Fallenpaw's stomach growled as he watched birds flying overhead.

"When can we hunt?" He heard Leafpaw ask.

"When we get towards the edge of our territory, my dear." Dapplestar purred.

Fallenpaw stifled a grumble as his stomach growled once more.

How long would they need to walk through the jungle?

"Where are we headed, anyways?" Sorrelpaw asked, on the other side of Dapplestar.

"Somewhere I would never show Darktail, Tigerblossom, Furzeheart, and the rest of those traitors." Dapplestar replied cooly.

Fallenpaw envied his leader's calm attitude, as he was panicking.

What if one of them didn't survive the trip?

What if one of them didn't want to go back to JungleClan?

A flash of pale grey fur crossed Fallenpaw's vision, and he noticed Breezepaw trotting alongside him.

"Hi!" He meowed cheerfully as the she-cat smiled at him.

"Hey!" Breezepaw mewed.

"Friends again?" Scorchpaw questioned as he caught up to his sister.

"I hope!" Fallenpaw exclaimed.

Breezepaw nodded, bouncing ahead of the toms.

"Race you to that clearing up there!" She called, stopping in front of a small shrub.

She was clearly waiting for the two slowpokes to catch up so they could start the race.

Fallenpaw and Scorchpaw raced up to meet the other apprentice, speeding ahead of each other to get to the shrub first.

Finally Fallenpaw skidded to a stop beside Breezepaw, Scorchpaw following.

"Ready..." Breezepaw began, looking at her brother and best friend.

"Set..." All three crouched, ready to spring ahead of the others.

"...Go!" Breezepaw yowled, leaping forward. Fallenpaw sprang after her, trying to made his strides long and powerful. Scorchpaw sped ahead of him, and Breezepaw leapt off of a tree branch that hung low over Fallenpaw's head.

"Hey! You climbed a tree! Isn't that cheating?" Fallenpaw protested as Breezepaw sprinted ahead of him.

"No! You just didn't think of it!" Breezepaw giggled, turning around to sweep Fallenpaw's forelegs out from under him.

"Hey!" Fallenpaw shouted, pretending he was mad. Although, he couldn't keep the act up for long, and bounced to his paws, laughing. Scorchpaw had tripped, and was scrabbling to his paws when Breezepaw passed him. Fallenpaw noticed a felled tree resting against another, taller, tree. In a flash, he was racing up its trunk, leaping into the branches of the standing one. He yowled, flying off a branch and landing a few tail lengths in front of Breezepaw.

"See, it works!" She called up to him. Then, another she-cat tackled Fallenpaw to the ground. He yowled, seeing Leafpaw.

"I'm going to win!" Leafpaw yelled, leaping away from him. The clearing had been really far away from them, but Fallenpaw now noticed how close they'd come. Bouncing to his paws, he raced after his sister. Breezepaw was hard on his paws, Scorchpaw was running further behind, and Sorrelpaw was now speeding after the group.

"I'll win, Leafpaw!" Fallenpaw countered as he sped past his sister. Leafpaw snarled playfully, but she couldn't muster up the energy to pass the tom. Breezepaw and Fallenpaw were now neck-and-neck, ready to dash forward when the time was right. A soaring Sorrelpaw plunged off of a branch above Fallenpaw's head, but she fell behind Breezepaw and himself after her landing.

"Nice race, Fallenpaw!" Breezepaw yelled as she sped ahead and into the clearing. She'd won the race. Fallenpaw didn't slow, despite that, because he'd been taught by Tallflower that winning wasn't everything. He wanted second place, at best. Sorrelpaw seemed to realize this, and gave an ice-cold glare at him before speeding up.

"Not today, Clumsypaw!" Sorrelpaw yowled as she tackled him when she neared. Fallenpaw pawed her away before rolling to his paws and charging off. Sorrelpaw's growl was loud and threatening, but Fallenpaw paid no mind to it. Streaking up to Breezepaw, he let out a triumphant cry,

"Second!" Just as the words left his mouth, a weight crushed him and he sank to the ground. His head knocked against a pointy pebble and he watched his vision lace with black streaks. He felt a powerful pull towards sleep, and let his icy blue eyes droop close. He drifted into sleep.

***
Breezepaw screamed in terror as a lithe black she-cat knocked Fallenpaw unconscious. A blur of white took out Sorrelpaw but it took Breezepaw a moment's time to recognize the tom.

"It's YOU!" Breezepaw gaped. The tom had threatened her mother when she was expecting Breezepaw and her littermates. The tom smiled slyly at her before ducking his head.

"I've got a name, missy." He meowed roughly. Breezepaw smirked.

"Well, what is it, then?" The tom's thin-furred tail twitched as he held it above his head. Breezepaw noticed it was lined with thick black stripes that ended at the base of his tail.

"North." He growled. Breezepaw remembered watching him fight Dapplestar when she was a kit, hiding behind Nightsky in the nursery.

"North, is it? Nice to finally put a name on a face." Breezepaw taunted.

"Shut up, kit. I've had one hell of a time with kits, I tell you." North rumbled on. Breezepaw was puzzled at his choice of words.

"What's... Hell?" She questioned quietly.

"Ah, right, Clan cat. Hell is like the... Dark Forest, you call it. A bad place. A bad time." North explained lightly, as if the apprentice were a small, two-moon-old, nursery-dwelling kit.

"North, she won't get it." The black she-cat meowed. North just shook his head.

"Eclipse... Ah, never mind, I'll deal with it later. Now, to get the rest of them to our Tree." North smirked. Eclipse sunk her fangs into Fallenpaw's scruff, North doing the same to Sorrelpaw. Frogpaw, Leafpaw, Scorchpaw, Breezepaw and Dapplestar followed without question or arguement.

***
Eclipse's pale eyes shone with delight as they landed on a weathered treehouse in the middle of a clearing. A waterfall cascaded down a tall set of mountains to the right, and another range of rocky mountains and hills loomed on the horizon.

"Good job, young'un." A dark russet she-cat with cracked-looking amber eyes purred. A pure white she-cat and a fox-like pelted she-cat, both with green eyes, followed her out of the treehouse.

"Thanks, Panic." North rumbled as Eclipse opened her mouth. The black she-cat gave North a mock-angry glance, before stifling a purr. Her mate was a great cat.

"Dawn, Emerald, could you get nests ready for these ones?" Panic asked the two other she-cats. North smiled sadly as two other white cats, both female, lingered near the edge of the door frame.

"Dream, Luck, get out here." North purred at his sisters. Eclipse felt her heart tear in two as she remembered her claws at her lat surviving littermate's throat, watching another freeze in the cold, taken by an eagle, killed by a fox, and finally, starve to death. Her mother cast her out after her brother starved at the age of six moons. A memory tore at her mind, her claws scraping over her mother's neck, then snapping it with a swift yet powerful blow.

Eclipse felt a sharp pain in her stomach, and dropping the young tom, she fell to the ground with a scream of agony.

"Panic!" North screamed, and Eclipse could sense the fear rip through him.

The elderly she-cat sped out of the treehouse, but Eclipse just smiled. This was her moment. The only problem was, she'd forgotten to tell North.

AUTHOR'S NOTE~

I am so sorry I took so long to update, I just lost ideas so many times writing this part, as I have so many other works on the go and other things to publish... I got caught up in all of that and trying to finish this it took so long. Comment which POVs you might want to see, as I would like to write some of this in the POVs of other cats aside from Breezepaw and Fallenpaw.

~BAIIIIII~