Sorry for the long wait. Here it is, A Dangerous Path- what REALLY happened. Maybe.

Fireheart stared up at the Great Rock. "OMIGOD! Tigerclaw! What's he doing up there?" he muttered to Sandstorm, and then realized that he had to be up there too.

At first he thought, obviously, of using this prime opportunity to expose Tigerclaw...well, Tigerstar now. Then he started thinking of all the reasons not to, and then all the side effects. By the time he'd gone through them all, he'd totally forgotten about exposing Tigerstar, so he just let it lie.

Bluestar was mad about it. And, because of the bad water she'd had after Tigerstar's betrayal, she decided to attack WindClan. "They're EVIL, Fireheart!" she mewed. "Don't you see it? Rabbit thieves!"

"That doesn't make sense, Bluestar," meowed Fireheart earnestly.

"Yes, I know. The real reason is...well, you know Morningflower? They're always going on about how beautiful she is, and not me! I get 'wise' and 'powerful' but never pretty. Doesn't anyone care about my feelings? No! So I'm gettin' my revenge!" And she purred maniacally and walked away, leaving Fireheart quite confused.

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With a bit of help, Fireheart stopped the battle with WindClan. Tallstar, unknown by any of the others, gave a speech to Bluestar to assure her that she was, in fact, beautiful. He also did a bit of karoke on that topic and refused to stop singing until she stopped the battle.

Unfortunately, now there were dogs in ThunderClan territory. Though the cats all thought they were attacking them, they were really quite innocent. Dogs and cats don't speak the same language. So when the cats heard "pack" and "kill", they were actually hearing...

"MARCO!" cried one dog, leaping around Snakerocks.

"POLO!" shouted another, peeping out a cave. "POLO, you idiot! No, don't walk over there!"

Quite accidentally, the second dog had stepped on Swiftpaw, who was trying and failing to join in the game of "Marco, Polo". Switpaw was squished, and the dogs cried over him, promising to keep him in their hearts for the rest of their lives. Sadly, they were soon distracted by a piece of chocolate strategically placed by Tigerstar and in the process trampled Brightpaw, who would live through the accident. In fact, it was a good thing, because it finally gave Cloudpaw the courage to say that he liked her.

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The dogs, thanks to short attention spans, were soon playing Marco Polo again, this time racing through the forest and snacking on rabbits that Tigerstar had left them. Fireheart decided that he had to stop them, so he decided to lead them over the waterfall.

And it all worked out really well. The dogs were extremely happy that the cats wanted to play Marco Polo with them, and chased them one by one on their way to the gorge. Fireheart was last, and the lead dog followed him, growling as loud as he could. "MARCO!"

Fireheart, for his own reasons, would not answer "polo". This annoyed the dog a bit. After all, what kind of idiot didn't know to yell "polo"? "Marco!" he howled again, hoping to help. But still Fireheart didn't answer.

They were nearing the gorge now. Fireheart saw it of course, but the dog didn't, because, like all good "Marco, Polo" players, he had his eyes tightly shut. They had almost reached the edge when Tigerstar cannoned out from the bushes and attacked Fireheart. The lead dog, mad that his "Marco, Polo" partner was being attacked, tried to bite Tigerstar. But since his eyes were still shut, he accidentally grabbed Fireheart.

Then Bluestar appeared. She assessed the situation quickly, then pushed the lead dog over the gorge. He howled the whole way down. "DUDES! JUMP! C'MON!"

The truly hard-core pack members jumped after him, though the rest of them ran away. Bluestar jumped too, and the lead dog turned to look at her as they plummeted towards the ground. "Hey," he asked, momentarily remembering that he spoke cat. "Why'd you jump?"

"Just to see," purred Bluestar. "It doesn't matter- I'm going to die, anyway."

"Awwwww..." growled the lead dog.

"Don't worry," Bluestar assured him. "It was SO obvious, and besides, I was just getting in Fireheart's way by now. But it's still gonna be really moving and all that."

"Oh, okay," said the lead dog placidly. He saw the water beneath him and looked excitedly over at his fellow pack members. "THIS IS GOING TO BE SO COOL!" he barked. "Now we can play REAL 'Marco, Polo', in the water!"

The Darkest Hour is next...

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