It was...

Windstar!

Cherrypaw gulped down a big breath, and carefully unsheathed her claws so that he wouldn't notice. "What are you doing here, fox-face?" She growled. "This is ThunderClan territory!"

The brown tom laughed a bit, and touched the tip of his tail to the apprentice's nose. "Look, darling, do not call me a fox-face, I am not one. Additionally, what do you think I am here for? You and I, all alone," He evilly smirked. "Either, we can follow my rules, or we can experience what bloodshed from me is like."

Cherrypaw grinned. "To bad, we aren't alone."

Windstar rolled his eyes. "Are you sure? Maybe your rude friends left you behind," He took a step up closer to her. "I do not sense anyone around."

The apprentice hissed, and looked over to the side of her, which was where T was. "T is here." She responded. "We aren't alone."

The WindClan leader giggled. "Haha, you have imaginary friends? They cannot defend you during battle."

The apprentice glared at him. "He is not imaginary! You just can't see him!"

T shook his head. "He could see me if I wanted him to," He whispered her.

The brown tom smiled and nodded, "Of course," in a sarcastic tone.

Windstar unsheathed his claws and was about to lunge at the apprentice, but then...

"I am not fake!" A loud voice rushed through Windstar's ears. The leader glared at the apprentice. "Did you hear that?"

Cherrypaw nodded. "Of course I did."

"Look, you stupid voice, go away, I'm trying to handle something!" Windstar hissed at the air.

"To late!" The voice boomed once again. "Visibility!" It called, and then, right there, T had appeared in Windstar's view.

"Do I look fake to you now?" The translucent cat hissed.

"Thunderstar?!" The tom took a step back, but then realized, this stupid cat was scaring him! He shook it off. "Haha, I don't care."

"I'm not Thunderstar. I'm one of his lives," T growled over to Windstar.

The tom raised his brows as he replied, "Oh yeah? He lost one of his lives already, heh. Defenseless tom. He has a weakling, while I have two of the most strongest cats in the whole forest. I was planning on making them warriors soon."

"By the way, W and Wi, your two lives, W, killed by Shadowstar, and Wi, killed by eating crow food, wanted me to say hi to you." He grimaced.

Cherrypaw smiled, and looked over at Windstar. "We are no match for you!"

"Oh yeah? I can take your little T down, easily," Windstar blinked. He gulped, realizing that this cat probably was more stronger then him, but he could take on any cat. Nobody was supposed to know that he only had seven lives, but now, Cherrypaw did. What would she do with that information?

He started to run at T.

T's eyes widened, but then smiled. "Come at me."

Once the tom was about to crash into T, he flew up, near one of the millions and millions of paths to get back up to StarClan, and landed on the tom's back.

"You cannot escape me." T whispered.

Cherrypaw watched as they fought, T to powerful to get one little tiny scratch. She felt bad... T fighting for her.

He already did his part.

She took a big breath as she yelled, "STOP!"

The cats fell silent and looked at her angrily.

"T, this is my battle to fight, go back to StarClan where you belong. I should be fighting him, not you. You already saved me once, I can't have you save me again. Don't do that loyalty killing thing either." Cherrypaw told the two.

T sighed and nodded. "As you wish, Cherrypaw. I grant you good luck." He said, and started to walk up one of the trails to StarClan, but paused to watch at the sky. T knew that if there was a life threatening moment, even though he would most likely be restricted from it, he would have to save Cherrypaw. That's what he was supposed to do. He was loyal forever, and nothing could stop him.

Windstar blinked. "Would you like to make the first move, pest?" He asked in a charming tone.

Cherrypaw showed to amusement, only hatred towards the tom. "No. I don't. Then you would expect my attack to come straight out. I'd rather have you do it. I'm eager to see what you can start off with," She said, trying to sound somewhat sophisticated, so he thought she could be a harder target then he expected. After all, it had been a while since last battle, so she did have a chance. But she had to think about it. She was going against Windstar. The Windstar. One of the best fighters in all of the Clans. How could she possibly beat him? But... what was his problem with her anyways? Why did he hate her so much? Was it because of their first encounter? Did he have a problem with someone she was close to? Or was he just that pure evil?

"Oh, the idiot taught you something for once. Hmm... maybe..." He exchanged a look at her, investigating her structure, "you are smart enough to realize that. I don't know though. You were a kittypet at first though, right? Heh, kittypets. They always eat terrible food that looks like rabbit pellets."

As he was talking, Cherrypaw didn't really pay close attention. She was worried too much about when he was going to strike. He was probably gonna use distraction. She took a big breath and continued to somewhat listen to him talk while she examined the cat, mainly his paws, since he would have to move using his paws.

"Did you try some? Heh, you had to eat them. What else was there to eat? Did you eat grass?" He asked. Cherrypaw did not respond.

"Heh, a stubborn one." Windstar flexed. "Thunderstar and Shadowstar are stubborn too, annoying as well, actually, they are some of the most annoying cats I have ever met. All they do is blab and are stupid weaklings. You are probably a stupid weakling, no? After all, all you do is," he stopped talking to jump up and charge at Cherrypaw.

The apprentice knew it was coming, so she dodged before hand.

"Smart," The tom growled. He went for Cherrypaw again, but Cherrypaw was just barely able to dodge it once again. She felt the tip of Windstar's claws touch her fur, but no damage was done. The apprentice then was able to jump upon Windstar's back as he was busy turning back around.

The apprentice thought back to her training sessions.

"Okay Cherrypaw, go on my back." Thunderstar instructed.

The young apprentice nodded. She jumped onto the tom's back, being careful not to hurt him. "Can we take a stroll around the forest? It'd be fun, being on your back!" The she-cat giggled.

"No, Cherrypaw. This is serious time. Maybe later. Now, whenever you are on the opponent's back, be sure to unsheath your claws if you have not already, and make some deadly scratches on their shoulders. It might have a chance of bringing them down to the ground, where you can do worse to them." Thunderstar instructed.

Cherrypaw clung to Windstar, digging her claws into his sides as she was thinking of it. She knew that could not happen in battle again. She took a big breath and quickly got her claws out of him, and while maintaining her balance on the top, she scratched his shoulders. The tom let out a yowl as he fell to the ground a little. The she-cat remembered what Thunderstar told her about fighting to the death, that you had to try to blind them.

It seemed like they'd fight until death, so she may as well try it.

The she-cat got her paws off of his shoulders and tried to scratch his eyes. He closed his eyes, but received one scratch on one side, and was able to paw away the other paw. Thankfully for him, his eyes did not get injured, but he now had a scar on his eyelid and around. Cherrypaw smiled. "And you said I was a bad warrior?"

"Pff, I was playing easy on you," He giggled with an evil tone in his voice. He then quickly pushed her off to the side, and pinned her down. He started to put all of his effort into her, to defeat her.

Oh no! She thought to herself. She scrambled to get out of the hold, but was only to get out for several seconds, then she got stuck again.

I am done with this! She thought to herself. She yelled in full power as she knocked down the leader's paws. The apprentice sprinted out, and then grinned. She charged at the tom at full speed. Windstar fell to the ground, rolling and rolling. Cherrypaw scratched him in between the rolls as well.

Once he stopped, she jumped off of him and loosened up a bit. That'll make him dizzy! But I'm a bit dizzy too, oh well! She thought to herself. She looked at the tom who didn't move.

"Windstar?" She asked.

No response.

"Windstar?"

No response once again.

"Windstar!" She yelled, going up to him and shaking him.

It was no use.

She took away one of his lives.

The she-cat sat down next to him, shocked on what she did. What she thought was a technique to make him so dizzy killed off one of his lives. She didn't think she put much force into it either.

"Windstar!" Cherrypaw shouted out to the sky in grief.

She felt like a big moss ball was in her throat, she could barely breathe. Even though this tom tried to kill her, she was still upset. How could she do this?

"Windstar!" She shouted out to the sky once again between sobs of sorrow.

"I'm so sorry...I didn't mean to..." She said to the frozen body.

She turned around to face where the tom was before. "T!" She shouted out, sitting down due to how upset she was. The tom raced down to her, but she noticed shock in his face.

"We have to bring you to StarClan right now." T said to her.

Cherrypaw's eyes widened. "You still accept me in StarClan, after what I did to someone?" She asked him.

T nodded. "It was a mistake, and he's still alive. Anyways, it was self-defense." The spiritual tom said to her.

Cherrypaw nodded, looking around her surroundings. "Bye, forest! I am sorry for all of my sins," She cried out.

The tom shook his head, "No Cherrypaw, I am not taking you to StarClan to die. We just need to talk to Silverpelt."

The she-cat nodded. Okay, that's what I have to have him think I am thinking. But I know what he is doing, I killed some cat. Well, I killed a life of some cat. Obviously, he is bringing me to Silverpelt so she can do a banishment ceremony on me. There goes being a warrior. I'll have to tell Thunderstar to not name me a warrior, not to name me anything, and that I am leaving because StarClan is not faithful to me anymore, and I am not surprised, due to my evil. She cringed as the thought went through her head. Evil. Is that what I really am? E. V. I. L. Evil. I'm a murderer. Of course, she will not accept me! She will probably ask to have me several foxtail's away from her. Oh my, Thunderstar will be so ashamed. He taught me so well, and look what I did... I killed off a life from his past ally. He taught me not to use what he taught me for bad, but look what I did, I disobeyed my own family! Yes, Thunderstar is family to me, and so is Shadowstar! I failed them, I failed them all!

Tears flooded her eyes as T walked beside her, her pelt turning a little translucent as they approached the opening to the place that she believed she was not welcome to,

StarClan.