"That doesn't help much." Volepaw looked miserably at the ground.

"But Starclan wasn't trying to be cryptic or weird, they really have no idea what it meant!" Yellowpaw exclaimed.

The wind was still howling outside, and the rain had not stopped soaking the ground. Volepaw tried to tune out and listen to the rain and thunder storming outside their small shelter, but it seemed Iceypaw wouldn't let him.

"Come on! It's something." She nudged him with her forepaw.

"Ugh!" Volepaw grumbled, dertermined to stay unhappy.

"Yellowpaw!" Suddenly there was a patter of paws and a gray rain soaked she-cat with a darker patch around her right ear and blazing amber eyes appeared at the entrance, "That's top secret Starclan stuff."

"It's fine!" Yellowpaw waves her paw, rolling her eyes.

Splashpaw huffed in reply. 

"Up!" Iceypaw urged her brother and Volepaw felt her teeth grabbing his scruff and hauling him up. He swiped a sheathed paw across her face, "Stop!" He screeched, a sudden burst of anger, annoyance, sadness, and a whole whirlwind of thoughts about Fallenclaw. He raced out, his legs moving on their own, racing him into the rain and leading him out of camp.

He had to find his mentor, his clan couldn't make his friend leave for a phrophecy Starclan themselves didn't understand. He would do it. He could do it. He had no their choice but to do it. He-

Volepaw's brown paws slipped on the earthy mud and he slid flailing into the swollen river. All the training vanished from his memory. He screeched as the water tugged him under. He flailed his forepaws, But they met nothing but bubbles. He twisted in pain as the current cracked his hind legs into the rocky bottom. 

Silently he screamed for help and resurfaced gasping at the water changed it's mind. Fallenclaw vanished from his head, Starclan as well and soon everything was a blur of breathing and drowning.

Then all around him stars, he took in a deep breath as a brown, spotted star flecked cat threw him back onto the ground. He froze in shock as all his consciousness crashed back down upon him. "Fallenclaw...." he moaned, his voice cracking.

"Is ok." The cat who had rescued him finished.

Volepaw gasped, he regonized that brown pelt. "Mother?"

"My beautiful ray of sunshine." She said, moving closer to him. She ducked down at nds tared at him with her forest green eyes, "You can't abandon your clan. They need you, Iceypaw will need you."

"But-" Volepaw started, flattening his ears against the rain.

"Hush, someone else might need you to. Remember the warrior code, it will keep you strong." His mother licked his ears, "One day you'll be  a warrior and you will be able to do anything!"

And with that she faded away, every ounce of her glory gone from the living cat's world. She had gone back to Starclan's hunting grounds.

'I will be a warrior!' Volepaw thought, rising to his paws, 'I will train the hardest!'

He paused midstep, 'and when I do I will find Fallenclaw. No matter what.'