I do not own Warriors, but all characters are mine.

The cats in this story have wings, they can have weirder names like Dragonpaw, and they can have tinges of impossible colors like green.

The allegiances only show important characters.

BreezeClan

Leader:Emberstar- red-tabby-and-white she-cat with orange eyes and flame-colored wings.

Deputy: Icehawk- white tom with blue eyes and ice-blue wings. (The genetic glitch that makes blue-eyed white cats deaf does not exist in the winged-cat population.)

Medicine Cat:Swirltail—brown-and-white she-cat with amber eyes and copper-colored wings, one of which is crooked. Apprentice, Mysterypaw.

Warriors: (toms, and she-cats without kits)

Grouseclaw –Mottled, pale-gray tom with blue eyes and pale-gray wings. Apprentice, Dragonpaw.

Flowercloud –Calico she-cat with green eyes and light brown wings.

Graywind- Dark gray tom with blue eyes and gray wings.

Redflame- Dark russet she-cat. Apprentice, Nettlepaw.

Owlmist- Very pale, misty gray she-cat with pale yellow eyes and silver wings.

Longwhisker- Tuxedo tom with black wings and yellow eyes. Apprentice, Silverpaw.

Featherfoot- silver tabby she-cat with blue eyes and silver wings.

Lightningstreak- pale yellow tom with yellow-white wings and yellow eyes.

Larchpelt- tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes and black wings. Apprentice, Spottedpaw.

Skysong- white-and-gray-tabby she-cat with blue eyes and silver wings.

Apprentices: (cats older than six moons old, in training to become warriors)

Mysterypaw- calico tom with yellow eyes and mottled wings.

Dragonpaw- pale brown tom, with a tinge of green, orange wings and green eyes. Nettlepaw's brother.

Nettlepaw- pale brown she-cat, with a tinge of green, dark green wings, and green eyes. Dragonpaw's sister.

Spottedpaw- pale gray she-cat with darker spots, blue eyes, and light gray wings.

Silverpaw- silver tabby she-cat with wings of the same color, and blue-green eyes.

Queens: (she-cats expecting or nursing kits)

Ebonytail- black she-cat with orange eyes and black wings. Mother of Lightningstreak's kits: Magpiekit, Patchkit, and Goldenkit.

Elders: (former warriors and queens who are now retired)

Mintberry- gray tabby she-cat (Skysong's mother) with pale gray-green eyes and wings of the same color.

Swallowstripe- reddish-brown tom with blue tabby stripes and blue wings.

Whitetuft- white tom with black patches and a plumy tail.

CirrusClan

Leader: Foxstar- gray tom with red fur tips, red wings, and amber eyes.

Deputy: Darkstone- large, dark tabby tom with gray eyes and brown wings.

Medicine Cat: Kestrelfeather- old, tawny she-cat with black spots, amber eyes, and tan wings. Apprentice, Flickerpelt (black tom with yellow patches.)

Warriors: (toms, and she-cats without kits)

Pantherleap- black tom with amber eyes and black wings.

Frostcloud- white she-cat with blue eyes and white wings.

Hazelfern- golden brown tabby she-cat with light brown wings and green eyes. Apprentice, Palepaw (very light brown she-cat.)

Falconblaze- steel-gray tom with penetrating blue eyes and gray-blue wings.

Talonstripe- dark ginger tabby tom with orange-brown wings.

RainClan

Leader: Quickstar- black-and-white tom with black wings and green eyes.

Deputy: Rosedapple- pale ginger, almost pink, she-cat with green eyes and peach-orange wings.

Medicine Cat: Oakfrost- brown tabby tom with grizzled muzzle. Apprentice, Shadepaw (gray-black she-cat.)

Prologue

Dark clouds gathered on the horizon, covering the half moon. A spatter of rain began to fall on the lichen-covered rocks of a mountain crag. Behind these rocks, a number of sleek shapes gathered, careful to remain hidden. On the other side of the crag, another shape showed itself: a gray tomcat, ticked with red. He sniffed the air and growled softly. Suddenly, a cat from the first side, a fiery-red tabby female, leapt into the air and spread wings: feathered, eagle-like wings as flame-colored as her fur.

The gray tom unfurled his own wings as the she-cat flew at him; they clashed in the air, clawing and snarling. "Hello, Foxstar," purred the she-cat as she dodged a rake of her opponent's claws, "Your Clan is looking well; only about twice as skinny as we are!"

Foxstar countered her taunt, "I'm surprised that you showed up to fight, Emberstar. Even your fittest warriors look like they can barely get off the ground!" He smacked the base of Emberstar's wing with his paw, making it reflexively fold in. The she-cat's eyes narrowed.

She growled, "So that's how we're fighting, huh?" Emberstar clawed at Foxstar's throat, but the tom batted her paw away before she could cause more than a graze.

"Emberstar! Don't sink to his level!" cried a new cat. Emberstar turned her head to the speaker, a white tom with blue eyes that sparkled like frost. That was a mistake. As she turned her head away for a second, Foxstar smirked and dealt a vicious blow to the side of her head. Emberstar wailed as she fell through the air, but the white tom caught her by her scruff. "See?" he mewed around his heavy, furry load.

When the white tom set her down, he told her, "Swirltail had better see to that." Emberstar nodded curtly.

"Thank you, Icehawk. Are the other CirrusClan warriors fighting this dirtily?"

"Worse," replied Icehawk, and showed her a nasty bite wound, scarlet on the pure white feathers of his wing-arm. Emberstar cringed. To attack an opponent's wing was considered poor fighting.

"They'll be using killing moves next," worried Emberstar. Then, in a louder voice, she yowled, "BreezeClan! Retreat!" Around half of the winged cats abandoned their opponents and flew off after Emberstar.

"Scared off by actually meeting good warriors, Emberstar?" yowled Foxstar after the fleeing BreezeClan warriors.

After the BreezeClan raiders landed in their camp - a large outcrop at the base of the mountain where all three Clans lived – they headed into the medicine den. "How'd the fight- oh," asked Swirltail, the brown and white medicine cat. When she saw Icehawk's bite wound, her misshapen left wing twitched.

Emberstar huffed, "I've never seen CirrusClan fight that sneakily before! Wing attacks were common, and Graywind-" she pointed with her tail to a dark gray tom with a scratch on his nose- "got tail-pulled."

"Hm," said Swirltail. "Well, all warriors with considerable injuries stay here!" she told the cats. Then, she turned to Graywind. Her eyes appeared to sparkle with happiness, but deep in them was a touch of sadness. Swirltail whispered, "I have something to show you." The two cats padded to a small cave with the mewling of kits and the warm scent of milk coming from it. Kits? Milk? Graywind thought. He stuck his head into the nursery- and his eyes widened. There was his mate, Skysong, with two tiny she-kits! Both were silver-gray in color, but one had tabby stripes, the other spots.

"The k-kits? They're here?" stammered Graywind. He turned to Swirltail and hissed, "Why didn't you tell me?"

The pretty medicine cat shrugged. "They started arriving just after you left camp. We didn't want one of our best young warriors to come running home in the middle of a battle!"

"Okay, then," said Graywind. He turned to Skysong and purred, "What shall we name them?"

"I like Spottedkit for this one," mewed Skysong, licking the larger of the two kits. "And for the other one… how about just Silverkit?"

"Perfect," decided Graywind. "Absolutely perfect."