A Small flame

thing: *when evil is stronger than good, and the stars are nothing but lies, just one small flame can burn away everything.*

## Prologue

A dark orange StarClan she-cat was sitting in front of a huge Smoke tom. The dark orange she-cat hissed,”Hello Smokeflame It has not been long since you killed me”

“Hello Dampflame” he replied “I am surprised you made it to StarClan. They probably almost sent you to the place of no stars.”

“Incorrect” she replied, “but this isn't a friendly conversation.”

They moved to the FloatingClan camp but in a Starclan way so they couldn't be seen. “StarClan has a lot more power than they say” she growled “but they stay out of alive cats’ problems. I understand why but I must do something.”

Dampflame swung her paw with claws of stars. “What would swinging your claws at thin air do?” he snorted but then fell on the ground.

He yelled in pain and fury after a piece of the warrior den fell in as if it had been cut out landing on Smokeflame’s sleeping body “you Mouse Brain'' Smokeflame yelled “some sticks falling can't do anything”

“I know but I can do whatever I want Smokshade, I can kill you right now.” She sighed “I am not allowed to just kill you though I have to stay out of it”

Smokeflame growled and got to his feet “I might not be on your side but everything I have done has had a reason StarClan probably knows this, I will never become evil. I dont kill for fun, I kill for reasons that should protect FloatingClan and end our problems.”

he said. Dampflame narrowed her eyes and all the sudden she was on top of Smokeflame, he stood tall holding the weight of a second cat. Dampflame smashed her paw on his head, Claws unsheathed, he showed pain on his face but did not make a sound. “StarClan is not on your side!!!” she yelled at him “We will never be.”

“Because you are the entirety of StarClan” he replied Smokeflame then smiled “You know there are enough cats in FloatingClan that you care about to make you regret this. The next time you attack me from a dream or just do something that will affect me in a way that I do not like, something terrible will happen to one of your kits. If you continue maybe your mate too the list goes on”

Dampflame looked at him, her face showing disgust, rage and fear. “You think you can just kill kits without a single cat suspecting you? Killing a warrior is not easy either.”

“Right, but every cat thinks I wouldn’t do something like that even though I am doing it for something better and more important than the kits themselves. By the way, your kits love to run off so it shouldn't be that hard.” he made a >:) face

“You are not doing this for the clans, you are doing this for yourself.”

“Remember what I said about your kits” Smokeflame meowed. The starry cat glared at Smokeflame. “You think that blood can fix your problems,” she growled. “You really thought you would be fine if you lived by your claws. Well, the dark forest will welcome you soon, Smokeflame. I will make sure of it.”

Smokeflame woke up and smiled. Dampflame will never dare do something to him. If she does, she knows what will happen to one of her kits: Firekit, Steamkit, Fogkit or Mangokit.

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The entire ShadowClan knew something wasn't right. They just… felt it.

It was as if StarClan decided to tell them that something bad was going to happen in a different way then they usually do.

No cat in ShadowClan made a sound, It was completely silent.

you would be able to hear every little thing near the camp, but there were no sounds. The only noise a ShadowClan cat could hear is their own breathing.

Every cat wanted to make a noise but they couldn’t. Not they physically couldn’t, it was something in their mind that stopped them.

Starclan couldn't have done that.

The Shadowclan warriors heard some pawsteps, the pawsteps were quiet but the ShadowClan camp was too quiet. Was this what was coming? Who did the pawsteps belong to? They didn't know. But it felt like there was something bigger than some attack going to happen.

ShadowClan silently got in formation. If there was a surprise attack what would it be going for? ShadowClan didn't know. They could be trying to drive them out. ShadowClan heard the pawsteps running. It was an ambush! But instead of surprising ShadowClan the enemy cats ran into a fully prepared group of cats who leaped at them immediately.

Nothing was going according to plan for StrikingClan. They were supposed to surprise attack ShadowClan but now they were the surprised ones. They were losing. How? They just were.

A ShadowClan cat was hidden in the shadows; another ShadowClan warrior was in front of him; he couldn't see the cat behind him. He was little injured but the wounds were very far from being fatal. No one would see if he was killed, they were all too busy fighting. His first time killing. He found it exciting. this cat was worse than Smokeflame, he didn't have good intentions. Everyone was fighting. It was the perfect time to strike… NOW!

He finished off the cat.

But… that cat was supposed to have a big destiny and be a perfect leader for ShadowClan.

Now he’s dead.

StarClan did all they could, but making ShadowClan nervous wasn’t enough.

They had failed.

Chaos was coming to ShadowClan.

Soon, very soon

And there was nothing StarClan could do to stop it.

StarClan was fighting, fighting against something they have been fighting since they started existing. Something... evil, not a flaw in the universe, without it StarClan would be all powerful and everything would be great for the clans, they would be a little like kittypets. Everything needs Evil for balance. The dark forest is not evil itself, it’s cats that have been affected by it. Just some small soldiers for darkness and evil. StarClan are protected by the goodness of the Clans so they can live a happy afterlife. Sometimes evil gets too strong and Starclan has to fight. Like the great battle, which now is just an old tale of Firestar. The current cats call him Loyalstar because the elders' tales used that name for the effect until that's what cats thought his name was.

Anyways evil is far more powerful than ever before and it's more than good can handle. Every Starclan cat is fighting for their lives and evil is starting to do stuff that will destroy someone's life. Flames burning away their lives.

## Chapter 1

Mangokit was nibbling on his rabbit with Steamkit and Firekit listening to the *creeaaak ccrrrreeeeeeeaaaaaak* of the nursery as wind pounded against it and the raindrops poured on the ceiling. All of FloatingClan was trapped inside their dens as a storm raged on their camp. Some of the kits were put in the apprentices' den to avoid too many kits in one den. The other clans probably had bad weather too, but their weather did not affect Mangokit. It had been raining all day so there was no fresh-fresh kill, just leftovers from yesterday and what the dawn patrols could find before the storm started, which was more since it was obvious that the storm was going to come, so Lionbeam had sent multiple patrols out to catch as much as they could. But the storm ment that everybody had to stay inside, which for the nursery meant that a bunch of energetic kits were all locked up together, with nothing to do, which meant pure chaos. Mangokit had a headache from Frostkit screaming every time the other kits had pushed him out of the nursery, into the rain. The queens grew tired out of getting them not to do things and stopped telling them what to not do except for the occasional “don't kill Frostkit'' and “stop trying to kill Frostkit'' but than one yelled “FOR THE LOVE OF STARCLAN DON'T KILL FROSTKIT”

and that was the end of the killing Frostkit plans that Steamkit and Goldkit had. All the sudden Mangokit got smacked off of Steamkit’s nest and fell backwards into the wall, but not the wall, the space inbetween the wall and the nest. Mangokit flailed around until the nest and the wall were far enough from each other that he could get free and he got up. He could feel some stuff stuck on his pelt. “Mangokit fell in my secret pile of burrs for dumping on Frostkit '' Steamkit meowed disapprovingly.

“Nope” Firekit said “it was not secret i found and planned to use it against you by shoving you in it while you were sleeping the next time you did something bad.” he said

“No you weren't, you are just trying to make us think you know everything.”

There was a ploof as Firekit pushed Steamkit into the burrs. “Hey!” Goldkit yelled.

She then jumped at Firekit making them both fall into the burrs. “Ha haaaaaaaa” Frostkit called  “I am the only one who has not fallen in the burrs.”

But he didn't know that Mangokit left the mountain of burrs and was behind him “ha HA” Mangokit meowed triumphantly as he knocked Frostkit into the burrs who then landed on Steamkit.

“Heeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy” Frostkit mewed “Your not supposed to do that. Snowflight why can't we swap me and Fogkit so I can go in the apprentice den?”

“for the 27th time I am not getting wet! The apprentice den is on the other side of the camp and Fogkit would not like it if I took him away.” Snowflight said.

“UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHxzjghcbiuyhjrqnyrugksouuychuiucfvbjzuiuhjphtyghjklqwertyuiopnhjektgvuakrw” Frostkit was stopped from a never-ending ugh when Goldkit sat on his head.

“hmmmmmMMMMMph hmf hmf hmf”

he meowed with his mouth covered. “Hey Mangokit! Why did you push him on top of me?” Steamkit asked.

“It's what you get for putting a hole in the roof above my nest because you woke up early and knew it was going to rain!” he replied “My nest is too wet for me to sleep in and I was so wet when I woke up!”

“FINE” Steamkit yelled

She threw off Frostkit and Goldkit and ran up to Mangokit. She then threw him into his soaking wet nest. The moss squirted water on him, he was now very, very, wet. It squirted a Queen too. “HEY MangoKIT NO SQUIRTING ME!!!” Snowflight yelled

“I didn't, Steamkit pushed me” Mangokit mewed “ok then. STEAMKIT NO SQUIRTING ME”

''I will get revenge for you Snowflight” Firekit meowed “Let's give her the Frostkit punishment” he yelled, then he grabbed Steamkit’s tail and Mangokit grabbed one of her legs. Goldkit and Frostkit did the same.

“NOOO OOOOO” Steamkit screeched, as they dragged her outside into the rain. She kept screaming as they threw her outside into the mud and rain.

she landed into the Frostkit hole, which was a big muddy hole that filled up with enough water to get an old cat's paws wet.They blocked the entrance. “haHAAAA” Frostkit meowed in his annoying, screechy voice. “I am not the one being thrown this time! I have defeated you, stupid SteamkAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” Goldkit kicked him into the Frostkit hole too.

A soggy Frogleap walked towards the nursery “stop it kits.” he meowed he grabbed Steamkit (who was still screaming somehow) and Frostkit. He knocked over all the other kits as if they were nothing and put Steamkit and Frostkit down gently

“so           cold” Frostkit shivered

“hOW daRE YOU GOldkIT yUO BEtrAYED ME” Steamkit screeched. “And you squirted Snowflight” Goldkit replied “I DiDN’T MEAN TO” she yelled.”Oh I am sorry then.”

“Its fine Its Firekit and Frostkit I should be mad at”

“I kicked Frostkit into the Frostkit hole”

“I know so lets plan revenge against Firekit”

“I can hear you, you know, make your evil plans somewhere else.” Firekit mewed “ the plans are not *evil* you just wouldn’t like them.” Steamkit replied.

“Secret plans against Firestar are EVIL” “Firestar is what Fireblaze wants to be as he is a loyal deputy to Mangostar” Mangokit said to Firekit.

“Noooooope INCORRECT INCORRECT Firestar is Firestar.” Firekit argued

There was a loud **CRASH** in the distance. Mangokit jumped to his feet. *What was that?* He thought. He knew everyone thought that too. Birdwing ran out and Mangokit heard her yell “HEY FROGLEAP” (he was the closest warrior) “WHAT IN STARCLAN WAS THAT!??!!” “THE WIND WAS TOO MUCH!!!” screeched medicine cat who was not Frogleap “THE MEDICINE DEN HAS COLLAPSED!!!!!”

*Ohh shoooooooooooooooooooooooooooot* thought about pretty much every cat. Even kits knew how important herbs were. “So uhhhhhhhhhh will the herbs survive? Or do they get squished?” Mangokit asked

“I don't know, we will just have to wait and see.” Replied Snowflight.

Warriors started walking out of the den into the rain to help find the herbs and get what they can. Frostkit saw his father, Articbeam and *flew* into his pelt like a magnet. “Hey Frostkit, not right now, ok? I'm doing something else and it's very important”.

“UHGGGGGGGGGGGG WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YOU ARE SO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAN.” Frostkit screeched

Mangokit ran towards Frostkit, grabbed him, and started to drag him through the mud, back in the nursery. “HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY MANGOKIT IS GRABBING MEEEEEEE!!!!! MANGOKIT IS SO MEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!! MANNGOOKIIT IS EVILLL!!! WARRIORS WHY AREN'T YOU LISTENING TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! TAKE AWAY MANGOKIT PUT HIM IN SHADOWCLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!” Frostkit screeched which is what he does best because his voice is soo screechy.

“ThrEE mOONS \*cough cough\* I mean hOLY stARCLAN Frostkit, bE mOrE qUIET” Steamkit mewed.

They heard yelling coming from the distance. Mangokit listened to it. “AHHH EAGLEWING IS STUCK IN THE MEDICINE DEN” he heard.