The darkness I had grown up with, had almost been comforting at times but now- This darkness was cold and unwelcoming. It was as if my entire body was emerged in ice water and I was drowning in it. My head hurt and I knew it had to be from the lack of blood currently in my body.
But that's only the end of the story. Whats the ppoint of reading the end of the story unless you learn to love the characters along the way, get to know them, feel what its like in their fur.
My names Jaypaw and this is the end of my story.
I guess you could say it started when I first became the medicine cat apprentice. It was never what I had wanted- I had wanted to be the best Warrior of them all, better than Lionpaw even.
And then I met Half Moon.
I had been out collecting herbs by myself when I met her. I could sens she was there but I figured she was just a curious kitty pet that wandered around. "It's a shame I'll never meet you." thats what she had said. I had asked her why and I remember the way she had been so shocked, shocked I could see her.
She then went on to tell me about her past, how her family had left her here and I asked her why nobody else could see her.
Thats when she told me she was dead.
I'd thought it was a prank, or maybe a illusion but when I laughed she dissapeared, her scent, her voice, any trace she had been there and thats when I knew she really had been a spirit from the past, she really had been abandonded and I was the last soul alive to be able to see her. I couldn't stop thinking about her on the way back to camp and I was distracted the entire day.
But then the night came and when I closed my eyes that night it was like entering another universe.
She had been there and I could see, I could see how beautiful she was. We had run around in the greenest meadow I would ever see and when the morning came it was back to the darkness but every night we would play in that green meadow with the blue sky and white fluffy clouds.
So what made me become so cold and numb? One night she wasn't there. The night my brother Lionpaw was killed in battle,
the night I needed her most was the night she left. I was downcast for a long time, my clanmates didn't question me though and for that I was grateful.
Then the battle with Shadowclan was what changed me.
The screams of my clanmates, the terror of remembering my brothers death... It made me worried for Hollypaw and then the vivid pictures came, Hollypaw being cornered by a ShadowClan cat much bigger than her, "Save your sister," Half Moon had said with that sad voice she had.
And I ran, finding Hollypaw and taking the blow that would've killed her.
But it killed me instead.
It let me be with Half Moon.
The end of the story only leading to another.