Chapter 3

A/n this is a fictional story. I don't want flames. Warning character death. Also this is a dark story. But has a happy ending. May change rating to M. don't know yet? also don't take what you read as how I feel about the other lifestyle in real life, I in fact like them! also don't like don't read or skip and wait for the next chapter.,., this is a just, a chapter in many that will lead Battlepaw down her dark path then back to the light.

Under the sunlight stood a cat. It's blueish white fur gleaming in the light. Its red yellow eyes narrowed as it looked at the moorland, a purr rumbled in its battle scarred throat.
"Soon all this will belong to Dragonsong, they will cringe in their nests when they see me. The cat they turned their backs on." Dragon song's voice was very deep and gravelly. "Yes revenge will taste so sweet."
He rose to his blue toned paws and crossed into the first clan Windclan. It has been a long time since he had been a clan cat. He had been apprentice when they kicked him out. Now he will take a clan by force. Then perhaps the other clans as well. He licked his lips. Yes that is good.
###BATTLEPAW###
Battlepaw, was afraid, her dreams where full of death and blood. A cat with fire colored eyes seemed to haunt her dreams. I wish I could speak with Jayfeather. But was in Riverclan helping Willowshine. Ambermoon was the current med cat until he came back. I can't ask her, she knows nothing of being a medicine cat. With a deep sigh, she got to her paws, the warmth of new leaf was overshadowed by a blast of cold wind, for some reason the weather wanted to be cold as well as warm.
With her white/black striped fur fluffed against the wind she made her way over to the Warriors den.
I looked inside looking for that light red fur of my mentor. ROSEFANG. My crush. She was sitting with Ivypool the clan deputy. I like Ivypool she is a good cat even if she train in the Dark Forest. She was very nice to me as a kit. But then my "mother" came over to me and hissed at me.
"Go bring the elders some prey then clean out the nests and check for ticks," with that she turned from me and I stood there in shock, only my mentor told me what to do. I think. I smile thinking of my darling Rosefang. We have been dating in secret for three moons after my first gathering.
But lately she has brushed me off when I ask if we can train alone. I know that she is a warrior. She has other duties before me. I bit back a sigh. I go to Ambermoon to get what I need.
Later after I do my job I spy Brightstar with Jayfeather. They are talking in low whispered tones like they don't want any other cat to hear them.
I prick my ears. But I still can't really make out what they are saying. Then Jayfeather looks right at me and I shudder it seems as if he can see right past my fur into my mind. *no he can't,* I think to myself.
"Battlepaw, you will get a new mentor," Brightstar said swiftly.
With a hint of regret in her eye the ginger white leader leaped to the High rock.
"Cats, who can catch their own prey gather here."
I lowered myself to the ground. Fear made my fur bristle, did they found out about my love for her?
The peirceing2 gaze of the Leader made the cats quiet.
Soon it was too quieted
. "Bring the cats forward!" She yowled.
All eyes turned to the medical den and to my shock. IVY POOL AND ROSEFANG stepped out. Heads held high, tails entwined, eyes filled with love.
*she never loved me!* my mind screamed at me and I -forgetting all cats, are watching and hearing- cried, out.
"ROSEFANG why? You said you loved me!" Then I felt hot anger at her. *had she just used me? I loved her! *
The clan was in whispers. Why was the Clan deputy in trouble?
Some even asked why Rose fang was even called.
Brightstar RAISED her tail for silence.
"Starclan, has spoken to Jayfeather, they have decreed that only a Tom and a She Cat are to be mates. Same sex mates are to be killed. Or forced to change their mates to the opposite sex or casted out. Now that brings my eyes to the two cats before you. For moons these two have been seen together, alone. Now at first I thought nothing of it. I mean to cats will catch more prey than one. But it was soon discerned by a Windclan medicine cat no less the shame. That two cats are in fact lovers and Mates! Worse Rosefang has been seducing young Battlepaw, into loving you. Seen just now by the young kits outburst of affection, I will overlook that for now, but these cats are to either be killed or casted out of the clan as loners. What shall it be done to these 2 filthy she cats?"
Silence.
Then one voice came with a screech.
"Kill them!"
Another, "leave them to the Foxes!"
The howling was so loud I wanted to leave but my heart was pounding and I was scared. I did love her but now I feel is disappointed and used.
But then I realized that this is the fate that awaits me if I'm gay.
I'm not truly gay am I?
Shaking my head to clear my thoughts so I could hear the judgements to be passed.
Brightstar called, for silence. "I have, reached a decision," I hold my breath.
"One is to be killed, one is to make to watch, and in fact all of us will watch, it is a lesson to all cats, Tom and she cat only!"
My heart pounding I wonder who will die?
The clan was wondering the same thing.
Rose fang's gaze was defiant but sadness was flicking in her pretty eyes. She looked at me said that she did love me, the clan gasped at her words, I brighten but the hurt that she chose Ivypool over Me. But I don't want her to die.
Brightstar flexed her tail, Jayfeather, bring the snake and the death berry."
Shock filled the clan. As the leader leaped off the Highrock. "We are taking them to the Island. For all the Clans to see this Starclan awful tragic outcome."
Soon we are walking into the clearing of the Island. I can scent Shadowclan as well as Riverclan and Windclan. I scan for Darkfreeze I see him over with Jayfeather, Willowshine, and Barkface, He smiles at me and my heart is fluttering. Get a grip your first love is about to die. And you are having eyes for the Medicine cat! I curl my lip at him. He frowned and looked away. Then I remembered I never met with him at the half moon, I was with Rosefang
the leaders looked at our 2 cats that sat in fear but defiantly twining their tail, fur brushing, saying I love yous into each other's ears.
Anger burned in my body. Anger and sadness.
"Cats of all clans, I present these two cats. I wish to make a show of this fox hearted behavior, they are to be punished, death for one."
The cats hissed and snarled. The Shadowclan leader raised his tail, "let the punishment begin, for I want my cats to understand that no homo kitties are allowed in my Clan," the others leaders agreed.
The cats fell silent.
I closed my eyes as Jay feather brought the snake that had been drugged and Willowshine took the death berries and placed them in front of the cats chosen for death.
"Ivypool will die," "to show no cat caught in this Sin will survive. You have damned your soul to dark forest. Any last words?" Brightstar mewed
the silver black she cat held her head high. "I may have loved a she cat but that made me no less a warrior! You will see me In Starclan! My love for Rosefang is true, if by my death that she will live though as a loner then so be it. I will know that she is alive and I will see her again!" No one said a word as Ivypool looked at the snake and the death berries. Her tail twitched each method would bring pain and death.
With one last kiss Ivypool placed her paw into the snakes reach. It bit her. Her eyes widen as the venom began its tortious race, to her heart.
She fell to her side, tail lashing, and her jaw clenching to keep from screaming in pain. Rosefang was in tears, as she watched her mate.
Those cruel berries lay just out of ivy pool's reach. Ivypool writhed and thrashed, her eyes rolling into her head. Then she was still. Her tail twitched, she opened her eyes once more. She blinked. Rosefang went over to her, "Forever I love you," she said with her last breath.
The crowd of cats, cheered as they saw Ivypool dead.
I felt hollow in my bones, I watched a cat die for being in love with the same sex. That is, wrong. I look at Rosefang, her eyes are pools of misery. I think she wants to eat the berries. But then Ivypool noble death would be in vain.
I watch Rosefang I want to see what she would do. Head held high she give dead pool she turned and faced the Clans.
"One day cats will be able to love who they want. When that day comes I will return, my mates death will not be in vain. Goodbye." She turned to leave when she caught sight of me she stopped.
"Follow your heart, if your love for a cat is true than you can Do wrong, I did love you, as my friend," "take care battlepaw2,"
I have her a light kiss on the shoulder not caring who saw. At least she is alive.
Brightstar spoke up after Rosefang.
"That is fate of all who defy Starclan laws. Death or out casting. Now Thunderclan, needs a new deputy, I say these words, Lionblaze will be the new deputy. . Now Battlepaw come forth your new Mentor will be ...Jayfeather. As he has no Apprentice, this way Starclan can cure you of this Filthy Sickness. As, for Ivypool, her body is to be cast on the thunder path as a sign that no tolerance of this Sickness will be able to win. Meeting dismissed. Remember cats of all clans what happened today. Don't forget or you will be dead or dying."
My shock was clear. I was stripped of being a warrior. Forced against my will to be a medicine cat. Anger flared in my fur hot as the sun.
BRIGHTSTAR will pay for this. Mark my words.