I'll skip the introduction and just let you read. Enjoy~!

~Summary~

Skyheart used to be a normal ShadowClan warrior. That was before she woke up on the other side of the lake on WindClan's territory, with no memory of the past six moons. Now she struggles to live a normal life, haunted by that black void that looms in her mind whenever she tries to think back, along with a best friend who is acting strange and unusually protective of her. And then there is that RiverClan warrior, the one who stares openly and acts much too friendly with her. Life has never been so complicated.

~Allegiances~

ShadowClan

Leader
Rowanstar - ginger tom with blue eyes

Deputy
Grayclaw - gray tom with amber eyes

Medicine Cat
Frostwing - snowy-white she-cat with sky-blue eyes

Warriors
Starlingwing - ginger tom
Ferretclaw - cream-and-gray tom
Pinenose - back she-cat
Larkwing - brown tabby she-cat
Mistfur - light gray she-cat
Fernblaze - gray-and-ginger she-cat
Cedarfur - ash-gray tom
Sunblossom - ginger she-cat with icy-blue eyes
Skyheart - gray-and-white she-cat with amber eyes
Vinetail - gray tabby tom with blue eyes
Redstreak - reddish-brown tabby tom

Apprentices
Stonepaw - mottled gray tabby tom
Duskpaw - dark gray tabby tom
Pepperpaw - very pale gray she-cat with black flecks

Queens
Honeytail - golden-brown she-cat

Elders
Scorchfur - dark gray tom
Owlclaw - light brown tabby tom
Olivenose - tortoiseshell she-cat

~Lost~

Prologue

Where did the easy, simple days go? When a cat could just live their life day-to-day, without a thought to the past? The past didn't matter...what was done, was done. The only thing to do was to move on and accept things for what they were. There was no time or space to dwell on the past for a Clan cat.

...but how can one accept a past they can't remember? How can they move past it, look to the future, when such a large piece of their life is missing?

To look back, and not have any recollection of past events...how could a cat live like that? They would never stop searching. Never stop trying to get back what they lost. The need for answers would never leave them be, always looming in the back of the mind no matter what they did.

Skyheart knows that feeling. She knows it well. And she, too, will never stop searching. She is lost. And she wants to be found.

With a low growl, the slender gray-and-white cat sprang up off of the ground, earning a croak of alarm from the unfortunate frog under-paw. The cat leaned down and dealt the killing bite, before picking the dead amphibian up in powerful jaws.

Ears twitched and amber eyes narrowed as the cat scanned the undergrowth, always alert, forever wary. Cautious was the norm for this particular cat. Everything could hide an enemy, a secret. One could never be too careful.

Once sure that there was nothing suspicious nearby, the cat went on to retrieve the catches from before. Padding forward on light paws, the warrior gathered together the previous kills, and went home.

Upon slipping through the thorn tunnel and around the boulder, the cat emerged into the camp clearing. The sight of cats milling about calmed the cat's nerves, offering the reminder that this was home. Nothing bad would happen here.

After dropping the kills that consisted of two frogs and a lizard onto the fresh-kill pile, a loud voice rang out, "Skyheart! Skyheart! There you are! Where have you been?"

Skyheart turned her body to face her best friend, Sunblossom. The bright ginger she-cat was racing across the camp toward her, icy-blue eyes gleaming brightly.

"You've been gone forever! I thought that maybe a RiverClan warrior got you or something," Sunblossom exclaimed, bouncing up and down like a hyper kit.

"Sunblossom, I wasn't anywhere near the RiverClan border. And I've only been gone since sun-high," Skyheart said to the energetic cat, resisting the urge to roll her eyes. "Really. You don't need to worry so much. You'll give yourself a headache."

Sunblossom looked at her paws, suddenly quiet. "I know...it's just, every time you go out on your own, I think of...that time," her voice had gotten lower as well. The normally bright and fiery-spirited she-cat looked almost frightened.

Skyheart would be lying if she said she didn't know what her friend was talking about. How could she not? She may not be able to recall exactly everything right down to the last detail, but she remembered just enough of that day to wish she couldn't.

The day she disappeared from ShadowClan's territory, and turned up on the other side of the lake on WindClan's. It was a mystery to everyone. No cat knew what happened, or how. Especially not Skyheart herself.

Apparently she'd been lying on the bank of the water, unconscious. When she woke up, she found herself face-to-face with a patrol of WindClan warriors. They had not been pleased to see her there. But they were also confused; how had she ended up so far from her own territory?

Even so, no one had been more confused at her situation than Skyheart herself. The rival patrol hadn't believed her at first when she explained that she hadn't even the slightest clue how she had gotten there. After much frustration and arguing, it had been decided that the cats who found her would escort her back to her own camp.

The trek home had been a long and tiring one for Skyheart, who was weak from what she had assumed was a fall into the lake. The sky had been dark and cloudy, a perfect match for the young ShadowClan warrior's mood.

When they reached ShadowClan territory at last, they had been almost immediately stopped by a patrol. Her Clanmates had been extremely surprised to see her with a group of WindClan cats.

It turned out that the patrol had been sent out to look for her after some cats had noticed she'd been gone for a long time.

And so, more confusion ensued, and she had been taken back to camp by her own Clan. The WindClan patrol hadn't been allowed to come any further into ShadowClan territory. Skyheart couldn't bring herself to care.

The rest of the night had gone by in a blur of questions, demands, and utter bewilderment. Skyheart had no answers for any of her Clanmates' questions, nothing to offer. To say it unnerved her was an understatement.

Never before had she been so lost and despaired. She quickly realized that there was much more missing from her memory than that night's events when three kits whom she did not know had bounded up to her and asked her where she had been for so long.

And as she stared at the kits with an expression of growing horror, that's when the medicine cat had taken initiative. With a question of, "What is the most recent thing you can remember?" Skyheart discovered the six moon gap in between her last clear memory and where she was right then.

Since then, half a moon had passed. Her Clanmates acted the same around her, but she knew they thought there was something wrong with her. She thought there was something wrong with her. Where did her memories go? Why did she not remember? What happened?

Sunblossom was the only one who openly changed the way she acted when it came to Skyheart. She became more protective, hardly ever leaving the gray-and-white she-cat's side. She seemed to have made it her mission to keep Skyheart away from the RiverClan border for whatever reason. And while Skyheart could understand her friend's worry, sometimes it was just too much.

"Um, Skyheart? Are you there? Are you okay?" The voice of Sunblossom jarred Skyheart out of her thoughts. The ginger warrior was looking at her with a concerned expression. "Are you okay?" She repeated.

"Yes!" Skyheart exclaimed, and then meowed in a softer voice, "Yes. I was just lost in thought."

Sunblossom gave her a suspicious look, but didn't push it. "If you say so," she meowed dismissively, "well, anyway, did you hear? Vinepaw's warrior ceremony is today! Rowanstar's gonna have it once he and Mistfur get back from their assessment!"

It was common knowledge that the ginger warrior had an obvious crush on the gray tabby apprentice known as Vinepaw. He was all she seemed to go on about. It could get somewhat annoying.

"Ah," Skyheart responded, not sounding very interested.

"He'll finally be a warrior, and then we can go on hunts together! I can't wait! Isn't it exciting, Skyheart? It'll be just like when we were apprentices!" Sunblossom went on, ignorant to her friend's state of disinterest.

"Yeah," Skyheart meowed absently. She had long since learned to block out her friend when she started going off about her crush.

Vinepaw was an arrogant furball anyway. Sure, he had his moments, but Skyheart mostly just found him irritating. She had no clue why Sunblossom was so fond of him.

Besides, why should it even matter? The topic of mates and romance held no interest for Skyheart. She was a warrior, not a queen! She didn't want a litter of kits. It wasn't that she didn't like kits or anything. She just didn't want any of her own.

And it's not like any cat would ever be interested in her anyway. She was the strange one, the she-cat who was unable to remember six moons of her life. Skyheart herself wouldn't even want to become mates with her.

"Hey! Are you listening to me? Skyheart!" Sunblossom waved her tail in front of the other she-cat's face, trying to get her attention back. "You're not listening to me, are you?"

"What? No, yes, I'm listening." Skyheart replied.

"Really? Because you seemed really out of it just then. Are you sure you're alright?" Sunblossom asked yet again.

Skyheart felt a tiny dash of irritation. Why did Sunblossom keep asking that? She was fine, for StarClan's sake!

"I told you, I'm fine. Can we drop it now?" She asked, her tone coming out sharper than intended.

Sunblossom's eyes narrowed. "Well fine. I was just asking."

Great. Now she had made her friend angry. Skyheart sighed, and rested her tail on the ginger warrior's shoulder. "Sorry. I didn't mean to snap like that. But I really am fine. You don't need to worry so much about me."

"Someone has to. You don't do enough of it." Sunblossom replied. "I'm just…I don't want…that to happen again, you know? I was really scared. I thought I lost my best friend."

Skyheart blinked. Was her Clanmate really that worried about her? A pang of sudden suspicion hit her. Not for the first time, Skyheart found herself wondering if Sunblossom knew more than she let on about the past six moons.

Just as quick it came, the suspicion was replaced by guilt. She shouldn't doubt her closest friend. They had trained together as apprentices, became warriors together. Surely if she knew something, she'd have told her, right?

"Well, you didn't, and you won't. Not anytime soon, at least." Skyheart assured her.

"Good." Sunblossom replied, looking satisfied with Skyheart's answer. "Ah! Look! There he is! Vinepaw!" The ginger she-cat called out to the apprentice as he padded into camp behind his mentor, Mistfur. She bounded off toward him, leaving Skyheart to stare after her in exasperation.

"I still don't get why she likes him so much," Skyheart muttered to herself. "Can't she see how irritating he is?"

Shaking her head, the young she-cat padded after her friend. As she grew closer, Vinepaw threw her a smug look that made her blood boil. Okay, she really didn't like this cat!

"Hey, Skyheart. I passed my assessment!" The gray tom announced proudly, and Skyheart rolled her eyes.

"How would you even know that? It hasn't been announced. Your ego is way too big for the rest of you," she felt no regret for her words. She felt it was justified. However...one cat did not.

"Skyheart, be nice!" Of course. Sunblossom. "Of course he did well on his assessment! And I know he passed, too!"

Skyheart felt a pang of disgust, and had to resist the urge to curl her lip. When did her good friend turn into this...this moonstruck rabbit? Where was the fiery-spirited, stubborn warrior no one dared to cross? Another wave of dislike for Vinepaw swept through her.

There was no surprise that Sunblossom's words only served to feed the apprentice's ego, as the young tom stood tall and puffed out his chest. "Well, at least someone appreciates my skills!" He meowed loudly, shooting a look at Skyheart.

Great StarClan, grant me the patience to not shred this cat's ears! She thought in irritation. Her claws itched to unsheathe, so she wrapped her tail around her paws. "I'm sorry. I didn't realize how great you are, O brave apprentice," she meowed mockingly.

Vinepaw's eyes narrowed into slits. "You-"

"Vinepaw! Get over here!" Mistfur's voice cut off whatever he was about to say. "Rowanstar is about to make an announcement!"

"Told you so," the apprentice hissed at Skyheart, before bounding off to join his mentor.

Skyheart snorted in response. Was she supposed to care? If she was, she didn't.

"What's gotten into you, Skyheart? Why are you behaving like that to Vinepaw?" Sunblossom was shooting her an accusing look.

"He was clearly asking for an argument," she defended herself. "Did you see the way he was looking at me? He was trying to provoke me."

Sunblossom muttered something that Skyheart didn't catch.

"What was that?" She asked, irritation surging up again.

"Nothing," Sunblossom muttered. "Don't worry yourself over it."

Skyheart bit back her retort. If you have something to say, then say it! But she didn't want to fight with her best friend. That wouldn't get her anywhere. So she just merely nodded tensely in response and meowed, "Come on then. Rowanstar is about to make that announcement."

Sunblossom visibly perked up again and nodded eagerly. "Yeah! Let's go!"

Today was going to be a long day.

Well. The prologue(more like a chapter) is finally done! I really wanted to get this idea out there, so tell what you think, please!

~TheAzuraStar