Hi again everyone!

So it's the weekend again now! Whoop whoop! Hopefully this chapter is intense enough to satisfy your hunger for chapters.

Pretty long chapter this time... Hopefully. Also one of the most fun to write for ages!

I had writer's block :(. I really need suggestions. So yeah, this wasn't really going to happen in the story until very late in the book, but I guess it just felt like the right time. I NEED SUGGESTION! REVIEW WITH SUGGESTIONS! ANYTHING FOR SUGGESTIONS!

Hehe, yeah. I really need suggestions.

Ooh, yes, and a few of you wanted more FeatherxFrost in this chapter. So I gave it to you! One or two wanted DawnxRain, but I'm not really sure about that one yet.

Wow. Frostshine has changed. Did you know, at the beginning of the story, Frostshine was going to be a grump like Crowfeather? I guess he loved Featherheart too much to be grumpy.

ANYWAY... I really hope you enjoy, review, follow, or even the magic FAVOURITE if you loved it that much. I can barely believe nobody's said a bad word about this story... Wow. Don't hold back if you hate this story, I want to hear EVERYONE'S opinion!

Sooo... I won't hold you back any longer now. Here's the chapter!

Darkwing prodded Featherpaw's belly softly. "Wake up!"
Featherpaw rolled over. "Huh? It's dawn. I'm not on dawn patrol!" She mewed. Darkbird hissed. "Just get up! It's important!" She reluctantly got onto her feet. "So, what is it then?" She meowed.

"There's a fox loose in the forest! We tracked it's scent back to ShadowClan's border. We think they must have chased it onto our territory!"

Suddenly Featherpaw sat bolt upright. "Okay, I'll be ready to go in a second!" She mewed and started to groom herself. Her father nodded and walked over to wake Dawnpaw.

Once Featherpaw had finished grooming, she bounded out of the den. Darkbird, Owleye, Dustyfur, Dawnpaw and Amberstorm, Dawnpaw's new mentor were waiting at the gorse tunnel. "We're just waiting on Moonpaw now." Dustyfur meowed. At that moment, Moonpaw raced up to them, followed by Rainpaw.

"Rainpaw? You weren't asked to help." Owleye meowed in his deep voice. Rainpaw, panting, replied, "I know, I just thought... maybe I could help with my brother?"

Featherpaw knew the real reason for him wanting to come on this journey. Rainpaw wanted a chance to impress Dawnpaw. He'd been mooning over her for moons.

Dawnpaw rolled her eyes, but Featherpaw noticed a hint of admiration in her eyes. Darkbird nodded. "Sounds alright, I suppose... If he wants to help, we should let him. Rainpaw is just showing loyalty to the clan."

Rainpaw let himself bounce excitedly. "Cool! Let's go then!"

The group of cats rushed through the gorse tunnel and into the forest.

Amberstorm sniffed the ground. "This way!" Her tail pointed in the direction of the lake. Featherpaw had heard that there were ancient tunnels somewhere around the direction her tail was pointed at. According to Rosedrop, it led to WindClan. She wasn't sure if she was being completely truthful though.

The group of cats started to break up. Featherpaw headded towards the shore of the lake. Dawnpaw was a few foxlengths away from her. Featherpaw sprinted ahead and sniffed around what looked like an old badger set. She scented... another cat, a whiff of lavender and... was that fox?

Featherpaw padded carefully inside the set. The scent of fox faded quickly as she progressed. She grew confused. She was sure she'd found the home of the fox, but that didn't explain why the scent was fading.

Although she tried to back out, Featherpaw was blind in these tunnels. Not even the smallest ray of sunlight reached her. She didn't realise she'd gone this far. Is this even a badger set? She wondered.

Soon after she'd had that thought, though, she saw the faintest ray of light ahead of her. She raced toward it, hoping that it led to an exit. When it led only to a cave with no roof, Featherpaw was dumbfounded. The light flooded this large cave, and a river flowed to her right. She tried lapping up the water, to find it was icy cold. A wisp of light appeared in front of her. Featherpaw narrowed her blue eyes to try and make out what it was.

The wisp seemed to look a bit like a cat now... Two cats actually. A black she-cat with yellow eyes and a ginger and white tom. The spirits whispered to each other excitedly. "This is her! This is the one! She will save us!"

More spirits of cats began to appear all around the cave. Featherpaw stared at each one in turn, though they appeared so rapidly that she wasn't sure if she could keep up. "W- Who are you? Why are you here? Why am I here?"

The black she-cat purred. "Hello, young one. My name is Nightwish."

Featherpaw hissed softly. "Why are you here?"

Nightwish blinked. "A terrible fate is coming to StarClan. Our border, where us forgotten cats live, is being taken by The Place Of No Stars. It was foretold in a prophecy. We had to go somewhere, so we came here."

Featherpaw shivered. "What prophecy?" She mewed

Nightwish's eyes clouded over. "The stars will be gone by dawn, but a feather on the breeze will make them bright once more." She rasped in a voice that seemed to belong to a much older cat. Her yellow eyes returned to normal. "We, the forgotten cats of StarClan, are afraid. We know little of what it means, except that the stars are StarClan."

Featherpaw's ears flattened down. She backed away a little. "Is this a nightmare?" She mewed, her voice hardly a whisper. Nightwish looked at her sadly. "Featherpaw, it is neither. No cat can see us except for you, yet you are still awake." She looked at the sky. "More time has passed than you realise, Featherpaw." A new voice spoke, coming from the ginger and white tom. "You have spent the whole day exploring these tunnels. You must not leave this tunnel tonight."

"But how can that be? It didn't feel like a whole day." Featherpaw whispered, mostly to herself. Nightwish purred in amusement. "You have much to learn, young one. When you are with StarClan, days come and go like heartbeats."

Featherpaw pretended to understand. A young-looking white she-cat padded over to her with a nest in her jaws. "For you. It is time you get some sleep." She mewed, her translucent silhouette flickering in the starlight. Featherpaw, too tired to argue, nodded and sat down on her nest with a thump. She lay her head on her paws, curled her tail around her nose and drifted into sleep.

She woke to bright sunlight beaming down on her. It was morning, and about time she got back to camp.

Nightwish appeared next to her. "The time has come to go, little one. Whitestreak will guide you." She meowed to Featherpaw. She nodded to the white she-cat that had made her nest last night.

"Alright, Nightwish. Come on Featherpaw!" Whitestreak meowed. Featherpaw nodded timidly and followed Whitestreak through the tunnels and out into ThunderClan territory. "I must leave you here, for I can't go further than this point. Goodbye and Good luck." Whitestreak meowed and disappeared.

What in StarClan does she mean by Good Luck? Featherpaw wondered, I don't think I'll need good luck on anything.

As she padded back to camp, Featherpaw wondered what she should say to Skystar when explaining where she'd gone. Something told her that the tunnels should stay a secret.

She rehearsed the scenes in her head. "Featherpaw! Where were you?"

"I was exploring in a HUGE badger set because I smelt fox around it. I didn't find the fox but I found her kits in a chamber, and I managed to kill them." Okay, so not exactly the truth, but not a complete lie either.

Featherpaw pictured what Dawnpaw might have been doing, in her head. Probably something big and heroic, She guessed glumly.

When Featherpaw arrived back at camp, she was greeted by Frostshine knocking her over halfway through the gorse tunnel.

"Featherpaw! You're safe! I was scared the fox got you and when Dawnpaw came back I thought she might have murdered you because she's a Dark Forest cat and that's what they do and then when you didn't even come back at night I was so so scared you'd been killed and..." Frostshine paused, breathless.

"No other cat in camp was as worried about you as me." He continued, slower this time. "Because..."

Featherpaw looked up into his sky blue eyes, her gaze intense. Her heart was beating so hard she felt like it would jump out of her chest at any moment.

"Because I love you..." Frostshine whispered. Featherpaw was speechless for a few awkward heartbeats.

"I love you too, Frostshine."

"Where in StarClan WERE you?" Skystar exclaimed to Featherpaw in his den. Featherpaw took a deep breath. "Well, there was a hole to a badger set that had fox scent around it, and I, uh, went inside it to explore and it turned out to be pretty big, and, uh, I found a chamber that had fox kits in and I, er, killed them."

Skystar narrowed his blue eyes. "Alright, now the truth. All of it."

Featherpaw looked at her paws. "Okay, so I came across a hole, it looked like it went to a badger set. It turned out to be a network of tunnels. There was fox scent around the area, but it faded as I went further through the tunnels. I tried to get back, but it was pitch-black and I couldn't remember which way I came."

Skystar nodded. "Go on," He meowed.

"So I kept walking and found this huge cave after a while. It had a hole in the roof, and it happened to be night-time, so I figured I'd have to sleep there. So I did, and in the morning I managed to find my way back." Featherpaw finished, scuffling her paws. Okay, so she didn't tell the whole truth, but surely it was good enough?

Skystar sighed. "Featherpaw, I know there's something more to the story, but I suppose if you haven't shared it with me by now, you won't for a long time. Just tell it to whoever you feel comfortable telling. I'm sorry that you do not trust me enough to tell me." He meowed, and waved his tail to dismiss her.

Featherpaw trudged out of the den, head hanging, tail dragging along the dirt. Hopefully, Moonpaw, Rainpaw, Dawnpaw and she would get their warrior names soon. But maybe Featherpaw would have to miss out. Maybe what she'd done wasn't good enough.

Then an idea struck her. A medicine cat doesn't have to tell a cat everything StarClan had told them... Maybe I can tell Petalpaw or Ravenpelt!

So Featherpaw raced to the medicine den. "Petalpaw? You in here?" She mewed quietly.

"Featherpaw! You're back!" Petalpaw had emerged from the den and was trotting toward her. "Thank StarClan you are safe!"
Featherpaw meowed, "Er, yeah, but I need to tell you something." Petalpaw's eyes were suddenly much larger than usual. "Alright... Let's go behind the medicine den first, though."

Once the two she-cats were behind the den, Featherpaw mewed quietly, "Well, I went in some tunnels last night. And I found a cave. But in that cave were... StarClan cats. They called themselves the forgotten ones. Anyway, they gave me a prophecy. It said, 'The stars will be gone by dawn, but a feather on the breeze will make them bright once more.' I wasn't sure what it meant."

Petalpaw's eyes were huge. "Really? Wow, a prophecy! If StarClan gave you a prophecy, you must be really important!" She mewed.

"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey meet here beneath the Highledge for a Clan meeting!" Skystar yowled from the ledge outside his den. Cats raced into the clearing, so so did Petalpaw and Featherpaw.

"Yesterday, four of our apprentices went out to kill a fox. They succeeded, and now three of them are ready to become warriors. Dawnpaw, step forward." Skystar yowled, then leapt off the Highledge.

"I, Skystar, leader of ThunderClan, call upon our warrior ancestors to look down on this apprentice. She has trained hard to understand the ways of you noble code, and I commend her to you as a warrior in her turn." Skystar meowed.

"Dawnpaw, do you promise to uphold the warrior code and defend your clan, even at the cost of you life?" Skystar continued. Dawnpaw nodded, a strange glint in her eyes. "I do." She mewed coolly.

"Then by the powers of StarClan, I give you your warrior name. Dawnpaw, from this day on you will be known as Dawnsky. StarClan honours your courage and cunning, and we welcome you as a full warrior of ThunderClan." Skystar finished Dawnsky's warrior ceremony.

The same ceremony was repeated for Rainshine and Moonwing.

"... StarClan honours your skills and courage." Skystar finished.

"Hey! What about Featherpaw?" Frostshine yowled angrily. Skystar glared at him. "Featherpaw did not help defeat the fox. She will not be made a warrior today." He said coldly. Then Petalpaw raced up to him.

"Skystar, Featherpaw has chosen to share with me the full story, and I believe that she surely deserves it. She did not help defeat the fox, true, but she did something else, perhaps even much greater." She meowed. Skystar rolled his eyes. "Fine, then. Featherpaw, you will now be known as Featherheart. StarClan honours your skills and ability." He meowed, and walked back to his den.

Even though the Clan was in shock, they still chanted the new warrior's names. "Featherheart! Moonwing! Rainshine! Dawnsky!" They yowled over and over again.

Mudfeather growled. "Featherheart didn't deserve her warrior name! I bet she told Petalpaw a bunch of lies!" She meowed. But no cat seemed to hear her. The cats around her glared at her and continued their cheering.

Featherheart watched the night become day. It was dawn, and some of the ThunderClan cats were waking and assembling for a dawn patrol.

"Hey, Featherheart, why's the sky red? It looks like the clouds are splattered with blood!" Rainshine called from next to her. Featherheart stared up at the sky again, this time seeing a different picture. Before Rainshine had pointed it out, the dawn had seemed beautiful. Now she was looking more closely, she got a sick feeling in her stomach. Not just because she was hungry.

Featherheart suddenly had an idea of who the 'Dawn' in the prophecy was.

I think you all know what the prophecy means! I just thought it would be much more interesting if the cats didn't, though. Hope you liked the romance scene between Featherheart and Frostshine! That part was SO much fun to write ^.^

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