A/N I'm still working Lionblaze`s new path but it's going slow and this has been on my mind for a while I'll try to update this one every day or so but with school thing may be slow, please R&R.

"I can't stay here!"

Hollyleaf could hear her voice rise to a wail as the spoke, "I know I did the right thing but no cat will ever understand." She couldn't meet her brothers pleading gaze and she turned her head. She could hear the rushing of the water and the collapsing soil that came from the tunnel. The sounds were enough to make her change her mind about what she was about to do, but she couldn`t deal with the distrustful gazes of her clan-mates that once held love and understanding only contained hate and suspicion.

It wasn`t their fault! It was Leafpool`s, she lied and deceived her Clan along with her sister that was just as guilty. She turned and fled towards the tunnel entrance her heart thudding in her chest. She could hear Jayfeather's desperate cries as she entered to collapsing hole but didn`t stop, or slow her pace.

Almost the second she set foot in the tunnels the roof collapsed swallowing her whole, she ran faster fear clenching her heart like brambles as she could feel the soil and mud just brushing the tip of her tail as it fell from the ceiling. She took and up pert turn sliding on the floor landing on her side.

She let out a his as rock broke the skin on her shoulder tearing at her fur leaving some behind. The collapsing mud didn't follow her into this tunnel but water raised with every second overlapping her paws blood dripped into the pool of water. She knew her chances of serving in the tunnels were slim and the fact that they had escaped when they were just apprentices had been one in a million. She trotted along the corridors water still ross higher with each passing moment but her shoulder stung at every paw step. She growled at herself.

I got myself into this!

She forced herself to move faster lipping occasionally to relive stress from her injury. She lifted her nose trying to scent any means of escaping. She only caught the strong scents of water, soil, and occasional scent of fish that had been swept from the Lake. She turned upwards hoping the water level would lower as she got higher. She raced fast as the water lapped at her belly fur. Hollyleaf`s paws strained to stay up and not slip on the loosened dirt but she continued to slip and fall, the water not yet strong enough to push her away. She ran faster ignoring her own discomfort and pain in flares of panic as she tried tunnel after tunnel.

She ran ahead and clawed at a wall with her front claws. Blood started to well from them at she hit rock. "Somebody help me!" she screamed. No one answered her cries.

Suddenly the ground beneath her began to slide down the slope next to her carrying her along forcefully throwing her under water. She splashed as she slid further down only getting quick gasp of air. Her lungs began to burn as Hollyleaf tried to push her head out of the water. AS her head burst the surface she took in a massive gulp of air and began sputtering droplets of water out almost forgetting that the water was now carrying her down wards. Would this lead to the river? Either way she did have a choice, she pattered with the water holding her head high. It seemed to go on forever only getting darker and darker as the water grew higher she had to patel harder the water threatening to pull her under.

I will NOT die in the wretched place!

Her pitch black fur was soaked to the brim and the weight was almost too much. Finally the water burst into an open cave. It pushed her out with so much force she was toppled over rolling under the water like a fish swimming the wrong way. Once she returned to surface she forced herself under once more after a quick breath. This was it if she didn`t hold on long enough then she would drown in these tunnels. She had to get to the other side. She forced open her eyes under the pressure. Darkness clouded all around her. She continued to twist in the water hoping to find light or even better, air.

Hollyleaf couldn`t see it but something changed in the way the water threw her. She pushed her stiff leg thrashing until her head was above water. She gulp air enough till her lungs burned, she wanted more air more than she needed but first was first. She pushed towards the shore, her long black fur sticking to her sides. She collapsed on her side her shoulder stinging. She opened her green eyes and looked around. Dawn was just approaching over the mountains, golden rays streaked over the sky. Few stars remained in the sky. Were Starclan watching over her?

No… Starclan abandoned you, you're no longer a clan cat you no longer have a place among the stars.

Hollyleaf knew these were her own thoughts but they still brought pain to her heart. She also knew it was true there was no place for a half clan cat. Her hate for her mother only grew as she thought of it. And her thoughts lead to her father, Crowfeather.

"I have no kits!"

"You mean nothing to me, nothing!"

She bit back a wail she didn`t need family she could be strong on her own, a single warrior. One the clan knew nothing of, her brothers probably told the clans she was dead, she preferred that. With time she would be forgotten, disappearing becoming nothing but a whisper a tale, she was nothing more nothing less than a Forgotten Warrior.