A/N - I re-uploaded and replaced the chapters so that the first chapter will have some content instead of only the characters list. Everything else is the same.
Summary: Jayfeather and Lionblaze wake up during the time of the AncientClan. Now Jay's Wing and Lion's Roar, the two try to work out how to get back to the Clans. Butduring their search they find there are more problems than being stuck as AncientClan cats: the Dark Forest has followed them into the past.
A/N: Since I don't plan to make the Clans a huge part in the story, I decided to only post which characters will be seen often.
From the Clans:
Jayfeather (Jay's Wing) - undersized gray tabby tom with [blind] bright blue eyes
Lionblaze (Lion's Roar) - golden tabby tom with amber eyes
Dovewing (Dove's Wing) - fluffy gray she-cat with pale golden eyes
Cinderheart - dappled gray tabby she-cat with blue eyes
Ivypool - silver-white she-cat with dark blue eyes
Tigerheart - dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes
Breezepelt - black tom with amber eyes
From the AncientClan:
Half Moon - white she-cat with blue eyes
Disclaimer: I do not own Warriors.
Ch.1
Jayfeather opened his eyes and flicked his ears up in surprise. His surroundings were a lush green and the sounds of birds called in the distance. Ivy and leaves created the den and the nest next to his smelled strange, but oddly familiar at the same time. He looked up and then around. He knew he should remember this place, the scents, but the memories were hard to grasp and understand. Slowly he got out of the nest and padded through the curtain of ivy and leaves expecting to find the hunting grounds of StarClan.
Instead he saw the lake in the distance, its rhythmic lapping waves hitting the shore. Cats all around moved around or sat in groups mewing to each other. A queen was splayed across a huge flat rock watching her kits as they rolled around play-fighting. Another strange but familiar scent met him as a small white she-cat padded by. She stopped a tail-length away from him and flicked her tail happily at seeing him. "Hi, Jay's Wing!"
Sudden understanding crashed down on him like a wave on a shore. He was back with the AncientClan before they left for the mountains. Jay's Wing was his Clan name here.
"Hi, Half Moon," He called to her. She waved her tail again and trotted off in the direction of the lake. Jayfeather watched her go and wondered why he was brought here again. After his last time here, he had learned that the AncientClan were to become the Tribe of Rushing Water that resided in the mountains. The Clans had passed through and visited them when moving to the lake during the Great Journey. His siblings and himself also went to the Tribe once when they were in trouble.
But before the Tribe, they resided here by the lake where the Clans lived now. Jayfeather looked around scenting the air. A more familiar scent filled his senses and he jerked his head around in the direction. A golden tabby tom was hovering at the edges of the AncientClan's daily life, his amber gaze darting from one cat to another. Seeming to feel him watching, the tom turned his head and their eyes met. Immediately the tom's tail shot up and he bounded over touching noses with Jayfeather.
"Jayfeather! Where are we?" the golden tabby mewed quickly. His fur was fluffed out and he had a slight fear scent.
Jayfeather's eyes widened. "Lionblaze?"
The tom nodded. "Yeah. Have you already forgotten who your brother is or something?" Lionblaze's tail drooped to touch the ground. "What kind of brother are you, forgetting your own brother?"
He purred in amusement feeling a little better having someone he knew for certain here with him. "Oh, come off it, Lionblaze. I didn't forget you."
Lionblaze's tail perked up again and he mewed, "Good. So, where are we?"
"In the past when the AncientClan lived by the lake," Jayfeather glanced over his brother's shoulder and around to make sure no one was close enough to listen. "The AncientClan is what you know as the Tribe of Rushing Water."
His eyes widened and ears flicked. "The Tribe? Really?"
"Yeah. We're reincarnations of AncientClan cats. I'm Jay's Wing."
"And who am I?"
"You're Lion's Roar," a strange voice mewed behind Lionblaze. Lionblaze turned and both toms met the blue gaze of Half Moon. "You haven't gone and hit your head, have you?"
Lionblaze stared at her, shocked and feeling a little indignant. "Uh...no, I haven't."
She stared at him for a few seconds before shrugging and turning to Jayfeather. "Want to go hunting with me?"
"Uh," he stammered. There was a lot of things he wanted to talk to Lionblaze about and he still couldn't hunt. She would definitely think something was wrong if she found out. "Thanks, but no. Lion's Roar and I have already decided to hunt together. Right, Lion's Roar?"
"Yes." Lionblaze shuffled his paws on the ground.
Half Moon's eyes grew cold. "Fine." She stalked off into the trees without looking back and Jayfeather sighed. She-cats.
"So, um," the golden tabby stammered. "We should go hunting now that we've claimed we were."
"Yeah." Downcast, Jayfeather sighed.
Lionblaze's ears twitched and he turned to him with a mischievous look in his eyes. "Wait. You can't hunt, can you?"
"...No."
He purred. "Oh this is going to be fun. Come on! If things here are like they are now back home, I know where some good places for prey are."
Oh no, thought Jayfeather as he bounded after him.