Cherryfrost woke up to Skyheart looking over her. "What happened?" He hissed quietly, watching her with knowing eyes. Cherryfrost averted her eyes, then they widened.

"Fireblaze? Fireblaze!" She stood, wincing at her injured shoulder.

"She went on patrol just a few minutes ago with Volestep, Brackenfoot and Duskfur." Ivyfrost supplied. "Why?"

"Fireblaze! Get her back in camp! Get my kit!"

She made to push past Skyheart but he held her down with wide eyes. "Why should we? Is she in danger?"

"She's going to kill her! Shadestar is going to kill her!"

Skyheart flattened his ears. Who was Shadestar?

"And why should we do this and believe you? There is no Shadestar in the four now five clans." Mousestar growled. "You are trying to set us up and kill us all. I will not send my warriors just so a hidden rogue of cats you hired can kill them." The cats surrounding him snarled in agreement.

Cherryfrost looked to him with pleading eyes. "Please Mousestar, please stop the patrol!"

Mousestar sneered at her, but the brambles to the entrance shook. Duskfur, Volestep and Brackenfoot came in, covered in wounds. The clan gasped. "Brackenfoot what happened?!" Mousestar gasped.

The she cat hung her head. "We were ambushed by Shadowclan! They-they killed Fireblaze!" Cherryfrost broke free and ran past them, tears streaming. All she could think was no no no.

~ooo~

Trickfur met Shadeflame at the border with three other cats. They were all toms and in the Dark Forest. One was a tabby named Kinkpelt, a ginger named Gorsetop, and a white one named Haretail. All of them had amber eyes.

Shadeflame glared at them. "If anyone finds out you four will be the first to die," she threatened. They all nodded and crossed over the border to Windclan, rolled themselves in musky ferns to hide their scent and then waited by the bushes. Duskfur, Brackenfoot and Volestep walked by with Fireblaze behind them.

Shadeflame watched as they patrolled and marked their borders with a sickening look. Her ears perked as she listened in to their conversation.

"Anyone thinking that the additional clan added to the forest is kinda weird?" Brackenfoot asked.

"Yea, and to top it off it's a clan that mousestar was exiled from!" Volestep growled. "And since Mousestar and Snowstar are enemies, we are bound to have a war with them at one point, probably soon." The cats of the patrol nodded in agreement.

"What I can't understand is why they took Rabbitstrike in," Frireblaze spat. "When we went there we specifically told them to kill that flea bitten mange!"

Hisses of agreement and anger filled the air. Duskfur stomped the ground. "Maybe if we can convince them how bad of a cat she is they will exile her, or better yet kill her. Jaymist was her father and he knew she was bad, so when her real father realizes this as well he will surely want to get rid of her!"

"So then we should invade Shadeclan," Fireblaze hissed.

Brackenfoot shook his head. "That's too risky."

"Then we can call for an audience with Snowstar, then once he takes us in we will talk to him and tell him how much of a fox heart Rabbitstrike really is!"

Trickfur glanced sideways, her fur standing on ends. They were talking about Shadeflame, and said she cat was looking really angry. "They want to turn my father against me, when it was them who shunned me and never gave me a chance to grow to be the warrior I am now. And Fireblaze, always a conniving, planning cat just like Ivyfrost! Well now I say that you won't even live to see the next moon." Shadeflame was indeed furious, spitting quietly her hatred at the patrol.

Haretail shivered. "When will we attack?" Shadeflame shushed him and tensed, bunching her muscles. She counted slowly in her head and then, out loud she whispered:

"Ready...now!"

They shot out and attacked the patrol. The three Shadowclan toms attacked the others while Trickfur and Shadeflame attacked Fireblaze at once. The she cat yowled in surprise and tried to fight back, but she was too taken by surprise and didn't stand a chance. "End her Trickfur!" Shadeflame snapped.

Trickfur snarled down at the injured she cat. "This is what your mother gets for embarrassing me and sparing the enemy." She attacked, latching her fangs into Fireblaze's neck and shaking her viciously. Fireblaze let out a sharp cry as she was killed. Then they all ran away, leaving three injured cats and a dead one. The three survivers instantly ran home.

Shadeflame watched them with a grin and turned to Trickfur. "Good job, Lionclaw won't kill you." She steps towards the cat. "You owe me." She then turned and ran away.

Trickfur turned to her clan mates. "When we get back we will tell Gorsestar Windclan tried to invade and we fended them off." The other three nodded and ran home.

~ooo~

Cherryfrost stopped in front of Fireblaze's mangled and bloody body. With a cry she buried her face into her bloody fur, uncaring of the blood she got on herself. "I'm so sorry, Fireblaze. You weren't supposed to be a part of this. It is my entire fault. I caused your death." She looked up with a glare. "I will kill them all."

"So it's true!" Mousestar snarled. Cherryfrost whipped around in shock. Ivyfrost was beside him with a hurt expression. "You ordered the attack! You caused it!" Mousestar snarled.

Cherryfrost backed away. "I-I didn't!"

"You just admitted it mother, you said you caused her death and you would kill us all! How could you?!" Ivyfrost screeched in anguish.

Cherryfrost shook her head wildly. "I didn't I swear! You didn't hear what I-"

"Caught up in revenge, you killed your own kit!" Jaymist hissed in disgust.

"Take her back and keep her there, we will retaliate with Shadowclan! This is officially war!" The leader declared. Fireblaze's body was carried back to camp and Cherryfrost was sent back to the den without any food. She hung her head, she should've listened.