Chapter 16
A/N: Well, Everything Burns won, do that's what I'm doing! Me loves this song, I have it on meh Ipod!
Disclaimer: I don't own Warriors or this song.
She sits in her corner
Singing herself to sleep
Wrapped in all of the promises
That no one seems to keep
She no longer cries to herself,
No tears left to wash away
Just diaries of empty pages,
Feelings gone astray
But she will sing
'Till everything burns
While everyone screams
Burning their lies
Burning my dreams
All of this hate
And all of this pain
I'll burn it all down
As my anger reigns
'Till everything burns
Ooh, oh
Walking through life unnoticed
Knowing that no one cares
Too consumed in their masquerade
No one sees her there
And still she sings
'Till everything burns
While everyone screams
Burning their lies
Burning my dreams
All of this hate
And all of this pain
Burn it all down
As my anger reigns
'Till everything burns
Everything burns
(Everything burns)
Everything burns
Watching it all fade away
(All fade away)
Everyone screams
Everyone screams..
(Watching it all fade away)
Oooh, ooh..
(While everyone screams)
Burning their lies
Burning my dreams
(All of this hate)
And all of this pain
I'll burn it all down
As my anger reigns
Til everything burns
(Everything burns)
Watching it all fade away
(Oooh, ooh)
(Everything burns)
Watching it all fade away...
She sits in her corner
Singing herself to sleep
Wrapped in all of the promises
That no one seems to keep
She no longer cries to herself,
No tears left to wash away
Just diaries of empty pages,
Feelings gone astray
But she will sing
"Badger attack!" Squirrelflight yowled as she raced through camp. As she closed her mouth. A swarm of badgers came trampling through the camp entrance. Cats all around her let out yowls of terror. The badgers rushed into the camp, closing their jaws on anything they could get to.
Squirrelflight saw her mother, Sandstorm, battling side by side with Brackenfur, trying to force a burly badger away from the nursery. She turned her head away. As she watched, she heard a yowl of pain. Dustpelt flew through the air and landed in a trampled bush. He didn't get up.
Squirrelflight rushed over to her former mentor, but a flash of black and white stopped her. Raising her head, she came face to face with the badger she had driven out several moons ago.
To think I felt sorry for you! She thought as she raked her claws down the she-badgers face. The huge beast let out a roar of fury. Squirrelflight dodges the badger's flailing paws. She could do this!
'Till everything burns
While everyone screams
Burning their lies
Burning my dreams
All of this hate
And all of this pain
I'll burn it all down
As my anger reigns
'Till everything burns
Suddenly, Brambleclaw was a t her side. The big tabby tom pushed back at the badger with her, until it was forced, still roaring, out of the entrance.
"Where's Firestar?" Squirrelflight meowed quietly. Brambleclaw gazed at her softly.
"He was still fighting last I saw him," he meowed. Then, with a flick of his tail, he bounded off.
Squirrelflight watched him go. So much of her wanted to leap after him, to play like they had on their journey here. To tell him that she forgave him. But she couldn't. She still had a job to do.
"Sootfur, over here!" Squirrelflight yowled. Sootfur raised his head. he slowly began to drag himself over to her.
"Up there!" She yowled, pointing with her muzzle to the rocky slope. Sootfur dug his claws into the rock and heaved himself up. Before he could get halfway, however, she slithered back down.
"Can't – climb!" He wheezed. Squirrelflight realized that both his back legs were broken.
Before she could elf him up, the biggest badger she had ever laid eyes on rose in front of them. It swatted Squirrelflight away with a large black and white paw. She lay there, dazed for a few seconds. When she rose up again, the badge was moving away from Sootfur, who was laying ominously still.
"Sootfur, no!" She yowled, rushing to her Clanmate's side. Sootfur had a new gash in his throat, and his eyes were blank and staring.
'Till everything burns
While everyone screams
Burning their lies
Burning my dreams
All of this hate
And all of this pain
Burn it all down
As my anger reigns
Squirrelflight led Ferncloud and Birchpaw to the rocky slope. Ferncloud was bleeding from many wounds, and Birchpaw's tail was torn up, and one of his eyes was swollen and puffy.
"You can escape here," she told them. "Daisy and her kits are up there. They'll be glad for the company." Ferncloud climbed up first. Birchpaw followed. For one second, Squirrelflight thought the young apprentice was too wounded to make the climb, but with one last heave, he pulled himself over the top and disappeared into the forest behind his mother.
Two more cats saved. But how many more would lose their lives before the battle was over?
'Till everything burns
Everything burns
(Everything burns)
Everything burns
Watching it all fade away
(All fade away)
Everyone screams
Everyone screams..
(Watching it all fade away)
Oooh, ooh..
(While everyone screams)
Squirrelflight ad just sent another badger roaring out of camp, when Brackenfur rushed to her.
"Get Cinderpelt!" He yowled. "Sorreltail's kitting!" With that, he rushed back to the nursery.
Squirrelflight rushed across to the medicine cat's den. "Cinderpelt!" She yowled. The medicine cat pushed her way out.
"Sorreltail's kitting!" Squirrelflight yowled. Cinderpelt yowled in shock.
"Oh StarClan! No!" She yowled. She raced back into her den, and when she emerged she was carrying a bundle of herbs. The two cats ran across the clearing to the nursery.
"Guard the entrance!" She yowled at her. Squirrelflight nodded, and joined Brackenfur at the entrance.
Burning their lies
Burning my dreams
(All of this hate)
And all of this pain
I'll burn it all down
As my anger reigns
"No!" Squirrelflight yowled as Brackenfur was swatted away. The badger pushed his way into the nursery, ignoring Squirrelflight.
She heard a yowl of surprise from Sorreltail. The badger roared in fury. Squirrelflight wanted to rush in and help them, but she had to make sure no other badgers broke in. She forced herself to turn away from the entrance. She stood at the entrance, when a brown and white blur ran past her, gray black one following it.
Leafpool and Crowfeather had come home!
The medicine cat fell on a nearby badger, Crowfeather joining her.
"Where's Cinderpelt?" Leafpool yowled. Squirrelflight bowed her head.
"Nursery, Sorreltail – kitting – badger broke in," she meowed in ragged gasps. Leafpool turned in shock to the nursery. Before either of the cats could do anything, a yowl split the air.
"StarClan help me!"
Til everything burns
(Everything burns)
Watching it all fade away
(Oooh, ooh)
(Everything burns)
Watching it all fade away...
Squirrelflight was alone with Crowfeather. Leafpool was in the nursery. All of the sudden, more yowls could be heard from the entrance to camp. More cats rushed in. Onestar, Webfoot, Ashfoot, Whitetail…
WindClan had come to help!
The newcomers fell on the badgers, hissing with fury. The badgers turned, confused. Then, as one great tide of black and white, the left, roaring with pain and defeat as they did. Soon, the clearing was free of any intruders. Branches and ferns littered the ground along with clumps of fur, both cat and badger. Drops of blood speckled the dirt, and everywhere Squirrelflight looked, cats were pushing themselves up, only to fall back down again.
The battle had been won. But how heavy had the price been?
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