Lionblaze stared in horror as the huge badger ripped at Blossompaw's throat and created a pool of blood below them in moments. Lionblaze lunged forward, knowing it was too late but not wanting to let the badger cause any more harm to his clan mates. He pounced on top of the badger's massive shoulders and dug his claws in as hard as he could. The badger let go of Blossompaw's neck and let her fall onto the ground, pooling blood at her neck created a scarlet puddle growing bigger by the moment. Lionblaze hauled the badger away and tore at it's neck, determined to make it suffer.
Lionblaze noticed that the badger was motionless in a few minutes and got off, he snarled at the dead badger and kicked it with a paw to be sure. When it didn't move, Lionblaze raced to Blossompaw and saw that her eyes were stretched wide, frozen, glazed over. Her chest didn't heave with breath, her body didn't even quiver, nothing to show the tiniest bit of life beneath her pelt. Lionblaze howled in grief and turned to the other badgers that had been cornering her, he lunged at one, digging his claws into the badger's head and clinging there while he noticed the other patrol being led into the camp by Bumblepaw, Squirrelflight, and Ashfur.
Briarpaw instantly saw her sister's unmoving body and pelted away from the group into the fighting, weaving her way among the battles with pure sadness sparking her eyes. She dropped beside her sister and Lionblaze hopped off of his current enemy, letting race straight out of the camp. She yowled at the sky while Lionblaze padded slowly toward her and guarded her so that she could grieve her lost sister.
Finally, the battling was too much, Lionblaze had to get the apprentice to work. "Briarpaw," he began gently, "You must fight for your clan. Your sister died a noble death, protecting those she cares about. You must honor her memory by doing the same, protecting your clan. Come, fight, avenge your lost sister." he said wisely. When Briarpaw looked up, her eyes were watery but she simply nodded slowly and got to her feet. The sadness in her eyes was slowly replaced by anger.
"I will kill every last one of these badgers before they hurt another one of our clan mates." she hissed ferociously. She lunged into battle and Lionblaze sighed, she would honor her sister and the way she died, she would fight for her clan and those she loved, and never let another one of them be hurt by a single badger. He looked around to see tha most of the badgers were gone, only three remained in camp and the rest of the cats were slowly advancing toward them in a line. He went toward the line and joined them, advancing menacingly toward them and lashing out a paw to emphasize his meaning of not coming back.
Eventually, the badgers were so terrified of the cats advancing on them that they fled back into the forest, taking cover in the trees. The line fell apart and Lionblaze noticed that every single cat bore some scar, whether it be a torn ear, or a dripping wet slash of blood. Out of the cats, he noticed, only three could not move, were on the ground, besides Blossompaw.
'Oh please,' Lionblaze thought, 'Please Starclan don't let anyone else be dead, they don't deserve to join you quite yet, let them live their lives.' And with that, the cats raced toward the ones on the ground. The first howl was heard from Millie, a screech of grief and agony. She was crouching above Blossompaw's motionless body and crying out in grief. Firestar climbed the ledge and raised his voice above those in anguish, "Cats of Thunderclan!" he yowled, "Blossompaw is dead!" he reported, "She died fighting like a true warrior, fighting for the lives of those in her clan. Please tel me, is there any other at that died?"
The next voice Lionblaze heard was belonging to Icecloud, "Foxleap is very hurt but not dead, we need Jayfeather over here, now!" she called seriously. Lionblaze noticed Jayfeather's steady paws moving toward the young warrior and sit beside him.
"Rosepetal is injured!" Toadstep called from the second body, "Not dead but in need of help!" he called out in grief for his sister.
Firestar nodded, "Get Leafpool! She will help!" he ordered.
But the next voice whom spoke belonged to Sorreltail, not Leafpool, "She can't." Sorreltail responded, her voice cracked, choked with tears, "Because Leafpool is dead."