"Is it alright?" A small voice asked. I groan, opening my eyes. Four concerned faces peered at me, and I roll over.
"It must be alive." A deeper voice replied. I rub my eyes with a fist, sitting up.
"Clear the den! It lives!" The smaller voice was coming from a young cat, and she scrabbled to hide behind a much older, blind looking tabby. He sat down, licking hs front paw as if he were thinking.
"Are you here for a purpose?" He asked. I shook my head furiously, thinking for a moment that I was going berserk. Then it hit me. I pull the chain and gem from my pocket, laying them down in front of the tom.
"Lionblaze, you should come see this. Tell me what it is." A whole bunch of other cats had gathered in front of the little patch of brambles that was covering me, staring with curiosity. A gold-brown tom was the only one that was brave enough to come close.
"That's it! That is the thing Firestar called a 'Charm'! In my dream." Lionblaze yelped. I grab it before he can pick it up, stuffing it in my pocket.
"No. No, no, no, no, no. You can't do this to me, you can't! I'm sick of being the crazy one. Let me out of here, now!" I didn't even think, didn't even try to let the cats calm me down. It caught me by surprise when a smaller she-cat leaped on my head, nearly clawing my hair out. She did manage to knock me out again, though.
"Jaypaw, get up!" A demanding mew and clawless slap by my eye jolted me out of sleep, and I sit up straight, yowling loudly.
"What the-whoa, bad. Bad! I'm asleep. Yeah, I'm losing it." I mutter to myself. Instead of hands, I had paws. Four of them. And a tail.
"You are not losing it. Stand up tall, hind legs." I did as the cat in front of me said, and fell forwards instantly. She caught me before my chin could crash into the ground, pushing me back up gently.
"Once a twoleg, always a twoleg. Humph." She grunts. "Use your tail."
"Ivypool, what in StarClan's name are you doing?" The orange cat from before stalked into the area.
"Oh-but I thought Bramblestar said I could train it, Lionblaze!" Ivypool whines.
"Him, Ivy. You could train him. And he said the four of us could, not just you." Lionblaze replied.
"Aw," Ivypool stamped the ground with an angry paw.