Suddenly, a flash of ginger fur swiftly knocked off the black tom that was on top of Willowpaw. Willowpaw was just about to fall, when she felt teeth meet into her scruff. She heaved a sigh of relief as Brambleclaw gently dragged her away form the side of the rock, and saw that her sister was fighting the black rogue. (Gingerflame was the cat that knocked the cat off Willowpaw) Brambleclaw nodded quickly to his kit and then mewed, "Are you all right?"

Shock still overwhelmed Willowpaw, but she was all right, she would just need to find a safer place to fight. "I'm fine." She mewed. Brambleclaw gave her ear a quick lick before returning to the fight. Even though the battle had just begun, Willowpaw could see that they were badly loosing. ThunderClan was outnumbered by many. There were just as many enemies as there were all of the Clans combined. How had ShadowClan found so many cats to help them?

Willowpaw caught sight of her brother, fighting two cats, equal in strength and size to him. Willowpaw leaped to the rescue, but before she could help, she slammed to the ground when a cat crushed into. Willowpaw looked up to see a very familiar face. She hissed loudly in dislike and flung herself at the much bigger tom. This was the kittypet she had fought with the other day. ShadowClan had gotten help from kittypets to?

Willowpaw swiped her claws across the cat's face, blinding him for a moment as the blood dripped into his eyes, and bit down hard on his shoulder. The kittypet twisted and struggled to loosen Willowpaw's grip, but Willowpaw held on. She scraped her back claws furiously near the cats hind-quarters and purred with pleasure when the cat finally got away from Willowpaw and started to flee. Looking at the entrance to the camp,where the black and white kittypet had left, Willowpaw saw another cat leaving, limping badly. Blood covered his body, and Willowpaw could barely make out the cat's color of fur. Then she recognized the cat's face, as he turned back for just a moment, and then vanished through the fern tunnel. Willowpaw raced after him, and when she caught up with him she yowled, "Thornclaw!". He turned back to look into her eyes and then mewed, "What do you want?"

"Why are you leaving the battle? Even though you are covered in wounds, you cant just leave and then be tracked down like that cat from WindClan that we found on our territory. Go get help from a medicine cat!" she yowled and then nosed the tom. "You need to rest, I don't want you getting ripped apart like that WindClan cat." She paused. "I noticed that you were limping before the battle started. What's wrong?"
Thornclaw sighed, and Willowpaw could see just how much pain he was in. before he could reply Willowpaw mewed, "Come on, you're bleeding badly, you can take shelter over here, away from the battle. I'll go and find you some spider webs." Thornclaw nodded weakly and limped slowly over to a clump of bracken where he could settle. Willowpaw noticed that he left a trial of blood behind him, just like the WindClan cat had. Not faraway, Willowpaw found a spider web, she rapped it around her paw, and ran over to Thornclaw, quickly pressing the webs on his worst wounds.

"Thanks, this really helps…but you should-" he was caught off by a furious hiss just behind them. A huge tabby tom with a scared muzzle thrust his way into the bracken. Willowpaw quickly pushed him out and raked her claws hard against his sighed. As the tabby yowled in pain, Willowpaw pushed him down onto his back so she could jump onto his belly. The tabby was quicker than Willowpaw though. He aimed a killing stroke down her throat and across her belly, just like the way the WindClan cat had died, but Willowpaw neatly dodged the attack, and jumped onto his back, sinking her teeth into his neck, and also had a firm grip with her claws on his shoulders. Suddenly, the cat made a little tip to the side and neatly got away from Willowpaw. She lost her balance for a moment, and during that time the tabby swiped his claws across her face. Willowpaw shrieked in pain, and tried to rake his shoulder but blood oozed from a long scratch on her forehead and dripped into her eyes. She was blinded by her blood! She felt the weight of the tom fall onto her and the tabby quickly sliced open her back. She felt the blood rushing down her legs, and felt light-headed. Willowpaw staggered to one side. As Willowpaw fell to the ground she felt hot breath in her ear. "You loose missy." The tom hissed quietly into her ear. He dug his claws deeply into her shoulders before tearing them out. Willowpaw yowled in pain once more. The tom made his way into the bracken, where Thornclaw was sheltering, and just as Willowpaw fell into unconsciousness, she heard a loud, piercing cry.