A/N I didn't like my current Prologue so I changed it! Yay!
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Prologue
Moonlight filtered through the forest, illuminating a clearing full of cats. All eyes were trained on a single kit, and fear powered off in waves from the cats.
A white tom called out,
"We should kill it now, before it does any damage!" And orange tabby rose to meet the white warrior.
"Be quiet, Cloudtail. Would you be so fast to kill your own kit?" The tome shrank back, abashed. A mottled tabby queen muttered something to a white tom beside her and the two purred in amusement. A gray tom shot them an annoyed glance and murmured,
"We should take her home, she was marked yours, Firestar." Firestar bristled uneasily.
"Perhaps, but no cat will accept her!" he sounded faintly harassed. A brown tom leapt to his paws and growled,
"So she'll prove her loyalty! Once she's been told she'll just work twice as hard! As you did!" his words were directed towards Firestar, but the whole swarm of cats shivered, thinking about the tom's speech.
The gray tom turned to the other cat. "Maybe so, Brackenfur, but who will have the wits to tell her?" Brackenfur shuffled the ground and Firestar broke up the amused purrs that rippled across the clans.
"Enough! We will take this kit, and call her Coalkit. She will be treated as any other cat!" he told his clan sternly. The cats broke apart and Firestar picked up the kit.
What have I brought into my clan?
A gray she-cat curled up, her hind leg twisted in a strange position. She sighed, and closed her eyes, feeling sleep come over her.
A dark gray queen met the lighter cat. She spoke, "Cinderpelt, a new prophecy has arose. The flames will die, but the coal remains scorching, as the enemy returns to turn the forest upside-down!" Cinderpelt gasped and fervently wondered what the message from Starclan meant. Finding no answer she demanded,
"What do you mean, yellowfang?" but the Starclan warrior had faded into nothingness.
Cinderpelt awoke and spat,
"Why do they disappear just as you ask them to explain?"
A/N shorter, I know, but I like this one better!
