Chapter 26

Death Trap was going after Bluepaw. Fallenstar had seen what had happened to Darkpaw, he wouldn't let that happen to another of his kits.

Fallenstar put himself between them and Death Trap was forced to stop. Bluepaw kept running.

"Fallenstar!" Death Trap growled. "You'll pay for that!"

"Maybe." Fallenstar stood a little straighter. "But I've got a lot of lives for you to take."

Death Trap leapt onto him. It was such a surprise Fallenstar slammed into the ground. Death Trap clawed at his exposed chest and stomach. Then Fallenstar kicked her off and rolled over, slamming his claw into her neck. Death Trap tore away, but her breath was heavy, thanks to the new wound on her neck.

Fallenstar got up and started toward her. Death Trap turned around and dashed out of the clearing herself. Fallenstar growled and chased after her. They ran through Moonclan territory, the part that was formerly Thunderclan's if Fallenstar recalled correctly. Death Trap was slowing down, he could still hear her struggles for breath.

Fallenstar pounded closer, getting faster and faster. Then Death Trap kicked out, hitting his head. At the speed he was moving, he didn't stop at the impact. He fell forward, smashing into the ground. Death Trap clawed his neck. Then he heard her stagger away before he died.

Fallenstar came back to life quickly. Death Trap's scent was still there. He knew he could just head back to four trees and help fight there, but if Death Trap got away she'd just come back again. And again. Until she'd killed them.

Fallenstar ran off after her scent. He found her at the entrance of his own territory, clearing marked from this die by a twoleg fence.

Death Trap must have heard him as she spun around as he came closer. "You!" She exclaimed. She sounded surprised.

"Did you expect me to give up?" Fallenstar snarled.

Death Trap didn't answer, she just zipped through a hole in the fence. Fallenstar made a noise of frustration. He went after her, having a slightly harder time fitting than her.

She ran into a twoleg building. Fallenstar waited outside for a moment, hoping the twoleg place would collapse like a few had. Of course, it wasn't that easy. Once it was clear the place wasn't doing anything Fallenstar ran in after her.

But he couldn't find her. He wandered around all the rooms in the first floor but she wasn't in any of them. And she couldn't have gone back outside, the rooms were so close together he would've realized it.

Fallenstar moved upstairs. It wasn't until he got to the third floor anything happened. He went to the first room, it was big enough he'd have to go in to search it. Fallenstar walked in, and the door slammed shut behind him.

Fallenstar spun around and shoved against it, but it was completely pointless, the door wasn't going anywhere. He heard Death Trap's muffled laugh and footsteps. Fox dung! Fallenstar thought, clawing fruitlessly at the door. He had to do something.

He turned to look at the room again. There was a window. Fallenstar ran for the window. Yes! Broken glass! I can get out this way. He ran to the window and climbed out onto the sill. He turned to the left to see if there was a way down from there, and of course Death Trap came at him from the right.

She shoved him. Fallenstar let out a cry as he fell. He grabbed on the sill with his front paws. The rest of him hung off the ledge. Death Trap was standing on the ledge. It didn't take much to realize what had happened. She'd gone into a different room and used that room's window to get out, which had probably been her plan all along.

Then Death Trap started clawing his paws, trying to get him to let go. It was working too. At the very least Fallenstar's paws were slipping. That's when a cat appeared behind Death Trap. They grabbed her by the back of the neck and yanked her back inside.

Fallenstar hung there for a moment, but he managed to get himself back on the ledge and climbed in through the window. There was Moonstar, biting into the back of Death Trap's neck. Death Trap struggled, and managed to give Moonstar a few nasty hits, but Moonstar didn't let go until she stopped struggling. Moonstar dropped Death Trap. Or rather, Death Trap's body. Death Trap was dead.

Moonstar and Fallenstar looked at each other in silence for a little. Thank you. Fallenstar thought. He wanted to say it. He couldn't form the words, but Moonstar seemed to see it in his eyes.

"Come on." She said. "Let's get back to four trees."

(I made a promise I wasn't going to have the leaders lose any more lives in this series. I broke that promise in this chapter.)