Hello readers! I know that my first story, The Flight of the Jay, hasn't been updated for weeks, but I had this story idea in my head, and I really wanted to write it. I'm so excited for this story, I plan on making it more than 50 chapters long, so well done if you stick to it all the way through!

I thought about making a prologue, but it didn't fit well with the major plot so I started directly with chapter 1 ;)

Chapter 1:

"Firepaw, from this moment you will be known as Fireheart. StarClan honours your bravery and your strength, and we welcome you as a full warrior of ThunderClan."

A few dozen human years later...

"Quick! We need to tell Whitestar!" meowed a frantic ginger dappled apprentice to his fellow clanmate.

"Specklepaw, wait..." came the answer. "We cannot do that! If we tell him that StarClan no longer exists, the Clans will fall to pieces for sure!"

"I don't care!" cried the ginger tom to his friend. "ThunderClan is in danger! The Dark Forest is preparing an attack, and whoever dies will not come back again! We need to save them, no matter the cost!"

"But what if they attack all the Clans now?" hissed the she-cat, flipping her head around to look at Specklepaw straight in the eyes. "If we tell them that StarClan does not exist anymore, they won't fight back and the Clans will disappear!"

"Shut up!" yowled Specklepaw, anger visible in his blazing amber eyes. "Our loyalty is to ThunderClan! We must tell them! I don't care what happens to the other Clans. They can vanish for all I care! If we tell Whitestar, we might get a chance to evacuate the Clans and dispatch them so that the Dark Forest will not know who to attack."

"No! You cannot say that!" protested the she-cat. "There needs to be five Clans! Not a bunch of rogues dispatched around the territories. We need to preserve this! The Clans need to unite, or the Dark Forest will have achieved what they wanted to do in the first place, which is not kill off cats but the doom of the Clans!"

"But Whitestar needs to know," pleaded Specklepaw. "We are the only ones who discovered the secret. If we don't tell him, who knows what will happen? Two apprentices cannot save five whole Clans! The least we can do is save our families..."

"Specklepaw, listen," hissed the she-cat. "You know Whitestar as well as I. He will abandon the other Clans if we tell him! Oh, if only we had more time..." the she-cat stopped in her tracks. "Time..." she whispered suddenly.

"What is it?" murmured Specklepaw, padding towards his friend.

"Specklepaw... There is something... A secret I should have told you moons before," the she-cat meowed.

"Tell me. I swear I'll keep it tucked inside my head, and not let it escape for StarClan's sake," mewed Specklepaw, his past anger gone.

"StarClan doesn't exist anymore," cried the she-cat, remembering the fact to her friend. "I was afraid you wouldn't trust me, or think I was lying to you if I told you what it was," she added, turning back to the subject.

"Never!" meowed the tom, taken aback by her statement. "You know how I feel about you. I will always, always trust you."

"Thank you, it means a lot to me." The she-cat sighed. "There is a possibility, however small, to restore StarClan and prevent all this," she started. Already, Specklepaw's ears were straight and his eyes were gleaming again. "Don't have false hopes," she added, seeing his expression. "It may not work."

"I'm sure it will work," he meowed reassuringly. "But we don't have much time," he added more worriedly. "Tell me, quick."

"Well, when I was just a kit, an unknown force gave me two powers," the she-cat meowed. "The first one is quite simple: I have seen what all of my ancestors have seen, even before my birth."

"I... I don't understand," stammered Specklepaw, unsure to where this conversation was going.

"It is as if I was the reincarnation of all my ancestors together. I know the past. I have seen what they have witnessed," answered the she-cat.

"Does that mean that you know exactly what happened during the Great Journey or the Great Battle?"

"Precisely," nodded the she-cat. "I'll tell you more about our ancestors later though, I promise, but right now time is running short. My second power is dangerous, perhaps even more dangerous than the famous villains we have heard about when we were kits." Specklepaw was looking at his friend in awe as she explained her gifts to him. His eyes were wide, and his ears were pricked. He seemed to eat every single word she meowed.

"I have the power to go back in time."

Specklepaw's mouth dropped open at this. "Wait. What?" he meowed. Then, his face lit up. "But... But that's great! This is one of the best news I have heard since I was born! Maybe we can save the Clans like that! Go back in time a few seasons ago and find a way to save StarClan before the Dark Forest eradicates them!"

"I thought about that," sighed the she-cat, her bushy tail dropping to the ground. "But no, this won't work."

"Why?" Specklepaw's face looked crestfallen.

"The reason why the Dark Forest won in the first place is because they worked in a group. By saving StarClan, we will just put off the fatal day, and everything will start over again. A long time ago, cats in the Place of No Stars used to fend for themselves and leave the others alone. The only way to stop them allying with each other is only by going back in time a little before they start recruiting living cats and working in a group. And this is a very, VERY long time ago," meowed the she-cat.

But Specklepaw did not seem bothered by this. "This is fine! We just need to go back in time, work out a plan, prevent the Dark Forest from having this idea and go back to the present, where peace there will be!" Specklepaw was jumping up and down like a crazy apprentice, as if the problem had already been solved.

"Ah, but no," murmured the she-cat sadly. "Going back in time had consequences. If we do, we won't be able to go back to the present. We will be stuck in the past, with no way to return. The only advantage we will have is that we will not age until we come back to the current present. By this time, the course of the events will have changed, and there will be a new us. When the exact time of our trip to the past arrives, we will merge with our new selves and have our past and present's memories and lives. Until then, those who know us cannot see us, or there will be very grave consequences."

"I understand," whispered Specklepaw, nodding in agreement. "I am willing to do this for our Clan, for our families. Even if it means living ten times as much as an average cat. Too many innocent lives have already been snatched away and there are many more on the list. We need to do that, or we will all disappear at the claws of the Dark Forest, and never come back."

"I agree," nodded the she-cat. "We don't have much of a choice, and we are the only ones who can do that. We will go back in time. We need to. The Dark Forest cats could be attacking at any moment now, and we must not be killed."

Specklepaw nodded solemnly, shaking a little at the thought of never seeing his family again for hundreds of moons. The she-cat seemed to guess what he was thinking because she softened at once. "I'm sorry Specklepaw. I badly want to see my parents once more too, but it would be better if we didn't see our families before going," she meowed. "Now, you just need to be in contact with me when I will activate my power," she added, turning serious again. "We are going some six hundred moons in the past."

The she-cat closed her eyes, and Specklepaw did the same. A few heartbeats later, they were gone.

This present no longer existed. The time had been reset, some fifty human years ago.

Hope you liked the first chapter! XD

For those who would like a little summary: 50 years after Firestar enters ThunderClan, the Dark Forest has taken its revenge and has eradicated StarClan. In this present, any cat who dies vanishes. Specklepaw and his friend (you'll know her name in the next chapter) plan on going back in the past and change the course of the events...

Please review, it helps a lot!

-Lightning