Battle's Over

(I thought about having someone important die in the battle, but over all this series seems more death oriented then the real Warriors series, more death isn't needed.)

Lightningstar sat up with a gasp. It didn't take a genius to realize she'd lost a life. Great. She thought irritably. Now I only have six. She got up and looked around. The battle seemed to be over, and better yet, they'd won.

The only thing left was Fallenstar fighting a dark one. He was losing. The dark one swatted him into the ground. It sprang into the air, ready to pounce. "No!" Fangmouth jumped in the way, sending them both to the ground. It did more damage to Fangmouth than the dark one, but it gave Fallenstar the time to get up. He jumped onto the dark one, biting into its neck. Stormstar and Fangmouth helped kill it.

Lightningstar let out a sigh. Now all the dark ones were dead. At least she thought so. They weren't here either way.

Moonstar was looking around. "Eclipsepelt!" She called. "I got to go." She ran off.

Emberpaw had run up to Stormstar. "Did you see Stormstar?" she asked. "We did it. The other apprentices and I." she bragged.

The other apprentices were heading back to cats in their clan too. So where's Sorrowpaw? Lightningstar wondered. She looked around, and soon saw her. Sorrowpaw was sitting off to the side, watching everything happen with a knowing smile on her face. Lightningstar gave a small smile; Sorrowpaw was a clever cat for her age.

Then Knight walked over to Stormstar, the rest of the Dark Forest cats sort of regrouping behind him."Thank you." Stormstar said. "For saving us. We owe you our lives, and I'm sorry for being so wrong about you."

There was an odd look in Knight's eyes and Lightningstar had a feeling he wanted to act upset over Stormstar's distrust. In the end he didn't. "I wouldn't have trusted myself either." He replied. "Now, we should get going."

A starry cat walked down from the sky. "Yes, going with us." He said. The Dark Forest cats turned around. "I'm Jayfeather." The cat introduced. "And I think you've earned your place in Starclan."

Abandon's eyes lit up. Knight seemed happy too, but he was better at hiding it. "Thank you."

Jayfeather nodded and turned to leave. "Wait!" Lightningstar called. "Where's Wingshadow?"

Jayfeather gave her a cocky look, and she knew she wasn't getting anymore information out him before he even spoke. "I don't think I'm the best cat to tell you that." he replied. Then he led the formerly Dark Forest cats to the stars. Stormstar let out his breath slowly. After a silence he announced, "I better get my clan back."

Fallenstar nodded. "Me too."

Lightningstar skipped announcing it and just went looking for her clan mates. She managed to find most of them, but Wingshadow was still missing. It pissed her off that Jayfeather hadn't told her anything. And, if she was honest, it worried her too. If the battle was over, Wingshadow should've been back. Was there something she didn't know?

"Lightningstar?" Lightningstar blinked and looked down. It was Sorrowpaw. "Are we going back to camp now?" she asked.

Lightningstar nodded.

Moonstar ran up to half bridge. Dragonflame was stepping off Dinosaur. "You!" Moonstar hissed. "You traitor!" she stormed up closer.

Eclipsepelt stepped between. "No." he said.

Moonstar blinked. "What?"

Eclipsepelt looked at Dragonflame, then back at Moonstar. "Dragonflame isn't evil. She just saved me. And Dinosaur is gone forever."

Moonstar looked at Dragonflame in a new way. She walked over. "You saved my brother?" Dragonflame stared at the ground as she nodded. Moonstar felt tears come to her eyes. She couldn't lose Eclipsepelt too. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Dragonflame said extremely softly.

Moonstar nodded, then went back to addressing both of them. "I think we should make sure the rest of the clan is alright." She walked off towards camp with the other two following her.

Dragonflame blinked, realizing for the first time the rain had stopped. She walked up to Eclipsepelt and whispered in his ear, "You exaggerated my importance you know. It's my fault you needed saving in the first place."

Eclipsepelt shook his head. "I know you're not evil, so I had to do something. Besides, nothing I said was really a lie."