Cricketpaw awoke in the medicine den and noticed that Leafpool and Hollypaw were still asleep. She padded towards the entrance of the den and saw that the sun was just rising. She yawned then went into the clearing where Sorreltail, Brightheart, and Jaypaw were waiting, "Good, I was just about to go wake you up."

"We are on the dawn patrol" Brightheart explained to her. Cricketpaw yawned and stretched and then said, "I'm ready"

"Good." Sorreltail said as she finished stretching herself

"Can we go? By the time we leave it'll be sundown" Jaypaw impatiently snorted.

"Let's get going then" Brightheart said to Sorreltail as the patrol began to pad to the thorn tunnel they spotted the pre-dawn patrol which had Poppypaw, Berrypaw, and their mentors, Thornclaw and Brambleclaw. She sighed and they passed them as they were walking through the thorn tunnel Jaypaw asked, "When can I go into the forest alone?" 

"When I think that you're ready." Brightheart firmly told him. Jaypaw muttered something that Cricketpaw didn't catch but she probably assumed it was something like, 'stupid furball' or 'by the time you think that I'll be up in silverpelt!' A voice soon interrupted Cricketpaw's thoughts.

"How's the shoulder?"

"Hmm? What? Oh. It feels fine" Cricketpaw knew that that wasn't true it had hurt when she flexed it but otherwise it felt normal.

"Good. I can't have an injured cat hunting."

"Hunting?" Jaypaw echoed.

"Brambleclaw said that after patrolling the Windclan border we should try to bring as much prey back before the sun rises fully" Brightheart explained to her apprentice.

"Oh. Ok." He said quietly and the rest of the way to the Windclan border was quiet. Soon the patrol arrived at the border. 

"Those filthy mange-pelts! They've moved the border!" Cricketpaw exclaimed in disbelief.

"I'm not too surprised." Brightheart said through gritted teeth.

Sorreltail nodded "That's the third time this moon!" Soon a Windclan patrol came by

"What are you doing on our side of the border?" A dark grey- black warrior questioned. 

"I think you mean OUR side."  Jaypaw said firmly. 

"Who's this? Oh! You're  the blind apprentice. Tell us what you're  gonna do" A small black apprentice sneered. Jaypaw hissed but somehow managed to retort nothing

"Breezepaw and Crowfeather, We don't want any trouble so-" Sorreltail was soon cut off by Brightheart.

"STAY ON YOUR SIDE OF THE BORDER!" Brightheart hissed then unsheathed her claws. Soon the rest of the Thunderclan patrol did the same and Cricketpaw hissed and pinned her ears and her tail was lashing fiercely.

 Soon a white she-cat flicked her tail and yowled, "Windclan ATTACK!" She threw herself at Sorreltail and her apprentice clawed at her shoulder. The swipe had grazed the wound and Cricketpaw gasped. This just made her more angry she leapt onto the apprentice's back and unsheathed her claws fully and dug into her shoulders. The other apprentice let out a yelp of pain and spun around. 

Soon the apprentice and the rest of the Windclan patrol retreated into their moors."Stupid mouse-brained mangepelts" Jaypaw muttered. He had a scratch on his muzzle but other than that he and the rest of the Thunderclan patrol was unharmed. They quickly re-marked the correct border and they split off into the undergrowth to hunt. "We are going to meet  back at camp by sunrise" Sorreltail said to the patrol and then they walked off to hunt.

Soon Cricketpaw caught the scent of a thrush. She slowly crept forward, not making any noise. She soon had sight of the bird. It was moderately sized and would make a good meal or two. She moved forward and kept her paw steps as light as possible and didn't breath. She pounced and landed on the bird. She gave it a swift bite to the neck, delivering the killing blow. She dug a hole to bury her prey and continued hunting. She caught a vole, and a small to medium sized mouse. 

She started to walk back to camp and then found a HUGE clump of catmint. She remembered that Leafpool wanted to stock up on catmint so she grabbed as much as she could then continued to walk to camp with the catmint and fresh kill in her jaws. "Great job!" Thornclaw padded up to her and purred at her catches. Poppypaw came over and sniffed the area around her fresh kill, "Is that catmint?" She questioned. Cricketpaw padded over to the fresh kill pile dropped her catches and went back to the apprentice. 

"It is." She nodded "I was just going to give it to Leafpool" She then padded to the med den where she heard Hollypaw and Leafpool talking to each other. The smell of herbs and bedding filled her nose.

"I brought you some catmint." She said to Leafpool as she started at the bundles of catmint in Cricketpaw's jaws.

"This is AMAZING! Thank you! This will definitely help fill the catmint stores"

"You're welcome." Cricketpaw responded then padded off to the clearing where Longtail and Mousefur were just waking up and stretching as they padded over to the fresh kill pile and chose some prey. Lionpaw soon came out of the apprentice's den and told Cricketpaw,

"Ashfur said that you and I can do battle training today!" He said joyfully.

"That's great" She mumbled sarcastically.

"You tired? What did you do on the dawn patrol?"

She sighed, "We ran into a Windclan patrol that had moved the border."

"WHAT!?!?!?!?" He jumped back in surprise, "What did you do?"

"We didn't do anything. They attacked us and we got into a skirmish. Jaypaw got a scratch on his muzzle and a she cat apprentice grazed my wound from yesterday." She reported.

"What did the apprentice look like?" He questioned.

"The only thing I can remember about her was that she had these blue eyes they looked almost like the color of heather..."