(Here is the long awaited chapter! I was SOOOOO excited when I typed this X3 Not spoiling!)

Three days have passed. Jayfeather was finally allowed to continue his duties, and surprisingly he had no more nightmares. Whether it was because Leafpool now slept by him constantly or gave the two siblings a good talking to at Moonpool, cause let's face it, Leafpool can't beat them, they would really torture her then, but he was grateful. Jayfeather had also decided not to follow Thornclaw anymore, though he hadn't told said tom that himself. It was clear Leafpool wasn't going away with Crowfeather, and after Raven's threats of killing the Windclan tom he needed no other persuasion. Lionblaze yelling at him was enough as it is.

He was walking through the forest now, Leafpool by his side. The two were walking side by side, though the she cat kept her distance. Leafpool had told him that he could forgive her at his own pace now, and though he was happy she told him that, he was angry because she assumed he was going to forgive her. Like he would! 'Maybe,' he thought to himself. "I'll get more cobwebs." He muttered. Leafpool let for the juniper berries.

jayfeather sniffed at the air, searching for the cobwebs. They were easy to find because, well, they smelled like nothing. Everything in the forest had a smell, so when he came across something that didn't smell he picked up a nearby stick and wrapped the webs around it. He did it slowly, better to process his thoughts. 'What happens now?' He wondered. 'The cats are here, and their clans will be here in two moons. So when do we start preparing for them? Do we start now?'

"Hey there young'un!" Purdy greeted as he walked over to him. Jayfeather blinked.

"Hello Purdy. What are you doing out here?"

"Oh, daily walk. We elder cats here need to keep our joints moving and muscles strong!"

"I'm not an elder!" Dustpelt snapped. Sandstorm had her tail on his shoulder for guidance.

Barley rolled his eyes. "You clan cats are snappy."

"That's just Dustpelt," Sandstorm purred in amusement. She then turned to Jayfeather, and he snarled at her. He didn't need her pitiful looks. "Jayfeather, how are you feeling?"

"Fine," he clipped. He was now agitated, all because of her actions. And he knew she was thinking about that.

"Jayfeather..."

"I don't want to hear it, Sandstorm." He mewed as respectfully as he could. She was his senior family after all.

Purdy spoke, "Ravenpaw, Cloudtail, Raven and Berrynose are taking us on a walk, so we'll be fine. Just keep collecting your herbs and whatnot. Hey, where is Leafpool?"

"Collecting juniper berries." Jayfeather said absently.

"Well, it doesn't take long to collect juniper berries," she worried, a small frown on her face. Jayfeather thought, and he had concluded that she was indeed gone for a long time.

"Ugh, I'll find her," he grumbled and picked up his stick. When he turned around and walked away he heard a screech. They all stared in shock for a while, then instantly they took off in that direction, daily stroll and stick forgotten.

~ooo~

Leafpool was running. She ran under branches and through bushes, thorns and burrs tearing at her pelt and slicing her nose. A growl was heard behind her, and judging by the breath on her tail it was close. 'I don't want to die!' She thought frantically. But they said she would die this day, they told her in advance, but she wasn't ready. 'Starclan why?! Why when I was so close!'

A paw smashed into her side, throwing her into a tree. Leafpool crashed with a loud thud, her pained yowl caught in her thought. The enemy was closing in on her now. She struggled to stand, idly feeling warm liquid running down her side. She then stumbled away, going the fastest that she could. She didn't get far, and the loss of blood took its toll. She crumbled to the ground, only making it a few fox lengths away from the danger following her. 'It's toying with me,' she thought groggily, feeling the thing circling her and snarling. She could see the amusement in its malicious brown eyes and closed her own in defeat. Soon it got bored of her, and with a snarl it raised its paw and brought it down.

"Leafpool!" The blow never came. A body did fall over hers though. She snapped them open in shock. "Wow that hurts..." The tom sputtered, coughing up blood before his eyes went dull.

~ooo~

"Purdy!" Cloudtail wailed.

Berrynose hissed. "Always acting before thought! He didn't have to do that!"

"Guys, the fox! Sandstorm, take Dustpelt with you to the clan and tell them a fox is in the territory!" Sandstorm nodded, then wrapped her tail lightly along Dustpelt's neck and the two ran.

Jayfeather sniffed at the air. He smelled blood and a fox, and death. Someone was dead and someone was dying. "Where is Leafpool?!"

"Taking care of that!" Raven growled, then launched himself at the animal. Cloudtail followed him, and quickly but hesitantly following was Ravenpaw.

Berrynose stared with a sneer and walked over to Leafpool while the others distracted the fox. "Well well, the traitor has fallen."

Leafpool glared at him. "Are you too brainwashed by Thornclaw and Toadstep to see the truth?!" She hissed. Berrynose chuckled coldly.

"No, you are a traitor. You've tainted the clans! You need to be eliminated."

"If you kill me the clans will know!" She growled, even though fear did bloom in her. Death by a clan mate, it was worse than a fox.

"No, I'll just deepen these wounds. They will blame the fox, and I can just say I tried to help you." He grinned. "Then Thornclaw can make me deputy and not Toadstep. All I have to do is kill you and I will get my promised reward."

"What's going on?" Jayfeather mewed, cobwebs in his mouth. He had ran back to fetch his forgotten stick.

"It's perfect Jayfeather! She can die here and all of your worries will be put to rest and the clans protected from further embarrassment!"

"What?!" He asked in disbelief. "You want to kill Leafpool?"

"Just to deepen the scratches. They won't even notice it!"

Jayfeather was thinking. One part of his mind was telling him no, but the other gave a seductive hiss of a yes. For Leafpool's sake though, he was horrified of the idea of killing her, and too many dreams had him internally puking at the idea. "No, I'm not killing her." Leafpool's fearful look turned into one of relief.

"Then I will," Berrynose snarled and set his paw on the wound. Another growl was heard, and out popped another fox, and another. The closest one grabbed Berrynose by his scruff and shook him hard.

Jayfeather yowled. "There are more of them!"

"What?!" Cloudtail growled. He quickly shot at the fox he was fighting and nipped its leg. Raven swiped its face while Ravenpaw pounces on its back and started shredding its ears. It yelped and shook him off, then ran away.

"Raven!" Cherry yowled.

Ravenpaw sighed in relief. "Reinforcements!"

Cherry, Whitethunder, Lionblaze and Blossomfall came running in and tackled the other two foxes. Four on one and three on the other the cats fought. Jayfeather felt a body collide with his, a dead body. "Berrynose," he murmured after sniffing it over. With his paw he felt over the body. 'Broken neck...' Turning away, he picked the stick back up and made his way to Leafpool, covering her side with cobwebs.

The she cat's side shivered. "Jayfeather," she mewed weakly. Jayfeather shushed her. She whimpered and squirmed. "Jayfeather," she tried again.

"Leafpool be quiet! I'm trying to concentrate!"

"Behind you," she whined. But Jayfeather didn't hear her. He was too busy thinking about what herbs to use, where they were and how far. And accommodating with the yowls and snarls in the background he didn't hear the twigs snapping and noticed too late as a fox swiped him away, making him fall to the forest floor with a thud.

"Jayfeather!" Leafpool yowled weakly. He couldn't really hear her though, because his head was too disoriented. Jayfeather blinked his eyes his eyes, and suddenly he could see. 'What? Now?!' Flameblood and Killerfang sat to the right of him, watching the situation with a mixture of amusement and sadness.

"She was such a good cat," Killerfang mewed longingly. Jayfeather was confused and turned to the direction they were looking. His heart dropped. The fox was dragging Leafpool away by her scruff, and she yowled, terrified.

"No!" He moved his legs, but then again he couldn't move. He limbs ignored him. "Let me up, I have to help her!"

"And what can you do hmm? You are a blind cat with no training in battles. If anything you will kill both you and her," Flameblood sneered. Jayfeather whimpered. What could he do? He couldn't fight, he was blind, and he couldn't do anything. The others were too preoccupied to save her, and as badly as Raven wanted to he was stuck fighting.

"We can help you though, for a price."

Jayfeather looked at them, then Leafpool. The fox had snarled and dropped her, a scratch across his muzzle. Leafpool was fighting it back, even though she couldn't do anything. Killerfang's purr of admiration made him blink. Right, the deal. "What is it?"

"Train Flamekit like we train our warriors and take Silverclaw's fighting lessons."

"But I'm blind!"

"Even a blind warrior can be a dangerous."

"But-"

"One of your cats was a medicine cat and is now a warrior. You can be both at the same time."

"You'd better choose quickly, Jayfeather. That fox looks angry." Killerfang urged. Jayfeather was trembling.

"We can help you, just let us take over," they both whispered.

The fox was advancing, finally Jayfeather made up his mind. "Alright, I'll do it." Feral grins marred their faces, then both of them vanished. "Huh? Hey where..." He stood, and blinked. He could still see. But how?

'Let us show you how Moonclan warriors fight.'

Suddenly he was filled with something, something dangerous, something cold and warm at the same time. Adrenaline pumped through his body making all rational thought leave his mind. He flexed his claws in the ground, shocked by what he was feeling. There was something else, something he couldn't let go off. It was just right there on the edge, but no outlet. He looked at the fox, and everything clicked.

'Kill kill KILL!'

Without a second thought he launched himself at the fox, an earsplitting yowl barreling out of his throat. The fox froze in shock, just as he was about wrapped his mouth around Leafpool's neck. Its head snapped up and gave an angry roar as Jayfeather attached himself to it its side, digging claws harshly inside its skin. It snapped dangerously close to his head, but he had dropped off by then and bit savagely at one of its legs. In pain it whimpered and snapped at him again, but now he was attached to the foreleg, fangs finding home in flesh and claws ripping away fur and down meat. It howled in pain as he shot away from it and turned to limp away.

Oh, but Jayfeather wasn't done. He was far from done.

He chased it, jumped on its back and dug in his claws again. It tried throwing him off, but he held on and kept shredding. Then he jumped off, and now it was staggering. It snarled, and he grinned savagely and un-Jayfeather like.

Bloodthirsty.

'Kill, protect!'

He launched himself at the fox again, attaching himself to its neck and biting down hard, as hard as he could. It tripped at the impact and fell, and though flailing it couldn't stand up, though it managed to claw at his flank just a bit. Jayfeather growled as he bit harder and jerked back a bit repeatedly. Blood gushed everywhere, in his mouth, on his face, on the floor, everywhere; and the strange thing about it was that he liked it. He liked it. He felt the fox go limp so he backed away from it, watching with immense satisfaction as its life source fed the forest floor. He idly licked his whiskers. The taste of blood was not bad, not bad at all.

'Move away Flameblood! It's my turn!'

Huh? Flameblood? Suddenly the power faded away and was replaced with something else. In that time Jayfeather briefly acknowledged what was going on, but only briefly. Then, as if normal, he went over to Leafpool's body. She was staring at him with wide shocked and fearful eyes. "J-Jay-"

"Hush mother, you've lost too much to talk." He turned to a nearby tree and shredded its bark, then went off a little ways away for cobwebs. When he returned he spread the cobwebs out over her and little crumbled bits of the bark on top. "This will make you feel better OK?" He then nuzzled her and purred, not caring about smearing more blood on her. "I'm so glad you're alive."

Jayfeather looked at the others. They were standing there in shock. He snarled at them. "Don't just stand there, pick her up and take her back to camp!" They blinked, then quickly went into the action.

Horrified gasps were heard from the clan as they walked in, and it only intensified when they saw a smug Jayfeather. "Jayfeather? Why are you covered in blood?" Squirrelflight squeaked.

"Hmm?" Jayfeather hummed absently. He looked around at them and smiled the laughed. They all watched him. Then he staggered.

"Jayfeather?" Bramblestar asked cautiously. "How did that blood get all over you?"

The tom looked at the leader. "I-I don't..."

His eyes rolled in the back of his head as he blacked out.