Warriors: Third Strike: Book 1: Morning Has Come

Chapter 22

[Witheredsoul's POV]

I stood next to Tinystar attentive for what she had to say. She seemed to have called most Dark Forest here. I could see most of the Phantoms except for Vendetta. I guessed she didn't want to see her father still even if he was finally on the dark side. I kinda felt bad for her, but she had to stay strong.

"How have the other clans been doing?" Tinystar starts off with the supposed Dark Forest leaders of each of the clans close to us. Some of the other warriors that were just spread out across the camp so the warriors didn't get close to us.

"I have been hearing things in SmallClan about rebellion." Malvago spoke up first as her eyes flashed red. They usually stayed black to match her form, but they flashed red when she got angry or a plan.

"Same in MapleClan." Bloodtear spoke looking around. His claws were digging into the dirt under him.

"And in TideClan. They don't seem to want us here and they think they can beat us again like they have in the past." Maplefur said lashing her tail back and forth. She was mad that they thought they could defeat us.

"I haven't heard anything in LilyClan, but I did overhear Flamestar and Emeraldshine talking about leaving." Hawkstar spoke up. It had been a while since I had seen the tom. He had stayed in LilyClan unlike the other Dark Forest leaders.

"Nothing in EverClan either." Darkfeather said.

"EverClan is too small to do anything like that. They also think very highly of Tinystar." I spoke up. I was the only one that wasn't really a leader in the main circle. Everyone else was but me. It felt kinda awkward to even be there.

"Witheredstar is right. I have been hearing some murmuring here as well. I have a small plan, but I want to run it through all of you first." Tinystar said looking at Bloodtear. He had been her true mentor and taught her everything she needed to know.

"What is it? Do you need anything else from the Dark Forest? We lost some numbers from the fight, but I know we can recover them." He quickly said keeping his head up high. He seemed to be scared of Tinystar. Everyone here seemed to be scared of her. Was there something special about her that I didn't know about?

"How many more warriors are there? I was thinking that we make an example of a cat or two to show them we mean business and also have a Dark Forest warrior go on all their patrols. They also wouldn't be allowed to leave the camp without our permission." Tinystar explained. It seemed a bit too much, but I would follow her lead. If she wanted it, I would like it.

"Sounds nice, when do we start?" Bloodtear asked glancing around the small circle. There must be a good number of warriors still in the Dark Forest.

"Tonight." Tinystar hissed.