Blackstar felt his last life drain away from himself. He expected to find himself in the usual empty area, staring at the sleeping translucent bodies of his and all the other leader's lost lives. But he seemed to just walk out of his dead body. He noticed with a start that two broad, white fluffy wings protruded from his back. This is probably how I get to StarClan, or something. He gulped. Has StarClan accepted me since I abandoned them? No, these wings must be proof they accept.

Blackstar stretched the wings and flapped them, finding he could glide up into the air with ease. He had been flying up in spirals for some time when everything began to go wrong. Red droplets fell out of the sky from nowhere, and as one landed in his mouth, he realized what it was: blood.

A couple droplets fell onto his wings. Instantly, the blood-stained down dissolved. Blackstar sped his ascent as long as he could, until the damage taken to his wings slowed him down again.

Then he saw it, the border of StarClan. He had but to ascend a couple foxlengths to grab the ledge. He broke through a tin layer of cloud, and the rain of blood stopped. But his wings still had blood on them, and he just managed to get his front legs and chest over the ledge when the last feathers dissolved from his wings, leaving just skeleton-like fragments of the wings.

Blackstar looked up. In font of him stood Raggedstar and Runningnose, their backs facing him, and he pricked his ears, meowing a greeting. But neither of them returned it. They just looked at him, sadness in their eyes. They started to walk away, as another cat came into view.

"Boulder!" Blackstar gasped. Boulder had never been a very close friend of his, but he was the only friend from Blackstar's early life that had made it to StarClan.

Boulder bounded forward, but was cut off by Raggedstar. Runningnose kept walking away as Raggedstar shook his head at the grey tom. Boulder bowed his head, and they started to walk off.

Blackstar had seen enough. He heaved his weight onto his front paws, digging his claws into the topsoil. As he was about to lift himself onto the StarClan soil, he felt claws dig into his left hind leg, and the whole weight of another large cat pulled him down until he was only dangling by his front paws. He looked down to see his attacker. "Sol!"

The tortoiseshell-tabby tom grinned, narrowing his hypnotizing yellow eyes as they met with Blackstar's amber gaze. "You don't need StarClan, Blackstar," Sol hissed, pricking his ears. "They've never helped you. Why should you trust them? Come with me, to the Place of No Stars."

Blackstar flattened his ears, letting out a ferocious growl. "Get OFF of me!" he yowled, hooking the claws of his right hind leg into Sol's chin. He flung the tom off of his leg, but his eyes widened as he saw what had appeared below him: The Place of No Stars.

His right paw's claws faltered for a moment, and he barely managed to get a grip back onto the soil. He looked up at the edge of StarClan again, and saw a new face slowly coming into view. There were blue-grey furred tufts at the end of the pricked ears, and slowly the inquiring face of Stonefur came into view. His initial look of curiosity turned into coldness as he realized who he was coming upon.

Blackstar was breathing in gasps, desperation getting the better of his old grudge. "Stonefur, please…" he gasped, eyes wide and pupils dilated. "Help me."

His old rival looked at him for a long time, his eyes slowly softening. Just as Blackstar began to hope that help had come, an odd sound came from Stonefur's throat, breaking the tense silence.

"Heh. Heheheh. Ha! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!" Stonefur's face cracked, going from concerned to maniacal laughter in an instant. His grey eyes were wide, and he stared directly at Blackstar, who was now struggling wildly to keep a grip on the crumbling rim. The laughter stopped as suddenly as it had come, and Stonefur narrowed his eyes and pinned his ears back, though still looking intensely smug. "Goodbye, Blackstar," he purred, and he turned around starting to walk away, his tail held high.

Blackstar had lost all sense of dignity in his desperation. "Wait! Stonefur," he started as the tom looked over his shoulder. "Why? I've repented; I've done nothing but try to help my clan! I've given up all my grudges to try and make my life right! Have you gone mad?"

Stonefur glared at Blackstar. "Don't make me out to be the bad guy, murderer." And with that, Stonefur continued to walk away as Blackstar lost his last grip on StarClan soil, and fell to the forest below.

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A/N: Wow. Sol's a creeper. O.o I honestly didn't mean for him to be, I don't even support BlackstarXSol.

Oh, don't worry, people, Blackstar's just dreaming. He'd better get into StarClan. This dream takes place the night after he regains faith in StarClan in Long Shadows.

Plz comment! ^.^