In the morning Dewpaw awoke to a clan meeting. "As you may have heard once a princess kitty has decided to join the clan, we trust that this cat can become just as good as a warrior as all of you out there. Please welcome Lilly" Cinderstar meowed to the clan.
" A princess kitty can never become a clan cat! I don't even think my brother Tunnelpaw can be a clan cat!" Tornadopaw spat. Frostheart walked up and corrected her apprentice. "May I go on?" Cinderstar asked Tornadopaw. "Yes" Tornadopaw meowed grumpily. " Lilly is still too young to become an apprentice, she will start her clan life as Lillykit. Welcome to the clan Lillykit" Cinderstar meowed proudly.
Before Cinderstar finished Dewpaw saw Ashtail sneaking out of camp. Dewpaw followed silently until he stopped at the river. Then, a grey cat crossed the river and licked Ashtail. Dewpaw jumped out from behind the bushes and yelled "What are you doing here?!" to Ashtail. Dewpaw heard the grey cat whisper " I thought you made sure no one followed you here" to Ashtail. Ashtail replied " I did, she must have found me." Waveclaw bowed and meowed to dewpaw," By the way I am waveclaw the Waveclan cat destined to lead Waveclan."
Suddenly they heard a yowl from the Darkclan border. They rushed over to see what had happened, to find Cinderstar lying on the ground with a slash through her neck. Ashtail stood in horror at the dead body of his leader with Dewpaw beside him. They heard a sneer, when Dewpaw looked through the bushes she found Redstar ready to pounce. Dewpaw snuck up on him but tripped. " Aha!" Redstar yelled as he turned around.
Dewpaw started to run, but remembered what he had done to her father. She turned around and tried to leap onto his back. Redstar slashed her muzzle but Dewpaw held tight onto his back. She crawled forward on the giant cat's back and Ashtail swiped his neck. When they got back to camp news spread that Dewpaw killed Redstar. That night Snakefang made his journey to the moonstone to get his nine lives.
When Dewpaw woke, she asked Snakestar to take her on a patrol. Snakestar told her no and then climbed the highrock. " As you know, yesterday Dewpaw killed the dreaded leader of Darkclan. I would like to honor her by making her a warrior! May Starclan look down on this apprentice, she has trained very" Snakestar was saying before being interrupted.
" No she has not! She has only been an apprentice for what? Three or four days?!"Tornadopaw spat. " I believe Dewpaw will make a great warrior, now don't interrupt your leader. As I was saying she has trained very hard to understand what being a warrior is. From now on Dewpaw will be known as Dewdrop!" Snakestar meowed proudly. After Snakestar sent out the patrol, Dewdrop who was still at camp, saw Snakestar walking outside of camp again. She followed him again, and he took the same path as yesterday, not wanting to get in on personal business she went to patrol the Darkclan border. While walking along the border she heard the rustling of grass some way behind her.
Dewdrop turned around to see a small black kit running in fear from Darkclan. "Who are you and why are you on our territory" Dewdrop meowed to the young kit. " Help, please help, Darkclan is trying to raid your camp using kits too young to be apprentices! Help me!" The black kit wailed to Dewdrop. " Follow me to camp, we will get Snakestar" Dewdrop meowed as they ran back to camp. Back at camp they couldn't find Snakestar.
"I know where he is, you stay here" Dewdrop meowed to the black kit. " Oh and what is your name? Dewdrop meowed halfway out of camp. " Blackkit" Blackkit replied. Dewdrop ran into the forest to find Snakestar returning from wherever he was.
