Nightpaw opened her eyes to find herself in a lush sunlit forest. "Nightpaw. We were expecting you." Nightpaw looked beside her to see a blue grey she cat staring at her with friendly icy blue eyes. "Why were you expecting me? I'm not even a medicine cat." Nightpaw said, slightly confused. "We knew you would come. You were supposed to. It was necessary." The blue she cat mewed, voice full of wisdom. "Why?" "You don't belong in Thunderclan Nightpaw, but that doesn't mean you don't have a reason to be born into that clan. Someone needed to kill Firestar."
"What do you mean? I never killed him. I mean, I've thought about it lots, but he's still alive." "Oh. You never did that yet?" Bluestar mewed, looking surprised, her happiness momentarily crashing into sheer disappointment. "Oh well not long now." Bluestar mewed in a happy singsongy voice.
"You know Firestar really is a son of a bitch. None of us could have imagined he would be such a failure." Bluestar muttered. Nightpaw nodded sadly in agreement.
"Nightpaw. You have a great destiny. But right now the clan is in peril, I only ask that you do everything you can to make sure Firestar loses at least one life today. He only has four left."
"No problem." Nightpaw said, smiling at the prospect of finally getting rid of that son of a bitch.
A few minutes later Nightpaw and Winterpaw were bounding through the forest towards camp. When they got there the clan was beneath the highledge staring up at Brambleclaw, who was actually sober at the moment.
"Okay. Lionblaze, Squirrelflight, Ashfur, Cloudtail, Ivypaw, Foxtail, Icecloud, and Tigerface will come with me on the battle patrol. We will release Treeshadow for this battle."
Usually the clan would challenge him but lately they had been treating him as leader since Firestar was such a moron. "Where's Firestar?" Brightheart asked. Brambleclaw ignored her. "Also Firestar wants to talk to Birchfall, Nightpaw, and Thornclaw in his den."
Nightpaw shared a glance with Winterpaw. "This should be interesting." She commented. Winterpaw looked amused and uneasy at the same time. "What if he wants to send you on the suicide mission?" "I'll take my chances." Nightpaw replied before following Birchfall and Ashfur to Firestars den. They hesitated in the entrance for a moment. They couldn't see or hear anything. "Firestar?" Ashfur called. No answer. "Lets just go in" Birchfall said. Nightpaw followed them inside and saw Firestar sitting in the farthest corner, talking to himself. "I'm sorry nyan cat but I have to go to El Doroto, it's my destiny" Firestar whispered, tears shining in his eyes.
Suddenly he seemed to notice them standing in the entrance. "Oh, I almost forgot. You are all going on a suicide mission to the covenant submarine thing that Ashfur saw. You have a few minutes to say goodbye before leaving."
"What the hell!" Birchfall shrieked. "I don't plan on dying!" 'Well… you might not if you're really lucky. I just want you to kill everyone in the submarine and take control of it. You might succeed somehow. If you disobey my orders Treeshadow will kill you immediately." Firestar said, staring at them menacingly. "You're running out of time to say goodbye to the other cats." "Fine." Birchfall growled, shifting his gaze to the ground, tail dragging in the earth as he left Firestars den.
Nightpaw wasn't sure what to think. She wasn't afraid to die really, living as a Thunderclan cat was insanely boring and usually pretty meaningless, she just wanted to make sure Firestar paid for it eventually.
Winterpaw was waiting for her outside. "What did he say?" Winterpaw asked, staring at her with wide curious eyes. "We're going on a suicide mission." Winterpaw immediately looked horrified. "Winterpaw I need you to give me a bunch of drugs. I have a plan." "O-Okay… But I'm coming with you. You need to know how to use some of them properly so they'll work best." Winterpaw mewed shakily. "Okay, but we have to leave… now." Nightpaw muttered darkly.