Nightclaw's heart raced as he led his clanmates to the Thunderclan camp. He and his siblings had a certain connection where they could tell if there was something wrong with another. When Nightclaw felt that something was wrong, the others heard a frog ribbet in their heads. When Softpaw had something wrong with her, they heard a bird chirp, a splash for Lilystream, and grass rustling for Snowfall. He had been eating a lizard with Froghop when he heard a bird chirping furiously.
"Did you hear that?" He asked. Froghop widened his eyes worriedly. "No. there was no sound."
"Thunderclan is in trouble." Nightclaw muttered.
"Who cares? They can fight their own battles." Froghop snorted.
"I don't think so."
Froghop rolled his eyes at his friend. "What, are you in love with one?" He mocked. Nightclaw thought quickly and nodded. "Yes, I love Softpaw. I'm worried she'll be hurt."
Froghop blinked seriously and padded over to Applestar to tell him. The white leader looked over the deputy's shoulder at Nightclaw. He knew about Nightclaw's siblings and meowed something.
"Nightclaw." Froghop motioned for Nightclaw to come over. Nightclaw started to pad over to the black tom and Applestar padded away.
"He's going to get a patrol." Froghop explained. Nightclaw blinked and was back in the forest. Applestar raced ahead of him and led the cats into the Thunderclan camp.
"Go after Riverclan and Windclan." Softpaw gasped. She was lying beside a dead Windclan warrior, blood seeping out of a wound on her side.
"I'm fine." She protested when Nightclaw tried to push her towards the medicine cat's den. "I've got to protect my kits."
Nightclaw shrugged and leapt onto the nearest cat.
"Great Starclan!" The cat growled. "Nightclaw it's me."
"Woops." Nightclaw apologized. "Sorry Snowfall." He clawed his half-brother and jumped onto another cat.
"Windclan retreat!" Some cat called.
"Riverclan too!" Oakstar yowled angrily. The battle was won. As the other clan cats ran out of Thunderclan territory, Nightclaw noticed how many bodies there were. All the clans had suffered losses. He padded over to Softpaw as she stared blankly at a dead white tom.
"Is it Cloudpaw?" He asked quietly.
"No." Softpaw replied, her voice sounding hollow. "It's Whitefoot. Silvertail said he wouldn't be alive for much longer and now he's dead."
Nightclaw licked her comfortingly, but was interrupted by Froghop. "We need to go." The black tom meowed gruffly, glaring at Softpaw.
"No, we need to leave a few cats behind to help." Applestar disagreed, padding up to the three with Smallstar beside him.
"Brownfur and Nightclaw will stay for a few sunrises to help rebuild."
"Thank you." Smallstar murmured gratefully. "Thunderclan owes you."
"Brownfur is injured badly." Froghop meowed.
"Then Nightclaw will stay on his own. We will trust Thunderclan to keep him safe." Applestar decided. He led the patrol of broken and bloody cats out of camp, leaving Nightclaw alone.
"Whatever cats are dead, we will return them back to their clans." Smallstar announced. "If they are alive we will hold them as prisoners."
Nightclaw as glad he wasn't one of those cats. He padded over to where Softpaw had gone, but he tripped over a cat in the growing darkness.
"Help me." The light brown tabby and white tom croaked, his blood pooling around him.
"Snowfall?"
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