"Scourge… Tigerstar killed him." Nightmare hissed quietly.

I stared at her hoping she was playing one of her sick twisted jokes, but three things made me know that wasn't true. One, Flamewing was behind her with a horror stricken face. Two, Nightmare never cries. Three, the stench of blood was on Nightmare's fur. Scourge's blood.

I leaped to my paws knocking my kits awake and blotted out of the den. Almost tripping on my paws, I leaped into the Apprentice den and barged past Sparrowtail and Ravenheart waking them up. I ran to the back of the Den where Scourge's nest was.

Even before I reached his still body, my paws landed in something sticky and warm. I raised my paw up to see it soaked with blood. I gasped and then threw myself at Scourge's side. He was so still, his body mangled and cut up.

"Scourge…please no." I hissed and pressed into his side. "Please, I need you… our kits need you." I took a raged breath and pleaded "Wake up…please." I cried into his fur, to sad to even notice the gathering crowd outside the Den.

Then I felt the very, very faint rise and fall of his flank and heard him rasp "Felidae?" I jolted up and moved in front of him so he could see me. His Icy glare was now soft and milky. He was dying…

"Scourge…please…" Was all I could manage to get out of my mouth. Scourge flicked his gaze up to my eyes and said "I was spying…in the…Dark Forest." I nodded and said "I know. I didn't say anything though."

Scourge was struggling for breath as he continued. "T-Tigerstar, he has a move…that can beat the…Battouga." I gasped at that as I could not imagine how that piece of Crowfood had found such a move.

"No you can't die." I whispered and Scourge moved his paw over on top of mine and said "It's my time." I tried to hold back tears but that failed and I wailed "You can't! You're Scourge! The Leader of Bloodclan! You have kits to protect. Friends that need you. I need you."

Scourge just stared at me until finally he said "I'll never forget you Felidae. And…" Scourge's flank heaved in a final breath and he said "Thank you…" Then his last breath escaped his body. And I knew that not even Timesofrin Wolf could not save him. His wounds where to bad. I can only hope that Starclan can show him mercy and let him in on their hunting grounds as one of the Stars.

I stared at his lifeless body and then let up a loud wail. I then felt Flamewing and Nightmare press against my sides to comfort me but I shoved them away and then grabbed Scourge's scruff and heaved up. Flamewing and Nightmare exchanged a glance before they came to help carry Scourge out into the clearing, but as we headed for the exit of the den, a cat stepped forward. It was Dustpelt.

"You called him Scourge." The tom said and I mumbled through the black cat's fur "Yes, I did." I then pushed past him and the three of us laid Scourge's body in the clearing and I saw my kits scramble out of the den all happy. That is until they saw their father. Nightkit was first to act.

She bolted past her brothers and flung herself at Scourge's body and cried "Daddy, wake up!" This brought more tears to my eyes. Stormkit and Wolfkit followed their sister and cried for Scourge to wake up just like I had.

Flamewing bowed her head and Nightmare sat straight up as tears fell down her cheeks. I looked up at the sky as the first rays of dawn shown and the Starclan warriors started to disappear.

"Can you see us Scourge?" I asked myself staring at the Stars. Then I heard paw steps walk up and I looked up to see Firestar.

"What happened?" He asked looking over Scourge's body. I shook my head and said "I don't know. I found him like this." Firstar sat down next to me and asked "This is Scourge…isn't it?" I didn't bother lying. I nodded my head and heard some cats gasp and then someone yelled "Scourge doesn't belong here!"

I flicked my ears down and waited for Firestar to say something like for me to take Scourge's body out of camp and stuff. But instead the flame colored Tom rose to his paws and then walked up to Scourge's body and then began Virgil. Another wave of gasps flew through the clearing and then Ashfur joined Flamewing's side joining in.

Ravenheart and Sparrowtail did as well. Other cats dare not move, but then Jayfeather, out of all the cats, came down and sat by Nightmare for the Virgil. Lionblaze and Hollyleaf joined their brother's side along with Cinderheart, Sandstorm, and Brambleclaw. Then one by one, the rest of the clan followed and sat down. Only a hand full of cats turned and headed back to their dens.

So we sat there. For a long while until the sun finally rose over the horizon. Then, Nightmare and Flamewing where the ones that offered to burry Scourge and the clan went off to do their normal duties. Some were giving me and my kits strange looks.

My kits where sent off to the Nursery while I sat alone in the clearing. Then when Nightmare and Flamewing returned, they came up to me and said "Last night. We saw it happen." I nodded for them to continue and Flamewing said "A gold cat, brought me there to watch." My gaze snapped off the ground and to Flamewing.

"Yah, same cat for me. He told me to call him Eclipse since that's what you called him Felidae." Nightmare said and I leaped to my paws and said "Eclipse…he knew this was going to happen. He distracted me using my kits!"

I then explained the nightly meetings with the strange golden cat that I called Eclipse. Then at the end of my tale, Nightmare brought out her claws and said "Eclipse has a lot of explaining to do. Felidae you should go to sleep and talk to him!"

I shook my head and said "I'll get answers from him tonight when I fall asleep. But that's not important right now." I stared back down at my paws and then slowly, ideas filled my head. Half where memories, others were future dreams I had. And then one thought that caught my attention filled my head. No, two thoughts.

First I remembered what I could that Eclipse had said in my dreams. He had said many things, but I only am remembering the ones that held great importance for when he spoke.

"As the Blood falls into the claws of the Tiger's revenge, the three from past the stars will rise up, and one will become leader of the four, that will unite and fight as one, against the Darkness that last forever..."

I see it now. Blood falls into the claws of the Tiger's revenge. Scourge will be killed by Tigerstar. Was I really that blind not to see the truth? And by what I have heard Sol, Eclipse and Starclan call us, Nightmare, Flamewing and I are the Three from Past the Stars. One will become leader of the four…The rest is still a mystery to me. But maybe Eclipse, or whatever that cats name is knows something else. What else did he say?

Prepare you for future outcomes…That were something else he said. So he must have known that this was coming.

"Felidae, I have seen the near future...they will need to learn how to fight, or die." I don't think he was just talking about my kits. "You will find out when you wake up. May Starclan bless him." So Eclipse did know!

Then the nightmare I had in the barn came back…wait…it makes sense now! I leaped to my paws and Nightmare and Flamewing looked up at me and asked "What's wrong Felidae?"

"Nothing…I just know the real reason we came to this world. Fallen Angels or not, there was a bigger reason that where all here." Nightmare sat up straight and Flamewing rose to her paws and asked "And what would that be? If you haven't noticed, Felidae you failed your Fallen Angels test."

"Naturally, even if you two had done something. Scourge would have still died. I can't help that but at least I gave him a better life."

Nightmare and Flamewing exchanged a glance and then look back at me. "So why are we here?" Flamewing asked and I rose my head up high and spoke.

"Where going to fight the Dark Forest."

Flamewing gasped and said "Felidae we can't! We saw what they can do. And where just three cats!"

"Wrong!" I hissed and Nightmare asked "Wrong? How? Flamewing makes more sense than you do right now."

"One, we are the Three from past the Stars! With Powers that are far greater than the Three's! Two, we've got Starclan and Eclipse on our side." Nightmare seemed doubtful at Eclipse but she then asked "And what would be three?" I smiled as more of the prophecy was unfolding in front of me.

"The four Clans will unite as Lionclan once again!"