Chapter Five: LightningClan VS. StormClan

WindClan

"No Amberfur, it is not nessicaery to take that kind of action. We will get your apprentice back. Don't worry, they wont harm her if they want you." Lightstar reasured her.

Amberfur nodded and brought up another subject, "I was thinking latly...What if, since we have joined Clans, what if we chaged our name, I mean just until RiverCLan and ShadowClan are defeated."

Lightstar was silent for a moment, but finally she answered, "That is a good sujestion, Amberfur, what kind of name would you perpose?"

"LightningClan," Amberfur whispered quietly.

WindClan

Windstar called his Clan to him. Up on the Highrock, he sat, waiting for everyone to come. Once everyone (excluding Amberfur) was there, he began the meeting, "Amberfur's apprentice, Tigerpaw, as you most know, has been kidnapped by Redshadow of ShadowClan. I have reasons to believe that Redshadow and some others are with RiverClan.

"I need about seven cats to go with me to get Tigerpaw back." Windstar declared. "I want Russeteye, Weedeye, Blacksmoke, Silverheart, Mudtail, and Cloudfoot to come with me. Me, Mudtail, and Silverheart will go first, if we are attacked, Cloudfoot, Blacksmoke, Weedeye, and Russeteye wil come to our aid, agreed?"

The Clan made no protest to the sujjestion. Nine cats were left, it was good enough. Windstar yowled, "Let us go!" With that, he leapt down from the Highrock and bolted out of camp.

ThunderClan

Lightstar knew Amberfur planned to attack ShadowClan tonight, so she decided she would help Amberfur. "I shall gather my warriors, and togeather, we can get your apprentice back. We are LightningClan, after all."

Lightstar saw Amberfur's eyes brimming despite her depressing sitution. She exited her den and leapt up onto the Highrock and summoned LightningClan. "We-me and Amberfur-have decided we needed a new name until ShadowClan and RiverClan are no longer a threat. We are now LightningClan, and so we will help WindCLan. An apprentice of WindClan has been kidnapped and is a lure for Amberfur, we will not let them get her. We will help her. So I want Leafheart,Foxfur, Leaftail, Lightpaw, Bramblepaw, Snowcloud, Lightningfur, and Silverclaw to acompany us in our battle. ShadowClan is in RiverClan territory."
The cats obeyed without protest and the LightningClan cats left fot RiverClan territory.

RiverClan

Fishpaw looked around him, he looked at the ShadowClan warriors with distrust. There was something about them he din;t trust, though Fishpaw didn't know what. Glaring at StormCLan's second leader's turned back, he padded over to his best friend, Waterpaw.

"Do you trust these cats?" he hissed to his friend quietly.

Waterpaw looked at him with narrowed eyes. Fishpaw noticed Waterpaw glanced around him before answering, "No and I think they stole that apprentice for the wrong reasons."

Fishpaw agreed and mewed, "I think we should help her."

Waterpaw nodded, "I have plan." That was not unexpected, Waterpaw was a quick think when he needed to be.

Fishpaw leaned forward so he could listen without anyone eveasedropping on them.

"Well first, we need to tell Rivertwister that we will guard the apprentice. Rivertwister doesn't like to guard a prisinor so we will do it to relieve him of hius duty and befriend the apprentice." Waterpaw hissed.

"Nice plan." Fishpaw growled. "Let's go."

The two aprentices quickly slipped off towards the place where Tigerpaw was kept. As they approached Rivertwister, the warrior turned to look at them with anger flaming in his amber-yellow eyes.

WindClan

Windstar raced towards RiverClan territory, the rest of his attack party following. Those who were to go last, were further back so they wouldn;t be spotted. As Windstar passed the fallen, lone tree, he called out, "Remember, we kill only if we are forced to!"

ThunderClan

Lighstar glanced at her deputy, Lightningfur, hissing, "I'll take out Shadowstar, be sure to find where they are keeping Tigerpaw, take three others with you to help rescue the apprentice." she ordered.

Lightningfur nodded, his yellow fur matching the color of the leaf-fall colored forest.

RiverClan

"Rivertwister, we will gladly take your burdon of making sure that apprentice doesn;t excape." Waterpaw mewed to the silver colored warrior.

"Really?" Rivertwister growled.

"We can tell you don't like it." Fishpaw commented boldly, hoping Rivertwister wouldn't grow angry.

"Is that so? Very well then, guardthis prisinor when if we are attackled in the middle of the night." Rivertwister instructed with a loud growl and then padded away.

When Fishpaw was sure Rivertwister was far enough not to hear them, he went to the front of the den to see the terrified face of a small, newly made apprentice, staring up at him. Fishpaw notcided the stripes on the apprentice's fur and was reminded of the description he had recieved from the elders, of a tiger.

"Hello, I'm Fishpaw and this is my friend Waterpaw, we're here to help you!" Fishpaw mewed quietly.

The apprentice stood on shaky legs, "Really? How am I supposed to get home?"

"That's our problem, we haven't figured out much, but we do know they caught you for the wrong reason. As StormClan cats, we won't let them use you. We hear they want you to lure in another cat, the Chosen cat of StarClan." Fishpaw informed her.

"StormClan? I thought this was ShadowClan!" the apprentice hissed in confusion.

"ShadowClan and RiverClan have joined forces, we're called StormClan now. What is your name?" Waterpaw explained, poking his head in the den.

"Oh. My name is Tigerpaw. Nice to meet you both, but I really just want to get home. Amberfur is in a lot of trouble! And if StormClan catches her, it will be all my fault!" Tigerpaw worried herself.

"Its not your fault, its Redshadow's." Fishpaw asurrede her.

"Don't be so sure," Amberfur meowed quietly. She explained to them what had happened while she was on her first apprentice mission and where it came to her being knocked out by the cat named Red, but now Redshadow.

"I always knew that cat was trouble! He looks so tough and trustworthy, but he doesn;t act it. He is always speaking with Shadowstar and has a scowl on his face." Fishpaw growled to himself.

"What are you two doing?" came a sudden voice. It was cold and full of raw fury and suspicion.

WindClan/ThunderClan

Windstar leapt across RiverClan territory, racing through the open lands along the river, speeding like a bullet. A sense of dread washed over him as he drew closeer and closer to RiverClan camp. Something was terribly wrong.

Lightstar and Amberfur were a quarter of a mile away from RiverClan camp when they spotted WIndstar's speeding patrol coming towards their own target. Both neither spoke nor lanced at one another, instead they sped up. When both Clans came to the entrance, a flood of angry cats pured in, all over the rescueing of an apprentice and the deformation of StormClan.

"LightningCLan-attack!" Lightstar yowled.

The WindClan cats instantly knew why Lightstar had said 'LightningClan'. Windstar knew it was their new name. No one hesitataed as they saw two struggling apprentices in the middle of the camp, fighting for their lives.

Fishpaw and Waterpaw were fighting Redshadow and Rivertwister. Tigerpaw was creeping out of her prision, hoping to escape when Heartstar grasped her scruff and drug her to her own den. "I will kill this mouse-dung personally, and then kill the Chosen One!" Heartstar hissed aloud, her voice full of venom.

RiverClan

Fishpaw pulled away from Redshaodw's deadly grasp and felt his fur ripped from him. He yowled in pain as he was drug back by his hind leg. Thhat was when he saw the WindCLan and ThunderClan cats. They flooded around him, fighting Redshadow off and then helping Waterpaw how was wounded badly.

Fishpaw looked around him, trying to find Togerpaw.

"Help!"

Fishpaw heard the cry by mere chance, he knew instantly that it was Tigerpaw. Leapiong towards the voice, he saw Heartstar disappearing in her den, with the orange paw of Tigerpaw vanishing as well. Fishpaw's heart raced as he looked for someone to help him.

He spotted Mudtail and bit the cat's tail. Mudtail spun around, hissing with fury, but Fishpaw ignored him, "Help! Heartstar's going to kill Tigerpaw!"

Fishpaw saw the alarmed look flash across the WindClan cat's face as he heard the news.

"Where?" Mudtail demanded.

"In her den!"

Fishpaw lead Mudtail there, suddenly calling, "Waterpaw! We need help!"

"Fishpaw! Help me!" came Tigerpaw's loud squeal.

Fishpaw didn't hesitate as he raced into Heartstar's den. Heartstar had Tigerpaw cornered, a murderous glint in the evil cat's eyes. He and Mudtail quickly took action and attacked Heartstar with all they had.

Waterpaw came flying, joining the fight.

Fishpaw bit his leader's front leg, making Heartstar begin to limp. Mudtail overtook her and pinned her, telling Tigerpaw to stay put. Mudtail turned to look at Waterpaw, "Do you know Windstar?" he aaked.

"Yes!" Waterpaw mewed loudly.

"Then go get him!" Mudtail hissed, restraining Heartstar.

"StormClan will kill everyone of you!" she hissed in his face.

"And Starclan curses your name!" Mudtail spat back.

When Waterpaw returned, he was followed by Windstar who looked at Heartstar once before grabbing Tigerpaw. "Let's go! You two, come with us, StormClan doesn;t want you here anymore!" he ordered swiftly.

Fishpaw hurried out after Windstar and saw Mudtail still inside, restraining Heartstar until Windstar called a retreat.

"Tigerpaw!" came Amberfur's joyous voice.

Fishpaw saw the she-cat come rushing forward as if Tigerpaw were her own kit and scoop the apprentice up and race off towards camp. A little ways off, he heard Shadowstar yowl, "Get the Chosen One you fools!"

All at once, a sea of cats came rushing at Amberfur, hoping to catch her at the same time. The LightningClan cat was faster than any of them, even with Tigerpaw in her jaws. It was just by luck that she kept two leaps ahead so she was out of reach. Fishpaw watched her all the way to the border and saw that none followed over the line.

LightningClan fled back to their own camps, Fishpaw and Waterpaw following the moorland cats out. They were no longer of StormClan anymore.