Water surged around me. I flailed around and opened my eyes to darkness all around me. I opened my mouth to scream but water flooded in. Dark, muddy water. I felt rocks under my paws and I pushed up and swam to whatever light broke through. I pushed through the surface of the water and took a gasping breath only to be shoved back under by an oncoming wave.

I flipped around and my back scraped against the stones. I held in a yowl, taking every moving second and trying to hold my breath. Flipping myself over I shot up again and took a deep breath. Then another and I looked around. The water was pushing me fast, to where the trees whizzed by and the bank seemed like one long endless stretch of land I could never reach. I looked up at the sky only to see dark smog covering the sky. I was in the Dark Forest- or worse… the Forbidden Forest.

I wanted to call out for help, for Scourge to come running out of the trees and snag me out of the water. But I was called here, someone knows I am here, it could be Eclipse… or it could be an enemy.

All of a sudden, the water just… stopped. The horrible rapids fell into a calm gentle flow, and the sharp stones turned into soft most covered pebbles. It went like this, only for a moment until the water became still. Even though it continued down a long stretch of water. I looked around, and saw the ground on the bank suddenly clear into a path. The undergrowth moved, the muddy dirt dried out to a previous path many beings have walked down.

I waded out of the water and onto the land. I looked up and looked at the trees and I realized, I have never seen them in the Dark Forest. I stopped right in the middle of the pathway and sighed.

"Why does all the fucked up stuff happen in my dreams?" I asked myself. I then looked to the sky and yelled "Eclipse! Starclan! Whoever controls my dreams, starts sending me stuff in the real world now!" All I got in response was a faint wind blowing past me.

"Because, it would be no fun then." A dark, voice rasped. I looked around in all directions, trying to discover were the voice is.

"Where are you?" I called aloud. I waited a bit, and then I knew I had to follow the path to find my answer. I rolled my eyes and then I continued on. But even though I didn't show it, I began to become worried. What had Eclipse said to me? Dream my escape, dream his escape, and turn the tides of the future. Who was supposed to escape with me? Or is that even the meaning of the words? For once, I was questioning the minds of those who are leading me.

The path suddenly ended and I came to a single line of trees. On the other side, I saw a flash of eyes, and a pelt. Amber eyes… brown pelt… No…It can't be…

I felt my claws scrape the ground, and the fur on the back of my neck rose up. My ears went back against my head and I silently moved through the undergrowth, and I reached the center of the trees. What I saw puzzled me, and terrified me.

A cat sat with his back to me. A striped, tabby pelt with many scars. He knew I was there, because he was to calm, and he had spoken to me. Around him was a small clearing, and he was surrounded in a circle of small silver stones that shined like the very moon. A wave of silver light seemed to continue in a path through the stones. Making them light up, and then darken again.

"Strange stones, aren't they?" The cat said, his voice reflecting how tiered and weak he really was. His ears swerved back to face me and said "This would be our… fifth? No sixth time meeting. The first happened to be a terrible meeting, one with harsh words said. The second would be the rise of your first clan, and the fall of mine. Third would be the unseen meeting in the clearing where I was left to rot… Continue?"

"Fourth would be when I met you in battle, and you killed me. Then I killed you. Fifth would be when you returned to fight me and my friend, and you were defeated by the sun…"

"And here we are again, Felidaestar." The tabby cat said and turned around. I felt my lips draw back and I snarled showing my fangs.

"Why can't you stay dead, Tigerstar?"