As they made their way to the gathering all was silent, no one spoke a word for they knew that in a matter of minutes there could be a battle between two clans. A tree length away from the four giant trees, StoneWing the deputy sniffed the air.

"RiverClan!" Shouted the grey tom.

The ThunderClan cats tensed for battle , as they saw the RiverClan cats come out of the forest CrowThorn recognized a couple of them, SunStream the deputy of RiverClan,CloudClaw a solid white tom,and lastly SwanGaze a beautiful blue she cat.

Where is MeadowStar?

He saw two cats that looked like apprentices, a calico she cat, and a grey tom,and two other warriors, a light brown tom and an orange she cat. As SunStream unsheathed her claws , CrowThorn knew what this was.

"Its an attack patrol !" He howled diving towards the ginger she cat with unsheathed claws.

The she cat was surprisingly strong,she gained the upper hand on the black tom quickly, little did she know it was a trick. When the she cat thought she had won the fight and loosened her grip on the tom, he kicked her up with his back legs , knocking the she cat off balance, exposing her soft belly fur and batted at it with unsheathed surrendered. CrowThorn looked around the forest and saw WolfPaw loosing to the flame colored warrior, he ran over and tackled her off the apprentice, scratching her back until she ran off. WolfPaw gave CrowThorn a thankful nod before running back into the battle. CrowThorn looked around the blood stained woods - a cat rammed him. Dazed CrowThorn sat there, then when he realized what had happened he got back on his paws and ran towards the white warrior. CloudClaw was ready and dodged the black warriors attack and slid under his legs making them fall out from under the tom, then getting on CrowThorn's back clawing at it with his hind legs while gripping his scruff with his came rushing over knocking CloudClaw off onto his belly clawing it until the white warrior ran off.

"Thanks I could have sworn id be crow food."

"Don't mention it." Said the leader rushing back into the battle along with CrowThorn.

After what seemed like moons all the RiverClan cats had surrendered and left.

Blood and scraps of fur were everywhere.

"StoneWing , CrowThorn, and WolfPaw take FoxStripe back to camp and straight to GoldenFeather" said ScarletStar, checking around him to see if there were more critically injured cats.

'' BarkTail and I will take back the others.''

The three cats nodded picking up the russet furred tom and carrying him back to camp.

When they got there GoldenFeather who had ran off to go get herbs, was in her den with many bundles of herbs and cob web. all the cats looked out out of there dens to see, three cats carrying a bleeding fox stripe ,MoonStorm ran out of the warriors den fighting anyone who tried to hold her back.

"FoxStripe!" She yelled

"MoonStorm. " He whispered.

"Yes." She whispered crying.

" I love you." He said fading in and out of consciousness.

"FoxStripe don't leave me and our kits."

Cats were shocked. Murmurs spread through the clan at that moment faster than when they heard that two loners fought off wolfs. They knew the two cats were close but they would have never guessed that they were mates,let alone having kits.

''Thanks just lay him here." Said the medicine cat.

The three cats layed him down as directed.

"MoonStorm can you go until I get him stable?" Asked GoldenFeather.

"I'm not leaving him."

AppleMist , FoxStripes sister came up to MoonStorm and Whispered in her ear. Then taking one last glance and touching her nose to his cheek she left with the queen.

CrowThorn followed them into the nursery.

"CrowThorn come back when i'm finished with the others okay?"

"I will GoldenFeather"

When he entered the nursery he saw MoonStorm and AppleMist crying. He went and sat by them not knowing what to say.

"I remember when me , AppleMist, and FoxStripe were was our first gathering and FoxStipe tripped over a root and fell straight into ScarletStar. Do you remember that AppleMist?" Asked CrowThorn remembering his apprentice days.

AppleMist laughed.

"Who could forget , we just stood there and laughed our fur off and when we were heading back from the gathering he tripped over the same root falling into us."

By then the two she cats and CrowThorn were all laughing.

"CrowThorn? GoldenFeather wants to see you" said MothFall.

"I'll be there in a minute."

MothFall nodded padding out of the nursery.

"Well I have to go."

"Have fun with the herbs." AppleMist joked

"I will." Stated CrowThorn.

"Hey CrowThorn,"

"Yeah."

"Can you do me a favor?"

"Sure, what is it?"

"See how FoxStripe is doing for me okay."

"No problem."

When he got to the medicine den GoldenFeather was sitting in the medicine den, GoldenFeather hovering over Foxstripe.

"Is he gonna make it?"

"I honestly don't know CrowThorn."

"MoonStorm told me to check on him."

"He's in the paws of StarClan now."

On his way back to the nursery, CrowThorn was thinking of how he would tell MoonStorm the news.

As he entered the nursery once more he saw two happy cats , how was he going to tell them that FoxStripe might not make it?

CrowThorn went over and whispered in AppleMist's ear that "GoldenFeather wanted to see her".She nodded and walked out of the den. Moonstorm stared at him expectantly with her beautiful blue eyes.

"CrowThorn what is it?"

"MoonStorm I don't know how I can say this but,"

"Hes dead isn't he."

" He... we...its up to StarClan now."

The she cats tail drooped at the sound of this and his ran his tail across her cheek.

"Look FoxStripe is one of the strongest cats I know, and if anyone would survive this it would be him."

"Thank you CrowThorn. You and FoxStripe were the first people who talked to me when I joined the clan, you made me feel like I was welcome, like I was loved for once in my life."

"And you picked him." He said under his breath.

"Wait what did you say?"

"Nothing."

Author's Note.

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