What If Hawkfrost Did Kill Firestar In Sunset?

This is my very first fan fiction. What if Hawkfrost had succeeded in killing Firestar? Would the clans survive? If you like it, please review!

Prologue

"What are you waiting for? Kill him now!" Hawkfrost hissed.

Brambleclaw stood, frozen in fear, watching his leader, with his neck trapped in the fox trap. The voice of Tigerstar growled in his mind, Kill him now! Now!

"No," Brambleclaw mewed. "I won't do it."

He lunged at the fox trap and started digging up the stick. Hawkfrost hissed and leaped at Brambleclaw and both cats went tumbling towards the lake.

"Fool! Tigerstar knew you were too weak!" Hawkfrost growled. "If I do get power, it won't come from killing!" Brambleclaw retorted, and pushed Hawkfrost off himself with his back legs. He ran back to Firestar, his paws slipping against the moist ground.

He found Firestar limp, so limp he looked almost dead. But Brambleclaw heard him breathing, faintly. He resumed digging up the stick.

He became frantic, thinking this would be the end of Firestar, when the trap came loose. Firestar lay on the ground, quivering, as Brambleclaw hurried to his side.

"Firestar, Firestar… Are you okay?" Brambleclaw mewed.

"Th…Thank-you," Firestar stammered, when Hawkfrost appeared out of nowhere and drove his claws deep into Firestar's throat.

"Firestar! No!" Brambleclaw cried as Hawkfrost drove his claw down Firestar's stomach- the same way Scourge had killed Tigerstar, those many moons ago.

Hawkfrost hissed in triumph, and fled into the night. Firestar lay on his side, the life bleeding out of him, as Brambleclaw raced to his side.

"Brambleclaw," Firestar rasped, "I am proud to call you a part of Thunderclan." "No! Firestar, don't leave us!" Cried Brambleclaw.

"You… you will be… a worthy leader of… of Thunderclan." Firestar whispered. He shuddered, and Firestar lived no longer.

"Firestar! NO!" Squirrelflight came out of nowhere and bowled Brambleclaw over. "What happened?" She demanded, her claws sinking into his shoulders.

"Hawkfrost set a trap… and killed him." Brambleclaw murmured, with sorrow in his mew.

"No…" Leafpool whispered, as she emerged from the bushes. Her dead father lay a tail-length ahead of her. "He's in Starclan now."

Squirrelflight let out a long, sad wail. Brambleclaw pressed his flank against hers. "Why, why, why…" Squirrelflight murmured.

Leafpool looked like she could melt into the shadows; the sad look on her face told the whole story. "We need to bring him back… to be buried. The whole clan will want to sit vigil for him."

Squirrelflight sat still, frozen with grief, then whirled around to face Brambleclaw. "Now can you trust Hawkfrost?" She hissed, before stalking away with Leafpool. Together, the sisters picked up Firestar by the scruff of the neck and slowly began dragging his limp body back to camp. Brambleclaw slowly padded after them.

What was he going to say to the clan? Would they accuse him of killing his own leader? He had only been deputy for a day. Now he was leader. And he knew Hawkfrost threatened to take control of not only Riverclan, but Shaowclan too. What would he tell Sandstorm?

Oh, Starclan, help me! He prayed.