Nobody knew about Barkfoot except for Stonefall. He told Stonefall to be quiet. She was afraid of Barkfoot and obeyed.
Stonefall pulled his brother aside.
"I'm going to the border, can you stay here and make sure Hurricanestar is good? He looks sick, and he was depressed lately."
Barkfoot began to get more ideas.
"Of course."
"Thanks!" She padded away.
Barkfoot smiled. He climbed a tree and watched her. Another cat, brown with tan spots, was at the border talking with her.
"Twigfeather? Oh, this is gonna be fuuuuun!" He laughed.
Twigfeather and him were good friends, but he hated to see him around the border. Especially talking to his sister.
He knew what was going on. He couldn't hear the two clearly talking to each other... but Barkfoot felt it.
She was falling for Twigfeather.
He climbed down the tree and got up closer.
He hid himself in the bushes. He jumped out and yowled.
"Yes, run you coward!" Barkfoot screamed at the warrior as he ran away, tail in legs.
"Stupid excuse for a cat!" He murmured.
"I thought you liked him, Barkfoot!" Stonefall looked at him and hissed. She ran back to the camp. Barkfoot swam across the stream into the territory. He sniffed his way to the camp. He smelled lots of cats, including...
Dead ones...
Barkfoot looked closer at the camp to see several cats burying the queen, Onyxwish.
He smiled.
"Look at Hailstar... I have heard he's on his last life..." He looked at the leader.
"He's weak, pathetic, he's no use in the territories! All he does is cry for his losses! He doesn't understand the clans as well as we do... we hunt, fight, kill, climb, we don't live life sad. We live life free." He hissed at the leader.
"I know my next three victims... Adderpaw, Twigfeather, and Hailstar. Soon this clan will be nothing but a lonely camp, prey, and herbs."
He got closer. They got finished with the buried body. The cats all went back into the camp. He sneezed. He ran to the camp and looked around for the leader. He saw Hailstar. He went down into the camp. "Hailstar! Might I speak to you?" Hailstar looked up at Barkfoot in surprise. "Uh... sure!" He stood up and followed Barkfoot to the lake.
"Well, I want to talk about us crossing your territory."
Hailstar nodded.
Barkfoot lunged at the leader. He stretched a claw quickly and reached into the cat's throat and pulled it out.
He looked at the leader and smiled.
"P-please..." Hailstar struggled to say anything well and blood spurt out of his mouth.
Blood gushed out of his throat. Hailstar stopped.
Everything was quiet...
Too quiet...
Hailstar was dead.
"Hm, got that finished with." He washed the blood off him in the lake.
"Well, now let's go back." He turned to face his territory and padded toward it. He smiled as he saw Adderpaw eating a vole behind a bush.
"You wouldn't imagine what just happened to Hailstar!"
"W-what?" The Windclan apprentice was shaking.
"I murdered your leader..." He smiled.
Barkfoot looked down at the apprentice.
"You... you killed Onyxwish!" The apprentice dropped the vole.
"Yes... and guess what?"
"I have more ideas... victims... one of them, are you." Barkfoot lunged towards Adderpaw and dragged all of his claws down its stomach. The apprentice yowled and tried to kick.
A second later, the apprentice was dead.
"Hm, today was a productive day. Now, I must leave." He washed his paws off and walked towards the camp. Stonefall looked at him.
"Uh, you look happy..." she smiled a crooked smile.
"Cause I am. You'll never guess what happened. But I will leave that for you to find out."
She began to tear up.
Barkfoot watched.
"Please, Barkfoot, you must stop! 2 is enough!"
"2?" Barkfoot grinned. "More like 3, really."
Her eyes widened. "Why are you doing this? You... you never had a reason..."
Barkfoot's grin faded. "Windclan is full of pathetic excuses for clan cats... they're weak... they're not clan cats! They don't deserve to be at the lake."
Stonefall's ears flattened and her eyes narrowed. Her claws unsheathed, her teeth bared.
"I'm starting to regret being your sister... even being near you!" She teared up more.
"You think you're doing good, you think you're doing us a favor!" She began to cry.
"Would mom or dad be proud?"
Barkfoot stopped grinning.
"You really meant that? You think I'm that bad...?" He looked at her with wet eyes.
"Yes! There's a reason why you never got a mate... and why dad left us!" Stonefall suddenly felt to regret what she said.
Barkfoot's eyes burned. "I'm the reason why dad left us? You're the reason we got attacked by a fox!"
"That was old times! Urgh... just, get away from me!" She ran away.
He murmured under his breath.
"Yes, I am the reason for everything bad that happened in her life..."
He walked back to the camp so see everyone huddled around in a circle, including Stonefall, who was still crying, and telling the clan about Barkfoot.
"He murdered 3 cats... He's-he's... He's mad! He doesn't care anymore... He's insane! Windclan is going to just be a pile of dust soon! You have to believe me! The cat's a murderer!"
Barkfoot sighed. "She doesn't know what could happen. She's clueless!" He looked at Hurricanestar.
"He's a good warrior... one of our best. He should be trusted! Not accused! You didn't see it happen, did you?" Hurricanestar asked.
"Uh, no..." Stonefall sighed. "But he told me to be quiet...!"
"He might be hearing this right now, Stonefall. Calm down. Bluewhisker! Get her some poppyseeds!" Hurricanestar commanded.
"Ugh... you don't understand! There's a murderer on the loose!"
"Well, why don't you ask Hailstar?"
Barkfoot's ears perked as her walked into the camp. Everyone stood silent as he went into his den eyes widened.
"I heard that."
Hurricanestar walked away... and one by one every cat left the circle, while Stonefall stood there.