"Willowleaf!" Skypaw hissed. Skypaw didn't want to take her eyes off the lights, which had multipled to two, speeding towards them with a mighty roar. When Willowleaf didn't stir, Skypaw leaped on her.

Willowleaf sprang to her paws, throwing Skypaw off her. Her fur was bristled. "What was that for?" She asked, her tone sharp.

"Look!" Skypaw hissed once more. Her tail pointed to the speeding lights.

"Great StarClan!" Willowleaf's back arched. Her eyes were wild when she screeched, "We got to go warn ShadowClan!"

Skypaw looked at her former medicine cat, bewildered. Her first instrinct was to run, not warn an enemy Clan!

Although, Willowleaf, as a medicine cat, didn't really have enemy Clans. She just went with the flow.

Now, she really didn't have any enemy Clans.

"We got to get out of here!" Skypaw insisted.

"We must warn ShadowClan, their camp could be destroyed! They have nursing queens!"

The thought of kits dying because Skypaw ran to save her own life made her stomach churn. Reluctantly, she nodded, signalling she agreed. "Let's go, then," She meowed flatly.

Willowleaf didn't have to be told twice. She spun around and began dashing through the trees. Skypaw noticed Willowleaf herself even had muscle. How did she train? She thought to herself.

Skypaw definitely had more muscle than she did when the badgers attacked ThunderClan, for she had trained since then and even lived through another battle. Skypaw had to get used to battles springing themselves on her. This was life as a warrior.

Brambles snagged her pelt and pine needles pricked her paws as she bolted after Willowleaf. Although the former medicine cat didn't seem to be in pain, Skypaw sure was. She was used to the familiar paths of ThunderClan's territory, her trained paws had learned where the brambles grew. She thanked StarClan that they didn't live in the pines.

Growling in pain, she started to fall behind. She pushed forward with all of her effort. If she was helping her own Clan, it would have been much easier to keep going. But this was an enemy Clan that hated ThunderClan at the moment, and if any cat found out she was here, Sunstar would have her pelt.

Out in ShadowClan territory, that is.

She tried to ignore the fact that just earlier today that Dapplestar tried to rip her and her mother to shreds. If all goes well, Skypaw thought with a snicker. She will die once the lights reach her.

Surely StarClan wouldn't accept Dapplestar if she were to die, would they? Her life was filled with hatred when her kit left the Clan!

Yet again, they gave a murderer nine lives to lead a Clan. Skypaw didn't know where her warrior ancestors would mess up next. They were unpredictable.

Skypaw slipped and skidded once her paws left the uncomfortable grounds of pine needles and squished in the marsh. She meowed in surprise and slipped, mud gripping onto her pelt, making it heavy. Hissing in annoyance, Willowleaf grabbed Skypaw's scruff like Russetsky once had to haul her to her paws. She felt like hissing, "I can walk myself!" but decided against it. Willowleaf was only trying to help.

Skypaw muttered a thanks. Together, they bolted off once more. Skypaw could hear the ear splitting creeks and cracks of trees. Turning her head to look back behind her, she saw the tops of leaves plummeting to the ground. This gave her paws fuel, and soon she was leading the way.

She only stopped briefly to let Willowleaf pass her because she had no idea where the coldhearted cats lived. She was curious to find out, eager even, but she pushed that out of the way. She had lives to save!

Skypaw glanced up at the sky. The stars were shining brighter than she had ever seen them. However, they weren't the normal collision of dots in the sky she always saw. They were in a single line, taking turns shining bright and twinkling before the next star in line did so.

It took a moment for Skypaw to figure it out, but she soon realized the twinkling went forward. The stars were in a single line. They were showing the way!

"Willowleaf, look!" Skypaw meowed in amazement. The image of her warrior ancestors showing her where to go warmed her heart, and she would never forget it.

Willowleaf purred in amazement. However, neither of the she-cats stopped running to take a real good look.

"Their camp is ahead," Willowleaf meowed. "Be careful."

Before long, Skypaw was following Willowleaf down a small trail. The sand that it was made of was indented with paw prints, ones that Skypaw guessed that belonged to ShadowClan cats generation after generation.

The guard, a cat that Skypaw recongized stood guard. Her white fur spiked and her eyes grew wide when she saw the ThunderClan cats.

"Greetings, Frosttail," Willowleaf meowed. "We have come with a warning."

"Dapplestar!" Frosttail screeched. Frosttail still had wounds from the battle with ThunderClan. Ones that Skypaw's mother had put in the white warrior's fur, and Skypaw felt a surge of triumph.

Dapplestar's golden dappled pelt came bursting from a cave. She hissed loudly when she saw the ThunderClan rescue patrol. As the ShadowClan leader did so, warriors and apprentices became erupting from their dens, and queens poked their heads out of the nursery. Elders came and sat at the entrance to their den, not daring to come anywhere near Willowleaf and Skypaw. Her eyes scanning the heart of ShadowClan, she noticed almost all cats except the queens and elders had scars or battle wounds.

Skypaw shivered when she saw the black eyes of Ratscar staring at her. His eyes were narrowed, as if he was disappointed. He thought he killed me, Skypaw thought, and a smirk appeared on her face as she met gazes with the scarred warrior. It quickly vanished when she saw many ShadowClan eyes narrowed as they glared at her.

"Monsters are coming," Willowleaf meowed calmly. "They're just tearing down the trees to your border. It's coming in the direction of your camp. Evacuate quickly, or stay here to die."

Skypaw was surprised when Willowleaf's warning came out flat toned. She expected her voice to be hectic. Maybe she doesn't want to be near the Clan who got her exiled, Skypaw concluded.

Her eyes rested on what she guessed was the medicine den. Nightflare and Hawkspirit were padding towards her and Willowleaf. Nightflare's gaze was neutral, while Hawkspirit's was warm and inviting.

So inviting that Skypaw had to fight the urge to go greet him. She quickly looked away quickly and lashed her tail.

"We come in peace," Willowleaf added, rolling her eyes. The pelts of ShadowClan cats layed flat, but Dapplestar's glare remained while the rest of her Clan's eyes were wide with fear.

"Why were you at our border?" She hissed. Cats began to flatten their ears.

"We were not at your border," Willowleaf retorted. "We were on the outskirts of Clan territory. Would you rather we leave you here to die?" Skypaw noticed that Willowleaf left out the fact that she had been exiled and that Skypaw had ran away, and the fact they they traveled right across their marsh. Skypaw didn't say anything either. Willowleaf's lie was smart, and those things were better left unsaid.

"How do I know this isn't a trick to get us out of camp?" Dapplestar hissed. Skypaw rolled her eyes.

"If you are not deaf, you can hear the trees falling in the distance." Multiple cats perked their ears, including Skypaw. She could hear the cracks of splintering wood still, and the booms when the trees hit the ground.

"Not to mention you invaded us last time, and we kicked your tails," Skypaw retorted. "We don't want anymore ShadowClan fur." This rose the pelts of some cats, but Skypaw didn't care. They were trying to save lives and they weren't accepting!

Suddenly, Skypaw heard pawsteps pound down the trail she had come. Willowleaf and Skypaw moved out of the way and turned, thinking that it was just a ShadowClan moohigh patrol.

However, Skypaw had been wrong. The cats that had appeared in ShadowClan's camp made Skypaw's heart sink with dread.

Heyo! Thank you to everyone who commented on Chapter 20. It made my day, and I'm so happy that I have the best readers.

This will probably be the last update until Saturday. I may update later tonight, because I may pull an all nighter with my friend. I usually get pretty bored, but now I have Wattpad. :D

I've been reading some of your fanfictions. There's been some I can't wait for people to update, and I LOVE leaving predictions. I have caught interest in quite a few, and I even recongized some roleplays that they were written about. I was even featured in one, so I'm famous now.

Too bad the character I'm talking about dies.

Turns out I'm not so famous.

Have a Happy Fourth of July, American readers and have a happy Friday to my international readers!

Because even though it's summer, we all love Fridays, right?

Have a nice weekend if I don't see you!

-Kaylin