Prologue:
Behind us, we could still hear the distant sound of the horses and other farm animals. Fog remembered back to the time when she was a kit. Her kin would tell her stories about a place where all good cats who died went to, a wonderful place called Starclan. On a typical day, Fog realized that the story was true; cats with stars in their fur appeared to her in her dream. The starry cats told Fog that the barn cats must bind together and assign cats to be leaders, deputies, medicine cats, warriors, apprentices, queens, and elders in something called a clan. Soon after her dream, Starclan appeared in every barn cat's dreams. They began to train with the Starclan cats to prepare to become three clans. As the cats trained they were named as leaders, medicine cats, deputies, warriors, and apprentices. If the Starclan cats thought certain barn cats were ready, they earned compound warrior names that described them. Fog became Fogpath, a medicine cat. As cats began to become warriors, Starclan let them be mentors to six moon old kits. A little while after training, large groups of cats separated and became Rainclan, Cloudclan, and Sunclan. When the Clans had learned everything they needed from Starclan to survive: hunting, fighting, healing, it was time to find a new home away from the barn. They soon wound establish borders and territories. The long journey had begun.