(Okay then. Thanks, willow. I'll end the battle with the next post, so be prepared peeps!)
Battle
Nightfall yowled in pain, but he knew he could not let this she-cat beat him. He ripped his tail away, jarring her teeth as he did. What now?
Marshpelt followed Islandsong's scent to...her body? He put his ear to her chest, relieved to hear her heart beat. She was just passed out. Who had done this? He looked up, hearing the shriek of a she-cat (Shadowfang). She was DarkClan. This monster must have been the cause. The RockClan tom's eyes glowed dark grey, and he slammed the DarkClan she-cat to the ground.
When Hopeflight strode down the hillside, her feet were not her own. She knew they were part of her body, but as far as control, they were Icestar's. The white leader made the walk that had taken the battle patrols thirty seconds to dismount seem like an eternity.
Why can't you just get this over with already?! Hopeflight wailed. Her leader just snickered, and walked her slower, turning her minion's head to watch the battle as she descended. There was blood everywhere, and from a distance, Hopeflight couldn't tell who was DarkClan and who wasn't.
Brightpaw's eyes were wide open, staring yet unseeing, light collecting in them until Earthpaw wanted to look away. It was unreal. Her head was back, her glowing gaze directed at the moon. It seemed to him that her eyes were worlds away. Would her spirit follow? In pure panic, the young tom pressed himself against her side, feeling for a heartbeat, a movement of any kind. Brightpaw held perfectly still. Her heartbeat was very slow, frightening to even him, a warrior's apprentice.
What's happening to her?! The thought rang in his mind until he thought he could hear it with his ears.
Emberclaw yawned, feeling the strain of the battle and his wounds. He wondered how his clanmates were holding up against DarkClan. He wasn't in any condition to help them now, try as he might. "What's happening to her?!" The ginger tabby tom heard a shout above him. Earthpaw? He jumped to his feet, wincing from the pain of his mistake. "Earthpaw. Earthpaw!" It seemed that his apprentice couldn't hear him. And what was worse was the growing, eerie glow coming from the top of the stump. What was going on up there?
Hopeflight found herself at the SunClan camp entrance, wishing she could turn around. Not just from the task she was being forced to commit, but from her life. She would gladly die young, here and now, if it meant she was released from Icestar's cold claws. One pawstep, two pawsteps...
Three pawsteps. That was all it took for Flamefoot to step out of his hiding place and into the center of camp. A wave of confidence engulfed him, and he felt ready to fight anything. At least until he went tumbling to the ground. A brown tabby she-cat stood over him, her front paws on his chest. Her eyes were dark violet, and looked wet as if she was about to cry. DarkClan cats didn't cry. Then the dream he had had only hours before came back to him. It either meant he would be killed, or he would be turned into a minion of Icestar. No matter what happened, he wouldn't make it out of his camp alive.
A flash of light erupted above the battle grounds, momentarily blinding all in it's path. Earthpaw looked away, shielding his face behind Brightpaw's head. When he found the courage to open his eyes again, his mouth slowly dropped open. For there, suspended just above the horrific battle scene, hung a sphere of pulsing light. It seemed to spark like lightning, yet the light moved smoothly like the water on the surface of a lake. All heads turned, drawn to the specter that was now before them. Even Hopeflight's. She looked up, Icestar having been caught off guard for a moment, and smiled at the wonder they were beholding. That light was from StarClan, she could feel it. Her eyes slid downwards as Icestar regained control, but stopped again, fixed upon another cat's green eyes.
Emberclaw's heart felt like it had stopped beating. She was beautiful; that she-cat on the other side of the camp. And her eyes. They were of the purest violet he had ever seen. And they were staring straight at him. This felt so right, more so than anything he had ever done in his lifetime. He knew, then and there, that that she-cat existed to complete him, and he was there only to return the favor. That was all that mattered.
Icestar grinned cruelly, letting Hopeflight stare. The longer you looked, the more it hurt when you had to look away. Tears dripped from the brown she-cat's eyes as they were ripped from the tom's. This stranger had been her world for just a moment, and now Icestar was carrying her off into a realm of heartbreak and torture. She turned back to the task at hand, the SunClan tom looking pitifully up at her.
I'm sorry. If only she could make the words come out of her mouth! Her paw slowly lifted above the tom's head, a menacing gesture that could only be countered by the tears coming from her eyes.
Flamefoot knew that he was going to die now. He would be with his father in StarClan, and dreams of the battle long ago would no longer haunt his dreams. The ginger tom opened his eyes tentatively. Was he still alive? Had she killed him so quickly that he hadn't even noticed? No, she was still there, letting tears fall down her face as she raised her paw above him. For a moment, the tom was confused. Why was she crying?
Hopeflight's curled fist came down over the SunClan tom's head, knocking him out cold.
Well done, Hopeflight, Icestar sneered. Hopeflight's eyes grew dull and listless as she set her teeth in the tom's scruff and dragged him away, out of SunClan camp. She made no sound, left no scent, and the only print left behind was the trail of Flamefoot's body as he was dragged through the grass.
(Woah. O.O)