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Chapter one of Smoke and Mirrors:

Emeraldpaw watched through the cracks in the rocks as SkyClan, WindClan, and half of ShadowClan attacked the patrol. Her mentor, Tigersky, had told her to hide, because there were too many attackers. She watched as Tigersky was pinned by Blackshade.
“Blackshade, what will we do with him?” Rainingbreeze asked.
“Kill them, Rainingbreeze. What else?” Blackshade replied.
“I don’t know, Blackie. Tigersky here is RiverClan deputy at the moment. If we kill him, you know they’ll retaliate,” Rainingbreeze replied anxiously.
“So? We’re stronger than them,” he meowed.
“But killing them seems wrong,” an apprentice interjected.
“Quiet Dapplepaw. We will kill them,” Blackshade growled, biting into Tigersky’s neck.
Emeraldpaw’s mentor went limp, and she knew he wouldn’t wake up. A few muffled growls came next, followed by footsteps going away. Emeraldpaw looked outside, and saw almost the entire patrol dead. Falconpaw looked around, her eyes round with shock.
“We have to tell the leaders,” she meowed, her voice soft.
Emeraldpaw nodded, both of them running through the ThunderClan forest. The arrived at camp, every day there oblivious to what had happened.
“Needlestar?” Emeraldpaw called.
“Brackenstar? Dovestar?” Falconpaw yowled.
Needlestar poked her head out of the leaders den. “Is something wrong?”
“Tigersky, Adderscale, all of them! Dead!” Falconpaw yowled.
“What?!” Needlestar gasped. “The whole patrol is dead?”
Emeraldpaw nodded. “We were ambushed by warriors. Lots of them. Tigersky told me to hide.”
Needlestar bounded up the high rock, followed by Brackenstar and Dovestar. “I guess we have to move on then.”
She yowled for the clans to gather, which didn’t do much, because almost every day was already gathered.
“I will announce the new deputy. I pray that StarClan approves my choice, Snowlily will be the new deputy of RiverClan.”
Whispers started around the camp.
“Did she think of that right now? It’s only been minutes since Tigersky died,” Falconpaw whispered to Emeraldpaw.
“I hear your whispers, and I want you to know I’ve been thinking about this for a while. Tigersky was almost at retiring age, so I was prepared,” Needlestar meowed calmly.
“What are we going to do?” Streamsplash asked.
“We should attack! We’ll ambush their patrols, and attack the camp!” Fireblaze yowled.
their were yowls of agreement, but Brackenstar shared his wisdom.
“If we do that, we are no better than they are!” he growled. “We will not attack directly.”
Brackenstar turned to the other leaders, all of them whispering.
“Emeraldpaw, who will be out mentors now?” Falconpaw asked.
“How am I supposed to know?” Emeraldpaw replied.
Brackenstar turned back around. “We have decided the mentors of Emeraldpaw and Falconpaw. Falconpaw, your mentor will be Nimblebreeze. Emeraldpaw, your mentor will be Spiralsight,” he yowled.
Emeraldpaw turned towards Spiralsight. She didn’t trust the ShadowClan she-cat.
“Now, Streamsplash and Bramblebush, please join us in our den,” Dovestar called.
“Aren’t we going to get the bodies?” Nimblebreeze asked.
“We can’t. Knowing the other clans, they’ll expect that,” Needlestar growled, upset.
Emeraldpaw walked away, towards her mentor. Spiralsight was with Shatteredmask, a cat Emeraldpaw trusted and respected. Moonpaw was their too, Shatteredmask being her mentor.
“Hi Emeraldpaw!” Moonpaw meowed.
“What are we going to do?” Emeraldpaw asked.
“Shatteredmask thinks we should rest, especially you and Falconpaw, but Spiralsight thinks you and Falconpaw should be training,” Moonpaw replied.
“That’s because I’m right. If the other clans never rest, neither should we.” Spiralsight’s unusual scarlet eyes glinted with something Emeraldpaw couldn’t recognize.
“Let’s just eat, Moonpaw,” she meowed.
Moonpaw nodded, and followed Emeraldpaw.
Emeraldpaw picked up a shrew. She still wasn’t used to ThunderClan prey, but she’d have to deal with it. At least until the war was over. She forced the shrew down, and stood back up.
Streamsplash and Bramblebush were leaving the camp.
What are they doing? Emeraldpaw thought. Probably hunting.
“Emeraldpaw, we need to rest,” Falconpaw meowed.
“Why? It’s not even sunhigh yet,” Emeraldpaw replied.
“Nimblebreeze ordered me too, and said for me to tell you,” Falconpaw replied.
“Aye aye Captain,” Emeraldpaw joked half heartedly.
Falconpaw grinned at the sound of her nickname.
“Let’s just go rest.”
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This was harder than it should’ve been. I’m not very proud of it, but it’s okay. Hope you enjoyed.

Chapter three:

Streamsplash padded out of her den, and looked around. Blackshade was standing over Puddlestream, and the rest of the clan was just watching. These clans had ranks in their leadership, Darkstar being the powerful leader, while Yellowstar and Birchstar were second and third.
“Streamsplash!” Riverpond called. “It’s your turn to fight.”
“Fight?” Streamsplash asked.
“Fight to the death of course. You will fight Sorrelstem,” Riverpond replied.
Streamsplash looked at the tawny she-cat. She was the toughest cat here, winning every battle.
Streamsplash splash gulped, and padded into a small clearing. The two she-cats circled each other, as Streamsplash thought.
‘She always starts the same way. The other always attacks up front,’ she thought.
Just as Streamsplash thought, Sorrelstem leapt through the air, strait at Streamsplash. At the last second, Streamsplash ducked under her, and attacked her from behind.
Streamsplash clawed her back,and bit into her ear. Sorrelstem follows over, pinning Streamsplash down. Streamsplash kicked up withering legs, and pinned Sorrelstem down instead.
“I’m sorry,” she whispered, and bit down hard on Sorrelstems neck.
The she-cat went limp below her, her eyes vacant and lifeless.
“Streamsplash is the winner,” Riverpond meowed, surprised. “Go and bury her.”
Streamsplash grabbed Sorrelstems scruff,and dragged her body out of camp, towards the burial grounds. It took till sunhigh, but she finally got done.
She dropped Sorrelstems body in the hole, feeling guilty.
“I’m sorry, Sorrelstem. I’ll make sure that the good side wins,” Streamsplash whispered.
‘Speaking of which!’ Streamsplash headed towards the border, and waited for a patrol. She didn’t have to wait long, because Snowlily, Falconpaw, Fireblaze, and Doewish appeared.
“Streamsplash!” Doewish meowed. “It’s so good to see you!”
“But she betrayed us!” Falconpaw protested.
“Actually, she’s out spy,” Snowlily meowed. “Is something wrong?”
“No, the other clans won’t be attacking any time soon,” Streamsplash replied.
“Where is Bramblebush?” Fireblaze asked.
‘I knew he’d ask about his brother,’ Streamsplash thought.
“He… He won’t be coming back,” Streamsplash meowed softly.
“Bramblebush is dead?” he asked.
Streamsplash nodded.
“How did he die?” Fireblaze asked.
“Well, when we got to the camp, they told us that the next morning, we would have to fight to the death,” Streamsplash started.
“You killed him?!” Fireblaze exclaimed.
“No! Let me finish. We went on a walk that night, next to the gorge where SkyClan used to live. We were talking when he said, ‘Tomorrow morning, I won’t kill you, and you won’t kill me.'” Streamsplash’s voice hitched. “Without warning he threw himself over the edge.”
Snowlily looked down. “He died the death of a true warrior.”
“Are you okay, Streamsplash?” Fireblaze asked.
“I’m fine,” she’s replied.
“You can come back to camp, you know?” Snowlily meowed.
“I know,” Streamsplash meowed as she remembered something. “Wait! I know who the spies are!”
Snowlily turned around. “Who?”
“One of them is Spiralsight. The other is either Shatteredmask or Bluesong,” Streamsplash replied.
“Great! Now you can come back to our clans!” Falconpaw meowed.
“Or none of you can!” a voice growled behind Streamsplash.
She turned to see Blackshade, Puddlestream, Rainingbreeze, and Dapplepaw.
“Traitor!” Rainingbreeze snarled.
Dapplepaw looked uncomfortable. “Why’s it so wrong, when we have spies over there?”
“Quiet, Dapplepaw!” Rainingbreeze hissed, swiping a paw against her muzzle. Blood stained Dapplepaw’s fur.
“None of you will be going back to camp today!” Blackshade growled.
“Streamsplash!” Snowlily called. Streamsplash turned, and followed them through the woods.
Blackshade and the rest of the patrol followed them.
“What are you doing?” Streamsplash asked.
“They can’t fight an entire camp alone,” Snowlily replied.
Streamsplash ran harder, and eventually raced through the bramble tunnel. The patrol made the mistake of following. Streamsplash turned to face them, along with the entire clan.
Blackshade, Puddlestream, and Rainingbreeze ran away, but Dapplepaw didn’t move. She seemed petrified.
“Dapplepaw?” Streamsplash asked, taking a step forwards.
Dapplepaw took a step back. “I- I don’t want to fight!”
“What do you want?” Snowlily asked.
“I want to be peaceful,” Dapplepaw whispered. “I hate those other clans.”
Streamsplash looked at Snowlily. Brackenstar and Dovestar had passed outside their den.
“We could let her stay,” Dovestar meowed. “She was only two moons old when the divide happened. So she just went with her mother.”
“Will you really let me stay?” Dapplepaw asked hopefully.
“We will let you stay, and if you’ve proven yourself loyal, we’ll let you stay as an apprentice, and soon, a warrior,” Brackenstar meowed.
“I don’t want to be a warrior anymore,” Dapplepaw meowed. “I want to be a Medicine Cat.”
“Well, I’m sure Ivywish would enjoy the company,” Dovestar meowed.
Dapplepaw purred with joy.
With that settled, she looked around camp. “Where’s Mousefire?”
“He died. So did Nimblebreeze, Swiftminnow and Graypatch,” Fireblaze replied.
Streamsplash walked around, and found herself with Spottedmoon in the Medicine Den. Needlestar was badly injured inside, and has a severe case of Greencough, but she was in a quiet space for only herself and the Medicine Cats
“Did you get caught?” Spottedmoon asked.
“Kinda. I was already on the way back here when they found out,” Streamsplash replied.
“Well, that’s fortunate,” Ivywish meowed from the herb storage.
“Yeah. If only Bramblebush had had the same luck,” Streamsplash murmured.
Guilt still twisted in her stomach. He died because of her.
‘I’m sorry, Bramblebush,’ she thought. ‘It was my fault you died.’
‘Don’t be sad,’ a voice replied. ‘I am with my sisters, Beepaw and Nimblebreeze in StarClan. My mother and father are here too.’
Streamsplash felt some kind of comfort in that. ‘All of the other clans will pay for these deaths.’

Ack, sorry this took so long. I was struggling with Writers Block, then came up with all of this last night. Hope you like it.

Snowlily, I hope it’s okay, but your going to be leader. With Fireblaze a deputy.