Firestar isn't impressed with Onestar

Not sure if I like how the chapter came out... maybe cause it's because I took stuff from the book again? Sorry Erins ;-;

I'm also not good at writing fight scenes.

Also literally everyone commented on the Dragon Au I may or may not write instead of the actual chapter(except Minty- thanks for saying something bout the chapter :D ) I'm thinking of writing a oneshot that... might not have anything to do with a Dragon AU that everyone is thinking of. Maybe I'll surprise everyone.

(If anyone else wants to write a Dragon!Warriors that would be great though).

I'm celebrating the fact that this fic got 1000 hits over on A03 :D

Please review if you can!

Firestar ran with the other cats in the battle patrol towards Windclan territory. The clans had been set to attack the Kin at their very heart, but it seemed like Darktail had other ideas and decided to attack Windclan at their heart instead. Onestar had sent some of his warriors to ask for help in fending the Kin off.

He watched Brambleclaw, Rowanclaw, Reedwhisker, and Hawkwing launch themselves down the slope that led into Windclan's camp and flung themselves into the fray.

He himself sprang over to where Onestar and Darktail were wrestling on the ground. Before he could reach them, the Windclan deputy, Harespring, leaped forward, trying to come to his leader's aid. Another cat, some tom, intercepted Harespring, claws aiming to strike a blow on him.

Hawkwing thrust himself inbetween the two, claws swiping at the tom's face. The cat backed off with a shriek of alarm. Firestar raised an eyebrow, impressed. Sharpclaw was really living on in his son.

He quickly sprang up and tried to once again reach Onestar, only for two other cats to intercept him. He gave a growl- it was getting too crowded in here. He was about to boil and melt these cats alive when suddenly:

"Stop!"

An ear-splitting yowl rang out commandingly above the noise of battle. He recognized Darktail's voice and Firestar scanned the area to see that every single cat had stopped fighting to look at the leader of the Kin as if they had been suddenly frozen over.

Every cat's gaze was fixed on Onestar and Darktail. The two cats stood nose to nose, their flanks swelling with their heavy breathing.

"You mouse-hearted excuse for a cat!" Darktail taunted Onestar. "Is that the best you can do? A kittypet fights better! But then . . . you always were a coward." A puzzled murmur ran through the Clan cats. Firestar shared their bewilderment. He was right: Onestar and Darktail did know each other. He narrowed his eyes, more at Onestar than Darktail.

'Onestar, what did you do?'

It was Harespring who voiced the question every cat wanted to ask. "Darktail, you're talking like . . . like you know Onestar. How can that be?" It was the question that Firestar really wanted an answer to.

Onestar never took his gaze from the rogue leader as he replied. "This cat's word is not to be trusted. Look at what he's done: raided camps, kept prisoners, killed more Clan cats than we can count. He'll clearly do or say anything in his efforts to steal territory. And that's what this is all about, isn't it?" he challenged Darktail.

An evil gleam lit the white tom's dark-furred eyes. "Of course it's about territory. It's always about territory. And I think you handing some of WindClan's territory over to me would only be fair." His eyes narrowed, and his voice grew more intense and menacing with every word. "Especially after what you did to me!"

Without waiting for a response from Onestar, Darktail turned to address the other Clan cats. "You all think of Onestar as an honorable leader, don't you? Well, I know things about him that would make every WindClan cat's fur stand on end."

Now every cat's gaze was trained on Onestar. "What is he talking about?" Harespring asked.

Onestar's tail stood straight up, while he flexed his claws and ground them hard into the earth. "Why would you listen to him?" he demanded. "You've all seen the kind of cat he is!"

Darktail spun around to face Onestar again. "And they should know what kind of cat you truly are," he meowed defiantly. "The Onestar they think they know could not have done what you did to me!" The rogue leader's words ended in a frenzied yowl, and he hurled himself once more at Onestar.

But this time the Clan cats were ready, and as the fighting broke out again, it was clear that the rogues were outmatched.

Firestar grabbed Darktail and flung him away from Onestar, aiming a pawful of claws at his claws. Darktail's eyes shown with fear at the sight of the ginger leader, remembering the tales the Skyclan cats told him about this living legend.

The rogue leader writhed away from him and staggered to his paws. "Retreat!" he screeched. The Kin broke away, fleeing up the slope and through the bushes, out of the WindClan camp. Darktail was the last to go; at the top of the hollow he turned and looked back, his eyes glaring hatred. "We're leaving now," he yowled. "But we'll be back! You can count on that, Onestar!"

They all watched the rogues leave, and Firestar finally turned to Onestar, an unreadable look in his eyes. "Well?" The rest of the clan cats situated themselves near the two, Mistystar, Blackstar, and Leafstar at the front.

Onestar gave a deep breath, knowing that he couldn't get out of telling his story. "I am the reason the Clans have been blighted by Darktail and his rogues," Onestar began. "And the story goes back many seasons, to when we lived in the old forest, when I was called Onewhisker and Tallstar was the leader of WindClan."

So the story began, Onestar lamenting the fact that Tallstar chose him to succeed him. If Onestar was already calling himself a terrible leader, then this couldn't go well at all.

"When I was a young cat, back in the old forest," he continued, "I carried out my warrior duties, but I also liked to sneak off to explore the little Twolegplace beyond the farm where Barley and Ravenpaw lived. It was fun to spend time with the kittypets there, and tell them stories about what it was like to live in a Clan."

"I never knew that!" Whitetail, a WindClan elder, was looking outraged. "Our Clan leader going off to make friends with kittypets!"

"Well, he wasn't leader then," Gorsetail murmured. She nudged Whitetail and gestured towards Firestar, who didn't look impressed with Whitetail's comment about befriending kittypets. Neither did Leafstar for that matter. Whitetail sheepishly gave her chest fur a few embarrassed licks.

"It was easy to impress them," Onestar admitted. He paused to give his chest fur an embarrassed lick. Raising his head, he let his gaze travel over the assembled cats. He opened his jaws to continue, but at first no words came out.

Firestar inwardly cringed. Onestar hadn't even gotten to the crux of the story yet and he was already struggling to continue.

He did think it was mouse-brained of Onestar to go to a bunch of kittypets and tell exaggerated stories to them though. Doing so would probably come to bite him in the tail.

As Onestar continued, he realized that, yes, telling exaggerated stories to a bunch of kittypets was biting Onestar in the tail.

"There was one kittypet . . . a young she-cat called Smoke. She had such soft, gray fur, and such brilliant blue eyes . . . It was like I was staring into pools of pure water!" Firestar's heart skipped a beat. He could already see where this story was headed.

Firestar stayed silent throughout the story, listening as Onestar admitted to mating this she-cat and fathering her kits. He rejected her and the one kit who survived, and Smoke vowed to teach the kit to hate the clans, and so the Darktail as they knew him was born. Unbelievable.

Finding Skyclan and Alderheart coming to find them was what let Darktail finally figure out where his estranged father and the clans had made off to.

"I can't believe you," Firestar whispered hoarsely. Onestar's head jolted up to look at him, panicked. Firestar gave him a betrayed look, "Is that why you hated me so much? Was I just a reminder of all your... mistakes?"

Onestar gaped at him, "I never hated you!"

"You started attacking and criticizing everything I did after you became leader. You attacked Thunderclan at its heart. The only reason we're even okay with each other now is because of the mercat stuff!" He could see Leafstar and the Skyclan cats looking confused at the the word mercat. He ignored them- it wasn't the right place or time to inform Leafstar of what they were.

"You think I wanted to hate you?! I never wanted to do those things!" Firestar, Mistystar, and Blackstar gave him unimpressed looks.

"I let kittypets into the clan because I knew these cats in particular could handle it, and here you are apparently partying and having kits with one. So why am I constantly in the wrong?" Firestar deadpanned.

Onestar gave a heavy sigh, "You know what my clanmates were calling me when Tallstar made me deputy Firestar? They were calling me your kittypet. They had no faith in me and thought I would just run to you for help when the going got tough. I had to show them I could lead them and I... got carried away and overreacted," Onestar admitted, ashamed.

"Yes you did," Blackstar muttered.

They agreed that the attack would still go on, but three out of four leaders left the Windclan camp with disappointment weighing their hearts.

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Onestar swam up to the other three leaders nervously. Firestar gave him a blank look, before closing his eyes and relaxed into the sand. Mistystar and Blackstar rolled their eyes at him.

"Look, I'm really sorry," Onestar said meekly. "There's nothing I can do to ever make up for what I've done to you."

Firestar cracked an eye open. "I thought I was your friend. Why didn't you just tell me what was wrong instead of spitting insults at me whenever we saw each other?" His voice was heavy with sadness and confusion. Onestar winced. Firestar was a somewhat sensitive, empathetic cat. Onestar suddenly rejecting him like that must have hurt even more than losing a life.

"Because I'm a mouse-brained idiot?"

Mistystar once again rolled her eyes, "Sure let's go with that."

He floated down next to Firestar and started licking his pelt. "I'm sorry- I hated playing the part of the pissed off leader. You did nothing but help me and I threw it back in your face. I never wanted to stop being friends," he whispered, throat clogged with emotion. A tear ran down his eye, combining with the rest of the lake water.

"I'm sorry I was such a jerk to you!" he suddenly wailed.

Firestar only hummed a tune, one of Onestar's favorite songs from the human world he realized.

"You're lucky I'm forgiving. But I'm not going to forget what you did, ever." Onestar nodded. Fair was fair. They started sharing tongues, Mistystar and Blackstar looking on from afar and relaxing themselves.

I said there shall be no drama in this house! I also never liked Onestar suddenly being a giant jerk to Firestar and we never saw them reconcile. It's never stated whether Onestar and Firestar made up in Starclan in the books which really sucks.

Tell me how I did.