she is giving them apprentices. Tigerclaw is unhappy as he feels they are too young. Fireheart is excited but Graystripe is still in shock over what happened.
The next day Fireheart and Graystripe are given their apprentices (Cinderpaw and Brackenpaw, respectively). Dustpaw professes sorrow for Fireheart's apprentice being stuck with a kittypet for a mentor but for once Sandpaw does not join in with the mocking of Fireheart. Fireheart and Graystripe begin training their apprentices. Fireheart wants to begin their training together, but still upset over the death of the RiverClan cat Graystripe professes a desire to start alone. While Fireheart takes Cinderpaw out he sees a pregnant kittypet that Cinderpaw wishes to attack. He purposely alerts the kittypet to their presence so she will run away even though he cannot explain his own behavior. Later he has a dream and when he awakens he remembers that kittypet is his sister.
My thoughts on these five chapters? Things just got more complicated. ShadowClan and RiverClan already had an unspoken truce over WindClan's territory. Now that WindClan is returned, with the help of ThunderClan, and a RiverClan warrior is dead because of it things are about to get worse.
But, there was some good in this. Dustpaw, Sandpaw, Longtail, and Darkstripe are the most vocal about disliking Fireheart. Most everyone else in the clan seems to at the most to genuinely like him or at the least to respect him. Even Tigerclaw, who fears that Fireheart knows his secret, respects him and believes he is loyal to the clan. But these four flat out hate him - and for Dustpaw and Sandpaw it is slightly personal. They started training as warriors before Fireheart yet he was promoted before them. But Sandpaw's feelings might be changing now that she realized Fireheart saved her life - despite how awful she has been to him.
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