So, this is sort of confusing. Midnightsong is sent a dream from StarClan of the coming times. Sorrelstar was the leader of CloudClan many years before her. Midnightsong does not want to accept her destiny, which is not mentioned. You will find out later.

The starry shapes of cats dances before the she-cat's eyes. "What?" she gasped. Her eyes clouded and glazed over. "Please, Sorrelstar, please, don't let this happen!" The black cat yowled. Her paws tingled with uneasiness.

The red-brown tom dipped his head and sighed. "I am sorry it has to be this way. But I cannot stop what will happen. You must be the one to tell your Clan..." his eyes were sympathetic for the little cat.

Her neck fur bristled. "But I am not a medicine cat!" she meowed desperately.

Sorrelstar lifted his head. "No you are not. But I feel you will handle this better." The tom got up to his paws and slowly walked away at first, then bounded into the undergrowth. The last shimmed of the starry cat was lost in an invading darkness.

The black she-cat got up and tried to run after her past leader. "Sorrelstar! Wait! No!" she yowled before the wave of darkness engulfed her.

"Midnightsong...Midnightsong...Midnightsong..." voice called. She turned frantically in circles. She found herself again in the midst of battling cats. Teeth, claws, blood...the scent tingled in her nostrils.

Midnightsong gasped. The scents of her clan were leaving...the others were winning. But who were these others? This disappeared in another wave of darkness. She found herself again in another place. Here, but here, it was peaceful. Scents of love, care, and happiness filled Midnightsong. The she-cat walked through the calm mountain. Before her at the end of the trail, was a path of blood. It seemed as though whoever's it was was long gone, and no others minded it. She padded along, following it. It led her to a great tree, as tall as the sky. A circle of clouds formed around her. She looked around. The shape of a white cat revealed itself in the clouds.

Midnightsong shook her head and ran off again into the darkness. As she ran, her paws carried her over a ledge. She yowled in fright. Her body fell into everlasting darkness, deeper, and deeper...

A paw prodded her side. Midnightsong jerked awake to see Mudscar poking her side with his paw. "What's wrong with you?" he meowed. The brown striped tom narrowed his eyes and turned back to his nest. "No one can get any sleep around here with you twitching and mumbling all night, I mean..." the last of his sentence was cut off by soft snores.

She sighed and got out of her bramble nest. The sunlight of the outside greeted her. No one else was in camp, and she was glad. The dream had greatly shaken her. "Just a dream..." she sighed. "Nothing will happen!" The bright day of new leaf brightened her spirits.