Prologue

"Come on, Amber! Hurry up or we'll get caught!" A dark ginger tom hissed behind him as they scurried away from the corner of their master's house.

A gray-blue she-cat scampered up behind him. "Sorry! I wanted to make sure that dumb dog, Snoop, wasn't aware we were gone!" Amber hissed furiously at the tom. She trotted ahead of the tom and into the forest that skirted their master's place. "Now come on, Boots!"

The two cats prowled through the underbrush until they couldn't see the house anymore. An old owl hooted from on old yew tree as it perched itself on the whippy branches. The moon glistened as the cats made their escape.

Amber looked up and sniffed the air. She turned to Boots. "Ravenpaw and Barley are coming!" she looked around and saw an old cave inside a rock. "Hurry! Into that cave!" Amber hissed as Boots scrambled behind her. They crept in the cave as a sleek black tom and a black and white cat trotted through the grass. They passed without a glance to the cave and the cats inhibiting it. Amber and Boots crept out.

Boots instantly took the lead, being the stubborn leader he was. They stalked through the forest, stopping occasionally and sniffing the air for any prey or predators. They were walking through a patch of dandelions when a sleek black cat jumped out, followed by a black and white tom.

The cats pinned Amber and Boots down on the ground. Boots furiously clawed at his attacker, biting his forepaws and clawing his ears. "Get of Me! Mreeoowww!" Boots snarled as his attacker rolled and him rolled over and over.

The other cat launched at Amber, quickly pinning her to the ground. Amber hissed and clawed at her attacker, striking his left ear. The attacker screeched and clawed across her face. Amber went limp. The cat relaxed his hold, a big mistake. Amber jumped up and rolled over, now pinning the cat.

She let go when the black cat let out mrow of laughter. "You used the same move as Firestar does!" the cat purred.

"Ravenpaw!" Amber yowled.

"Yep! The one and only!" Ravenpaw purred as he started towards Boots and the cat, Barley, who he was wrestling with. "So, what are you and Boots doing away from our farm…"

Boots stepped in. "We're leaving the life of a house pet-"

"You mean kittypet," Barley corrected.

"Whatever. We're leaving the life of a kitty pet and going to the wild." Boots retorted, stepping up to Barley and puffing out his chest.

"And you're not going to stop us!" Amber yowled, arching her back.

Barley nodded. "I see it's pointless to argue with you. We'll miss you though." Ravenpaw nodded his agreement and rubbed his muzzle into Amber's flank.

"We'll come and visit you time to time..!" Amber meowed, touching nose with Ravenpaw.

"Yeah, you better!" he meowed fiercely. "Well…We're let you go… Bye.." he murmured then slinked off into the shadows with Barley following.

They traveled the rest of the night in silence, only stopping to take an occasional rest. The sun was just creeping out from behind the rocky outline which they were climbing, when they reached a cave that had a dark tunnel slithering through it.

Amber gazed up at the silverpelt. Black clouds raged over head, their ink black depths lighting occasionally with strokes of blue lightning.

Boots murmured her thoughts. "We could hide out here until the storm passes," With that he padded over to a corner in the cave that had been sunk in by lightning seasons before and fell asleep. Amber gazed over at Boots to confirm he was asleep, then she disappeared into the shadows of the tunnel.

Amber padded along, all sense of sight and smell lost. The shadows loomed over her as she silently walked along the dark tunnel.

She came to an opening in the tunnel. At the far end of the opening stood a shining rock that was lit by the moon's rays that came through an opening in the rock above her.

Amber stepped over to the shining rock and touched her nose to it. She fell to the ground…

Amber slowly opened her eyes to see cats all around her, gazing at her. Their fur was torn and tattered in places, scars along their muzzles and paws.

She inwardly gasped. These must be the wild cats Ravenpaw always talked about, clan cats! she thought.

Murmurs ran through out the crowd of cats. Amber took a step back. "W-Who are you?"

A blue-gray she-cat stepped forward. "We are Starclan, we are cats that are dead but we watch over our clans."

"C- Clans… Exactly what are they?" Amber stuttered, flinching at the glares from other cats.

The she-cat's gaze was soft and loving though. "Four clans inhabit the land around us. Thunderclan, in the forest. Riverclan, in the river. Windclan in highlands. And Shadowclan in the swamps. There are leader's of each clan, who are granted nine lives by us."

"O-oh." Amber murmured.

"You have been chosen by the clan's warrior ancestors to save the forest. Now go, follow your destiny, Moonpaw."

The cats started to swirl and fade from Amber's sight. "But my name's not Moonpaw, its Amber!" Amber yowled.

Boots woke slowly and stretched. "Amber, let's get going. It stopped raining." Boots gazed around when he realized Amber wasn't there. "Amber?"

Amber stepped out of the tunnel. "Yes,"

"I thought you left with out me," he meowed

"No, I wouldn't do that," Amber purred, gazing at the ground.

"Is something wrong?" Boots asked, getting up.

"…No, nothing's wrong," Amber lied, not wishing to tell Boots what had happened.

A black tom with a ginger muzzle yowled at the blue-gray she-cat. " Are you sure we should let a kittypet!" He yowled, spitting out the word kittypet. "Decide the fate of the clans, Bluestar!" Murmurs of discontent rippled through the crowd of cats.

Bluestar, the former Thunderclan leader, replied calmly, " Firestar was not clan born. Look at what he did, Nightstar." The cats nodded their heads in agreement at her words.

A golden tabby with a thick mane like a lion around his face yowled, "We leave this discussion until tomorrow, dismissed!"

Bluestar wondered over to the tabby. "Thanks for your help, Lionheart" She purred, thanking the old deputy of Thunderclan.

He rubbed his muzzle against her flank. "Anything for you, Bluestar.."

a/n: Yeepp…So there you go! The first chapter of Sight of the Moon! Yay! Hope ya'll liked it! I worked really, really, really, reeeeaaaaallllllyyyyyyyy hard on it! L0L! Welp, review! PLEASE REVIEW! I'm not updating until I get reviews!

Oh, and I'll try to get out the next chapter really soon. I kinda tend to get lazy and not update for awhile…hehe..woopss… LUV YAZ!

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