A/N: Wow 10 reviews, thank you all for reviewing! Here is chapter 21! Originally there were going to be 25 chapters in Terra, but I changed it to 24 because this chapter was just to short so I had to merge it with another. Anyway This is a major chapter, and lets just say there will be some death! I'm so evil :)

Another poll at the bottom, and please could I get 5 reviews? Thanks!

~Leo~

CHAPTER 21

Emberpaw's eyes grew round as he stared at the circular moon high in the sky. Its light dappled the RiverClan camp, as light flakes of snow began to fall from the sky.

This was Emberpaw's first Leaf-Bare, he was born only half a moon after the last one and didn't even remember what snow looked like.

The flakes fell from the small white clouds that scattered across the black sky, still allowing some of the stars to shine through. A snow flake fell onto his tiny pink nose, melting in an instant into cool water.

Emberpaw soon became mesmerized from the tiny white dots falling onto the ground, it was like this snow was sent from StarClan themselves!

Honey would have liked snow, Emberpaw lowered his head as the image of his golden-furred sister came into is mind. He could barely remember what she looked like, how terrible was that?

"Are you in StarClan?" he whispered gazing up to the sky, did Honey even believe in StarClan?

Berryshade told him that if a cat didn't believe in StarClan, then they couldn't be allowed or even contacted by the cats of the stars.

Suddenly the soft sound of whispering drifted over to the gray apprentice who was perched on a stone, wreathing like smoke after an inferno.

"Hello?" he asked into the darkness, "Is anyone there?".

But the only cat in the whole entire clearing was Emberpaw, whose gray pelt stood out against the white snow. Nothing responded, and as he approached the line of trees surrounding the camp, Emberpaw felt a chill run down his spine.

Something isn't right, he told himself, un-sheathing his claws just in case.

Shadows outlined the pine and spruce trees only fox-lengths ahead, and those shadows were moving. And then a scent all to familiar drifted through the air, smelling of rats and lizards.

ShadowClan! Emberpaw gasped as he saw a pair of curved yellow eyes staring straight back at him.

"ShadowCl..." he yowled loudly, but was cut off as a large shape bolted into him, knocking his head against a large jagged rock. A numb pain engulfed the young toms head as he faded in and out of consciousness.

His eyes blinked open vaguely and then closed again. He could feel someone taking his scruff roughly in their jaws. Emberpaw winced as they dragged him through the forest, stones and pine needles scathed his pelt, and mud and snow matted it.

What was going on?

If a ShadowClan cat wanted to attack why wouldn't they just do it and get it over with? Who was dragging him, and where? Briefly opening his eyes to look around, Emberpaw gasped as he saw a horde of ShadowClan cats poured into RiverClan camp.

"Please" he gasped as blood poured from his head, "Don't do this."

And then as soon as the words escaped Emberpaw's mouth, whoever was dragging him stopped.

"You did this" a voice whispered into his ear, and then continued to drag the injured cat through the forest.

And that voice rung in Emberpaw's ears, until everything went black and he lost conscious.

A terrible pain erupted in Emberpaw's head as he awoke with a yowl. The pain felt like someone dropped a boulder on his head, it was excruciating!

Cold stone was all he could feel under his weight, Emberpaw wanted to just go to sleep it hurt so bad.

"Oh your up" a voice meowed from his side. Emberpaw looked up, trying to distinguish who it was, but his vision was still blurry.

"Who...who are you?" he asked feeling dizzy, trying to get to his paws.

The cat gasped, "I'm shocked, how rude of you Emberpaw not to know. Now I'm hurt."

That voice, he didn't recognize it, who was it? The voice was obviously coming from a she-cat, and as his vision became more clear, Emberpaw thought he was dead for a moment.

That cat, her pelt was such a familiar golden-brown and her eyes were a bright amber shade just like his.

"Honey?" he asked, feeling like he was talking to a ghost of StarClan.

"Shut up!" the cat yowled, leaping forward and slicing her claws across his flank.

"Ahh!" he screamed in burning pain as blood splattered onto the stone floor of the cavern. But how could any of this be real, Honey was dead, Emberpaw saw it himself!

"You left me to die!" she spat while turning to pace around, "I wasn't dead you dimwit I was paralyzed!".

The gray apprentices eyes widened in shock, it couldn't be true!

"I lied next to our mothers body for days, and when I finally was able to move I was so weak I couldn't even eat! I had to sit by and watch as a fox took Terra's body away, I watched as it devoured her!".

"No!" Emberpaw whimpered like a kit, why was she doing this? Why was Honey telling him this?

"Yes!" she snapped with fury, "And thats not even the worst of it. I was almost ready to die by the time some mangy twoleg came to get me. I thought it was going to rescue me and feed me, but no it locked me up in a cage for moons on end! I had to stay in that cold cave the whole time wishing the adder had killed me that night."

Emberpaw couldn't believe any of this, Honey had been alive all this time, why hadn't he done something?

"If you only checked to see if I was breathing!" The golden-brown she-cat growled, "Then we could have been together this whole time. And while you've been living with strong cats able to defend you, and had a meal every night, I've been living in an inferno!".

Her words scorched Emberpaw like the very inferno she had been living in, why didn't Emberpaw not check to see if she was breathing? But Honey wasn't moving at all, and if the Adder had killed a cat as big as Terra, it would destroyed a kit like his sister!

"And now..." she growled stalking towards Emberpaw, "Your going to pay for what I went through."

Emberpaw lowered his amber eyes, maybe he deserved whatever was about happen, maybe he deserved to die.

"Just know something" he meowed looking up at his sister, "I always loved you, and I would never cause you harm." That was all he had to say before Honey would kill him, maybe Emberpaw would even see Terra in StarClan.

"Goodbye Ember" Honey smiled, un-sheathing her claws and getting ready to slice them across his neck.

But in the same instant as they began to touch his neck, a white flash dotted across the room and bolted into Honey. Emberpaw could only hear a weird sound combined of blood spatter across the stone, and the crunch of bones.

"Dovepaw!" he meowed in shock as he saw the white apprentice standing over the body of Honey. She had been thrown into the jagged rocks on the opposite side of the cavern,

Emberpaw's sister was dead.

"I'm sorry" the white she-cat meowed looking at him with her blue eyes, "She was going to kill you Emberpaw."

"I know" he meowed, trying to get to his feet. With the severe pain erupting from his head, the apprentice barely felt the pain coming from his twisted paw.

"She was alive this whole time" he meowed, staring at his sisters amber eyes that were wide open.

"There was no way you can have known or done anything to save her" Dovepaw told him, pressing her white muzzle into his gray fur. "We have to get back to RiverClan camp" she told him gingerly, "If we don't get back soon, Lightningcloud might just get his wish."

"And whats his wish?" Emberpaw asked, still a little groggy from his head injury.

Dovepaw's eyes flashed like a blizzard, "To become Lightningstar."

Okay I've decided all the names for the main characters! Except one! What should Eelpaw's warrior name be?

1.) Eelfang

2.) Eelstrike

3.) Eeltail

4.) Eelshock