I do not own Warriors, Erin Hunter does!

Also, this should be the last of toms chasing after Webstream for a while. I felt as though a few chapters would help you romance lovers. This is more for the drama lovers though. Hope you enjoy it, and do reply!

Ripplingminnow stood up from his warm nest, and looked angrily at Sedgetalon's tail. He was sitting outside the warriors den, waiting on him to come out. It was nearly moon high, and the clan was asleep. He hated these parts of the day, and these parts of his life. He had stupidly agreed to listen to Snowfury when he was an apprentice under the condition the tom helped his training. Now his training was over, and he had to speak with Snowfury every few nights. Sedgetalon had joined with Snowfury's group as an apprentice too, but he joined out of will.

"I thought you would sleep passed moon high!" The light brown tom hissed at Ripplingminnow.

"Lets not keep him waiting." He replied dryly.

Sedgetalon grunted and slipped out of the camp in a small slither of an entrance that the two toms had opened up to avoid the guard noticing them. When they were out of the camp, Sedgetalon took to running so Ripplingminnow followed after him.

They ran for a while, the silver tom following the light brown one's every move. Finally they arrived at their destination after what seemed like moons. Ripplingminnow sat down, looking up at the rock the leaders sat on at every gathering. The two Robinclan toms sat side by side until more cats started entering.

From Hollowclan, Redscorch and his nephews Tigerpaw and Darkpaw. The red tabbys sat side by side, their eyes shooting hostile glances at the cats climbing out of the bushes. Skystalker and Frostclaw stepped out of the bushes, the two Rainclan toms being trailed by two smaller toms from Rainclan. Frostclaw's sons Fallingkit and Swallowkit. The large toms glared at Redscorch and his kin.

Ripplingminnow's feeling of unease nearly erupted into anger as Snowfury and his Mossclan followers stepped out of the bushes. The white tom's pelt was followed by 9 black pelts. Mossclan was by far his strongest group of followers. Ripplingminnow's eyes glanced over the black siblings and their kin. Boneshatter with his white feet, Clawheart with his lust for chaos, Strikeface with his missing eye and hideous scar, Fangstrike with her lethal beauty, Bloodpool with her stealthy medicine cat ways, Rippedpelt with his heavily scarred pelt that made Nightscar look normal, Rainear with his skinned ears and twisted left paw, Grasswhisker with his hairless face and single white whisker, and then the half blind Sunstorm with his two twisted paws.

Snowfury nodded at all of his followers, his gaze landing on Sedgetalon and Ripplingminnow. "You two are the weak link!" He hissed, the cats in the clearing unsheathing his claws.

Sedgetalon didn't miss a beat though. "Ripplingminnow was in charge of befriending her and killing her, but instead he fell in love with her!" He hissed, shooting the tom a glance that meant shut-up.

Ripplingminnow narrowed his gaze on Sedgetalon, making it clear he wasn't nearly as intimidating as Snowfury. "Sedgetalon refuses to do so because he loves her as well." He mewed calmly, his blue eyes mirroring Snowfury's icey blue eyes. Their eyes remained locked for what seemed like moons.

"I can kill her, just let me do it!" Skystalker hissed, the tom towering over all the cats in the clearing and standing even with Snowfury. The toms were known as the white trees, both being the tallest in all the clans. Turtleheart was the only one that could stand even with them, and he was rarely seen next to them.

"No! I can't risk you falling in love, though I doubt your heartless soul is capable of it." Snowfury snapped, Skystalker's eyes glinting with challenge as he stood by him.

"Snowfury, why is it that you want her dead?" Sunstorm asked, the small tom looking like a kit next to the other white toms.

"Because she alters my ability to think straight!" He snapped at the yellow tom, raising a paw to swipe.

"And why does she alter your ability to think straight?" Bloodpool asked, licking her paw calmly while her yellow eyes were eerily looking at Snowfury with knowledge beyond her moons.

"The same reason these two toms fail at killing her." He mewed quietly, causing the two Robinclan toms drop their jaws. Skystalker snorted and Frostclaw looked on with knowing eyes.

"But I was about to kill her when that stupid tom got in the way! The brother to you!" Snowfury snapped, stepping towards Ripplingminnow.

Ripplingminnow suddenly stood tall, not reaching near what the white tom was reaching, or what Whisperwinds could next to him, but his eyes were just as hard. "I am not killing my brother. I would rather kill you." He spat, causing claws to rake across his face.

Without thinking, the tom launched forward at the attacker. Skystalker yowled in surprise, and jumped into help Snowfury, the two white toms fighting the silver tom with lethal precision. Ripplingminnow was knocked over, blood gushing out of one of his shoulders. Skystalker spat down on him, his eyes blazing. "That should teach you a lesson!" He snapped, stepping back next to Snowfury.

Snowfury looked at the other cats. "If any of your clans cross Webstream, kill her immediately! We will meet again at half moon!" He yowled, turning back and being swallowed into the mass of black cats as they started back to Mossclan territory.

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Webstream felt a paw on her side, and her eyes snapped open to be looking at Turtleheart's yellow eyes. "Webstream, wake up. Sedgetalon just came back from the gathering place, and said that he followed Ripplingminnow there. Ripplingminnow met with Snowfury and a bunch of other cats, and they are plotting your death, Ripplingminnow being the one to kill you. Snowfury and Skystalker attacked him and he is unconscious at the gathering place." The tom mewed urgently, causing Webstream to stand straight up.

"Wake up Hawkstrike, Blackfrost, and Cricketsong! Have Sedgetalon lead us back to where he is." She snapped, turning to the sleeping Sagewhisper as the tom darted out of the den to do as told. She nudged the she-cat awake. She explained everything quickly, and the medicine cat was following her out of the den as the other cats were gathering at the entance. Mistylight was up too, but the shy she-cat didn't say anything and rather took up position at the entrance. She must be taking over Turtleheart's guarding.

She looked from one cat to the next, her eyes locking the gaze of each of them. Even Hawkstrike. Webstream turned to Sedgetalon. "Lead us to where you last saw the traitor." She commanded the tom, who accepted her command with a nod of his head. He turned and started running out the entrance. Hawkstrike and Cricketsong ran side by side behind him. Blackfrost ran behind them, and Turtleheart ran next to Webstream, on her scarred side. She knew that the clans still respected her just by that one act. She was a cat to be feared and trusted, even admired by some loony toms.

The cats ran like this, their paces even as they did so. Webstream felt power surge in her legs, and she knew that Sagewhisper behind her was right when she suggested she returned to warrior duties in the morning. Webstream felt the steadiness of her friend Turtleheart next to her, the determination from Blackfrost in front of her, the worry and readiness from Sagewhisper, the protectiveness of Cricketsong, and the anger from Hawkstrike. She was running with her clan, for her clan. She was being a warrior after a near moon of being in the medicine cat den.

Webstream smelt the stench of cats, ones she particularly hated. Amongst them were kits and apprentices! She felt disgusted to ever thought of a cat associating with them as a friend. As the patrol slowed, Sagewhisper ran passed and slid to a stop next to Ripplingminnow. Webstream had better things to do though, and turned to the patrol. "Hawkstrike! Check over there for cats. Turtleheart, over there! Blackfrost, over there! Cricketsong, help your sister." She commanded, feeling pride in her words. She was back!

Her moments of pride quickly slipped away as she noticed a white figure moving in the bushes. She charged forward, and over the startled Hawkstrike, and right into the side of a blue eyed white tom who was abnormally tall. She clawed at the tom. "Snowfury! I wondered how long until I could kill you." She hissed, clawing at him again. Something seemed odd though. He wasn't pure white. His pelt had a grayish tint to it.

"Oh dear Webstream, Snowfury has already left. He left me with a command to kill you though." The tom purred, his eyes turning strangely evil.

"Skystalker!" She yowled in surprise, faltering and falling backwards. Skystalker reared to slam down on her, but Hawkstrike slammed into his side. The brown she-cat slashed wildly at the tom, sending him into an over the top defensive mode. Webstream caught on to what the other she-cat was doing, and she too started clawing wildly at the white tom. Before he could do much in attack, he tripped and rolled backwards. When he got on his feet, he didn't stick around very long and instead ran off into the bushes.

"Why do all white toms want to kill me?" Webstream asked Hawkstrike teasingly.

"You should feel lucky. There are more tabby toms or black toms than there are white toms." She said, turning and continuing her small patrol, though obviously more alert.