Allegiances

ThunderClan

Leader: LeafStar (fluffy light grey shecat with blazing light green eyes)

Deputy: Sevenclaws (reddish brown tom with amber eyes)

Medicine Cat: Sunfire (yellow orange shecat, amber eyes), Apprentice Pinepaw

Warriors:

Eagleheart, (Golden-brown tom with amber eyes), white fluffy chest)

Larchwing, (Golden tabby shecat with pale blue eyes) Apprentice Hollypaw

Lillypelt, (creamy long white pelt, blue eyes) Apprentice Dawnpaw

Frogclaw, (thick brown tortoiseshell-tom, green eyes)

Rabbittail, (light brown tom, amber eyes, white fluffy tail)

Puddlemoss, (brown and grey calico shecat with green eyes)

Doveflight, (creamy white shecat with brown paws, dark blue eyes)

Thornfur, (golden, brown and red tortoiseshell-tom, brown eyes)

Mudclaw, (dark brown tom, green eyes)

Sunflower (ginger tabby queen, blue eyes)

Apprentices:

Pinepaw (very light brown she-cat with dark brown paws and dark green eyes)

Hollypaw, (black shecat, green eyes)

Dawnpaw, (creamy golden shecat, brown eyes)

Elders:

Jaydark (dark brown and grey tom with dreadful temper)

Dappleeye (dappled tortoiseshell with amber eyes)

Nightears (old coal grey tom with black ears)

Hollyflower (black she-cat with cream paws and tail with blue eyes)

Queens: (shecats nursing or with kits)

Brambletail (dark tabby queen with sharp tongue and amber eyes) Kits are: Poppykit Frostkit and Hazekit 5 moons

Briarheart (light brown queen with green eyes and brown paws) Kits are: Mintkit and Mosskit 3 moons

WindClan

Leader: SnowStar (white tom with amber eyes)

Deputy: Ashtail (black shecat with grey tail and blue eyes)

Medicine Cat: Lightpaws (creamy young tom with green eyes)

RiverClan

Leader: StreamStar (thin graceful silver shecat with piercing blue eyes)

Deputy: Rockflow (dark gray tom)

Medicine Cat: Mossbed (grey tabby shecat)

Warriors: Mistyheart (silver shecat, blue eyes)

Hawktalon (big brown tabby tom with amber eyes)

ShadowClan

Leader: DuskStar (small grey cat with grayish brown ears and paws) Apprentice Flowerpaw

Deputy: Tangleshadow

Medicine Cat: Briarice Apprentice ShadowPaw

Cats outside clans:

Coco: light brown tabby with dark brown paws

Frosty: White shecat with a sarcastic sense of humor and blue eyes

Diamond: Sparkly white shecat with green eyes

Prologue

A pair of eyes stared unblinkingly out of the bushes. The amber globes at the other side of the clearing bobbed and two cats emerged. One was a big, muscular tom, his fur many shades of brown. The other cat was slender, her fluffy gray pelt laying smoothly against her back, her tail straight up in excitement. The tom said slowly, "Is this wise?" The fluffy gray cat did not bother to look at him. She was staring up at the clear night sky, with stars outlined sharply. She finally looked coolly at him. The excitement in her gaze almost made him flinch. "It is right, whether or not it is wise. StarClan does not question it - the sky is clear. I will make the naming ceremony." The tom looked reluctant. He voiced his concern to her, "But LeafStar! This kit is not ready! She has had no choice!" The leader looked at him, anger making her tail snap from side to side and her fur bristling. "It is her destiny! Destiny can never be fought!" The tom, annoyed, swung his tail from side to side and followed her to a narrow cleft in the rock. "Has StarClan spoken to you?" LeafStar looked back at him one more time. "Sevenclaws, I know that you will do what you feel is right. That is why you were chosen as deputy. I, however, am Clan Leader. Sunkit must become a medicine cat, no matter what the cost."

No matter what the cost. The words rang in the young deputy's ears. He had only been chosen last night - he had no right to question his leader, and he was still very young. LeafStar was young also. They had no medicine cat and alerting the other clans to this fact would only bring trouble, espescially from RiverClan, who were still hostile. But no cat in the clan had the knowledge to train a medicine cat. Sunkit was filled with compassion and seemed to remember things well. But she had not been given a choice. To Sevenclaws this seemed the most important thing. To LeafStar it was her clan, which was as it should be. Her sibling did not understand what it would mean and neither did Sunkit. She could never have kits, she would never hunt, never fight, never have her warrior naming ceremony. What if it wasn't even her destiny?