Side Story Central (Current: The Nightmare Hollow)

The creature roared, having taken too much of a beating to fight back. It fell to the ground and began to smoke even more fiercely than it already was. It let out an earsplitting screech and began to fall apart, dissintegrating into the air.

Thornheart was just about to jump into the battle when he saw the creature disintegrate. He shrugged, a she watched, a bit shaken. This was strange, definitively strange. But he was glad to see whatever foe they had faced, was not an unbeatable one.

Jewelfire shuttered as the sound blasted her eardrums, wincing and sinking her claws into the ground. How had this thing just appear? Did it have something to do with Birchpaw? Or perhaps....Smolderstar?!

Sparrowblaze's vision went blurry do to extreme abuse of his eardrums. He regained himself after a moment, and began to lap at the blood that covered his side.

Thunderfreeze's ears flattened at the screech, but at least they'd been able to kill it.

Lavendermoon winced at the horrible screeching sound. "What was that?!?!" she yelped.

"Don't get comfortable yet." Growled Swiftfeather, claws unsheathing again. Her tail lashed back and forth as she glared around the woods. A thick fog was setting in, blocking out the sun and changing the once lively forest into a dark, mysterious, shadow-filled hell hole.

Sparrowblaze had gotten all the blood off his side, and the cut wasn't bleeding anymore. But it would if he wasn't careful with it, and it also hurt like hell. The creamy tom padded over to Swiftfeather. "What do you think that was?"

Lavendermoon stepped in. "Wait, nononono, hold up. That voice said, 'A very important cat's brother.' Who is this.....Birchpaw's brother?"

"Birchpaw... annoyed apprentice... scent... claw. Oh dear god." Swiftfeather paused and glanced around.

Jewelfire had laid down, trying to wrap her mind around all of this. Surely some time to think will aid both the patrol's sanity and sense of order.

"Birchpaw's brother was...Smolderstar." Sparrowblaze's eyes flared with recognition. "Oh holy shit," He mewed, his voice hushed.

Thunderfreeze just sat there, silent, claws still unsheathed, as he listened to the others.

Lavendermoon sighed, half in exhaustion and half in regret. "No..not this....not now....."