Chapter 5

Hazepaw rolled over in her nest, trying to ignore the pain. She wasn't in trouble, at least not yet, but her injuries hurt alot. The battle had broken up not long after she had ran. The voice hadn't bothered her since, and she was beginning to think it was her imagination. Hazepaw made sure she was on the other side of the den from hawkpaw, lilypaw, and volepaw, who were glaring at her.

Hazepaw squeezed her eyes shut, and rolled over again. Her nest already had blood on it. Her Sounds hurt so much! But she had to sleep...



Once she finally managed to get to sleep, she was immediately woken up by a shriek. Hazepaw's eyes flew open, to see only blackness all around her, pierced only by the occasional scream. She tried taking a step back. It was like an invisible wall was stopping her. She tried going forward, and found that she could. Forward must be the only way out of this place.

 Hazepaw took another tentative step forward, then another, and another. With each step, the growls and hisses and screams of battle seemed to get closer.

Just a dream she reminded herself.

Hazepaw began running. The exit of this place has to be soon... But then she ran into another wall. She tried running in all directions, but each time, some invisible force pushed her back. She was trapped within a box of darkness.

 "You have one more day to decide. We could teach you what you did in the battle yesterday. We could teach you everything you long to know." Said a soft , growling voice, though it wasn't the one from her head.

 "Get out!" Hazepaw roared . "I don't want to kill!"

 " Then you will die. " insisted another voice, almost inaudible. 

Hazepaw shut her eyes, wishing herself away from this place, whatever it was. The cats here seemed to be absolutely evil. Then she began to run. She's didn't care whether she hit one of the invisible barriers, and didn't care what threats these voices have her, Hazepaw kept running.

Then she seemed to collide with fur.

 "Get off!" A voice whined .

Hazepaw opened her eyes to see a red cat below her. The tom pushed her off, and hazepaw scrambled away. Who was this cat.

"What are by doing-" his eyes widened when he saw who she was. "Get. Out." He hissed .

"Flamepaw, what is it now. " hazepaw jumped back as a pale ginger tabby she-cat emerged from the shadows of the forest behind the red tom. Flamepaw? But when she located hazepaw, the she-cat's eyes widened as well, and she said "go, get out of here. We don't want you here. "

Hazepaw took a step back. "Who are you?" She asked .

 "I" the ginger she-cat answered, "am Fallenstar."

 " F-Fallenstar? " hazepaw squeaked.

 "Now go." Fallenstar growled .

 "Aren't you dead? So is this Starclan?" Hazepaw blurted out . Or course it was Starclan. Smokestar killed Fallenstar at a gathering! And Starclan would never accept her, after what she had done.

"She said to go." Flamepaw told her, taking a step back.

"But what would I do about this? Who would I tell?" Hazepaw retorted .

"SparkClan can't be trusted. Especially smokestar's kin. " Fallenstar hissed. "GO!!"

 And then hazepaw ran. Would she have to go back through the darkness? Or would she stay here? This was SparkClan territory. Maybe she could get back to her body that way, if she could find the camp! But then she stopped. Making sure the two cats were gone, Hazepaw turned around. Was this really starclan?

She crouched down, and began to creep forward, following the scents of flamepaw and Fallenstar. They lead to a giant rock, the suncliff, which marked the border between SparkClan, BoulderClan, and the very edge of IceClan, territory. It was a huge boulder, jutting out of the ground, and tilted, so it seemed like the top of a cliff. 

Hazepaw followed the trail some more, and was that it led into a small hole at the base of the rock. It was almost impossible to see in the shadows of the rock, and it was pitch black. She squeezed though it, pushing with her back legs, and emerged into a huge cavern. What was this?

Padding around the cave, Hazepaw saw a tiny crack in the ceiling, shedding light throughout the cave. Or caves, she realized, there were more small tunnels leading away.

Her ears price up when she heard a voice. "Yes, we saw that SparkClan apprentice, smokestar's own kit, in our... Well we went have a territory, but we saw her." It sounded like Fallenstar.

"Hazepaw?" Came the reply . It sounds like a tom.

"Yes, her. But I'm almost positive she was dreaming. She came in and out of focus like that." Fallenstar said.

" Ah, you didn't give away any secrets, did you? She'd reveal us for sure. "

"And put SunClan in danger? As if." Another voice , the voice of flamepaw, answered. "BoulderClan is probably wondering were I've been, though. I'd better get going."

A pause ,then pawsteps, coming in hazepaw's direction.



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