Badger Attack
(Yes, Stormclan was cut from this chapter. And yes, I finally spit this chapter out. And why is so hard to make a long chapter?)
Lightingstar walked with her patrol: Zipfoot, Stripedfur, and Sorrowpaw. They were on border patrol. The border with Moonclan was normal, but at Fallenclan's border there was a problem. The badger scent was still there.
As she leaned down to sniff, the badger came out. It lunged for Lightingstar. Zipfoot froze, but Stripedfur jumped at the badger and yanked it to the side by the ear. The badger swung its claw, Stripedfur tried to jump out of the way, but he was still wounded. He staggered to the side. Lightingstar hissed and clawed the badger's back. She jumped out of the way in time. She and Sorrowpaw launched in and out a few more times, mainly attacking its sides. They could a few scars, but nothing as serious as Stripedfur.
Then Zipfoot unfroze. He dashed in and attacked. He was much faster than the other two and got out of range easily. Unfortunately the badger kept spinning, wanting to get Zipfoot. It got Lightingstar instead. Lightingstar was flung into a rock, her vision spun. Sorrowpaw gave an angry cry and launched at the badger, but she was just an apprentice, she didn't know the best way to attack a badger. The badger shook her off. Lightingstar jumped back up, head still spinning. She attacked the badger and, in her current state, was easily defeated.
She hit the ground and blacked out. "Lightingstar?" Lightingstar blinked her eyes open. Stripedfur let out a sigh of relief. "You're alright."
"Yes." Lightingstar lied. She wasn't stupid; she knew she'd just lost a life. There was no reason to worry her clan about that thoug. That's when she noticed the cobwebs on Stripedfur's wound. "You're alright. Did Ashpelt come?"
Stripedfur shook his head. "He helped." He waved his tail to a cat sitting a little ways away, looking down.
"He helped us fight the badger too." Zipfoot added.
They both seemed rather happy, but Lightingstar wasn't. This cat was transparent, and he didn't sparkle like Starclan cats. She got up and stomped over. "You. What's your name?"
The cat lowered himself, clearly hearing her temper. "Knight." He replied.
"Well Knight," she got closer to his face, glaring. "You're from Dark Forest aren't you?"
"I-I. . ." Knight didn't have anything to say to defend himself.
Lightingstar hissed. "Then you can get out!"
The other cats looked uncertain on what to do, but none of them helped Knight. Knight nodded. "I'm sorry. I'll go." He dashed off and disappeared in totality.
Lightingstar snorted. "A Dark Forest cat apologizing? Yeah right."
Sorrowpaw shuffled her paws. "I don't know Lightingstar, he seemed like he just wanted to help."
Lightingstar replied, "Dark Forest cats are awful, not to mention liars. If he wanted to help, he should've done so while he was alive." She walked back towards camp; the body of the badger was sitting there. "Come on, we should take this back." The cats all grabbed a part of the badger and started hauling it back towards camp. It was not easy, badgers were not small creatures, but they managed it.
Fallenstar sat in camp, he watched Icepelt limp across camp. Sliverstripes said she'd be back to normal soon. Icepelt and Fallenstar made eye contact. Icepelt quickly looked away. Fallenstar sighed.
"What is it?"
Fallenstar turned, it was Fangmouth. Fallenstar shook his head. "Icepelt's mad at me, and I don't understand why. I mean, I know we don't talk, but I'm leader, I have a lot to worry about."
Fangmouth started laughing. "What? What is so funny?" Fallenstar asked.
Fangmouth laughed harder, causing a few stares. Then he managed to get it under control. "Sorry, it's just that it's obvious." Considering Fallenstar's blank stare it was clearly not obvious to him. "Icepelt has a crush on you." He said, lowering his voice.
"What?" Fallenstar asked in disbelief.
Fangmouth rolled his eyes. "Come on, it's been obvious for a while now. You've just been so busy with your 'leader duties' you haven't noticed."
"Oh." Was all Fallenstar could say. Now that he thought of it, that sort of made sense. So that's why she was mad. He thought.
He jumped down from his post and started walking towards the medicine den, where Icepelt undoubtedly was. He turned around. "Thanks Fangmouth."
Fangmouth smiled and shrugged, "It's what I do."
Fallenstar spun back around.
(If anyone's read the first one of these, you might remember Knight was in a tiny bit of it. On a different note, I really need to write down the number of lives each leader has left. Currently, Fallenstar and Moonstar have 8, Lightingstar has 7, and Stormstar has all 9.)