Warning: This has spoilers for all of Power of Three. It may not yet, but it will eventually. This is going to be my first multi-chaptered Warriors story! :)

Disclaimer: I don't own anything Warriors, nothing at all, and I am not making any money off this story.

Prologue: Encounter

Hollykit flinched as a small twig broke beneath her forepaw with a sharp crack. She had to be quiet; nobody could know she was out here. Gently lifting her paw off the broken pieces, she continued padding through the forest, slowly traveling further and further away from the ThunderClan camp, having no idea where she was going.

She halted mid-pawstep. She was in an area where the trees stood close together and created a thick cover above her head, and the bits of sunlight that managed to break through that cover created a crisscrossed pattern of light on the forest floor like a giant spiderweb. In front of her, on the spiderweb, was a black tomcat who was chasing a butterfly. She watched curiously as the cat- who looked about the same age as her, definitely still a kit- sprang off his hind legs and jumped into the air, batting at the poor butterfly with his paws.

He looked like he was having fun, and he seemed like he'd be friendly. She ran forward to greet him.

"Hi!" she mewed, going right up in front of him.

The kit frowned at her. "You scared away the butterfly!"

"Sorry," she mewed. "What's your name?"

He raised an eyebrow, staring at her with unfriendly amber eyes. "What's yours?"

"I asked you first!" Hollykit argued playfully.

He rolled his eyes. "Fine, I'm Breezekit."

"Why do you sound so grumpy?" she wondered.

"I am not grumpy!" Breezekit growled.

She purred. "Then why are you growling? Oh, and my name's Hollykit."

His expression softened. "What are you doing out here, Hollykit?"

"I'm not supposed to be out of camp yet," she mewed proudly. "This is my first time outside."

His eyes lit up. "Really? I snuck out too; this is my first time out of camp!"

"That's so cool!"

He suddenly wrinkled his nose in disgust. "You smell funny. Where are you from?"

"ThunderClan. What about you?"

"I'm from WindClan. Do you want to be friends?"

The sudden, unexpected friendliness in his voice took her by surprise. "Sure," Hollykit purred.

"Hollykit!" Brambleclaw's worried yowl sounded a few tree-lengths away from the two kits.

Breezekit stiffened. "Who was that?"

"Brambleclaw, my father. I think he's looking for me."

"Hollykit!" The deputy's yowl was even closer now.

Her pelt prickled. "Breezekit, hide! You'll get in trouble if Brambleclaw finds you!"

"I will?"

"Yes, now hide!"

"But... will I ever see you again?" he asked, hesitating.

"Hollykit!" Brambleclaw's voice, very close now, sent Breezekit scrambling away and jumping into a nearby bush to hide.

"There you are." Brambleclaw now stood in front of her.

"Hi, Brambleclaw," Hollykit mewed nervously, suddenly feeling like a mouse.

He sighed. "I found her!" he yowled, then turned back to his daughter. "Who were you talking to?" he demanded.

"Myself," she lied quickly.

He sighed again. "Let's get you back to camp, Hollykit." He bent down and gently grabbed her in his jaws by her scruff.

Squirrelflight and Leafpool came running up.

"You found her." Leafpool sounded like the sky had been lifted off her shoulders.

"Hollykit!" Squirrelflight licked her daughter's cheek. "You're all right."

"Of course I'm all right," Hollykit grumbled. Why did they have to had interrupted while she was talking to Breezekit?

Ignoring Squirrelflight's and Leafpool's fussing and the sounds of the forest while she was carried against her will back to camp, Hollykit instead thought about Breezekit. Her worries echoed his: Would they ever see each other again?

Before she knew what was happening, her father was dropping her off in the nursery. "Please, don't get into any more trouble," he whispered, affectionately licking her between her ears. "You had every cat worried."

"Hollykit!" Her brother Lionkit came bouncing up to her, with their blind brother, Jaykit, on his heels.

"Where were you?" Jaykit asked.

"Outside, in the forest," she murmured.

"Without us?" Lionkit whined.

"You were asleep," Hollykit reminded him.

"You met somebody, didn't you?" Jaykit mewed suddenly.

She turned to her brother, shocked. "How do you know?"

He rolled his blue eyes. "You're obviously distracted, thinking about somebody. Who was it?"

Hollykit almost flinched. Her brother always had a strange way of knowing what she was thinking. "His name is Breezekit," she said, lowering her voice. "He had snuck out of camp, too. He's from WindClan."

"Ugh, WindClan?" Lionkit pretended to gag. "I hope you tore him apart, if he was on our territory!"

"No!" Hollykit suddenly felt defensive of the black tom. "He's my friend."

"You can't be friends with a cat from another Clan."

"Yes I can!"

Jaykit padded away, seeming bored with the conversation that was going in circles, and instead turned his attention to a scrap of damp moss on the floor. He crouched down, his tail lashing, preparing to pounce on it.

Lionkit turned away from his sister, seeming to lose interest as well. "I'm gonna get that before you do!" he squeaked to Jaykit, eyeing the moss.

"I'd like to see you try!"

Lionkit gave a mock growl and playfully lunged at the gray tom, and the two wrestled on the ground. For once, Jaykit seemed to have the upperpaw.

Unable to resist, Hollykit jumped into the scuffle, playfully batting at the toms with her paws, and squealing when Lionkit nipped her tail.

Soon, she had easily forgotten about Breezekit and her short adventure outside camp. But she would remember it again in the moons to come.

Hope you enjoyed the first chapter! Please review, and the next chapter'll come sooner. :)

~Blazingstar

~A.K.A. Instant Noodles