The Return of scourge.

chapter 5

(art not mine!!)

Tinypaw came back with a bunch of prey in his mouth. He dropped it in the fresh kill pile. He looked over to Willowpaw, she was still nuzzling Ashpaw, Tinypaw whimpered.

Squirrelflight walked towards the black Tom "are you sure you can destroy bloodclan?" She spoke. "Can you avenge Ashpaws death? And can you get Willowpaw to love you?" She asked. Tinypaw froze.

  "Of course I can!" He growled.

   "But do you really believe that?" Squirrelflight asked, Tinypaw growled.

  "Of course I do!" He yowled.

   "That's a lie. Before you destroy bloodclan you need to focus on your relationship with your family and especially the one with Willowpaw."

Tinypaw frowned then hung his head. He looked over at Willowpaw, she was crying mumbling something to Ashpaw while she was nuzzling his bloody neck, her cheek was covered in his blood. He then looked at his paws, imagery of Scourges claws flashed through his head. He looked over at his shoulder and sighed, it was leaking blood and it was definitely going to leave a scar, he walked over to the medicine den, Leafpool frowned "that was quite the conundrum back there, come here I'll heal your wounds."

Tinypaw frowned and sat down in the medicine den, Leafpool patched up his shoulder, he stared out at the camp, a big group of cats surrounding Ashpaw, Sandfur resting his tail on Willowpaws shoulder and his paw on Ashpaws stomach, the two talking to eachother. "Great, more competition." Tinypaw grumbled, digging his reinforced claws into the rock. The claws on his paws were loose, these were obviously not his, he turned his head "I thought we agreed of our claws being passed on..." He hushed. He looked over at Ashpaw once more, Sandfur smiled at Willowpaw, tears falling from his face as he was talking. Tinypaw closed his eyes.

Ashpaw looked at Tinypaw, Tinypaw looked around, confused. "Make sure Willowpaw doesn't get with Sandfur, he may seem nice but I know he has something up his sleeve." Ashpaw spoke.

"What, I thought you were killed by ice?" Tinypaw said in confusion.

"You're in a dream with me, mousebrain." Ashpaw snapped.

"Oh..." Tinypaw mumbled.

"As much as I love Willowpaw I can't wait forever for her to pass on and by the time she does she'll be in love with someone else while I'm still in love with her. I don't like you that much but you'd be a better mate to her then Sandfur. Sandfur has always been a strange fellow." Ashpaw said in sorrow.

Tinypaw nodded and woke up. He looked into the sunrise, he nodded his head, he accepted the plan of stopping Sandfur as a deed from all of starclan, he was going to stop another... possibly... Evil cat, and he was going to replace ever cat fearing him to every cat respecting and looking up at him.

Tinypaw walked out of the medicine den and up to Willowpaw he poked her shoulder and she looked up at him, he looked at both her and Ashpaw, the rest of the cats were doing their own thing. "May I say this Infront of Ashpaw so he can hear me accept his request. Ashpaw talked to me in a dream last night, he loves you a lot Willowpaw and he wishes you'd love him forever but being in love with a dead person is unhealthy so he wants you to love someone else but he doesn't want that someone else to be Sandfur because he thinks something might be up with him, I'm sure he'll tell you about this when you dream tonight." He spoke, looking at Ashpaw.

"Sandfur? There must be a mistake. He's one of the nicest, funniest people I've ever met!" Willowpaw inquired. Tinypaw shook his head.

"I don't know about all of this myself all I know is he's bad news." Tinypaw meowed. Willowpaw looked down and frowned.

Tinypaw nodded and walked away, Lionblaze walked up to him. "If you're going to become what you dream of we'll need to train. Come on let's go catch prey." Lionblaze smiled. Tinypaw looked back at him and nodded.

Willowpaw looked at Ashpaws face and smiled, he looked peaceful. Willowpaw smiled at his calm face. "Hey Willowpaw, come on, me and Shadowheart are going to go on another hunting patrol, wanna come?" Sandfur smiled, Willowpaw remembered Ashpaws legs being mangled and she cringed at the memory but learning more about Sandfur could help her see if he's really as bad as Tinypaw and supposedly Ashpaw say he is.

"Sure" Willowpaw sighed as she got up and stood next to the tall cream tabby, his green eyes shone at her acceptance, they started walking to Shadowheart.

"So... were you and Ashpaw mates?" Sandfur asked. Willowpaw chuckled.

"I wish haha" she said pathetically.

Sandfur smiled "okay"

Shadowheart and a bunch of other cats stood together "oh so you got your friend to come!" Shadowheart laughed and Sandfur smiled brightly, he loved his old mentor to death.

They patrolled the borders and set up sent markers, Sandfur turned to the group "I'll be right back I have to use the restroom" the group nodded and he left. Shadowheart smelt the air, he smelt...dog. he cringed at the awful stench.

"Stay here guys, I smell dogs." Shadowheart spoke, following the smell. Sandfur came thrashing out of the bushes.

"Dogs! Everybody run!" He shouted, everyone panicked and started running, Sandfur ran by Willowpaws side, she was crying.

"Oh Starclan...I don't want you to leave me too!" The silver tabby cried, tears flowing from her face.

"Trust me Willowpaw you won't and you never will!" Sandfur smiled at her, winking.

The dogs attacked cats, biting their necks and ripping their stomachs open, ripping them savagely limb from limb. Strangely none even daring to come next to Shadowheart, Sandfur and Willowpaw. By the time they got to thunderclan they were distant. They went up to bramblestar and told him about the dogs. Bramblestar looked horrified. "May Starclan save them" the tall Tom shuttered.

Sandfur put on a monotone voice and spoke "We need to send a retrieval party!" Bramblestar shook his head.

"No, we'd loose more warriors." He said firmly.

"You don't understand Bramblestar! The hopes and dreams of those cats are literally being torn apart!" Sandfur slammed his Paw down.

Bramblestar grew angry " I know it's awful but it'd be better if we kept our remaining warriors alive." He yowled.

Sandfur shook his head "come on Willowpaw, we'll go save those cats together." he mumbled, Willowpaw furrowed her brow.

"But isn't that against Bramblestar?" She mewed.

"Then at least come talk to me in private." The sandy Tom meowed.

Willowpaw hesitantly nodded her head as they walked to a tree. He looked at her dead in the eyes and inhaled. "I think I should become a clan leader but I don't want to work for it. Please join my clan Willowpaw, you can be my deputy and... we'll rule all of the Forrest, just you and me and all the clans combined to create a super clan, there'd be more fighting and we could take down competing clans like bloodclan. I'll call it... Lionclan, like the good ol days."