Rosepaw is dead. Sparrowpaw is dead. Wolfpaw is dead.
That's all I could think. All three of my littermates. Gone. It had been Sparrowpaw's idea to go to Snake rocks.
But you didn't stop them!
Guilt gnawed her belly, eating her away
Rosepaw is dead. Sparrowpaw is dead. Wolfpaw is dead.
I am alive.
Those thoughts burned in her mind.
I am responsible. I let them go. I went with them. But I survived.
"Oh Starclan...You are cruel" she muttered.
Her claws were red. Eyes were wide.
"Starclan wasn't watching us."
"Starclan never watches."
"Starclan doesn't help us." She raved.
She stumbled over a rock.
FLASH BACK
"We'll kill every last one of them!" Sparrowpaw crowed
"Yeah!" Rosepaw and Wolfpaw cheered in unison. They meant the badgers at Snake Rocks. They had killed the snakes, but they injured cats too. They couldn't be left there. Sparrowpaw thought they could do it.
As they entered Snake Rocks. They weren't aware that the fourth apprentice, Vixenpaw, wasn't following anymore. She hid behind a tree. Suddenly, a black shadow reared up. It brought it's claws down on Wolfpaw's head.
He was dead before he hit the ground.
Rosepaw screamed.
The badger clawed her. She fell. Motionless.
Sparrowpaw turned to run but it was too late. The badger's claws fell. Sparrowpaw hit the ground. He died within moments. His last words were
"Vixenpaw!"
End of FLASH BACK
Vixenpaw had escaped. Vixenpaw had lived. But they had not. They had died.
She began to laugh
It's good they're not here! They don't have to hear 'Starclan this!' and 'Starclan that!'
Her laugh turned to a crazed cackle
"Lucky...Lucky..."
Suddenly she whipped around and screamed
"LUCKY!"
Her claws ripped through tree, sending shreds of bark everywhere. Her cackle morphed to a howl of insanity. All across the territories, sentries bristled, Medicine cats growled at the sky and queens drew their young kits closer.
"I...Am...Not...Vixenpaw" The she-cat panted, eyes dancing wildly
"I...am...Vixen. I...Am...Death"
She let out another crazed howl and disappeared into the night.
She was never seen again.
Later (5 seasons)
"Never go to Snake Rocks young kits." Blackfrost murmured softly to her three kits, Morningkit, Splashkit and Grasskit
"That's where Vixen lurks. She does no harm to your pelt" puzzlement crossed the faces of the kits
"But she harms your mind. She fills it with horror and hatred."
"Never go to Snake Rocks. If you do, bad luck will be fall you"
The kits sat, a mixture of horror, fascination and terror tinted lit their eyes. Morningkit was first to speak
"But what if you have too? Like, if you need to shelter there in a fire?"
Morningkit looked up with her two brothers, fascination and curiosity glittering in their respective amber, blue and green gazes.
Blackfrost sighed.
"Then Starclan have mercy. Starclan have mercy on us all. For Vixen knows no mercy."