Hawkpaw padded out of ThunderClan territory, straight into the unknown world ahead. What do I do now? Where do I go? Hawkpaw leaped into a tree, climbing up the trunk and onto a branch. He settled down on the branch, ignoring the cold rain in his fur.
Hawkpaw rested his head on his paws and sank into a heavy-hearted and disturbed sleep.
Hawkpaw awoke to a still rainy sky, and he yawned confused at where he was for a second, and then memories crashed down on him.
Hawkpaw sighed and flinched when thunder crashed overhead. His belly growled, reminding him of his hunger.
Hawkpaw leaped down from the tree and went searching for prey. He kept his mouth open searching for scents other then rain.
Eventually he found what he was looking for, a vole sniffed around the leaves at the base of a tree.
Hawkpaw crouched, avoiding a stick and staying downwind, he lunged and the vole let out a surprised noise and turned, trying to run into its home.
Hawkpaw was faster, he slammed a paw down to block its path, then scooped it into the air with the other paw. The vole squealed as Hawkpaw sank his teeth into its neck, feeling its spine snap.
Hawkpaw settled down to eat in the cover of the leaves, feeling strange to not take the prey back to camp.
After his meal Hawkpaw continued walking, I have no home. Nowhere to go. He thought, walking around. Not much later he saw a cat, she looked strange, she was a silver and brown tabby with a long tail.
She sniffed at a bush that had purple flowers, he'd seen it in the medicine den before, its a poison called Nightshade.
He watched her open her mouth to take a bite, alarm flaring through him he leaped out of his hiding spot, "That's Nightshade its a poison!" He said,
The she cat rolled her ivy colored eyes and took a bite of the flower, but nothing happened.
She looked him up and down, "I've never seen you before stranger."
He shrugged, "I lived somewhere else, but I had to leave." She looked at him, "I'm Ivy," she showed him her claws, which glistened strangely, "Poison Ivy"
Hawkpaw dipped his head, "I'm Hawkpaw mind if I call you PI?"
"If you wanna lose an eye then sure."
"Nevermind Ivy's good, Ivy's very very good."
Ivy stood and sniffed him, he bristled slightly, "A clan cat eh? Where are your clan friends huh?" She huffed, "Nevermind I'll find out myself."
She touched her tail to his shoulder, and drew back, her eyes filled with understanding and pity.
Hawkpaw huffed bitterly, "I don't need your pity rogue."
She took a step back, "Your grief has turned to fury my friend, but with everything that's happened to you, Hawkpaw, losing your mentor, and being framed for your mothers murder by your father, such a pity."
Hawkpaw flinched, "How do you know about that?"
"I'm...different, although my brother Mystery knows everything about every cat, I know everything in a cats past if I come in physical interaction, such as touching my tail to your shoulder."
Hawkpaw was confused but shrugged. Ivy looked at him, and used a glistening claw to flick dried blood from his chin, he stared at the claw.
"Don't worry, my claws poison doesn't kill, it only stings." It was as if Ivy had read his mind, and I suppose she had.
"Well Hawkpaw, I think you need a new name, after all your a rogue now, like me." She said, looking at his pelt.
"How about Lightning, after all you leap from tree branch to tree branch as fast as lightning, and you soar as high as the sky when you leap."
Hawkpaw thought for a second, "You know what, your right, I may be nine moons old, but I can take care of myself, and I'm not named after my father now, I'm Lightning, I'm fast, strong, determined, and I'm not giving up, not now, not ever."

(Yay! There's the Lightning we've been waiting for XD)