Post by 𝐛𝐥𝟒𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐨𝐥 on Oct 10, 2021 17:29:34 GMT -5
Everytime I read Warriors, I am always suprised by the fact that this is originally a children's book, the suggested age being 8 to 12 years old. But what are some truly terrifying moments in Warriors? I have some listed up for you guys, and you can always add more. (Disclaimer, I am not truly scared when reading about these moments. These are just some scenes that I think you can interpret as scary and nightmare fuel.) Also, some of these are copied from TvTropes, because I am very bad with words and I have problems explaining things.
Well, that was it! These are certainly a lot of scenes. If you want to spend your time reading this, go ahead!
NOT IN ORDER
1) Tigerstar's death
This is definitely a basic pick, but this list wouldn't make sense if this scene wasn't on it. Tigerstar got ripped open from throat to tail, screaming in agony, and I could almost feel Tigerstar's pain in that moment. It was so unexpected, and it was the most perfect and terrifying plottwist TDH could ever have. I loved how it made me feel. It didn't give me the satisfaction the death of the main villain should have given me, but it gave me fear because of Scourge. Pefection.
2) Brightheart and Swiftpaw being mauled by dogs
The ripped bodies of these cats being described certainly wasn't a pleasant thing. I could feel the fear Brigtpaw and Swiftpaw had to go through in their short story in 'Secrets of the Clans', and it was horrifying.
3) Firestar's nine lives ceremony
Nine year old me was definitely shaken by this scene. Firestar drowning in blood while being surrounded by bones after receaving his nine lives in a torturous trial? I could swear it gave me nightmares years ago.
4) Brokenstar training kits
This may have been more heartbreaking than terrifying, but it gave Brokenstar a more disgusting character and villain arc and it made YS and ItW more disturbing than it actually was. And poor Badgerfang... All those poor kits and their parents had to suffer in an endless cycle of violence and pain. I can't imagine what would've happend if ThunderClan didn't overthrow Brokenstar in time.
5) Fireheart's vision of a faceless queen.
Nobody ever speaks of this, and it honestly surprises me. This might be one of the scariest nightmares in Warriors. The only thing I forgot was about who exactly the dream was. I can swear it was Silverstream, but it might also be Bluestar, as FoS focused a lot on her and her kits. But I would say it was Silverstream, because her death was a major plot point in FoS.
6) Silverstream's death
Imo, child birth in Warriors is described in a kind of scary way. It is so detailed. And when the queen dies by child birth, it doesn't make it better. Also, the fact that she was described as 'being surrounded by blood', and 'her lifeblood gushing onto stones as she gave birth to a pair of tiny kits'... Wow. Definitely an extremely heartbreaking and bloody death. The fact that it was the first death of an actual major character, it made us feel something I guess.
7) The Bonehill
What else can I say. Does anyone blame Firestar for freezing in terror when he sees the thing? Not to mention the scene that follows... Tigerstar's sole purpose of holding a mock trial against Mistyfoot and Stonefur was to stir up hatred against them and Graystripe's kits, and then ordering Stonefur to kill innocent kits to prove their loyalty. But what makes it even worse was the fact that no matter what Stonefur did, Tigerstar intended to kill either them or Featherpaw and Stormpaw.
8) Poisoned rabbits
I am talking about the poisoned rabbits left on Clan territory, which when eaten cause the cats to seize up and die. Not even their own food is safe. I can't imagine the fear WindClan had to go through when they found out they couldn't eat their only prey.
9) Sharptooth
A mountain lion that feasts on the cats in the Tribe of Rushing Water. Every attempt the Tribe makes to drive it away results in slaughter, and Sharptooth just keeps killing them. His first in-book appearance describes him as being covered in blood, and when one caveguard tries to distract Sharptooth long enough for some of their tribemates to escape, Sharptooth simply throws them off into a wall without stopping its rampage, which is implied to have killed them from the force of the blow. As it's leaving Feathertail spots a mother cat desperately trying to escape its jaws, before it disappears with a flash of lightning, leaving the tribe terrified, wounded, and scattered. Until now Sharptooth has been played as a nebulous threat, something lurking in the shadows but not an immediate danger, but its invasion of the Tribe's home cements it as unironically one of the most terrifying enemies in the series.
10) The destruction of ShadowClan camp
The cats can't fight back against the monsters, and are forced to run as their world is literally torn apart around them. Just when they think they're safe, a huge tree nearly crushes Onewhisker and a kit, and Firestar makes a heroic sacrifice to shove them out of the way.
11) Longtail's blindness in general, but especially during the destruction of the forest.
The poor guy could only hear the trees being torn down, feel the ground being ripped open, and smell the fumes from the Monsters. As far as he could tell all hell was breaking loose around him and he had no way of knowing what was happening. Also, him screaming in pain when he went blind in FQ was so disturbing to read about...
12) The battle with the badgers
ThunderClan's home is invaded and its warriors are attacked by hulking, angry badgers, who themselves are fighting for revenge against the cats that drove their kin from their sets. Sootfur's death is particularly nasty- his back legs are broken, and even as Squirrelflight tries to rescue him he's delirious from pain and blood loss, unable to climb or stand, and just barely managing to swipe at a badger that approaches. He dies terrified, in pain, and alone.
13) "Before there is peace, blood will spill blood and the lake will run red..."
Scary prophecy check. This is definitely one of the scariest ones out there, and I am still thrilled by it.
14) Firestar's temporarily and Hawkfrost's first death
Firestar is slowly being strangled to death in the fox trap. He's foaming at the mouth, twitching, unable to fight back as Hawkfrost gloats about how he and Brambleclaw are going to kill him. When Brambleclaw refuses to kill his leader and starts trying to free him, it quickly turns into a desperate struggle of brother against brother, and Brambleclaw accidentally impales Hawkfrost with the wooden stake of the fox trap (was it accidently? I can remember Hawkfrost was winning the fight, so Brambleclaw tried to defend himself with the stake). His last moments describe blood pouring quickly out of Hawkfrost's wound, so much so that it becomes a large pool on the ground and flows down to the lakeshore. He speaks cryptic warnings to Brambleclaw that this isn't over, which causes the blood to pour even faster, while also coughing up blood clots. In the end, he collapses into the lake, but his spirit still lingers. Yikes.
15) Lionblaze's dream
In Dark River, Lionblaze has a dream where Hollyleaf transforms into a fox and brutally murders him. Idk why he had a nightmare about his sister, but it was pretty disturbing.
16) Rock. Just... Rock
He's a hideous bald cat with bulging blind eyes and curled, untrimmed claws. Not to mention the fact that he oversees a test that involves navigating through a complex underground maze in complete darkness. Oh yeah, and if it rains, the tunnels flood and you drown. Good luck.
He has revealed that he is doomed to live forever, aware of every bad thing that will happen, but completely powerless to change things. Yay.
17) Lionblaze's dreams about slaughtering Heathertail
Tigerstar sent Lionblaze horrifying nightmares where he kills Heathertail over and over again.One features a river running with her blood, and in another dream, he slices open her throat and blood comes pouring out until he is completely drenched in it. In yet another one, it sounds almost like he tore her open. Bro just bathed in her blood.
18) Ashfur's villain arc
Ashfur's slow and steady devolution into a bitter and resentful tom unable to let go of Squirrelflight after she breaks up with him. We watch as he becomes colder and more irrational towards Lionpaw and his clanmates, his quiet anger that seems to bubble just underneath the surface, all culminating in the fire scene in Long Shadows. The only reason that the Three survived the fire was due to Squirrelflight revealing the truth, but even that wasn't enough to quell his anger, as he threatened to tell everyone how she had lied. In a series full of villains, Ashfur stands out as one not motivated by ambition or greed, but by revenge and a desire to own the woman who rejected him. One of the most well-written villains in the series, and it's horrifying.
19) Hollyleaf's imagination
In one scene, Hollyleaf imagines a mouse as Leafpool and violently tears its body to shreds, enjoying the feeling of ripping the life out of her. When she's done, the remains are described as a red pulp. She's changed, and she can't hold back from her intent for murder, her anger so pure.
20) Hollyleaf murdering Ashfur
It was a very disturbing murder scene imo. I shivered when I read it the first time. Hollyleaf hunting Ashfur down like he was prey, her hatred for him, the way her killing him was described... it gave me chills.
21) Jayfeather's dream
In this particular dream he watches his Clanmates slaughtered one by one, from seeing Graystripe fall to a dark forest warrior to Millie trying to avenge her mate, only to be slaughtered as well. But what is really scary is Ivypool in his dream, watching everything with a smile on her face. It was a scene that made me lay my book down.
22) Most of the training in the Dark Forest.
The torture. The death of Antpelt and his enthusiasm with being a warrior of the Dark Forest. Ivypool having to kill him. The drowning scene. Mapleshade and Thistleclaw in general with Ivypool. Blossomfall's fall into the Dark Forest, that she hates Briarlight because of Millie's attention fixated on her. Highlights include Mapleshade holding Ivypaw underwater until she almost drowns, Thistleclaw killing Antpelt, Ivypool's final assessment ending with her eviscerating Antpelt's spirit, and Brokenstar testing Ivypaw by urging her to kill Flametail. The way the Dark Forest cats train themselves in death blows: violently killing each other in front of an audience, repeatedly. In one particularly jarring scene from Omen of the Stars, the chapter suddenly cuts off with Jayfeather gagging as he hears one of these unlucky cats screaming in agony when his belly is slit open.
23) When the entrance to the tunnel opens up in Sign of the Moon.
Lionblaze imagines Dovewing and Icecloud falling to the ground and finding Hollyleaf's decaying corpse. Yay, another disturbing thought which makes me feel nauseous.
24) Something with Rock
In one part of The Last Hope, Rock gathers up all the Ancients to ask the Three why they have been abandoned. If the perpetually sweet Half Moon screaming like a maniac isn't enough to terrify you, Rock starts trying to bury the Three alive. Not to mention the river starts flowing with blood.
25) Beetlewhisker's fate in The Last Hope.
It involves Brokenstar lifting him up from the ground by his throat while the poor cat begs for help, until his neck snaps. It's heavily implied that due to him dying in the Dark Forest, StarClan can't reach him, forcing his spirit to linger in the Dark Forest for eternity. Thankfully this is retconned when Vicky later confirmed that he was allowed to join StarClan, but his death is still horrific.
26) Yellowcough
The disease that strikes ShadowClan in Thunder and Shadow, sounds a lot like feline distemper. Distemper is actually pretty scary, not to mention deadly.
27) Everything about Darktail.
He combines Tigerstar's brutality with Sol's cunning and affably evil attitude. And his execution methods. It's implied that Darktail killed every ShadowClan cat who left the rogues by drowning them. That is some scary villain.
28) Needletail's fate.
Darktail locks her in an unhygienic cave full of prisoners and starves her in a humiliating fashion. Later, he slowly drowns her in order to punish her best friend, only to change his mind at the very last moment and tries to force her to kill her friend. She refuses and tells Violetpaw to run, which results in her death.
29) The Kin
The Kin is a terrifyingly realistic depiction of a cult. Members are manipulated into praising Darktail as their leader and doing his biddings, pledging loyalty to the group, and whoever resists or questions the Kin's function is usually killed or held prisoner. Some kittypets are even essentially kidnapped and forced to join, with the Kin promising them a great life only to never let them leave when they want to.
30) Nettle kidnapping Flaxkit and Hopkit
Yarrowleaf's former mate and Flaxkit and Hopkit's father, Nettle, kidnaps the kits in response to Yarrowleaf ending their relationship and deciding to raise her kits in ShadowClan, snarling viciously that the kits are just as much his as they are hers. To make matters worse, when Hopkit and Flaxkit try to run to their mother upon seeing her come for them, Nettle cruelly slashes them with his claws and screeches at them to keep away, as they're going to live with him as rogues now. Thankfully the two are successfully reunited with Yarrowleaf and returned to ShadowClan, but the whole thing plays out like a nightmarish parental abduction.
31) Bramblestar being possessed.
ThunderClan slowly becomes more and more polarized as "Bramblestar" turns on his clanmates, punishing them for non-crimes and becoming more self-aggrandizing and paranoid. Even worse, the other clans are drawn into his act, with RiverClan and WindClan gladly exiling their codebreakers on his word.
32) If the Kin are a scarily accurate depiction of a cult, the impostor is a scarily accurate depiction of a dictator turning Clan life into a fascist state.
At first he introduces new, strict rules with the "reassurance" it's just until they appease StarClan, but over time he turns that into an excuse to twist the warrior code however he likes and punish anyone he deems a codebreaker. Highlights include forcing the elders to eat last and actually striking one when Graystripe speaks out against him; throwing Squirrelflight off the Highrock; forcing an apprentice to sleep in the forest because she "supported stealing"note ; and worst of all, setting a pack of dogs on Sparkpelt because she snuck off to visit Lionblaze.
The description of life in ThunderClan in Veil of Shadows: every cat is afraid of saying or doing anything that could get them labeled a codebreaker, the impostor has spies reporting everything to him, and the Clan has no competent healer because both Jayfeather and Alderheart were exiled.
33) Shadowsight being attacked
He is jumped in the darkness, critically wounded, and thrown into a gorge. His body is left to rot for several days before he's eventually found by Rootpaw. His spirit is unable to reach StarClan, and as he waits for his body to heal he learns more and more about what's happening in the clans. Special mention goes to when he visits Bramblestar, only for the Imposter to leave Bramblestar's body and address Shadowsight directly, taunting him about his failure and gloating about how he's the one who killed Shadowsight.
34) Berrynose's death
The poor warrior just wanted to be loyal to his clan and his leader, only to end up eviscerated. The description of it is bone-chilling as well- we're not shown any blood, just told that "[he] let out a shriek and collapsed, withering."
35) The ghost scene in Darkness Within
Rootspring and the Sisters attempt to speak with the cats who haven't yet departed to StarClan. Instead of what's happened normally, we're treated to a scene where Rootspring describes the writhing, screaming, and angry spirits of the cats who haven't been able to go to StarClan, trapped in a Fate Worse than Death until the clans can figure out a way to get rid of Ashfur. It's something straight out of a horror movie.
36) The way the impostor/Ashfur manipulates Shadowsight and Bristlefrost.
He sets himself up as a trustworthy figure in their lives, makes them out to be "special" (Shadowsight as The Chosen One, entrusting Bristlefrost with important duties), and then preys on their fears to get them to do what he wants. They were isolated, manipulated, and groomed by someone they thought they could trust, without any of their family or friends realizing it.
Especially creepy is the scene where he praises Bristlefrost for being such a loyal, hard-working cat before saying in the same breath that it would be just terrible if it turned out she wasn't.
In Darkness Within, even though Shadowsight knows Ashfur is evil and just used him as an Unwitting Pawn, Ashfur is still able to manipulate him. He switches between being apparently genuinely pleased to see him and cruelly prodding at his insecurities, which deepens the wedge he created between Shadowsight and the rest of ShadowClan: they see Ashfur treating him like a friend and distrust him further, while Shadowsight's own doubts and frustrations make him increasingly isolated from everyone but Ashfur.
37) Willowshine's death scene.
Willowshine's death scene. She peacefully goes to sleep to try entering the Dark Forest...until Rootspring sees her spirit emerge from her body, and realizes she's dead. Then her spirit starts shrieking in terror and yelling "let me go!" before being dragged into the Moonpool by something. After a bit of shaken discussion, everyone realizes that it was almost certainly Ashfur, which means that he knew she was there and killed her literally seconds after she arrived.
38) The Dark Forest in TBC
The Dark Forest is portrayed in a much more eerie and frightening manner than it was in past books. It's mentioned that cats who spend too much time there slowly grow as twisted as it, it seems to eat memories (as Snowtuft doesn't recall what he did to get there, or much of anything about his life other than he was born and raised in ShadowClan and wasn't the most virtuous cat), and then there's the scene where Rootspring and Squirrelflight try to flee the Ashfur-controlled Stemleaf: it's foggy and no matter how fast they run, whenever they glance back, he's right behind them.
39) Mapleshade's bloodthirsty speech to Silverhawk
With blood-chilling glee she talks about the idea of possessing the body of a young she-cat and using it to brutally kill other cats. Rootspring, who overhears it, fears she will choose Bristlefrost as her new body.
40) What Ashfur has done to the spirits of the cats who have died since the beginning of the series, and his plans for them.
With some unknown power of his mind, Ashfur has turned the spirits, once free, noble warriors, into blank-eyed slaves that mindlessly obey his every command. He intends to use them as an unwilling army against the Clans. Imagine that. Imagine being forced to attack your own friends and family! What makes it worse is the high possibility that their true selves are still in there and may be aware of exactly what they are being forced to do.
41) Rootspring and Squirrelflight trying to escape
Following the scene where Rootspring and Squirrelflight are trying to escape Stemleaf, they think they hear Bramblestar's voice. Instead, four of Ashfur's puppet-cats step out of the fog and, speaking in unison, speaking in Bramblestar's voice, say "there you are!"
42) Sorrelkit nearly dying from deathberries
What makes this so nightmarish is that Darkstripe was a warrior Sorrelkit thought of as trustworthy. For him to betray her trust and outright try to kill her with a deadly and painful method such as deathberries is spine chilling.
It's the idea someone you trusted with trying to kill you without warning. And the fact that Sorrelkit was Darkstripe's sister...
43) Hollyleaf's entire sanity slippage in Sunrise.
Hollyleaf's entire sanity slippage in Sunrise.
What makes this so terrifying to read is seeing a normally composed and loyal warrior begin to fall deeper and deeper in her own madness and denial, from brutalizing her prey and imagining it as Leafpool, to the climax where she tries to kill her own mother by forcing her to commit suicide. And to top it all off, being essentially buried alive (kind of).
What can also be added to this is that not only Hollyleaf was effected; both Lionblaze and Jayfeather had nightmarish dreams about her.
44) Ivypool's torture in The Last Hope
Ivypool is essentially held down and Hawkfrost plans to brutally torture her to the point of death, and then kill her. This was something very horrific in my opinion. I did not like Ivypool, but I was scared to see her getting tortured.
45) Flametail drowning
Poor boy... What made this scene so horrific was the fact that we saw it from his perspective, until his last breath.
46) The whole Mapleshade's Vengeance book...
What a book... Mapleshade's Vengeance in particular is a bit darker than the average Warriors book. After she and her kits are exiled, she struggles to save her kits as the river floods, and they end up drowning with her powerless to save them. It's also revealed that Frecklewish was watching and did nothing to help. Mapleshade decides to get revenge by murdering three cats, one for each kit. The medicine cat Ravenwing's is particularly dark: she murders him at the Moonstone—the equivalent of killing a priest at church—and after the other medicine cats bury him, she exhumes him so that the hawks can feast on his corpse. Frecklewish doesn't get away unscathed, either: Mapleshade lures her to Snakerocks, and an adder spits venom in her eyes.
The same book also illustrates the dangers of mob mentality and misplaced retribution, with ThunderClan's horrific treatment of Mapleshade's kits after their father is revealed to be Appledusk of RiverClan, who killed two ThunderClan cats. Oakstar sentences them to exile along with their mother. Mapleshade's former mentor Bloomheart coldly agrees that they don't belong in ThunderClan. Frecklewish screeches at them, calling them "half-Clan creatures" and shouting for them to be driven out (especially jarring, considering how much she loved them when she thought they were her brother's kits). Not one cat speaks up for them or their mother. Not one cat realizes that they're just kits, that they shouldn't be held responsible for what their parents did. Blinded with fury, the Clan drives Mapleshade and her kits out—and when the dust has settled and ThunderClan's anger has stilled, possibly enough to come to their senses, it's too late to make amends, because the kits have drowned in the river while trying to cross to RiverClan.
47) Swoop's death
The fact Dovewing could still hear her screams as she was carried away...
48) Falling Feather and Jackdaw's Cry killing each other
It was a perfect and disturbing way to represent what the antagonism between the two groups did to otherwise loving bonds. Letting two siblings kill each other showed it perfectly.
49) Thunderstar and Lightning Tail death scene and in StarClan
Thunderstar and Lightening Tail are both killed by dogs and die beside each other, which is kinda nightmareish. The part that really drives it home is Thunderstar realising how having 9 lives can be a curse as he's probably going to have to watch his Clanmates and friends die before him countless of times.
50) At the end of Rise of Scourge, the picture of Tigerstar there and Scourge crawling all over his body.
Just that.
51) Mapleshade looking like a demon in the CP manga
Bro, I still have nightmares about that (jk, maybe Crookedstar does)
52) SkyClan's Destiny prologue
The cats couldn't carry back the dead bodies of two warriors back to the gorge for the fear of being killed themselves. One of the elders gets upset at this, and responds by hobbling off towards a cliff face. Spiderstar stops him and says, "We've lost enough warriors tonight." This implies that the elder was going to commit suicide.
53) The story in Code of the Clans about how Code #14 (a warrior does not need to kill to win battles) came to be.
The medicine cat is visited in her dream by a very young apprentice, essentially a child, who was killed in battle the day before. It's eerie enough with him reminding her that he's dead, and speaking with a wisdom beyond his age. But then he fades away (his eyes being the last thing to disappear), giving us this line as he fades: "That WindClan warrior didn't need to kill me. I knew I was beaten. If he'd let go of me, I'd have run away. He didn't have to keep biting me, harder and harder..."
54) Floss waking up to find that the Twolegs, who own the barn where she lives, took her kits while she was asleep.
That's bad enough by itself, but her kits were newborns — as in, too young to survive without their mother, which strongly suggests that they took the kits away to have them euthanized.
55) Pretty much the entirety of Spottedleaf's Heart.
Spottedpaw, a young child, is essentially groomed by Thistleclaw, a senior warrior with a son her age and a respected member of her community. For those who are unaware, child grooming is a process in which an adult establishes a close relationship with a young child, and often their family, in order to isolate them, discourage them from seeking outside help, and often sexually abuse them. Perhaps the most frightening part for any adult reader is when, after a fight over Thistleclaw's brutality, he corners her alone near Sunningrocks, plies her with food, compliments her, and then says that they could have a future together. While she is initially hesitant, she eventually agrees to meet him in the woods. At night. Alone. He ends up taking her to the Dark Forest, but the implications of what could have happened are terrifying.
The worst part of all of this? Because we are presented with this story from the perspective of the victim, Thistleclaw's relationship with Spottedpaw comes off as a genuine romance instead of the insidious process that it is. And no one in Spottedpaw's life, from her parents to her mentor to her leader, picks up on any of this, meaning Thistleclaw stays a respected and beloved member of his community. Thistleclaw may not have ended up in a relationship with Spottedpaw, but the fact remains that he tried to start a romantic relationship with a child and faced no consequences, serving as a chilling parallel to real-life predators in positions of power. note
Also in Spottedleaf's Heart, Thistleclaw brings Spottedpaw to the Dark Forest, where he proceeds to brutally maul one of his fellow trainees. When Spottedpaw returns a second time to tell Thistleclaw that she wants to be with him, she arrives to witness him murder another cat, and despite doing everything she can, the she-cat dies in front of Spottedpaw. Worse, when Spottedpaw shows terror and horror at Thistleclaw murdering the cat, the Dark Forest immediately turns on her, with Mapleshade threatening to kill the apprentice if Thistleclaw doesn't "get rid of her". (no I didn't wrote this by myself lol).
56) Crowfeather's nightmare
In Crowfeather's Trial, Crowfeather has a nightmare about the Great Battle, where in Breezepelt blinds him and leaves him helpless. All Crowfeather can do is press up against Hollyleaf's dead body and shake as he waits for the next blow.
He later has another nightmare where he sees the cats of the Dark Forest encircle him and call out for him to join them.
57) Sparkpelt going through labor in Squirrelflight's Hope.
It isn't the labor that's very terrifying; rather it's the circumstances. Her mate, Larksong, gets prey sickness and only gets worse, and Sparkpelt goes through so much stress that she begins kitting early, as her mate dies in front of her. To make it worse, Larksong dies just as Sparkpelt finishes giving birth, and one of their kits ends up being stillborn. It's so traumatizing that Sparkpelt begins to experience depression and neglects her surviving kits.
58) Moon Shadow's death...
This was incredibly horrifying to read about. A cat on fire? Moon Shadow was literally burning to death, screaming in pain, and oh, that small paragraph was enough to leave horrible mental images.
59) One Eye
He is one scary cat. Described as an old, skinny, mangy, one-eyed tom with jagged claws, One Eye displays an arrogant, selfish, sadistic streak like no other villain who has appeared in Warriors before him. He has a complete lack of empathy, only cares about himself, thinks very highly of himself, and takes blood-chilling pleasure in dominating and torturing other cats. The scenes where he tortures Sparrow Fur, scars Clear Sky's cats with his mark, and has his lackeys brutally beat up Acorn Fur, are quite disturbing.
60) Shadowstar's fear and trust issues
It was kinda disturbing to see her become so vulnerable and scared. She looked at every cat with amber eyes with distrust, she was too scared to appoint a deputy... Her fear felt so real to me.
61) Brokenstar's blindness and death
Same with Longtail, I thought Brokenstar's blindness was very disturbing. Both of their eyes were scratched open, and both of the scenes where it happend gave me chills. And I mean in the way that I shivered while reading it. The pain was written so well. Brokenstar's death was also pretty horrific. He thought he was going to be healed, but he ended up poisoned, foaming at the mouth, unable to be saved.
62) Fallen Leaves fate
Fallen Leaves drowned all alone. He was trapped in the tunnels for eternity, drowned over and over again, and I can't describe how sorry I feel for this poor guy.
1) Tigerstar's death
This is definitely a basic pick, but this list wouldn't make sense if this scene wasn't on it. Tigerstar got ripped open from throat to tail, screaming in agony, and I could almost feel Tigerstar's pain in that moment. It was so unexpected, and it was the most perfect and terrifying plottwist TDH could ever have. I loved how it made me feel. It didn't give me the satisfaction the death of the main villain should have given me, but it gave me fear because of Scourge. Pefection.
2) Brightheart and Swiftpaw being mauled by dogs
The ripped bodies of these cats being described certainly wasn't a pleasant thing. I could feel the fear Brigtpaw and Swiftpaw had to go through in their short story in 'Secrets of the Clans', and it was horrifying.
3) Firestar's nine lives ceremony
Nine year old me was definitely shaken by this scene. Firestar drowning in blood while being surrounded by bones after receaving his nine lives in a torturous trial? I could swear it gave me nightmares years ago.
4) Brokenstar training kits
This may have been more heartbreaking than terrifying, but it gave Brokenstar a more disgusting character and villain arc and it made YS and ItW more disturbing than it actually was. And poor Badgerfang... All those poor kits and their parents had to suffer in an endless cycle of violence and pain. I can't imagine what would've happend if ThunderClan didn't overthrow Brokenstar in time.
5) Fireheart's vision of a faceless queen.
Nobody ever speaks of this, and it honestly surprises me. This might be one of the scariest nightmares in Warriors. The only thing I forgot was about who exactly the dream was. I can swear it was Silverstream, but it might also be Bluestar, as FoS focused a lot on her and her kits. But I would say it was Silverstream, because her death was a major plot point in FoS.
6) Silverstream's death
Imo, child birth in Warriors is described in a kind of scary way. It is so detailed. And when the queen dies by child birth, it doesn't make it better. Also, the fact that she was described as 'being surrounded by blood', and 'her lifeblood gushing onto stones as she gave birth to a pair of tiny kits'... Wow. Definitely an extremely heartbreaking and bloody death. The fact that it was the first death of an actual major character, it made us feel something I guess.
7) The Bonehill
What else can I say. Does anyone blame Firestar for freezing in terror when he sees the thing? Not to mention the scene that follows... Tigerstar's sole purpose of holding a mock trial against Mistyfoot and Stonefur was to stir up hatred against them and Graystripe's kits, and then ordering Stonefur to kill innocent kits to prove their loyalty. But what makes it even worse was the fact that no matter what Stonefur did, Tigerstar intended to kill either them or Featherpaw and Stormpaw.
8) Poisoned rabbits
I am talking about the poisoned rabbits left on Clan territory, which when eaten cause the cats to seize up and die. Not even their own food is safe. I can't imagine the fear WindClan had to go through when they found out they couldn't eat their only prey.
9) Sharptooth
A mountain lion that feasts on the cats in the Tribe of Rushing Water. Every attempt the Tribe makes to drive it away results in slaughter, and Sharptooth just keeps killing them. His first in-book appearance describes him as being covered in blood, and when one caveguard tries to distract Sharptooth long enough for some of their tribemates to escape, Sharptooth simply throws them off into a wall without stopping its rampage, which is implied to have killed them from the force of the blow. As it's leaving Feathertail spots a mother cat desperately trying to escape its jaws, before it disappears with a flash of lightning, leaving the tribe terrified, wounded, and scattered. Until now Sharptooth has been played as a nebulous threat, something lurking in the shadows but not an immediate danger, but its invasion of the Tribe's home cements it as unironically one of the most terrifying enemies in the series.
10) The destruction of ShadowClan camp
The cats can't fight back against the monsters, and are forced to run as their world is literally torn apart around them. Just when they think they're safe, a huge tree nearly crushes Onewhisker and a kit, and Firestar makes a heroic sacrifice to shove them out of the way.
11) Longtail's blindness in general, but especially during the destruction of the forest.
The poor guy could only hear the trees being torn down, feel the ground being ripped open, and smell the fumes from the Monsters. As far as he could tell all hell was breaking loose around him and he had no way of knowing what was happening. Also, him screaming in pain when he went blind in FQ was so disturbing to read about...
12) The battle with the badgers
ThunderClan's home is invaded and its warriors are attacked by hulking, angry badgers, who themselves are fighting for revenge against the cats that drove their kin from their sets. Sootfur's death is particularly nasty- his back legs are broken, and even as Squirrelflight tries to rescue him he's delirious from pain and blood loss, unable to climb or stand, and just barely managing to swipe at a badger that approaches. He dies terrified, in pain, and alone.
13) "Before there is peace, blood will spill blood and the lake will run red..."
Scary prophecy check. This is definitely one of the scariest ones out there, and I am still thrilled by it.
14) Firestar's temporarily and Hawkfrost's first death
Firestar is slowly being strangled to death in the fox trap. He's foaming at the mouth, twitching, unable to fight back as Hawkfrost gloats about how he and Brambleclaw are going to kill him. When Brambleclaw refuses to kill his leader and starts trying to free him, it quickly turns into a desperate struggle of brother against brother, and Brambleclaw accidentally impales Hawkfrost with the wooden stake of the fox trap (was it accidently? I can remember Hawkfrost was winning the fight, so Brambleclaw tried to defend himself with the stake). His last moments describe blood pouring quickly out of Hawkfrost's wound, so much so that it becomes a large pool on the ground and flows down to the lakeshore. He speaks cryptic warnings to Brambleclaw that this isn't over, which causes the blood to pour even faster, while also coughing up blood clots. In the end, he collapses into the lake, but his spirit still lingers. Yikes.
15) Lionblaze's dream
In Dark River, Lionblaze has a dream where Hollyleaf transforms into a fox and brutally murders him. Idk why he had a nightmare about his sister, but it was pretty disturbing.
16) Rock. Just... Rock
He's a hideous bald cat with bulging blind eyes and curled, untrimmed claws. Not to mention the fact that he oversees a test that involves navigating through a complex underground maze in complete darkness. Oh yeah, and if it rains, the tunnels flood and you drown. Good luck.
He has revealed that he is doomed to live forever, aware of every bad thing that will happen, but completely powerless to change things. Yay.
17) Lionblaze's dreams about slaughtering Heathertail
Tigerstar sent Lionblaze horrifying nightmares where he kills Heathertail over and over again.One features a river running with her blood, and in another dream, he slices open her throat and blood comes pouring out until he is completely drenched in it. In yet another one, it sounds almost like he tore her open. Bro just bathed in her blood.
18) Ashfur's villain arc
Ashfur's slow and steady devolution into a bitter and resentful tom unable to let go of Squirrelflight after she breaks up with him. We watch as he becomes colder and more irrational towards Lionpaw and his clanmates, his quiet anger that seems to bubble just underneath the surface, all culminating in the fire scene in Long Shadows. The only reason that the Three survived the fire was due to Squirrelflight revealing the truth, but even that wasn't enough to quell his anger, as he threatened to tell everyone how she had lied. In a series full of villains, Ashfur stands out as one not motivated by ambition or greed, but by revenge and a desire to own the woman who rejected him. One of the most well-written villains in the series, and it's horrifying.
19) Hollyleaf's imagination
In one scene, Hollyleaf imagines a mouse as Leafpool and violently tears its body to shreds, enjoying the feeling of ripping the life out of her. When she's done, the remains are described as a red pulp. She's changed, and she can't hold back from her intent for murder, her anger so pure.
20) Hollyleaf murdering Ashfur
It was a very disturbing murder scene imo. I shivered when I read it the first time. Hollyleaf hunting Ashfur down like he was prey, her hatred for him, the way her killing him was described... it gave me chills.
21) Jayfeather's dream
In this particular dream he watches his Clanmates slaughtered one by one, from seeing Graystripe fall to a dark forest warrior to Millie trying to avenge her mate, only to be slaughtered as well. But what is really scary is Ivypool in his dream, watching everything with a smile on her face. It was a scene that made me lay my book down.
22) Most of the training in the Dark Forest.
The torture. The death of Antpelt and his enthusiasm with being a warrior of the Dark Forest. Ivypool having to kill him. The drowning scene. Mapleshade and Thistleclaw in general with Ivypool. Blossomfall's fall into the Dark Forest, that she hates Briarlight because of Millie's attention fixated on her. Highlights include Mapleshade holding Ivypaw underwater until she almost drowns, Thistleclaw killing Antpelt, Ivypool's final assessment ending with her eviscerating Antpelt's spirit, and Brokenstar testing Ivypaw by urging her to kill Flametail. The way the Dark Forest cats train themselves in death blows: violently killing each other in front of an audience, repeatedly. In one particularly jarring scene from Omen of the Stars, the chapter suddenly cuts off with Jayfeather gagging as he hears one of these unlucky cats screaming in agony when his belly is slit open.
23) When the entrance to the tunnel opens up in Sign of the Moon.
Lionblaze imagines Dovewing and Icecloud falling to the ground and finding Hollyleaf's decaying corpse. Yay, another disturbing thought which makes me feel nauseous.
24) Something with Rock
In one part of The Last Hope, Rock gathers up all the Ancients to ask the Three why they have been abandoned. If the perpetually sweet Half Moon screaming like a maniac isn't enough to terrify you, Rock starts trying to bury the Three alive. Not to mention the river starts flowing with blood.
25) Beetlewhisker's fate in The Last Hope.
It involves Brokenstar lifting him up from the ground by his throat while the poor cat begs for help, until his neck snaps. It's heavily implied that due to him dying in the Dark Forest, StarClan can't reach him, forcing his spirit to linger in the Dark Forest for eternity. Thankfully this is retconned when Vicky later confirmed that he was allowed to join StarClan, but his death is still horrific.
26) Yellowcough
The disease that strikes ShadowClan in Thunder and Shadow, sounds a lot like feline distemper. Distemper is actually pretty scary, not to mention deadly.
27) Everything about Darktail.
He combines Tigerstar's brutality with Sol's cunning and affably evil attitude. And his execution methods. It's implied that Darktail killed every ShadowClan cat who left the rogues by drowning them. That is some scary villain.
28) Needletail's fate.
Darktail locks her in an unhygienic cave full of prisoners and starves her in a humiliating fashion. Later, he slowly drowns her in order to punish her best friend, only to change his mind at the very last moment and tries to force her to kill her friend. She refuses and tells Violetpaw to run, which results in her death.
29) The Kin
The Kin is a terrifyingly realistic depiction of a cult. Members are manipulated into praising Darktail as their leader and doing his biddings, pledging loyalty to the group, and whoever resists or questions the Kin's function is usually killed or held prisoner. Some kittypets are even essentially kidnapped and forced to join, with the Kin promising them a great life only to never let them leave when they want to.
30) Nettle kidnapping Flaxkit and Hopkit
Yarrowleaf's former mate and Flaxkit and Hopkit's father, Nettle, kidnaps the kits in response to Yarrowleaf ending their relationship and deciding to raise her kits in ShadowClan, snarling viciously that the kits are just as much his as they are hers. To make matters worse, when Hopkit and Flaxkit try to run to their mother upon seeing her come for them, Nettle cruelly slashes them with his claws and screeches at them to keep away, as they're going to live with him as rogues now. Thankfully the two are successfully reunited with Yarrowleaf and returned to ShadowClan, but the whole thing plays out like a nightmarish parental abduction.
31) Bramblestar being possessed.
ThunderClan slowly becomes more and more polarized as "Bramblestar" turns on his clanmates, punishing them for non-crimes and becoming more self-aggrandizing and paranoid. Even worse, the other clans are drawn into his act, with RiverClan and WindClan gladly exiling their codebreakers on his word.
32) If the Kin are a scarily accurate depiction of a cult, the impostor is a scarily accurate depiction of a dictator turning Clan life into a fascist state.
At first he introduces new, strict rules with the "reassurance" it's just until they appease StarClan, but over time he turns that into an excuse to twist the warrior code however he likes and punish anyone he deems a codebreaker. Highlights include forcing the elders to eat last and actually striking one when Graystripe speaks out against him; throwing Squirrelflight off the Highrock; forcing an apprentice to sleep in the forest because she "supported stealing"note ; and worst of all, setting a pack of dogs on Sparkpelt because she snuck off to visit Lionblaze.
The description of life in ThunderClan in Veil of Shadows: every cat is afraid of saying or doing anything that could get them labeled a codebreaker, the impostor has spies reporting everything to him, and the Clan has no competent healer because both Jayfeather and Alderheart were exiled.
33) Shadowsight being attacked
He is jumped in the darkness, critically wounded, and thrown into a gorge. His body is left to rot for several days before he's eventually found by Rootpaw. His spirit is unable to reach StarClan, and as he waits for his body to heal he learns more and more about what's happening in the clans. Special mention goes to when he visits Bramblestar, only for the Imposter to leave Bramblestar's body and address Shadowsight directly, taunting him about his failure and gloating about how he's the one who killed Shadowsight.
34) Berrynose's death
The poor warrior just wanted to be loyal to his clan and his leader, only to end up eviscerated. The description of it is bone-chilling as well- we're not shown any blood, just told that "[he] let out a shriek and collapsed, withering."
35) The ghost scene in Darkness Within
Rootspring and the Sisters attempt to speak with the cats who haven't yet departed to StarClan. Instead of what's happened normally, we're treated to a scene where Rootspring describes the writhing, screaming, and angry spirits of the cats who haven't been able to go to StarClan, trapped in a Fate Worse than Death until the clans can figure out a way to get rid of Ashfur. It's something straight out of a horror movie.
36) The way the impostor/Ashfur manipulates Shadowsight and Bristlefrost.
He sets himself up as a trustworthy figure in their lives, makes them out to be "special" (Shadowsight as The Chosen One, entrusting Bristlefrost with important duties), and then preys on their fears to get them to do what he wants. They were isolated, manipulated, and groomed by someone they thought they could trust, without any of their family or friends realizing it.
Especially creepy is the scene where he praises Bristlefrost for being such a loyal, hard-working cat before saying in the same breath that it would be just terrible if it turned out she wasn't.
In Darkness Within, even though Shadowsight knows Ashfur is evil and just used him as an Unwitting Pawn, Ashfur is still able to manipulate him. He switches between being apparently genuinely pleased to see him and cruelly prodding at his insecurities, which deepens the wedge he created between Shadowsight and the rest of ShadowClan: they see Ashfur treating him like a friend and distrust him further, while Shadowsight's own doubts and frustrations make him increasingly isolated from everyone but Ashfur.
37) Willowshine's death scene.
Willowshine's death scene. She peacefully goes to sleep to try entering the Dark Forest...until Rootspring sees her spirit emerge from her body, and realizes she's dead. Then her spirit starts shrieking in terror and yelling "let me go!" before being dragged into the Moonpool by something. After a bit of shaken discussion, everyone realizes that it was almost certainly Ashfur, which means that he knew she was there and killed her literally seconds after she arrived.
38) The Dark Forest in TBC
The Dark Forest is portrayed in a much more eerie and frightening manner than it was in past books. It's mentioned that cats who spend too much time there slowly grow as twisted as it, it seems to eat memories (as Snowtuft doesn't recall what he did to get there, or much of anything about his life other than he was born and raised in ShadowClan and wasn't the most virtuous cat), and then there's the scene where Rootspring and Squirrelflight try to flee the Ashfur-controlled Stemleaf: it's foggy and no matter how fast they run, whenever they glance back, he's right behind them.
39) Mapleshade's bloodthirsty speech to Silverhawk
With blood-chilling glee she talks about the idea of possessing the body of a young she-cat and using it to brutally kill other cats. Rootspring, who overhears it, fears she will choose Bristlefrost as her new body.
40) What Ashfur has done to the spirits of the cats who have died since the beginning of the series, and his plans for them.
With some unknown power of his mind, Ashfur has turned the spirits, once free, noble warriors, into blank-eyed slaves that mindlessly obey his every command. He intends to use them as an unwilling army against the Clans. Imagine that. Imagine being forced to attack your own friends and family! What makes it worse is the high possibility that their true selves are still in there and may be aware of exactly what they are being forced to do.
41) Rootspring and Squirrelflight trying to escape
Following the scene where Rootspring and Squirrelflight are trying to escape Stemleaf, they think they hear Bramblestar's voice. Instead, four of Ashfur's puppet-cats step out of the fog and, speaking in unison, speaking in Bramblestar's voice, say "there you are!"
42) Sorrelkit nearly dying from deathberries
What makes this so nightmarish is that Darkstripe was a warrior Sorrelkit thought of as trustworthy. For him to betray her trust and outright try to kill her with a deadly and painful method such as deathberries is spine chilling.
It's the idea someone you trusted with trying to kill you without warning. And the fact that Sorrelkit was Darkstripe's sister...
43) Hollyleaf's entire sanity slippage in Sunrise.
Hollyleaf's entire sanity slippage in Sunrise.
What makes this so terrifying to read is seeing a normally composed and loyal warrior begin to fall deeper and deeper in her own madness and denial, from brutalizing her prey and imagining it as Leafpool, to the climax where she tries to kill her own mother by forcing her to commit suicide. And to top it all off, being essentially buried alive (kind of).
What can also be added to this is that not only Hollyleaf was effected; both Lionblaze and Jayfeather had nightmarish dreams about her.
44) Ivypool's torture in The Last Hope
Ivypool is essentially held down and Hawkfrost plans to brutally torture her to the point of death, and then kill her. This was something very horrific in my opinion. I did not like Ivypool, but I was scared to see her getting tortured.
45) Flametail drowning
Poor boy... What made this scene so horrific was the fact that we saw it from his perspective, until his last breath.
46) The whole Mapleshade's Vengeance book...
What a book... Mapleshade's Vengeance in particular is a bit darker than the average Warriors book. After she and her kits are exiled, she struggles to save her kits as the river floods, and they end up drowning with her powerless to save them. It's also revealed that Frecklewish was watching and did nothing to help. Mapleshade decides to get revenge by murdering three cats, one for each kit. The medicine cat Ravenwing's is particularly dark: she murders him at the Moonstone—the equivalent of killing a priest at church—and after the other medicine cats bury him, she exhumes him so that the hawks can feast on his corpse. Frecklewish doesn't get away unscathed, either: Mapleshade lures her to Snakerocks, and an adder spits venom in her eyes.
The same book also illustrates the dangers of mob mentality and misplaced retribution, with ThunderClan's horrific treatment of Mapleshade's kits after their father is revealed to be Appledusk of RiverClan, who killed two ThunderClan cats. Oakstar sentences them to exile along with their mother. Mapleshade's former mentor Bloomheart coldly agrees that they don't belong in ThunderClan. Frecklewish screeches at them, calling them "half-Clan creatures" and shouting for them to be driven out (especially jarring, considering how much she loved them when she thought they were her brother's kits). Not one cat speaks up for them or their mother. Not one cat realizes that they're just kits, that they shouldn't be held responsible for what their parents did. Blinded with fury, the Clan drives Mapleshade and her kits out—and when the dust has settled and ThunderClan's anger has stilled, possibly enough to come to their senses, it's too late to make amends, because the kits have drowned in the river while trying to cross to RiverClan.
47) Swoop's death
The fact Dovewing could still hear her screams as she was carried away...
48) Falling Feather and Jackdaw's Cry killing each other
It was a perfect and disturbing way to represent what the antagonism between the two groups did to otherwise loving bonds. Letting two siblings kill each other showed it perfectly.
49) Thunderstar and Lightning Tail death scene and in StarClan
Thunderstar and Lightening Tail are both killed by dogs and die beside each other, which is kinda nightmareish. The part that really drives it home is Thunderstar realising how having 9 lives can be a curse as he's probably going to have to watch his Clanmates and friends die before him countless of times.
50) At the end of Rise of Scourge, the picture of Tigerstar there and Scourge crawling all over his body.
Just that.
51) Mapleshade looking like a demon in the CP manga
Bro, I still have nightmares about that (jk, maybe Crookedstar does)
52) SkyClan's Destiny prologue
The cats couldn't carry back the dead bodies of two warriors back to the gorge for the fear of being killed themselves. One of the elders gets upset at this, and responds by hobbling off towards a cliff face. Spiderstar stops him and says, "We've lost enough warriors tonight." This implies that the elder was going to commit suicide.
53) The story in Code of the Clans about how Code #14 (a warrior does not need to kill to win battles) came to be.
The medicine cat is visited in her dream by a very young apprentice, essentially a child, who was killed in battle the day before. It's eerie enough with him reminding her that he's dead, and speaking with a wisdom beyond his age. But then he fades away (his eyes being the last thing to disappear), giving us this line as he fades: "That WindClan warrior didn't need to kill me. I knew I was beaten. If he'd let go of me, I'd have run away. He didn't have to keep biting me, harder and harder..."
54) Floss waking up to find that the Twolegs, who own the barn where she lives, took her kits while she was asleep.
That's bad enough by itself, but her kits were newborns — as in, too young to survive without their mother, which strongly suggests that they took the kits away to have them euthanized.
55) Pretty much the entirety of Spottedleaf's Heart.
Spottedpaw, a young child, is essentially groomed by Thistleclaw, a senior warrior with a son her age and a respected member of her community. For those who are unaware, child grooming is a process in which an adult establishes a close relationship with a young child, and often their family, in order to isolate them, discourage them from seeking outside help, and often sexually abuse them. Perhaps the most frightening part for any adult reader is when, after a fight over Thistleclaw's brutality, he corners her alone near Sunningrocks, plies her with food, compliments her, and then says that they could have a future together. While she is initially hesitant, she eventually agrees to meet him in the woods. At night. Alone. He ends up taking her to the Dark Forest, but the implications of what could have happened are terrifying.
The worst part of all of this? Because we are presented with this story from the perspective of the victim, Thistleclaw's relationship with Spottedpaw comes off as a genuine romance instead of the insidious process that it is. And no one in Spottedpaw's life, from her parents to her mentor to her leader, picks up on any of this, meaning Thistleclaw stays a respected and beloved member of his community. Thistleclaw may not have ended up in a relationship with Spottedpaw, but the fact remains that he tried to start a romantic relationship with a child and faced no consequences, serving as a chilling parallel to real-life predators in positions of power. note
Also in Spottedleaf's Heart, Thistleclaw brings Spottedpaw to the Dark Forest, where he proceeds to brutally maul one of his fellow trainees. When Spottedpaw returns a second time to tell Thistleclaw that she wants to be with him, she arrives to witness him murder another cat, and despite doing everything she can, the she-cat dies in front of Spottedpaw. Worse, when Spottedpaw shows terror and horror at Thistleclaw murdering the cat, the Dark Forest immediately turns on her, with Mapleshade threatening to kill the apprentice if Thistleclaw doesn't "get rid of her". (no I didn't wrote this by myself lol).
56) Crowfeather's nightmare
In Crowfeather's Trial, Crowfeather has a nightmare about the Great Battle, where in Breezepelt blinds him and leaves him helpless. All Crowfeather can do is press up against Hollyleaf's dead body and shake as he waits for the next blow.
He later has another nightmare where he sees the cats of the Dark Forest encircle him and call out for him to join them.
57) Sparkpelt going through labor in Squirrelflight's Hope.
It isn't the labor that's very terrifying; rather it's the circumstances. Her mate, Larksong, gets prey sickness and only gets worse, and Sparkpelt goes through so much stress that she begins kitting early, as her mate dies in front of her. To make it worse, Larksong dies just as Sparkpelt finishes giving birth, and one of their kits ends up being stillborn. It's so traumatizing that Sparkpelt begins to experience depression and neglects her surviving kits.
58) Moon Shadow's death...
This was incredibly horrifying to read about. A cat on fire? Moon Shadow was literally burning to death, screaming in pain, and oh, that small paragraph was enough to leave horrible mental images.
59) One Eye
He is one scary cat. Described as an old, skinny, mangy, one-eyed tom with jagged claws, One Eye displays an arrogant, selfish, sadistic streak like no other villain who has appeared in Warriors before him. He has a complete lack of empathy, only cares about himself, thinks very highly of himself, and takes blood-chilling pleasure in dominating and torturing other cats. The scenes where he tortures Sparrow Fur, scars Clear Sky's cats with his mark, and has his lackeys brutally beat up Acorn Fur, are quite disturbing.
60) Shadowstar's fear and trust issues
It was kinda disturbing to see her become so vulnerable and scared. She looked at every cat with amber eyes with distrust, she was too scared to appoint a deputy... Her fear felt so real to me.
61) Brokenstar's blindness and death
Same with Longtail, I thought Brokenstar's blindness was very disturbing. Both of their eyes were scratched open, and both of the scenes where it happend gave me chills. And I mean in the way that I shivered while reading it. The pain was written so well. Brokenstar's death was also pretty horrific. He thought he was going to be healed, but he ended up poisoned, foaming at the mouth, unable to be saved.
62) Fallen Leaves fate
Fallen Leaves drowned all alone. He was trapped in the tunnels for eternity, drowned over and over again, and I can't describe how sorry I feel for this poor guy.
Well, that was it! These are certainly a lot of scenes. If you want to spend your time reading this, go ahead!