Warriors: The Prophecy of Frost - Icy Storm (Editing In Progress)

Chapter 12

Nightstar took a partol to Sunningrocks. Recently, RiverClan have been scented at ThunderFlan's side of the border, and the ThunderClan leader was worried of an upcoming battle.

Greyclaw was in the patrol, along with Patchheart, Frostleaf and her apprentice, Silverpaw, Specklebreeze and Longdrop.

When they arrived, the RiverClan leader, Greenstar, was waiting. Behind her was a group of cats who mostly looked battle hungry.

"Greetings, Nightstar," Greenstar said with no trace of her usual friendliness. "One of your warriors attacked a patrol that didn't provoke you."

"None of my warriors would do that," Nightstar retorted. "We found ThunderClan scent all over the injured cats, how can you say that," the Riverclan leader growled.

"I came to reason with you but you showed that fighting is the answer to the problem by denying everything," she snarled. Frostleaf froze; it could only mean one thing.

"RiverClan," Greenstar yowled. "Attack!"

At her call, the ThunderClan cats were immediately swarmed by angry RiverClan cats, outnumbering them.

Frostleaf pushed Toadleg away from Silverpaw and hissed to her, "Fetch reinforcements! Quick!"

Silverpaw darted off. "It will be too late for reinforcements, ThunderClan fool, " Toadleg growled, swiping at her.

Frostleaf fell heavily on the ground. Toadleg's eyes gleamed in triumph as he raised his claws for a hard blow. Luckily, Patchheart crushed Toadleg while fighting Mudpelt.

Frostleaf swatted Mudpelt away while Patchheart turned to tackle Toadleg. Greyclaw was locked in a fierce battle with the Riverclan deputy, Quailwing.

Nightstar and Greenstar faced each other with grim looks. Nightstar pounced first but Greenstar easily side-stepped, causing Nightstar to land roughly on the ground.

Greenstar got ready to deal a death blow. Frostleaf tried to help the Thunderclan leader but Blazefur pinned her down with amazingly strong paws.

Longdrop was busy fighting Breezepaw and Foxpaw, who seemed like shadows of each other.

"This is for that unprovoked attack," Greenstar snarled. Her claws tore Nightstar's throat but not deep enough to kill him.

Before she could sink her claws deeper, Specklebreeze knocked Greenstar aside. "Stop!" Specklebreeze yowled. "This is against the warrior code!"

Frostleaf flung Blazefur towards Patchheart who was bleeding from scratches but his blows were not any weaker.

Nightstar lay injured on the ground, unable to move. Specklebreeze confronted Greenstar. Both she-cats were locked in a fierce tussle.

Suddenly, Foxpaw knocked Frostleaf off balance. Frostleaf managed to steady herself and swiped at the apprentice. Foxpaw widened her eyes as she ducked.

She stopped for a moment and gave her a look that said, "I don't want to fight you." A yowl broke their battle.

Brownstripe gave a fierce battle yowl and attacked with almost the rest of ThunderClan.

"Retreat!" Greenstar shouted as she saw that they were outnumbered. The RiverClan cats immediately stopped fighting and pelted after their leader.

"Is everyone okay?" Brownstripe called. All cats shook their heads except Nightstar, who was unconscious, and Patchheart, who had several scratches on his pelt.

The cats limped back to camp, with Webfoot and Fireclaw carrying Nightstar.

When they reached back at camp, Stagwind frowned and brought out some horsetail, marigold and cobwebs.

She came to Nightstar's side and used marigold to treat his wounds. Nightstar groaned in pain as Stagwind carefully patched up the wound with cobwebs to hold the marigold in place.

"Bring me to my den," the Thunderclan leader ordered in a weak voice when Stagwind was about to ask Brownstripe to take Nightstar to the medicine cat den.

When Nightstar left, Stagwind began treating the injured cats. When she was done with Frostleaf, she mewed to her, "Can you help me give poppy seeds to Nightstar? I need to treat the others."

Stagwind gave Frostleaf a poppy seed. Frostleaf padded to Nightstar's den and heard painful yowls, too weak to be loud enough for the clan to hear.

"Nightstar!" she yowled in shock. "I will fetch Stagwind."

Nightstar shook his head slowly. "Nothing can save me now."

"Then I will get Brownstripe," Frostleaf mewed anxiously. "No... There's no time," he gasped, struggling for breath. "Listen... And tell Brownstripe."

"Tell... him to be a... good... leader and... to be... fair to our clanmates," Nightstar said, his voice fadding away. "StarClan... is... calling... me..."

His breathing stopped and the life faded out of his eyes.

Nightstar is dead.