A/N: This is my first challenge for HiddenClan. My very first challenge ever actually. This challenge is called Survivor and in it there is a lone survivor of...the earth splitting in half. And of course by picking my favorite number I happen to get the cat that's most like me. -_- Junipersong- timid and under confident. What a coincidence.

Survivor: Broken In Two

"I'm sorry. I love you." She whimpered the words into the night, the faint sounds of grinding earth still sounding across the distance. She watched as the rusty orange speck that was Sparrowheart grew smaller and smaller as the chunk of rock that held what was left of all she loved moved farther and farther away. How could something like this have happened? She cried harder as she thought about the last things she had said to him before her world had become an empty wasteland of despair and loneliness.

They had been on a hunting patrol earlier that day, when the sky was still above them and the ground was beneath their feet. Her clanmates had been scolding her as usual, always expecting her to be the perfect warrior just because her mother was leader of the clan. But she wasn't. She was a shy, in confident she-cat that was always asked too much of her.

"I'm sorry." She had mumbled timidly, feeling uncomfortable under her clanmates scrutinizing gazes.

"'Sorry' doesn't catch fresh kill." Sneered Blackfeather, padding away into the forest with the other patrol members as Junipersong stood there with her head down in embarrassment.

But Sparrowheart stayed where he was, watching the rest of their patrol disappear with a look of disapproval. Junipersong felt her heart beat faster at his presence, the fact that they were now alone together was enough to make her face heat up, but she said nothing. He could never love her back so there was no point in hoping, no point in believing.

"Don't let them get to you." He said softly, turning back to her. "You're fine the way you are."

"No, I'm not." She meowed angrily, pulling her head up to meet his kind amber eyes. "I'll never be what they want me to be."

"What's wrong with just being you? Who you really are?" He asked, his voice gentle. "You should believe in yourself more."

His words had surprised her, but the rage she felt well up inside masked it. "Who cares about who I really am?" She hissed not sounding like herself at all. "I can't be the cat everyone expects me to be!"

She turned tail and ran. She wouldn't let him see her cry. "I need to be alone!"

He called her name but she had ignored him. Instead she had run away to sit alone in the middle of the forest to be by herself and cry silently with her head on her paws, as the moon sneaked its way into the sky. She was thankful that at least Sparrowheart hadn't followed her.

All was quiet except for her weeping and the normal sounds of prey that occupied the forest until a strange rumbling sounded. She picked her head up, confused by the noise, and looked around. Everything had looked fine on the surface, but it was what was happening underneath the earth that would cause all her pain. She stood up slowly, cautiously as the rumbling came again. This time the very ground began to shake, vibrating up her paws and echoing into her entire being.

The quaking grew worse causing trees to be uprooted and thrown around, the earth was being shifted, rocks erupting from the underground and to the surface in a shower of dirt and rubble.

Her fear growing with the intensity of the deafening roar that came from under her, she began running through the forest as fast as she could. She had to get out of here, away from the overturning earth. As she ran, trees fell with loud creaks all around her, some shattering into splintered wood that rained down on her, and she had to leap and dodge her way around them. The ground below her moved and more than once she stumbled. The entrance to camp was insight, she could see her clanmates milling about in confusion, hear them yelling, asking, "What's going on?"

She burst through the entrance as the most powerful convulsion yet commenced with an ear-splitting crack. She tumbled to the ground, looking up in time to see the blue pelt that was her leader, her reason she was labeled as nothing but disappointment and failure, her own mother Birdstar, fall into the endless abyss that had opened up under her along with a few other of her clanmates.

"Mother!" She screamed, scrambling to get up and over to the ledge of the abyss. She reached out to her as her mother called out her name, but she was swallowed by the darkness, never to see the light again. "No!"

"Junipersong!" Sparrowheart's voice caught her attention.

She snapped her head up to see him leaning across the gap that was slowly getting bigger. "Sparrowheart!"

"You have to jump!" He yelled urgently. "You can make it!"

She looked down into the darkness that had taken her mother. There was no way she could do this. If she jumped she would surely suffer the same fate as the others. "I can't!"

"Yes you can! Junipersong, you have to hurry!"

She shook her head as the tears came, her eyes shut tight. "It's too late for me."

"What? Junipersong!" He yelled, eyes wide in disbelief and fear.

"Good bye, Sparrowheart." She said as the distance finally grew to far for either of them to make.

"Junipersong." He whispered sadly, gazing at her longingly across the space spreading between them.

As they watched each other move away, Junipersong felt her heart break along with the earth and from the look Sparrowheart was giving her she knew his was too. Why had it taken the end of her world to realize he loved her back? Now she would never see him again. Cursed to live the rest of her life alone separated from her only source of happiness by a sea of darkness.

He became harder to see, telling her something she wished she could hear. She dug her claws into the earth harder over the edge of her new prison of loneliness, eyes squeezed tight as she fought away the tears, her head lowered in undescribable despair and regret.

"I'm sorry. I love you."

She was completely and utterly...

Alone.

A/N: Hope I did okay.