A tom scratched my cheek and I chomped down on his ear causing blood to be spilled, then a Starclan Warrior took my place. I huffed as I could see this battle was going nowhere. Neither side was winning or losing, but lives are being lost and fast. Then when I'm about to head back to fighting, a dark chuckle reaches my ears. One that even moons ago I remember. I dig my claws into the dirt and growl. I then slowly turn around to see the very person I hate the most. Tigerstar…
No a scratch was on his pelt, but his paws where soaked in blood, and when I looked into his eyes, one a bright amber, and the other just a dark hole that was like an abyss, I knew this battle between us would mean so much more than revenge for the fallen. It will mean the difference for life and death, chaos and peace, us and them.
No words where past between us at first then we slowly circled each other waiting for the other to attack. Then Tigerstar noticed my collar and then asked "That Twoleg thing doesn't scare me." I just stayed quiet and stared at him. I flexed my paws which were ready to splash around in his blood and my claws were ready to rip open his flesh. Eight times I will have to watch him die.
Finally I turned and leaped. Tigerstar darted to the side and delivered a strong blow to my left shoulder almost making me fall over. But I kept my balance and moved away just as Tigerstar tried to pounce on me, then I heard hissing and saw a cat coming towards me ready to fight, but instead Tigerstar yelled "NO! This is a battle between me and her!" At those words I take a deep breath and screech at the top of my lungs "NO ONE INTERFERE!" Fighting stopped and heads turned to me and Tigerstar.
I took a deep breath and said "Do you hear me Lionclan! Starclan? This is a fight between me and Tigerstar as leaders. Do not interfere!" Cats nodded their heads in understanding then like a ripple, the battle between them started up again and Tigerstar frowned and then ran forward at me. This time I was not quick enough to dodge his claws and he sliced my flank and blood splattered on the ground. My blood. I growled and then clawed his ear making a trickle of blood flow from it.
I then leaped a good few feet back from him and then I bunched up my mussels. I need to end this quickly. "Tigerstar! This is your end!" I yelled and then kicked off using my back feet and raced forward. Then in a leap I screeched and began the Battouga. This was it, his end!
But instead he leaped at me! I was sure he was crazy; I will just slice through him! But he spun in a screw like motion and with a jolt I realize this move must be what ended Scourge. Something better than the Battouga. I try to stop but it is too late. We land on the ground and I feel myself explode with scratches and deep cuts that began to bleed quickly. Pain shot up my legs and before I could turn around, Tigerstar pounced on top of me and pinned me down. His weight was too great for me at this moment, and my wounds seemed to burn like they were on fire! The pain was more than I have ever felt and I wished it would go away.
Tigerstar leans down to deliver the killing bite but I jerk my neck back and the dog teeth scratch his face and he yowls in surprise and then shifts his weight. I use this to push him off and limp a few feet away. I look back but I'm more focused on the pool of blood and thick trail of it that was coming from me. I was losing blood fast while Tigerstar looked fine. A few scratches her and there but nothing that has really helped me. At least no killing neck bite because of the collar.
But I took a step forward and almost fell over; I have lost too much blood. I shake my head to clear my thoughts but when I look up; I am smacked at the side of the head and nocked to my side. My vision was blurry and spinning but I could Tigerstar was standing over me. Then fear wells up inside of me. It is me who is going to die tonight.
Then my vision clears and Tigerstar places a paw on my neck and lets his claws gently press against my skin. I just glare up at him and notice he is looking for something. But what? Then his eyes lock on something behind me and a twisted smile spreads across his face. Then he leans down and grabs me by my scruff. What is he doing? I would have clawed his other eye out but my limbs wouldn't move. Then he began to walk forward, and then it turned into a run, a bound and then a sprint.
I looked up at him and then followed his eye and my heart nearly stopped. A twisted tree had a broken branch growing out the side. And it was broken at a point. A very, very sharp point. I try to get out of his grip but it's no use and before I know it, I am slammed into the side of the tree. And blood splatters on the ground, me, and Tigerstar.
"AAAHHH!" I scream with tears falling from my face. The branch was impaled into my side and Tigerstar laughed and let me go making me slump and when I twitched blood sprayed out of the wound. I was stuck and the pain was unbearable. I feel something cold down my face and I find myself crying at the pain. My breaths where ragged and I gasped for air.
"Felidaestar!" I hear what I think is Flamewing but her shocked screech at the sight of me is what I hear next and she and Nightmare are at my side in a few seconds. By now a black outline was forming at the edge of my vision and it was slowly growing. I was dying.
"No, no no…" Flamewing said and then yelled "Felidae! You can't die! No don't please!" Tears where streaming down her face and I couldn't respond. For when I tried to say something, blood bubbled up and out my mouth and onto the dark ground. By now I could barely see as I knew my eyes where becoming milky and I was relieved of something.
Agony.
I can say goodbye to Agony. Agony of living in this world, knowing I failed at saving Scourge, knowing my own kit is dead. And now the agony of this pain. It will all be over in a few minutes. I sighed and then began to close my eyes and my hearing was drowned out with a soft voice calling my name.
But just before I closed my eyes, I saw past my friends and into the shadows of the woods I saw him. I saw that sleek black pelt, one white paw, and those icy blue eyes that were filled with pain and lost. I sighed and then finally closed my eyes and let the darkness drag me down into sleep.
Goodbye my friends…
