Chapter 25
A familiar scent reached Stormstar's nose. He whirled around to see Death Trap standing a little ways off, fighting Fallenstar.
Stormstar started towards them. "Stormstar."
"A little busy Moonstar." Stormstar said, not even bothering to look towards her.
"Well too bad." Moonstar stepped in front of him, glaring up at him.
Stormstar tried to step to the side. Moonstar followed. He suspected she'd do that, but it had been worth a shot. "What do you want?"
"I told you, you owed me for your kits. I want you to fight Blueblaze."
Stormstar blinked. "What?"
"I can't." Moonstar admitted. "I need you to do it for me. Now go!"
Stormstar spun around. It didn't take long to see Blueblaze, especially considering he seemed to be looking for Moonstar. He spotted her and started running towards her. Stormstar slammed into him. Blueblaze kicked him off. "What? Moonstar can't fight her own battles?"
"This isn't her battle." Stormstar growled. "You asked for it."
Blueblaze glared at him for a moment, and Stormstar was so sure he was going to attack it took him a while to react when he didn't. Blueblaze tried to run straight past him. Stormstar moved in front of him, tripping him and sending him to the ground. Blueblaze kicked out at Stormstar's head as he fell. Stormstar let out a growl from the hit and turned away.
"Fine. If that's the way you want to do it." Blueblaze snarled. He got back up and swung his claws out.
Stormstar easily ducked and shot his paws out, trying to knock Blueblaze over again. Blueblaze just as easily jumped over him. Stormstar rolled over and clawed at Blueblaze's stomach. This time it went well. Blueblaze let out a yowl as he slammed to the ground again. Stormstar attempted to pin him, but Blueblaze kicked his jaw. Stormstar's head snapped back, by the time it came back down Blueblaze had wounded his chest. He hadn't had time to move away however.
Stormstar zipped out and bit into Blueblaze's head. Blueblaze let out yowl and managed to jerk away, leaving gashes in his head, including one over his eye. Stormstar came closer again. Blueblaze swiped at him, hitting the side of his head and tearing his ear. Blueblaze seemed surprised though.
He can't see as well with only one eye. Stormstar realized. He began throwing more attacks out. Blueblaze, unable to block properly, steadily backed up. Then he bumped into something. Stormstar wasn't sure what it was, but considering Blueblaze's expression he knew. He let out a scream of panic as the thing behind him, a badger, grabbed him in its jaws.
Stormstar's eyes went wide and he ran away. Blueblaze's screams didn't last long before they were cut off.
Wolfpaw dashed around a badger. It tried desperately to keep track of him and kept snapping out at him. But Wolfpaw was too fast. Then Silverpaw leapt into the air and smacked the beager across the head. She landed fairly close to it, but that's when Wolfpaw shot in and clawed the badger himself. He gave Silverpaw the time to escape.
Silverpaw smiled at him as they moved to relative safety. "We make a pretty good team don't we?"
Wolfpaw grinned. "Yeah. Yeah I guess we do." Then he saw what looked like a giant burnt cat came up behind Silverpaw. His jaw dropped. "S-Silverpaw."
Silverpaw turned around, but she wasn't fast enough. The dark one slammed her away, knocking her unconscious with that one swing. It started towards her. "No!" Wolfpaw shouted out. He charged forward and kicked the dark one. It didn't even blink. It did however, turn its attention to Wolfpaw. Oh no. Wolfpaw thought. He backed away. The dark one charged.
Then another cat clambered onto it and bit into its neck, kicking it with her legs to move it away from Wolfpaw. Frostfur. Wolfpaw realized.
"You! Get! Off! My brother!" Frostfur repeatedly bit into the dark one's neck, taking time to say the words between.
Wolfpaw let out an attack cry and bit onto the other side of the dark one's neck. Together, they killed it.
Frostfur leapt off the body and gave Wolfpaw a look. He recognized it, it was the same look she used to give him when he did something wrong, when it was just her, Wolfpaw, and Snakepaw. "You left us."
Wolfpaw nodded. "I know."
"Did you know then?" Wolfpaw nodded tentatively. "Then why did you go?"
"I love you." Wolfpaw assured her. "It's just . . . I think I found someone else . . . I can say that too."
Frostfur's eyes narrowed and he thought he saw her look towards Silverpaw. Then she just sighed. "For the sake of your happiness, I hope you're right." Then she turned around and walked away.
Wolfpaw watched her go for a little before moving over to Silverpaw. She was still out cold, but aside from that she was fine. He let out a sigh of relief.
