Later that night, Frostpaw was sitting in a circle with her friends. While Fallenstar was outside guarding. Frostpaw looked at her friends thinking,
This will be the last time we are together as friends. Tomorrow we are ally's and the next day, we are enemies.
"Frostpaw?" She heard Emberstream meow.
"What?" Frostpaw jumped.
"Yeah, she was daydreaming." Nightpaw announced.
"What's the plan?" Skypaw asked, ignoring them.
"First we hunt for them. Instead of just hunting, we put death berries in the prey so that their leader dies. Then the original clan surrounds the next strongest group while Amberpaw and Emberstream find Blizzardrain. Then once we get her to safety, we all attack the rest of them. Fallenstar will have to inform the others."
"Sounds like a good plan." Meowed a cat behind her, it wasn't Fallenstar. Frostpaw whipped around and saw Mudclaw staring at her. "How do you plan to do that before everyone else in camp finds out."
"I'll show you how." Frostpaw jumped forward and champ end down hard on his muzzle. Then she bit his throat. Not enough to kill him, just to make him suffer. Mudclaw lay on the floor writhing in pain.
"We have to do the plan now!" Frostpaw ordered.
"Okay."
The cats walked out of the den and ran into the forest. Emberstream and Amberpaw caught two pieces of prey. While Nightpaw collected the death berries. Once they met in the training hollow, Frostpaw sliced the kill bite in the prey a little bigger. She stuffed two death berries in it. She did that with the other piece too. They marched back to camp, dragging the prey behind them. They brought the prey straight to Leaf and Nettle.
"We got up early so you wouldn't have to wait for us to hunt!" Frostpaw announced cheerfully.
"Good, but today we don't eat right away. Blizzardrain does, we need to keep her alive for now."
"Yeah, but you don't want her to eat the fattest pieces of prey, do you?" Frostpaw challenged.
"She's thin enough so she'll need some strength."
We need to kill them immediately. It's that or Blizzardrain will die.
Frostpaw and clearly only her friends heard Amberpaw meow in her head.
"I know." Frostpaw muttered.
"I'm sorry, what?" Meowed Nettle.
"Oh nothing, I was just saying that I know it's important for Blizzardrain to eat."
"Good, now go bring that one to her." He pointed to the rabbit.
Skypaw picked up the rabbit and brought it to the medicine den. There was no guard, Blizzardrain was alone inside. They brought the rabbit in and shoved it to the side, where there was a big pile of barely touched prey. They looked over and saw Blizzardrain.
"Blizzardrain! You're so thin, haven't you been eating?" Frostpaw exclaimed.
"They're trying to kill me but make it look like the clan cats faults. They put disease and deathberries in my prey."
"Oh, well don't eat the rabbit. We were trying to kill Nettle and Leaf but-"
Frostpaw got cut off by a loud wail in the clearing.
"Mudclaw and Leaf are dead! Get those prisoners and bring the medicine cat out here with them!" That was Nettle.
"Blizzardrain! We have to get you out of here, and quickly."
"It's too late for that."
"It's never too late to do anything!" Frostpaw declared.
"Um, Frostpaw. What's the plan." Skypaw meowed.
"The same one just we have to get Blizzardrain out of here, now. Skypaw you come with me and we can guard Blizzardrain."
"Okay."
"The rest of you, stall them!"
Skypaw helped Blizzardrain get up and they stumbled out of the back entrance to the den. They trekked up a hill and suddenly, Frostpaw felt claws dig into her pelt. She imedeatly rolled and slammed the cat into the ground. Frostpaw heard a yowl ahead of her.
Skypaw!
With a quick glimpse,she saw four cats, one attacking Skypaw, Skypaw, Blizzardrain and...
Emberstream? But, he hates me! Why would he help me?
Frostpaw sliced the cat that was attacking her. She drug her claws along his side. Frostpaw nipped his tail and sliced his back. He ran off into the woods. Frostpaw saw that Emberstream was now guarding Blizzardrain. Frostpaw flung herself at the cat attacking Skypaw. She sliced his nose and shoved him off Skypaw. Skypaw got up and shook himself off. He ran and sliced the toms side. The tom ran of into the woods. Then there was a wail of shock and pain coming from behind them. Someone had snuck up on Blizzardrain and Emberstream and sliced a deep cut into her side.
"Blizzardrain!" Frostpaw shrieked. She ran over to the injured medicine cat. Frostpaw turned towards Emberstream. "Go get Marigoldpaw and Fallenstar!" Frostpaw ordered. She hurried her face into her soft fur.
Moments later, Emberstream showed up with Fallenstar. Frostpaw looked at them questioningly. "Where's Marigoldpaw?" She whispered
"She's dead." Fallenstar meowed, then he looked over and saw Blizzardrain.
"So is Blizzardrain."
Fallenstar turned on Frostpaw. "How could you! I trusted you and your stupid plan! You got Blizzardrain killed!"
"Fallenstar, I was guarding her. Some cat snuck up on me and killed her. I'm sorry, but you have no right to take it out on Frostpaw." Emberstream meowed.
"You're just sticking up for her because she's your friend!" Fallenstar snapped.
"No! Fallenstar, you are just upset that your sister is dead. Frostpaw was helping me, Emberstream didn't hear the cat coming and the cat was downwind so he didn't know that someone was behind them! If you're going to blame someone, blame the cat running for his life! You should be more focused on the fact that your clan has no medicine cat!"
"Get off my territory, now! I'm the leader here, so you can't tell me how to run my clan!"
"Fallenstar, shouldn't you be friends with cats in other clans. Your clan is in desperate need for a medicine cat. I'm going to leave as you wish, but only to see if my clan is okay." Skypaw padded off with Emberstream close behind him.
"Fallenstar, how could you blame me?"
"Mudclaw wouldn't have turned on us if it weren't for you." He growled coldly.
Frostpaw could feel her eyes getting watery. Frostpaw turned around and ran blindly through the forest. She soon came to a fill stop when she got to the edge of the Thunderpath.
It is your destiny... You must go back...
"Who said that? What is my destiny, hatred everywhere I go? That's not what I want!" Frostpaw yowled.
Sometimes what you want, isn't what you get... You must find the right path to take. Death of the clans or hatred? Death of the clans means you lose the ones you love, hatred means nobody loves you back.
"No matter what, I lose the ones I love!" Frostpaw yowled one last time and layed down. Frostpaw sniffed the air, and she was suddenly alert. She was on the far edge of Skyclan territory.
