Flameblaze reared his head. The ShadowClan warrior he was fighting had him pinned to the ground. Flameblaze kicked the warrior off of him, and Greystar leapt onto the warrior. The warrior used his claws and sliced Greystar's throat.
"Greystar!"
Flameblaze jumped onto the warriors back and started clawing his back. The warrior threw Flameblaze off himself, and ran off, screaming "We got what we came for! Retreat!"
Flameblaze turned his head to the camp entrance, to see the ShadowClan cats flooding out the camp. He saw Rowanpaw glaring at a black ShadowClan apprentice. Flameblaze ran over to Greystar, and realised he had died. It was fine, Greystar had- 'How many lives left?.' Greystar did have at least one more life, but Flameblaze wasn't sure exactly how many. Flameblaze contemplated the warrior's words. 'We got what we came for' What did that mean? Noone had died, and one of their apprentices had died. All they had succeeded with was taking one of Greystar's lives. Flameblaze sighed, and glanced into the nursery. His heart dropped.
"Where are the kits!"
He ran into the nursery, and the only kit there was Icekit, and his paw was covered in blood 'OH NO!' Flameblaze grabbed Icekit by the scruff and ran to the medicine den.
"Leaftail! Icekit's injured!"
"What happened?" she questioned.
"I don't know!" he answered, "I just found him with his paw covered in blood!" Leaftail licked Icekit's paw until the excess blood was gone, and started looking at the wound.
"Hmm, He's been stabbed."
"Stabbed?" Flameblaze was confused. "Who would stab a kit? What Psychopathic cat"
"Get me some Comfrey leaves and some- Broom, then give Sorrelear some Burdock roots."
"Umm" Flameblaze mumbled, Confused. "What's Broom?"
Leaftail sighed. "That yellow one- over there." She flicked her tail to a yellow herb next to the entrance of the den. He picked up the herbs with his mouth and dropped them off next to Leaftail and Icekit.
"Great. Now take this" She had some herbs in her tail "And give it to Sorrelear." Flameblaze padded across the clearing, over to the nursery, when suddenly he remembered 'Oh, The stolen kits!' Flameblaze dropped the Burdock off Infront of Sorrelear, then ran over to Greystar, who had reawakened.
"Ahh, Greystar, you're alive. How many lives do you have left?"
"One" he said grimly. Flameblaze explained how Shadowclan had Stolen all the kits.
"Oh, Icekit wasn't taken though."
"Icekit? Why them specifically?"
"I'm not sure" Flameblaze sighed, and padded back to the medicine den.
"Yes?" mewed Leaftail "Do you need anything?"
"No-" Flameblaze mumbled, embarrassed.
"Then leave. I'm sure that, as deputy, you have more- Pressing matters than a singular kit." Flameblaze left the den to avoid Leaftail's rage. Greystar followed him, and mewed "What should we do about the- Brookstar? Why are you here?" Flameblaze turned around to see the WindClan leader, with a young apprentice.
"I was escorting Cloverpaw to your camp when we saw the attack. Obviously, we leapt into battle because we also don't like ShadowClan."
"Ahh, Ok. Where- IS Cloverpaw?"
"I helped her pull Willowkit out of the hole in your nursery" mewed the apprentice
"Willowkit? No, He was taken by ShadowClan"
"Mm, I don't think so"
"Cliffpaw, be quiet" Brookstar mewed sharply. 'Ahh, so that's what the apprentice's name is' "Cliffpaw and I should be going back to our camp"
Flameblaze watched as Cliffpaw eagerly bounced after Brookstar. Flameblaze padded to the clearing, and announced how ShadowClan had launched the attack as a distraction, for them to steal the kits.
"We should take the kits back!" came a voice from the crowd.
"That's the plan. Tonight, we strike back." The air got cold, and the crowd went silent. "Tonight, we attack ShadowClan.
