Woot! Book two already! For those of you who didn't get the message in the summary, this is a SEQUEL to my story, "The Power of Seven". I strongly suggest you read that first or else you won't get anything. Only ThunderClan yet again, mah peeps!

Disclaimer: If I owned Warriors...well, you can see what would happen (TOTAL CHAOS)

ThunderClan

Leader: Bramblestar- dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes

Deputy: Lionblaze- golden tabby tom with amber eyes

Medicine Cat: Jayfeather- mottled gray tabby tom with blind blue eyes

Apprentice- Seedflower

Warriors:

Brackenfur- golden brown tabby tom

Sorreltail- tortoiseshell-and-white she-cat with amber eyes

Cloudtail- long haired white tom with blue eyes

Brightheart- white she-cat with ginger patches

Apprentice- Petalpaw

Thornclaw- golden brown tabby tom

Spiderleg- long-limbed black tom with brown underbelly and amber eyes

Apprentice- Featherpaw

Squirrelflight- dark brown ginger she-cat with one white paw

Birchfall- light brown tabby tom

Apprentice- Silverpaw

Whitewing- white she-cat with green eyes

Berrynose- cream-colored tom

Hazeltail- small gray-and-white she-cat

Poppyfrost- tortoiseshell she-cat

Foxleap- reddish-brown tabby tom

Apprentice- Windpaw

Icecloud- white she-cat

Toadstep- black and white tom

Apprentice- Lightningpaw

Rosepetal- dark cream she-cat

Bumblestripe- very pale gray tom with black stripes

Apprentice- Whitepaw

Dovewing- pale gray she-cat with green eyes

Ivypool- silver-and-white tabby she-cat with dark blue eyes

Apprentice- Rockpaw

Cherryfoot- fluffy ginger she-cat with amber eyes

Molewhisker- large cream-and-brown tom with amber eyes

Lilystone- dark tabby she-cat with white patches

Snowclaw- white tom with amber eyes

Dewshade- gray tom with amber eyes

Amberstorm- golden-brown tabby she-cat with amber eyes

Halfsnow- half-white, half-gray she-cat with green eyes

Apprentices:

Seedflower- pale ginger she-cat

Windpaw- gray and white she-cat

Petalpaw- gray and white dotted she-cat

Lightningpaw- dark brown tabby tom with white streak on back

Featherpaw- light gray she-cat with leaf-green eyes

Whitepaw- dark ginger she-cat with four white paws and amber eyes

Silverpaw- silver tabby with blue eyes

Rockpaw- dark gray tom with amber eyes

Queens:

Cinderheart- dark gray she-cat, mother of Sootkit (dark gray tom with lighter gray stripes, amber eyes); Morningkit (white she-kit with gray patches, amber eyes) and Leafkit (light brown tabby she-cat with white paws and underbelly, green eyes)

Briarlight- dark brown she-cat (expecting Toadstep's kits)

Blossomfall- tortoiseshell-and-white she-cat, mother of Sweetkit (fluffy gray she-cat with green eyes); Ebonykit (long furred black she-cat with green eyes); Mallowkit (white she-cat with blue eyes, mute); Deerkit (brown tabby tom, green eyes) and Flightkit (light brown tabby tom)

Daisy- cream-furred she-cat from horseplace, mother of Nightkit (black tom with brown muzzle, green eyes) and Redkit (ginger tom with blue eyes)

Elders:

Purdy- plump tabby with a gray muzzle

Sandstorm- pale ginger she-cat, green eyes

Princess- light brown tabby she-cat with white paws and underbelly

Frostbite- white tom with yellow eyes

Four cats stood in an underground grove. Two toms, two she-cats. Their pelts ranged from black, to ginger, to silvery-gray, to brown. The silvery-gray tom paced anxiously across the perimeter of the grove for the thousandth time, irritating the black she-cat.

"Great StarClan!" she snapped. "River, would you quit that pacing! It's driving me crazy!"

"Now, now, Shadow," the ginger tom soothed. "We're all very tense right now."

"Quiet," a brown tabby she-cat muttered, her eyes closed. "Don't you know that the wind carries words, Thunder?"

"Pure nonsense, Wind!" Shadow scowled.

"I've been thinking," River stated after he'd finished his one-thousand-and-first lap. "Did we really do the right choice, in giving them the Orb? They haven't even found the Seventh cat yet."

"The Seventh was prophesied to be the most powerful," Thunder murmured darkly. "Without the Seventh, there is no hope."

"Very optimistic," Wind mewed dryly.

"What?"

River sighed, stopping his pacing. "The Dark Forest grows stronger by the moment, and yet our forces are but six of the most powerful cats in the Clans. But the Seventh is missing." unexpectedly, he lifted his head and howled to the stars. "Cognitor Omnia Quae, why did you have to make this so difficult to us?"

"Relax, relax," Wind coaxed. "I'm sure the Stars will win yet again." she assured him.

"But never have they used our very spirits as sources to fuel themselves! The stronger we become, the stronger they become, too! Unless we can find that sliver of the Orb that controls spirits, we have no hope!"

There was a quiet moment as River's words sunk in, then a purr rumbled in Shadow's throat.

"Who says we can't?" she asked. "I'll go to Jayfeather and task~"

"No," Thunder, River and Wind mewed at the same time as if they'd rehearsed it. "We don't want one of the key players in the prophecy with shredded ears," Thunder added.

"I wasn't going to give him shredded ears." Shadow mumbled. When the other three leaders snorted with disbelief, Shadow continued. "I was just going to give him a shredded tail. Honestly. Shredded ears are so one thousand moons ago."

Cue the eye-rolls.

Thunder nodded. "Then I'll go. He's in my Clan, anyway."

"Wait!" Wind stopped him before he could walk in the blind medicine cat's dreams.

Thunder hissed with impatience. "What is it, Wind?"

Wind curled her lip. "Why risk putting him in danger," she mewed, "When we can have a spy?" Her tail swished over a puddle~the same one that Half Moon had used to explain the concept of 'spirits and shells' to Jayfeather~and immediately the dying, ugly Dark Forest appeared. Cats were there. Many of them. The sliver of Orb had brought them back, generations after generations. The view went left and right, until they zoomed in on a certain golden-brown tabby she-cat with amber eyes.

"Her?" Thunder mewed, confusion evident in his voice. "But she's a descendant of Tigerstar! We can't possibly trust her!"

Wind gave him a look. "And what of Bramblestar?"

Thunder blinked, silent until another thought popped up in his mind. "That seems like an awful lot of responsibility to put on a single young she-cat," he mewed.

"Which is why I'm choosing her," Wind answered. "She has the fierceness and ruthlessness of the Dark Forest, but a certain cat can bring out her good side. And when that happens, the weight of the entire Clans will rest on her shoulders."

Okay, so I know I'm a bit spoiled after POS, but reviews, pretty please? ^^ Oh, and there's a poll on my profile that I'd like y'all to vote on.

-Sky