Ice-clan

Leader: Stonestar- solid gray tom with yellow eyes

Medic: Snowybreeze- fluffy white she-cat with blue eyes

Leafripple- light brown tom

Deputy: Darkfur- black tabby tom with yellow eyes

Warriors:

Honeypool- soft brown she-cat

Fireblaze- orange tabby she-cat with green eyes

Shadebranch- tortoiseshell she-cat with dark eyes

Smalltail- brown and white speckled tom with a half tail

Berrywhisker- black and white tom with amber eyes

Brightpelt- dark brown tom with tan spots

Mousetail- dark brown tabby

Ashheart- speckled gray she-cat

Feathersight- white and gray tom

Dewmist- black she-cat with white on her chest

Dawnwhisker- gray and white she-cat

Springflight- light brown tabby tom

Ambersong- bright-eyed ginger she-cat

Queens:

Pigeonclaw- soft gray she-cat

kits- Scorchkit- gray tabby tom with yellow eyes, Skykit- calico she-cat

Elders

Poppylight- tall brown she-cat

Chapter 1

Ambersong shook her pelt to get rid of the cold from the vigil. She had been relived at dawn and slept badly. She kept dreaming of her family dying in pools of blood. A menacing claw was hanging over her brothers head. After she woke up, Ambersong decided to tell Softwing. She got up and walked over to the medicine cat den. "Softwing?" she asked quietly. "Yes?" came the sleepy reply. "I had a dream." Ambersong told Softwing about the blood and her family, and Softwing said "Maybe you would feel better if you went to see them." Ambersong replied, "Okay, that would help. Thanks!"

As she headed to the warrior's den, Dewmist asked," Who are you looking for? If it's Springflight, he went out for a walk to Tall pine."

"Thanks Dewmist."

She went over to Tall pines, the part of the territory Iceclan shared with

Lightclan. She heard a cough. "Ambersong, is that you?" It was Springflight! "Springflight? Springflight!" Ambersong saw her brother laying in a mangled heap. "Help!" his eyes rolled up so the whites showed.

"Help! Help!" Ambersong yowled, and a patrol came by to answer her calls.

"Springflight's hurt!" she exclaimed. "Calm down, Ambersong. We need to get him to Snowybreeze." said Shadebranch, stretching her mussel to grab at his flank. Together, she and Smalltail lifted him up onto Ambersong and Ashheart's shoulders. They walked him home through the dew and put him down once they got in the camp. "Springflight! Oh my poor kit, what happened?" Mousetail hurried over to him, Darkfur on her tail. Leafripple came over with herbs in his mouth and made every cat move aside for him. "This is bad. I need to move him to my den, but we shouldn't pick him up again since he is in such bad shape." he said after analyzing him for a little while. Mousetail wailed and shoved her mussel in Darkfur's shoulder.

"What will we do? We can't leave him out here!" Ambersong argued.

"You're right. Snowybreeze, what do you think?" Leafripple addressed the white cat as she came out from the den with herbs in her mouth. "I think we need to move him to the den. Infection might come with us out here."

"Good idea. Ambersong, Darkfur, will you help? Ambersong, grab his legs. Darkfur, his spine. There, easy does it," Ambersong and her father followed the orders as soon as Leafripple gave them. Soon, Springflight was in the medicine den. Mousetail went to sit next to him. Stonestar had come out when Springflight had been brought to camp, and now climbed up to the meeting tree.

"As some of you know," he started after every cat had gathered, "One of our warriors were in an accident. Springflight was attacked by waterclan warriors."

At this, the clan gasped. The she-cats whispered to each other, and Stonestar

flicked his tail for silence. "We cannot let this go behind us. This is not the first time Waterclan has harmed our warriors, and it will not be the last. To put a stop to it, I will mention it at the gathering. If they continue to stray over the border, we will launch an attack. The meeting ends." At that, the cats dispersed into patrols and went off. Ambersong stayed by her brothers side the whole time while the other cats came back from patrols and went to sleep.

Chapter 2

The next few days were bleak to Ambersong. She went out on a few patrols, but none of them to Waterclan border. As the days shortened into Leaf-bare, Ambersong helped with the hunting. Finally, she was chosen to go to the gathering. She walked with Darkfur to Waterfall, where the clans would gather every full moon.

"I will speak first," said Stonestar, not giving too much time to the other clan leaders to jump onto the Great Rock. "Prey is running well, despite the cold weather. However, we have a problem worse than prey. Waterclan has been crossing our border!" At this, Waterclan let out indigent yowls, but Stonestar spoke over them. "One of our new warriors, Springflight, was doing a solo border patrol when he was attacked by Waterclan."

"What's your proof?" yelled out an elder.

"There was Waterclan scent around him." Stonestar answered calmly.

The leader of Waterclan, Duskstar, stepped forward and said, "The only reason we have been trespassing is that we have found Iceclan scent on our land! I bet this is your pathetic story to make up the fact that you are stealing prey from Waterclan!"

No, this is wrong! This is not how it is supposed to go! Ambersong joined in the angry yowls.

"ENOUGH!" yelled Smokestar, leader of Fireclan. "Stop fighting! The moon is clouded over. The gathering is at it's end."

When Ambersong got home, she visited Springflight. He was still covered in cobwebs and smelled of marigold. "Oh Springflight, please wake up," she whispered to herself. Snowybreeze walked in and said,"Why don't you go to your den. Watching him won't make him any better." Even though the white she-cat said these words briskly, she had sympathy in her eyes.

"Okay." said Ambersong, and she went to the warriors den. Her back was cold where Springflight used to lay. As she fell asleep, she thought of how lucky she was to have such talented medicine cats.

The next morning, she walked out to a meeting in full swing.

"We have to fight them!" exclaimed Dawnwhisker. "They hurt Springflight!"

It was then that Ambersong realized that Dawnwhisker liked Springflight. She had been so wrapped up in her own misery that she didn't see that Dawnwhisker was often in the medicine den with her. Darkfur's voice broke her thoughts. "I think we should fight too. We need to show Waterclan for once and for all that they can't boss us around."

"Alright. We will fight Waterclan at the full moon. When they are doing a patrol at large hill, one patrol will ambush them. Another will be lying in wait for them near the burrow." Stonestar gave the directions to who would be in each patrol. Ambersong got put in the first patrol with Stonestar, Honeypool,

Berrywhisker, and Brightpelt. They would be waiting in the rocks surrounding the hill.

Finally, the full moon came. Ambersong lined up with the other warriors. This is it, she thought. Soon, a patrol of five cats from Waterclan came out of the bushes.

"Do you smell that?" asked a young apprentice. The other patrol members stopped.

"Attack!" yowled Stonestar. Ambersong leaped out of the bushes and onto the apprentice. She hissed into his ear,"This is for my brother," and she clawed his ear. He rolled over on top of her and dug his claws into her shoulders. Ambersong growled and kicked up with her legs, knocking him off and into the battle. Then she got up and saw Berrywhisker and Brightpelt fighting off three cats at once. She heard a yowl, and turned to see other Waterclan cats streaking towards them. She ran to Brightpelt and

Berrywhisker, but an orange tabby blocked her way. She leaped at him and knocked him over, his head hitting the ground hard. Then she ran toward Brightpelt, who, by this time, was being attacked by four cats. He was forced up onto his hind legs and was being clawed by all different directions. Ambersong ran over to him just as a warrior knocked his legs under him. She ran and head-butted one on the side. She felt claws price her belly, and she turned to swipe vicious claws at the calico cats muzzle. She jumped to Brightpelt, and stood in front of him to guard him. Then, Darkfur ran down the slope and leaped onto a the she-cats back, giving Ambersong time to drag Brightpelt into the bushes and into safety. She heard a cat call out "Retreat! Retreat!" and was pleased to hear it was a Waterclan warrior. But then she looked around and saw two scraps of lifeless fur. One was a Waterclan cat, and the other was Berrywhisker.

"Berrywhisker?" said Ambersong, but she knew that stare all too well.

"Berrywhisker, why would you leave us!" Her voice rose to a wail, and she wanted to dig her face into her mother's fur, who was right next to her, and never come out again.