Waterfly's P.O.V:

"Let's get back to camp." Waterfly glanced at the sky, "It's past sunset."

Silverstar nodded and stopped her winds. Stormflame diminished his flames and Clearlight stopped moving leaves around. They had spent the whole time after sunhigh practicing their powers.

Now they all knew how to use the basics of their powers. Waterfly was glad they had learned them so quickly, it was obvious there was something coming, why else would Starclan give them powers?

The four cats began to trudge home slowly. The sun had set behind the hills and the moon had risen. It was nearly full moon, the gathering would be in a quarter moon.

Once they neared camp, the sound of battling cats reached Waterfly's ears and she gasped, "Lightclan's being attacked!" She sped off for camp, closely followed by Clearlight, Silverstar and Stormflame.

They raced through the forest, tails streamijg behind them. Waterfly heard the sounds of screeching cata draw closer as they ran.

When they reached camp, the scent of Magiclan was overwhelming. Waterfly dived into camp and attacked the nearest Magiclan warrior. She used her powers to reach into his mind and grinned, she could tell what he was thinking therefore she knew his next move. She dodged every blow the tom launched at her and raked her claws down his side.

The tom hissed and retreated to the outskirts of the battle, Waterfly chose not to follow him and she ran to the medicine den. Inside, Nutwhisker fought bravely against a large tom. Waterfly launched herself at the tom and bowled him over. She nipped his chest and clawed his sides. Nutwhisker joined in and between the two of them, they chased the tom out.

Waterfly saw a curled up shape on a nest. She recognised Sandkit immediately. "How is she?" She asked Nutwhisker.

Her apprentice shook his head, "Bad."

"Oh no." Waterfly whispered.

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Clearlight's P.O.V:

Clearlight shifted into a panther and pounced on the nearest cat. He easily crushed the cat under one paw and kicked out at another cat that attacked him.

Clearlight looked around at the fight. Now that the four of them had joined the fight, Lightclan easily had the upper paw.

He let the pinned cat go and watched as she raced away, tail streaming behind her. Clearlight grinned and looked around for the next attacker.

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Silverstar's P.O.V:

Silverstar scanned the battling cats for Rabbitstar. After a short while, she found him watching the battle from the Hightree. "Rabbitstar!" She screeched. "What is the meaning of this?!"

The light brown tom grinned and yowled back, "Following your wishes!" He arched his back with a hiss, "You wanted a war, well come and get it!!"

Silverstar growled and climbed up the tree to where Rabbitstar stood on a branch. She placed herself at an angle below him so that the Magiclan leader couldn't reach her but she could him. She shot her paw up and snagged his pelt in her claws. She pulled him down and Rabbitstar lost his balance on the branch. He free-falled for a heartbeat before latching onto the bark of the Hightree just below Silverstar.

Silverstar could see that Rabbitstar had the advantage so she started climbing up the tree. It was easy to outrun Rabbitstar as he was not as comfortable in trees as Silverstar was.

She stopped climbing once she reached her den. Should she go in? It would be easier to fight by there was only one escape; she'd be trapping herself. But the more energy she used by running around the tree wouldn't help anything. 

So Silverstar climbed into her den and crouched, waiting for Rabbitstar's attack. She completely forgot to change her pelt to silver so as she waited, she changed her pelt.

The feeling was quite ticklish.  As the silver took the place of the fur, it itched the skin. Silverstar had learned to live with it and over the moons, it bacame less irritating.

After what seemed like a moon, Rabbitstar finally appeared. He threw himself into the den, panting slightly, and growled menacingly at Silverstar, "Don't run away from this one, fool. I plan on raging a full war on Lightclan."

"I never asked for war, you should know that instead of being so blind and battle hungry!" Silverstar hissed as she circled Rabbitstar. She stalked around the small den, Rabbitstar did the same. Both were waiting for the other to pounce so Silverstar launched herself first at Rabbitstar.

The other leader swiftly dodged her blow and kicked out with his hind legs and hit Silverstar square on her shoulder. His kick did little damage to her amour and Rabbitstar scrambled away with a small yelp. Without the armour, Silverstar wouldn't have been able to stand for a bit as Rabbitstar had hit the shoulder blade.

Rabbitstar hissed, "You may have some tricks, but I do too!" He screeched angrily and lunged for Silverstar head on but at the last moment he dived underneath her and slid under her belly. He swiped at her exposed stomach and knocked her paws from under her. Silverstar fell hard on her side with a loud bang from the amour.

Silverstar realised for a split-second that with the added weight from the amour, she couldn't move as quickly as normal. That's why Rabbitstar seemed to be going so fast. It wasn't him, it was her!

Silverstar pushed herself to her paws as Rabbitstar stalked around her, waiting for a weak spot in her amour. Well, soon he'll find every weak spot. She thought as she felt the armour come off and fur being replaced by it.

Rabbitstar laughed, "So you decided to place fair, hm? Even so, I'll still take at least one of your lives with me as a token!" He charged at Silverstar but she managed to narrowly dart away from his attack and counter strike him. She slashed her claws across his cheek and tried to tackle him but the bigger tom just chuckled and kicked her away. This time, the kick hurt. It sent her reeling back against the den wall with a loud yelp of pain. 

Rabbitstar was on her immediately, clawing her fur and skin off. Silverstar struggled to knock him off her but eventually did and stood up, her fur messy with small wounds on her side.

This time they both attacked at the same time. They clashed together and tried to wrestle the other one down. They danced around the den, clawing and biting at eachother. Several times, Silverstar had the urge to put her silver amour back on but she resisted as it would only slow her down and polong the fight.

Finally, the two bleeding leaders broke away, panting. Rabbitstar had some good scratches on his sides and face. Silverstar had her share of wounds at well but there was an especially deep one on her hind leg where Rabbitstar had bitten down, hard, and Silverstar had felt the brown leader's fangs pierce the bone.

After a short while of catching their breaths, Silverstar growled at Rabbitstar, "This is madness. Leave our camp now before anyone from either clans gets hurt."

Rabbitstar snorted, "Fine, but I will be watching my borders carefully." He gave Silverstar a hard look, "Any cat caught trespassing will be dealed with by me."

The two leaders got up and side by side, the padded out of Silverstar's blood filled den to call off the battle.

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Stormflame's P.O.V:

Stormflame stuck to the edges of the fight. He had never been in such a huge battle before, the amount of fighting cats scared him. But he kept his mind focused on looking for any Magiclan cats to attack. But instead, an enemy found him.

A white she cat leapt for Stormflame. He recognised her as Whitepelt, the twin of Blackpelt. But where is Blackpelt? He wondered as he battered Whitepelt away with his unsheathed claws.

Too late, he realised that the other sister was hiding in the bush behind him. He tried to twist around and meet her head on as she launched herself as him but she was too quick and he was knocked off of his paws.

He tumbled a couple of times and ended up getting trampled by Blazemoon who was battling a Magiclan cat. The Queens are in this battle too?!

He didn't have anymore time to think about Blazemoon because Whitepelt and Blackpelt were stalking toward him. They moved in perfect synchronisation, it was as if they were mirrored.

Stormflame scrambled to his paws and had just enough time to raise his paws and summon a flame that erupted from the ground at the twin's paws. They yelped and leapt away in shock. Stormflame couldn't help but laugh at them but his happiness didn't last long as they were immediately manuvering around the flame to Stormflame. He tried to move the flame so that it blocked their way but they jumped past it just in time and lunged for Stormflame as one.

Stormflame narrowly missed their sharp claws and growled angrily when claws pierced his black tail. He lashed out with his claws and felt a wave of satisfaction as his outstretched claws met skin.

He decided to make a risky move and ran straight at Whitepelt. He saw Blackpelt move to defend her sister and at the last second, Stormflame dodged behind Whitepelt and watched as Blackpelt crashed into her sister. Stormflame moved quickly and managed to split apart the deadly sisters and pinned Whitepelt down with claws at her throat. The she cat was bigger than him but he was able to keep her down by positioning himself on her in a way that if she moved, his claws would go straight into her neck and kill her. He had given Blackpelt to Slowsky, Poppyfire and Bigstep to take care of. The three elders insisted on helping in the fight so Stormflame agreed to let them keep Blackpelt busy.

"Run back to your territory, fox-breath!" Stormflame hissed and bared his teeth at Whitepelt. The white she cat lashed her tail but didn't say anything. Stormflame let her up and watched at she sped off, closely followed by Blackpelt.

"Magiclan Retreat!!" A voice sounded from behind Stormflame. He spun around to see Rabbitstar standing on the Hightree with an angry Silverstar beside him. Both leaders had wounds. Silverstar especially. Stormflame felt a pang of fear for his leader.

"Retreat!" Rabbitstar called again and this time the battling cats listened and the Magiclan cats sped away back to their territory.

Rabbitstar went last.

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Waterfly's P.O.V:

Waterfly heard the retreat signal but she didn't pay attention. She was desperately trying to keep Sandkit alive. The small kit let out another weak cough and shivered violently against Waterfly. Nutwhisker was searching the herb store for catmint.

Sandkit's fever was so high. It was only a matter of time before her little body gave up. Waterfly pressed the damp moss against Sandkit to try and cool her down but it didn't do anything, it was like trying to stop a wild fire with a drop of water.

At last Nutwhisker appeared again with a shriveled up leaf of catmint. "I got some!" He mumbled around the herb and settled beside Sandkit. He placed the herbs beside the shivering kit, "Come on Sandkit, Eat up."

The sick kit let a feeble moan of protest and tensed her muscles. Only by doing that small movement, her body convulsived and she cough loudly before being sick.

"Please Sandkit." Waterfly pleaded, "Don't die."

The kit cracked open her pain filled eyes and looked up at Waterfly, "I'm already.. gone." Her voice came out in barely a whisper, Waterfly had to lean closer to hear.

"No!" Waterfly gasped, "Don't think like that!" She shoved the herbs desperately at Sandkit's mouth in an attempt to get the kit to eat them.

But the kit had stopped breathing.

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This chapter took a while to write for some reason. Not sure why, maybe I have a mental block? XD