Disclaimer-I do not own Warriors or any of their characters. If I did I would have had Ashfur die in the badger attack.
The Badger Attack-Alternate Ending
The badgers were flowing in like a river. They were everywhere. Squirrelflight was terrified. No matter how many she fought off, more just kept flowing in. She was fighting side by side with Ashfur, but a thought was nagging at her mind. Where was Brambleclaw?
All of sudden there was a squeal and Squirrelflight turned to see Whitepaw cornered by a badger. Ashfur was about to attack when she said "Stop! This is Midnight, the badger that helped us on the journey to the sun-drown place."
"What are you doing here Midnight?" Squirrelflight asked. "What if she's here to fight with her kin?" she thought.
"I am not here to fight. I bring help." she answered. Squirrelflight stared with shock as a bunch of Windclan cats leaped into the battle. They drove away the rest of the badgers.
Squirrelflight still couldn't find Brambleclaw. The battle was over so she decided to ask Cinderpelt.
"Cinderpelt, are you there?" she called. She heard someone say come in, but it wasn't Cinderpelt's voice. It was her sister! She raced in but stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Cinderpelt laying on the floor, dead. Her sister was sharing tongues with her for the last time. "Leafpool! You're back!" was all she could manage to say. She gave her sister a welcome home lick on the head and asked "What happened?".
"A badger attacked while Sorreltail was giving birth and it killed Cinderpelt." Leafpool replied, her voice stricken with grief.
As Squirrelflight saw Cinderpelt's body she remembered why she had come her in the first place. "Have you seen Brambleclaw?" she asked.
"He hasn't come to get his wounds checked. He must not be badly hurt." Leafpool answered.
"But I saw him a little while ago and he was limping!" Squirrelflight said. She was starting to get worried. She knew she should have been trying to find Ashfur, but she couldn't get Brambleclaw out of her mind. "I'm going to go find him!" she told Leafpool.
"Come and get your wounds checked when you've found him." Leafpool answered with understanding in her eyes.
Squirrelflight ran out into the clearing. She saw something that made her jump. Sootfur's body, all plastered with blood, lay in the middle of the camp. "What if that happened to Brambleclaw? Where is he? Maybe he was fine and went hunting."
Squirrelflight left the camp and tried to pick up Brambleclaw's scent. She found a trail leading near Shadowclan territory. She followed the scent trail to the abandoned twoleg nest.
"Brambleclaw!" she called when she reached the twoleg nest. She could scent him nearby, so why wouldn't he answer. She walked into the twoleg nest and found what she had dreaded seeing since the badgers attacked the camp. There, lying in the middle of the twoleg nest was Brambleclaw. She rushed to him and stuck her head into his fur. He was cold and lifeless. She let out a yowl of pain.
She then noticed what she hadn't noticed before. Brambleclaw's fur was torn out and he was bleeding at his neck . Squirrelflight could tell by the bite mark that a badger had done this. She tried to pick-up a badger smell but it was stale. The badger was long gone and satisfied with it's kill. From that day forth Squirrelflight vowed vengeance against all badgers. She hated them with all of her heart. She was always the keenest to drive them out and was eventually killed while trying to drive out a family of badgers.