Rivertail looked at Dingopaw, with a confused ex
pression. "Well.. It seemed to be a cat from Starclan, who had been as-signed a mission. He wouldn't tell us what it was though, he looked as confused as we were." Rivertail sighed. "At least, he must be here for half a moon, it seems."

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So close.. it felt so close now. Elisabeth had more confidence, now that Thomas followed her. The cats calls echoed through the trees. They ran, and ran, and ran. Then they saw a cliff, stretching before them. Elisabeth walked closer to the edge, looking at the sun that stared at her. It felt like something was going to happen. Suddenly, a black circle flew across the sky, towards the sun. It covered the whole sun, and then Elisabeth understood what it was. A sun eclipse. She stared at it, and very quickly, it looked like an eye was staring at her. A sharp pupil, belonging to a cat. It dissappeared, and the ground started to tremble. Elisabeth fell, and the time felt like it was standing still. She heard a last meow, before she saw the ground. 

[Don't worry, she isn't dead, by some odd reason. O.O]

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The cat was surprised by the question. "Well, my name is-" The ground trembled, and one could hear the cliffs breaking, plus the sudden eclipse. The cat stood there speechless. "E-excuse me, I have to go to my den, I have an urgent matter to attend to!"

Hawkeye felt his heart stop when he saw the wonderful cliffs collapse. And his heart trembled when he saw a black sun filling the sky, this was something that hadn't happened before. Could it have been that Starclan cats fault?

Swiftbite showed his teeth in obvious frustration. He had been resting, when all this trembling started. But he wasn't scared, he just tried to ignore it.

Howlstar flicked his ear in confusion then turned his attention to the cliffs that collapse. What was happening? He climbed up the ridge where he alerted his clan about things, if there were any, and watched the cliffs from there.

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Dingopaw unsheathed his claws in surprise and watched the cliffs collapse with his ears layed back slightly. Was StarClan trying to warn them about something? At the thought of that he glanced at the den where Howlstar was but only saw the leader and not the StarClan cat who had come to their camp.

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Spottedfire trotted up to Wolfstorm and both of them stood side=bye-side when the ground trembled. Her attention drifted over to the black circle that covered the sun while Wolfstorm's attention was to the cliffs.

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Thomas ran after Elisabeth and when she stopped he stopped a few feet behind her. He was also staring at the sun and for a quick moment it turned into an eye. Like a cat's eye? Before he could think about it more the the ground trembled and he watched as Elisbeth fell to the ground. He moved up to the ledge and peered down, calling, "Elisabeth!" as he looked down at her. Suddenly, he felt the ground under him give way and he tried to grab on something to hold to but found none. There was the meowing again. It meowed a few times before Thomas hit the ground.

((Is that what's supose to happen to them?))

[Yeah.]

It had stopped trembling. There was a silence that flew through the camp. The eclipse was over now, and the cats stood silent. Suddenly Hawkeye turned to the cliffs and said: "I'm going there, I have to investigate what happened." Leafgust heard what he said, and ran to him. "Are you crazy?! It has stopped trembling, but there could still be rocks that could fall. You could die!" Hawkeye ignored her, and ran to the cliffs. Swiftbite followed. Hawkeye shouted: "Follow me, if you dare. I could need some help investigate this." He had shouted that to the other cats, that stood paralyzed in camp. Who knows if they would ever see him again.

On the way there, Swiftbite said: "Yeah, sure we can go and get ourselves killed, but I don't want to get killed on an empty stomach.  We should go hunting first." Hawkeye nodded, and they both started to look for rabbit homes, in the ground. They managed to catch some rabbits, and were now lying in the gras-s and eating. I hope that some more cats join us. Hawkeye thought. It's not a very long way from home to here.

Wolfstorm hesitated for a moment. Leafgust could be right, that there were still loose rocks that could fall on them, but with a sigh he trotted toward the entrance of camp. "I'm going to go follow them." He announced to the nearby cats of the clan then followed the scent of Hawkeye and Swiftbite. After a few moments he spotted the two cats eating rabbits and he dashed up to them.

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Howlstar was about to warn the cats of his clan that ran off but they were gone before he could say anything. He sighed and took one last look at the den the StarClan cat was in before turning his attention to the cliffs that had collapsed. He felt like the cats who left camp where going to find something there. Something other than rocks and dirt.

((Sorry it's short. I have to go.))

[No problem. =)]

Hawkeye saw a cat running towards them. It was Wolfstorm. "Glad that you joined us." Hawkeye said with a smile. He had to ivestigate this. Something just told him that. Ha gave Wolfstorm some fresh kill, and then they continued their journey. Over plains, in forests, they ran, and when a new moon stood high, they had reached the cliffs. They started to look around, to see if they could find anything unusual. Hawkeye saw something, and tried to touch it. He shouted in pain, it had been a hedgehog. After that, it started to tremble, and rocks fell to the ground. Then Swiftbite saw a gigantic rock close in on Wolfstorm. "Watch out!!" He dashed towards him, and threw him out of the way, while avoiding the rock himself.

Hawkeye were startled. "Are you guys all right?!" Swiftbite looked at Wolfstorm, and then on Hawkeye. "Yeah, we're fine. Let's continue searching." Hawkeye felt guilty. "You two stay here, I'll look around some more, then we're out of here." Hawkeye suddenly saw something oddly colored farther away, he approached it with caution. Then he saw.. two cats, unconscious on the ground. "I think I've found something here.."

Wolfstorm gave a nod of thanks for the fresh-kill and finished in about two or three large gulps. He followed the two older cats and felt his fur rise when he saw the broken rocks and the cliffs. He was sniffing around and looking around and before he knew it Switbite came to his rescue from the large rock. He managed to stand up with his fur fluffed up and said, "Thanks, Swiftbite."

He shook himself and trotted to Swiftbite as he watched the deputy go off. He angled his ears toward the direction Hawkeye went to when he heard the deputy saw something. With a glance at Swiftbite he dashed off to where Hawkeye went to and stopped when he was a few mouse-tails from the deputy. He squinted and then spotted the bodies of two cats. Had the rocks fallen on them or where they on the cliffs when they collapse? He padded closer to the two unconscios cats and sniffed them slowly. There was a faint rise and fall of their chests so he knew they were alive.

Hawkeye looked suspiciously at the two cats. But then he softened up, and had a sympathetic ex
pression on his face. "We should help these two, I don't think they will survive here, and to fall off those cliffs, they must have been unfamiliar with this place." Swiftbite suddenly dashed and stood in front of Hawkeye. "Are you completely INSANE!? We have absolutely NO idea who these cats are! They could be dangerous rogues, wanting to kill us! And we would have to feed even more cats!" Hawkeye stood firm on his place, starting to arch his back. "They have probably no home, and look at them! They are probably less than 24 moons old, what harm could they do?! Swiftbite, I BEG you, let us take them home." Swiftbite turned to the cats. "It's too risky, we have to do the right thing.."

His white teeth crept close to one of the cats necks, when suddenly another cat came running. It was the cat from Starclan! "Stop, for the love of our ancestrors, STOP!" The three cats looked at him in surprise. "Why should we?" Hissed Swiftbite. "Those cats.. They are the ones the stars told me about! They are part of a prophecy!" Hawkeye looked surprised at him. "What kind of prophecy?" "I-I'm not sure, but it's a really important prohecy!" The cats stood unsure about what to do among the broken rocks, that had been just little mouse steps from the unconcious cats. They looked at them for a long while..

Wolfstorm thought for a moment. "Well," he said hesitantly."Maybe we could bring them back to camp and let Leafgust take a look at them. When they wake up we could ask them what they were doing here." If they wake up, that is.. He thought but dared not to say that outloud. He padded down some rocks so he stood close to the other two cats of his clan. "And if you don't mind me asking," he sid to the StarClan cat. "What is your name? I don't belive you mentioned it ever since you came to our camp."

"M-my name is Starfall, but never mind that! We have to get the cats to tthe camp!" Swiftbite looked really unhappy, but Hawkeye carried one of the cats on his back, and then he said: "Swiftbite, take this other cat, we have to hurry home." Swiftbite took without a word, the other cat on his back. They started walking home..

Howlstar turned to Hawkeye and listened to what the deputy had to say. He nodded after and looked in the direction of the medicine cat's den. The wind was blowing towards him so he was able to get the scent of two other cats from the medicine cat's den. "All right," he said after the deputy finished speaking. "I'm going to go check on those two cats. You can rest now, if you want. You did a lot already." With that he leaped down from the ridge and trotted toward the medicine cat's den. When he reached the den he saw the two cats. One with gray fur and another with really dark gray fur. "Leafgust," he meowed the medicine cat's name. "When do you think these two would wake up?"

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Mistpaw gave a nod and padded to the corner of the medicine cat's den. There were clumps of moss around. Certainly enough to make two beds for the cats that had been found. She took some of the moss and layed them out carefully, pushing them onto the moss. They looked old enough to had been apprentices for a few moons already.

Hawkeye ralized that he was really tired, and went to his den, where he was planning to get some sleep. But he still couldn't, he just rolled back and forth in an attempt to make it comfortable.

Leafgust gave Howlstar a concerned face. "Well, in this state, they aren't going to heal quickly.. But once I get these herbs on their wounds, and they get some fresh kill and other herbs to eat, they should recover more quickly. It's this first time that will be changelling, they have to be warm, or they may die." Leafgust quickly went back to work, she had never seen anything THIS severe.

Howlstar looked down at the two unconcious cats then nodded. "I'll come and visit again either later today or tommorow." With that, he gave a nod of farewell to Leafgust and trotted over to his den. He stopped after a few pawsteps and looked around. Where was that StarClan cat? He wanted to ask a little more about these two cats, but honestly he did not know what to ask about them.

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Wolfstorm padded away to the warriors' den. His tail was slightly off the ground and he made his way up a slope that was no steep at all. "What a day," he thought with a sigh as he sat down infront of the warriors' den and started washing himself.

Rivertail strolled around camp, she was curious on the rumours about those stranger cats. She hadn't seen them yet, so she went towards the medicine cats den. On the way she saw the Starclan cat sit on a hill and watching the stars, it looked like he was praying. When she arrived, she saw Leafgust tend the two cats wounds. Rivertail looked at the two, they seemed to be almost as old as herself. They both looked like they were in pain, but still they were unconscious. "Rivertail, could you get some fresh kill for these two?" It was Leafgust. Rivertail nodded. "OK" She felt so sad for those two, so she dashed out to the river. While struggling to get some fish, she saw the moon up in the sky. It looked like it soon would be full enough, so the meeting with Starclan would take place. She finally caught some fish, and other fresh kill. She ran back to Leafgust, and gave her the food. "Good, this should be enough for them." Leafgust smeared in some herbs on the fresh kill, and fed the cats. No easy task, since they couldn't take it in theirselves.

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Elisabeth saw darkness. She didn't know where she was, but she felt pain. But then she was fed something, it tasted good, and she felt warm and fuzzy. She heard distant voices, but she couldn't figure out what they were saying.  

Dingopaw yawned out of boredom and decided to check on how the two cats that were in the medicine cat's den looked like. He dashed toward the medicine cat's den and stopped just outside, peering in so he could see the cats. He inhaled their scent an, besides the scent of the cats who touched them and herbs, there was the scent of dirt of some sort. No scent of twolegs, though. At least, he thinked there wasn't.

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Howlstar continued into his den and, once inside, curled up and closed his eyes. There was a small part of him wanting to dream and get a chance to talk with another StarClan cat of somesort, but most of him knew that it would most likely happen if he went to the Moon Pool if he wanted to. Sighing, he closed his eyes and wasn't exactly wanting to sleep.

It was now a new day, and the cats were in their dens. Swiftbite were sleeping in his den, and for once felt relaxed. But he was abruptly woken up by Leafgust, who said in a voice that Swiftbite found even more annoying than usual: "Hey, Swift. Could you get some fresh kill for the two cats? I have to go now, bye!" Swiftbite was furious, and did his best to avoid killing somebody. For once, when he had some nice and decent sleep.. He went up, and walked with frustrated footsteps to the forest. He catched a rabbit, and a hen that was completely lost. Could it have come from some distant human den? He took both prey with him, he had to put the rabbit on his back, because the hen was so heavy. When he finally arrived, he went to the medicine cats den, and without a word threw Leafgust the fresh kill. "Oh, a hen. That's something you don't see everyday!" She fed the cats, and sat in a corner, finally able to relax. Swiftbite walked nearer the grey female cat, and looked at her. Her fur was perfect, TOO perfect to belong to a wild cat. He then looked at the closed eyes, only to be met by opening eyes. She was awake. "Uhh, Leafgust, I think one of the cats is awake." Leafgust flew out of her sitting position. "She's ALREADY awake?! I thought she would have to rest for at least half a moon!"

 Elisabeth felt dizzy, and she could only see blurry shadows. She wondered what was going on. She felt strange, her whole body felt strange, and she couldn't think straight. Was this a dream? Had she gone to heaven.. or hel-l? 

Thomas eyes opened to slits and all he could see were blurry figures. What happend? He wanted to move his legs, but it felt really strange. His paw twitched and for some reason he found himself able to smell scents of.. gra$$? And there was something else as well, but at the moment he felt to weak to think.

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Dingopaw stirred then yawned with his eyes still closed. For some reason, the first thought that came into his mind was "dawn patrol". He heaved himself to his paws then stretched, his tail stretching out as he did. The apprentice padded out of the den then looked around, wondering if Hawkeye was already planning the hunting and border patrols for today. Hesitantly, he trotted toward the warriors' den and peered in, trying to spot the deputy.

Hawkeye woke up, startled. He had overslept! He saw Dingopaw peek in, and he felt embaras-sed. "I was.. planning todays patrol!" He said, more to as-sure himself, than Dingopaw. "Come on, we have to go get the other cats." He took Wolfstorm, Rivertail, and Spottedfur from their dens. Now, it was Swiftbiye left. He trotted to the den, only to find it empty. Where could he be? He searched the camp, and lastly went to the medicine cats den. There he saw Swiftbite, sitting and watching the cats. "What are you doing?! We are supposed to go out on patrol!" Swiftbite still looked at the two cats. "They are awake now, but they seem to be really dizzy and confused." Hawkeye looked closer. He saw the two cats blinking, like a kit seeing the first rays of light.

Elisabeths head was getting more and more clearer. She remembered falling down the cliff, but she was alive! She opened her eyes more, and looked around her. She was lying on something, and she saw.. cats? But these cats was as big, and almost bigger, than her. And the scary thing was that they were staring at her. "W-where am I..?" A brown cat walked towards her. "Don't worry, you're safe." Elisabeth felt her heart taking a giant leap. Talking cats?! What is this?! She was scared, but tried to not show it. She just looked down on her- paws? She saw a tail, and fur! This time she couldn't avoid thinking out loud. "I'm a CAT?!" The cats looked at her, as if she had just said the weirdest thing in the whole world.