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This is the FINAL chapter

Forbidden Blood

Everyone was slightly shocked by such treachery. But all along the horizon were swarms of cats, coming in for the kill. Some were "New Bloodclan", others were old members old Mudfur's crew.

"No… Hawkfrost—it can't be…" Brambleclaw stared in disbelief. Tawnypelt came to his side and hissed,

"That may be… but it is. You mustn't think of him as your brother! He's the enemy. He is a true spawn of Tigerstar." So the battle began. Honeydrop stood on the front line with Russetfur, Onestar, and Tawnypelt. He felt a warm prickle on his side and notice that Talonwing was there, too. Talonwing was the angriest out of all the cats. Her father was dead, and she was ready to avenge him. Her eyes held a pure fury, concentrated into a single beam of rage.

The other cats leaped forward, tackling the clan cats. Honeydrop tackled one of the rogues and let his claws dig into him. The cat was plunged back, landing to weak to move. He noticed Leafpool, across the way, struggling with a tortoise-shell. He came over and gathering all of his strength flung the cat off of her. Leafpool looked worried.

"You must go to Shadow, and speak with him. We shall lose this battle if we do not fight together."

"But, Mother, I—"

"I can take care of myself just fine!" She bellowed over the noise of the battle. Then, she turned and attacked a tabby tom, knocking him out cold, as demonstration. Honeydrop nodded. He ran off through the battle toward the "old Bloodclan" cats, who were also struggling to get by.

"Shadow! Please, we must retreat." He mewed to the warriong cats

"A Bloodclan warrior never retreats! You are just trying to trick us!"

"No, we must regroup… Please, Shadow, I do not lie." He looked to the stars, as if to say help me. Shadow stared at him a moment. He looked at him, with a curled lip. But Starclan did something extraordinary; they had to have, because all of a sudden Shadow was calling the cats back.

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The two groups of cats retreated. The "New Bloodclan" cats followed. But they had not yet regained enough energy to fight back.

"We can't do this much longer," Crowfeather remarked.

"We don't have a choice. We have to hold out till reinforcements come."

"How do you know that Thunderclan wasn't already attacked? Perhaps," Crowfeather continued, "There aren't any reinforcements."

Honeydrop hadn't thought of this. He was a little scared for a moment, and then shook his head in disbelief.

But Crowfeather was right when he said that they could not retreat forever. They were beginning to get vastly outnumbered. The group of cats finally had to take a stand and fight. He went and told this to Onestar and Russetfur, who agreed. Then and there, they stopped and prepared for the real battle to begin.

Unfortunately, it began to look like Thunderclan would never come, and they were being thoroughly mauled. They did their best to keep their spirits up, but they needed more cats.

However as midnight cracked through the sky, a horde of cats came. Honeydrop couldn't tell through the darkness whether they were there allies, until a familiar voice called,

"You started the battle without us! That's no fair!" He looked harder and saw Cloudtail along with the whole clan.

"What took so long?"

"We ran into a few old friends on the way…" Firestar pointed his head to his right. Honeydrop suddenly recognized Storm.

"Storm! What are you doing here?"

"We received a message from the Tribe of Endless Hunting." Another cat stepped forward. He was an older tom, but looked a lot like Storm.

"Starclan also pointed me in this direction," he said. Honeydrop didn't recognize the tom, but Leafpool exclaimed,

"GRAYSTRIPE!" Honeydrop had never met the deputy but he had heard a lot about him. Graystripe went on,

"Why don't we scare these buffoons so badly, they think they're mice!" Everyone nodded. They had better chances than ever. Every cats spirits had rejuvenated and were finally ready for the final fight. A fight to decide on freedom or slavery.

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A tabby tackled Honeydrop and the two tumbled through the thicket. Honeydrop was much smaller than the tabby, creating quite a disadvantage to him. He looked to Starclan once more, even though he knew that they could not help him directly.

"Feathertail, let me find my inner strength." He bit the tabby hard. He suddenly kicked him, and the tabby fell back, his head cracked open. Honeydrop noticed that there was a glowing aura around him.

"What's happening to me?" He asked. The world suddenly froze. A silver spirit came out.

"As the son of a medicine cat, you have powers that even I don't understand… You have called upon your inner strength on your own… I have nothing to do with it." Honeydrop looked at himself once more. Feathertail's spirit faded away. Time started again.

Honeydrop noticed across the field, Crowfeather fighting Webfoot, one of his former clanmates. He became suddenly angry. Forgetting everything around him he bounded towards them, easily pushing Webfoot away, into a small lake.

Honeydrop turned to his father, who was injured. Squirrelflight and Leafpool came running to them. Honeydrop must have not seen Squirrelflight for he wailed,

"Father!"

"That's your father?" Squirrelflight was shocked. Crowfeather had always been so prickly to Leafpool, and after Feathertail's death, she never thought he'd look twice at any she-cat again. Leafpool didn't answer.

"He'll be okay… I think," Leafpool hesitantly announced.

"I have to find Hawkfrost," Honeydrop said. He ran through the bracken towards the edge of the battle. If Hawkfrost was to lose he'd probably try to get away.

He came to the thick bushes , when suddenly a big cat came at him and nearly bit his arm off. He looked up and saw Hawkfrost, massive and nasty, ready to pulverize him. He kicked Hawkfrost in the head and they tumbled backwards into a pile of thorns. Hawkfrost and Honeydrop were seized in the spikes, and covered in blood. Neither of them could escape. Slowly a paw reached down and grabbed at Honeydrop. It was Brambleclaw.

"Brother, save me!"

Brambleclaw paused a second. He shook his head.

"After everything you've done to me… you are no brother of mine." But Hawkfrost was not so weak after all. He bit at the thorns, though it caused his mouth to bleed uncontrollably, he crawled through the bushes, and jumped onto the ledge, before Brambleclaw and Honeydrop had time to think. Honeydrop was too wounded to defend himself, but Brambleclaw came and fended off Hawkfrost. He pushed him once more into the thorns. Hawkfrost was still drenched in blood. This time he did not get up.

"You killed him." Honeydrop was slightly surprised. Hawkfrost was his brother. Brambleclaw shook his head.

"Hawkfrost and I shared a curse. By killing him I have lifted it from both of us. So much has been ruined," He sighed. Honeydrop couldn't tell if he meant the attack against the clans or his arguments with Squirrelflight. But either way, though it was more than a little disturbing, he had been right.

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They came back to see the battle over. There had been many deaths; Blackclaw, Oakfur, and Bird were among them. But they had won.

Honeydrop saw out of the corner of his eye, Talonwing. He walked over to her.

"I'll see you at gatherings, right?" She shook her head.

"Why not?"

"Because… I'm joining Thunderclan." Honeydrop looked at Firestar, who nodded.

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Mistyfoot became Mistystar that moon. As did Russetfur become Russetstar. Graystripe was home at last, and things began to finally settle down, with the nightmare of Tigerclaw behind them.

Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight forgot their arguments and soon had two kits, Lionkit (Lionfur) and Woodkit (Woodstripe)

Talonwing became a loyal Thunderclan warrior, and queen. She and Honeydrop had three kits of their own, Coalkit (Coaltail), Daykit (Dayheart), and Fallenkit (Fallenleaf/ Fallenstar).

You can review if you'd like. There WON'T be any sequels. I will finish the End Of Peace soon. Next I will add on a chapter to The autobiograghy of... , which will be Ashfur, and you can vote on who will come after him. I might rewrite Hidden Stars. I also have two new stories to post, but you'll just have to wait and see what they're about!

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