Chapter 11

After what seemed like moons, but was only a couple weeks, Magma was already fully healed, and the three had become fast friends. Moonlight and Sunshadow had told Magma about their past, and Magama had told them about his. It seemed as though the happy times would never end. Of course, though they had to. Once Magma was able to live on his own again, the two had left, believing that something greater in the mountain range was calling them.

And then, two more weeks passed, and the two had came to a very lush and green mountain, that seemed to have everything they needed in order to survive. "Well," Moonlight said as they came to a comfortable looking clearing. "I wouldn't mind staying here for a long time. Could we? It has everything!"
Sunshadow smiled. "Of course," he said. "If that's what you want. I like this place too."

As the siblings worked hard in making a den large enough for the big of them, and wind blew, carrying a dangerous scent. Sunshadow narrowed his eyes. "Do you smell that?" he asked his sister, and stood up when she nodded. "Foxes." Moonlight looked at her brother. "I'll go outside and look," she said.

When the gray cat returned, her eyes were widened and she was trembling. "A community..." she whispered. "This whole clearing is home to a community of foxes!"

Chapter 10

The two siblings had eventually climbed through the mountain range, and were quite accustomed to the rocky terrain and cooler temperature. Occasionally, a large bird, either a falcon or hawk would fly above their heads, circling the giant rock that they were walking across, but they were never disturbed by those birds of prey.

One day, while they were both done with hunting and were sunning in a small valley, Sunshadow noticed something. "Moonlight," he said, sitting up suddenly.
His sister yawned. "What?" she asked, blinking sleepiness out of her eyes.
"Don't you think it's strange?"
"What?"
"Well, we're getting higher, so it's supposed to be getting colder, right? But it seems to be getting warmer, don't you think?
Moonlight narrowed her eyes. "You're right," she said. "I noticed a little before, but now that you mention it, it is quite warm here. But....why?"
Sunshadow looked up, and realized that a top of one of the mountains seemed to be cut off, and was smoking. He grinned. "Maybe it's that."

The two didn't know why, but the volcano had seemed to be calling to them. As they hiked along its warm rock, Moonlight's ears twitched. "Did you hear that?" she hissed. "I thought I heard a cat yowl, but I guess I'm just hearing things..."
Sunshadow shook his head. "I hear it too," he said. "Do you think a cat's in trouble?"
Moonlight nodded. "We should go to the source of the sound," she suggested. "We should help any cat in danger, right?"

After walking for about five minutes, Sunshadow's eyes stretched wide as he saw a figure lying on the warm rock in front of them, pelt mangled and bloody. "There!" he said, dashing to the injured cat. It was a gray tom, and he didn't look so good. "I'll go get herbs," Moonlight said quickly, and padded away to search. Sunshadow walked closer to the other cat, and poked him slightly. "Um," he started. "Are you OK?" Slowly, the cat's eyes opened slightly. "Wha....?" a faint voice sounded.
"Don't talk too much," Sunshadow warned. "You're badly injured. But you are you?"
The voice that replied was weak and raspy, like a piece of chalk scraping the ground. "M-Magma."

Chapter 9

The next day, the sun was shining so brightly that it felt wrong. As the two siblings continued to trek through the forest, the light shone in shafts down onto the soft, warm dirt, heating up the earth. At first, they travelled in silence, letting the sounds of nature fill up the emptiness, but after a while they began to talk, and soon enough both of them had weary paws, and their stomachs were growling with a strange fierceness.
"I guess we should do some hunting," Sunshadow commented.
Moonlight nodded. "We'll go off into separate directions," she said. "But one it gets dark we should come back here and keep on looking for a place to stay."
Once they had settled things out, they each padded their separate ways, to fill up their unsatisfied stomachs.

When Moonlight stalked back to the meeting place, belly full, she looked up and noticed something peculiar. The bushes next to her rustled, and she jumped as Sunshadow walked out and sat next to her.
"What are you looking at?" he asked.
"Look," the she-cat said, tilting her head to the rising moon. "The moon isn't full, but it should be, but something is blocking it."
Sunshadow squinted. "You're right," he said. "I-it looks like a giant rock. What could it be?"

Moonlight looked up at the towering, and almost majestic rock formation. "It's a mountain," she breathed, taking in the magnificent view.

Chapter 8

The two quickly found a hollowed out tree, grateful for the dryness of the bark, as it was still raining outside. Moonlight quickly paced around the tree and found moss, enough to make a big nest for the both of them. As they settled down into their temporary home, Sunshadow gazed up at the sky. "I wonder if all of the DarkClan cats are up there," he said out loud, stars shining brilliantly in his eyes.

"I'm sure they are," Moonlight said, narrowing her eyes. "Every last one of them should be there, to hunt with StarClan forever." Sunshadow nodded. "I suppose you're right. Anyways, let's get some sleep. We should travel as much as we can tomorrow and we need to save up our energy."

As the two were falling asleep, Sunshadow felt his sister inching closer to him, and could feel her warm pelt on his. I wish life was always this peaceful, he thought. But then again, this earth can't be peaceful. A perfect world does not exist. Sighing, the tom closed his eyes. But I'm happy for now.

Chapter 7

Moonlight grinned, ignoring the darkness and the two foxes that surrounded them. "Great!" she said cheerfully, feeling better than she had ever felt in the past three moons. "Right, let's stop talking now, we still have these foxes to defeat!"

As the two battled with the foxes, eyes gleaming with a new determination that neither of them had ever experienced before, they realized that being in the clan had truly changed them, and it was not for the better. The two met, pelt to pelt, and scratched the wits out of the other two creatures, and they turned to each other, grinning as the foxes fled. "We did it!" Sunshadow exclaimed. "Yup," Moonlight said, beaming proudly at her brother. "Thank you," she said, suddenly remembering to thank him. "For staying, I mean. You could have stayed with Lightpelt in the ruined camp, but you stayed with me. Thank you."

Sunshadow smiled. "Of course I stayed with you," he said. "You're my sister, and you're more important to  me than any other cat, I promise." Moonlight nudged her brother. "Of course I knew that," she said. "Now, how about finding a place to stay the night?"

Chapter 6

Sunshadow clenched his teeth together. "Mouse dung!" he spat. "First the whole clan dies, and now this! What's next?" Moonlight narrowed her eyes. Her brother usually was calm and quiet, and she couldn't stand what he had become now. "Shut up!" she said. "What's happened has happened! Now we just have to fight these foxes, right? So shut up and let's fight!"
Sunshadow glared. "But how can we keep on living now? We're loners again, can't you tell!?"
Moonlight growled, as the clouds behind her flashed with lightning. "That doesn't matter anymore! Being in DarkClan changed you, and I don't know if that's a good thing or not now. But it doesn't matter! Do you want to fight or not? Do you want to live or not?

"If you want to live, then fight with me! I hardly know who you are, Sunshadow, I-" The gray warrior choked, and no more words came out. She looked down at her paws in shame. "I..."
Sunshadow padded forwards so that he was standing next to his sister. "I'm sorry," he said, pressing his nose into her fur. "But I still can't believe this. So much tragedy....."

The brown cat straightened up. "But I will fight," he vowed. "From now on, we are once again loners, and we will fight!"

Chapter 5

Moonlight and Sunshadow ran as fast as their legs could carry them through the forest, rain pouring down on them, lighting striking in the distance. Every second they could hear the loud clap of thunder, which startled them greatly. Moonlight stopped. "Wait," she said, her eyes tracking down Sunshadow's mangled and bloody pelt, then dashed into a bush, looking for the correct herbs to help her brother. "No," he said. "That'll only slow us down. Let's keep running."

Moonlight sighed, but nodded. "Fine," she said. "But you'll get infections if you run around like this." For a moment, the tom's eyes went dull, then his head snapped up. "Lightpelt felt worse," he choked. "She died." This made his sister silent, and they both slowly started to run again. After a few moments, they stopped, not because of Sunshadow nor his sister. Blocking their path were two red foxes....

Chapter 4

Moonlight backed up as she saw the empty hollow, filled with nothing but shattered, burning trees. She slowly made her way to the top of the camp, looking down at it. It was destroyed. There was no hope of any cat being alive...was there? Moonlight's grey eyes widened as she saw a branch quiver. "Sunshadow!" she cried, recognizing the brownish pelt of her brother. She was too afraid to go down, but worry for her brother sent her hurling back down into the ruined camp. "M-Moonlight!" came the raspy voice.

Moonlight stumbled forward. "Sunshadow!" she cried. "Are you OK? Y-you're hurt!" The young warrior had been a warrior for quite some time now, and had experienced battles with many other clans, but she had never seen such horrible wounds. "You're not OK!" she said racing forwards. "Here, lean on me, we have to get out of this hollow!"

Her brother's eyes were wide, and he opened his mouth and hissed, "I couldn't save her....."

Chapter 3

Rain poured throughout the gorge that was the DarkClan camp. Warriors, queens, kits, apprentices and all the remaining cats poked their heads out of their dens, eyes wide in fear. "The gorge is flooding!" came a wail from the other side of the clearing, and all of hell broke loose. Cats swarming everywhere, some slipping on the wet rock, and some standing still, wailing in fear. Moonlight and Sunshadow raced out of their dens in the midst of the chaos.
"Sunshadow, there's something I have to tell you," Moonlight said at last after moons of staying silent. "I don't trust this clan and you shouldn't either."
Her brother's eyes widened for a moment as she spoke, but then softened. "I know what you mean," he whispered. "It still seems like we're not welcome. But what do you want to do?"
Moonlight could tell that the tom wasn't really buying her words. She didn't know how, but she could tell. "We have to go," she said. "We'll run away by ourselves from this clan and go back to being rouges."
Sunshadow nodded slowly. "Let's go then," he said, being his listening-to-sister self.
As the two struggled to climb up the side of the gorge that was already packes with cats, Sunshadow noticed something out of the corner of his eye. "Lightpelt!" he screeched, as thunder crashed and lighting nailed down, setting the trees ablaze and sending them tumbling into the camp. He saw the gray she cat that he had come to love, still with fear, eyes wide.
"I have to save her!" he cried, flinging himself back down into the camp.
"SUNSHADOW!!!!!" Moonlight screeched as she watched the brown pelt of her brother disappear into the midst of the rain. Lighting flashed, and when the flashing cleared, all that was left of the clan was a gorge filled with burning trees and dead cats. Moonlight's eyes widened as she thought of the day her parents died. "No...." she whispered with horror. "Not again..."

Chapter 2

"-and by the powers of StarClan, I give you your warrior names. From this day on, you will be known as Moonlight and you will be known as Sunshadow. May StarClan guide you for the rest of your lives." Moonlight, now a warrior of DarkClan along with her brother, stood proud at the front of the clan, the feeling of uneasiness still buried in the pit of her stomach like a swallowed stone. She looked sideways at her brother, who couldn't look any happier. She sighed as the cats began to clear away and the two began their vigil. Destroy.... A voice rang throughout the hollow, and Moonlight widened her eyes. What was that? None of the other cats seemed to have noticed. Was she the only one who heard it? What did it mean? Destroy? Destroy what? Or who?

Two moons later, the two littermates were full-fledged warriors, the most loyal out of the loyal, fighting battles and catching prey like no one's buisness. Though Moonlight still had her doubts, she decided to ignore them. Nothing bad had happened. Not yet. The clan could actually be their sanctuary for the rest of their lives. But she did not know the horrors that were in store for her...and the rest of the clan.

(Sorry it's a little short! I'll make the next chapter longer :D)

Chapter 1

Two years later, Sun and Moon were padding through the forest in search of prey. "Prey is scarce at this time of year, isn't it, sis?" Sun asked casually, peeking through the undergrowth, his azul eyes sparking in anger when he sensed nothing. "If only mother and father hadn't gone off and died like that...." Moon's eyes snapped. She hated when her brother talked like that. "They protected us!" she protested. "It was either us or them, and they felt like their lives were fulfilled already! They-" the black and white she-cat broke off, tired of telling her brother off everyday for the exact same thing two years in a row. "-whatever. Let's get hunting. Meet you back here in five minutes." The two siblings rushed off in different directions, sniffing the trees.

When the two cats came back, Sun looked like he was bursting with pride. "What's wrong, Sun?" Moon asked, a little scared by her brother's cheerful look. "I've found some other cats!" he exclaimed. "They said they're from DarkClan or something, and they want to take us in!" Moon looked at the brown cat, startled. "Isn't that kind of sudden? I mean, they just met you and-"
"Whatever!" her littermate said. "Let's go to their camp.
Moon sighed as she followed Sun and the cats that had came back with him. She wasn't sure why, but she had a bad feeling, and she felt like it had something to do with the cats padding in front of her....

Prologue

The sun blazed through the forest, scorching everything in it. Soon enough, a tree smoked, and caught fire. Around it, other trees caught fire as well, and between the falling trees, two cats ran. "Hurry up, Sun!" a small black and white cat called behind her to her brother. "What about mother? And father?!" came the reply from behind. The young cat narrowed her eyes and stopped. Her brother skidded into her. "What was that for?" he squeaked angrily. The cat called Moon turned around and her dulled gaze met Sun's bright eyes. "They're dead, Sun," she said through clenched teeth. "Now let's run!" The two littermates ran on, unsure of the path ahead of them, but still they ran.