Hello all you Warriors fans! This is my first Warriors fanfic.

Even though I have read the first two series over and over and over again, I have only read up to The Sight in the Power of Three, but I plan on reading more in the future.

Anyway, here is my first Warriors fanfic, Dreams! Hope you like it!

I do not own Warriors!

Dreams

Chapter 1

"Hawkfrost, I'm so sorry…I didn't want it to come to this," a dark tabby tom meowed to a dying cat with a stick in his throat. Blood was pouring out of Hawkfrost like a waterfall.

"You fool…" the dying tom rasped. "You have more kittypet softness than that stupid kittypet over there." He flicked his tail towards a flame colored cat lying on its side. The tom had managed to get out of the fox trap he was in. His neck fur was stained with his blood.

"Hawkfrost, I do what I believe is right. Killing my leader is not the way I would want to become ThunderClan leader! You are the fool!" The dark tabby bristled.

"No you are the fool, Brambleclaw!" Hawkfrost said with more fury in his voice. "You think that you are safe now? The forest may be safe for now, but you are not!"

"What do you mean by that?" Brambleclaw asked, his ears flattened with worry.

Hawkfrost narrowed his eyes. "You may be safe in this forest, Brambleclaw, but you are not safe in your dreams!"

This made Brambleclaw's fur bristle with fear. Before, he would have some dreams where he would go to a dark forest to meet his father, Tigerstar. There, his father would train him and his brother in preparation to take over the clans in the forest. The times when they would have battle training, Brambleclaw's wounds would still be on him when he woke up. Brambleclaw was now scared. If Tigerstar decided to walk in his dreams again, Brambleclaw would surely be killed.

"That's right," Hawkfrost sneered. His voice was raspy again. He must have smelled Brambleclaw's fear scent. "Be very scared Brambleclaw, we will kill you." Those were the last words Hawkfrost said before he died. Brambleclaw looked at his kin, eyes wide of fear. We will kill you.

Brambleclaw padded over to the wounded cat. "Are you okay, Firestar?" He asked his leader, trying to disguise his fear scent.

The leader raised his head and looked up at him. "Brambleclaw…" Brambleclaw had his head bowed. Just a few minutes ago, he debated on killing his leader. Surely Brambleclaw would be exiled now. "Well done, Brambleclaw." Brambleclaw gasped and raised his head again. Firestar seemed to know what Brambleclaw was thinking. "Your path has been hard, harder than most. But you fought a great battle here, and you won. You are a worthy deputy of ThunderClan. Any cat that won't trust you is a mouse-brain." Firestar then let his head fall back to the ground. He was exhausted and he was going to sleep good once he gets back to camp.

Glad that he didn't get exiled or get his title as deputy rebuked, Brambleclaw relaxed for a moment. For that moment, everything was perfect. The forest was at peace, he could settle into being ThunderClan deputy, and he and Squirrelflight could have a family. Brambleclaw was happy until he heard his now dead brother's voice in his ear as if he were next to him. 'You think you won? Wait until the next time we see you! You are dead!'

'You betrayed me and all you represent!' a new voice whispered in his other ear. 'Your brother and I will not forget this!' Brambleclaw felt sick. That second voice was his father's. Brambleclaw lie down and put his paws over his ears as the voices kept going. 'Don't ignore us!' Brambleclaw closed his eyes, hoping that would drown out the voices.

Firestar must have smelled his fear scent, because Brambleclaw heard his voice. "What's wrong, Brambleclaw?" Brambleclaw opened his eyes. Firestar's head was raised and was looking at him in concern. All the voices disappeared, it was now Brambleclaw and his leader.

"The voices…" he replied panicky. He saw Firestar give him an awkward look. He decided he would confess everything to his leader. "Firestar…I don't know where to begin…" Brambleclaw trailed off again.

"Calm down, Brambleclaw," the wise leader meowed to his deputy. "Take a deep breath and start from the beginning."

"Alright," Brambleclaw nodded. He sat back up in a deep breath. "Right, it all started when…" Brambleclaw stopped talking. He could hear cats coming. "I'll tell you later, Firestar…but please don't tell Squirrelflight." Firestar looked at him and nodded in understanding. Every cat has their secrets.

Leafpool emerged from the forest along with Squirrelflight. Their eyes widened with fear once they saw the two. Leafpool opened her mouth to speak, but Firestar interrupted her. "Leafpool, Squirrelflight," he began. "It's okay. Hawkfrost set a trap for me, but Brambleclaw killed him."

'Every cat sleeps, Brambleclaw,' Brambleclaw heard his father's voice in his ear again. Brambleclaw once again crouched down on his belly, hoping the voices would go away. 'And when you sleep, you know what is going to happen right?'

"Brambleclaw, thank you. You saved his life!" his mate's voice interrupted the threatening voices. Brambleclaw shook his head and looked at her. She was checking over her father, Firestar.

"I only did what any other cat would do," he replied lamely. Brambleclaw then looked at his dead half brother. 'Maybe not every cat,' he told himself. Leafpool padded up to Brambleclaw.

"You're not hurt too bad are you?" she asked.

"No," Brambleclaw shook his head, still keeping watch on Hawkfrost's body, making sure he did not come back alive. "I can walk back to camp."

"Okay," Leafpool meowed. "I do want to check on you once we get back to camp though." Brambleclaw nodded his head. Leafpool turned around and saw all the blood on the ground. "Where did all this blood come from?" Leafpool finally saw what Brambleclaw was looking at. The dead RiverClan warrior's body was still bleeding heavily into the lake, making the water turn red in a certain area. "Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red," her voice rang out.

"What did you say, Leafpool?" Brambleclaw asked. He took his eyes off of Hawkfrost and looked at the medicine cat. Was that a prophecy she just said?

Leafpool turned to him. "It's finally over. The peace has finally come."

Brambleclaw looked at her. "For you," he told her before he could think about what to say. He cursed himself for being so mouse-brained.

"What do you mean by that, Brambleclaw?" Leafpool asked.

Brambleclaw opened his mouth to say it was nothing to worry about. But then a thought stopped him from saying anything. 'She is a medicine cat. She is close to StarClan. Maybe she can help me!' But Brambleclaw shook his head. "Nothing," he mumbled before walking back to Firestar.

"Brambleclaw!" Squirrelflight called as he got to his leader and mate. "Thank you so much!" She got up and brushed her pelt up against him. "Are you okay?" She must have just noticed the blood on his pelt.

"Yeah, Leafpool will treat me when we get home," Brambleclaw explained. He turned to Firestar, who was just now starting to stand up. "What do we do about Hawkfrost?"

Firestar looked at the dead cat. "We'll drag him into the woods for now and leave him. We need to find a way for RiverClan to find out but will not show hostility towards ThunderClan."

After a few minutes of silence, Brambleclaw spoke up. "I could take drag his body over to the two-leg place and we could blame it on them. The two-leg scent is strong enough to cover our scent."

Firestar nodded. "I don't really want to do this, but unfortunately we cannot risk war with RiverClan. We are still recovering from the badgers attack."

"I will take care of it then," Brambleclaw meowed.

"No. Squirrelflight and I will do it. Brambleclaw, you need to check your wounds," Firestar ordered. "No one is to speak of this event to anybody." With that, he and Squirrelflight went to get Hawkfrost's body.

"Firestar, could I send back another warrior in case you run into trouble?" Brambleclaw asked.

"Only if it is Sandstorm," Firestar called back. Brambleclaw nodded and took off back to camp with Leafpool.

As they were approaching camp, a group of ThunderClan warriors who looked like they were in a hurry approached the two. Brambleclaw could make out Sandstorm, Ashfur, Dustpelt, Cloudtail, and Brackenfur. "We got the situation taken care of, Ashfur," Leafpool meowed.

"But what about Hawkfrost?" Dustpelt asked.

Brambleclaw and Leafpool's eyes met for a moment, but Brambleclaw glanced away. "Hawkfrost?" Brambleclaw asked. "What about him?"

Ashfur stepped forward. "I saw you and him!" he accused. "I saw you both sit there watch Firestar struggle in the fox trap! Speaking of which, where are Firestar or Squirrelflight?"

"And why is your fur stained with blood?" Sandstorm observed. "You look exhausted, like you were in a fight."

"Sandstorm," Leafpool looked at her mother. "Firestar and Squirrelflight need your help. Follow our trail all the way to the lake."

"Firestar's orders," Brambleclaw added to the senior warrior.

"No wait Sandstorm…don't listen to him! He is lying! He is a traitor…no better than his father!" Ashfur tried to convince the ginger cat.

"Ashfur, I am nothing like my father," Brambleclaw responded calmly. Now was not a good time to show hostility towards one of his warriors. That is not what a good deputy would do. Although, the thought of his father though put some fear into his mind. He can never go to sleep.

Sandstorm looked at Brambleclaw, to Ashfur, and finally to her daughter, Leafpool. "I'll go," she decided. "I trust Leafpool with my life." With that, she took off down the trail Brambleclaw and Leafpool came from.

"I want the rest of you to go back to camp," Brambleclaw ordered. "Firestar is fine."

"And how do we know you didn't kill him or Squirrelflight?" Dustpelt asked suspiciously.

Brambleclaw leveled his gaze at Dustpelt. "Firestar is alive. As for Squirrelflight, I would never harm Squirrelflight. I would never lay a paw on her. Surely you know how I feel about her? You feel the same way about Ferncloud," Brambleclaw told him.

Dustpelt looked him in the eye, as if trying to sense a lie. Eventually, Dustpelt backed down. "Very well Brambleclaw. I believe you," he meowed. He flicked his tail to the rest of the group. "Our deputy gave us an order to go back to camp. He says Firestar and Squirrelflight are fine. I trust his word." With that, he took off back to camp. One by one, starting with Cloudtail, the cats started to go back to camp.

So what did you think?

It starts off a little slow, I know.

I have the first four chapters done and plan on updating soon.

Please leave some feedback. I would appreciate it as it would improve my writing!

Until next time!