New path ( Mapleshade AU)

Chapter 12: Battle and Two Deaths

A/N: I don't own Warriors. Erin Hunter does. I just play with the characters.

" Speech"

Thoughts, dreams, visions

' Flashback'

The sunrise after Pathpaw's vision Mapleshade was padding back to the RiverClan camp with Birchfoot, Frostpelt, Hollymist, and Foxslash. They had been on a hunting patrol, having caught several minnows, a small carp, and two water voles.

" Thank StarClan, I managed to catch the carp. Larchpaw will love it, it's his favorite prey after all. " Birchfoot mewed, purring slightly.

Mapleshade nodded.  " He almost caught a carp yesterday himself. " She purred proudly.  Both he and Petalpaw are shaping up into great warriors. I can't wait to see how well they will do at their warrior assessments. 

Suddenly there was a multitude of screeches coming from the direction of the camp. What happened? Did ThunderClan attack, like Patchpaw's vision showed?

When the patrol got back to the camp they saw a few ThunderClan warriors fighting with the guards,  Stormfeather, whose long dark grey and orange pelt was bushed up even more than usual as she rolled around with a silver and black tabby she-cat while Gorsespot, was glaring at two other ThunderClanners, his cream spotted tabby tail lashing around. 

What are Deerdapple, Bloomheart, and Hawkleap doing here? Are they a part of an attack patrol or something? Why would Oakstar do that?! Does he have bees in his brain?  Mapleshade thought while staring at the three ThunderClan cats.

" Where are the rats Mapleshade gave birth?! " Bloomheart hissed, his fur bristling as he tried to get past Gorsespot who hissed back at him.
" You will not get to the camp. " The white and cream tom snarled, swiping at Bloomheart who barely dodged the attack, swiping back at him.

Mapleshade had dropped the two water voles she had been carrying , while glaring at her former mentor. Did he really dare to call my kits ' rats ' ?! He was my mentor and taught me everything he knew !

' Newly named Maplepaw padded over to her new, mentor , Bloomheart , while her littermates , Thornpaw, a black tom with a few small white hairs scattered across his spiky pelt , his dark green eyes wide with excitement from finally becoming an apprentice, and Poppypaw, a tortoiseshell and white she-cat with green eyes were watching her beside their mentors.

After a few moments , their parents, Hailpelt, a long-haired black tom with a few small white patches, and Dawntail, a pale tortoiseshell and white she-cat  approached them, purring proudly. 

" I know that you three will make all of ThunderClan proud. " Dawntail told her kits, while licking each of her kit's foreheads gently, her amber eyes shining.

" Yeah, mama! We will! I promise!" Poppypaw nodded, purring. 

A few moons later when  Maplepaw and her siblings were on a border patrol with their mentors , they faced a fox that was devouring a rabbit with a clear WindClan's stink on it. The beast  had suddenly turned towards the cats who had disturbed it's feeding time , snarling angrily. " 

Little did my sister know that neither she nor Thornpaw would live to become warriors... That fox took both of my siblings from me! First Poppypaw by snapping her neck and Thornpaw by wounding him badly and the medicine cat by not being fast enough to save either of them, even Ravenwing is guilty because he was her apprentice! I hope she rots in Dark Forest! Swiftbreeze may have been a good medicine cat in Oakstar's mind but not in my mind!

Mapleshade's thoughts were interrupted by a yowl from her former mentor as he noticed the patrol, attacking Birchfoot who was the closest to ThunderClanners. The dark brown and white tabby yowled in pain and anger before striking the grey tom, his fur bushing up in outrage.