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Sorry this took so long to get up! Why is everyone calling me a troll?! I don't live under a bridge and eat goats! Oh, and thanks to everyone who says I'm getting better at this. Your reviews mean a lot to me! Unless they're flames. Then you can go away. :(

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Moonshimmer gasped. "But... I thought you loved me!"

"I thought you loved me, until you went off with that Vanilla mousebrain," Phantom scowled.

"But now, his kit is on my side! You cannot stop us now!"

"What?" Moonshimmer gasped. "Chocolatekit?!"

A chocolate-brown tom stepped out of the shadows. "My name is no longer Chocolatekit. I am now Chocolaterain, warrior of the Dark Forest!"

"But... how did you grow so fast?"

"Time is not an element in the dark Forest!" Phantom explained. "Over the course of only a few weeks, your little-little kit became the warrior you see before you!"

"You mean-"

"That is right!" Deathheart snapped. "The Afterlife is the fifth dimention!"

Tranquildream looked confused. "I thought love was?"

"No, foolish medicine cat!" Chocolaterain replied. "And now that I am a fully grown warrior, I can kill you!!" he lunged forward, knocking Tranquildream off her feet. She turned around and scrammed him in the face! The dark brown tom backed away, blood dripping from the open wounds across his face. At the same time, the other two cats chose their victims. Deathheart jumped towards Beautifulpaw, but she quickly dodged him! The little she-cat leaped on his back and started raking her claws down, and the ginger cat screeched in pain! Meanwhile, Moonshimmer and Phantom were fighting viciously.

"If you love me, why are you trying to killme?" she asked.

"Because you betrayed me! What does it look like?" the golden tom sighed. Deathheart's rainbow eyes were glowing madly, and he slashed out at Cheetahkit! So Moonshimmer decided to defend her kit. She wriggled out from beneath Phantom, and lunged for her brother, bowling him over. The ginger cat snarled at her, but he couldn't fight back, because Moonshimmer was too strong! Then suddenly, his eye went black, and he heard Phantom's voice. Don't try to fight back. Make it look like you're loosing,then fight back.

What's the point in that? Deathheart thought. How is that supposed to make me look strong? However, Phantom had been right before, so he could be right again. So Deathheart relaxed, surrenduring. But Moonshimmer thought of this as an advantage, and raked her claws down Deathheart's belly. He gritted his teeth from the agony, but then was shocked to see Phantom come leaping over and knocking Moonshimmer off him!

The golden speckled tom came over and touched Deathheart's wounds, and they begun to heal. "Stop touching me!" Deathheart snapped. "I know you love me, but you do not have to show it publicly!" Then he suddenly realized what was happening. "Hey, wait! You're healing me. Oh. Okay. Carry on." He may have been the meanest cat in the forest, but he didn't have the power of healing so he let Phantom do that. The golden tom then went in pursued of Moonshimmer. He jumped and landed on her back, but she quickly turned over and sent him flying into the side of a nearby tree!

"That's for joining my evil brother!" she snapped. Phantom shook his head wearily and ran back towards her, but stopped with a halt when he heard Tranquildream scream.

"Suicidepaw!" she gasped. The little black tom lay lifeless in the middle of the clearing, blood dripping from his wounds! "Why is everyone I love dying?" she sobbed. "And who killed him?" She demanded.

"It was me!" Chocolaterain snarled "I wanted to prove that I can kill, too!"

"Well done, my step-son." Phantom congratultated him.

"No son of mine would do that!" Moonshimmer frowned. Suddenly, Vanillastar appeared.

"Hey! Lilyblossom! I thought I exiled you?" he said, turning to the rainbow-eyes cat. "Go away!"

"No" Deathheart replied! "I will not go away, because I reject you're authority!"

"Get out of our territory." He demanded.

"I won't."

"Very well," Vanillastar sighed. "Come, my warriors!" he shouted behind him. The whole of SapphireClan came! Mockingbirdheart, Sunsetshine, the whole lot! Even Mysteryheart and her kits. Even the elders came. They all marched behind Vanillastar, and stopped. And then, all synchronized, they started chanting.

"LILYBLOSSOM! LILYBLOSSOM!"

The ginger cat blushed, and fled in humiliation. Phantom sighed, and followed him, and Chocolaterain whent with them.

Moonshimmer ran over towards her Clan. She was stunned! They had shown up just in time! Moonshimmer went up to Vanillastar. "Vanillastar, how did you know that I was here and they were fighting me?" she asked him.

"I heard lots of yowling and screaming, so I came over. I was shocked when I say this happening" he responded. "I don't know what I would have done if you had been killed, Moonshimmer. Nobody else can become leader when I die!"

Moonshimmer nodded because she knew about her responsibilities. "But I am okay, and it is all thanks to you and the Clan. Maybe you aren't that bad of a leader after all!"

"Hey, that's right!" said Mockingbirdheart from the crowd. "Vanillastar saved you from being killed and hurt! He did something very good!"

"Yes he did. I think he isn't a very terrible leader at all, just not a very amazing leader!" Braveheart agreed with him.

"VANILLASTAR! VANILLASTAR!" everybody chanted, but not like they did with Lilyblossom's name. They were showing Vanillastar that they thought he was good! Vanillastar blushed, but not because he was embarrassed. "Thank you everyone. It is good to know that sometimes I can be a good leader."

Suddenly, someone else came. They crept in the shadows while everyone was still chanting. "Nobody can see me and I will win" it said with a smirk. Nobody saw the cat creep up right behind Vaillastar.

Vanillastar coughed. "Anyway, we should get going. Moonshimmer, come with us, and you will have the best piece of freshkill toni-" Vanillastar stopped abruptbly!

His throat was slashed and he screamed! Everyone else screamed too and backed away! Moonshimmer looked around to see who did it! She was looking a lot until she saw rainbow eyes staring back at her. "Lilyblossom!"

It was Lilyblossom! "My name is Deathheart, you fool!" he snarled. "And I have come back! You made me very angry by taunting me, so I killed your leader and got my revenge!"

Moonshimmer laughed at him. "You are stupid, Deathheart! Vanillastar has a lot of lives left!"
"No, I do not!" Vanillastar said very weakly because his throat was slashed. "I got very sick a few moons ago, and now I only have one life."

Everybody in the crowd gasped because Vanillastar had never told anyone about this! "Vanillastar, no!" shouted Moonshimmer.

"It is okay, Moonshimmer! When I die, you will be leader, and SapphireClan will be the strongest Clan to ever live!" the leader said with a cough of blood.

"But I can't be leader!" Moonshimmer cried sadly. "I'm too young! I can't be leader for another moon at least! StarClan would be angry!"

Deathheart laughed evily, as in "mwahahaha". "Then I can take over" he said.

Moonshimmer snarled at him. "You could never be leader! You are exiled, and StarClan would never accept you!"

"I don't care!" Deathheart also snarled. "I do not need nine lives! I am strong and evil enough to rule them anyway!"

Vanillastar was very stressed. "Before I die, you must work this out, Moonshimmer!" he wheezed. "Kill him!"

Moonshimmer looked at her feet in thought. "I can't" she concluded. "He is evil, but he is still my brother."

Vanillastar nodded. "I understand. But if you can't be leader, who will be? Sparklefur would'nt really enjoy being leader! It is a lot of work!"

Then Sparklefur walked up and shook her head. "I can do it until Moonshimmer is ready. It won't be long at all!"

"No" yelled Deathheart, "I will be leader! Not you!" But then Sparklefur growled at him and pounced on him! "You are so much bigger than me!" he yelled. Sparklefur said "Yes, and I can kill you right now!" as she unsheathed her claws. She was going to kill him!

Deathheart stopped squirming under her and aid "I give up! My plans will all fail if I die now!"

Spaklefur got up and let him go. He stood up and his eyes were rainbow with rage! "You have beaten me this time, SapphireClan! But I will never give up!" and then he ran away!

Vanillastar had died while Deathheart was talking. Moonshimmer started to sob. She bent down to touch her nose to the former leader's. "You were a better leader than you said you were," she said through her tears. Everybody in the Clan dipped their heads to honor him, because he was now in StarClan.

Sparklefur was also crying, but she hid it so she looked more noble. "SapphireClan, Vanillastar has died. I will become your leaer, but I will retiere in a few moons, when Moonshimmer is old enough to become Moonstar." And so she walked away to share dreams with StarClan and become leader. The Clan went home. Moonshimmer did not think she could sleep that night.

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The next day, Moonshimmer was awakened by the booming voice of Sparklefur. "May all cats old enough to catch their own pray came over to me for a Clan meeting!", she said.

Moonshimmer stretched and yawned.

"Do you think StarClan accepted her?" Tranquildream asked her siter. Moonsimmer shrugged. "Why wouldn't they? She'd be a good leader."

Tranquilpaw nodded and said "I guess."

All the cats sat down in front of Sparklefur, eager to hear what she had to say. "Last night, I shared dreams with StarClan. They have given me my new name and name lives. I am now Sparklestar, leader of SaphhireClan."

Everybody in the Clan was happy, because they liked her and thought she'd be an okay leader until Moonshimmer was. "SPARKLESTAR! SPARKLESTAR! SPARKLESTAR! " they chanted.

Moonshimmer said to Sparklestar, "Thank you for agreeing to be leader for me. And your new name is beautiful!"

Sparklestar nodded at her. "Thank you, Moonshimmer. I know you can't be leader. But I know that you can do one thing."

"What?" asked Moonshimmer. Sparklestar smiled at her.

"I choose you to be my deputy, " the new leader said, "So it'll be almost like you're leader!"

Moonshimmer was very happy! She had hoped Sparklestar would say that! "I would be honored!" she said. She was honored!

EverybodY also felt good for Moonshimmer. They chanted her name too! "MOONSHIMMER! MOONSHIMMER! MOONSHIMMER!" and Moonshimmer felt so proud!

Tranquildream gave her sister a happy lick. "Congratulations, Moonshimmer! You'll do great!"

"Thank you!" Moonshimmer thanked Tranquildream. "But we shouldn't be celebrating right now. We are in danger. Lilyblossom may come back at any moment and do evil things!"

Sparklestar knew this. "I know," she said with a nod. "We will need an extra patrol to keep watch. Can you organize it, Moonshimmer?"

"Okay. Me, Sparklestar, and Tranquildream will stay here." Moonshimmer began. "The rest of your, watch the borders, and fight Lilyblossom, Chocolaterain, and Phantom if you see them try to get in!"

Everybody agreed and most of the cats in the Clan went on the big patrol. Moonshimmer her sister and the new leader stayed back to watch camp. "That was a very smart order you gave everyone, Moonshimmer. I wish I could have thought of that." Sparklestar said.

Moonshimmer smiled at her. "It's okay. I'm smart, but you're probably one of the strongest cats I've ever seen!"

"You could have killed Lilyblossom if you wanted to. But you are too good. I admire you a lot." Sparklestar smiled also at her.

Suddenly, Braveheart came running into camp! "Sparklestar! We're under attack! We can't get the intruder to go away, for we are not strong enough!"

"It's Lilyblossom, isn't it?" said Moonshimmer. But Braveheart shook his head!

"No, it's someone else! I've never seen him before, but he says his name is… Ancient!"

Sparklestar narrowed her eyes. "That's a weird name. Why is he named Ancient?"

Suddenly, Ancient burst into the camp!