hey everyone, this is my FIRST EVER warriors story. I put a LOT of thought into this so I hope you enjoy. -Palepelt

palepaw woke to a thick black soke filling the aprentice den, making it hard to breath. she stood up and look around. the gruond below her was very hot, almost burning her paws.

"hello?" she asked coughing. "icepaw? rainpaw? where are you?"

neither of her friends replies. as she mvoed closer to them, she saw the two apprentices lying on the floor. they did not breath, or even move. she poke them with her paw, but theres no response. they were dead.

palepaw start to cry loudly. she had no idea what was happening and why her friends had died. then she heard a voice.

"PALEPAW, RUN! THE CLAN IS UNDER ATTACK!"

having no choice se ran out of the den and towards the clan center. everything was burning in a bright red orange flames. there were dead and dying cats everywhere. palepaw sprint away towards the exit when she fell over a log and onto one of the fries, burning the side of her left front leg. she scremed loudly in pain. suddenly, sandstar ran over to her and helped her off the ground. "you have to run" she said "it is too late now, you must leave the clan before they find you." she placed a paw gently on palepaw's injured leg. "run towards the nearest lake and put your leg in the watr. then you need to get as far as away as you can from this place. find another clan to help you"

palepaw began to cry again. "but what about you? i dont want you to die!"

sandstar smiles. "i am a leder, and the leader does whats best for thier clan. now please, go and be safe..."

the fires got bigger. the ground was heating up even more and the smoke was making it very hard for palepaw to breath. sandstar pushed palepaw towards the exit. "GO NOW! THERE IS NO TIME!" palepaw ran off through the big trees and into the wilerness, coughing very much from the smoke. she turned around as she ran to look and sandstar one last time, who seemed to be going back into the dens. palepaw have a feeling that se wouldnt be in clan anymroe. and if there's no more clan, the no more apprentice traning. what would she do? would she be an apprentice forever? who be there to teach her? she was lost now, and all alone. no one to help her.

she looked ahead and ran as fast as she oculd, over all of the rocks and twigs and lose dirt that was painful to her feet. it hrut but she must keep going. sandstar told her, and a leader always knows whats best. shhe looked up to the moon above her and thought of her dead freinds, icekit and rainkit, and all the other members of the clan. after a while her legs are getting tired and breathing is getting harder. fnally she found a small pond where she put in her leg and drink. it feeled like she had been running for a long time, but as she looked back the clan is still vibsle, the orange glow and the smok still coming from between the big trees.

she begin to cry again. se was in pain and se had lost everything and did not have any enegy to keep going. so she lie down on the grass near the water, and slowly fell aslep...