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Chapter One

Sandeye jumped up from his slumber. "Another nightmare..." he muttered and instantly gave up on sleeping.

He walked out from the small cave under an old tree stump that was his home. It was conveniently placed inside a large forest with colorful falling leaves where many other loners and clan cats lived, him being one of the loners. That's how it had been, he didn't really get a choice.

Sandeye felt the tan bandana that covered his left eye and sighed, not wanting to relive his past again and set out to hunt for his breakfast.

He naturally slid into a hunting position and pounced on a plump squirrel that was stocking up for winter.

Sandeye was bored, simply that. He had been doing this routine for so long he wanted to kill himself. He kept hoping for something interesting to come to him, even though he knew he would have to find it himself. He had always considered using his 'special' eye to look into his own future and see if it was worth living or not, but he had sworn to never use it after all the trouble it caused him.

He had believed nothing would ever happen, little did he know, he was so wrong.

A cat slightly smaller than him dashed by, nothing more than a blur, Sandeye still had managed to catch a glimpse of the cat's fiery orange pelt, much brighter than Sandeye's own creamy beige pelt and black stripes going down his front legs.

Besides that, there was a group of about five cats chasing after the orange one at extreme speed. "Supernatural creature!" One screamed. "Freak of nature!" Another added.

Curious, Sandeye followed them, recognizing the names the orange cat was being called, after all, Sandeye had been through a similar experience.

The orange cat did manage to shake off the chasers, however Sandeye had kept pace with him, and while the orange cat was leaning against a large oak panting heavily, Sandeye went up to him for a closer look.

Sandeye walked up from the side, and the orange cats swiveled towards him, flames bursting out of his ears and tail, almost setting the tree in fire. "Who are you!" He yelled.

Sandeye stopped an politely bowed his head, still in awe at the flames he was producing. "My name is Sandeye, who might you be?"

The orange cat relaxed ever so slightly, but still ready for a battle, he introduced himself, "I'm Flare." His flames reduced a little.

Upon closer inspection Sandeye could see a large scar in the shape of an x on Flare's chest. "Might I ask where you got that scar? And those flames?"

Flare sighed quietly, "This scar was from my 'family', they chased me away because I have supernatural powers. I had been hiding it from them for awhile, but one of them caught while I was practicing controlling them." Flare had no idea why he was telling this stranger his story, but he felt that Sandeye as well was hiding secrets behind that bandana he was wearing.

Both cats felt a little uncomfortable, they didn't mind each other's company, but both also were used to and preferred to be more alone.

"So you were exiled by your family as well..." Sandeye murmured.

Flare's red eyes stared at Sandeye, the fiery cat eased back into a sitting position and lied back down, feeling the sunlight soaking back into him, and replenishing his energy. Not even realizing he was comfortable enough with this stranger, he fell into a deep and much needed sleep.

Sandeye could only stare as this small cat fell asleep right in front of him.

"I think that if I stay with Flare, I might just find this life interesting after all." Sandeye whispered as he sat down as well.

Sandeye padded along next to Flare, it was another scorchingly hot day, but obviously Flare didn't seem to mind.

Sandeye slightly panted while Flare asked questions, "Where are we going?" He meowed.

"I don't know, I thought you were leading." Sandeye said.

"What! I have no clue where we are." Flare exclaimed.

Sandeye mentally face palmed. "I guess we'll just travel around the forest then." He muttered as an orange leaf landed on his head. "Let's be careful to not step on clan territory." He added, his blood boiling at the thought of accidentally stepping back on Dusty Clan's territory again.

Suddenly, a strange cat came tumbling out of the bushes, right into the path of Sandeye and Flare.

"Ugh, I need to stop getting my tail caught on things!" She meowed and stood up.

The two cats took in this strange one, her appearance was 'unique', she had white fur with almost maroon looking stripes throughout her body, she had stunning emerald green eyes, wore a pink flower on her right ear and had four gold rings on her tail, but that was the weird thing about her, her tail.

It was way longer than any normal tail, at least two or three feet longer than Sandeye's tail, and he was much larger in size than her. It was like her tail had been stretched out.

"Hello, sorry for barging into your guys' party!" She chirped, "My name is Leafytail!"

Sandeye and Flare questioningly stared at Leafytail, *she's crazy.* They both solemnly thought.

"This is the part where you introduce yourself." She added and used her tail to dust herself off.

"Why should we introduce ourselves to a crazy cat like you?" Flare asked.

"Haha! I probably seem crazy, I guess there's nothing I can do about that. Well actually I was trying to escape some of my old Clanmates, they've been hunting me my whole life!" Leafytail laughed.

*How can she sound so happy about that!* Sandeye thought.

Flare still was looking at her like she was crazy but hesitantly introduced them, "My name is Flare, I just met Sandeye right here, we're looking for something to do."

"Nice to meet you Flare, Sandeye!" She nodded at them. "Sandeye, that sounds like a warrior name, are you possibly part of a clan?" She asked.

Sandeye's fur prickled, "Yeah, was," He mumbled, "Was part of Dusty Clan that is."

"I see, I see, well if we were both still part of the clans we'd be enemies huh? I was in Golden Clan for about a moon, but you know, difficulties came along..." She trailed off as thrashing could be heard coming from the general direction they came in.

"They're not the best hunters." She muttered, "Let's go guys, follow me."

Not quite sure why, the two toms began to follow her as they snuck through brush and escaped farther away into a meadow next to the autumn looking forest.

"That was fun!" Leafytail meowed.

"Is your life like this on a daily basis?" Sandeye questioned.

"Pretty much, but it's like an adventure! Better than having a boring life." She answered.

"You know, Leafytail, you should travel with us! We don't quite know what to do for our lives, but the three of us have common ground, we've all been exiled." It was not the best thing to have in common with someone, but it made them all feel closer.

Little did the group of three know that nearby a large, muscular pure black cat with a scar running through his eye was sitting in the shadows, watching them.

He softly chuckled at their innocence. "Enjoy the forest while you can, because I plan on changing everything." He whispered.

With that, he vanished into back into the dark.