Summary: With Firestar murdered in his own nest, twenty warriors in a sudden death match and a plot to overturn the very principles of the warrior code, it's a count-down until an absolute chaotic war, only one warrior can save the rest.

The death of Firestar marked the dawn of an entirely new era amongst the warrior cat clans, who lived beside the lake. Tensions were high, as were the ambitions of the dark warriors who made their homes away from the stars and now with the most possibly well-known savior of the forest dead, chaos was about to erupt. The 'death' of Firestar appeared to have been an extremely well-planned murder, the culprit was still unknown and at-large. Horror struck down to not only Thunderclan, but to also the others, as the possibility of a leader being so-easily murdered in their own nest was absolutely chilling to the warrior clans.

Accusations flew out to all sides of the territory, first the grieving warriors of the once-noble Thunderclan called out Dawnpelt of Shadowclan, definitely a possible suspect as to her rabid accusations of murder directed at Jayfeather. Then suspicions moved to Windclan, as the relationship between the warriors of the moorland and the warriors of the thick forest had been severely damaged by Onestar.

With Firestar dead, Windclan had once more began their intrusions of Thunderclan's territory, some border brawls morphed into a declaration of war between the two clans, and the remaining clans immediately began choosing sides. Desperate for a better solution to their problems, Littlecloud frantically called upon Starclan to solve the issue.

The starry cats were now more divided than ever and quarreled almost endlessly over the solution, before choosing the solution of a competition. Twenty randomly selected warriors would be brought to the ratty territory outside of clan lines and put through a series of competitions, the main goal was to survive. Cats were allowed to kill each other off. The victor would return to the clans, and whichever clan he or she represented would become the winner.

And after Firestar's death came the perfect time for the Dark Forest cats to strike, and so they did, however not in the way expected of them. They already had several cats in the clans who followed them, so now was the perfect time to move.

All of these events going on at the same time caused a very tense strain on the clan cats, cats feared for their lives wondering who would be chosen to represent their clan, others would gladly take on the challenge for their clan.

Let the games begin.

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Basic summary, guys.