So the next day. Perfect...I'm so sorry, but I really, really wanted to see people's thoughts on it.

First Decision

"Collars?" Ashpaw spat behind him. The apprentice's voice was sharp with disgust. "Look at them—they're kittypets! We won't have any trouble beating them."

"Keep quiet," his mentor, Dustpelt, warned quietly, "until we have the full measure of our enemy. We don't know anything about these cats yet."

A tabby with a lighter muzzle stepped out of their ranks and went to stand beside Tigerstar. It seem like he is the leader. No, Nightfrost recognize him. He remembered every cat that was in the clan when he disbanded it. Willie was one of the cats tricked into wanting to be one of his guards.

"So, Tigerstar," he meowed, forcing his voice to remain steady. "Do you want to tell us who your new friends are?"

"Bloodclan," Nightfrost mewed. He paced out, stopping in between the two side. Every cats' eyes landed on him.

The leader of Bloodclan studied him. "That coldness in your blue eyes. A pure black pelt that mixes well with blood. A single white paw that ruled the city alleys with powerful claws. Scourge," Willie snarled. Tigerstar looked at him and him with annoyance.

"Nightfrost." The black tom could hear his brother whispering. He could only flick his tail at him.

"I'm sure you have forgotten all about us."

"No I haven't, Willie." Nightfrost turn to each cat he remembered, though there are quite a lot of new faces. "Ice, Snake, Minty, Snipe, Snapper, Tess..." The list continued on.

"So you remembered..." Willie curled his lip. "What do you want, traitor? You disbanded Bloodclan. You left us for dead, when you were suppose of be our leader! We relied on you! We believe you would protect us! You left us! Traitor!"

Nightfrost flicked his tail. Was this what Lionheart meant? Tigerstar smirked. Did he think he'll win?

"Then you should know the cat beside you is also a traitor." The tom flicked his tail to his brother, rippling. Firestar padded forward slowly, with care. Willie narrowed his eyes at his little sibling.

Tigerstar's eyes widen in horror. "Willie, lets attack now. You hate that traitor right? Why delay when you can have it done and over in a second?"

Willie glared at him. "I do not care for a simple way or another. I simply refuse to work with traitors."

Dipping his head toward their leader, Firestar meowed clearly.

"Greetings, Willie. I am Firestar, leader of Thunderclan. I wish I could say you are welcome in the forest. But you would not believe me if I did, and I have no wish to lie to you. Unlike your supposed ally here, I am a cat of honor." He flicked his tail toward Tigerstar, trying to put all the contempt he felt into the single gesture and earlier interruptions. "If you've believed any promises he made to you, you're mistaken."

"Why should I believe you if you're with that tom?"

Nightfrost lowered his head. "Please believe him. He is as he says."

Tigerstar close in to the tabby. "Do not listen. These two are brothers."

Willie let out a low growl. "I can hear what you think though any cat's words. Your words were once filled with distrust, traitor, why should I trust you? Even yours, Tigerstar. I can hear some kind of plot behind them. Speak, Firestar of Thunderclan, for your own words just now has spoken earnestly. It will be worth listening to you."

Firestar took a breath.

"Cats of all clans," Firestar began, "and especially cats of Bloodclan, you have no need to believe or disbelieve me. Tigerstar's crimes speak for themselves. When he was still a warrior of Thunderclan, he murdered our deputy, Redtail, hoping to be made deputy himself. First Lionheart was chosen as deputy, but when that noble warrior died in a fight with Shadowclan, Tigerstar achieved his ambition at last. But being deputy wasn't enough. Tigerstar wanted to be leader of the Clan. He set a trap for Bluestar by the Thunderpath. Luckily, no cat was hurt due to the skills of a Thunderclan warrior.

Then Tigerstar conspired with Brokentail, the former leader of Shadowclan, who was Thunderclan's prisoner," Firestar went on. "He brought a pack of rogues into Thunderclan camp, and tried to murder Bluestar with his own claws. I stopped him, and when Thunderclan had beaten off the attack we drove him into exile. As a rogue, he slaughtered yet another of our warriors, Runningwind. Then before we knew what he was up to, he had made himself leader of Shadowclan."

Nightfrost looked around him to see horrified looks on his brother, some of them turned to Tigerstar.

"But Tigerstar still wanted revenge on Thunderclan. Three moons ago, a pack of dogs got loose in the forest. Tigerstar caught prey for them, then laid a trail of dead rabbits between the dogs' lair and the Thunderclan camp to lead them to us. He murdered one of our queens, Brindleface, and left her near the camp to give the dogs a taste for cat blood. If we hadn't found out in time to escape, the whole of Thunderclan would have been torn to pieces."

"Good riddance," Tigerstar growled.

"As it was," Firestar forced himself to go on, "our leader, Bluestar, died the bravest death of any cat, saving me and all her clan from the pack."

Firestar paused and looked around the clearing.

"This is Tigerstar's history," Firestar meowed urgently, turning back to Willie. "It all shows one thing-that he'll do anything for power. If he promised you a share of the forest, don't believe him. He won't give up one pawprint, not to you nor any cat."

Willie's eyes narrowed. "Tigerstar told me what he was planning to do with the dogs when he visited me two moons ago." The black cat turned his head so that his gaze rested on the leader of Shadowclan. "He did not tell me that his plan failed."

"None of that matters now," Tigerstar broke in roughly. "We have an agreement with you, Willie. Fight beside me now, and you'll-"

The Shadowclan leader was cut off as Willie clawed his neck. "I said I don't work with traitors, traitor." The leader of Bloodclan turn to face Nightfrost and was about to speak when there was a cough. All eyes landed on Tigerstar as he rose, his amber eyes gleaming at Willie as he had lost his first life.

Nightfrost raced to barrel the tabby's side, knocking Tigerstar off balance. The tom landed on his side, exposing his stomach. Nightfrost slashed powerfully from throat to tail with his white paw. Tigerstar let out a desperate scream. His body convulsed, limbs jerking and tail flailing. Even without his claws reinforced with dog teeth, it was still a powerful strike. Nightfrost waited for Tigerstar to come back, awake and ready. Tigerstar's body convulsed again, two more times.

When Shadowclan's leader finally stood again, he was coughing blood. "You...you took three-" Tigerstar let out another cough of blood before dropping dead on the ground again. Nightfrost flatten his ears. Were the leader's lives that easy to take away?

"Nightfrost! Watch out!"

"You took four of my lives!" Tigerstar roared as he rose on his hind paws to strike. Nightfrost hopped back. A burr of dark fur slashed upward. The amber eyes widen, realizing he was losing his four last lives in that attack as he meet the ground again. Each time he came back for a brief moment, he glared at one of his enemies. A heated one for Firestar, promising their personal battle haven't end yet. Two full of fury at Nightfrost and Willie, who took away his lives easily. And finally, a glance to his own kits. Nightfrost couldn't tell what it is.

The Tigerclan warriors let a horrified yowling and broke rank. Nightfrost saw Leopardstar standing her ground. The dappled, golden tabby was trying to keep Tigerclan in line, failing miserably. The remaining leader of Tigerclan gave one last look to the Bloodclan cats and followed her departing clan.

Willie let out a growled. "Pathetic, his Tigerclan cats ran away as soon as their leader is gone."

"Indeed..." Nightfrost quietly agreed. He turned to look at the Bloodclan cats, carefully. "I only have a couple questions, leader of Bloodclan: Are you still doing the same things as I did back then? Same rules and all?"

"Yes...and what are you-"

"Cats of Bloodclan! Listen to me for I was once your leader, Scourge, now under the name of Nightfrost. For those who remember me, you know why I disbanded the clan. For those who don't remember, I was one to be feared just like your current leader. Your families are still torn apart. Do any of you want that?! I have changed, and if I have to prove it to you, I will. But with Willie here, I don't have the chance to! Come to my side, if you want a better life!"

The cats mewed, questioningly about it. Nightfrost took a deep breath to calm himself. Willie was grinning, vengeance in his eyes. Two battle-scared tom, nodded to each other. A huge black-and-white tom and a ginger tom with a missing patch of fur came of the group of cats. Bone and Brick padded to him, each flanking his shoulders. Willie looked left and right to see cats agreeing and joining Nightfrost. A few more cats padded to him.

A gray she-cat was among them. Nightfrost remember the rogue showing him around the city. Next was Amber and...Nightfrost narrowed his eyes in confusion. Snowkit?

"Blizzard? No," Willie mewed. Snowkit took one look at his leader.

The white, deaf tom had now grown tall, taller than Bramblepaw. His sturdy body was rippling. Snowkit stopped in the middle of the clearing, in between Nightfrost and Willie. Amber waited patiently on Nightfrost's side.

"Blizzard..." Willie mouthed slowly.

"...M sorrie," Snowkit mewed and bounded to Amber.

Willie curled his lip. As another cat was about to pass him, he clawed the cat's muzzle. "I'll kill anymore cats that'll join that traitor! And you!"

Willie glared at Nightfrost. "I'll make sure you'll pay! On the fourth day, I will return and destroy you! That is a promise!"

Yes, he is, kingchaveznc1...I'm not good with speeches, aren't I.