Yellowfang's Secret/Chapter 40

==Chapter description==
:Yellowfang leaves ShadowClan territory after Brokenstar banishes her. She angrily walks out of camp and finds herself walking over to the elders' den, and turns away. Yellowfang goes into the tunnel to Fourtrees, noticing how the water is unnaturally loud. After a while, she finally exits the cave. She is exhausted and clambers out of the tunnel. She staggers across the last few fox-lengths of ShadowClan territory and half scrambles, and half falls into the hollow, where she rests in the branches of a holly bush.
:Yellowfang lies in the undergrowth while the morning light turns into a cold, cloudy day. Rain begins to fall, but Yellowfang has no energy to find better shelter. She tries to sleep, but the branches of the Great Oaks at Fourtrees loom over her. Eventually, the dead holly leaves underneath her begin to prickle through her pelt, and she gets up. Night falls again, and Yellowfang thinks about Marigoldkit and Mintkit, and hopes they are now in StarClan. Her legs start to tremble with tiredness, and she pushes her way into a clump of ferns. The she-cat wakes up to sunlight filtering through the ferns, warming her pelt, reminding her of the times she was happy in her home.
:She finds a flame colored tom preparing to attack her and creeps into the shelter of a clump of bushes. Firepaw sniffs the air again. Yellowfang slams into him, knocking him sideways and causing him to screech in shock. The ginger apprentice goes limp and she loosens her grip on his shoulders. He surges upward and Yellowfang is thrown clear, tumbling back into a gorse bush. They continue fighting until Yellowfang is too tired to fight anymore since she injured her hind legs. Firepaw comments that she is an awful hurry to die when she tells him to stop dithering like a kittypet and kill her. He heads for the trees. Yellowfang sighs, but a quiet determination begins to grow inside her. Yellowfang thinks about how even though ThunderClan territory isn't her home, the trees and ferns seem to promise her peace.
:Yellowfang is sure that she cannot leave the forest. She thinks how even if she has to seek shelter in a hostile Clan, there is still work for her to do and questions she can only answer. The she-cat thinks how she has to stop her son's tyranny and achieve vengeance for the cats he has hurt.
==Characters==
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==Important events==
===Births===
*An unnamed queen gives birth to a kit, according to Yellowfang's senses.
==Notes and references==
fr:Le secret de Croc Jaune/Chapitre 40
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