Prologue
Cloud
The sun was setting, casting orange rays of light over everything in sight. Clouds were crowding above in the red sky, threatening to pour down the rain at any second. The wind howled, making the leaves and grass sway back and forth as they were hit with its powerful gusts. The moon's silver beams peeking through the open areas of the sky, in which the clouds did not cover.
A black and white tom sat on a grassy patch of ground, his green eyes staring up at the scarlet sky.
He saw a small pitch-black cloud moving in the opposite direction of the rest of its kind, a bit faster as well. Soon the cloud started to take the shape of a small cat with very long claws. The cloud cat floated down to land next to the tom with grace in every movement.
"I knew you would come," the black and white tom greeted the cloud cat with faint annoyance, "So why have you been coming to me in visions like this?"
The black cat gazed straight into the tom's eyes, then announced softly in his high pitched voice, padding around the black and white tom in a tight circle, "I have a... request for you."
The young tom sat unmoving as the small cat padded about him. "Tell me what it is then, then maybe I'll think about it," he stated.
"No... You say you will do the job...then I will tell you, Xuezu."
Xuezu stood up meowing, "Why should I do anything for you, if you don't tell me what I have to do first!"
The cloud cat stopped circling and stepped closer, so close that his icy-blue stared into the unblinking green eyes of Xuezu, their noses nearly touching. It drove a flash of fear into Xuezu's young mind. "I don't want you to back down from a great challenge, on that I'm going to give you."
"Challenge..." He murmured, his tail curling about his paws. "I won't back down from any challenge you throw in my direction!" Xuezu growled, lightning streaking down from the clouds in the sky above them. "Fine, I accept! Now, tell me what you wish for me to do!"
"Good," the cloud cat nodded his head in approval. "Okay. I will tell you now, since I know you will follow through with it."
He started to circle the black and white tom once more. "I want you to re-create Bloodclan and kill Firestar, Thunderclan's leader, and tell him that this is revenge for disobeying me, Scourge," After he coolly announced his name, a crash of thunder sounded in the distance, a drizzle lashing down from the darkening scarlet sky. "The first leader of Bloodclan!"
Xuezu followed the small black cat with his eyes, paws frozen to the ground and preventing any movement. "Okay... Fine! I'll do that. But still... what makes it so hard?" he asked, his voice lowering to a whisper as each word passed from his muzzle.
Scourge looked up, cold blue ice seeming to stare into Xuezu's soul.
"What makes it so hard you ask.? You were alive when Bloodclan attacked the forest clans." He looked down at his paws, then added, "We lost, we had numbers but they had something else, something I don't know. I want you to find out what that thing is. Find out what it is, then attack the clans!" The anger that was rising in his voice made Xuezu flinch away from the small ex-leader.
The two cats stood there, as the rain started to pour down harder and harder. Each gazed into the other's eyes. Soon enough they both had their fur plastered to their thin bodies and were shivering in the coldness that covered sky brought upon the world.
Xuezu interrupted the silence. "Okay. But how am I supposed to find out what I need to know? Like they're just gonna give me it!"
"You need to figure that out on your own, Xuezu." Scourge mewed shaking his small body, a failed attempt to remove the rain from his fur. "I expect you to succeed, Xuezu. If not, don't think I won't punish you severely in return."
Scourge turned around and started to pad away when another, larger shape started to slowly come too them. A few heartbeats later, the shape loomed over Xuezu.
He could see that the large shape was a cat; a she-cat. She has dark gray fur with bright, yellow-green eyes.
Scourge stopped as the newcomer approached, "What are you doing here?" He growled, fluffing up his fur and extending his long claws. Then he crouched down, as if about to leap at the newcomer.
The large cat stared at Scourge blankly before chuckling. "To help you of course, why else would I come here? Thunderclan is my enemy as well."
She turned to Xuezu; the tom was looking from her to Scourge, confusion clear in his green gaze.
"My name's Keai. I'll teach you different ways to fight and hunt, to help you reach your goal. But I would recommend you wait... because, how young are you? Like 7 moons old?" She paused, waiting for Xuezu to nod his head. "... You are too young to take the challenge. You should wait a few moons, to prepare yourself." Her voice was hard, somewhat challenging.
Scourge stared up at Keai for a few heartbeats, soon turning his gaze away, muttering a few words to himself. Looking back up at her he meowed "He was born in myclan, so... Uhg. Fine. I'll let you, but just this once!"
The two cats nodded to each other and started to walk away. They looked back, their pelts turning to mist. A few heartbeats later, they were nearly gone; the wind blew their misty bodies away.
Only their scent remained.
As he watched them dissolve, Xuezu felt happy to be given such a hard challenge. But he still thought that his age didn't matter as long as he was able to lead a clan... If not, he would find a cat he trusted, and give them the responsibility of becoming the new leader; the leader of his re-created Bloodclan.
No cat or clan would stop him from succeeding with his goal. He would find out their secret, and now he has thought of a way to do so...
He will join a clan.
And hopefully, later on he will attack them, with a great clan of his own, using their secrets and strengths against them.
A/N
So, here's the prologue of my first fanfiction! ^^ This one has been edited, but it does not mean it is error or confusion free. If you find anything you feel like I should fix, of if there is anything you want me to clarify, please let me know in a review!