So um. Hey.

I feel like I'm meeting up with an Ex, haha.

This is a little awkward. But here we are.

I am Ebonyfire. Or, younger me was Ebonyfire. I'm now... someone else. I guess.

I wrote this story when I was 13 years old. I had failing grades in school and no friends and was constantly bullied. This was my only salvation. And it was good while it lasted.

Drama and death and prosecution. It all really makes sense when you realize that this was written by a suicidal tween who was incredibly lonely. It wasn't all darkness, though. This was my escape, after all. My fantasy world with wings and warrior cats and magic.

You might be wondering why I am divulging this, why, after so long, am I revealing weird person info?

I guess it's just to put this to rest. Face it, this story will never get finished. I don't think it was ever meant to, anyway.

I just kinda want to go back to it and just... talk, for a moment. For myself and for you guys, vague followers who probably don't remember this at all.

I was a kid and I wrote a 55 thousand word story. That's pretty impressive, ignoring the inexperienced writing, kinda mary-sue MC (was she a Mary Sue? Let me know lmao), and other cringy elements. I mean, let's face it, Dawnpaw was a self-insert. I was being emotionally abused by my mother and so Dawnpaw got the same. I was being unmercifully bullied for being myself and different and so was she.

Except she got what I always wanted, a best friend to protect her, a mother figure, a destiny.

Years have passed, to say the least, and I'm in a better living position.

Although this seems to have been written by a 13-year-old girl I will have you know that as of now I am a nearly 17-year-old guy. Hurray(?)

I don't write like I used to, but I'm trying. I'm trying to get out of a bad living situation, and to my luck, I have friends and a girlfriend of two years. I'm happier. Sure, things aren't perfect, but I'm working on it.

I'm just back to say, well.

Thank you.

Thank you for reading my story all those years ago. For leaving a review and encouraging me. Back then I was in a really really bad place and this story was my crutch, and your motivation kept me limping on until I could heal.

Thank you, random Fanfiction users, for being good to me. I don't know you, and hell, you don't really know me, but you did some good for me for what little you could.

And hell, if you want to know the way the story would have gone I'll divulge right here right now. So, in a silly kind of way, spoilers ahead.

Dawnpaw, after falling from the sky was going to fall into Meadowclan, be captured, and make friends with another apprentice there. She would be held as ransom until a climactic scene where she is revealed to the other clans.

In the rest of the books, it would be revealed that she isn't one of a kind, as several other kits are born in other clans with wings.

This story would probably go everywhere, from a weird inter-clan cult that would try and abduct the winged cats. There would be a villain out to kill Dawnpaw, who's warrior name is Dawncloud. The villain would be killed off near the end.

There would be a climactic finale with the clans realizing that their territories are in the crater of an active caldera (a volcano). The "Dark Winter" was a nuclear winter caused by the volcanic ash that would destroy the clans. Ultimately, Dawncloud helps them come together and escape through the tunnel. She was given wings to represent an angel and so that she, and the other winged cats, could fly up high and see where the ground had fallen away into molten Lava pits to make sure cats didn't go into unstable areas in the climatic final escape.

There's so much more but I'm sure you wouldn't want to hear all of it. I wish I could tie up all the loose ends and plot threads but like I said, this story was never meant to be finished.

Anyway, now is my time to go. There isn't much left for me here.

I've grown a lot since then, and I am sure you have too. I just have to say, before I go, to just have a good life- and thanks, once again. Goodbye.

Much love from Dawnpaw and the rest of the Clan cats,

Yours truly,

~Ebonyfire.