A New Storm of Fire
Disclaimer: Moonwish1 does not own any characters from the book series, Warriors! Erin Hunter owns them all!
Screeches and battles cries roared her ears, as loud as Twoleg monsters. 'This is it, the battle of the Dark Forest.'
The four clans united as one, Lionclan. Starclan has also come to join into the deadly battle. Starclan cats silhouetted the moonrise landscape, the spirits of her ancestors glowed with their starry pelt and their mystical paws. 'Can we even when this battle, when there are so many bloody, evil cat spirits?'
A black shaped pelt streaked for her way. Quick as a legendary Leopardclan warrior, she unsheathed her claws and leapt on the startled tom. Sandstorm quickly slashed her claws at the tom's face and clawed his side. Quickly, he recovered from the blows and raked Sandstorm's side and swiftly kicked his hind paws to her soft belly.
For a second, she stood shocked as the force impacts her and threw her a foxlength away. A memory quickly shot through her.
"Ashfur…" Sandstorm's voice shook as she gazed the tom into his eyes. 'My own half-brother.' Sandstorm thought sadly.
Ashfur growled at Sandstorm, his back still arched back and his teeth bared.
"Sandstorm, when's the last time we met? Oh, the time before Squirrelflight pleaded to leave her sister's kits free from that fire in the Thunderclan camp!" Ashfur spat viciously. Sandstorm froze. 'He tried to kill my grandkits!?'
Sandstorm slowly stood up faced towards him evenly.
"Ashfur, Squirrelflight was grateful for you to be a great friend at the times she needed help at most. But, don't you understand you can't force any cat to love someone you?" meowed Sandstorm slowly. "Forgive and forget, Ashfur."
Ashfur's fur ruffled and took a paw step closer to her with dead hatred in his eyes.
"Does she still need a lesson what she did to me?" Ashfur growled at Sandstorm, with a deadly gleam in his eyes. "She will suffer by…oh I don't know…if her mother gets killed?"
Sandstorm unsheathed her claws and glared at Ashfur. She swiftly swiped her claws to Ashfur's muzzle and kicked her forepaws, as Ashfur yowled in pain. Not wasting any heartbeat of Ashfur's fall, she leapt on top of him and pinned him down.
"Anything left to say?" Sandstorm hissed at Ashfur. Ashfur bared his teeth at her. Sandstorm bit his hindleg and cuffed his ear. Ashfur yelped and scrambled away.
"I will get revenge someday!" Ashfur hissed at Sandstorm. "Tell that to Squirrelflight!"
In a heartbeat, a pale gray she-cat leapt on Ashfur and pinned him to the ground. 'Ferncloud!'
"You can go now Sandstorm, I will finish off this fight." Ferncloud meowed to her. Sandstorm nodded and padded briskly away. Sadness drained into Sandstorm. 'It must be so hard for Ferncloud; after all, she's Ashfur's sister and littermate…'
She froze at her tracks as she heard a loud yowl of anguish coming towards a few foxlengths away. She quickly leapt and dodged the many familiar and different cats as each and every cat fought. There in front of her lay a motionless Poppyfrost and hoarse breathing of Millie. Next to them lay a puddle filled with scarlet blood and Jayfeather, Sandstorm's grandkit and Thunderclan's medicine cat.
"Is there anything I could do to help?" Sandstorm quickly asked Jayfeather. Jayfeather shook his head.
"There's nothing we can do for Poppyfrost." Jayfeather meowed sadly. "But, help me put on these cobwebs to the most fatal wounds on Millie!" Sandstorm quickly padded the cobwebs on her wounds gently, yet firmly. Yowls of pain and screeches still echoed the forest. 'Please, let everything be okay!' Sandstorm prayed quietly. Millie's uneven breathing rapidly slowed down.
"Jayfeather, we can't give up on Millie yet!" Sandstorm pleaded.
"I know, I'm trying the best I can!" Jayfeather retorted. Several heartbeats was as long sunhigh to moonhigh. Suddenly, Jayfeather sighed sadly. "I can't do anymore for Millie, she's going to Starclan…" Millie strained to tell Sandstorm something.
"Please, Sandstorm, tell…tell Graystipe and my kits that I will always watch over them…" Millie's breathing came to a slow stop. Sandstorm and Jayfeather bowed their heads for their dead clanmate for a few heartbeats. Millie's spirit rose outwards from her body and nodded to Sandstorm and Jayfeather.
"I will try my best to help the clans by fighting with Starclan now, thank you for letting me stay in Thunderclan. I will treasure the memories." Millie meowed gratefully and padded into battle. As soon as that, a yowl of anguish came towards a familiar voice. Sandstorm missed a heartbeat as it came from her mate, Firestar as he was fighting both Tigerstar and Hawkfrost. Graystipe ran into the fight to help.
Sandstorm stood horrified as the battle between good and evil had started. Graystipe swiftly swiped Hawkfrost's muzzle, while Hawkfrost bit onto Graystipe's hindleg. Tigerstar clawed near to Firestar's throat. Firestar kicked Tigerstar's soft belly and clawed his flank. Tigerstar yowled in pain, however quickly smashed his head to Firestar's left forepaw. Firestar toppled over and couldn't get up. Anger flowed into Sandstorm and raced towards the fight. She quickly clawed Tigerstar's soft belly underneath and nipped his tail. Sandstorm threw herself protectively in front of Firestar.
"Sandstorm, get out of here!" Firestar growled at her. "You'll get killed by Tigerstar!" Firestar limped badly into a fighting position.
I don't understand what the point is with love," Tigerstar sneered. "It's only to make kin and to try to take over the clans!" Sandstorm growled angrily.
"You know nothing about love; its surprising most of your kin doesn't like you! You don't treat them with love at all!" Sandstorm snapped at Tigerstar.
"Sandstorm, watch out!" Graystipe's voice rang out. As Sandstorm turned around to see why, a powerful paw whacked her head making her collapse. The only thing she saw after that was an unsheathed paw over her throat as darkness loomed into her.
Moonwish1: *gasps* What will happen to Sandstorm? Is she dead!? Find out more in the next chapter! Please R&R and I hoped you like my fanfic. I will make more chapters in the future and then you will all know why the title has to do with this. :)
Sandstorm: I hope I'm not dead... O.o
Firestar: Nooooo, don't leave me Sandstorm!
Graystipe: Moonwish1....what are you going to do to Sandstorm!? Oh btw, have you've seen Millie...?
Moonwish1: Millie...? Well... I guess you'll find out more next chapter...? *smiles innocently*
All of the cats in the battle: Beware, Moonwish1 can be evil at times!