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The white apprentice had slowed her pace awhile back. It was quiet now, in the camp. Probably most cats were sleeping. The white she-cat stood out, pure white against the shadows; she padded back into the Medicine Cat's Den into her bed.

As she curled up, thoughts swirled around in her head. What should I do? Leave or stay? Another Clan, a rouge or loner? Possibly that new Clan... Will StarClan follow me there? Should I abandon them.... no. Pebbleheart wouldn't like that! Oh...

Ears flattened against her skull in torment. The thoughts were just overwhelming, she would never be able to sleep with this!

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In the medicine cats den lay the peaceful shape of the pale tabby she cat Mistheart. The only thing showing that she was actually still alive was the faint rise and fall of her flank. She wasn’t in a deep sleep, but her hearing may stop her from hearing the noises around her anyway, being partially deaf had its good points at times. Her own conscious thoughts were still going around her head and she remembered the fight her apprentice had had with her own brother Darkpaw. Fighting! she thought,what is the point! The majority of the Clan knew that their medicine cat despised battles between the Clans, they only caused injury anyway, and although it was her job to cure them and she wouldn’t change that for the whole of StarClan she couldn’t help but see the world at peace with no battling.

With a sigh she realised that she wasn’t sleeping well, but she had no reason not too. Heaving herself into an upright position she could see that the moon was half way in the sky and the camp was almost silent apart from the odd rustling of moss beds as the cats settled themselves for the night with their den mates. Thinking of her own she turned to see that Lunarpaw, her apprentice was now in her nest. When did she come in? she wondered. She could see that the snowy white cat did not seem her usual bouncy mischievous self, and the way that her ears were pressed back on her head showed that she was by no means asleep.

Stepping silently out of her own nest she proceeded to check on her. As she reached the white shape she stopped and looked at her with calm, gentle blue eyes. ’Whats wrong Lunarpaw?’ she asked in almost a whisper, she would allow her to refuse an answer at this late time, but it wouldn’t be good for her to keep things bottled up inside. It was always better to let them out and allow someone else to help. Wrapping her tail around her white paws to keep the chilly night breeze from making her too uncomfortable she waited for a response.

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"That new Clan." Lunarpaw meowed quietly, knowing Mistheart wouldn't here. She then sat up and a little louder; "What would happen if there were 6 Clans?" Her tail wrapped around her paws in worry, wondering what StarClan would do... or, was that she-cat making it up?

No, it sounded so nice when she said it. Lunarpaw could feel her pelt prickle in fear, maybe StarClan already knew! Could that possibly be what Pebbleheart meant to say--something about the new Clan?

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Mistheart pricked her ears towards her apprentice straining to hear her tiny voice; she failed and knew that Lunarpaw had done it deliberately so that she didn’t hear. At her next question her ears flattened a little and her blue eyes looked worried. Why was she asking about the rumoured new Clan? Many more questions whizzed around her head, none of which she could explain even to herself. ’Nobody knows…’ she mewed truthfully after her own debating thoughts. ’StarClan alone only know what will happen to the Clans, maybe it is their wish for their to be more,’ she thought this unlikely however, to her it seemed some loners had simply got lonely and done what they pleased, and loners didn’t usually follow the Warrior Code.

’Was there a reason to your question?’ she asked cautiously and clearly concerned, almost like a mother would be to her kits, although she had never experienced that bond and never would; it was not the way of a medicine cat. Looking deep into Lunarpaws eyes she hoped she would be able to pick up a hint of what she was thinking, but nothing came to her.

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"No reason...." She meowed quickly. The she-cat curled up again and stiffled a yawn. Sleep was finally hitting her, and she could already hear Pebbleheart calling her name...

Blackness. Nothingness. Shadows. Darkness. Abyss. Empty. Broken. Fear.

Emotions rushed into Lunarpaw's vision, so much that it could hardly be called a vision--more like a Nightmare. Cats yowled in rage, fury, pain and so much more... she couldn't dechipher the words they were saying among the many voices. Faintly she scented Pebbleheart, only faintly, mostly it was rouges and disease.

"Pebbleheart?" The apprentice began to feel small among the blood-curtling dream. "Pebbleheart where are you? Mistheart? Anyone?" Her voice cracked in fear. What is this?!

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Mistheart eyed her with her own doubts in mind, but she knew that pesturing the young she cat would not help her to open up and to speak more openly to her. So, as the apprentice curled up once more and fell into a sleep the medicine cat left to her own nest and vowed to keep a close watch on Lunarpaw.

Licking her white paws clean she kept throwing worried glances at her apprentices nest, she could hear her mumbling in her dreams. I wonder if she is having a message from StarClan… she thought, but she couldn’t shake the feeling that it seemed like a very bad dream, a nightmare even, and that it would not be good news for her Clan. She just hoped with all her heart that Lunarpaw would throw away her somewhat foolish and irresponsible ways and be the true medicine cat she was destined to be, and interpret the dream in the right way. Mistheart knew she would support her in what ever decision she chose.

Giving one last sigh she forced herself to close her eyes and try to rest and gain her own sleep. As hard as it was she knew that she would need strength to get through whatever their ancestors had planned for them.

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Pebbleheart appeared before Lunarpaw in an instant and she immidiately hopped up to touch noses with the ShadowClan Medicine Cat.

"Welcome," he rasped to the young apprentice.

She meowed happily, "I knew you were trying to tell me something! What is it?!?!" Her ears pricked when the tom sighed heavily. What could be wrong?
Did it have to do with that vision before.....?

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In a different dream, the one of Mistheart, came a different cat. Littlecloud, the medicine cat of ShadowClan before the move from the lake and to the valley. He had died and left his apprentice as medicine cat shortly before the move, and did not often show up in other cats' dreams, though he chose to deliver this particular message to the apprentice of his apprentice.

They stood in the hollow in which laid the Moon Pool, the place cats shared dreams with StarClan before the move to the valley. Littlecloud's gaze was grave as he looked upon Mistheart and spoke only the prophecy before all faded to darkness, giving Mistheart no time to question the previous medicine cat.

"Night will fall over the Forest
Trees will block out the Light
A mighty Storm will scatter Stone
Five fall to Four and One falls to flight
A kit finds it's mother to take up the fight
And the Mountain's peace will crumble and cease..."

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"Night will fall over the Forest
Trees will block out the Light
A mighty Storm will scatter Stone
Five fall to Four and One falls to flight
A kit finds it's mother to take up the fight
And the Mountain's peace will crumble and cease..."

Lunarpaw's yellow eyes met Pebbleheart's in surprise, and it seemed like many voices echoed the prophecy, even though the two cats were alone. Heaving a breath, with little though, the Medicine Cat apprentice spoke.
"So, I guess a Clan will be gone..... again," her voice was hushed.

With a soft nudge Pebbleheart gave her final words before she awoke.
"Never loose your faith."