I'm not a huge fan of people begging more for updates at a faster turnaround. That's just kinda not possible. I'm busy, you're busy, I have depressive issues sometimes. I'm not trying to be cruel to people who read this, it's just the reality of how this all works.

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Dawnpaw quickly shut her mouth so the cats in front of her wouldn't notice that another cat was watching them.

Standing before her eyes were Blackwing, Mapleleaf, Embersoul, and Mothspots! The cats she came to know and trust were talking together in the middle of the night, outside of the clan's jurisdiction!

Too stunned to walk anymore, Dawnpaw sat down in the middle of the lake, watching the group of cats discuss matters. The silvery grey she cat blinked a few times to make sure the situation was true.

Oh StarClan! It is! But why are they all here?

"But how are we going to tell her?"

The voice resonated in Dawnpaw's mind again. But this time it sounded much clearer, like the owner of the voice was directly addressing her.

"Tell her what?" Dawnpaw found herself saying out loud into thin air. Heartbeats passed over her with no answer. The group of cats up ahead made no notion of noticing Dawnpaw at all

"But how are we going to tell her?" the voice said, clearest of all this time.

"I say we wait until she figures it out on her own," a new voice interjected.

"When she does? And then what happens, Mothspots? I'm not going to let her be swept away by this prophecy. She's my daughter."

"Why can't we tell her? She's my friend too and I don't-…"

"Stop it! If she comes to one of us, we'll tell her. Happy?"

"Blackwing, please calm down."

"Calm down? How can I be calm? You're all acting like senseless kits!"

A silence filled the night air. All of the cats remained silent, waiting for Blackwing to resume.

"Why haven't we thought of this sooner? We're here to help her. So why don't we do that?"

"Help who do what?" Dawnpaw asked the stars.

"Who else?" A voice Dawnpaw didn't recognize magically replied. The apprentice jerked her head in all directions, trying to pinpoint where the voice came from to no avail.

"Who are you? Where are you?" Dawnpaw meowed to the sky. She had hoped it wasn't her imagination. She hoped that she wasn't crazy enough to be imagining the entire thing.

"Shinepaw?" Dawnpaw wondered, watching the dark air of night shift. Lights from the lake around her condensed into a stop directly in front of her, creating a single figure made of pure starlight. Startled by the sudden appearance, Dawnpaw jumped back and landed on her tail with a surprising thud against the seemingly solid water. The voice chuckled at her misfortune.

"It seems I forgot how ignorant StarClan leaves its prophecy victims. I'll never forgive my clanmates up there for that; causing us so much trouble when we needed to save the clans. But you already know that story."

"It isn't funny!" Dawnpaw yowled at the entity, "Who are you? Why am I here? Why are Blackwing and the others here too?"

The entity silenced itself and stepped forward. Slowly but smoothly, it gained more shape and color. Its fur changed to a sleek, tabby stripped grey pelt and its clear blue eyes shone in the light reflected off the water. The creature's body changed into that of a cat's and its voice gained a meow of its own.

"Is that better?" The new cat asked, raising an eyebrow and twitching its whiskers. The gesture frustrated Dawnpaw, who flexed her claws into the lake water impatiently.

"Sorry, but I thought any clan cat would recognize me, especially after all I did for them. I'm Jayfeather, and you are Dawnpaw." Jayfeather mewed with a dip of his tail.

"Yes…" Dawnpaw managed to hiss quietly.

"I all want to do is get to the point, something that the other StarClan cats don't like getting to. You are in a prophecy that's supposed 'save the clans', just like I was." The gray tabby tom said in an almost mocking tone. Dawnpaw twitched her ear.

"I assume you know the prophecy is about you, right?" Jayfeather asked, staring right into the silver apprentice's eyes.

"I- uhhh… kind of." Dawnpaw mewed softly, looking down at her paws in embarrassment. Jayfeather sighed.

"I guess that's to be expected. But you know now." Jayfeather finished his words. Dawnpaw blinked twice to see that his body began to fade. The shimmering stars of his pelt grew fainter and his grey stripped fur grew more and more transparent.

"Wait! Where are you going?" Dawnpaw squeaked startled. Jayfeather blew out a puff of air.

"Back to StarClan, you mousebrain! You need to wake up anyway. You have a clanmate of yours waiting for you to come back to her, if I'm not mistaken."

Jayfeather took off with a running start across the starlit water of the lake; ripples danced on the surface where his paws touched the lake. With a great leap, the tom began to lift into the sky, aiming for the stars that speckled the night.

I don't want to wake up! I want to know what StarClan has for me!

Dawnpaw scrambled across the water with StarClan warrior, but found herself quickly lagging behind. Huffing and puffing to catch her breath, Dawnpaw pushed herself further forward in hopes of catching up to the former medicine cat. But much to her dismay, Jayfeather took one more jump into Silverpelt and disappeared completely. Dawnpaw continued to run fruitlessly, then stopped to breath.

Suddenly, the silvery she cat felt the lake underneath her paws give way. Icy cold water splashed up over her flanks and head and pulled her into the black depths! Struggling, Dawnpaw tried to swim to the surface, but the current was to strong. Waves tugged her body deeper until all the stars disappeared one by one. A heavy blackness washed over the she cat's face until she could hear faint voices left over from her earlier encounter. Soon they too, grew more and more silent until blackness was the only thing left with Dawnpaw.

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Jayfeather belongs to Erin Hunter