With a smile, I read the last page of the warrior cat book over and over. I only got the book yesterday, and I was already done. Instantly, Warrior Cats replaced Harry Potter on my favorite books list. I looked over at my best friend since 1st grade, Amanda, and saw she was on the last few pages. I waited for a few minutes, looking out the window of the bus. It was a nice Friday afternoon, and Amanda was going to sleepover at my house.
"That was such a great book Raine!" Amanda exclaimed, putting the book in her bag. I opened my mouth to answer, when the door to the bus opened. I looked out the window, and it was my house outside.
"Oops, time to go!" I said, picking up my backpack. As we got off, I started to think. Those books were really good, and well written. I could almost believe myself as a warrior cat."Amanda, wouldn't it be cool to be a Warrior? Living in the clans, with warrior names, following the warrior code?"
Amanda nodded quickly, and all until it was time to go to sleep, we chatted non stop about the books. It was that night, when we went to sleep, that the first dream came.
"Wake up Rainpaw, dawn patrol. Don't tell me you forgot again! Foxstrike is going to kill you!" I rolled over, not wanting to get up. What was Amanda talking about, dawn patrol? If this was some game she was making up, I would kill her. No way I would want to get up at dawn on a Saturday! Something prodded me in the belly, and I opened my eyes.
Two bright green eyes looked down at me, surrounded by light brown fur. Fur? Since when did Amanda have fur on her face? I sat up to take a closer look, and I gasped. Instead of my human body, I had the body of a cat!
"What happened?" I mewed, I could understand my words, but it had a strange ring to them. The cat Amanda gave me a weird look, filled with both concern and exasperation.
"Did you hit your head on something while you were sleeping? Rowanpaw did that last week, they should really take the big rock out of here. Can you remember anything? You're Rainpaw, apprentice of Thunderclan, I'm Maplepaw, your best friend, and over there is Rowanpaw, Gingerpaw, and Shadepaw. Right now, we need to go on dawn patrol with Gingerpaw, are you coming?"
Somehow, everything Amanda, or, Maplepaw said was familiar. I scanned the scrabbled up thoughts in my head, and I could remember things I didn't even know! Maplepaw, Rowanpaw and Shadepaw were my best friends, they were since we were kits. And Gingerpaw...my breath seemed to catch in my throat, and a weird feeling went through me. I tried to recognize it, but it was impossible.
A yowl outside the den caught by attention. It was Mistybrook calling for us. Wait, how could I recognize the voice of a cat I had never heard or met before? It was beyond weird. This whole dream was weird. I gave a sigh, I would talk it over with Amanda when I woke up. Slowly I got to my paws, and then everything disappeared in a flash of white light, slowly fading to black. My eyes tore open as fast as possible, and two green eyes looked down at me.
"Aghh!!!" I screamed, grabbing my blanket and pulling it over my head. Wait, blanket? I peeked out from under the warm cover, and saw I was back in my room, on my bed. Amanda was standing over me, looking puzzled.
"Your dad made pancakes for breakfast, do you want any?" Amanda asked, her green gaze puzzled. I gave a huge grin when I saw she didn't have light brown fur, or fur of any color for that matter. I sat up quickly, and got to my feet. This time, nothing unusual happened.
"Definitely, let's go!!" I exclaimed, running up the stairs. But the dream stayed so fresh in my mind. Little did I know that was only the first of many, and what would happen when reality and dreams met.