Mosspath asked if Shadowclan's attack was at the training hallow. Yes, it was.
-Chapter 13-
Firestar and his clan
mates ran into the Shadowclan camp just as the moon
was rising.
All of the Shadowclan cats were in a circle staring at
something
in the middle. When Thunderclan came bursting in, all eyes
turned
from sad to angry. Firestar took a few steps in front of his
warriors. Some Shadowclan warriors stepped aside so Blackstar
could face
the Thunderclan leader.
"How dare you kill Kinkfur." growled Blackstar.
"How dare you
attack unprovoked, during a training session no less?"
Came
the powerful voice of Firestar. He took a few more steps toward
Blackstar revealing Snowpaw behind him. The angry eyes that
glared at
Thunderclan turned to fear. It was clear that rumors of
Snowpaw's battle
had spread all over Shadowclan.
"How
dare you come in on our ceremony for her? You are a disgrace,
kittypet. And you always will be." Snowpaw's fur started
stand after
that comment. What is so wrong with being a
kittypet.
The Shadowclan queens stared to herd their kits
into the nursery,
followed by some warriors to protect them. The
elders also went to their
nests followed by warriors to protect
them. The most powerful warriors
and apprentices formed a line
behind Blackstar. Snowpaw caught a glimpse
of a limp body in the
clearing. I really did kill her. I didn't mean to.
I was just
protecting my self. Within a heartbeat, the war began.
Battle cries, scratching, and biting could be heard everywhere.
The same
brown tom that had attack Foxpaw stood in front of her.
"Revenge!" he
yowled as ran toward Snowpaw.
Everything became in slow motion again, giving Snowpaw a lifetime
to
think. Using the same move would not work on him since he had
already
witnessed it. She had to think of something. Snowpaw
crouched low and
jumped high into the air. The tom, thinking that
Snowpaw was going to
jump over him, turned around and waited for
her to land. However, for
the tom, she just jumped straight up
with no intention on jumping over
him. She thought his experience
in fighting would tell him to turn
around and she was right.
She landed in the same spot, unsheathed her claws, and ran to his
right
side with her front paw out to scratch. Hopping on three
legs, she did a
360 around him, covering his whole body with a
single long scratch.
Below the scratch, the tom's fur became
bloody very quickly. His eyes
looked into her light blue eyes. "I
see now." The brown tom collapsed to
the floor. "You
must be a gift from Starclan to take down two warriors
in the
same day without breaking a sweat."
"Oakfur?"
a ginger tom came running to the brown tom's side. His eyes were
sad, fearful, and then angry. He touched his nose to his friends
head "I'll
take it from here." The brown tom got up
and limped to a den, which
Snowpaw assumed to be the medicine cat
den. "Your rampage ends now." The
clearing grew silent
as Blackstar stopped his fight with Firestar and ran to the white
apprentice.
"She's mine." He growled.
He
began to circle her. She copied his every move to the last twitch of
his tail. This made Blackstar uneasied. Sure, a warrior could
predict a
move every now and then, but how did she know when he
was going to
twitched his tail and copy it at the same moment.
Ignoring his instinct to
say sorry to Thunderclan, he broke the
circle and charged forward and so
did Snowpaw.
The crowed
of both Thunderclan and Shadowclan watched as a leader and
apprentice fought for their beliefs and fought to protect their
clan. Both
cats ran to middle, got onto their hind legs, and
scratched each other
in the face. Blackstar stared to panic. She
had copied him to the exact
detail of the move. She even hit him
on the right eye, which he had done
to her. Both cats jumped a
few tail lengths back, panting.
Snowpaw took a deep breath
and long blink. When she opened her eyes, she
found herself in
the same forest she was daydreaming about earlier.
This time she
was witnessing the event instead of being her past self.
She sat
a fox length away from herself and a gray she-cat.
The gray
she-cat licked Snowfang between the ears. "This needs to stop."
She whispered. Snowfang look at her.
"What needs to stop Stormfury?" she questioned.
Stormfury stared at
her. "The killing! All this useless killing of
innocent cats
and prey."
"I'm not so sure. We are the strongest
clan now." She stared into her
sister's eyes.
"So
what if we are strong. You just attacked Hawkclaw. The cat you are
in love with." Snowfang scratched her sister's mussel with
unsheathed claws.
"I do not love him. I...I." She
licked her sister's scratch and bowed
her head in shame. "I
just thought you were Winterstar. So I...I
attacked him."
Snowfang's voice was cracking in pain and sadness. Her
sister
rubbed her back with her tail. "Now he'll never come back. He
probably hates me now. Hawkclaw hat-"
"No.
You're wrong. He will always love you. He's a smart cat. He'll
figure
it out. Figure that it was an act and that you still love
him."
Stormfurry said with a smile.
"You're
right. We must stop the killing, stop Winterstar. So, we can be
together. We must stop the hate."
Snowpaw blinked
back to reality. Blackstar stared with such hatred in
his eyes.
She knew what she had to do. She must stop the fighting.
Blackstar prepared for round two. As soon as he was about to
jump,
Snowpaw stood up tall and yelled, "Wait!"
