The tale of two friends: Twistedheart and Mooncloud.

Chapter 5: A traitor amongst us.

[Moonpaw's POV]

||• A few days had passed since the rogues had attacked RainClan's camp. Brackenstar looked like he was going crazy, and no idea how to defend the camp if Curse and his cats attacked again. Even worse was that he didn't have a deputy, since Flameclaw was nowhere to be found. After that bloody battle, RainClan lost almost half of their warriors, but luckily they still had enough apprentices that could become future warriors and kits that could soon start training. Moonpaw and Twistedpaw were lying next to the apprentices den, eating some mice. Between bites, the black apprentice noticed his friend hadn't touched his mouse at all, and was rather staring blankly at the forest. •|| "What are you thinking about?" ||• Moonpaw asked. •|| "I know it's him!" ||• Twistedpaw suddenly meowed, which made Moonpaw jump a little. •|| "Stop scaring me like that! And who is what?" ||• He asked. •|| "Flameclaw, you mouse-brain! He's working with Curse and those other... warriors or whatever they're called." ||• The brown tom explained. •|| "Not this again..." ||• Moonpaw sighed. •|| "Just because he's been leaving the camp a few nights in a row, doesn't mean he's working with that idiot!" ||• Moonpaw said. •|| "Wait, listen to me. Remember when Brackenstar told us that because of the rogues' attacks, one warrior will have to come with the cats that are training? And that exact night, Flameclaw left the camp again! And what happened two days later? A whole army of rogues attacked us! Can't you see Flameclaw told Curse about the camp being less defended?" ||• Twistedpaw meowed. •|| "Well... it does make sense..." ||• Moonpaw thought for a moment. •|| "Should we tell Brackenstar?" ||• He asked. •|| "I don't know... maybe we should get more evidence or something. We could go to The Free!" ||• Twistedpaw suggested. Moonpaw almost choked on his prey after he heard his friend's idea. •|| "That will get us killed for sure!" ||• Moonpaw protested. •|| "Think about it Moonpaw! We could save the clan this way! Well... almost. But atleast Flameclaw won't reveal our weaknesses anymore." ||• Twistedpaw said. •|| "That's true... ugh, fine. But if we go, let's go now, before it gets too late." ||• Moonpaw said. After they finished eating their mice, the two apprentices made their way into the forest and followed the rogues' scents towards their camp. After a long walk, they were in the middle of their territory, and the camp could be seen. It looked horrible. As they got closer, they started hearing some voices. •|| "I think they're having a clan meeting or something." ||• Moonpaw whispered. As they walked a bit more, Twistedpaw groaned. •|| "Is this dried blood? I feel like I'll be sick..." ||• Twistedpaw lifted his paw disgusted. The two quickly passed the camp's entrance and walked inside a den, which couldn't be seen by the other rogues. The den seemed to be full of little kits that were luckily sleeping. It must've been the nursery. •|| "I think we can look from here at the meeting." ||• Twistedpaw whispered. After a few moments, Moonpaw felt like a pair of eyes was watching them, so he turned his head around, and spotted a carbon copy of Curse looking at them. Moonpaw jumped a little and quickly nudged Twistedpaw to look at the kit as well. •|| "Those must be his kits..." ||• Moonpaw noticed. Then another kit woke up, a red and white tom that started hissing at the two apprentices. •|| "I feel like he's gonna rip our throats..." ||• Twistedpaw meowed, staring at the kit. Suddenly, another large ginger kit woke up and started staring at the two toms. He was almost as big as them! But instead of hissing, the kit started mewling like crazy after his mom. •|| "Mouse-dung! Er.. make him shut up!" ||• Twistedpaw said. •|| "How?! I don't know how to interact with kits!" ||• He snapped. As they thought of a solution, a white she-cat entered the nursery and started growling at the apprentices. Twistedpaw and Moonpaw quickly walked out of the den, only to be seen by Curse and... Flameclaw. •|| "I knew it! You're a traitor! Just wait until I tell Brackenstar!" ||• Twistedpaw hissed. •|| "Haven't I told you before that kits shouldn't worry about what the warriors are doing?" ||• Flameclaw grinned. •|| "And Brackenstar? He's as useful as a dead fox. He's too afraid to do anything right now. He's just waiting for his death..." ||• The gray and white tom chuckled. Moonpaw and Twistedpaw looked at the soldiers that stared back at them, most of them full of blood and some missing huge chunks of fur. •|| "Kill those clan cats." ||• Curse ordered. •|| "RUN!" ||• Moonpaw yelled, but it was too late for them to do that, as the soldiers started leaping at them. Twistedpaw managed to dodge most of them and was heading for the entrance, but Moonpaw was already in a soldier's jaws, shaking his throat. He managed to claw the soldier's eyes, escaping his grip and following Twistedpaw out of the camp. The two ran desperately back to RainClan's camp, and eventually arrived there, without any rogues catching up to them. Moonpaw was bleeding a bit from his throat, but managed to resist. They ran straight towards Brackenstar, who was talking with some senior warriors. •|| "Brackenstar!"

|| Here it is at last. I was busy during Christmas so I'm sorry about that. This chapter was pretty fun to write honestly. And we're slowly reaching the end of the book, wooo. One more chapter to go. ||