Chapter 23
Bluepaw leapt on top of Braveheart and bit into his ear. Braveheart yowled in surprise and shook his head, trying to get her off. That just ended up tearing his ear. In fact, it was tearing his ear too much. Oh boy. Bluepaw thought. She fell off.
Braveheart turned towards her. She kicked out at him, but with her short legs Braveheart wasn't any danger. He pounced on top of her, knocking the air out of her. Bluepaw clawed at his stomach. Braveheart gave a yelp and leapt off her.
Bluepaw rolled away from him.
"Bluepaw!" Bluepaw turned towards the voice. It was Briarpaw. "You're working with the rogues!" Bluepaw opened her mouth and looked slightly away, not sure how to answer. "How could you?" Briarpaw looked so hurt.
Now that, I can answer. "Because they're right." Bluepaw replied. At Briarpaw's confused look Bluepaw continued. "Don't you see? The clan leaders don't know what they're doing. If they were good leaders, no one would betray them." Bluepaw stpped closer and closer to Briarpaw as she spoke. "I'm helping the clans."
With every step Bluepaw took forward Briarpaw stepped back. "Bluepaw, you're scaring me." Briarpaw whimpered.
Bluepaw looked at her. She was terrified. And that made Bluepaw feel hurt, and angry. "Are you going to stop me?!" She snarled, changing into an attack stance.
Briarpaw stepped back a bit, shaking her head. She tried to talk, but it took a few times of opening and closing her mouth to get it right. "I have to."
Bluepaw swung out her paw in frustration. Briarpaw ducked, then moved forwards ramming into Bluepaw at the neck. Bluepaw gagged and fell back a little. Briarpaw leapt at her. Careful with your confidence. Bluepaw thought. She kicked Briarpaw away then hopped to her feet herself. But unlike Briarpaw, she waited. Briarpaw started to get up. Bluepaw swung around and kicked her in the eyes before she could completely recover. Then she went for her neck.
"NO!" Something slammed into Bluepaw's shoulder and she fell over, shoulder bleeding. She looked up to see Darkpaw standing over her.
"You? You're stopping me?" She wanted to know. But we're siblings! She thought. True, Briarpaw was her siblings too, but Bluepaw's always felt closer to Darkpaw than the other two.
"You tried to kill Briarpaw!" Darkpaw hissed, stomping.
"No." Bluepaw shook her head. "I was just . . . trying to put her out of the battle. But temporarily! Really I. . ." She was cut off. She'd started to get up as she spoke. As soon as she was about half way up Darkpaw attacked, knocking her back down.
Fine, so that's how it's going to be. Bluepaw thought. She could do this. She raked her claws through Darkpaw's stomach. Darkpaw yowled and rose, just a little, but for a cat Bluepaw's size it was enough. She shot away, giving a kick to Darkpaw's head as she went. Then Darkpaw bit into her tail and yanked her back. Bluepaw let out a surprised yelp and fell to the ground. Darkpaw leapt, trying to land on her. Bluepaw rolled away, lashing out at him as she went. Darkpaw easily dodged.
For a moment they simply circled each other, both of them wary to attack. Darkpaw got impatient first. He charged at her. Bluepaw jumped on top of him and racked her claws along his back. Then he rolled over, amazingly fast. Bluepaw didn't have time to react, she felt all the air go out of her as Darkpaw crushed her. Bluepaw struggled, but she couldn't get out from under him. She barely had any air left in her. She gave a tiny whimper.
Then all of a suddenly Darkpaw's weight was gone. And he was screaming, in pain, but mostly in fear. Bluepaw looked up in confusion. Fieldwind had showed up. She had grabbed Darkpaw's spine and was dragging him away across the ground. Darkpaw gripped the ground with his claws, but Fieldwind yanked him into the air, shook him violently, and flung him towards the sky. Darkpaw slammed back into the ground, his eyes glazed over. He was dead.
"NO!" It was Briarpaw and Bluepaw who'd shouted.
"What did you do?!" Bluepaw exclaimed.
"Saved you." Fieldwind replied simply.
"You've killed him! You didn't need to do that!" Bluepaw sobbed.
"Surely you knew cats were going to die." Fieldwind pointed out.
"He was my brother, how could you?" Bluepaw demanded.
Fieldwind shot forward in attack stance. "Because it isn't Fieldwind, I wasn't lying when I told you I was Death Trap." She snarled. "I will kill all the cats I can, and that could include you!"
Bluepaw gazed in horror for a moment. Then she whirled around and ran away. Death Trap tried to follow her but she was intercepted by another gray cat. Bluepaw didn't stop to see who it was. She just kept running, out of the gathering, out of the clan territories, as far away as she could get.
