I don't give up, but I do change plans | A warrior cats AU

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Snake couldn't quell the uncomfortableness he felt as he followed his fellow rouges.
I can't believe I'm going to help traumatize some kits. If my dad didn't hate me already he certainly will after this. Snake thought miserably. His relationship with his dad had soured the second he had found out Snake was no longer a group cat via exile. Only his ancestors knew how he would react to this.
As the rouges reached the SkyClan camp there was an explosion of hissing and yowling, fur was flying, blood splattered onto the ground. Shrieks of pain didn't take long to sound either.
Snake wasn't even going to be part of the battle. Or at least not until the end.
Snake searched through the crowd. Until he eventually spotted Pink Eyes, fighting just as bravely as anyone else.
For a brief moment the two locked eyes. And in that moment Snake wanted the ground to just open up and swallow him. The pure disappointment in Pink Eyes' gaze was too much. . . He wasn't even angry. . . Just disappointed.
A shriek of terror caused Snake to turn. Slash had thrown Tiny Branch onto the ground in the middle of the clearing.
Snake froze, cold terror flooding through his veins. What is he doing?! His heart sped up.
Flower Foot was flung beside her brother. Then finally Dew Petal, farther away from her littermates.
No! Slash no! You can't do this! Snake's throat was dry. And for once, he didn't think Clear Sky was being a fox-heart. Snake was too stunned to hear what Clear Sky was saying, but the sheer terror in his voice was unmistakable.
Snake shook his head. Don't sympathize with him! He's still a fox-heart! He scolded himself. Slash wouldn't do anything to his mate's kits. He wasn't as bad as Mist.
Slash turned to Snake. "Kill the kit." he ordered.
Snake stared at him, somehow doubting he had heard him right. "What?!" he was shocked to his core.
The memory of watching Roach die flashed through his mind. He had only been a kit then. His sister Lizard had been with him. The two of them had been forced to watch their older sister be torn apart by a different group of rouges. Snake wasn't going to allow anyone else to be traumatized by that. He didn't care what consequences he faced. Death didn't matter anymore. What mattered now was keeping those kits safe.
Slash started to growl. "You heard me. Kill the kit."
"Snake no! Your quarrel is with me! Leave my kits out of it!" Clear Sky sounded genuinely scared. That terrified Snake. If even one of the most fox-hearted cats was scared. . . Then this was serious.
"Quiet or I'll kill the other two!" Slash snapped at Clear Sky.
Snake took a breath. His survival instincts had been killed and left to rot at this point. He slowly made his way over to Dew Petal, the she-kit let out a terrified wail.
Snake turned back to Slash. "This. . ." his voice was sly, as though he was about to agree with Slash. "Is the most horrible thing I could have ever imagined you doing." his tone turned to a true one, full of hate and resentment. "These kits are innocent! They did nothing to you! They're your mate's kits for the spirits sakes!" Snake stepped protectivly in front of the three kits. No one was harming them for as long as Snake had breath in his lungs.
Slash's expression twisted into one of complete rage. "Snake, I'll give you one more chance. Kill the kit." he growled menacingly.
Snake felt all the fear leave him. "Why would I believe you? You'll kill me either way. Either I die for something or I die for nothing. And I refuse to die for nothing." A new fire burned within him, stronger than anything he had ever felt before. It overtook his senses. And with this newfound emotion, he leaped onto Slash.
The next events rushed by in a blur, Slash tore into Snake's pelt causing his blood to flood onto the ground, Slash was attacked by Thunder, leaving Snake to stumble back. Then after Slash was chased away Star Flower followed, probably crying about how she would be back for her kits.
Snake stood frozen to the spot. Suddenly his legs wouldn't carry him and he collapsed to the ground. He was briefly aware of a cat calling his name before everything went black.

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✨ Cliff hanger ✨