A/N: Hey everyone I am SOOOOO sorry for such a late update and for the shortness of this chapter. I am going through some struggles right now in life and I'm just having a hard time so I haven't been sleeping well and ideas haven't been flowing well in my mind. With school just about to start again more me I'm being smacked down into the ground with stress and preperations, and it's only going to get worse sighs.

Well If I start feeling better in the next couple days I PROMISE, that I Deathwish1234, will right a 9-14 page, hopefully epic chapter for this book! The ideas just have to start slapping me in the face again haha. Well Please review and thank you to everyone who already has! Keep em coming!

Disclaimer! I Own nothing but My Oc's and the plot line. Certain cats such as Cindersnow, Wolf, Jayflight, Leafflight, Owlfeather and anyothers belong to other such authors! Thank you!

~Cari, again I'm really sorry for such a late chapter, hopefully I'll stop getting stupid nightmares and wake up a little. =)


Narrators POV.

Sunrise shone through a barn window making a few of the cats caught in its rays start stirring. Fernpelt lifted her head up slowly and looked around at her small, sleeping clan. Foxpelt was softly snoring next to her as was Emberwing and Blackflight.

"Seems like you're quite the attraction in the tom life here." A voice said with a small, rough purr. Fernpelt looked over to see Wolf slowly approaching her.

"Blackflight is my friend, Foxpelt is my son and Emberwing is my mate." She explained with a calm look and a smile. "But you could say that."

"So…mind if I ask why you're all wandering around without a place to stay?" Wolf asked in slight embarrassment, she wasn't used to talking to a cat that meant business, well other than Shadow, but it's been moons since he'd passed away.

"Sure, but not here. I don't want to wake anyone else up yet." Fernpelt mewed and walked off towards the ledge. Wolf followed her slowly noticing the scars running down her sides. "I was attacked by a bear a few moons ago." Fernpelt mewed feeling Wolf's gaze on her.

"How'd you survive?"

"I ran like hell," Fernpelt answered and jumped down from the ledge, "But that's not important anymore."

Wolf nodded and jumped down after her. The two she cats slowly padded out of the barn and into the bright morning light. Trees lined the edges of the property while very tall, emerald colored grass swayed in the wind giving it a pretty shine. Off in the distance a small creek could be heard bubbling by along with the sound of heavy horse hooves.

A two leg den wasn't far from the barn, but it was far enough away so that the cats wouldn't be seen doing anything. "There's a nice shady spot over there by the hogs feeding place, would you like to go over there?" Wolf asked.

"Yes, that'll do nicely." Fernpelt answered and let Wolf lead her towards the shady place. Once they arrived there they settled down in the dusty floor resting their now aching paws. The gravel around the barn was merciless on pads.

"How did you end up here?" Fernpelt asked Wolf in a calm but curious demeanor. They still didn't trust each other completely but Fernpelt was not one to judge at the first sight and decided it would be good to give this cat a chance with them. If she didn't like it, they'd escort her back to her barn and if she did she could be part of the clan without any protests.

"It's a long story but a long time ago when I was born I went out exploring when I shouldn't have. My mother didn't know what happened to me. Well I strayed out onto some rocky outcrops and looked up into the blazing sky to see a large black dot that kept circling me." Wolf paused remembering that faithful day with much hate. "The black dot kept getting bigger and bigger until I realized it was a large bird by then it was too late. The bird latched onto me as I screeched and clawed at it but nothing was working. It kept trying to pick at my neck with its beak in what I guessed was a death bite but I kept flailing enough to where it couldn't. After a long flight a loud noise was heard and the next thing I knew the ground was rushing up to me."

"A loud noise?" Fernpelt asked with wide eyes.

"The two leg here shot it thinking Shadow was the cat being carried off." Wolf explained and sighed, "I woke up a few days later to see Shadow standing over me. He took me in and helped me recover until he decided to teach me all the things about the farm. After I learned almost all of it a band of horrible cats came and caused a barn fire. They ran like cowards while Shadow got stuck inside. I desperately tried to save him but the smoke killed him first. That's when the barn collapsed and slashed my eye thus making me blind."

"I am very sorry for your losses Wolf; I was exiled from my clan because our leader, also my enemy, apparently got a sign from Starclan saying I was going to destroy the clan. I was sent away but cats argued against the sign, they didn't believe I was capable of such things. The cats who took my side in the argument were exiled with me by their choice. So we are on a journey to remake another clan." Fernpelt said and looked at her paws in shame. Being exiled from your birth clan and dragging your friends and family down with you was very hard on her. She wished they'd all just stayed behind and left her to make this journey on her own.

"How do you know she wasn't lying about the whole thing?" Wolf asked with a steady gaze.

"I don't, but she was our leader, she has the power and she makes the choices." Fernpelt sighed and dug her claws in the ground with a frustrated grunt. Wolf looked over at the she cat with sympathetic eyes, she was a young cat and to have the responsibility of so many cats on her shoulders so soon was very hard to cope with.

"I've thought about your offer to join your clan," Wolf said slowly making Fernpelt's ears prick with curiosity.

"What's your decision?"

"I'll join but not as a clan cat to start out with, just a friend or a guide or something. You have enough responsibility as it is."

"It's good to have you then, Wolfpaw seems to have taken a liking to you, and so I'd hoped you'd join."

"Weren't you worried?" Wolf asked with a surprised look.

"If Wolfpaw trusts you, then I do too. It's not my decision to make; it's my friends and families decision to decide." Fernpelt shook her head and stood up to stretch, "I believe decisions shouldn't be just on persons and I believe trust is the way to build a strong clan."

"I can see why you're leading this group then," Wolf mumbled and stood up to stretch after Fernpelt.

"I'm not leading anything, I'm just as good as any other cat in this group and we're all deciding things together."

"I realize," Wolf said and gave her a confused look. She was acting kind of strange. Then again she did only know her for one day so this could be her normal.

"Sorry, I must be acting crazy; I'm just lost in thought." Fernpelt mewed as if to read Wolfs mind.

"It's alright, so is Foxpelt Emberwing's son too?"

"Foxpelt's mother died giving birth to him and the father was never found, the clan just assumed it was a loner or a rogue. Hawkstorm, my sister took care of Foxpelt as a kit and gave him milk but already having three kits of her own was very hard on her so I took Foxpelt in as one of my own. I raised him since he was three moons old and once I was attacked by the bear I was no longer aloud to have him as my apprentice. Robinstar took him in and wouldn't give him back when I recovered so he became a warrior with the wrong mentor…"

"I'm guessing Robinstar is this cat you aren't exactly good friends with," Wolf said with a knowing look on her face.

"Yes, we never really got along; she used to bully me when we were kits until her parents snapped at her for it and made her sleep alone by the edge of camp for a moon. She blamed me for it."

"Did you ever consider that maybe she was just stung by her parent's actions and saw how you never got into trouble? Maybe she was lonely and was looking for a friend in you, but she was just showing it differently? Have you ever thought about how she felt?"

"I do sometimes but when I tried to befriend her as an apprentice she tricked me into getting into a lot of trouble. Then she turned cats against me and I was left alone with only a various amount of friends to live by."

"And what about her?" Wolf asked and slightly rolled her eyes, being seven seasons old made her think young she cats were just dumb sometimes.

"She always had the clan on her side and many friends, but she never apologized."

"Why would she, she was getting even with you so you were both on the same boat. I swear you she cats can be so oblivious sometimes."

"If you met her you'd understand but I suppose you're right, I never really took the time to understand the meaning behind her hate for me."

"Wow, no argument, you really are a respective cat."

"Glad to know how you see me," Fernpelt rolled her eyes as they slowly padded back to the barn.

The two she cats slowly walked back to the barn and up to where the rest of the sleeping cats lay. Wolf walked back over to Wolfpaw and his Family to rest while Fernpelt made herself comfortable on a ledge in the barn loft where the warm sun lit up her pelt making shine.

A few cats stirred a little bit but fell back into a deep sleeping seeing at it was still only dawn. Fernpelt lifted her head at an unusual noise and peered out of the ledge she was perched. A large animal stood outside it stamping it's large paws on the ground and shaking it's large neck like a dog shaking off water.

'That must be a horse,' Fernpelt pondered as she watched the giant black best make a loud noise and peer over its shoulder to see if the two leg had come out with food yet. After shaking her own head Fernpelt looked away from the horse and rested her muzzle in her paws.

"Fernpelt…" She heard another cat hiss through clenched teeth. Tasting the air she recognized Cindersnow and her male kit, Jayflight.

"What's wrong?" She asked in a hurry seeing as the two cats looked slightly distressed.

"Shellstar is coughing pretty bad…" Jayflight mewed in a low tone. He knew how close Fernpelt and her father were. Her sister and mother were close more than the other two. The two she cats hardly ever left each other's sides.

"Does he have a hair ball?" Fernpelt asked and stood up quickly with a slightly ruffled pelt. Cindersnow shook her head and lowered her head towards the ground. "Get Ripplepaw," Fernpelt ordered and jumped down from the small ledge she was stationed at.

The other two cats hurried off to find Ripplepaw as Fernpelt rushed off towards her sickly father. She arrived in the corner the two elders were stationed at only to see Shellstar going through another bought of coughing.

A few cats surrounded him and soothed him by running their tails along his flank both nothing seemed to be working. "Hawkstorm what happened?" Fernpelt asked in fear and rushed over to Shellstar.

"He woke up feeling bad in his chest and then well…this started." She explained back and rested down by a worried Violettail and her sick father.

"Move please," Ripplepaw demanded from right behind said cats. Fernpelt moved out of the way for her to come in. "What's wrong Shellstar?"

"He has a horrible cough," Violettail said quickly and peered over Hawkstorm's shoulder to make sure her mate was doing alright.

"Ok," Ripplepaw said and put her front paws onto Shellstar's flank. She massaged where his lungs were until he ceased the horrible coughing that raked his body. Ripplepaw hopped off slowly and sat by her patient. "This is only temporary; I have no medical supplies so I'm really hoping it's nothing too bad."

Fernpelt nodded in shock when she felt a warm pelt press up on both her flanks. She peered up to see Emberwing on her right flank and Foxpelt on her left while Blackflight sat next to them with a sympathetic look on his face. "Is eh…Fernpelt ok?" Blackflight asked her with concerned eyes.

"Y-yes, I'm alright, shaken up a little and shocked but other than that I'm doing alright, thank you Blackflight." She said as the cats around Shellstar bled off into other parts of the large barn. Shellstar's close family stayed behind and huddled next to him in worry. He looked rather healthy except you were starting to see his bones easier which meant he was losing muscle and weight.

"What've you gotten into this time?" Violettail asked with a small purr as she groomed his pelt. He grumbled grumpily in response and flopped onto his side to rest easier.

"Just swallowed air down the wrong tube." He lied in a way as to reassure his family. Foxpelt was ushering the small apprentices away from the sight while Blackflight and Emberwing helped.

Eagleheart had left earlier to hunt for the small clan so it was only the four cats sitting in the corner with concerned looks on their faces. "He'll be ok," Hawkstorm whispered to very sick looking Fernpelt herself, but not of disease, she was worrying her pelt off.

"He better be," She mewed back and snuggled in closer to her father's pelt.

"Everything's going to be alright," She kept thinking to herself as she rested against her father. They'd travel more tomorrow, for now, they needed to plan and make sure Shellstar stayed healthy enough to continue on.


A/N: Again sorry for the shortness and please review! See you guys in the next chapter, I'm gonna try and sleep now with out having to watch some f ing creeper child say "I'm going to kill you" In my dreams as it twitches in a dark corner. Creepy right lol. I wanted to say in my dream, "You're not the first person who's said that to me" Haha. Please review and thanks guys! I LOVVEEEE YOOOUUUUU

~Badass Brady