Prologue

A dark gray she-cat padded slowly and silently down a rocky cliff towards a meeting. She settled herself between a white tabby and a spotted light brown tom. Everyone's eyes darted towards her. " You're late, Nightfall," the leader started, " What took you so long?"

"Hunting, you know how scarce prey is in leaf-bare," she replied, eyes glancing at the leader, then at her paws.

"Very well, let's continue on in this meeting," the leader started to talking about how Skyclan is doing well and what they were going to do in the future. Suddenly, a dark brown striped tom padded out of the mist " Greetings, you must be the Skyclan ancestors, we have traveled and roamed around the skies just to find clan. I am Forest, and I have learned clan ways, I have started my own clan called Forestclan. A dark force of evil lurk around my clan's camp, and forced us to run away from camp. On the journey of searching for a new camp, I died of greencough and as you know, I have no ancestors in Forestclan, so no nine lives. My deputy, Flame, is taking charge so we can continue in the search."

"What do we have with your clan?" the pale leader persisted.

"Your clan has more land surronding it's borders, I was wondering if we set camp around the north side. It's an ideal place for Forestclan cat's as you can see with the tallest of trees. We are excellent climbers and we take the pride of being the best squirrel hunters," Forest informed.

"That is a good enough explanation for me as long as you don't stir up any trouble with Skyclan," the leader meowed.

"Okay, I will guide my clan towards the edge of the woods and set camp there," Forest mewed with pleasure in his tone.

"No, this can't be happening!" Nightfall gasped, she shook her head and padded around the skies, then broke into a run. "What is it?!" Cloudstar demanded.

"There will a shadow with forces united, who's come before. It will destroy both the clans, unless there is four to stop it. They each will have a skill so great, but they have to find it out first," Nightfall looked at them with fear and angriness, then turned and bounded downward to Skyclan camp.

"Wait, where are you going?!" Cloudstar called. " I think I know who the first cat is!" she called back, then disappeared into the camp below.

Chapter 1

" Rainpaw, Lightpaw, Birdpaw, and Cloudpaw, you go hunting and see what you can catch. You guys are the only cats who are not sick or hurt. Sealight ordered.

"Yay, finally we get to hunt, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I'm tired of battle training," Lightpaw confessed, although happily, she was glad to do anything, really.

" I think all we can do is hunt, we can't do anything since the elders are sick, and our mentors are injured badly," Rainpaw pointed out. The four littermates bounded through the snowy camp and out into the forest.

"Where should we go?" Cloudpaw asked. "Well, Pebble Lake is good for hunting fishes, but we don't really eat it, so that leaves Minor Rocks and Wishing Trees," Birdpaw concluded. "Wanna split up?" Lightpaw asked excitedly.

"Yeah, the toms will hunt together and we'll hunt together," Birdpaw suggested " Whoever catches the most prey by sundown wins!" Then they all raced to different routes. " Do you think we'll find any prey here? Most cats only come here to wish not catch," Lightpaw mewed. "Of course!" Birdpaw purred and licked her paws, then twitched her ears to where the bush was twitching. "As you were saying?" Birdpaw bragged.

Lightpaw flicked her tail with dismissal and leaped forward silently and landed near the bush. She raised her paw and slammed right onto the mouse behind the bush. She bit it on the neck and it went limp, "One so far..." Birdpaw trailed off, her eyes were gazing at a tree . She padded and climbed onto the tree and stopped on the longest branch. She quickly pounced and bit, then showed a squirrel clamped in her mouth. "Good job!" Lightpaw purred, "I bet we have more than our brothers by now," she mewed happily.

"I know, but isn't it odd that there's so much prey still lurking around here in leaf-bare?" Birdpaw mewed, "And they all seemed scared of something or are my eyes seeing things.

"No," suddenly a cat padded up to them. Lightpaw sniffed the air and turned back to the mysterious cat,"You're from Skyclan!"

" Yes, I'm Swiftpaw and I brought a friend of mine with me," another cat appeared behind a bush," Greetings, I'm Amberpaw," she dipped her head and politely stepped back. "Something has been scaring of our prey or terrifying them so much, that they probably won't even eat a thing! Now there's either no prey, or they're too skinny to eat," Swiftpaw suspected.

"Yes, but why are you here in Forestclan territory?" Lightpaw mewed curiously yet brisk. "To see if you guys had the same thing, but it only seems like you're prey is lured out to you but very scrawny," Amberpaw compared.
"So what do we have to do with your prey?" Birdpaw asked, "Do you even knokw who's scaring it off?"
"And this is the reason I brought Amberpaw with me," Swiftpaw mewed.

"I'm Berryheart, the medicine cat's apprentice and moons ago, I had a sign from Starclan, or I think it was," Amberpaw started, "It was a vision of a shadow blinding everything that it took over both or clans and called it Solclan." "Most elders were terrified and angry when I told them about this and they kept on whispering,'Sol's back, he's come for revenge!'"
"We came here for a second reason too, to see if you know about who this 'Sol' is," Swiftpaw meowed.

"Yes, I think we know some of our elders who were descendents of your new Skyclan, Lightningstrike and Prickletail," Lightpaw mewed,"I'm so excited, this might be a big mystery!"
"We could go back to camp and ask the elders," Birdpaw suggested, "Wanna come with us?"
"-Sure," Swiftpaw hesitated for a while then began padding with them back to their clan.