The forest cats are shocked and decide to leave. When the forest cats tease him because of his size, he kills one of them to show the cats from the gang as well as his own cats what he is capable of. Later, Scourge is asked to help drive away a gang of forest cats that are causing trouble for the strays. Tiny decides on the spot to rename himself Scourge, after recalling something his mother told him about forest cats being 'a scourge on the name of all good cats'. Impressed, the cats congratulate him, and one asks what his name is. When Tiny confronts the dog, it is startled by Tiny's shadow, and runs away. The story spreads, and soon two loners, Bone and Brick, come ask him to help get rid of a dog that is keeping the stray cats from a dumpster full of food. When other cats ask him about it, Tiny lies and says that he ripped it out of a dog's mouth after killing it, in an attempt to impress them. He finds a dog tooth, and attempts to rip his collar with it, but it ends up embedded in the collar instead. Tiny goes to the city and is laughed at for his collar. Tigerpaw attempts to kill Tiny, but is stopped at the last second by Bluefur, who reminds him of the warrior code. He is met by a ThunderClan patrol consisting of Bluefur, Thistleclaw, and Thistleclaw's apprentice, Tigerpaw. Tiny runs into the forest to escape being thrown into the river. Ruby tells him that unwanted kittens like him are thrown into the river. Later, humans come to adopt Socks and Ruby, but they leave Tiny. His brother and sister constantly bully him because of his size. Tiny is the smallest of Quince's litter of three kittens, which also includes Socks and Ruby. The Rise of Scourge is a stand-alone manga that details the rise to power of the BloodClan leader, Scourge. The Rise of Scourge is an original English-language manga written by Erin Hunter and Dan Jolley, and illustrated by Bettina Kurkoski as part of the Warriors series.

The Rise of Scourge by Erin Hunter