Bramblestar could use his quickness to scare and confuse his opponents. He would even sometimes directly run at them, limiting the time they had to react.
Braamblestar recognizes the soft unprotect skin and fur on the mutt's front legs. When the mutt turns right to guard his flanks, he seized an opportunity. Leaning down, he clamps his jaws around the mutt's front right leg and he began to pulls back. As he ripped back, he began to chew a large gash from under the thick matted fur. Gastonia was yelping as he fought Bramblestar for his leg to be out of his mouth but his back teeth was slicing his leg like a pair of wood cutting saws. Soon with enough force, he pulls his leg out from the cat's mouth. And as a result it knocks a good amount of teeth out of Bramblestar, Mainly incisors and canines. Bramblestar hissed as he tasted blood which came from where his teeth used to be. The teeth lay scattered on the ground and he knew his mouth was soon no longer useful.
Gastonia was soon howling in agony as blood gushed from his leg where Bramblestar had clamped onto. He soon knew he had been injured by the cat and he was in terrible pain. He couldn't apply a lot of weight on the injured limb so he now had to now turn his tail against Bramblestar on only three legs. Soon he kept the injured leg curled up underneath to try to protect it from any further damage.
Bramblestar had the perfect opportunity to have his shot at his, he has inflicted the injury and he knew if he could do it a couple more time it would be goodbye to Gastonia and game over for the mutt. Bramblestar was soon padding around to see where he could inflict the next serious injury and due to his injury, he knew Gastonia wouldn't be going anywhere and he would be dead from blood loss in the next couple of hours. As he moved to the back leg to impair it, Gastonia soon found this to be an opportunity for payback as he neared his tail. He shifted a bit to the right to show that he wasn't afraid of wielding a tail that would most likely inflict injury. Another thing that would make the job easier was the drought has weakened Bramblestar down and he knew he would break the leg bone with a lot of force if it was like a twig.
Bramblestar soon darted to the back leg as he used one of his back paws to slice his left flank open before he had to dodge Gastonia's swinging tail, as a result the cut wasn't as big as he wanted it to be as he soon got ready to attack as he darted around wanting the mutt to make the wrong move. However he was preparing for payback as he felt an adrenaline rush as he tempted Bramblestar to the base of his tail. Although his tail was very heavy due to the clumps of hard fur running along both sides, he was able to swing it at an uncontrollable speed. He knew this was his only chance of winning.
Bramblestar was soon distracted as he darted, backing up trying to avoid his tail. He was unaware he was moving into the perfect position for him. Bramblestar saw this as the perfect chance of finishing his opponent off but he had wandered into a trap. Bramblestar rushes forward hoping the mutt would be too slow to react. But Gastonia knew he had swung his tail at the perfect time. As Bramblestar landed a couple of inches short of his target, he felt something slice into his ankle and he yowled finding out he had be caught.
Gastonia soon knew his tail had swung at him and the giant clumps of fur were slicing through the soft skin and thin layer of muscles that were from Bramblestar. Bramblestar was soon yowling in pain as he went berserk trying to free himself. He rakes his claws alongside the mutts back but that was completely useless. The hard fur was cutting along his leg as it grinds along his ankle bone as Bramblestar screeches in pain. Bramblestar soon frees himself trying desperately to regen his footing, but Gastonia wasn't done with him just yet. Gastonia soon began to swing his tail from side to side as like a cat being trapped in a bramble nest. The sharp pieces of fur slice through the soft skin and thin flesh of the frail former Thunder-clan leader. Bramblestar was still screeching as he felt like his blood and flesh was on fire and being sliced open in battle when he felt something break in his leg. Bramblestar soon had enough of this, as he hopped backwards to avoid any more of this type of attack when his broken leg gave on him and soon Bramblestar collapsed to the ground. It was clear, that Gastonia has won the battle.
He soon turns his head staring at a collapsed Bramblestar, he was soon able to determine that he was unable to continue the fight. Instead of helping an injured cat like he would normally do, he turned away and he went back to his search for water. Bramblestar passes out from this being too much for him.
Bramblestar soon woke up three hours later, and he saw Gastonia was gone, he was all alone and bleeding from his injuries. It was clear that his fruitless attempt at hunting under the blazing sun has taken a heavy toll on him. His injuries, heat stress and lack of food have all but killed him. He continued to lay there as the minutes ticked by wondering if help was going to save him. But no one will come so he closes his eyes for the final time and he fell limp as his last life slipped out of him. Soon he was off to join Star-clan for good.
Later the rally party checked the lake and sees if Bramblestar was there, what the saw was a cat that looked like him, as they gather around his broken body; they confirmed that it was him. They collected him up as they all, brought him to the large beech tree to bury him. The entire clan was sad knowing that they had lost their leader because of this. Even though they hated him at this point, they still felt sorry for him for being a great leader for the clan. As they said their goodbyes to their leader, they felt a change was in the wind. Soon the clans were going to get drenched with the much needed rain that they wanted for moons.
[A/N]: Bramblestar has finally died. But what about the mutt he fought up against? Where did he end up? Keep reading the hopefully last three chapters to find out where their friend has ended up. Next chapter will be up about tomorrow. If not I'll tell you.