The Children Of The Moon

by mango-melone

The Children – cats with strange gifts, powers granted by an ancient god. A kits story. But what if it's not a story at all? StarClan go missing. A small band of cats sets off to find them in a desperate bid to save their Clans, while those left behind soon learn that the Children aren't the only story to come alive. They must work together if they hope to survive what follows.

1. Prologue

The Legend of the Children

There are many legends about the dawn of time. Some are made up. Others are twisted so that only a tiny grain of truth remains. And others are true.

The legend of the Children is one of them.

It speaks of Tyr, and the gifts he gives to the mortals.

Tyr, or Moonstar as some call him, was a powerful tom, a warrior and a sage, a hero of countless adventures. He learned much during his travels, secrets that only StarClan knew, places that even the gods shunned. And the more he learned about the world, the more he began to doubt the gods, question there almighty power.

If there were things that were outside their control, if lower creatures could rise against them… why should he fear the StarClan?

And Tyr delved deeper into his research, lost himself further and further in the deepest secrets of the earth. Back then it was filled with magic, and strange powers lied within. Tyr found them all, and took them for himself.

Soon he was the most powerful cat that had ever walked the earth. Giant wolves, fearsome lions and even great bears fled his might, and Tyr granted the cats of his homeland more protection than StarClan had ever managed.

Before long his clan mates turned away from their ancestors, who had left them alone in all those cold leaf-bares, when the wolves invaded their land and the owls stole their kits. Tyr became their new leader, god-like amongst his followers. They worshipped him as their savior, the messiah that would grant them everlasting peace.

But Tyr was a warrior; the fire of his powers burnt within him. He had travelled the world in search of fights, and fighting had made him what he was.

In the new peace, there was no place for Tyr. He became restless, and it wasn't long before the first argument broke out. It was a benign matter…a piece of freshkill, nothing more. But Tyr shattered the body of the other warrior in blazing rage.

Only then the other cats realized what his power had done to Tyr. He was no wise leader, he was neither just nor compassionate. He only knew battle.

When Tyr saw what had become of him, he was abhorred. He fled in panic and tried to fling himself off a cliff. But he had gained the power of immortality, and however hard he searched, he could not find death.

So Tyr vowed to leave this earth for good. He climbed the highest mountain of the earth and jumped up with all his strength, so high that he landed in front of the gates of StarClan. But the ancestors were angry that he had doubted their power, and they would not let him pass.

So Tyr had to turn around, trapped between the lands of the living and the gods. And this is where he still wanders, a dark star without a home. Only when one of his tears falls to the ground, one can see a fiery streak for just a heartbeat.

And to those born on such a night, Tyr gifts one of his powers, and a small piece of his soul returns to this earth – the good part as well as the bad. And these cats are the Children of the Moon.