The final chapter! Though this isn't the end. I'm going to make a sequal with Sparkwater. :3 But this is also probably my goriest chapter. O.e Lots of blood involved with killing her brothers! Especially Thrushspot!

During the Plan…

The she-cat was waiting carefully for the cat to return. She had recently watched as Mudbelly left the camp, off hunting. Now she just had to wait until he returned. It didn't take long, and as he passed, she managed to quietly run her claws along his fur, light enough not to be noticed but strong enough to grab a pawful of fur. Just enough so he'd never know it'd been taken from him. Then, after he dissapeared into the warrior's den, and one more snore accompanied the other warriors, she called out, "Thrushspot! I think I smell a rogue out here!"

She carefully picked Mudbelly's fur out of her claws, curling her tail around it. It was easily light enough to carry with her tail, and the position made it seem natural. She often did keep her tail curled like this. Correction, she often carried fur in her tail like this for practice.

Just then her brother came out, chest puffed out as he said, "Show me the way, I'll take care of it."

It didn't take long for Sparkwater to find the perfect spot. Secluded, a decent distance away, and it smelled like Mudbelly had hunted there.

As soon as Thrushspot came in, she attacked, ducking under her brother and ripping her teeth deep into his hindleg, ripping through flesh. With a swift pull she knocked him off his paws, scrambling away to avoid being crushed. She spat out a hunk of blood-soaked fur and grinned at the sight of gleaming white in her brother's wound. He tried to get up to retaliate, but she fell on him again, claws leaving gaping wounds along his body. Then she finally dealt the death blow, claws tearing the half-dead tom's throat out. He writhed in pain for a moment, then fell limp.

Sparkwater carefully pulled all of her fur from her brother's claws, replacing it with Mudbelly's, then picked up her brother by the scruff, squinting her eyes to force tears to spring to her eyes. She shuffled her paws, as if grief-stricken that her brother was dead. But, luckily, she didn't run into any Clanmates. She hid her brother's body in a place no cat would find him, then she slipped into the camp, nodding her head silently to her other brother. She acted as though checking the dens for the 'rogue'. As she poked her head into the warriors' den, her brother switched his attention from her to the camp entrance again. As soon as he wasn't watching, she turned around, creeping up behind him and jumping onto his back, biting him in the throat before he could make a sound. Careful not to get her paws bloodied and to lick up all the blood from her muzzle and teeth, she crept around the puddle quickly forming around her brother's writhing body. Then she slipped out of the camp entrance to grab her other brother again.

"Thrushspot is dead!" she screeched, running as fast as she could with her brother's weight into the camp once again. She made sure to look everywhere but Sparrowheart as she dropped Thrushspot's body. She was relieved as her Clanmates surrounded her, blocking any chance of seeing Sparrowheart.

"We had gone out to look for a rogue I had scented," she began, noting the confused and shocked faces on her Clanmates," and when we reached it I realized it was suicide to fight it. I ran, assuming Thrushspot was following, but he wasn't. It was too late, however, by the time I got back…"

Just then Whitestar walked through the crowd and the group of cats split, making an empty space that revealed Sparrowheart. She let out a gasp of shock and cried, "My brother!" She dashed forewords, shoving past Whitestar and dropping next to her brother, her nose shoving deep into his cold fur and fake sobs wracking her body. Instantly cats began to surge around her, murmurs and touches of comfort coming from all angles. "It might not have been a rogue that killed my brother." Sparkwater pushed through her clanmates, half of her fur stained bloody red from Sparrowheart's blood. Briarthron was there as well as Sparkwater glanced at her brother's paws and exclaimed, "Mudbelly!"

The brown tabby seemed shocked as the young warrior lifted up a scrap of his fur in her paw, letting the whole Clan see. At once Whitestar called out, "Mudbelly, what have you to say for yourself?"

"I didn't do it! I swear on StarClan I didn't!" Thrushspot's former mentor cried out in shock, but half of it was drowned out by cries of outrage.

"Mudbelly, from now on you are banished from ThunderClan! Get out of my sight before I sentence you to an much worse fate!"

The tabby stared with wide eyes at his former Clanmates then ran through the camp entrance, tail between his legs. A faint smile touched Sparkwater's mouth for a moment, to brief and small to notice, accompanied with the fact that she was looking away from her Clanmates. Then she put her mask of grief back on and looked back at Thrushspot. She noticed her mentor looking over her brother's injured hindleg, and one of her ears twitched faintly. Sparkwater acknowledged the signal by crouching beside Briarthorn and the green-eyed she-cat whispered, "You are too good for ThunderClan. Meet me at the edge of the territory, the corner furthest from the lake where our territory meets WindClan's, got it?"

Sparkwater nodded her head in acknowledgement. Then jumped back as suddenly her mentor screeched, "Sparkwater's lying! She killed her brothers!"

"What are you saying?" Whitestar demanded. "Why would she do so, and how can you tell?"

"Well, when she was my apprentice, I taught her a move to knock a cat unbalanced and to leave one leg almost unusable. It leaves the opponent's leg like this," Briarthorn replied, flicking her tail at Thrushspot's injured hindleg.

Whitestar turned her attention onto Sparkwater and, with a feral snarl, she called, "ThunderClan, attack this murderer, traitor, and liar! She is no longer a member of this Clan!"

Sparkwater had began to run as soon as Briarthorn had announced the proof. She managed to faintly catch Whitestar's order and she put on a burst of speed, eyes wide, but heart burning with anger and a feeling of being betrayed. She had trusted Lucus, but she had let out the secret, and now she was being hunted down. She let out a screech of shock as a figure crashed into her side and pinned her down. She wialed, "Don't kill me! Give me mercy!" Then a clawed paw cuffed her on the ear and she looked into the face of her attacker.

"I told you to meet me here, not run past me."

"Briarthorn?" Sparkwater was confused, then realized she was at the corner of ThunderClan territory Briarthorn had told her about. Then the events just after the order pushed through her fear-clouded mind and she let out a mad screech, shoving her mentor off. "Lucus, you betrayed me!"

"No, I gave you the chance to follow your destiny."

Sparkwater let a confused look overcome her features for not even a heartbeat, then quickly let the anger overcome her again. But now she was curious as well. What was Briarthorn talking about?

"If you go around the lake territories then go in the opposite direction of the mountains, you'll find a group of cats. Actually, twelve groups of cats. They are known as the Zodiac Territories. There's the Airies, the Taurus, the Gemini, the Cancer, the Leo, the Virgo, the Libra, the Scorpio, the Sagittarius, the Capricorn, the Aquarius, and the Pisces. They have been without a leader for too long, and now you will be giving them one. I have never had a better assassin, and I thought of no better cat to take my place after my too-long absence. I will tell the Clans I killed you, and they will stop tracking you down." Then, with a swift flick of Briarthorn's paw, she hit Sparkwater's muzzle, blood staining the dark brown tabby's paw with blood. "You fell into the river before I could get your body to bring back, and by the time I return, it would have drifted to the lake. Now go, and don't get caught until you reach the Zodiacs." And, with a swift flash of brown and green, Briarthorn dissapeared, leaving Sparkwater to either live as a loner or rogue, or to take up Lucus's offer and take up the reigns of these 'Zodiac Territories'. Which do you think she chose?

Finally done! Now, you may be wondering about the Zodiac Territories. Well, they're a big part of my sequal. My sequal is another Warriors Challenge Forum challenge. Heheh. :3 I thought it would fit together. ;D Well, hope you liked the ending of 'I Was Trained For This'.