Warriors: An Enemy's Victory #1, Fanfiction

Chapter 8

"Where are we hunting again, Thistlestep?" Tigerstar growled, opening his mouth to let the wind hit his scent glands. Thistlestep felt well rested and full after his visit to Starclan. It would be sunhigh soon, and his battle would begin.

"Up here." He sprinted forward, the bushed where his clanmates were hiding in came into sight. The forest floor was white from the overnight snow, and no paw prints could be seen. As he padded into the center, it began to snow once more.

I have to do this, he told himself, I have to do this for my kits, and Tunnelwhisker. He could see his kits in his mind, bouncing around. Though only a half moon old, they had gotten stronger.

Thistlestep slowed down to let Tigerstar pad into the clearing ahead. Thistlestep dropping to a silent crouch, stalking the tom on the cold floor. He drew close only two tail lengths behind him when Tigerstar sat down, his back to him.

"You didn't come here to hunt right? You came here to kill me." His meow made Thistlestep's fur bristle in surprise. How did he know?

"You knew?" He asked, twitching his ears.

"Oh, yes. I've been following your patrols for the past two moons, anything you said I already know. You got these bushes filled with cats right?" He tilted his head to give his ear a scratch.  Thistlestep's eyes widened in dismay. He had succeeded in stalking he and his patrol without being noticed and even learned their plans.

"Do you think I'm stupid, Thistlestep? I am the greatest cat in this forest and i know all that goes on. Fireheart is in those bushes, right? I can smell him and your alliance. I raised you, mouse-brain, don't you dare think I will let you make such an ambitious plan without knowing." He hissed looking over his shoulder with such and evil look Thistlestep thought Tigerstar had slit his throat and he was bleeding out.

"I'm sure you know what will happen then, right?" He kinked his tail, and his clanmates surrounded him. Sandstorm was behind him, her fur fluffed and her lip drawn back in a snarl. Fireheart wasn't in the circle, but behind Thistlestep. He was growling, his fur bristling with anger.

"Kittypet." Tigerstar snorted, and Fireheart was almost leaping out his fur at the tom.

"You don't think you can fight all of us, do you?" Cloudtail snarled, flexing his claws in the grass. Thistlestep wasn't sure what Tigerstar was going to do. He knew their plans, so why is he sitting there?

"No, I can't. But they can." At his words a group of cats burst down from the tall pine tree a tail length away from bushes his clanmates jumped from. It only took a couple of heartbeats before they surrounded.

"You brought Bloodclan cats here?" Sandbreeze choked out, more nervous than before. Bloodclan cats were always bad news; they didn't follow the warrior code and they killed to win.

"Yes, and I have such a great deal with them. If they kill all you, then Bloodclan can hunt on the moor and they get the sweet victory of sinking their teeth into the throats of traitorous cats." He slammed his paw on the ground and the Bloodclan cats leaped at his alliance. All around him cats were fighting, except for Tigerstar. Without thinking, Thistlestep leaped onto the back of the tom.

"It won't be easy to kill me, Thistlestep. I have been training and fighting since long before you were even kitted!" He snarled, leaping and twisting in the air. Thistlestep fell off of him with a hard thump that knocked air from him. He jumped to his paws, but too late. Tigerstar sent his claws down the side of his flank, and making him stagger with a screech. Pain seared through him and he swore to Starclan he would die.

Tail bite, now. A voice spoke to him, and as he latched on Tigerstar's tail, he saw a faint trace of a red tom. Redtail! he thought excitedly, biting down harder on his tail until he heard the bone splinter. Tigerstar yowled in pain, giving him his shot. He leaped in front of him scratching his muzzle repeatedly until Tigerstar dove under him and knocked him off his paws. He could see his clanmates fighting now. Thunderclan cats, a Shadowclan cat, and a Windclan cat.