Tawnyheart's Death

Eclipseheart bounded over to Tawnyheart. He glanced around, slightly wary of Sleekstar. When he didn't see the leader in the area he turned to Tawnyheart. "Hi!" he purred, trying to sound as friendly as possible.

"Hi!" Tawnyheart mewed.

"Do you want to hunt with me?" Eclipseheart requested, grinning sheepishly.

"Um, maybe for a little bit," Tawnyheart said.

"Great!" Eclipseheart purred. "Let's go!" He said, trotting out of camp.

"Hold up!" Sleekstar shouted, jumping out from behind them. "You are not going anywhere!"

Eclispeheart froze, his fur beginning to bristle on his spine. "Er, hello... Sleekstar..." He said.

Sleekstar's eyes narrowed as he picked up his paw and unsheathed his claws.

"We were just hunting for the clan," Eclipseheart choked out nervously. "N-no harm there, r-right?"

"For the *clan*, I see. Yeah, right. There isn't much of a *clan* left, thanks to you and the rest of the horrible clanmates," Sleekstar snorted, scratched both of them on their foreheads and walked away.

Eclipseheart flinched, stunned. "Is he always like this?" he mewed to Tawnyheart as soon as Sleekstar was out of earshot.

"Y-yeah..." Tawnyheart squinted as blood trickled down her nose.

"You okay?" Eclipseheart asked in concern. His wound wasn't bleeding quite as much.

"I'll be fine..." Tawnyheart cleaned the wound as best she could. "I'll go see Flameshadow as soon as we get into camp."

Eclipseheart wasn't sure she would be fine, but he nodded slowly.

Just as Tawnyheart's bleeding was slowing down, Sleekstar came back. "You again!" He snarled. His unsheathed claw came up and both of them knew that they would get another scratch.

'*Why is he like this, and how did he become leader of RainClan?'* Tawnyheart wondered.

But before Sleekstar could scratch them, Eclipseheart jumped in front of Tawnyheart. "Would you just quit that?" he hissed. "It's not doing you any good to run around scratching random clanmates. I suggest you stop it before some cat retaliates," Eclipseheart warned, staring up at his leader defiantly.

"**You** are not the boss of **me!**" Sleekstar growled. "**I** am the clan leader, and **I** get to do what **I** please!" He shouted.

"Well, you don't act like one," Eclipseheart countered. "You're acting like an inconsiderate kit!" he spat out the words, lashing his tail bravely.

Tawnyheart nervously stepped back. *'I'll just let them do the arguing-'* she thought.

"**How dare you say that?!**" Sleekstar growled. "Watch your mouth or I will have you exiled. Yes, both you and that Tawnyheart," He took a little pause. "Or I will have you both killed."

Eclipseheart curled his lip, digging his claws into the ground to stop himself from trembling in anger and fear. "Well being dead is better than staying here with you," he snarled, bracing himself for a fight. "But if you'd be so kind as so exile us both I'm sure we'd just starve to death."

"So **kind**. Yeah right. Maybe I should just hold you as prisoner," Sleekstar growled.

Tawnyheart came from behind him, her wound still bleeding. "S-Sleekstar? H-he's m-my friend..." She stuttered.

Eclipseheart ignored Tawnyheart's statement for the moment, trying to distract Sleekstar from the she-cat. "You seem pretty undecided on what you want to do with us. Why don't you just decide on what we did wrong and then come up with a punishment," he growled.

"Well," said Sleekstar. Then he placed an unsheathed claw on Tawnyheart's shoulder and started digging in.

Tawnyheart shrieked.

Eclipseheart darted forward, slamming into Sleekstar and throwing him backwards. "Hey! Leave her alone," he yelped, turning to block him from reaching her again.

"You don't do that to me!" Sleekstar growled as he pushed past Eclipseheart. "Why did I ever make you a warrior anyways?!"

Eclipseheart whirled to clock his path again. "Perhaps because I was loyal to my clan, more loyal than you will ever be," he snarled. "Go ahead, kill me now if you regret your decision, at least I won't have to suffer through more years of your leadership."

Tawnyheart blinked.

Sleekstar snorted. "If you don't want to suffer more, that's exactly what I'll make you do," He started to growl, but instead turned to Tawnyheart.

Tawnyheart gasped. She started furiously licking a bleeding wound on her front paw, and tried to slap Sleekstar with her tail.

Eclipseheart tensed, making sure he still had Tawnyheart defended. Sleekstar would have to kill him before reaching the she-cat.

Tawnyheart smiled weakly at Eclipseheart as she tried to defend herself against the bloodthirsty leader.

Sleekstar turned back to Eclipseheart and his fur bristled. He opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out.

"Well?" Eclipseheart said expectantly, lashing his tail at Sleekstar. "Are you going to leave us alone, or are you going to kill us both?"

"Humph!" Sleekstar turned to Eclipseheart. "**You** can go now. And then I'll kill Tawnyheart," He smiled sneakily. "Of course, you don't want to see your little friend die!" He taunted.

"I'm not leaving," Eclipseheart growled. "I'll let you kill her when I'm dead."

Sleekstar shrugged and started ripping up Tawnyheart. "I warned you!"

Eclipseheart gave a battle cry, leaping forward and slamming his paws full force into Sleekstar's shoulders. He shoved the leader back and away from Tawnyheart, once again stepping in the way. But he wasn't about to stop there. He quickly leaped at a tree, hitting it with all four paws before using the impact to bounce him off it. He hit Sleekstar with enough speed to send him crashing to the forest floor, then dug his claws deep into Sleekstar's shoulders.

Sleekstar howled with pain. He started bleeding and just like that he lost his first life, but when he came back as his second he jumped up and started sinking his teeth into Eclipseheart's leg.

Eclipseheart twisted, yanking his leg out of Sleekstar's grasp but tearing it badly. He let out a hiss of pain, but it didn't stop him from slashing the leader's ears and ripping them to pieces.

Sleekstar snarled as he pulled Tawnyheart's tail and pinned her down. He turned to Eclipseheart. "Don't think you're off the hook there."

"Oh, I wasn't thinking I was," Eclipseheart retorted. "Come on Sleekstar, whatever I did to offend you I'm sorry. But you have no right to attack either of us over it, just let it be," he growled in warning.

Sleekstar ignored Eclipseheart's comment and slashed his tail. He jabbed a sharp claw into Tawnyheart's stomach and tried to bite Eclipseheart's right paw.

Tawnyheart yelped in terror as she felt the cold claw of Sleekstar sink into her stomach she tried to roll over but couldn't, and all she could do was lay there and bleed to death.

Eclipseheart gasped. "No!" he yowled, throwing himself down next to Tawnyheart. "Why would you do that?" he screeched, turning to Sleekstar with horror filled eyes.

"Hey!" Sleekstar gasped as he flew off of Tawnyheart's body. "How dare you do that?!"

"Stop it! Just stop it," Eclipseheart shrieked angrily, throwing up his claws against Sleekstar's chest. "You killed her! I can never forgive you for that!" he exploded upwards, throwing the leader back again and racing to pin him. He leaped on top of his leader with a snarl, claws poised near Sleekstar's throat. "One move and that'll be the last breath you breath in this life," he snapped a warning, eyes alight with fury.

Sleekstar managed to growl once before losing his eighth life. Then he came back. He wrapped his paw around Eclipseheart's paw and with his other paw scratched Eclipseheart's forehead.

Eclipseheart yowled, digging his claws into Sleekstar's throat. "Have it your way," he growled.

Sleekstar groaned in pain, but he managed to bite down on Eclispeheart's back and started chewing.

Eclipseheart hissed in outrage and agony, letting go of Sleekstar and dipping his back to try and get it out of Sleekstar's grasp.

Eclipseheart whirled around and bit into Sleekstar's shoulder.

Sleekstar blinked as blood raced down his shoulder, but he turned around and bit Eclipseheart's shoulder too.

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