HEY EVERYONE! Wow! What a crazy week this has been!XD Well, I had pnemonia for the last 2 weeks, and now I'm beter so I can put up Christmas lights and make our house the best in the neighborhood(cuz' every year...it is)! This week at school, well, on Monday, my 'first' day back, the heaters broke at school, so we went home after less than 2 hours of school! WHOOP WHOOP!XD Tuesday was normal, except I got more "Where have you been?"s from my teachers and fellow classmates. Wendsday, they cancled school because there was 'ice' on the road. That 'ice' they were talking about looks like water to me...but hey! Less school means...I don't know...MORE FUN! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!XD

I'M HYPER RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT'S WENDSDAY AND THERE'S NO SCHOOL...O.O

Anyway, thank you to all who posted for the COTC! Here are the places:

1st place: SONG OF FALLING FEATHERS! Congratulations, you've won an OC to join Forestclan!XD

2nd place: JAYSONG OF THUNDERCLAN! Congratulations, you won an OC in another clan!

3rd place:xXJAYFEATHERROCKSXx! Congratulations, you won an OC to help out Forestclan in some way!

I changed the prizes because the 3rd place one seemed confusing and stupid, so yeah!XD Just post the name and description of your OC if you won!XD

New COTC: Which of Foreststar's kits look the most like her?

Prizes: Well, I'M RUNNING OUT OF IDEARS! I guess...wait...maybe... I KNOW I KNOW!XD

1st place: Gets to name the new clan I'm making and make a cat for the leader! It can be whatever you wish(I won't accept a cat like this:Greystar:blue and red tom with a green christmas tree on his face, purple eyes...I think y'all get the picture...XD)!

2nd place: Gets to name the deputy of this 'new' clan and a warrior!

3rd place: You get to name 5 warriors of this clan!

Good luck to y'all during the COTC!XD

Recap: Last chapter, Blazeheart and Flameheart battled it out and got punished with apprenitce duities for a moon, and then Ashstar died! She had had 5 kits, though: Smokekit, Shadekit, Blackkit, Mistkit, and Breezekit. Birdfeather will have her kits either this chapter or the next, depending on if the last person does the thingy in time...also, Snowpaw's mentor changed to Sweetwind, and there was a blizzard, and for now, the only signs of life in Windclan are the apprenitces.

Also, I NEED PRIZE IDEAS! PLEASE HELP ME EERYONE! If you think of something, well, TELL ME!XD

Another thingy: From now on, I'm posting the alleginces at the bottom of every chapter, so they'll get updated quite often so y'all (and me!)won't be confused...

ON TO THY STORY!

Chapter 15

Snowpaw looked around camp in shock. What happened to everyone? she thought. The snow hadn't gotten too much deeper, but there were no signs of life anywhere. Snowpaw wanted to wake another cat, and the nearest one was Bronzepaw. She shoved her brother awake, and he blinked open his sleepy amber eyes.

"Is there more food?"he asked as he got to his paws. He stumbled around a little bit, and then started waking up.

"I don't know where everybody is."Snowpaw meowed as she gazed out into the white camp. There were clouds in the sky, and it looked like more snow could be coming.

"Let's go find out."meowed Heatherpaw. She got up, and the three cats looked around camp.

"I'll go into the warriors den, Heatherpaw, go into the nursery, and Bronzepaw, wake all the other apprenitces."Snowpaw took charge as leader and stepped out into the cold white snow. She sunk in all the way up to her shoulders, and had to paw her way through the snow. She started to pray to Eternalclan, and its creator, God.

Lord, please stop the snow from getting any higher. We are in desprite need of the snow levels to go down, and I thank you that my friends and siblings are safe... she meowed in her head. Because of the heavy amount of snow, it took Snowpaw a long time to reach the overhanging cave the warriors den was. It had a sandy floor, and sand colored walls made of rock. It was a very sturdy den, but, as Snowpaw neared it, no warrios were in sight. What happened to all the warriors? she thought in fear. Snowpaw padded deeper into the den, and heard lots of sleeping sounds.

"Hello?"Snowpaw called out cautously.

A gruff mew answered her,"Snowpaw, is that you? Has the storm passed?"

It was the deep, wise voice of Crowfeather.

"Yes, it is me! The storm has passed! We must hunt for food!"Snowpaw called into the deep cavern where the warriors were."Tell me if anyone died!"

"Well, several warriors died of starvation, I'm afraid. There was Cloverstep, Jaywhisker and Stormheart."Crowfeather meowed in reply.

Snowpaw froze; warriors from her clan have died here! And worst of all, her father! She flattened her ears and growled,"This is aweful!"and raced out of the cave, back out into the snow. She truged through, her heart broken and angry at these cats.

They've killed my family, and friends, so what more do they want? Snowpaw thought darkly. Silverpaw called out to her,"What's wrong?"

"This entire clan is wrong!"Snowpaw snarled in reply. She just wanted to climb a tree and mourn for her losses. How could these aweful cats do such a thing to hurt her?

Snowpaw exited the camp and kept going through field grasses. She finally was so exausted from her 'run' that she felt like she would colapse. Suddenly, a cat was beside her.

It was Flameheart.

"I saw what happened back there,"he mumbled softly."I know you're extrememly angry, but Morningstar could not have stopped a blizzard, or your friends from dying."

Snowpaw whipped around and roared in anger,"Well one of those 'friends' was my father!"Snowpaw tried to go faster.

Flameheart kept going alongside her. Snowpaw dropped down from tiredness."I didn't know that..."he mewed softly.

"Well now you do."Snowpaw spat. Flameheart layed down beside Snowpaw. He seemed stunned.

"So...you only have your siblings left for family,"Flameheart muttered.

"Yeah, and what's wrong with that?"Snowpaw hissed.

"I was just stating a fact."

Snowpaw leaned closer to Flameheart. He licked her head softly."You're gonna need help back..."he said.

"Shut up."Snowpaw meowed; but she was purring in amuesment. Flameheart was too. He got up and Snowpaw quickly followed suit. She leaned on him all the way home.

In the Windclan camp, they held a silent vigal for the dead cats, Stormheart, Jaywhisker, and Cloverstep. Everyone else was fine, but the sickness had started to get worse. Snowpaw was talking to the other apprenitces during the next day in the morning.

"Have you guys ever had a Winter this bad before?"Snowpaw asked Silverpaw.

"No. I don't know why it'd be so bad. The prey has practicly left everyone's territroy. Morningstar is thinking of attacking Thunderclan soon..."Silverpaw meowed. Quillpaw dashed up to them.

"Guess what?"he meowed, panting from the high snow.

"What?"both she-cats answered in reply.

"More cats have gotten sick. Tawnykit and Streamkit have blackcough, and now everyone's hoping for a miracle!"

"Is that all?"cried Snowpaw in alarm.

"Well, for now, Crowfeather has whitecough."Quillpaw meowed, gazing towards the medicine cat den with worry.

"Hey!"Briarpaw called, bounding up to the three cats."I need two of you and your mentor's to come to Thunderclan with me to ask Jayfeather for some herbs."

"I'll come!"Snowpaw voulenteered.

"I'll take Snowpaw, and..."Briarpaw looked around camp."How about Silverpaw, you come?"

"Yay!"Silverpaw ran off to go get Creekwater and Sweetwind.

"Alright..."Quillpaw slunk off.

"Why can't Mousefang go?"Snowpaw asked.

"Because, uh..."Briarpaw leaned down to Snowpaw's ear."He has blackcough."she whispered."I'm not going to Thunderclan because I need herbs, I'm going there to ask Jayfeather to mentor me..."

Snowpaw's eyes widened. She was shocked! If Mousefang had blackcough, then Briarpaw was the only one who could treat everyone!

"Let's go!"Silverpaw meowed. Creekwater and Sweetwind were right behind her.

"Why doesn't Mousefang come with you?"Sweetwind asked.

"He's too busy with the kits..."Briarpaw lied. The five cats set off, making a path through the snow. The snow wasn't as deep, but still was up to Snowpaw's underbelly. Once the cats reached the border, Briarpaw crossed, as well as Snowpaw, but Creekwater, Sweetwind, and Silverpaw stopped dead in their tracks.

"Why did you guys stop?"asked Briarpaw.

"It's better if we wait for a patrol,"Sweetwind meowed."Because we don't want to fight..."

"What if it was your kits dying from blackcough. Would you wait?"Snowpaw reasoned.

"NO!"Sweetwind yowled, and dashed acrossed the border. She was followed by a much wearrier Creekwater and Silverpaw.

Snowpaw felt much more at home in the woodland. We should've came here...she thought to herself. I could've been climbing trees this whole time, not running around in a stupid moor! The snow here was much shallower because of the pines that blocked it out. Most trees were bare, and suddenly, Snowpaw heard a hiss somewhere in front of them.

"Tresspassers!"snarled a black and white tom.

"They smell like Windclan!"growled a black she-cat.

"Wait!"Briarpaw called. She stepped in front of the two thin cats."We're here on medicine cat business."

"Really?"sneered the tom."Why don't you tell him that?"he flicked his tail to an orange tabby.

"What's going on, Duskclaw?"the orange tom asked.

"Windclan has 'medicine cat' buisness to do!"Duskclaw sneered.

"And?"the other tom challenged.

"Well, they're tresspassing..."mumbled Duskclaw. The other tom flashed him a warning glance.

"You all can come back to camp. Lead the way, Hollyleaf."all the cats started troting towards a large rocky camp. Snowpaw fell in step with the orange tom.

"What's your name?"she asked.

"Lionblaze. I'm the deputy of Thunderclan."Lionblaze replied.

"I'm Snowpaw. My mom was the leader, but she died...a long time ago."Snowpaw mewoed sadly, thinking about her mother.

"My grandfather was leader, the best the clans had ever seen. He died too."Lionblaze said.

Snowpaw nodded, and suddenly, everyone stopped to go into a tunnel-like entrance single file. As Snowpaw entered the camp, she saw large rocks, and lots of mini-caves. There were a lot more cats here than in Windclan, but the smaller the clan, the more you know everybody. At least, that's what Snowpaw thought.

"Come on, Snowpaw!"Briarpaw was in the medicine cat den of Thunderclan. Snowpaw followed her in, and sat down. Briarpaw told Jayfeather about the aweful things happening in Windclan.

"Wow."the grey tom meowed once it was all over."That's tragic. And you're not even Windclan, right?"

"No,"Snowpaw mewed.

"So you're asking me to train you?"Jayfeather asked Briarpaw.

"Yes."Briarpaw nodded.

"Well, I guess I can help you out,"Jayfeather meowed."But Bramblestar will have to aprove."

"Can you ask him now?"Snowpaw asked, eager to get home.

"Fine."Jayfeather stood and asked a brown tabby to get him.

"Why did he ask another cat to go get him?"Snowpaw asked Briarpaw.

"Because he's blind,"she answered like it was the stupidest question in the world.

Suddenly, just as a large dark brown tabby came down the ledge, a ginger and white she-cat yowled,"Windclan are attacking!"

Snowpaw's fur shot up in alarm. She crouched, hoping there wasn't actually a patrol.

"No,"answered Bramblestar."They're here for medicine cat reasons."

"You're not listening, Bramblestar! There's a patrol there right now!"the she-cat screamed.

"GET THE WINDCLAN CATS PRISONERS! NOW!"shouted Bramblestar. Several cats knocked into Snowpaw, who closed her eyes and went limp.

Please don't let anyone close to me get hurt...she prayed to God.

lol CLIFFHANGER!XD Alright, remember, HELP ME THINK OF GOOD CONTEST IDEAS, CUZ' I NEED THEM!

P.s: Happy 54th birthday to my daddy.:D

~Night

LOVE Y'ALL!