IceKingGlaceon here! Hope you all enjoy another chapter of this story! Sorry to disappoint, but I still don't own the series!

Bumblestripe awoke to the sun shining into the Warriors Den. He hadn't really gotten much sleep, but he yawned and stretched out away, figuring he might as well do something with his time. He goes out on a walk to look at the forest, it was normally rather mind clearing.

Walking out through the Tunnel, he passes Birchfall and Whitewing, who are just finishing their shift as he walks out "Long shift?" He asks with a smirk. "Yes, long and seemingly endless. I almost wish they'd attack us just so we'd have something more to do." Birchfall responds with an impatient meow.

"Oh don't wish that, just what we need! More blood spilled.." Whitewing quietly asserts to him.

"It was more of being dramatic, it wasn't me wishing for more blood…" Birchfall responds annoyed, and with that they start fighting.

"Well it sure sounded like that." She meows while going closer up to his face. And with that Bumblestripe walks away, feeling like he has no need to intervene. As he's walking past a bramble bush, he sees Ivypool on a low-lying tree branch. "What are you doing out here so early" He inquisitively asks as he walks up to her. "I couldn't sleep, I just can't stop thinking about last night." She slowly responds, while seemingly pondering it.

"Oh don't worry about Nightcloud, it'll all blow over after tonight." He responds as he jumps up with her. "Yes, but what will it draw from Windclan? We've already seen them go insane after what Mousewhisker and Thornclaw did." She says in a saddened voice, while clearly being saddened with the way she's acting. "It wasn't right, but I don't know what they're expecting at this point."

"Sometimes things are done that will not be changed, anger and outcry helps alot to that." He mews in a quiet voice, while moving closer to her. "But we cannot change the past, we can only influence the future. I didn't think I'd burst out in that kind of rage, I simply expected to knock her unconscious. But. But.. Then I found out about Whitekit…" He continues in a quiet, raspy voice.

He goes silent as Ivypool gently looks face to face with him. "I hope you are right, and that it won't escalate very much, but this strike against them, what will it do? Will it deter them, or provoke them? I think you're being too optimistic." She meows with a certain sharp tone.

"We shall see." Bumblestripe swishes his tail, and jumps down from the tree. After a moment, Ivypool jumps down with him. They both return to the camp, and with that they share tongues for a while. "What's the news on Molewhisker?" He pipes up quietly. "He's doing better, who would have thought though, that his former mentor Rosepetal would be the one who falls for him." She smirks as she meows.

"I guess there's room for any amount of unexpected couples!" Bumblestripe brightly meows to her. Ivypool just purred in response. "Who do you think's next?" She purrs teasingly.

About then Blossomfall comes up and purrs "For what it's worth I could see Cherryfall and Stormcloud being mates, they're rather close as it is. Maybe they'll be more than friends?"

And as Ivypool is starting to respond Briarlight teasingly comes up and says "Wouldn't Mousewhisker complement Cherryfall better than Stormcloud? Mousewhisker is the quiet cat who's determined and quiet, Cherryfall is energetic and willing. Stormcloud I really don't know about."

Ivypool responds brightly "If Cherryfall and Mousewhisker became mates my tail would curl up! They'd be adorable, but for a while it's going to take alot to get over what Mousewhisker did.." She ends on a darker note.

"Eh give him a chance, same with Stormcloud." Blossomfall starts with a determated voice. "Mousewhisker made a big mistake, but others will come to forgive him. I think if anything it'd make Cherryfall more attracted to him! It shows he has a fire to him! But Stormcloud is patient and caring, so overall I think he'd be better."

"If Mousewhisker becomes mates with Cherryfall, I'll do a few dawn patrols just for you." Bumblestripe pipes up to Blossomfall.

"Deal!"

"Wait shush, here comes Berrynose, he'll never let us hear the end of it if he finds out what we're talking about!" Ivypool quickly says.

As he walks up Briarlight starts trying to contain her laughter, Berrynose notices this and asks what's so funny, meanwhile Bumblestripe starts to laugh as well. "Why are you all laughing suddenly, is it something I did?" Berrynose annoyed asks.

"No no, it's nothing really." Briarlight says with a smirking smile.

"You sure about that?" "Yes."

As he starts walking away Blossomfall also starts laughing.

"What is it now!?" He angerly asks.

Smirking, Ivypool meows to him "They were talking about who they think Cherryfall's mate will be."

He sighs irritated. "Let her choose when she's ready, don't pressure her." And with that he walks away. "How did he become mates with Poppyfrost again?" Blossomfall asks. "She practically did all the work for him, she threw herself to him and then waited until he wasn't oblivious enough to miss it." Briarlight smirkingly says to her.

"Tsk Briarlight!" Ivypool cuffs her on the head playfully. "You know better than to say that so loudly!" Lionblaze adds a nod, showing that he heard, and that they should be quieter. Slowly grooming Ivypool, he starts to daydream about the battle that's due to happen tonight. He wonders how useful he'll be, who'll win. Who'll be injured. Suddenly he's jolted back into reality when Jayfeather calls him over. "Looks like this is a conversation to continue some other time." And with a wink he walks over to the Medicine Den.

"Have you been able to figure out anything yet?" He pressing asks Jayfeather.

"No, not yet." Bumblestripe moans in response. "But whatever it is, it might have something to do with tonight, so be alert and tell me if you get anymore clues." And with a swish of the tail, Jayfeather dismisses him. It's a little after sunhigh and Bumblestripe doses off at the rocks under the sun.

A cool breeze of air wakes him up, a storm is brewing up! Bumblestripe decides to eat something before the every upcoming battle. Dovewing comes over, and he and her share a sparrow quietly. As they finish, they share tongues a little bit. "Be safe at the battle tonight, I wouldn't want to lose you. I don't need more pain.." She says while saddened. "Don't worry," He reassures her. "I'll be fine, trust me."

She still seems uncertain, but the patrol is forming, "Wish me luck." And with that he walks away.

Squirrelflight leads the group out while Millie, Graystripe, Stormcloud, Sandstorm, Bramblestar, and Whitewing stay behind.

Slowly moving through the forest, they move near the lake before turning to head to Windclan territory. As the sun starts to set, the move near the lake, about halfway through the territory, they turn to head to the Windclan camp. Meanwhile Bumblestripe is on the left side of the group, near

Blossomfall, Toadstep, and Cherryfall. The sun is fully setting, and the patrol isn't that far from the Windclan camp when they find movement.

Squirrelflight signals to the cats to try to hide. They flop down and duck, the Windclan cats continue on their course. Suddenly there is a rumbling. And a yowl, a battle cry. Onestar leads Gorsetail and Weaselfur in a charge, slamming into and severely injuring Toadstep and Blossomfall. Both go flying back. Crouchfoot tries to charge at Bumblestripe, who easily sidesteps him, and he goes into the crowd. Larkwing tries to slash at him to which Mousewhisker knocks away. Gorsetail takes a slash at his chest, and he misses, and Bumblestripe responds with a quick claw to the foot. Gorsetail simply gets mad and aims a quick blow to the shoulder of Bumblestripe, which lands but doesn't do much damage. Gorsetail tries to wrap around Bumblestripe but gets clawed by his rear claws.

Suddenly some cat slams into him from his side, blindsided, he struggles to get up. He sees Owlpaw and Slightpaw are fighting with Birchfall. And then he sees his attacker, Larkwing. She is full of rage in her eyes, and Bumblestripe needs to fight well. He lands a soft blow to her head, and then a slash to her side. She fires back with a blow to his side, and then opposite side. "Not a bad fighter for a Thunderclan cat, but not good enough!" She spits angerly. While throwing a blow to her side, then a slash to her belly, he gasps out "Cocky for a…" slash "Windclan cat." then a blow to his side. "But not good enough to defeat me!" He cockly ends. And with a blow to her side, another two slashes to her belly, she yowls out and retreats.

Meanwhile Squirrelflight is on top of Onestar, slashing his belly, and he's bleeding out. Potentially losing a life to the angry deputy! Cherryfall and Mousewhisker are fighting side to side, in sync with slashes and blows to Gorsetail, Owlpaw and Crowfeather. Toadstep is struggling to get up, and his sister Blossomfall isn't getting up at all! As Toadstep gets up, he's knocked down by Crouchfoot and slashed in his belly, and he goes limp and unconscious.

But Brightheart knocks him down and squirms with him in a fight.

Looking around, everything seems slower, all the fighting, all the bloodshed, all the blood running down the moor. Slightpaw tries to pull a fast one, but it quickly knocked away by Bumblestripe. "Pitiful." He cockily concludes. Onestar, still reeling from just losing a life, calls out an order. "Retreat! This is enough bloodshed for one day! A single Windclan cat lies dead. And Toadstep is unconscious, while Blossomfall is bleeding out. "Fox dung!" Bumblestripe exclaims angerly. Birchfall starts to carry Blossomfall with a rather wounded Cherryfall. Following close behind is Bumblestripe, who sees Toadstep being carried by Spiderleg and Stormfur. Poppyfrost is rather bloodied as well, and also limping.

When they get to camp, Blossomfall is barely conscious, and Bumblestripe, Briarlight, Graystripe, and Millie all go up to her.

Jayfeather already said there's nothing he can do, and so he's trying to fix up Toadstep.

"Don't die on me now Blossomfall! I didn't treat you the best, but I was so concerned with Briarlight!" Millie quickly gushes while crying in her fur.

"You didn't treat me well, but you- you, treated me well enough. You were a fine parent, both-cough- of you were…" she says weakly.

"Briarlight, live everyday likes it your last, you'll find your place.. And Bumblestripe-cough- Looks like the bet's off…" She says weakly, rasps a laugh, and dies.

Graystripe just looks saddened. He's able to deal with it based on his past… He starts whispering softly into Millie's fur. "shhhh, it'll be ok, she lived her life… Focus on your other two kits…. It'll be ok…"

Bumblestripe brushes against Briarlight. And she just nods at him. They both know she'll be happier now in Starclan then she ever was here.

Leafpool annouces that Toadstep is also dead. Daisy and Spiderleg are saddened. Stormfur goes up and brushes against Brook. Tonight Bumblestripe stays vigil for Blossomfall.

Quietly waiting, he stays up and stays up for a while, but he slowly falls asleep, he didn't get much sleep, and the battle was draining. Before Sandstorm and Graystripe take her body to bury, he touches her fur one last time, same with Briarlight, Graystripe and Millie. Millie follows them out, while Briarlight drags herself to the Medicine Den. He follows her, and goes to talk to Jayfeather.

"Jayfeather, I think I'm figuring out what the meaning is…" He says quietly. "What would that be now?" He asks inquisitively.

"Well, during the chaos of the battle, at one point I looked around, I-I I.. I saw the blood running from the moor to the lake. It was chaotic, pointless. So much way because Breezepelt goes power hungry… Three more cats are dead, we don't know what happened at Shadowclan, this… It must be stopped…" He says in detail, and ends desperately.

"Soon it'll end, but Breezepelt will need to die before he gets Leader, or else it could go chaotic… The damage he could cause as a leader… It could end the ends.." Jayfeather meows worriedly. "He's driven by rage, he must be stopped. My half brother must be stopped, justice will be served. Starclan will help, they will guide us. Believe in them and you will do the right thing." He ends with a wise saying.

"I will stop him with my last breath if I must. I agree with you, he must be stopped, and he will be stopped. Mark my words Jayfeather, justice will be served, and I know how much you want it." With a swish of his tail, the malice leaves his voice, and he walks out. Another long day has passed, and now Bumblestripe needs sleep, he needs his strength. He groogily walks back to his Nest, and flops down tiredly. Another day, another fight, another death…

He has another nightmare of Dovewing being killed… A lot more of fog, and mystery, just hearing her scream in pain, and crying, and slowly… going silent…

With a jolt, he wakes up, and once again realizes it's all fine. It's a little after dawn, and once again he doesn't have any dawn patrols. So he goes out to hunt for a little fresh kill, he finds a squirrel, and very sloppily, pounces, misses, and chases it down. Jumping as it climbs the tree, he knicks it's tail, and drags it down, then kills it. He brings it back to the camp for he and Dovewing to share. Dovewing's up, giving milk to Graykit and Silverkit. She's very grateful for the Squirrel. She takes a bite, and he bites, etc. "How is being in the Nursery treating you?"

"Well it feels like it's missing something, but I guess it's less of the horrors of war…"

"It's just another day in the World we live in. It's a real shame though… Blossomfall, Toadstep, Thronclaw, etc. None of them needed to die in this pointless war…" He sighs sadly.

"How would you define it as pointless?" She asks cautiously. "Because it's just a power grab in Windclan, Breezepelt wants to be leader…" But Windclan and Shadowclan will follow him… There must be someone in Shadowclan or something…" He's quietly suspious in his talk.

"Well, if there are we'll find them, the Clans will survive…" She says calmly, brushing against his muzzle.

"Let's hope so" he says while stroking her spine. He goes out, and goes on Patrol on the Windclan border. More activity, but they aren't crossing the border, they just seem to be putting down their markers, just like Thunderclan is doing. They cover the entire border than head back for a rather uneventful day.

More gossip, Willowshine walks up Bumblestripe, "I can tell there's something with you and Jayfeather, an omen or whatever." She says quietly and calmly. "If you ever need an extra voice to decide I'm always here, I was also a Medicine Cat." She smirks quickly, then retreats back to the Medicine Den, probably to see Jayfeather. Poppyfrost walks out with Brightheart, gossiping about something. "Hey Poppyfrost, how are your wounds doing? You didn't look to good last night." he asks.

"Alot better, thank you. It's a miracle what a few cobwebs and marigold will do! I wonder who figured this out." She ponders for a second, then returns to talking with Brightheart.

Cloudtail walks by, and so does Birchfall to the Fresh Kill pile. Stretching out, it's starting to turn to dusk, and with that, once again, Bumblestripe starts to head back to his Mossy Nest. A long sleep, as he probably will have Dawn Patrol in the Morning..

At around Moonhigh he wakes up, and heads to the Entrance to talk with those Guarding the camp. They probably wouldn't mind a little company anyway. It's Stormfur and Poppyfrost guarding tonight.

"Aye how's life?" Bumblestripe sarcastically meows to the two. "Long enough." Stormfur smirks back to him. "Probably could be worse, it could be winter." Poppyfrost pipes up. "Eh Winter doesn't affect me really anymore." "Well living in the mountains for a bit of time probably helped." She curtly responds.

"What even happened up there, you.. You seemed so distressed…" He quietly meows to Stormfur, nudging him on. "We'll… The real problem is we don't really know, we came back after going on a night out, and they… They were all gone… All we did was look at one of the Waterfalls, and everyone was just gone.." He says shockingly while being saddened.

"I'm really sorry, it's a pain not knowing where cats you care about are, I felt the same with Whitekit.."

Suddenly something rustles in the bushes. "Who's there?" Poppyfrost firmly shouts.

Stormfur repeats the order. "Who's there?" No answer, but more rustling. suddenly a small patrol of Shadowclan cats pops out and attacks. Dawnpelt, Tigerheart, Crowfrost, and Kinkfur do a quick charge on us. A few slashes, a few blows, and they're retreating in some type of hit and run. Some blood is drawn from Poppyfrost from recent wounds, but nothing major. Berrynose and Spiderleg come running out after hearing the fighting. "What's going on?" Spiderleg demands an answer. "We were attacked for a moment, but they quickly left, as fighting apparently wasn't their main focus. Cloudtail and Squirrelflight come out through the tunnel now. Berrynose informs them, and so Cloudtail and Squirrelflight bring out Stormcloud and Mousewhisker and from then on we are out looking for them.

For a little while we follow their scent, which quickly dissapates, and we just start investigating the forest, there appears to be no activity after a while, and so we return to camp. Three guards are now posted at the entrance. And we soon return to sleep.

I tried to put more emphasis on the Battles and various other things this time, like Small Talk. I really hoped you guys enjoyed, lately I've been just having a ton of ideas and stuff, so I hope you guys are enjoying! Comments and Critism are appreciated, and hope you continue reading!