Ravenpaw's Farewell/Cliffnotes

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*Ravenpaw dreams that he, Graypaw, and Firepaw are racing through the forest.
*Barley wakes Ravenpaw, and suggests going to the forest, which Ravenpaw agrees to. Ravenpaw hopes that a walk will make his belly-ache go away.
*Ravenpaw and Barley leave the barn and cross the Thunderpath by going through the tunnel underneath.
*Ravenpaw and Barley cross the moor and go into a forested area.
*They reach the former Fourtrees, which is now occupied by many Twoleg nests.
*Ravenpaw and Barley come to Snakerocks, which is now a huge mound of brambles covered with rocks.
*Ravenpaw remembers his dream and gets lost in thought, but comes back to his sense when Barley warns him to be careful. Ravenpaw realizes that he almost fell into a narrow hollow, and he whispers that it is the ravine.
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*Ravenpaw and Barley walk into the ravine and look around.
*Ravenpaw remembers how Firestar had told him about SkyClan.
*They two leave the camp to explore around more.
*Ravenpaw and Barely encounter an unfriendly kittypet named Madric.
**When they don't want to fight him, more kittypets come and chase Ravenpaw and Barley.
***Ravenpaw's stomach is noted to hurt again as he runs.
*The two run beside a Thunderpath, but both begin to slow.
*An orange kittypet jumps in front of Ravenpaw, hissing and snarling.
**Barley recognizes her as his sister, Violet.
*Violet defends her brother against the other kittypets who come, and the kittypets leave.
*Violet shows Ravenpaw and Barley her kits. She tells her kits to take a nap, and the two loners decide to go back to the barn.
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*It is leafbare, and Ravenpaw's belly ache has become constant, and he has hurt his shoulder.
*It becomes newleaf again, and Ravenpaw's shoulder has healed.
*When outside one day, Ravenpaw hears Riley and Bella, Violet's kits, call to them, and Violet comes to explain that they wanted to visit.
**Violet adds that Lulu and Patch, her other kits, have gone to a new home.
*The cats come inside the barn, and Bella and Riley and fascinated with the things they see.
*In the barn, Ravenpaw shows the young cats how to hunt mice.
*After Ravenpaw has caught a mouse, Riley and Bella talk about how they want to be warriors, but their mother discourages the idea.
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*Ravenpaw and Barley walk Violet, Riley, and Bella to the Thunderpath as the kittypets are on their way back home.
**Before leaving, the young cats plead Ravenpaw again, begging him to let them be warriors.
*Ravenpaw has troubles sleeping, as his stomach hurts, and he thinks about Riley and Bella.
*Silverstream visits him in a dream, and tells him to take the two young cats to SkyClan.
*The next day, Ravenpaw tells Barley of what he plans to do, but Barley strongly disagrees, and refuses to listen to any more of the idea.
*Ravenpaw goes to Violet's Twoleg nest, and explains to Violet that he wants to take Bella and Riley to SkyClan.
**Although she protests at first, with some nudging from Bella, Violet is convinced to let her kits go.
*Her kits say farewell, and Ravenpaw and the kits leave Violet.
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*Ravenpaw and the kits come to the barn for the night.
*Ravenpaw and Barley quarrel when Barley confirms that he will not come with Ravenpaw to SkyClan. He walks out of the barn without a farewell to his friend.
*Riley and Bella wake up and eat, and the three cats set off.
*They cross many fields, then walk along a river until sunhigh, and Ravenpaw's belly aches badly the whole time.
*The cats rest, and Bella catches a shrew. Riley makes an unsuccessful attempt at catching a sparrow.
*A large dog chases Ravenpaw, Bella, and Riley, but it is called away by its Twoleg.
*Bella is particularly frightened by the dog, and both young cats begin to show doubts about the journey.
*After walking more, the cast rest in a grassy stone den, and Ravenpaw brings the kits eggs to eat. The cats fall asleep in the den.
*The next day, they travel more, but the kits are still quiet.
*Riley and Ravenpaw stop to hunt, and Ravenpaw comes back to where Bella was waiting, only to find her eating Twoleg food.
**Ravenpaw scolds Bella that Twolegs are their enemies, but she and Riley disagree.
*Ravenpaw privately wonders if the kits will really be warriors.
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*After another day of traveling, Ravenpaw teaches Bella and Riley some fighting moves.
*They travel along the river some more.
*Ravenpaw and the kits find an abandoned Twoleg den and explore inside.
**They find Barley in the Twoleg den.
*Ravenpaw, Barley, and the kits move on and rest at a waterfall, where Riley catches a fish.
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*The cats follow the thinning river the next day.
*They find a cave to rest in, and Ravenpaw hears whispers in it.
**Ravenpaw knows that Sandstorm and Firestar had rested in that cave before, and he is sure that he has followed their steps to SkyClan.
*Bella announces that she heard a cat, and they leave the cave, following the stream.
*The journeying cats decide to stop by the stream for the night, but Ravenpaw first scouts the area for SkyClan.
*Ravenpaw comes back and has the kits recall the Warrior Code before they go to sleep.
*Ravenpaw wakes to see some hostile kittypets standing over them.
*The kittypets threaten Ravenpaw and his friends, but when the loner hits Pasha, the lead kittypet, the kittypets leave.
**The cats go back to sleep.
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*The next morning, the cats follow the stream until they reach SkyClan, and are met by a SkyClan patrol.
*The patrol are unfriendly toward the traveling cats, but Ravenpaw asks to see Leafstar.
*When Leafstar comes, Barley and Ravenpaw explain the situation with the young cats, but the SkyClan leader turns down the offer.
*Ravenpaw and the kits are very disappointed, and they go to sleep in a cave for the night.
*Ravenpaw is woken by Riley and Bella, who tell him that something is happening. Yowls are heard coming from the gorge.
*They go to the edge of the gorge to see the same kittypets from the night before, attacking SkyClan cats.
*SkyClan drive the cats out of the gorge, although it is revealed that the kittypets have been intruding in the gorge for the past few days.
*The traveling cats go back to their cave.
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*Ravenpaw has a dream where Silverstream informs him that he will die before returning to the barn, and Skywatcher and Cloudstar plead him to help SkyClan fight the kittypets. Skywatcher shows Ravenpaw a battle tactic, and Ravenpaw promises to help.
*The next morning, the cats go back to the gorge, and Ravenpaw goes to Leafstar's den.
*He tells Leafstar, and Billystorm and Sharpclaw, who are also there, about the borders strategy from his dream, that he thinks will help keep the kittypets out.
*Leafstar announces the new border strategy to her Clan, and Barley, Riley, and Bella go to help out.
*Echosong takes Ravenpaw to the Skyrock.
**While there, Ravenpaw is visited by Bluestar, Whitestorm, and Lionheart, and they offer him a warrior name and a place in StarClan, but Ravenpaw turns down the offer and falls asleep.
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*Ravenpaw wakes up and Bella, Riley, and Barley tell him what they did that day.
*Barley asks Ravenpaw not to fight, but Ravenpaw insists that he will.
*The SkyClan cats go to the border to fight the kittypets.
*The kittypets approach the Clan cats and Sharpclaw gives the order to fight.
*Ravenpaw's belly gets badly wounded, but SkyClan win the battle.
*Back at camp, Leafstar asks Bella and Riley to be SkyClan apprentices, and the young cats gladly agree.
**They are named Rileypaw and Bellapaw, and receive Tinycloud and Nettlesplash as their mentors.
*Barley leads Ravenpaw to Echosong's den, but the medicine cat tells him that it is too late.
*Ravenpaw dies between Barley's paws, and as he dies, Leafstar is heard saying that they will keep a vigil for him. Ravenpaw is sad to leave Barley, but believes that he will see his friend again one day.
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