Cave in

A/N: Hey guys! This here is my first story. Hopefully I can update fast, but I can't guarantee anything. I'll post the allegiances later, but here is the prologue, I hope you like!

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Prologue

Wind howled through the trees as the moon rose into the sky. Five cats were seen slinking through the forest, almost invisible in the darkness of the woods.

The one in the lead flicked its tail, telling her companions to stay near him. Then, she crept towards a gigantic crater in the ground.

"What is it, Morningbreeze?" a tiny she-cat whispered as she looked over the lead one, Morningbreeeze's shoulder.

"Hush, Smallwhisper! We need don't want to attract unwanted attention!" Morningbreeze hissed; her tortoise-shell fur fluffed up against the wind.

"I-it's a cave…" squeaked a small, timid voice from the back. Too scared to come to the front.

"Why are you so scared, Gorsefall?" snorted a black tom, turning his amber gaze to the small tabby.

"B-b-because, Blackshadow, cats are known to disappear in c-caves, and they n-never return," Gorsefall stammered.

"Well, IceClan isn't scared of a stupid cave," Blackshadow sneered, "Or are you not a true IceClan cat?"

Gorsefall was about to reply when Morningbreeze hissed, "Enough! Flowerstar won't want us fighting, this is important!"

"Well, we better try to block off the hole," a brown tabby tom spoke up. "We should collect brambles."

Morningbreeze nodded, "Good thinking, Marshtail, let's head out." Then, she picked up a familiar scent, but she couldn't remember where she smelled it before.

"Uhh, Morningbreeze?" Smallwhisper started.

"What?!" Morningbreeze snarled.

"L-look."

Morningbreeze turned to see three hungry foxes appear out of the trees. She trembled slightly. "Get ready, IceClan, if we want to get out here alive," she snarled.

Morningbreeze snarled and leapt at one of the foxes, scratching its muzzle, but she was soon thrown back to her Clanmates, who were backing up, unable to escape.

"Morningbreeze! We're being pushed back!" Blackshadow yowled above the foxes gleeful yipping.

Morningbreeze felt her heart drop to her stomach as she realized they were going to fall into the cave. "Try to fight! We can do it!" she wailed, hoping she was right.

A screech sounded beside her, Gorsefall had fallen into the black void that was the hole. And she felt the earth crumbling under her back paws. Then, she realized there wasn't a way out of this.

"We have no choice!" she cried. "We must jump into the cave!"

"Are you mad?!" Marshtail shrieked. "We might die!"

"I'd rather take that chance than go through these foxes!" Smallwhisper yowled. "Just jump!"

Morningbreeze, Smallwhisper, Blackshadow and Marshtail turned around and braced themselves.

"One… Two… Three… JUMP!"

All four cats jumped down, following Gorsefall into the abyss, never to be seen again.

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A brown dappled she-cat looked up at the sky. Where is the patrol? She asked the stars looking down at her, but no answer came.

"Flowerstar," the she-cat jumped as a black and white tom sat down next to her.

"Darkspots, any word from Morningbreeze and the others?" Flowerstar asked.

Darkspots shook his head. "I'm afraid not," he meowed sadly.

Flowerstar sighed, the patrol had been gone for to long. "I hope it hasn't come to the worse," she murmured to her deputy.

"With our luck, it probably has," Darkspots whispered.

Darkspots was probably right, IceClan, her Clan, had lost many warriors recently. She knew it was wrong to assume they were dead, but it probably was true.

Flowerstar turned to look at her deputy. "I want to wait until morning to see if they come home," she said.

Darkspots didn't turn to look at her, but said solemnly, "As you wish."

Flowerstar got up and retreated to her den in a hollowed out tree trunk. She curled up in her moss nest, praying for the warriors' return as she sunk into a dreamless sleep.

….but in the morning… they never came.

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A/N: And that's the prologue! Please let me know how you like it! I might get the first chapter up later. I still gotta type it up. Oh well. Thanks for reading! (Btw, sorry if the spacing is weird.)