The screeching was muffled as she broke through the thin ice.  The water weighed her down, its splashing slightly calming.

"Faithpaw, swim up"!  A loud voice said to her, clearly not alive.  No one jumped in to try and help her, and Faithpaw was fighting the urge to try and breath.

"Swim up"!  It said agin.  Faithpaw felt groggy.

Ok, I will, she felt like a kit again. She weakly pushed her paws foreword in a repetitive motion.

Ugh, my head is pounding, she thought, just as cold air hit her. She took a deep breath, then swam to land.  The freezing air stung at her ears and nose like a bee.  A cat hurried to her.

" Faithpaw, are you ok!  I thought you had died!  You were just limp in the water for so long," Dovefur said, her ears flat in relief.

 "And-and no one tried helping me," faithpaw choked out, holding back a wail.

 "Flameheart tried, but Lonerstar wouldnt let him.  He said he would also die," Dovefur said, then snapped her mouth shut, looking around her.

Faithpaw had a flashback.

The rain poured, rising every minute.  

" Mom, dad", she had wailed.  She walled though the cold water,  then everything went blank.  Her life had flashed before her.  Everything she knew felt as if ot were gone.  Then she woke up in the medicine den, Flameheart by her side, protecting her.  

This felt all over again, her life flashing through her eyes when she hit the cold water, then the calm feeling once in the water.  It was weird.  Like she was part of a destiny.

Starclan, why choose me, why not some other cat!  Faithpaw wailed to herself.  Faithpaw sneezed, her eyes unfocused as shock finaly pulsed through her.  Cats whispered on the island.  Faithpaw thoughts glided back to running off the island. 

Think!  She thought.  She used her senses to think of  what happened.  She gasped.  Someone had pushed her.  who though?  She already knew that answer.

Lonerstar.

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Faithpaw lay on a moss bed, the feathers slightly helping to warm her up.  Her sandy pelt covered in mud from after she 'fell' in the lake.  Although, she was still freezing.

It took awhile to sleep.

But once she did, she didn't regret it.

Moonlight padded up to her, eyes slightly weary.  "Faithpaw listen to me.  I know what happened at t-, " Faithpaw cut her off.

"Just get to the point! "

"When the faith of a cat runs out, they fall.  Stay aware, for when a loner comes out of the mist, all could be some call.  while some could assist, be prepared to fall," her voice faded as she faded away.  Two cats appeared.  Faithpaw groaned.

 "Feather, come on!  She just won't listen!  You know it"!  The Tom said.

"Seagull!  Leader told us not to give up," said the she cat.  She then faced faithpaw.

 "I'm Lightfeather, and this is my younger littermate, Seagullblaze.  He can be a. nuisance.  Alot," she explained.

"And" ?  Faithpaw prompted.

 "you hate your mother?"

 " Yeah.  She hates me, I hate her.  Or I -erm- did. "

"Well, you can kill her, even in Starclan," Lightfeather  said, venom in her voice.  Faithpaw shuttered.

'I-I know".

 "We can train you to fight," Lightfeather offered.  Faithpaw reluctantly nodded, her eyes narrowed.

"You will stand up and fight because you'll be ready as you'll every be," Seagullblaze said darkly.  Lightfeather slapped him with her tail.

"It's fine if he tells her," a low voice rumbled.  Faithpaw saw a long haired black tom push his ways through a patch of brambles, leaving tufts of for behind.  He grunted as he finally for out, but stepped in a pile of horse dung.  He growled.  Then Faithpaw saw Seagullblaze and Lightfeather bowing their heads, so Faithpaw did the same.

"Good cat has some sense she got one thing from the clans right,' an amused our made Faithpaw look up.

"You can stop bowing.  I must explain who I am,"Faithpaw sat, embarrassed.

"I am blackbird, but call me black,"he joked, his tail flicking to his black pelt.

"are you guys... Clan cats?  Wanting revenge? "Faithpaw asked hesitantly.

"I'll explain," blackbird started, "it was many, many moons ago, before loner was alive.  Windfall was driven out, again, not the time brokenstar drive is out, many moons after that, just after the dark forest battle.  Skyclan came and drew us out.  When windclan was found..  It was a fake windclan.  We hid,.But two legs took us, and we had to seperate, so we shall now take revenge on clan cats, "he finished,grooming his fur.  "Like you," he added hastily.  Faithpaw paused.

"Er-yeah like me," Faithpaw said, waking up.  She didn't feel fight.  A cough overtook her, shaking daughter's who body.there

I can't get sick!  She though through clenched teeth, trying not to cough as elementary padded in, empty jawed.  It was no use.

Faithpaw coughed, it felt like her heart had been coughed up.  Flamethrower dashed out, then brought in a plump mouse.  He handed it to her.

"Eat," he commanded.  Faithpaw felt sick at the smell of mouse.

"I'm not hungry, mouse smell makes me me sick, "she groaned.  Flameheart started to panic.

"O-ok get tons of rest!  You need it, "he commanded.  But she couldn't sleep.  She coughed again.  sickness overtook her, and she soon found it hard to even open her eyes.  She knew what this was.

Greencough.

Not uncommon, but very deadly.  Not good, and she knew where it came from.

The river

Faithpaw let out a silent wail to blackbird for help.  She soon fell asleep, thankfully.  She saw three figures in the distance.  She padded to them, her sickness gone in her dream world.  And, yes, it was seagull, feather, and black.  What their nicknames were.  Kinda funny.  Nicknames.  Hah.  Then they disappeared and she was taken to a different area.  No doubt about it.  Starclan.  She saw flickerk walk to her.

"Faithpaw, we shall give you another life...  With this life, I give you wisdom, use it wisely, from wisdom can hold the ma there of life and death.  But yo u I must not fear it...  With that flickerkit dissapeared