Troublepaw's eyes shoot up. Now?! Patchpaw was up too as she stared at Troublepaw with wide eyes, full of fear. Shadowpaw jumped awake and ran outside, claws unsheathed.

"Hurry! We need to get ready!" Troublepaw hissed. Patchpaw and Troublepaw's fur stood on ends, claws unsheathed.

As soon as the reached the clearing Raggedstar yowled as he burst through the camp wall. A sea fo ShadowClan cats came swarming in, breaking though the barrier that guarded camp.

Two ShadowClan warriors jumped on Silverfur knocking her over. Redtail jumped on to a huge black cat. Bluestar, who just ran out of her den, yowling furiously, was jumped and knocked over by Raggedstar.

Without hesitation, Troublepaw jumped onto a ShadowClan apprentice. She yowled in surprise and rolled over on top of her. Troublepaw's breath rushed out of her as the apprentice's scruff covered her nose and mouth, she couldn't breathe. Desperate to get the ShadowClan cat off, she bit as hard as she could on her scruff. The ShadowClan cat yowled and jumped off.

Troublepaw jumped up and ran at her again, the apprentice stayed still, ready to dodge. Suddenly, Troublepaw remembered Redtail's training how he moved to the side as she tried a direct shot, she jumped to the side. The cat didn't expect that move and failed to move aside in time. Troublepaw could feel her claws rip through the ShadowClan cat's fur as she yowled in pain. She bit her back hard as a warning and the ShadowClan cat flee.

Before she could even turn around a huge ShadowClan warrior bowled her over. Troublepaw quickly got up and faced her attacker. Fear surged through every bone in her body as she looked up at the warrior.

A huge muscled, slick black and white furred warrior stared down at her with hot amber eyes, hissing in fiery. She stared up at the ShadowClan deputy, Nightclaw. Suddenly Nightclaw swiped at her knocking her over easily and bit down hard at her exposed belly.

Troublepaw hissed, and dragged her claw down the side of the deputy's white furred face staining it with scarlet blood.

Surprised, Nightclaw jump back and Troublepaw rolled over onto her belly that now stung at every movement. Not willing to give up she dived at his paws, her movements grew slower as she lost more blood. He dodged the attack easily.

She tripped and flipped over on her back. Before she got a chance to get up Nightclaw put his huge black paw on her chest, his heavy weight making it hard to breathe. She looked around desperately for help but all she could see was a mob of fighting cats, ThunderClan outnumbered and losing.

She looked for Patchpaw and saw her chasing a ShadowClan apprentice out of camp. Patchpaw stopped to take her breath, as a huge black and brown paw emerged from the shadows about two tail-lengths behind her. The cat stepped out completely from the shadow's that hid his face. A brown pelt cat with black stripes stalked toward her, icy-blue eyes sparkling with the thought of killing. Fear struck her as she realized who the cat was, Shadowpaw.

Troublepaw forgot all about Nightclaw and tried to yowl to her sister but Nightclaw's weight left her breathless as he pressed harder and yowled so everyone could hear.

"ThunderClan!" he yowled proud and loudly, "Heed this as a warning! If you don't give us your territory you will end up just like this apprentice!"

Nightclaw dugged his teeth into Troublepaw's neck, she struggled but was quickly losing her strength. She heard Frostfur's screech of fear and saw Redtail yowling and throw off his attacker, but two more cats jumped on him as he tried to run at Nightclaw. Faster then ever she felt her strength dissolve into darkness. StarClan help me! She cried desperately as her vision went dark.

White fog swirled around Troublepaw's brown and black dappled fur paws. Cold gripped her as if she jumped into the river during leaf-bare.

She looked up and saw nothing but fog, her paws walking forward with no control until she saw a starlit path. I'm walking onto the path of StarClan?

The fog behind her ebbed away reviling two cats, both she didn't recognize. One silver cat stepped forward, scared Troublepaw stepped back.

"Do not fear little one." The tom said calmly. "We do not wish to hurt you, I am Silverstar."

Surprised Troublepaw took a step forward to examine the tom. His brown eyes shone from the stars of Silverpelt that sparkled above. His silver pelt rippled with muscles as a white tip shone grey against the moonlight.

"I am Frostflower," a white she-cat purred. "I'm your mother's mom..." She paused for a minute, "And former medicine cat."

Shocked, Troublepaw couldn't help blurting out. "I thought medicine cats couldn't fall in love, or have kits!"

The white cat nodded slowly "I didn't pay for breaking the warrior code" she paused again. "However my kits did. I had four beautiful kits, your mother and her brothers. Limepaw, Sleetpaw, and Saberpaw are her brothers. Limepaw and Saberpaw were both deaf, they both died in battle. Sleetpaw died of greencough, they were all your mother's kin, as what will happen to Silverfur you will see soon enough. However that isn't why we brought you here"

Before Troublepaw could speak she fell into darkness and slowly drifted onto soft grass. There was no brightness from Silverpelt or moon. Suddenly a yowl rose and ended quickly as a light flickered up ahead.

Scared, she took a step forward as flames rose to the sky as an eerie voice rose with it.

Fire will rise as kin will emerge in battle, and shadow will consume the forest!