In The Stars

Prologue

Darkstripe hurled himself at Stonefur but he easily dodged it and raked his claws along Darkstripe's flank. Rainfall, a silver she-cat who was Stonefur's sister was watching in disbelief nearby. Stonefur bit into Darkstripe's leg locking his teeth into them. He tried to shake him but the dark warrior's size and strength were too great. Darkstripe whirled on Stonefur and scratched his flank. Rainfall's brother leaped onto Darkstripe and pinned him down. The powerful dark warrior struggled but couldn't escape his grip. "Blackfoot finish it."Tigerstar commanded from the top of Bonehill. The huge white warrior knocked released Stonefur's grip. Darkstripe pinned him down and Blackfoot raked his long claws over Stonefur's throat.

Rainfall watched in horror as Stonefur's body went limp. She had been close to her brother all her life and it would be a burden to continue in life. Suddenly, off to the side, she noticed fiery fur. Firestar! There was also some dark gray long fur next to him. Immediately, she knew it was Graystripe. With them was also a black cat which was smaller than both. She didn't recognize that cat. It angered her a little knowing that they just sat there while her brother was slaughtered a couple fox-lengths away. But, they might be their only chance of escape so she knew better than to start an argument. Maybe we do have a chance of getting out of here.

Rainfall, Mistyfoot, Featherpaw, and Stormpaw huddled together in the old badger den. "Will we ever get out of here?" Featherpaw asked her eyes shining with grief for the loss of Stonefur. "We might." Mistyfoot tried to assure her. Then, they both notice that Jaggedtooth went off somewhere. "Mistyfoot? Rainfall? Featherpaw? Stormpaw?" a voice called into the badger's den. "Who is it?" Rainfall answered back. "If you're a threat, I'll fight you if I need to!"

"It's just me, Firestar." the voice called into the den again.

"Are you here to help us escape?" Stormpaw asked hopefully.

"Yes, now hurry! We need to get out of here fast!" another voice besides Firestar spoke.

"Father!" Stormpaw and Featherpaw exclaimed.

"We better get going." Before they went, another cat padded towards them." Wait, I'll come with you." a black tom mewed. Firestar nodded and the group of eight continued on their way to ThunderClan's camp where they would be safe.