Chapter 28

Stormstar walked through the crowd, looking for someone. "Stormstar." Stormstar looked. It wasn't hard to see Violet. She was the only cat not going anywhere, and her eyes were purple. She got up and walked towards him. "I didn't leave." She told him.

"Not this time." She replied.

"Stormstar, I really did die." Violet told him.

Stormstar wasn't buying it though. "Then how are you here? You're certainly not from Starclan."

"Right. That." Violet sat down, looking at the ground. "Stormstar, that's complicated, and. . ." She looked like she was struggling to figure out what to say.

"You're not going to tell me are you?"

Violet shook her head, staring at the ground. "I can't." She whimpered. "I wish I could."

"Then you can go." Again. Stormstar thought, feeling his heart break again. He still loved her, but she never told him anything, and he wasn't sure if he could handle watching her die again, not knowing if she'd come back. "We have nothing to talk about." He turned around and headed back towards Stormclan territory.

"Stormstar I'm sorry. I love you." Violet called after him. But he didn't turn around.


Lightningstar led her clan back towards camp. There was no doubt Scar had been the one to kill Ashpelt. She could smell her scent all over the territory. In fact, she wasn't sure if all this smell could've come from the battle. She's been here before. Lightningstar thought. And I never noticed.

Before Lightningstar could spend much time feeling bad, there was the sound of a stick snapping. Her head snapped up and she turned towards the sound.

There was Scar, trying to run away. Lightningstar hissed and charged after her, but Scar had a head start, she'd never catch her.

Luckily, she didn't have to. Sorrowheart jumped away from the group and smashed into Scar, knocking her over. Scar shoved her off, reopening one of her head wounds as she did.

That had given Lightningstar time to catch up though. She ripped Scar's neck open. Scar slashed Lightingstar along the chest, someplace else that had been previously wounded. Then she got up and ran over to Sorrowheart, putting her paw on her neck. "Alright." Scar panted. "Move and I kill her."

Lightningstar paused, causing everyone else in the clan to stop, at the very least to look at each other and figure out if they should attack.

"I'm going to leave now." Scar said. "You let me, and she'll get to live." She pressed her paw harder against Sorrowheart. Sorrowheart struggled, but Scar was able to dodge or ignore her attacks. "Now back off."

Lightningstar took a step back. Scar grinned. She started moving away, dragging Sorrowheart with her, and walking straight towards Wingshadow. Wingshadow swung her claws. She smacked Scar on the back of her head. Then she grabbed onto her neck and swung her head back and forth, flinging Scar as hard as she could. That wasn't very far, considering Scar's size, but the damage Wingshadow had done was enough. Scar was dead.

Sorrowheart scrambled away from the body. Lightningstar gave a snort. "Good job Wingshadow." She said. Then she turned around and continued to camp.

(Blargh this chapter was short. The next one might be too.)