A/N: Ok I got bored and can't think of a few things for the next chapter of "Of Shadow and Light" so I've decided to make this; It goes back in time and we how Warthorn lived a bit and I wanted to address how Grage became what he is. This is the end of the war that frees all of the clans.

Death of a friendship

"Keep moving Thorn! Do you want to die in the mud?!" Nathan yelled out at me as we were running through this hell hole of a battle ground. "Heck no; I'm not dying today!" I yelled out at my friend. Two wolves jumped out of nowhere and tackled Nathan to the ground! "Nathan!" I yelled and tackled both of them off him taking one to the side and felt my fangs meet his throat even as his bit my shoulder and felt as he died on top of me with his fangs still in my shoulder as the rain kept hammering down on top of us.

I felt the wolf being pulled off me and the fangs coming out of my shoulder though one was still stuck in there. And I looked up to see Nathan and Philip and the rest of my squad looking at me and I got up with a slight grunt of pain.

Star our medic came up and said "Let me see to that." And she took the fang out of my shoulder causing me to yelp. "Oh come on I've seen wolves that've had their leg almost torn off. This is nothing." She said holding the fang up and smiling. "Yea but it wasn't in you." I said back and is all she did was laugh at that.

Grage came up and said "So what are we going to do about Nirn?" he asked reminding me of our mission. We are to go behind enemy lines and kill the enemy leader once and for all.

"We keep going; he's not that far from where we are so we should be able to still get down with the element of surprise on our side." I told them. And they all nodded in agreement and we moved once again toward the enemy line hearing the snarls and howls of pain from wolves.

I hope dad's alright. I thought vaguely as we kept up the move but before we got any further Grage fell behind and A large group of Harrkorians jumped out of Nowhere again and surrounded us! "Grage help!" Star yelled as she just made a wolf back off from the assault.

But is all he did was sit down and watched as the wolves attacked us with a smile on his face. And then out of the bushes came Nirn and he sat down by Grage with the same smile on his face- one of grim satisfaction. "Grage what are you doing!?" I yelled at my friend. Then I noticed something I had not really acknowledged but now seemed so obvious. "Surprised Thorn?" Grage said with self satisfaction in his voice. "I guess you never thought was the only son of Nirn now did you?" he mocked at me. "Silence son, now make your demand so we get this over with." Nirn said. "Of course, Star." He said her name to get her attention. "What you bastard?" she snarled at him. "You can escape death…if you only come with me; you can be the mate to a real chieftain…and not a weakling like him." He said shooting a hate filled glance at me.

She looked at him and what she said next wanted me to kiss her, "Now why would I want to go with a piece of slime like you when the one I love is right next to me." She said motioning to me and I couldn't help but have a giant smile on my face. That was unexpected; and I just felt myself forget about this whole war and looked at her and saw her silver fur shine in the rain that kept hitting her.

And then I looked back at Grage and saw his anger at that comment and the fact that she was in love with me and not him. At least if I was going to die I'd have that knowledge in my head. However before he could say anything Nirn raised his paw and four wolves were leading a battered and bruised grey blue wolf out of the bushes and I started when I realized it was my father! "Dad!" I yelled and Nirn smiled as he heard the anguish in my voice and he turned to my father and said "So, Vlad, we finally meet. The leader of War-eye clan, I had expected you to fight a lot harder than your son has. HAHA!" he laughed and clawed my father once more and that only succeeded in making me even madder. We were still surrounded by wolves on both sides when I then heard my father start to speak.

"There is a difference here my friend, cah! You are a coward in that you won't fight me one on one, but you'll fight me if you have a hundred wolves backing you up." And here he bowed his head and said something inaudible. Nirn moved closer to his enemy and said "What was that you…ah-ah!" and he backed from the slash my father had delivered and he let out a howl and twenty War-eye wolves pounced on the enemy Harrkorians and forced them away from us. "You'll die before I leave!" and I turned to see Grage jump at me with a clear shot to my throat!

Time seemed to stop and out of nowhere I heard a wolf yell "Over my dead body!" and I saw my father lunge at Grage having one of his fangs tear out his eye and they both went over the edge of the ridge.

"Dad!" I yelled again and ran to go where they had landed. I heard Starlark, Philip, and Nathan running behind me and we finally reached where they had crashed landed.

Grage was nowhere to be found but I saw my father and I ran up to him "Dad!" and he looked up to me and flashed a smile at me and said "Come here." And I approached him and lowered myself down by his head so I could hear him talk. I barely registered a wolf coming by and telling us that the Harrkorians were retreating. He went quite when he saw us and watched on.

"You fought bravely out there…let no one tell you differently, understand?" he asked me and I nodded to sad to talk. But he wasn't done. "Good…now I don't have much longer…so listen closely; you have earned two things…one is the rank of General of the War-eye clan…and with the last of my power I have I give to you the title of war with your name so all will remember, that it is the war-eye that are amongst the greatest of warriors." And everyone heard this but it also shocked me the most because only the greatest of warriors in the War-eye clan are ever given the title of war. It was put on with ones name so all may know that he or she was a great warrior.

But through these thoughts my father leaned upwards toward me and whispered into my ear "And take care of that girl of yours; wolves like her, only come around rarely." He said to me and laid his head down and took one last breath and passed away. A light wind came then; signifying that his spirit had past.

I heard someone come up beside me and put a paw on my shoulder and I looked over to see the brown eyes of the love of my life…Starlark. "I'm sorry thorn." And I felt something come over me and I hugged her. After a startled reaction she returned the gesture and I then released her saying "Sorry I… I don't know what came-" but was interrupted by her kissing me.

"Don't be." She said and I saw her eyes having only love for me and I decided I had waited long enough "I love you." I told her saw her eyes bright up at that and she kissed me again. "I love you to." She whispered into my ear after we broke. We stared into each other's eyes until we heard Nathan yell "Hey look!" and we both looked over and saw a sight like never before.

Over the hills and forests that we could see from where we were standing we could see the sun rising up from the horizon shading everything into a golden radiance and brightening the darkness that had fallen over the vale in where we had fought for our freedom.

I looked at Starlark at my side and marveled at how the sunlight shone on her fur seeming it to be made out of pure silver and gold from the light and I felt a smile on my face and turned once more to look at the sun rise.

Yes, life will go on and even though many of us have lost something at least now we can rebuild. And who knows what could come out of it? I can only see happiness and peace coming out of this…and perhaps love.

And I once again looked at Starlark and her beauty and thought to myself. Yes love will defiantly come.

And a new day had dawn on the darkness.

A/N: Thank you for reading this please read and review.