CHAPTER TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!

WE HAVE REACHED TEN CHAPTERS in idk how many days. I forgot when I published this.

Part Two of the fox attack will be Chapter Eleven. Right now, this is what's happening to Emberpaw.

So far I have one OC submitted: Fogpaw.

Fogpaw: a full black she-cat with surprisingly, gray eyes.

Gender: She-cat

Rank: Apprentice

Clan: ShadowClan

Only three warriors in ShadowClan.

Right I'ma just make my own random OCs and throw 'em in:

Treebark: a dark brown tabby tom with black spots and dark green eyes.

Silverfur: a silver slender she-cat with light blue eyes and black spots.

Apprentice: Fogpaw

Oneear: a light brown tabby tom with white stripes and orange eyes. Has only one ear, that's white.

Fishleap: a orange and white tom with yellow eyes and black paws.

Fogpaw: a full black she-cat with gray eyes. Is somebody else's OC.

Right, these cats randomly teleported into ShadowClan and automatically joined.

Time to start the chappie.

After the Gathering, Emberpaw had said goodbye to Moonpaw and Stonepaw and went back to ShadowClan.

Surprisingly, Emberpaw's mentor had been the menacing deputy named Frostshadow, who hated her. Emberpaw would gladly trade mentors with Twigpaw, who's mentor: Berrytail, was the kindest cat in the Clan. And Twigpaw wanted his mentor to be Frostshadow (he'd admitted it to Emberpaw after the apprentice ceremony).

Emberpaw remembered what happened after the apprentice ceremony that happened straight after the Gathering, with the sleepless Clan, Smokestar of course chose Frostshadow to be Emberpaw's mentor since one: Frostshadow was a brave, loyal deputy and good warrior, who would no doubt pass these amazing skills down to Emberpaw, and two: seeing Frostshadow hated Emberpaw, Smokestar must've decided that making Frostshadow Emberpaw's mentor would make the two hate each other less.

He was wrong.

"THAT'S A TREE! NOT A SQUIRREL! YOU FOOL!" Frostshadow bellowed the next day.

Having gotten no sleep last night and then, way before sunrise, Frostshadow stormed into the den, yanked Emberpaw out of her nest, and dragged her to the forest and told her to catch a squirrel who was nibbling on a nut by a tree. There were two reasons Emberpaw crashed into the tree instead of the squirrel. One: she didn't know the hunter's crouch. Two: it was still very dark, especially since they were in ShadowClan territory, so Ember couldn't see a thing.

"I don't know the hunter's crouch, isn't that the first thing you're supposed to teach an apprentice?" Emberpaw snapped.

"And here I thought you did know it after almost catching a mouse when we first found you on ShadowClan territory. It's easy. Crouch down, keep your tail low, and crawl towards the prey without snapping a twig or stomping on leaves." Frostshadow growled, the squirrel seemingly amused by the two fighting predators as it stuffed it's cheeks with nuts.

What was worse was that Emberpaw wasn't being embarrassed in front of the deputy of ShadowClan, but also in front of two other warriors. Emberpaw saw Berrytail and Twigpaw, both having agreed to help Emberpaw with training, only to see her making a fool of herself.

"Want to see me catch that squirrel? Alright then!" Emberpaw huffed and sprang forward, the squirrel running up the tree at lightning speed, dropping nuts along the way, as Ember crashed and hit the tree trunk, hitting her head hard, rolling down the hill, and crashing into a sharp thorn bush as she blacked out.

"Emberpaw? Wake up!" a hard voice ordered.

Emberpaw snapped open her eyes, and, groaning, got up. Her head bandaged in wet cobwebs, as if they'd been drenched in water. But then Emberpaw realized it wasn't water, but blood.

"You hit the tree, fell down the hill, fell straight through a thorn bush and onto a bunch of spiky rocks, where your head got hurt because you failed to make a correct pounce. Maybe you are blind, must be why you keep crashing into stuff." Frostshadow growled, standing in the opening to the medicine den with Twigpaw as Nightbreeze finished wrapping Emberpaw's head in cobwebs.

Emberpaw's head throbbed with pain and her whole body ached as she failed to move her head and pick thorns out of her pelt.

"You'll need to rest for a few days, Emberpaw." Nightbreeze meowed. "I'm sorry but this may delay your apprentice training. And if you want to heal, then stop squirming!"

Emberpaw was shocked. She couldn't train for a few days?

"B-but-" she sputtered. "But what about my training?! What about being an apprentice?!"

"You will be able to continue your training. After two weeks or three, at least. In the meantime, you will rest here and heal. Now, calm down, Emberpaw. Take a nap, too, even. If so you'll heal quicker." Nightbreeze scowled.

Frostshadow didn't even seem to care that Emberpaw was hurt, muttering: "That rogue deserved it," he left the den, then yelled: "Twigpaw, come on!" Twigpaw cast a last sad glance at Emberpaw and trudged after Frostshadow as Nightbreeze laid in her own nest and went to sleep.

Emberpaw stared out the den and gazed up at the sky. The bright blue began to darken to pale gray, then yellow, then orange and orange-red, finally it went from indigo to dark blue and black, the light of StarClan covering the skies through the pine trees as the rose-tinted moon crescent loomed over the shadowed sky.

Soon Emberpaw was lured into a trance, the cave seemed to vanish around her, the moss felt softer like grass under her paws, the stars and cave seemed to vanish, the moon became blood-red and blurred into the black night of the sky until it too, vanished with the last stars of Silverpelt.

"Are you sure about this?" a voice hissed. Emberpaw snapped out of her trance and looked around.

She wasn't in the medicine cat den.

She wasn't in ShadowClan.

She wasn't in the forest at all.

Emberpaw felt her head. No blood or cobwebs or wounds were there, in fact it felt as if she'd never been injured at all. Completely confused, she poked her head out of the den to see Nightbreeze, a brown tabby tom she recognized from the Gathering, and another cat she didn't recognize at all with fur darker than night and gray stripes.

"Yes, I'm sure that we should bring her here," said the tom Emberpaw didn't know.

Nightbreeze snarled. "But what if she tells ShadowClan? What if the medicine cats find out? What if-" the tabby interrupted her.

"Enough with the 'what if's.' We've made up our mind." he said.

"Besides, she is already here." the black cat added.

"Who in the name of StarClan are you? And what did you do to me?" Emberpaw yelped, and every cat turned to face her.

"Ah, yes, I'm Oakpelt." the brown tabby tom told her. "And this is Silentshadow." he flicked his tail towards the black tom, who spat in return.

"Any other stupid questions?" Nightbreeze grouched.

"What is this place?" Emberpaw asked.

"The Dark Forest, where we ghosts were rejected by StarClan by trying to make things right." Silentshadow hissed.

"StarClan told me you're evil and that I shouldn't listen to you." Emberpaw replied calmly.

"Oh did they?" Nightbreeze sneered.

She, Oakpelt, and Silentshadow began to circle her like sharks.

"What if StarClan is lying?" Nightbreeze added.

"What if the Dark Forest is good?" Oakpelt asked Emberpaw.

"What if you need the Dark Forest to find out how to save ShadowClan and the forest?" Silentshadow asked her again.

"A lot of 'what if's to try and get me on your side." Emberpaw snorted.

"Oh, Emberpaw. Good and evil can easily be mistaken for one another, just like how you can't see one of your blood who is as evil as StarClan." Oakpelt told her. The three stopped circling and sat in a line in front of her.

Emberpaw blinked. "Who?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Nightbreeze purred. "The one who is working with StarClan. A medicine cat, to be more precise."

Emberpaw went cold. "M-Moonpaw?..." she whispered. "M-my sister?"

Nightbreeze smiled darkly.

"But she's good!" Emberpaw yelled.

"'But she's good!'" Oakpelt mimicked. "I thought ThunderClan was good. They weren't. I thought the Dark Forest was evil. They weren't. You think Moonpaw is good…" he leaned in. "But she isn't."

Emberpaw was in too much of a shock to listen to their other whispers. She finally found her reply and slowly looked up to them. "Why am I here?"

Oakpelt nodded finally, as if he knew the conversation would come to this. "We Dark Forest cats train the living to rise up to take the Clan. Sadly, most have failed. Either by betraying us or getting killed by StarClan and their mouse-brained prophecies. But you, Emberpaw, are different. StarClan is evil and they want you to destroy ShadowClan, that's why they gave the prophecy."

"At the Gathering it was proven that is the wrong prophecy." Emberpaw looked at Nightbreeze, then back at Oakpelt. "So either StarClan or you are lying. In fact, maybe you are lying about you all being good in the first place."

"I said the truth at the Gathering as well: I interpreted the prophecy wrong to save ShadowClan. Plus, it brings you on the right track, towards the right destiny for you, Emberpaw." Nightbreeze told her.

"What 'destiny', what 'right track' and what is the true prophecy?" Emberpaw asked.

"We can't tell you." Silentshadow sighed.

"Yet." Oakpelt added.

Emberpaw fumbled for another question: "You said the Dark Forest could train me to help make things right in the forest or help the Clan?"

Oakpelt nodded again. "Yes, we give training to apprentices and warriors like you that helps them rise to become a loyal warrior, a deputy, a medicine cat and sometimes even… a leader."

"It's how I became a medicine cat." Nightbreeze told her.

"Emberpaw, if you let us train you to become the leader of ShadowClan, then you will save the Clan. The leader always saves the Clan in times of danger. You know what else the leader gets?" Silentshadow asked.

Emberpaw shook her head. "What?"

"Power. The power to help and control the Clan, the power of nine lives, the power to maybe one day take over the forest and bring it to glory." Nightbreeze grinned. "And we Dark Forest warriors can bring you to that goal."

Emberpaw thought for a moment. Taking all this in: ...Moonpaw and StarClan, evil… the Dark Forest, trying to help the Clan… me, being able to possibly one day be a leader…

She looked up at the three.

"How do I start?"

ANOTHER short chapter.

Emberpaw's considering doing Dark Forest training.

We don't know what the true prophecy is.

Chapter Eleven is Part Two of the fox attack. Another Gathering. And Shadowedpaw and Redpaw fighting. And another important event in the story.

G'bye.

-Moon