Oh my StarClan, I think I've disapionted my readers. This is... a difficult story to write. I'll try to update more. Sorry, I kind of took the summer off... since my mom dragged me everywhere! Well, not everywhere, just Michigan, Florida... ect...

And school's been though... so many advanced classes!

But... here's the new chapter! I don't own Warriors!

"Okay, so here are the herbs that we have," Stone was meowing when Pebblecloud padded over. "Burdock... catmint... mouse bile... tansy... thyme... and wild garlic. Most of them blew through the cracks in the ground, through holes... and what not, and these are what we will use to mark out tunnels. Also, death berries. Oh, hi Pebblecloud. I'm just going through the herbs."

"Good," Pebblecloud meowed. "Did you tell them what they mean?"

"Not yet, but I will," Stone meowed. "...now. Okay, so deathberries means do not go down the tunnel. Okay, death berries? And Burdock means dead end. Catmint, if it is used at all, means that you have found a way to escape. Mouse bile will be used to trace the tunnel back to the cave, this cave, if an exit is found. Tansy will be used for it the tunnel splits, to mark which one you traveled down first. Thyme... will be used for calming anxiety only. Wild garlic will be used if you find something interesting, okay?"

"Yes," Moonlight, Echo, River, Freeze and Pebblecloud all meowed.

"Then let's head out," Stone meowed. "Freeze, River, you can have this tunnel. Remember everyone, take some herbs. And don't forget their uses! Echo, Moonlight, take that tunnel over there. Pebblecloud, let's try this tunnel, okay?"

"Sure," Pebblecloud meowed.

Pebblecloud followed the gray tomcat through the tunnel. Pebblecloud had half of the herbs wrapped in a few leaves that she carried. Stone had the other half of the herbs. The two cats walked in silence for a while. They came to a split, split two ways.

"I got the tansy," Pebblecloud murmured, rubbing some of the herb on the tunnel.

"Come on, let's try the left tunnel," Stone meowed.

So they walked through the tunnel until they came to a dead end. So they headed back and rubbed some burdock on the entrance to the tunnel. Then they went down the right tunnel. They padded through the tunnels for a while more, silent. After what seemed like hours of walking, Pebblecloud and Stone came across a cave, hidden in the tunnels.

"We can stop here," Stone meowed. "See if there's anything to eat. There might not be a cave farther up, so we'll need to maybe make nests here..."

"Sure," Pebblecloud meowed. "I'll see if I can find anything to make the nests more... comfortable."

"I'll hunt then," Stone laughed. "Maybe you can practice your hunting moves sometime..."

"Yeah, sometime," Pebblecloud laughed.

A while later, Pebblecloud managed to find a few feathers and some moss. Stone also managed to catch some prey. The two friends then made some nests and ate some prey. One thing ran through their minds- freedom. But each cat had different thoughts about it. Pebblecloud thought, I can't wait until we're out of these caves! Once we're out, then ... I can either make a clan or go back to RiverClan! Her thoughts were very different from Stone's thoughts. What will happen once we're free? Will we split up? A clan sounds good... will Pebblecloud still make one once we're free? Or will she go back to hers? I hope that doesn't happen...

The two friends curled up in their nest of moss, only enough for one cat, but they had to use what they could come across, and they couldn't find anymore, so they stayed together. Pebblecloud was the last to fall asleep, and the last to wake up. She found herself surrounded by darkness, and was at first worried that she couldn't see the dim light of the cave, until she remembered their escape plan.

Stone was already up, he had washed his pelt, cleaning it of the moss and feathers, and he had already hunted, catching two bats from the cave along with a few mice that he had found among the cracks and crevices of the cave. His whiskers twitched when Pebblecloud got up and shook the moss from her pelt.

"Nice of you to wake up," Stone purred. "I caught some prey," he motioned to the dead mice and bats with his tail, "and we can probably find our way to a few more caves before the day's end."

So the pair of cats traveled down through the tunnel, in complete darkness. Silence filled the air with its endless ringing. Stone led the way, and Pebblecloud followed him. Neither cat made a sound, and their paw steps seemed the echo through the tunnel. Soon, not long after they had left earlier, they came across another cave.

"Let's stop here for a while," Stone meowed.

Pebblecloud happily lay down, feeling the stone cold cave sink into the fur on her back. Her paws ached, even though they hadn't gone all too far. Not as far as they had last traveled.

"How about I catch something for us to eat?" Stone meowed. Before Pebblecloud could object, he continued, "And you continue down the tunnel some more, counting your paw steps, to no more than two hundred."

"Fine," Pebblecloud sighed. She knew that she wasn't a good hunter, and it would be good to scout out more of the tunnel than if both of them were resting. She padded over to the tunnel and started heading down. She counted one hundred and fifty three paw steps before she almost ran into a rock.

"This isn't good," the tabby and white she cat muttered. She tried to find a way around the rocks, but she found that it was completely blocked off. A dead end. Their first, and probably not going to be their last, dead end. Pebblecloud sighed and re-traced her steps back to the cave.

"Stone," she whispered, knowing that he would be able to hear her across the cave since the sound echoes. "It's a dead end."

"What?" Stone's mew was worried. Paw steps echoed across the rocks as he leaped over to her. "It can't be, not now!"

"It is," Pebblecloud replied simply. "Come, let's turn around and go to the right side tunnel."

So the two cats, after eating what Stone had caught- well, more of choking it down to continue to give them strength- headed back down the tunnel, back through the other cave that they had found, in silence. Depression filled the air, almost choking the cats padding through it. Neither cat wanted to say their fears aloud, but both of them were thinking, are we really going to get out of this cave, or will we be stuck here forever?

Sooo... How was it? Good? Bad? I will try to update more often... but now I also have things going on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday (all day Sunday). I have too busy of a life at the moment!

Please review. Please...