Battle

The Bloodclan cats and Thunderclan cats broke into a fierce battle. Leafpool and Dovewing had already left to get the other clans. And some Windclan cats seemed to be arriving.

Storm flung off an apprentice he'd been fighting, then looked around to see who needed help the most right now. He soon saw a Bloodclan cat in the medicine den. "Breezepelt." He heard Jayfeather hiss.

Oh so that's Breezepelt. Now that he had that cleared up, he figured he better go help. Jayfeather and Briarlight would be no match for Breezepelt.

He ran towards them, but before he could make it, another cat pounced on him, pinning him to the ground. He looked up, it was Knight. "You again."

Knight grinned, it was probably supposed to be creepy, but he didn't seem to have that down. "We have a score to settle."

Storm made a growling sound, then flipped over. Knight jumped out of the way so Storm slammed into the ground. Knight ran over, put a claw on Storm's neck, and got down lower. "You see Stormstep, Bloodclan might not have very nice cats, but they're going to win."

Oh no they won't. Storm sunk his fangs into Knights face. Knight reeled back. Storm knew he didn't have much time, he quickly looked toward the medicine den. Squirrelflight had come to protect Jayfeather and Briarlight. Meanwhile Knight had come back. He slammed Storm into one of the many walls in this camp. Storm kicked Knight back clawed at him while he was down. Knight ripped one of his hind legs through Storm's neck. Storm felt shocked. He hadn't seen that coming. Knight jumped up slammed Storm into the ground again. He was going to kill Storm.

That was when someone bit Knight's neck. Knight seemed as surprised as Storm had been. Whoever was holding Knight's neck flung him away. That was when Storm could see who it was. "Blackstar. You came."

Blackstar nodded, then dove back into the battle. Storm figured he better do that too.

Then a thought occurred to him. He didn't see Bramblestar anywhere. And Rushi-Bloodstar, was missing too. Uh-oh. Storm knew what he did next was probably foolish, Bramblestar had nine lives, he could handle it. But Storm went running up to the leader's den. Sure enough they were both up there. Bloodstar sneered at Bramblestar. "I'll win you know. I've taken one of your lives, I can take all nine of them if I must."

"Why do it all?" Bramblestar asked.

"Why? Because my dad's one of the power of three. He gets to fight cats without ever getting hurt. I'm his kit, and what do I get? Nothing!" Bloodstar launched into the air and attacked Bramblestar. It was crazy, but Bloodstar seemed to have an advantage. Unlike his father, he might get hurt, but he was doing a great job ignoring it. And those huge claw extensions were helping him deal deadly blows. Storm ran in to help. Bramblestar's eyes widened in surprise. Bloodstar, having not seen him yet, kicked Bramblestar's head into the wall. Bramblestar went unconscious. "Now I will take the rest of your lives." He hissed.

"No, you won't." Storm shot back. Bloodstar tensed up. Storm took his moment of surprise to jump on and try to get his paws into Bloodstar's neck. It didn't succeed though. He was having a hard time getting his paws under that spiked collar. And with only his hind paws keeping him on, Bloodstar had an easy time chucking him off. Storm slid across the ground. Bloodstar shot forward towards him. Storm clawed him as he got closer, but he just ignored it. He dug his claws in Storm's shoulders. Storm kicked him with his hind legs, some blood came out and Bloodstar, being apprentice age, was flung back. He hit the ground and didn't move. Storm raised an eyebrow. I couldn't have defeated him that easily. Could I? Storm came for a closer. Bloodstar lashed out and jammed his huge claws into Storm's eyes. Storm clawed Bloodstar's face and used the distraction to jump out of range. He tried to open his eyes, but all he could see was blood. Then he saw the blurry form as Bloodstar. He charged in and tried to knock Storm to the ground but Storm was bigger, and it was pretty much impossible. He kicked Bloodstar in the chest. Bloodstar fell. He jumped back up and stuck his claw in to Storm's neck. For the second time today Storm thought he was going to die. Then Bloodstar's grip loosened. About half a second later his grip was gone altogether, and fell to the ground.

This time he was dead for good. But Storm didn't understand how. He hadn't done anything. That's when he smelled the blood. Of course. Bloodstar was covered in wounds, and not just from Storm, from Bramblestar too. He'd died of blood lose. Storm grabbed his scruff and took him out. Most of the Bloodclan cats were dead or had run away. When they saw him carrying Bloodstar, they made a run for it too. Storm dropped Bloodstar's body and came running down.

He still could barely see, but Jayfeather was busy enough, Storm didn't need to add to his problems. "Jayfeather!" Storm turned in the direction of the voice. It was Millie. She was standing in front of a dying cat. "Jayfeather help!"

Jayfeather came over. He started applying herbs. Storm still didn't know who it was. He sniffed. It was Blossomfall.

"Is she going to die?" Millie asked.

Jayfeather shook his head. Storm had a feeling Jayfeather didn't know though. Slowly Blossomfall's faded breathing returned to normal. For a while, there a sort of calm spread over the cats. Then Bramblestar yelled. "Squirrelflight!"

The cats went to where he was, the medicine den. Unlike Blossomfall, Squirrelflight was already dead. "No." Storm heard Leafpool whimper.

Bramblestar put his head into Squirrelflight's fur. "I'm sorry."

Briarlight pulled herself over. "She died saving us."

Jayfeather put his tail on Bramblestar. "We will morn. And then you'll pick a new deputy."

Jayfeather slowly pulled away. Bramblestar took Squirrelflight's body to the center of camp. Jayfeather meanwhile shoved Storm. "Come on, it's time for you to go."

"What? But, what about the new deputy?" Storm felt a little dazed.

Jayfeather shook his head. "You came to stop Bloodstar, and you have done that. Now you need to return to your own time." He gave Storm a shove out the entrance.

Storm knew he wasn't back in his time yet. He sighed and walked through the forest. He saw two Shadowclan cats carrying a body back to their clan. After smelling, he realized Blackstar was the body.

Storm swallowed and kept walking. He couldn't try to blink the blood out of his eyes because that would probably just make it worse. And it was because he could barely see that he tripped. He fell down a slope and blacked out at the bottom.

(Blackstar's been leader for a long time anyway. And yeah, only Storm in this chapter. But he had a long part here, and Moon has a long part next.)