The crash of bodies swept me along, the bloodlust was already pumping through the army. My Quills bristled at the thought of revenging Bubble. I would rip thier eyes out with a spoon! I looked around the rushing army. A few people away, Midnight ran holding a weapon i haven't seen in battle for awile. A deadly looking sword called a Katana.

It glissened in the moonlight. I shivered, never wanting to see that weapon coming toward me. Reuger ran in front along side Flippy. Reuger had a knife in one hand, and his rifel in the other. Flippy ran with his Bowie knife in hand and his pistol at his side. Rise and Thorn ran side by side, screeching bloody murder. Thorns eye's where alite with the anticipation of the kill.

I saw my first victem. His markings were a deeper blue and he had a white face. His lips were drawn back to show his dagger fangs. I lunged at him, pulling my knife out from a pocket inside my jacket. I felt the Tigers knife slash at my chest as I swang wildly at him. The yelp I heard and the splash of warmth on my cheek told me i hit the jugular vein.

Leaping over him I continued on, slashing and cutting. I received many wounds, some wore then others. Alittle bit away, I saw Dubble fall to the ground. He clutched his chest and yanked a knife out from between his ribs. His teeth gritted as blood quickly wheled up beneath his paws.

Rushing over to his side, he was clutching the knife in his paw. His shivering was non stop.

"Dubble! Dubble, can you hear me? I'm going to call a medic" I tried to get him to focus on me, but Dubble kept staring off into the distance. His tail lay flat, unmoving as he labored for breath. I saw his ear twitch slightly as the Raccoon medic, Clove arrived.

She looked terrified. Blood was pumping out of Dubble, I had to get back to the fight. I was needed. Standing up i walked back into the fray, Gun pointed at the tiger commander. I aimed, trying to focus through the scope.

The pain was blinding. I felt the knife enter my body, right in my lower back. I turned seeing a Tiger solider grinning at me. He never heard the sound i loved the most. The twang of a Bow.

The arrow point ripped through the Tigers forehead, so that it was visable to me. The cat dropped to the ground to see Kurt, Bow still poised. I gave him a grateful look and turned back to fighting.

Rose and Thorn were fighting side by side, knives drawn toward an enemy. They didnt need help. I saw a Pale grey rabbit, bravely fighting to Tiger males, twice her size. The rabbit, Amber, looked like she needed the most help. I turned to help her, until Prickly rolled in front of me. He wrestled with another large fighter.

I helped rip the Blue cat of him, and held him for Prickly to finish off. With a quick slice to the Heart, the tiger was dead, lying in a puddle of blood. Prickly nodded quickly, saying thanks and ran off to help A bat.

I turned back toward Amber, only to turn away from the sight. Her intestines had been ripped out through her stomach and her decapitated head had rolled ten feet away. I turned my back to see a solider backed against a tree. I didn't remember seeing if before, and thought he could be a reinforcemet from a nearby camp.

The fighter appered to be an incect, he had Black fuzz with yellow around his mouth and a small black patch under his chin and he had a yellow hands and yellow feet. He was fighting with a weapon i didn't know. He ripped the Tigers face and stabbed him with a bowie knife.

The Bee was joined by a Spider, who was a dark black and had Eight solid red eyes and fangs that reach over his bottem lip. He also had a small white heart shaped birth mark on his neck, and Long white bangs that covered a few of his eyes. with a flash, both vanished into the fray.

It had been a couple hours, the battle had ended. The clearing was piled with the dead of both sides. The grass was soaked with blood, and in some spots, made the ground mushy because it turned to mud.

Reuger, who had a cut that covered his eye, had told me to check on the survivors. I had learned that the Bee was named Everett, or Cuzz, and the spider was Spook, he didnt give me his real name. Cuzz was following a few feet behind me, Spook had went else where, seeing if the medics needed help.

I spotted Kurt standing on a mini hill. His back was turned toward me and his usally perfect mohawk, was flat and messy and covered in blood. Turning, he watched me walk up the hill. His face was solem and he crossed his arms behind his back and looked down the other side of the hill. Reaching the top of the hill, i was what he was looking at.

Thorn was lying in the middle of a semi-circle of dead tigers. Her jet black fur was stained red. Rose was kneeling next to her, head down. I gasped, seeing Thorn was slowly dying, there was nothing the medics could do. Clove sat beside Rose, a paw on her shoulder. I raced down the hill, Kurt followed closely, Cuzz stayed at the top of the hill, looking uncomfortable.

Rose looked at me, tears running down her white stained red fur, mixing with her sisters blood.

"Torch... she's ... dying..." The white cat wimpered. Thorn looked at me. her eyes beginning to glaze over. Looking back at her sister, she whisperd something. We leaned in closer to hear.

"Rose. No matter what, always keep calm, try and look at the world positivly" She coughed, blood splattered her uniform "No matter what, you will always be my sister, and i will love you always" she whispered, her voice barely auidable. Rose began to cry louder.

"Thorn! Please don't leave me. I don't want to loose you again!" She put her head on her sisters chest.

"I will always be with you, dear sister. Never forget, i died protecting you, and out country" With this last scentance, Thorn laid her head back. Her breathes became more shallow untill, at last, she took one deep breath, and was gone. Rose threw her head back and began to wail. The white cat sat next to her sister and let all the feelings out. She would never hear her sister's rare laugh, nor whould she see the happy glint as she pulled a knife on someone.

I sat cross legged next to Rose. The white cat was shivering so I took my jacket off and wrapped it around her shoulders. Rose Looked me in the eye and sniffed.

Looking at the small group around us, we leanded down and picked Thorn up. The time had come to make camp, and send these fallen soliders back home.

Reuger, Kurt, Prickly and I sat on a hollow log. Reuger was sniffling quietly as he wrote down the list of dead.

Thorn, Amber, Dubble, Twitchy, Kassen, Siv, Fallow, Feli, Matt, Kogy, SilverFlash, Remmie, Kitt, Cassie, Shan, Pine, Kilo, Bishop, Pastel, Tigger, and Icy. I cringed as i read over the list. There were to many who had died this night. To many who would never see home again. The wounded count was higher. Everyone had battle wounds. My own wounds consisted with a few bad cuts, and the stab wound through my stomach. The worst of all was an orange beaver. His arms had been slowly ripped off his body. He wasn't even a solider. He was the repairman.

Tonight, nobody ate thier beans and cornbread. No one was hungry. This was no win, the was a fail, and epic fail. Nobody whould sleep, except Flippy, he might.