Sandstorm opened her eyes, moonlight shining on her fur. She looked outside the window and spoted a cat she recognized.
It's a BloodClan cat!
Quickly she ran outside towards them, and the she-cat appeared to quickly surrender.
"You're that cat who made Badgerstar lose three entire lives at once."
"What are you doing here?" Sandstorm asked, "BloodClan doesn't belong here."
"I agree with you. They're fierce, and don't care who they kill. It's me...Mittens. Remember?"
Sandstorm gasped.
"What are you doing outside of BloodClan's camp?"
"I left. I had to do it to save my life. They were going to kill me. I wanted to thank you for defeating him. My housefolk rescued me, but we're moving far from here soon. If they come back before I have to leave...I will fight alongside you to protect this place. For all the innocent cats here who don't deserve to die!"
Sandstorm nodded in agreement.
"Anyway, I better go back home. My housefolk might get worried about me. See you around."
Mittens walked back to her home, where Sneaks was waiting for her.
Morning sunlight hit Sandstorm's pelt. She went outside, sniffing the air. Her eyes widened with fear as she saw cats with dog teeth on their collars.
BloodClan!
She watched in silence as they neared her yard.
"Sanddust, come here!"
Tinykit came outside.
"Is everything okay?" He asked.
"Yes, just go get your siblings and your father."
Tinykit nodded, and ran back inside.
Sandstorm leaped down from the fence, and Badgerstar flicked his tail.
"So, Sanddust...we meet again."
"You should leave as quickly as you can. I have allies you would fight like LionClan to protect this place."
"We were just passing through. We're heading to a new territory."
Socks and the rest of Tinykit's siblings came out into the yard. Dawn had come outside to see what was going on, along with Quickstep and Sandie, who had stay with her for a while as visitors. Socks began to slash the fence, making a hole big enough to squeeze through.
"We don't want to fight. Just let us through now, and there won't be any problems."
"Grr! Watch me take down these BloodClan cats!" Tinykit said, pouncing on a stick.
Badgerstar turned his head to Tinykit.
"I would like to see you try." Mollystep said, walking over to the small kit.
Tinykit hissed at the BloodClan deputy, pouncing onto her and biting her ear. He kept his jaw closed, not letting go and biting as hard as he could.
"Don't let go. Focus on your opponent!"
A single drop of blood hit the ground, and Tinykit let go.
"Well done. You could be a good warrior in our clan. And since you are kin of Scourge...you could be a future leader. What do you think?"
"I'm waiting until I'm older to be an apprentice."
"Grab his collar." Badgerstar ordered.
"No!" Socks said, leaping for Tinykit.
Mollystep quickly grabbed Tinykit by his collar and BloodClan ran off, towards the former ThunderClan territory. Sandstorm ran towards them, but quickly leaped off the thunderpath. The rest of BloodClan did, but Badgerstar wasn't fast enough.
Tinykit gasped in shock as he saw the monster hit Badgerstar's body. He watched Mollystep, Wolf, and Fang carry his body to safety.
"His fourth life...is gone." Mollystep said softly.
"Oh StarClan, why have you done this to him?" Tinykit cried, "He didn't have to die!"
"He's not dead. Look, he's waking up."
Badgerstar weakly began to stand up, and starting walking the same way he was before.
"BloodClan, follow! You too, Tinypaw."
Tinypaw nodded slowly, then obeyed his directions.
"I'll come back, mother. Don't worry!"
"Be brave, my little warrior."
Tinypaw nodded, and then didn't look back.
My little kit...is gone.
Sandstorm walked back, tears in her eyes.
"He went with them, but he promised to come back." Sandstorm told Socks.
Socks nodded. "I'm sure that he will. He's always been a fighter like the uncle he was named after. I just hope that he won't end up as evil as he was."
Author's Note: I recently got asked a few questions. Looks like it's up to me to answer them!
The answers for these questions (in no particular order):
I'm not accepting OCs for this story. It's already somewhat difficult to handle all the cats in this story already (but only a little).
Squirrelflight and Leafpool are living at the lake with the other clan cats.
When Badgerstar was just a kit (known as Badgerkit), he was told a lot of stories about clan life by his father, Quickstep. The stories he liked the most were about BloodClan. Scourge showed up in one his dreams while falling asleep to one his father's stories about BloodClan, and began to tell him about how StarClan was just a nursery tale for kits. Scourge was able to slowly over time make Badgerkit believe him. In fact, Scourge was the one to convince him to leave his home and become a rogue. Thanks to Scourge, Badgerkit began to believe in the dark forest, and had a few of them walk in his dreams. They may have trained him, but I'm not sure.
Mittens and her other friends are moving, but not to the lake. They'll be moving to the twolegplace where CatnipClan eventually gets formed.
Sandstorm will probably choose to travel one day, but her kits are very young right now. Maybe when they've grown up a little?
Tinykit's future is not certain...but it is up to him to choose the path he wishes to walk.
I have to admit that answering these was actually kind of fun. See you next chapter!