This is a challenge for the Feathers and Frost forum, star-crossed badgers, so basic premise, Firestar's enjoying another boring day of StarClan when he run into two badgers.
Another mouse-length... just a bit closer... gotcha!
Firestar sat up, the juicy vole hanging from his jaws, a self-satisfied expression floating onto his face.
He turned around lazily as he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him.
Knowing it was StarClan, a land without enemies or need for guardedness, he was relaxed... and completely unprepared to come face to face with a couple of enormous, starry badgers.
"Gah!" He cried, before licking his chest embarrassedly and trying to dip his head at the same time. "Midnight. What brings you here? And who's this?"
Midnight shot the other badger an uncharacteristic amused look, as though she enjoyed seeing cats' reactions to a massive badger being within a tail-length of them.
"Introduce yourself, you should." Midnight rumbled to the slightly larger badger next to her.
"My name is Midday." He growled. "Midnight's... how the cats say?"
He tilted his huge black and white striped face to Midnight.
"Mate." She told him, before turning back to the shocked flame-coloured tom. "You wonder, why my mate I bring?"
Firestar just nodded a little, completely dumb-founded at the idea of Midnight being in love, much less having another badger for a mate.
"I not such a cat-friend..." Midday's words were a little garbled, but Midnight seemed to be leading him along, trying to signal him what to say next. "But I... how you say... bring... message, prophecy, omen... warning."
"I- but... how are you here?" Firestar stumbled across is words, trying to keep it simple for the struggling badger.
"We not happy!" Midday burst out, his beady gaze narrowing at Firestar. "Cat has broke barrier between the Land of Everlasting Eggs and Star-place."
"StarClan." Firestar automatically corrected. "And what is the Land of Everlasting Eggs?"
"Badger StarClan." Midnight supplied, before sending an exasperated look at her mate and taking over. "Young cat has broke barrier... now all the ended badgers come here, and take StarClan from cats."
"Wha- No... it can't be!" Firestar's voice broke. "We've served our Clan. We deserve rest, not dead badgers!"
"Voice must be kept down!" Midnight snarled, glancing around furtively to make sure no cat heard them speaking. "Hope is there still. You must reunite StarClan and the Forest where the moon does not shine... Dark meadow... what you call? Dark Forest!"
"Reunite... StarClan... and the Dark Forest?" Firestar just stared at her, his brilliant green gaze disbelieving. "But-how... I... it's impossible!"
"No." Midday corrected grimly. "It is only way for any cat to survive past the day of their ending."