He had just left the safety of his clan mates, and was about to do something that would save a cat's life. IceHeart stalked through the thick foliage towards his meeting spot. When he got there four cats were waiting, one was the leader of DarkClan, ShadeStar, the dark brown tabby was his deputy BrackenPelt, the dark gray one was a rogue named Sliver, and the last one was a light gray she-cat rogue named Moon. ShadeStar spoke, "IceHeart. You have come." he nodded to the white cat, IceHeart nodded back, "Yes I have been busy. But I have finally made it. What is my mission today?" He asked the black cat. BrackenPelt spoke first,  "You are to catch prey for..." He was cut off by ShadeStar, "Actually I have something else you can do. Kill Moon." The last thing ShadeStar said shook IceHeart, he had to kill the beautiful rogue. "No." He said to ShadeStar. But the leader didn't show emotion, "Then bring her into your clan and kill her there." IceHeart didn't know what to do.
It was about time for him to head back so he had to make up his mind, he would kill the rogue now. Moon looked shocked and scared, her brother Sliver just watched, as though he didn't care if she died. "You always were a mouse brain, sister." Sliver meowed coldly, Moon stared at her brother in surprise and then quickly looked back at IceHeart, he was now stalked up to her with his teeth and claws bared. When he was only a whisker away from her, he turned and jumped on ShadeStar, the leader was stunned. IceHeart big down hard on the back of his neck, and dug his claws deep into the cat fur, ripping chunks out, scratching, and causing the cat to bleed a lot. Moon stood shocked at the fight, not even noticing her brother getting ready to attack her. BrackenPelt got to his paws ready to jump into battle, Moon took notice and jumped on the big tom before he could attack. "NO! LEAVE HIM ALONE!" she yowled in battle through screeches of pain, while IceHeart pinned ShadeStar to the ground. The battle was soon done when Sliver had retreated due to the sudden outburst from his sister, and ShadeStar had bleed to death seconds after he surrendered. BrackenPelt ran away, leaving a trail of blood as he went, and the two cats yowled their victory. Moon and IceHeart made eye contact, "Why did you save me Moon? I was supposed to kill you." He said a bit puzzled, "Because I like you. No. I love you. I wanted to ask you to be my mate!" Moon looked at the tom with more love in her eyes than he had ever seen, even more than his own mother. IceHeart shook his head, "No. We can't be together Moon. I have a mate, and three lovely kits already." Moon didn't look hurt, she didn't change her emotion at all, "It can be a secret! No one will have to know! Oh please be my mate IceHeart!" She didn't stop. IceHeart watched her, he said nothing, "I said no Moon!" He suddenly rose his voice at her and she backed away. "But.......Fine!" She yowled. IceHeart let her stalk away, "But I'll be part of your family some time." she raced off through the trees.
A bush next to IceHeart shook and FlurryStorm stepped out, "Brother. I'm glad you made the right choice. And... Why have you been meeting with ShadeStar?!" She scolded him. IceHeart flinched away, "It's been about a moon since our meetings started. But I only came because he was threatening my mate's life. He said that he would launch an attack and make sure one of his warriors killed her." His heart shattered at the though of loosing his love, and making his young kits motherless. FlurryStorm understood his reason, "Of course brother. You did it for her. And I know that your heart is not as cold as your name says. Now let's get back to camp. The rest of the patrol is already there." She mewed warmly to her brother. He nodded and they walked back to camp together.
When they were a tree length away, the pair heard yowls and screeching coming from the camp, they raced towards it and burst through the entrance to find DarkClan warriors had invaded camp. They were loosing but still fighting strong, IceHeart froze when he heard a wail coming from the nursery. 'HoneyPetal!' He charged to the nursery and fun himself in, ignoring the thorns tearing at his skin. When he looked around he saw a large black and gray tom, it's dark purple eyes blazed, and in it's jaw was the limp body of HoneyPetal. Beside the tom was the tabby from before, "BrackenPelt!" IceHeart yowled and flung himself at the big cat. They wrestled with each other until IceHeart had pinned him down int he ground, the other tom whose name was SplotchFur, still hung onto HoneyPetal's neck. A thin line of blood trickled down her neck from his teeth, and beneath him, IceHeart's three kits layed unconscious. "NO!!!!" he bit down hard on the throat of BrackenPelt and stepped off him, he charge at SplotchFur and knocked him off his feet. IceHeart scratched the cat until his while face was covered with blood, and if the tom made it out alive he would have many scars to remember IceHeart by. IceHeart let go of SplotchFur and the warrior race off, all bloody and beaten, IceHeart raced over to HoneyPetal and the kits, they were all breathing but HoneyPetal was bleeding badly. He dragged his mate out from the den, the battle was over and LightClan seemed okay, "AppleTail! It's HoneyPetal! She was badly injured!" A moment later AppleTail came over with a bundle of herbs. As the medicine cat patched up the she-cat, BrackenPelt came crawling out. Everyone instantly started watching, "I.... *gasp*... W-Will... *gasp*... Get... You.... *gasp*... I.... *chokes and coughs up blood*" BrackenPelt died choking on his own blood. Everyone gasped, IceHeart's fur spiked, "Did you do this IceHeart?" His leader BrightStar asked. "Yes. But I only did it because I thought he killes my family." IceHeart's heart broke, this was it, he was going to be thrown out of his home. "You did the right thing. I'm sure he would have killed them if you hadn't stopped him." BrightStar didn't punish him for the death of a cat. But BrackenPelt's last words still rang in IceHeart's ear, "I will get you." is all he could hear at that moment, and he didn't even know his mate was calling him until AppleTail notified him. "I'm so glad your safe my love." He whispered into his mate's ear with care.