Theme: Flametail's Death in Flametail's POV

( TigerShadow24_SC loves to write and wanted to write alongside the theme of the contest, but since she is an admin, she cannot participate on the activity ^~^ so she just wrote Flametail's Death for the fun of it :D enjoy~)

Flametail laughed as he ran on the ice, playing with Jayfeather. Then suddenly, he slipped on the ice and crashed through it, pawpads getting cut on the sharp edges of ice. Looking up, a light shone far above him, Jayfeather staring down. He paddled his bleeding paws franticly, only coming up to solid ice.

Panicking now, he flailed his freezing paws in desperate attempts. It was getting darker now, and hot pain was shooting through his chest. Maybe if he tried breathing, he might suddenly be able to breathe water? It was the only chance he had.

Taking a deep breath, he sucked in a mouthful of water, then coughed but only sucked in more water.

Eyes wide, he scrabbled his paws in the blackness, it starting to get a little fuzzy.

No! he thought, This can't be happening, I'm too young to die!

A hairless cat appeared in the growing darker darkness, starting at him.

"Young Flametail, I'm afraid it is your time. Good luck finding your way to StarClan." The hairless cat said.

Flametail tried to call after him, but the cat was rapidly fading and Flametail's head was aching, becoming more and more light headed. The ice creaked above him as he died.

I was just having a little fun...

Then everything disappeared.

He opened his eyes to a dark forest. He couldn't remember how he got here, but it had something to do with choosing the right path and a few tests. And before that...Wait. He was dead?

Bushes rustled behind him and Flametail turned around to see Ivypaw of ThunderClan followed by an evil looking cat. He warily backed up.

The evil looking cat snarled and meowed to Ivypaw. "Kill him."

Ivypaw looked confused. "But Brokenstar, he's already dead. I can't kill him again!"

Brokenstar! Flametail had heard tales of him...Oh no!

Brokenstar laughed. A cruel, evil sound. "Young Ivypaw, you can always die. It's just when you've died once, it's twice as painful."

Ivypaw slowly nodded, stepping forward to kill him. Suddenly, Tigerheart hurled himself in front of Flametail.

"No! I won't let you kill what's left of my brother!"

Brokenstar hissed. "Tigerheart...This is the last time."

He turned and padded away, Ivypaw following.

Tigerheart turned to Flametail. "I miss you already."

Flametail dipped his head. "As do I. But I will see you again someday, brother. But hopefully not anytime soon. Farewell."

He slowly turned and padded away, a force seemed to be pulling him that way. After walking for a while, he reached a line made of stars, like Silverpelt holding to worlds together. One side forest, the other side a meadow. Flametail felt that if he crossed it, he would be making a crucial choice. One between life and death. But the feeling that he had that brought him here seemed to be pushing him across the line and he stepped over it. Instantly, a sizzling noise made him look at his pelt. It was made of stars. Looking back up, he realized that he had just chosen to be in StarClan. He would stay here forever, never leaving.

And so he began walking forward. To what, he did not know. But Flametail had faith in StarClan. Enough faith to walk into the unknown.