Darktail battle but everyone knows that mercats can't be drowned... except Darktail apparently

Welp, only two more days until my B-Day. Maybe I'll do that Dragon thing for it.

We're getting into the second half of Vision of Shadows which... I don't think is necessary? Honestly from what I read, it was mostly drama with Riverclan, Shadowclan, and Skyclan. Skyclan needs a place to stay, Rowanstar still can't control his clan(not that there's much left), and Riverclan does a Windclan. It's a mess and as I said: there shall be no drama in this house!

Sorry for short chapters lately.

Reviews please?

Firestar, Mistystar, and Blackstar watched amusedly as Onestar and Darktail wrestled with each other on the ground, surely but steadily rolling towards the lake. They had been informed that Darktail's favorite method of killing was by drowning cats. Darktail wasn't exactly subtle about it; every time he was near water, Darktail tried to drown a clan cat. The leaders knew a pattern when they sensed it.

They all shook with laughter as the two cats rolled into the lake, vanishing under the waves. Leafstar and the Skyclan cats look at them, appalled. "Aren't you all going to help him?" Leafstar asked, incredulous.

Firestar shook his head amused. "He'll be fine. Darktail can't do anything to him in the water."

"What?" Leafstar stared at him confused. She noticed his paw was slightly out, pawpads up towards the sky, making light motions. He wasn't the only one doing the action as she caught Mistystar and Blackstar doing the same. "What are you all even doing?" she asked bemused.

"Stop the storm from pelting us," Blackstar meowed lazily, a look of concentration on his face.

"We've been expending all our time and attention on making sure it doesn't rain. It wouldn't do for us to turn in the middle of a battle after all," Mistystar commented.

The Skyclan cats had no idea what to make of their words. They were all startled when Onestar popped out of the lake, looking completely uninjured. Leafstar squinted, what was wrong with his ears? They looked like fins.

"You finished up?" Firestar asked. Onestar gave a sigh and nodded. "What did you do with the body?"

"Buried it. Let the ground soak in some nutrients. It was that or let the fish slowly take bites out of him and who knows how long that would take. I didn't want him stinking up the lake." He gave an odd look over to the Skyclan cats, who all stared into space at hearing Onestar's voice. "What's up with them?"

"They're not used to our voices. They don't know we're mercats remember?" Firestar meowed.

Onestar lifted his tail up and smacked it down onto the water, creating a loud splash that snapped the Skyclan cats out of their minor trances. "Great, how do we know they won't have a negative reaction?"

"Do you care? If they don't like it, then they can leave and head back to their gorge or whatever," Blackstar said uncaringly.

"Ta-tail..." Leafstar sputtered. She turned her eyes over to Firestar. "Did- did you know about this?"

"Well, yeah. We're all mercats. This only happens when we touch water."

"But- I've seen you touch water! You didn't turn into," she gestured to Onestar, "into that!"

Firestar gave her an amused look. "I wasn't a mercat back when I restored Skyclan. It's only the four of us that are like this."

She gave him a somewhat betrayed look. "Why didn't you tell me when we arrived?"

"There wasn't a good time to tell you. We were a little more preoccupied with the whole Darktail thing," Firestar tried assuring her. He gave a tired sigh, looking up at the rain-clogged storm clouds. He turned back to Brambleclaw and the deputies. "Can I trust you all to rid the territories of any remnants the Kin may have left behind? We'd love to help, but we won't be of any use once the rain starts."

Brambleclaw nodded, realization lighting his features. "You've all been stopping the storm from starting," he stated.

"Mostly everyone," Blackstar said sarcastically with a pointed look at Onestar. "I was busy with Darktail!" Onestar exclaimed. "Our warriors had it handled before you decided it was personal," Blackstar drawled. The two glared at each other.

Firestar sighed. "Anyway, we've never really stopped rain from coming down for this long before. It's getting tiring and I don't think we're going to make it back to our camps before we lose control," he said, giving the clouds above a calculating look. It was getting harder to stop the storm. Water didn't like being controlled, and the storm was pushing itself against their control.

Mistystar gave Blackstar a smack with her tail before entering the water, sighing in content. Blackstar gave her a glare before joining her. Firestar too hopped into the lake, giving his tail a stretch before turning to Leafstar. "We'll explain everything about this later, okay? It's just not a good time now," he said apologetically. Her eyes glazed over at the sound of his voice and Firestar had to bite back a smirk. She and her clan would get used to his voice soon enough, just like the rest of the clans.

He let his control of the storm drop, as did the other leaders, and quickly dove underwater before the clans got drenched. They didn't want to catch blame for doing so.

The clan cats gave angry hisses as the rain quickly clung onto their pelts, making them wet and heavy. Brambleclaw clicked his teeth. "Must be good being a mercat..."

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"So mercats..." Leafstar trailed off. They reconvened at the lake shore a day later after all the rain and storm clouds passed. They told her everything, the part where they turned into humans, the part about the solar eclipse and the Moonpool at Mako, and especially the part where they were turned into mermaids, which transferred over to when they were transported back to the clans as cats.

They also told her about their half-moon meetings. "So you all go underwater for these meetings. I'm supposed to just sit here while you're all having fun?" Leafstar said glumly, feeling left out.

Firestar winced. "It's not a matter of having fun, it's a matter of needing to be in water. We decided might as well have half-moon meetings while we're at it. We're not trying to leave you out Leafstar. We've been doing these before we knew Skyclan was coming to the lake." She didn't look reassured. If anything, she looked even more put out.

"If it makes you feel better, we can either meet at the shore or we could..." he trailed off, looking embarrassed, "...we could bring you underwater with us." The other three leaders also looked embarrassed.

"But that would require us to-" Onestar started before Mistystar shoved her paw over his muzzle. None of them particularly liked giving out the Breath of the Ocean when it wasn't a loved one. Kissing a cat that wasn't their mate was awkward enough, but none of them wanted to continuously do it with Leafstar.

Leafstar shook her head. "No, you don't need to do that. You're only doing this because you need relief right? There's no need to add me in."

They couldn't hear anything but the quiet ambiance of the forest around them for a few moments. Firestar lowered his ears. "..I'm really sorry Leafstar. I wish we could include you but..."

"But I'm not a mercat and can't breathe underwater I know," she said. "At least I don't have to hide when it rains," she smirked at them.

"Wow, she's really going there," Blackstar meowed. Mistystar held out a paw and formed a small water sphere and dropped it onto his head. He sputtered in confusion, whirling around to glare at Mistystar before jumping into the lake. He splashed her, and soon enough all five leaders were embroiled in a splash war, laughing and playing together.

Pretty sure what's going to happen next time will be obvious. If not, then... stick around to find out?

Sure not sure how to go about next arc, but before then I gotta do Squirrelflight's Hope. For the Neutral Ending, it will be a lot of heartache and pain for poor Fires. Anyone who read it will know why.

Tell me how I did.