Chapter 6

A/N: Warning! Character death ahead T-T

A couple sunrises after the fight with IceClan and there was still no sign of any more invasion, and JadeClan even kept Baskingstones. The only warriors left in Froststripe's den were Bramblebush, Maplebranch, and Skyshade. The rest of the warriors have been drained from the amount of border patrols and night watches. Russetpaw put himself into lots of battle training, insisting that he wanted to be prepared for anything, while Jadepaw had been more focused on keeping the freshkill pile full for the Clan.

Today was Jadepaw's turn for battle training as she headed to the training hollow with Leafstorm alone. "Jadepaw, you're turning out to be one the best hunters in our Clan, it's time to practice on your battle moves."

He padded to the other end of the clearing, "Now, I want you to just come at me with anything, surprise me. Pretend I'm a rogue about to steal Aspenkit from the nursery." No sooner than the sentence was out, Jadepaw leaped right toward his back but Leafstorm rolled onto his back before she landed and thrust her away with his paws. "Use your speed."

Jadepaw jumped like she was going to land on his back again but instead landed right beside him and swept his feet out from underneath and rolled him onto his back, pinning him to the floor. Leafstorm struggled under her and easily pushed her aside. "I'm bigger and stronger so you're going to have to use your brain."

Jadepaw sat a little ways away from Leafstorm, staring intently at him, imagining what would work when suddenly he had a strange look in his eyes, when she noticed there was something wrong and he started to sway a bit. "Leafstorm are you ok?"

"How... did you do that?" He couched on the floor looking bewildered.

"I don't know what you mean…"

"Your eyes, for a moment they seemed to glow, and I couldn't look away. It was like I was mesmerized. And then my vision went a little blurry but it seemed like you attacked me, but the whole time you stayed in that spot, staring at me, while this faded version of you tripped me over. And then you were really beside me, asking if i was ok." Leafstorm tried to explain the best way he could on what he just experienced, "It was like some sort of vision."

"All I did was crouch there, and I was imagining what I should do next…" Jadepaw looked at Leafstorm with a worried expression, "I don't know what I did."

"Let's go ask Sagestar about this."

"Maybe she has something special." Froststripe had been asked to join the little meeting.

"Froststripe, what if whatever she has is dangerous, she could do harm to the Clan." Sagestar looked at Jadepaw with a little distrust.

Froststripe stepped in front of her, "Sagestar! She is an apprentice! What harm can she do? She's only just realized she can do this, she can be everything we need." She gazed back at Jadeplaw with a gleam in her eye.

"Exactly she's an apprentice, she won't know how to control it. I will be keeping an eye on her, and I expect you to keep an eye on her as well. Leafstorm will continue training her. No one will be told of this." Sagestar dismissed them with a flick of his tail and Jadepaw rushed out of the den.

"Don't mind Sagestar, he has a lot on his mind so he's a bit grumpy," Froststripe let out mrrow of laughter. "Everything will be fine, I'll keep checking up on you to see how everything's going, don't let it get to your head ok?" She brushed against Jadepaw as she headed toward her den.

Sagestar doesn't even trust me now! And I can't even tell anyone, not even Russetpaw! I'm still not even sure what happened or what I did!

"Hey!" Jadepaw jumped out of her thoughts as her brother appeared beside her, "What happened? You look like you just got scolded, what did you get yourself into?" He had a look of amusement in his eyes.

Jadepaw brushed her troubles to the back of her head for now and decided to play along with Russetpaw, "Oh well you know, just invaded IceClan's territory and gathered a whole new Clan of cats, with me as the leader. I just had to break it to Sagestar that I was leaving!" She let out a mrrow of laughter and brushed her tail against her brother's face. "Wanna join?"

"I don't think so, I'll just become leader of this Clan and someday we'll rule this land together, how does that sound?"

The next sunrise Jadepaw was woken up early to go on border patrol with Leafstorm and Amberstrike. "Hey Leafstorm, can I find something to hunt? I didn't get to eat this morning."

"Maybe you should've thought about that before we left." Amberstrike turned and gave her a hard stare. Ever since she had become a warrior she acted like she was the boss, and become grumpy all the time. The only cat she didn't seem to be rude to was Scorchfoot.

Leafstorm flicked Amberstrike on her head with his tail, "Of course you can, the borders here are pretty quiet."

Jade bounded over the snow covered forest towards Twolegplace and found a squirrel nibbling on some nuts on a tree root. Unlucky, for the squirrel. She pounced and killed it with a swift bite to the neck and crouched down to eat.

"Great catch!"

Jadepaw looked around to see that dark gray and red kittypet from before. What was his name again… Rowan right? "What are you doing here? I thought I told you before to stay off JadeClan's territory."

He completely ignore her, "So how's the forest been treating you? Your angry friend isn't going to come interrupt our conversation again is he?"

What is with this kittypet? "That was my brother! And no he's not around but who says I want to have a conversation with you?" She turned and flicked her tail in the air, "Don't make me have to tell you again to stay out of the forest! We don't need any curious little kittypets stealing our prey."

"What if I tell you I didn't come to take prey?"

"Then what are you here for?"

"Maybe I was just checking to see if your still around. I heard about the big fight that happened you know."

"I can take care of myself! And stay out of Clan business!" Jadepaw ran to catch up to Leafstorm and Amberstrike, her pelt ruffled.

"What happened with you?" Leafstorm had a gleam of amusement in his eyes.

"Oh nothing, I just missed my first prey I spotted by making a stupid mistake."

"Well don't make a stupid mistake next time, we can't afford to lose prey in the middle of Leafbare," Amberstrike then turned and continued to patrol the border.

Along the border back towards IceClan's territory, Jadepaw picked up the scent of rogues, "Leafstorm!"

"I know," he padded just outside their boundaries and took a sniff at the ground. "There were about three rogues here, we must've just missed them. Not only that but I smell a single IceClan cat as well." He looked around, hoping to catch any of the cat's, but no one else was in sight.

"Maybe the IceClan cat chased them away?"

"Yeah right! I bet they're plotting together! Let's report this to Sagestar at once!" Amberstrike raced back towards camp, leaving Jadepaw and Leafstorm no choice but to follow.

"Sagestar!" Amberstrike immediately ran into the leader's den with Leafstorm following a few pawsteps behind. Jadepaw went into a shaded patch of snow-covered grass where she could watch the den.

Russetpaw appeared beside her, "What happened?"

Jadepaw kept her eyes focused on the den as Sagestar came out of his den along with Leafstorm and Amberstrike and jumped onto the Highbranch, "You'll find out right now."

Sagestar called the usual summoning for a Clan meeting, as cats started to gather, Jadepaw and Russetpaw moved closer to the tree. "JadeClan! Amberstrike and Leafstorm have come back from a border patrol to report scents of rogues inside our boundaries! Not only that but they've scented a cat from IceClan as well. That could mean that an IceClan cat drove them away, or they were plotting with the rogues!"

"I thought we taught them a lesson!"

"What if they plot to take our territory again?!"

Yowls of outrage sounded among the clearing, Sagestar let them continue a little longer until he raised his tail for silence. "For now there is not much we can do, we will add extra patrols along the border with IceClan and Twolegplace. Blazeclaw will organize the patrols."

Just as Sagestar lept off the tree, a wild crashing sound came around all sides of the camp. Jadepaw looked around and saw glaring eyes around the whole camp. "Intru-!"

A large black tom with white stripes and red eyes stepped through the fern tunnel, looking as if he owned the place, "Oh yes this is JadeClan's camp correct? I agree this is a nice place you have here. In fact," he signalled with his tail for the other rogues to step into the camp. "I think my rogues and I are going to take it. We'll be the new Clan of this forest, we are FangClan! I am their leader, Retch!"

Russetpaw bent down to whisper in her ear, "You should tell your new Clan to back off."

"I was joking about that!" She looked around in horror as Retch again signalled with his tail, except this time it was to attack.

Retch bowled Sagestar over and tore claws into his back, but before anyone was able to help, the rogues swarmed in on the camp and Jadepaw was knocked over by a muscular brown she-cat. Jadepaw immediately spun on her and got underneath her belly to flip her over and expose her belly. Jadepaw only got that far before another rogue jumped on her back, clawing her spine.

The weight of the second cat was knocked off of her by Russetpaw and sent flying towards the entrance. Her and Russetpaw easily fought off the she-cat and sent her running away as well. "You know some of these rogues are very inexperienced!" After that Russetpaw jumped back in the middle of the fighting.

Jadepaw was finally able to get a good look around and saw that the weaker rogues had already been picked off but the camp was still overwhelmed with the amount of rogues in the clearing, and there were both warriors and rogues lying on the ground at the edges of camp, Froststripe attending to the warriors. Sagestar was still fighting with Retch, Leafstorm and Maplebranch were fighting three different rogues together, Tigerfang and Foxshade were teaming up against a single huge tom. Jadepaw lost track of her brother until she saw with relief that he was coming to help Leafstorm and Maplebranch, but the rest of the warriors were being overpowered by the rogues.

Jadepaw took this moment to try something new. How did I do it again? Leafstorm said I stared intently at him and my eyes started to glow. She crouched at the edge of the clearing and stared at a certain she-cat that was fighting with Skyshade and tried to imagine how she would be fighting. Nothing seems different. He said that he couldn't look away from me. I bet I have to make eye contact with them! So the next time a rogue looked her way, she made sure to make eye contact.

In an instant the rogue stilled. Jadepaw crept toward him, testing if it was working, and what she could do with it. She imagined scoring her claws down the rogue's back, watching as the fur along the rogue's spine lifted in fear, and then she really attacked. She rolled him onto his side and sunk her teeth on a foreleg, hard, and that was all it took to finish him off and send him running for his life.

"Help!"

Jadepaw looked around, recognizing the voice.

"No! Stop! You can't kill her!" Russetpaw! Jadepaw turned around and what she saw made her heart seem to stop.

A muscular tom with spiky red fur had her mother's neck clamped between his teeth. He threw her aside just as Russetpaw barreled into his side. Jadepaw just barely saw her father rush in beside Russetpaw before Jadepaw turned toward Tigerfang and crouched by her side.

"Tigerfang! Please, you have to be ok! Please wake up!" Jadepaw knew Tigerfang was dead but she wanted to believe it wasn't true, she buried her nose into her mother's fur, which didn't have it's usual warmth.

"Jadepaw, bring Tigerfang to the edge of the clearing, you need to get back in the fight. We'll lose more warriors if you don't help." Leafstorm whispered urgently in her ear. Jadepaw nodded and Leafstorm helped her drag Tigerfang to the edge of camp. When she looked up, she saw that Russetpaw and Blazeclaw had pinned the spiky red tom to the floor but he scrambled away and ran back into the forest. The camp still looked full of rogues, and they seemed to be winning.

We're never going to win this, how many more cats will die? StarClan help us!

Just as she was about to jump back in the fight, she heard more crashing through the fern entrance. You can't be serious?! More rogues! But instead a different scent emerged with this new set of cats as they pounced on the rogues, obviously on the Clan cats' side. Collars? Kittypets? Just as she recognized the kittypet collars a dark gray tom appeared by her side.

"I over heard the rogues' plan to attack your camp, I didn't know it was this soon."

"Rowan!" Jadepaw had never been happier to see kittypets.

"We may look like kittypets, but we all used to come from this group of rogues. You should get your wounded cat's some help, we'll help the ones that can still fight." Jadepaw looked sadly toward her mother and Rowan glanced at what she was staring at but before he was able to say anything he was thrown to the side by another rogue.

Jadepaw took his advice and looked around for any cats lying around injured and helped them toward Froststripe's den, carefully avoiding the battle in the center of camp. Now with the kittypets, the camp seemed too overwhelmingly full of fighting cat's.

After she helped the last cat that was lying on the ground, the battle seemed to die down, with Retch standing in the center of the clearing with the spiky red tom standing beside him. "My rogues have lost this time thanks to these little kittypets! We'll back again, and next time we won't be driven away." Before he left he threw Rowan a look of pure hatred, then flicked his tail and disappeared with the other rogue.

A/N: Tigerfang died! T-T She was my OC I made for myself but in this story I couldn't have it be her point of view or have her be the main character so I wanted to make her the main character's mother… I had to kill her off for main events in the story *crying* Also: FangClan was the best thing I could come up with in like 5 minutes XD I think it sounds vicious enough.