Shades eyes flashed open, her heart beating faster than she had ever felt it. Her breath was hollow, her eyes full of sleep. She looked around, her memory foggy. Where am I? Her eyes met the limp body of her brother, Finn who lay asleep. The gentle rise and fall of his chest assured her he was still awake. His black and white tabby pelt was littered with slashes from the fight with the foxes. His icy blue eyes lay shut, though long teeth stuck out from his top lip.

She looked around and saw that she was under a small stone overhang, in front of a fern covered opening in the thunderlcan camp. She widened her eyes.

"Finn, wake up!" She prodded her brothers side. "We're here, in thunderclan, alive!"

The she-cat nearly bounced up and down. Finn blinked open his handsome eyes and looked up at her, yawning.

"Last night wasn't a dream?" He asked hopefully.

Shade shook her head. "No, we are really here."

He looked around. "Where is everyone." He stood up and cringed, muttering under his breath. "I can smell them,"

Shade stepped forward. "The medicine cat came in and treated us after you dozed off. He sleeps in here, along with a bunch of other sick cats. We were put out her becasue there was no more room."

"Oh," Finn turned his head right away, and shade followed his gaze.

There stood the huge, dark tabby leader SHade had met last night. His amber eyes watched them darkly, and the meowed sternly as he came into earshot. "You two have a lot of explaining to do."

Almost on cue, the medicine cat, a lean gray tabby tom with cloudly blue eyes stepped in beside him. The snow piled on either side of the ledge, forming a sort of room. Shade suspected the gray tabby was blind, but she did not say anything. The dark tabby leader stared at the two littermates.

"Now tell us why you are here." He said, in a menacing voice. He seemed to be trying to intimidate them. Shades body ached with pain and her mind whirled. Where do I start?

Before she could start, her brother cut in. He was a handsome cat, even with the wounds. Shade's fur was sleek and her strong, lean muscles made her look very tough. The long, scaret cut kind of added to her appearance.

"Well we both had the exact same dream." Mumbled Finn. He glanced at his sister. Shades orange eyes were like knives as she looked back at him, filled with fear. "We, we were in this place... it was huge an endless forest it seemed."

Shade raised her head. "The sky looked like the sun was just setting, a brillant orange."

Finn came in again. "The same color as Shade's eyes." He added. "We were all alone, and scared."

The giant tabby cocked his head. Though he looked like he could do lots of damage in battle, he was obviously not her to drive cats away for no reason.

"Then a black cat came up to us." Shade went on. "She was glowing and her eyes were full of..." She paused, not knowing what to call it.

"Agony." Finn added. "As if she knew that she was going to die."

"She told us her name was hollyleaf." Shade watched the leader and the medicine cat flashed terrified glances at each other, they're faces told that they had thousand of words to say. They kept quiet and let the two cats go on.

"Well she said that there was something we needed to do." Finn meowed, curving his tail over his paws.

"Her exact words were," Shade took a deep breath. "The clans are hungry, sick and frozen, mend the wound that was long ago broken ." SHe stared at the two cats. "When we woke up, we told our grandfather."

Finn's ears pressed against the back of his head. "He said we need to come here. He said over mother mouth, and towards the mountains. The cats that used to live by our home would be here."

The leader stared at them for what seemed like hours. He seemed to be waiting for something. But what?

His eyes narrowed. "Why should I let random loners into my clan?" Spat the leader. "Your dream tells that you have a duty here, but why you two?" He paused. "Who is your grandfather?"

Shade stepped forward and gulped, meowing quickly. "Ravenpaw."