Chapter Fifty.

Wolfpaw swiped at the mouses neck with a killing blow. The mouse went limp and she picked it up.

"Wolfpaw!"

Wolfpaw turned around to where the voice was coming from.

"Coming!" Wolfpaw screamed dropping the mouse.

Wolfpaw gathered up all her prey she caught and went back to the patrol.

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Wolfpaw was sitting in the shade of the high rock and drew her paws over her ears.

"Hey Wolfpaw!"

Wolfpaw looked over to her right and found Owlkit bounding up to her.

"Owlkit!" Wolfpaw yelled.

Owlkit talked Wolfpaw.

"Look how big I am!" she squealed.

"i know!"

Owlkit got off of Wolfpaw and Wolfpaw studied her. She was bigger. She was about the size of her!

"I can't wait to be apprenticed!" Owlkit squealed.

"Right! I forgot you'd be apprenticed soon." Wolfpaw put a tail around her shoulders and put her head against hers.

"i can't wait."

"Hopefully we're apprentice for a while together." Owlkit said.

Wolfpaw's eyes widened and she pulled away, her tail still around her shoulders.

"We probably only have a moon together."

"What do you mean?" Owlkit asked.

"Well... Stonepaw and the others will be getting their assessments soon... probably around this time or next moon."

"Well we might get to be apprentices together for a while though." Owlkit said.

Wolfpaw looked at her and smiled.

"Yeah." Wolfpaw put her head against her's again. "I guess your right."

Owlkit smiled and bounded off.

"Let's play!"

Wolfpaw laughed and was about to join her.

Wolfpaw!

Wolfpaw stopped. She placed her paw back on the ground and sat there for a few seconds.

"Wolfpaw?" Owlkit asked coming back up to her friend/sister.

"Wolfpaw are you okay?"

"I have to go." Wolfpaw said and started to walk off.

"Wolfpaw?"

"I have to go Owlkit! I'll play moss ball with you later."

Before Owlkit could protest Wolfpaw bounded out of camp.

"Wolfpaw?" Lostflight said.

"Going on a short walk bye!" Wolfpaw yelled at Lostflight and Goldenfeather.

"Where are you going!" Goldenfeather yelled after her.

"Let her go." Lostflight said putting a tail on Goldenfeather's shoulder. "i think she needs some time to herself."

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Wolfpaw ran down the trail towards Windclan territory. When she reached the border she stopped and listened.

Wolfpaw.

Wolfpaw ran down the trail that led to the moonpool. Wolfpaw climbed up and down the rocks and finally reached the moonpool.

She walked up to it and looked at her reflection in the pool. Wolfpaw licked up some of the water and laid down as her eye lids began to drop.

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Wolfpaw woke up in the black void.

"You got to be kidding me!" she screamed into the void. "This couldn't have waited till i fell asleep!"

No answer.

Wolfpaw sighed and started to walk around. She felt something cold and icy around her paws. Wolfpaw looked down and saw black mist that blended into the void swirl around her paws. Wolfpaw lifted one paw. The black mist just kept swirling around her paws.

"Hmm." Wolfpaw studied the black mist.

"Wolfpaw."

Wolfpaw looked up. No one was there.

"Hello?"

No answer.

"Whose there?"

Wolfpaw heard a sigh.

"Come out! I know you're there!"

There was a long sigh and then it disappeared.

This is messed up. Wolfpaw thought.

She started to walk around. Wolfpaw kept looking from side to side and sometimes would look behind her. The earth started to shake and Wolfpaw dug her claws into the floor. The shake was violent but didn't damage anything.

"This is strange." Wolfpaw said to herself.

The wind blew on Wolfpaw but it wasn't strong. Wolfpaw kept walking. The earth would shake a couple times but only violent enough to make Wolfpaw stumble a small bit.

"Hello! Anyone there!" Wolfpaw called out.

Her call was answered back by an echo of her call.

"Okay! Show yourself you air head!" Wolfpaw called out.

The wind just kept blowing.

"Air head?"

Wolfpaw spun around to be faced with a black cat. The thing was this one didn't glow.

"Who are you?" Wolfpaw asked.

She unsheathed her claws and the fur on her back and neck fluffed up.

"No one important." He said and disappeared.

"Where'd you go!?" Wolfpaw yelled.

"Just behind you."

Wolfpaw spun around to face the thing. It's fur was sleek and the black mist swirled around him. His eyes glowed white and he had a sharped teethed smile that reached his ears almost.

"Who are you? What do you want!" Wolfpaw demanded.

"Is that anyway to treat a new friend?" he asked.

"I don't even know you."

He gave a smile weak laugh. "I guess that's true."

Wolfpaw jumped at him just to be met with the void's floor.

"Now I don't want to fight."

Wolfpaw spun around and face the thing.

"Then what do you want?"

"I just want to talk."

"Then why do you keep disappearing and reappearing?"

"It's just a thing I do." Wolfpaw spun to her left and backed away.

"Who are you?"

He gave that small laugh again.

"Just call me Shade." he said. "That's at least my name here."

"What's your real name then?"

"That will come in good times... or bad."

His smile turned evil and he disappeared. Wolfpaw jumped back and kept low to the ground.

"You think you're soooo just because Starclan chose you."

"What do you mean?"

He laughed.

"Find the four cats that hold the elements inside them." he said.

"What?"

"Ivypool told you she was the one who came up with that prophecy huh?"

"Yes... how did you know!"

"That doesn't matter right now. All that matters is that she lied."

"What?"

"Poor, poor, Wolfpaw. So broken!"

His voice went deep when he said broken.

"Shut up!"

"Ivypool didn't come up with that prophecy... I did."

"No! I wont believe you!"

He laughed. "You'll have to believe me at some point."

"No! No, no ,no!" Wolfpaw shook her head and laid her ears back.

He laughed. "Earth shall crumble, Air shall tear us apart, Water will bring us under, and Fire shall burn us down." he said. "This prophecy has both good and bad."

"The good is they don't embrace their dark side..."

"And the bad is if they do."

Wolfpaw gasped for air. Her chest hurt and it felt like something was squeezing her heart.

"Ah! Very good! You know this prophecy like the back of your paw."

"Well I'm suppose to find them."

He laughed. "Aw yes. That."

Wolfpaw's eyes began to tear up.

"Stop it! Stop!"

"Stop what? I'm not doing anything."

"Your... Your hurting me!" Wolfpaw sat down and hung her head.

"You poor thing."

"Wolfpaw!" someone screamed.

"i guess we'll have to pick this up another time."

"Wolfpaw!"

"Goodbye Wolfpaw. I'll see you soon."

His laughed echoed through Wolfpaw's spine and he was gone. Wolfpaw collapsed onto her side and her tears flooded over.

"Wolfpaw!"

Wolfpaw saw white and grey paws.

"Ivypool?"

"Wolfpaw!"

She heard her name but it started to fade out... and everything went black.

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"Is she okay?" someone said.

"I knew I should have stopped her when I felt his presence!" someone yelled.

"You couldn't do anything Ivypool. He would have found a way to get to her."

"Someone wake her up."

"What! No! She needs to rest!"

"She needs to rest in her camp! This isn't her camp!"

Wolfpaw groaned. She heard rustling and something splash on her face. Wolfpaw's eyes shot open and she sat up coughing.

"That's it. Get some air flowing." Wolfpaw felt a paw prod her back.

"Will she be okay?"

"Yes." The voice rasped. It sound old and cranky.

"Where am I?" Wolfpaw couched.

"Starclan."

Wolfpaw looked around. Firestar, Bluestar, Dovewing, and Ivypool watched her.

"I'm so glad you're okay" Ivypool said.

"We all are." Dovewing said.

Wolfpaw looked behind her and found an old, fluffy grey cat. She had amber eyes and a scar along her snout.

"Who are you?" Wolfpaw asked.

"I'm Yellowfang. I was once a medicine cat of Thunderclan." she said.

"She helped you." Ivypool said.

"With what?"

"She healed you." Bluestar said.

Yellowfang growled.

"You can go now Yellowfang." Firestar said.

"I don't need you to tell me when I have to go!" Yellowfang snapped.

She sat there for a few heartbeats then left.

"Sorry about her." Firestar said.

"It's fine." Wolfpaw said sitting up. "What happened?"

"We found you in the void." Bluestar said.

"I should have stopped you from going there." Ivypool said.

Wolfpaw looked at them all then at her paws.

"Whose Shade?" Wolfpaw asked looking back up at them.

They all looked at each other then at her then back again.

"Should we tell her?" Ivypool asked.

"There's no point in lying to her." Bluestar said.

Wolfpaw unsheathed her claws and growled. "Stop talking like I'm not here and just tell me! Who is Shade!? Why did he say he was the one who came up with the prophecy? What's his real name? Why do you keep important details from me that deal with the prophecy!"

They all looked at Wolfpaw. Bluestar was the first to talk.

"Shade is a enemy to Starclan."

"He's not really an enemy more like... um..." Dovewing started to say.

"He's neutral." Ivypool said.

"How long has he been an enemy?"

"As long as Starclans been alive." Firestar said.

"Who is he exactly?"

"Shade was once a rogue. He was part of a clan once..."

"What clan?" Wolfpaw asked.

"Bloodclan."

Wolfpaw gasped.

"He left and... he was killed." Firestar said.

"He was a wondering shadow in the old forest when the clans started to settle there." Bluestar said.

"He found the highstone... and Starclan." Ivypool added.

"Starclan aloud him in but at some point he went mad and left."

"How do you leave Starclan?" Wolfpaw asked.

"He was never apart of Starclan. No cat really is. It's just a place for you to go when you die." Firestar answered.

Wolfpaw looked at her paws.

"He told me he delivered the prophecy. What did he mean by that." Wolfpaw looked back up at them.

"he delivered the prophecy way back when." Firestar answered.

"When he went mad."

"Starclan didn't know what it meant... but now we do."

"So this prophecy has been alive since the first dawn of the clans?"

"Not really." Bluestar said.

"All he said was Fire, Water, Earth, and Air shall destroy us all. It wasn't a prophecy then... but it is now." Firestar said.

"What's his real name?" Wolfpaw asked.

"He used to be called Claw... but then he started to go by Shade." Ivypool said.

Wolfpaw looked back down at her paws.

"Wolfpaw."

She looked back up and Ivypool sat down in front of her.

"Did Shade tell you anything else?"

"Not really. But he said I was broken."

Wolfpaw looked down at her paws and back up at Ivypool.

"Why was I chosen for this?"

Ivypool looked at the others then back at Wolfpaw.

"We can't tell you know."

"Why not!" Wolfpaw yelled standing up. "Why do you have to hide everything!"

"Starclan doesn't all ways have the answers!" Ivypool yelled.

Wolfpaw sat back down and looked at her paws. Ivypool sighed.

"Wolfpaw." Ivypool put her tail under her chin and lifted her head. "In good times you will find what you are looking for."

Wolfpaw gasped and her tears ran down her cheeks.

Firestar sparked and wavered and disappeared.

"Wait! Don't go!" Wolfpaw yelled.

Bluestar and Dovewing disappeared.

"Starclan is behind you Wolfpaw!"

"Wait!"

Ivypool disappeared and everything went black.

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Yes! Haha! Cliff Hanger! I guess.

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