(I'm, SOOOOOO sorry I haven't posted in a while! Writers block and all, don't mark me! *covers self* I'll try and make it up with this k? ^_^

Anywayz, now before we get into this chapter, I should let you all know that I whole heartily DISLIKE Jayfeather. He is my least favorite cat. I love Hollyleaf bcuz she forgave Leafpool for what she did, at least that's how I interpreted it. I like Lionblaze bcuz he seems to have forgiven her somewhat in my eyes. Jayfeather...he seems to be the type to hold a grudge forever to me, so I am going to take pleasure in writing chapters with him and Leafpool in it because well, I have a very juicy solution for it. If you don't like the way I have him act then bah humbug. It a fanfic, meaning fans and their crazy way of seeing things. *evil laugh* Besides, I think they are mostly OOC the way I type them. Anyway, so Thunderclan experiences another battle! Onwards!)

Jayfeather had woken up annoyed. His dreams had started getting dull. From the exciting but horrifying to dull. From fights to encounters to plain talking. Ugh.

What was the point of dreaming about them? They were as blurry as always, the fog only letting up by a tip of a mouse tail and he could barely hear them now. A few sentences here or there but other than that, none. His previous dream had been a happy one, frolicking and playing in around, a minor run in with a stray that was, with his limited sight and sharp hearing, torture by the group.

These cats seemed merciless and bloodthirsty. It rubbed him the wrong way and he shuddered. The shrill cries made him feel sorry of the cat, even though it provoked them first. A new cat had accompanied them though, it seemed another tom. He did remember a very dark shadow following them, after a brief showdown with the leader of their group, and the cat's voice was pretty deep, so positive it was a tom. 'They are recruiting rogues now? Oh boy.' That's not surprising but, hey, now these days none of his dreams are. He stretched and went out to eat.

~ooo~

Molepaw and his sister Cherrypaw ran over to him with high tails. Their mother and father had been so proud of them when they were announced apprentices five moons ago, right before the battle. Foxleap and Rosepetal being their mentors. Cherrypaw was excited to have Foxleap be her mentor, seeing as her and her brother was having a gender war at the moment, arguing on which gender was strong and better. They had pointed out every warrior and reasoned why they are stronger and better than the opposing gender. Their mother, father and mentors had told them that the stupid contest was idiotic and that they weren't kits anymore, but they wouldn't listen. Jayfeather sighed. Paws will be paws.

Speaking of paws, Molepaw had just said something. Jayfeather perked his ears and looked down at where Molepaw was. Molepaw was bouncing around excitedly. "Guess what Jayfeather! I caught my first squirrel today! And it was huge! Huger than Cherrypaw's dove!" "Nu-uh! My dove was twice the size of your stupid squirrel!" Cherry paw protested as she stomped her paw. Molepaw turned his nose up. "Liar. You are just jealous because my squirrel was better than you dove. That makes us toms better than you she cats!"

Cherrypaw snorted and flattened her ears. "Fine, your squirrel may have been bigger than my dove, but that's not the only prey I caught! I caught a mouse too, and a juicy one! That means the two put together waaay out does your squirrel, and because I caught two prey and you caught one, that makes she cats better than toms!" Molepaw bristled and growled. "No it doesn't!" Cherrypaw raised her tail. "Yes it does!"

Jayfeather snapped at them. "Can you two please take you sibling rival elsewhere? A cat is only better than another depending on their courage and loyalty to the clan, nothing else!"

Cherrypaw and Molepaw looked at him wide eyed before Molepaw waved his tail excitedly. "I have more courage than Cherrypaw! That makes me better than her!" Cherrypaw yowled in surprise. "What?! No you don't! Not only do I have more courage, but I am more loyal than you!" Molepaw gasped in horror, a cliché gasp that make Jayfeather roll his eyes. "And just how do you think you are more loyal than me?" Molepaw retorted. Cherrypaw grinned and puffed out her chest. "I caught two prey, you caught one, meaning I'm giving to the clan more than you and THAT is loyalty obviously."

Molepaw growled before he rose to his full height, which Jayfeather was certain, only two inches higher. "I will catch more prey than you AND be more courageous! Just you watch!" he declared. Cherrypaw smirked by the sound of her voice. "Then prove it. I am a Shadowclan cat and I'm taking the Queen's food!" She dashed away to the nursery.

Jayfeather heard a Queen squeak in surprise as Cherrypaw took her meal and ran out nursery. Molepaw gave his fiercest growl and chased after her. Jayfeather sighed and shook his head. Yep. Paws. Can't live with them, can't live without them. Jayfeather picked a thrush out of the pile and laid down as he ate. Lionblaze soon joined him. He smelled of wind and grassy plains. 'Patrolling Windclan borders' Jayfeather thought.

Lionblaze picked a mouse from the pile and laid in front of Jayfeather and ate. Both brothers ate in silence before Jayfeather took another sniff of the air. Blood. He looked up in time as the hunting patrol came in. Berrynose, Daisy, Graystripe and Leafpool had ran into the camp with prey in their jaws taking them to the fresh kill pile. Well, ran and one was limping. Berrynose had escorted Leafpool over Jayfeather and Jayfeather narrowed his blind eyes in annoyance. "Leafpool wrenched a claw while she was hunting. She tripped over a large tree root." Berrynose mewed and Leafpool snorted in annoyance.

"I am fine, Berrynose." she replied. "I could have easily treated myself. I'm not a kit you know."

"And you aren't a medicine cat either. So you couldn't have treated yourself." Jayfeather growled as he bent down and sniffed her paw. He turned and trotted over to his den. "Come on!" he snapped. Leafpool's ears drooped slightly as she limped over into the den. Lionblaze and Berrynose shared a look before Berrynose shook his head and left. Lionblaze sighed and finished his food and brought his brothers unfinished food to the medicine cat's den, only to find Leafpool leaving it.

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Jayfeather had just finished treating her paw when Leafpool spoke. "So how are you doing Jayfeather? Are you running low on supplies? I could help you get more if you want."

Jayfeather narrowed his eyes. "No, I don't need anything and I'm fine. As fine as I will every be." he mewed curtly before leaving to the back of his den. He came back and dropped some poppy seeds in front of her. "Take these. They will lessen your pain." Leafpool licked them up and stared at Jayfeather longingly as he went to sort his herbs.

Jayfeather tried ignoring her, but to no avail. He snapped his head around and growled at her. "Stop staring at me!"

"I'm sorry Jayfeather, but I want to talk to you." she meowed softly. Jayfeather stalked over to her, ears flattened in anger.

"Talk about what? Talk about how sorry you are about what happened or talk about how ashamed you were after it happened?"

"No, I'm not ash-"

"Or do you want to talk about how sorry you are that Crowfeather didn't accept us as his kits? How humiliating it was when he openly denied us as his and how humiliating was that my mother was a medicine cat, a medicine cat that broke the rules! Yes Leafpool, let's talk about that, because I definitely had a thing or two to say about it!"

Leafpool backed away from him slightly, eyes filled with sadness and a little annoyance. "Jayfeather I do regret what happened, I truly do, but I don't regret what came after it. I had three beautiful kits who I loved even if I couldn't do it openly. I was able to watch them grow into strong, healthy warriors and even train one of my own into Thunderclan's proudest medicine cat. I am very proud of you all."

Jayfeather sneered. "But that also caused our sister to desert us and die! Have you ever thought of that? Do you even regret that?!"

Leafpool felt a pain deep inside her. Her daughter had died and she did blame herself for it, no matter what Squirrelflight said to soothe her she always blamed herself. Leafpool dipped her head. "I do Jayfeather, with all my heart and soul I do and I loved my daughter Hollyleaf dearly, but having you was a part of the prophecy. It was going to happen anyway."

Jayfeather snarled and Leafpool backed away some more. "So you knew this was going to happen huh? You knew she was going to die if you mated with that Windclan cat and you did it anyway?!"

Leafpool shook her head quickly. "No! I knew about the prophecy but I didn't know you were going to be in it! I didn't even know I was gong to have kits until it...happened."

Jayfeather snorted and turns around and walked back to his herbs. "I treated you already so leave. Come back for more poppy seeds at sundown." Leafpool sighed and half walked half limped out of the den. "Stop acting like you are my mother. I don't need you anymore." Leafpool heard those words before she completely left the den and her head dropped as she padded sadly to the warriors den, her tail dragging behind her.

~ooo~

Lionblaze watched as Leafpool walked out of then den and sighed. Another argument it seems. Leafpool would always try to talk to Jayfeather and Jayfeather would always throw it back in her face. Shouldn't he have at least forgiven her a little by now?

He walked in and dropped Jayfeather's half eaten thrush beside him. Jayfeather flicked his ears at him before sighing and walked over to Lionblaze and continuing to eat his thrush. When he finished he sat up, his tongue swiping across his whiskers. "Thank you, Lionblaze." He turned back to sorting his herbs.

Lionblaze took in a deep breath and released it. "Jayfeather..." He saw Jayfeather tense and he sighed. He was still angry, better wait until he has cooled down some. Lionblaze stood and walked towards the den entrance. "Don't forget to report to Bramblestar's den." He heard Jayfeather mutter and he left.

~ooo~

Jayfeather left Bramblestar's den before Leafpool, grumbling. She had a better dream than him it seemed. The cats she dreamed about had been having more fights with each other, but seem to have worked together in a dog attack. Apparently Skyclan was their ancestors too. Who would've thought their kicked out and forgotten clan was these strange cats' ancestors?

Molepaw ran into the camp panting wildly, eyes wide in fear. "Shadowclan have crossed the borders! They attacked us while we were training!" Bramblestar ran to the entrance. "Sandstorm, Cloudtail, Thornclaw and Ivypool, come with me! Mousewhisker, you and three other warriors stay ready in case we need more back up. Until then guard the camp and tighten the defenses. Shadowclan might have cats coming to attack the camp. We will send Molepaw back to you if we need you."

Bramblestar and his patrol ran out of the camp with Molepaw at the rear. Jayfeather ran to his den quickly and gathered the herbs he would need. "Mouse dung!" He muttered. He was almost out of cobwebs.

Shadowclan had of course attacked the camp. The Thunderclan warriors had fought them off bravely. Mousewhisker had taken Whitewing, Blossomfall and Briarlight to help Bramblestar as Molepaw had been sent back to get them. It didn't take long for attack to end. Some warriors were badly injured but most had only a few scratches.

~ooo~

Bramblestar had been fuming mad when he returned with the other cats to camp. He had a scratch going from his shoulder to his chest and his left ear had been shredded lightly and a bitten tail. He had been angry that after all that has happened Blackstar still wanted to fight over land. He had made sure to properly let him know just how mad he was about the fight and he was glad to know he had given Blackstar another color to his pelt, maybe even a few decorations of scars.

Blackstar had assumed just because they lost Firestar that they were weak. Well they had showed him. Had his warriors all been barely scratched in this fight he would have returned the favor to Blackstar, but he pushed the thought away. Even if they were fit enough they wouldn't do it. They don't need too. 'For now.' Bramblestar thought as Jayfeather applied salve to his wounds. Jayfeather had been complaining none stop about the attack and how stupid it was. The clan agreed with him. Stupid indeed. Jayfeather had then went out to collect more herbs, accompanied by three of the most fit warriors to help him.

When he returned Squirrelflight had ordered two cats to guard the camp. She was pregnant yes and had temporarily given Lionblaze her deputy position, but that didn't stop her from giving orders. This was for her unborn kits sake as much it was for her clan. Bramblestar chuckled. What a mother she would be.

The rest of the day went with caution but other than that, went smoothly. Shadowclan didn't attack again which was a relief. The kits played until they were to tired and at night they all went to their dens, Lionblaze and Cloudtail guarding the entrance.