• Ashfur •
AH: This will be amazingly long.
Ashfur's blue eyes locked with Squirrelflight's. The scorching flames circled around them, and the heavy branch below him was almost ablaze along with the trees around them, blackened leaves beginning to fall down, smoldering violently, sparks flying off the crooked edges. His crazed gaze began to swish, and Squirrelflight's jaw began to move in speak. "Your quarrel with Brambleclaw has to stop. Too many moons have passed. You have to accept that I'm Brambleclaw's mate, not yours. You can't keep trying to punish Brambleclaw for something that was always meant to be." She meowed, her green eyes turning into raging fire. Ashfur's sapphire eyes narrowed violently, and his mind began to spin at this she-cat's idiotic thoughts. "I have no quarrel with Brambleclaw. I couldn't care less about Brambleclaw. It's not his fault he fell for a faithless she-cat. I know you think I've never forgiven Brambleclaw for stealing you from me, but you're wrong, and so is every cat that thinks so. My quarrel is with you, Squirrelflight. It always has been." Suddenly, his ears prickled, hearing Hollyleaf slip. Die. Die! He yowled in his head, but suddenly Lionblaze saved his sister's life. Hissing, he turned to glare once again at Squirrelflight. "All this was moons ago. Ashfur, I had no idea you were still upset." His mind and heart suddenly exploded with anger. "Upset? I'm not upset. You have no idea how much pain I'm in." His voice began to shake with anger and mixed emotions. "It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood..." Suddenly, he arose into a violent hiss, his sapphire eyes locking and shaking against Squirrelflight's puzzled emerald pools. A few seasons, or maybe only a few heartbeats, Hollyleaf dared to place her black paw against his pink claws, green eyes wailing for protection. "Stay there!" Ashfur yowled, fur bristling in pain, rounding against the she-cat who broke his heart once again. "I can't believe you don't know how much you hurt me. You are the blind one, not Jayfeather. Who do you think sent Firestar down to the lake, where the fox trap was? I wanted him to die, to take your father away, so you'd know the true meaning of pain. " He smirked when Hollyleaf gasped, and her mother, Squirrelflight's eyes widened, wailing in shock. " I'm going to fight him." Ashfur heard his apprentice hissed, and Hollyleaf stopped him, knowing that he, Ashfur, would throw Lionblaze in the hungry flames. "Brambleclaw saved Firestar then. But's not here now. He's not here- but your kits are." He had no fear when her emerald pools turned into a blazing emerald fire, she was too weak to fight the tom. Just like Lionblaze- he would have thrusted her into the flames, growling for her blood. Suddenly, courage and fear mixed in Squirrelflight's meow. "Enough, Ashfur. Your quarrel is with me. These young cats have done nothing to hurt you. Do what you like with me, but let them out of the fire." Ashfur felt his mind turn yet again. He felt his meow's pitch turn into insane cries, full of his pain and emotinal heartful cries. "You don't understand. This is the only way to make you feel the same pain caused me. You tore my heart out when you chose Brambleclaw over me. Anything I did to you would never hurt as much. But your kits... if you watch them die, then you'll know the pain I felt." He almost wailed, sapphire eyes turning into dark slits. The she-cat's eyes began to roar, and she looked carelessly over her shoulder, her orange fur smooth and silky, even with the fire edging to her body. Her voice began to spill out like dark honey, poisoned, yet sweet. "Kill them, then. You won't hurt me that way. If you really want to hurt me, you'll have to find a better way that that. They are not my kits."