Once again, sorry for the short chapters. Blame school mostly, and the fact that I keep finding great places for cliffhangers. So even if I find a great place to stop, I'm not until it is a longer chapter. Oh, another thing, for those of you who are thinking so, Moonflower is not her mother. She's Graystripe's, Bluefur's, and Lionheart's mother,(screw the time-line/story-line) but Phoenixpaw's mother was Goldenflower. Forgot to mention that...

When I regained consciousness, I saw Bluefur standing over me, with Spottedleaf rushing in. It was still strangely cold. "Ugh, was that just a dream?" I wondered aloud.

"What, being asleep for two moons? No, it wasn't," Bluefur told me.

"Great, so, when are we getting more apprentices?"

"When Grasskit and Wingkit reach six moons, which is about five moons from now."

I groaned. Great, I'm stuck, alone, in the apprentice's den, I thought bitterly. Out loud I asked, "What else happened in the last two moons?"

"I'll tell you later, but for now," Spottedleaf dropped a mouse at my muzzle. "Eat." After a few moments, she added, "Congratulations, and not on surviving two moons without food or water, most cats wake up from a coma terribly undernourished, and I want to congratulate you on beating the odds and even managing to pack on a few pounds."

I stared at her. "What?"

Suddenly, she looked confused. "Was I quoting something?"

I let out an irritable hiss, but I didn't want to call the medicine cat a mouse-brain, so I changed the subject. "Can I go outside?" I asked Spottedleaf.

"You may, as long as you take that mouse with you."

As I walked outside, placing the mouse on the ground to sniff the air, I realized I got a strong scent of frost. Of course, I've been asleep for two moons, it's almost leaf-bare."

"Spottedleaf told me your awake, but I didn't expect to see you outside for a little while yet," a voice mewed by the nursery. It was Palestream, her kits tumbling around her paws.

"Congratulations Palestream, are they Sunfur's?"

She nodded shyly. "He's a great cat."

"He's a great mentor," I agreed.

"You know, I think he worried about you as much if not more than your friends and Goldenflower combined." Palestream commented. Goldenflower is my mother, and she's very sweet.

"He cares a lot. Does anybody know how Orangestripe and Fluffstorm died?" I asked her.

"When we found them they're bodies were laced with scratches and bite marks, and the scent of fox was unmistakable. We assumed that's what killed them." Then she looked more closely at me. "You were there, do you know who killed them?"

"A fox, nasty one indeed," I confirmed.

"Is that why you were so injured?" she asked.

No, I thought. Mapleshade is why I was bleeding like that. The fear of it crashed into me again. I killed a Starclan warrior. Then I turned and killed a Dark Forest warrior? What will happen to me when I die, if I'm rejected by Starclan and the Dark Forest.

A voice broke into my thoughts. "You're awake," Redshadow, a red and orange tabby tom, purred.

I turned blankly to him, and saw his eyes glowing with friendship. I flinched. Would he still look at me like that if he knew what I had done? No, I thought. No one will like me if they find out how much of a monster I am.

Now I realized he was staring at me expectantly. I felt embarrassment burning under my pelt. "Sorry, did you say something?"

I expected to get an irritated reply, but instead he looked at me with sympathy in his amber eyes. "Are you okay? Is there something on your mind?"

At that moment, I felt my mind give way, and my thoughts tumbled out of my mouth. "I killed a cat!"

He looked at me quizzically now. "Killed? You've been asleep for two moons." Then his gaze grew serious. "Did you kill Fluffstorm and Orangestripe?"

"No, I mean a Starclan cat."

"You killed a Starclan cat?" His voice sounded icy calm, but under it he was horrified. So was I.

Now the entire camp was staring at me, utterly silent. I caught hushed murmurs from the cats like, "Murderer."

"Traitor."

"Rogue."

I glared defiantly back at them. "You heard me. "I killed a Starclan cat. Then, I killed a Dark Forest warrior," I growled.

Bluefur came to the front of the crowd. "Phoenixpaw, no!"

"Phoenixpaw yes! I turned my back on Starclan when Orangestripe and Fluffstorm died. I thought it was there fault! I killed Lickingflame because I thought that Mapleshade was my friend. But she attacked me. I sliced her throat open! They're blood was on my claws!"

"Phoenixpaw, calm down," Goldenflower started, but the clan was backing away from me.

"You don't want me for a clan mate! I'm a killer!" I continued.

"Phoenixpaw, what is this?" Sunfur asked, and Pantherpelt, a blue-gray tom, leaped from the crowd and bowled me over.

"Leave!" he hissed in my ear. "Lickingflame was my mother. And you killed her spirit!"

He raked skillful claws across my flank and shoulder. I wasn't going to kill one of my own clan mates, so I gave him a powerful kick with my hind legs, and while he lay winded on the ground, I ran through the thorn tunnel, ignoring the gorse sharp as claws as I burst through it.

"Pantherpelt! Come back, she knows she's not welcome anymore!" Pinestar yowled.

He continued to claw at my fleeing tail until I left clan territory. "And don't come back!" he hissed.

I kept blundering through the forest until I reached a large, grassy expanse. Windclan scent markers hit my tongue. I ran through it without getting caught by any cats and to the rocky territory ahead. By the time I stopped by a wide, square cave opening, it was dark. My paws ached and my claws kept getting pulled out from running across the rocky slopes. Something was pulling me into the cave, and before I knew it, I was deep in a series of tunnels that twisted and turned until I had no idea where I was, but the force was constantly pulling at my paws, showing me the way.

After a few moments, I entered a much larger cavern, in the middle, a rock sat, about three tail-lengths high. Above in a triangle in the roof gave just enough starlight to see. A flopped down near the stone and waited. I wasn't sure what I was waiting for, but I waited. After what felt like a million seasons or a single heartbeat, the cave was lit by an extraordinary light coming from the stone.

Almost unconsciously, I stepped forward and touched my nose to the stone. Instantly, my vision was filled with stars, and I opened my eyes to find myself in Starclan's hunting ground. A pure black tom was there.

"Welcome Phoenixpaw," it meowed.

"W-who are you?" I asked.

"Phoenixpaw, I am your father, Flametooth."

"You died while protecting me while a Riverclan attack. Back when I was still in Goldenflower. Where am I? Why did I come?"

"This is Starclan's hunting grounds," he answered.

"No, how did I get here?"

"You came to the Moonstone, as for why your here, you answer that."

"Because I felt my paws tugging me here."

"Good, that was me. I summoned you here."

"Why?" I asked.

"Because I need to talk to you, and some other cats need to talk to you."

"Who?"

"Fluffstorm and Orangestripe."

"Why do you need to talk to me?"

"Because we know you know what happened to Lickingflame," he answered.

"I killed her, I announced it to the clan, you heard."

He rolled his eyes. "Not just her. Mapleshade too. Did you kill her too?"

"Yes, any more obvious questions that will be around the territory in a day?"

"You, an apprentice, killed a Dark Forest warrior."

"Yes! How many time are you going to ask me?"

He looked at me with disbelief. "Starclan warriors have tried," he said. "And died in the process. You have just saved Starclan."

"I did? What about Lickingflame?"

He looked ten times as more serious. "Look, me, Orangestripe and Fluffstorm are the only Starclan cats that know you killed her."

"Your lying to them!" The force of my cry swept me from the dream, and I was back at the Moonstone, my aching legs showing just how long I had been asleep. Outside, the sun was rising, and I turned and ran outside the cave as fast as possible, following the trail I had left behind and now that I was paying attention, I could smell the faint scent of Flametooth. I burst out of it and ran away from the rising sun, away from the clans, away from my home.

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