Chapter 3

Lavapaw raced around desperately. Coalpaw knew a secret place to get prey! He couldn't' lose to her. It wasn't just that he'd have to clean her nest, though that was bad. It was that she and Dogpaw were so worthless. The thought of losing to them was unfathamable.

Lavapaw stopped. His gaze fell onto the abandoned thunderpath. Fallenclan still owned it from their border fight. But that wasn't what Lavapaw was thinking of. He knew Fallenclan in general had a lot of prey. For some reason, small animals liked the old twoleg places.

Lavapaw looked around. He smirked to himself. No one was around. He dashed across the border and disappeared into the rubble. His victory was short lived. Before he could catch anything, it started to rain. Lavapaw bristled and dashed under an overhang. He knew it would be a good idea to get back to the clan. But without any prey. . .

It hasn't been that long. Lavapaw thought. Most likely no one else has caught prey either.

That was all Lavapaw needed to change him mind. He climbed out from the overhang and started back towards camp. Behind him there was a funny rumbling sound. He slowed down to figure out what the sound was. It wasn't thunder, that wasn't quite right. It was getting closer though, so he could probably see it if he turned around.

Oh my Starclan! Lavapaw thought. He let out a scream. There was a giant wave coming towards him. He whipped back around and started running away. Then one of his paws got tangled in some sort of metal cord. He slammed into the ground. Lavapaw lifted himself up and tried to free himself. Before he could, the wave smacked into him.


"What are you doing here?"

Emberpaw turned around to find herself face to face with Fallenstar. Strangely, she actually wasn't very upset to see him. At least he didn't act afraid of her half burnt face. "I'm here for catnip." She told him. "We used most of it this leaf bare."

Fallenstar looked like he was going to admit defeat, until it started raining. Then he smiled. "Well, I don't think you're going to have much luck in this weather," He said. "So I will be happy to lead you back to Stormclan."

Emberpaw glowered. The rain was bothering the burnt part of her face a little though. "Fine." She said icily. The two started back towards the border, walking along an abandoned thunderpath.

Then they heard a sound that was a bit like thunder. Both of them turned around, and wished they hadn't. A wave was coming towads them. "Move!" Fallenstar shouted. "Climb one of the twoleg places." He grabbed Emberpaw by the scruff and flung her into the air. He was amazingly strong, she landed on an overhang. Fallenstar, content she was safe, turned around and climbed up a twoleg place on the other end of the abandoned thunderpath.

Emberpaw didn't have more time to watch him. She clambered higher up onto the twolegpace. She let out a sigh of relief as the water rushed past her, she was too high for it.

Then she saw someone struggling to stay above the waves. And they were losing. It was Lavapaw. "Help! Someone!" He fell underneath the water.

Emberpaw had no idea what he was doing in Fallenclan territory, but at the moment she didn't care. "Lavapaw!" She ran to the edge of abandoned twoleg building and extended her front paws. "Lavapaw take my paws."

Lavapaw struggled to stay above the water, coughing and sputtering he dug his front paws in hers. But Emberpaw could pull him up with her paws. She leaned forward to grab his scruff with her teeth. Lavapaw meanwhile, was slipping. He was sinking into the water. "Lavapaw, no." Emberpaw said softly.

Lavapaw kept struggled, but when he looked up at Emberpaw she knew things were bad. He had a defeated look in his eyes. "Emberpaw, I'm s-" He didn't get to finish, though Emberpaw go the gist. His paws slipped from Emberpaw's in entirety and was swept away by the current.

"Lavapaw!" Emberpaw extended her paw after him, but she couldn't reach. And it wasn't long before Lavapaw fell under the water completely.