Skysong: Well, here's chapter 10. I really hope you enjoy.

Wightshadoo: And I really hope you realize that half a day has passed in this whole story.

Morningsky: Some events take a long time to unfold.

Moonglow: Yeah, like half a year.

Wightshadoo: 10 chapters. In 7 months.

Skysong: shush, you.

Morningsky: it is now, like 6 in the morning.

Wightshadoo: Isn't that the earliest you've gotten up all year, Skysong?

Skysong: ...Maybe...yes...shut up...

Moonglow: Seriously? I get up earlier every day!

Morningsky: Now, and 6 in the morning, we present you CHAPTER 10. Finally.

The rouges left immediately, taking Sorrelpaw, Dawnpaw, Tigerpaw, Morningpaw, and Skypaw captive. Surprisingly, Skypaw didn't feel an impending doom waiting for them. In fact, she wasn't even that upset about it. Sure, she was scared to be taken prisoner by evil bloodthirsty rouges (or that's how they looked from her point of view,) but this was her first chance to travel outside the territory. She knew what her mother, Rainbowsky would say to that.

"You've only been an apprentice for less than a day! You'll have plenty of time to go exploring. But still, she would be going into unknown territory that no Clan cat had ever traveled in before!

Six other prisoners traveled with them that were from the Clans, and five other cats around her age that Skypaw didn't recognize. Skypaw soon was conversing with them, as she had nothing else to occupy her time except for to stare back at the lake as it got further and further away.

First was a SkyClan apprentice named Briarpaw.

"I didn't see you at the Gathering," Skypaw remarked.

"I didn't go. Today's my first day as an apprentice," he answered proudly. "I guess I wandered off too far from my mentor, and they caught me. I was with my friend Mintpaw. She got captured too." Birarpaw's face fell.

"It's my first day too!" exclaimed Skypaw.

"That's weird. What a coincidence!" spoke Briarpaw, brightening up. "I wonder why Leaders postpone things until the last minute?"

Skypaw shrugged. "Why do Leaders do anything? I personally like my leader. Stormstar. He's my grandfather!"

Briarpaw stared in wonder. "Stormstar? THE Stormstar? I've heard stories about him, and how he fought all of ShadowClan single-pawed to get some of their territory for SkyClan!"

Unlike the other Clans, SkyClan didn't travel with the other Clans on the Great Journey. They lived further down the forest river in a gorge, when their territory was taken by twolegs all those moons ago, and they had to move. Recently, twolegs again invaded their territory, forcing them to find another place to live, and indecently, they found the four Clans.

Skypaw did recall that her grandfather had been involved in a territory dispute with ShadowClan when he was Deputy. ShadowClan had plenty of territory, and ThunderClan couldn't give up all of its territory for SkyClan. Stormstar persuaded them to, or rather, he held their Leader hostage until they changed their minds.

"I wouldn't exactly say single-pawed..." Skypaw explained, "But yes, he did have a big part in that."

"Wow!" said Briarpaw. "You are so lucky to be related to him!"

The next cat Skypaw conversed with was a ShadowClan apprentice, Tigerpaw.

"I saw you when Moonpaw, Shadowpaw, Dawnpaw, and Treepaw came to your rescue, and that other gray and white cat." he spoke, then added, "What were you two doing up there anyway?"

"Whitepaw, that's the other cat's name," Skypaw said, "Well, she was looking for Sorrelpaw, her sister, and I helped her. You were at the Gathering, weren't you?" When Tigerpaw nodded, she continued, "Sorrelpaw is her sister."

"Oh," replied Tigerpaw. "And may I ask how exactly you knew where the rouges were?"

"I had a vision. Wait. How did you know where to find us? I'm assuming that you don't get visions."

Tigerpaw shook his head. "No I'm completely normal. "I can't say the same for Moonpaw."

"Go on," Skypaw urged, eager to find out more.

"Shadowpaw, Moonpaw, and I were coming back to the Gathering. Then Moonpaw heard something." Tigerpaw sighed. "Moonpaw is my sister, and no matter how I try, I can't match her in hearing. She can hear distances across the lake even. She heard the rouges up by the Moonpool, so we decided to find them. We had only gone half-way before two RiverClan apprentices found us."

"So you're not really surprised that I have visions," Skypaw said slowly.

Tigerpaw shook his head again. "No, not really. My sister is abnormal, so I've gotten used to it. You might want to go talk to Morningpaw, that she-cat up there." Tigerpaw nodded to an orange and white WindClan apprentice ahead of them. "She might be able to explain more."

Skypaw recognized her as the cat who Streampaw arrived in the clearing with, and quickly bounded up to where Morningpaw was walking.

"So how did you get involved in this mess?" Skypaw asked bluntly, as she slowed down her pace to the WindClan apprentice's.

Morningpaw whipped her head around in surprise, tensing up. When she noticed it wasn't a rouge, she sighed. "You scared me. I thought it would be one of the rouges."

"Sorry," Skypaw said hurriedly, "You didn't answer my question."

Morningpaw smiled sadly. "My friend Whitepaw decided to go against my Leader's wishes and set out for her sister, Sorrelpaw, who is also captive with us here. Do you know who she is?"

"Yeah, I know who Whitepaw is. I ran into her as she crossed ThunderClan territory, and helped her locate the rouges."

"How did you do that?" Morningsky seemed surprised, and her eyes narrowed thoughtfully.

Skypaw sighed, exasperated, "Why does everybody ask that question? I had a vision. From StarClan. I saw Sorrelpaw, and the rouges by the Moonpool."

"And how would you know that the cat you saw was Sorrelpaw, or even in WindClan for that matter?" Morningpaw countered, her eyes still furrowed in thought.

"The scent. I remembered the scent of WindClan from the Gathering, and heard of how Sorrelpaw was taken. My visions are like dreams and real life combined. I can still smell and stuff."

"That's very interesting... Streampaw is your sister, isn't she?"

This surprised Skypaw. The young apprentice knew that Morningpaw sort of knew her sister, but why would she bring it up randomly?

"Yes..." Skypaw said slowly, "But what does that have to do with what we were talking about?"

Morningpaw sighed. "Did you ever wonder why you had visions? I mean, you're barely an apprentice! Did you ever wonder why you got them instead of your Leader?"

Skypaw shook her head, not getting what the orange WindClan apprentice was getting at.

"Let me tell you what you're thinking. You're not drastically upset about being taken prisoner by rouges we don't even know to StarClan knows where. Right now, you have a lot of adventurous spirit running through you."

Skypaw stopped abruptly and whipped around so she was facing Morningpaw, who had also stopped, and was looking calmly into Skypaw's blue eyes.

"Oh, and your mother's name is Rainbowsky," she added in for good measure.

"How in StarClan's holy name do you know that?" Skypaw burst out.

"Keep moving," a gray rouge she-cat spoke gruffly. "We don't have all day."

"Come on," Morningpaw whispered. "We don't want to get in trouble with the rouges. I don't think they'd take too kindly to stragglers."

"You didn't answer my question," Skypaw spoke, making a noticeable effort to keep her voice low.

"I'm like you," Morningpaw said, "I have a gift. I can sense other's thoughts and emotions, and if I'm lucky, some of their thoughts. I'm not the only one either."

"I know," interrupted Skypaw, "Tigerpaw told me about Moonpaw."

"There are two others besides her." The WindClan apprentice motioned with her tail to a red-brown she-cat RiverClan apprentice a few fox-lengths ahead of them.

"That's Dawnpaw. She can track anybody, anywhere. Even through others. They followed the three ShadowClan apprentices, even though they waded through the lake. That's how she and her brother found the rouges."

"Who's the other?" Skypaw asked.

"That would be Mintpaw," Morningpaw explained, motioning with her tail again to the she-cat walking next to Dawnpaw. "She can figure a way out of any problem, no matter how difficult or impossible. She can also talk her way out of things.

"I met both of them at the Gathering," Skypaw spoke, "Mintpaw and Dawnpaw, that is."

After a moment of silence as Skypaw was still absorbing this, Morningpaw added, "Usually. She's tried getting her captors to release her, but one of them always gets in the way. She can't get past him. I tried reading his emotions, but I got nothing other than a chilling sense of evil and dread. It's like his mind and heart are completely dark."

Skypaw felt tremors go down her spine.

"And... who would this cat be?"

Morningpaw whispered, "The tom behind us, the one with the amber eyes."

Skypaw turned around slowly, and came face to face with the cat from her dream, the one with Tigerstar in the Dark Forest. His eyes locked with hers, and Skypaw stifled a gasp as she recognized him. It was Thornpaw.

Skysong: Ohhhh! Dun dun dun... and the reason she thinks his name is Thornpaw is because he was a bad boy and lied about being in ShadowClan, as it says in the last chapter. His real name is Thorn, and if you have trouble imagining his personality, imagine a mini Tigerstar. That's all I have to say for now. Well, how do you like the majickal powerz? And it's not 6 in the morning anymore. It's 3:40 or something. And could you maybe plz review? Even if you just put a smiley face? Oh, and here's a list of the apprentices that will be, shall we say, main characters in the story. The ones after the little ... thing are sub-main characters. They have sorta fairly big parts, but not as big as the others. Or for the first half of when Skypaw and some of the others are captured. There are other main characters later. And forgive me if I say Morningsky in the story. I'm so used to typing her warrior name.

Skypaw

Streampaw

Shadowpaw

Moonpaw

Whitepaw

Morningpaw

Dawnpaw

Mintpaw

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Briarpaw

Sorrelpaw

Tigerpaw

Treepaw

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Wightshadoo: I eat a pie

Moonglow: In the sky

Morningsky: If I could fly

Moonglow: hey, that's a song Skysong and I played in Jazz band! my turn...French Fry!

Skysong: Why do you guys play that stupid rhyming game, anyway? Why can't you apply...

Wightshadoo: (interrupts) ahahaha! you joined us! Now you must die!

Morningsky: My name is Morningsky!

Moonglow: Hey, no fair, you can't use names you stupid un-guy!

Skysong: (finishing sentence) ...yourselves and get a new game...

Wightshadoo: Seriously? Un-guy? I mean, she's a girl, but... oh. my turn. The bonds that hold us together will un-tie.

Skysong: I wish.

Moonglow: Whisky and rye.

Morningsky: End of chapter 10. Review please, and for now, bye- bye!

Skysong: You three are idiots. Oh, and if I forgot anything, tell me and I'll fix it. Thank you to all who are reading this.