I know, this update is very late. I have no excuse, I'm sorry, plus it's another Crowpaw chapter, but I needed to since it focuses on her dreams, Sharpfang, and her dealing with the nightmare. I promise the chapter after the next one will be Moonpaw's. Why not the next one you ask, you will have to read the author's note, don't wanna give it away too quickly ;)

Crowpaw:

I stretched out, dawn's pre-light slicing through the screens of the apprentice den. I suddenly felt soft fur against my own. I glanced sideways, to see a pale brown coat, with soft white ears and chest. With a dark brown paw...

'Has any cat seen us!' I think in humiliation, untangling myself from his body. I see his pale blue eyes blink open, my movement waking him up.

"What's the matter Crowpaw? Another nightmare?" Falconpaw asked yawning.

"No! But I can't believe you slept in my nest." I hissed at him.

"And that's a problem?" He asked grudgingly

"Yes! What is some cat saw us!" I meowed coldly.

"That would be terrible because?"

"Because I don't want any cat assuming that were.. That I..." Am a pitiful weak queen. Just as Sharpfang mocked.

"Look, wanna take a walk. If you hiss any louder every cat in here will wake up. But I can see you still want to continue this conversation, so the best idea would be to continue this discussion in a more private setting" He mewed seriously. I felt a flash of indignation, but followed him out of the den. When I noticed Ivypool standing guard, I hissed quietly to Falconpaw.

"I'll leave first, wait a few moments after I disappear, then follow me. I'll be waiting by the old twoleg den.

"Why can't we just leave together?" He monotoned, clearly annoyed at my attitude.

"Just wait here!" I hissed angrily before walking past him, earning a hiss return. If he was upset it wasn't my problem. I do not love him, I can't! I refuse to be a dopey queen, I won't let that Sharpfang get to me, I will be a great warrior! That's all I want to be. All I can ever-

"Crowpaw. what are you doing out so early. You're not on dawn patrol?" Ivypool asked, looking up.

"Early hunt, couldn't sleep." I mewed. Ivypool nodded, and let me head off.

I padded through the undergrowth, thoughts of Falconpaw entering my mind. He was diffrent from other cats, sure I bite his head off, but unlike other cats I don't like fighting with him. I don't try to get him mad, and... I hate disappointing him. I shook my head trying to clear. That doesn't mean I'm in love with him. It just means I tolerate him more than most cats, besides, cats liek me do not fall in love. Love is for the weak, who always need someone there for them. Who can't survive on their own. Besides, she didn't need a mate, that's what the cln was for. she didn't need love, she didn't need Falconpaw. Sharpfang was wrong about her and him. She was going to be a warrior, she-

"Crowpaw?" A voice echoed through the tree's, Falconpaw stepped from the shadows.

"I'm here." Falconpaw nodded, stepping closer to me. Part of me wanted to step back, the part that had my heart racing and fur feeling hot as his presence-

'Stop it!' I growled at myself.

"So." Falconpaw mewed, looking me straight in the eye. His pale blue orbs staring into my light blue ones.

"What's so terrible about some cat seeing us sharing a nest?" He asked seriously. I felt my self began to panic, I couldn't tell him it was because I was embarrassed, that I hated what other cats thought. Because that wasn't supposed to be me. I was the sharp tongued cat who didn't give a mouse tail what other cat thought of her. Or who she spent her time with. But telling him she was scared, would ruin the vision of herself she fought to have.

"I-if cat's saw us together they'd start to ask questions, and I don't want explain the nightmares, to... relive them" I lied through my teeth. He looked thoughtful.

"I see... Ok. I understand. But will you ever tell em what was so terrifying in that dream?" He asked, glancing sideways at me.

"I will. Just... not now" Or ever! I thought to myself. Falconpaw, nodded, satisfied

"We better hunt, so the clan won't think were just went on esely stroll. Were still working apprentices..." I mewed. Falconpaw twitched his whiskers.

"I thought I'd never see the day where you were willign to hunt for your clan without being asked." He purred. I smirked at him.

"It is part of being a warrior. Plus I thought I'd never see you, the most serious cat in the clan, amused."

He chuckled slightly.

"I guess you bring out that response in me." I ignored in drop in my heart and starting sniffin the undergrowth. Soon we had caught two squirrels and a mouse. My mouth watered, and my stomach grumbled.

"Think we could share the mouse... We can just take the other too back-

"No. The warrior code states we must feed the clan first." He glared at me. I shrugged before picking up the mouse in my jaws. Murmuring.

"You don't have to be so serious about everything."

He picked up the two squirrels before following me.

"I have to be. It's who I am." I purred slightly at his answer before stopping him at the entrance of camp.

"I'll go in first, you head in..."

"Are you that embarrassed to be seen with me" He asked annoyed, a flash of hurt in his eyes.

I didn't answer I just walked into camp. Falconpaw didn't follow me.

XxXxX

Later that night, I curled into my nest. Falconpaw didn't speak to me the rest of the day. I hissed inwardly.

'It's not my fault that mousebrain is so sensitive' But I still felt bad. I curled into my nest, sleep eventually taking over me. But when it did, I wish it hadn't.

"Well, well, kitten. Looks like our little chat didn't get through to you yesterday" A voice echoed through the tree's.

"Leave me alone!" I hissed.

"I don't know what you see in that pathetic tom. He's no fun."

"Shut up! I don't see anything in that mousebrain" Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

"You moon over him like a queen. Not fitting of a great warrior."

"I said leave me alone Sharpfang!"

"But I barely even begun to have my fun" A mocking voice cackled. Suddenly, a figure slid out of the tree's. Bright yellow eyes burned into her. Sharp fangs laughed at her.

The cat was a pale brown, similar to Falconpaw. He had a white chest, and a white tipped a small white slash covering his pale pink nose. But the worse was the scars that covered his body. All over his chest, back and legs, the worse ones though jutted over his face. The most frightening though, a long pale scar that scratched don from his chin, down to his neck, to his chest, and along his underbelly. That wound must have-

"I see you noticed my battle trophies. Though I wouldn't celebrate this one" The cat motioned to the long one racing down his body.

"I got this a an execution for my crimes on the night of a gathering. Funny, the one who dealt me this blow was the Shadowclan leader who had me murder his deputy, whom his cla was wanting to take his place as leader. Wasn't much of a hard thing for me to do, I had killed before, and it was this cat who stole my one love. So it was a win. Till the pathetic leader, the one who begged me to kill the deputy so he could still rule over his clan for many seasons, is the one who outed me as the murderer of several warriors. Thus my life ended at that gathering. Beginning my new life, as the first dark forest I still got my revenge from the beyond, having just as much fun as I did alive." Sharpfang shrugged indifferently.

I was shaking. This cat.. Was evil. He had so easily killed so many, had fought so many battles, and he didn't seem to care. It was all a game to him.

"Please! Just let me wake up!" I meowed.

"Oh but what fun would that be? We still have much to talk about kitten."

"I don't have anything to say to you!" I screeched. Suddenly I felt a tug.

'Wake up. Wake up Crowpaw! A voice called. I felt the dark forest around me began to blur.

"I'm not down with you yet kitten. Even if you escape now, I will find you. I will teach you that-'"

I woke up a heartbeat later. Shaking.

"Are you okay?" A concerned voice whispered.

"Falconpaw-" His tail covered my mouth and he smiled.

"You don't want to wake the others do you. I know you wouldn't wan any cat seeing us" He mewed. He curled up next to me, tucking his tail around my body.

"What are you-"

"I'll leave before any cat wakes and notices. I just can't let you be alone with these terrible nightmares. You were shaking Crowpaw. I refuse to let that happen. So I'm going to stay and sleep here. I won't leave you unprotected."

I normally would have argued I didn't need his protection. But the look of concern in his eyes made me stop. I let myself curl into him and rested my nose into his chest as his head took place over my shoulder.

"Goodnight Crowpaw" He mewed quietly.

I didn't dream of Sharpfang once that night.

I think this was the best chapter I have ever written for this story! Okay, for the next chapter, i will be a special chapter all about Sharpfang, which cat was his first kill, and why he turned evil. So look forward to that, it will be called, 'Sharpfang's legacy'.

Also the first episode of The War is Over animated is out! Link will be on my profile, so please drop a comment there.

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