Light filtered through the trees, the wind shaking the leaves as one broke off, landing just inside a thin wooden fenced off yard. Within could be heard the mewls and yowls of young cats playing. Excited that today would be their first outside. As they stepped out their pelts shone in the sun, followed by an older grey feline. "Stone, Ice make sure to watch after your sister!" The mother called and the two toms nodded. "Of course mother." Ice promised. "We couldn't if we tried," Stone grumbled. Ice arrow and batted at his siblings' ears. His white pelt even whiter in the sunlight while his brothers stone gray pelt seemed untouched by the light.

The two waited as their sister came out of the twoleg den, her black and white dappled pelt a mix of their mothers and both brothers pelts in one. "C'mon Raven you're taking forever," Stone grumbled. "I'm sorry you had somewhere to be?" She asked flicking her tail. "I want to explore! I've never been outside before!" Stone said and Ice sighed. "None of us have, remember?" He reminded his brother. "Well still. Unlike you two I don't want to waste my time out here." Stone said padding off. "Victor said that we have the worst home in the neighborhood. That the wild cats will kitnap us and eat us for breakfast!" Raven said pressing against her brother.

"No way! Mom would join Lightclan before we were kitnapped from her care!" Ice said with a huff. "Pardon me, but what do you kits know of Lightclan?" A voice asked and the two younger cats jumped. Ice looked up and perched on the fence was a scarred grey and white tabby tom. "Our momma says that's where good cats go when they die." Raven mewed and the stranger nodded. "Yes, thats right. But Lightclan is home to Warrior ancestors, only three kittypets are known to walk their skies." Ice's eyes narrowed as his fur bristled in anger. "What do you know of Warriors?" He asked and the visitor mrrowed in amusement. "My names Stormheart." He greeted. "I am the deputy of Streamclan." He said and Ice nodded. "My names Ice and my sister here is Raven." He said and Stormhearts eyes narrowed. "Unusual names for a kittypets kits." He mused.

"And your mother?" Ice shrugged. "Her name is Lily." He said and noticed the surprise in the tom's eyes that quickly vanished. "Well, Ice. I must go. Meet me here tonight and I can tell you tales of Streamclan and Caveclan." The tom mewed as he vanished back onto the other side of the fence. "You need to stay away from the Clan cats." A stern voice said causing the two kits to turn around. "Momma-" "The clans are a scourge unto the world, things would be better off without them." The kits mother said cutting off Ice's potential argument. "Now come inside, its time to eat." Later on that night, Ice tossed and turned in the sleeping den, receiving a nip on his ear from his brother. "Go outside if you can't sleep." His brother had grumbled and a few moments later Ice found himself outside looking into the eyes of the stranger on his side of the fence. "Please, Stormheart tell me of the clans." He pleaded.

"Long ago..." Stormheart began.

"Two brothers born on a moonless night lived on what became Streamclans territory. Lux was a white pelted tom with sky blue eyes, his brother Nox was a dark pelted tom with amber eyes. The two were inseparable, they hunted together, nested together, inseparable. In the beginning, there were two forces, Lux the Feline of the light and Nox the Feline of darkness. These two lived in harmony ruling the world of animals with love and care, all the animals were more than grateful for their rule. The two brothers then took on mates Solis became mates with Lux and Lumen became mates with Nox. While Lux and Nox brought Light and Darkness, the two mates created the sun and the moon to give the animals of the earth signs to know when it is time to work, and when it is time to rest.

However slowly animals started changing, the ones that were active in the night and dormant in the day grew bitter and angry with the ones active during the day and dormant at night. This, in turn, caused a rift between the brothers as the nocturnal and diurnal creatures broke out into fights when trespassing happened between territories. Lux felt that the daywalkers deserved more because he was the firstborn, the Light before the Darkness. Nox on the other paw thought that the nightwalkers deserved more because there were very few creatures that treated the night as their day.

The first blood spilled was on Nox's claws. He believed that by killing Solis he would weaken his brother, and overpower him. So Nox went into his brothers camp while the light pair slept and he killed Solis in her sleep, her white pelt flying into the air, where it stuck and formed the first clouds. Lux woke up as he saw his dead mate lying there and Nox running back to his camp. Lux chased after him arriving at the camp just as night fell upon the world, and attacked Nox and Lumen. He killed Lumen and the blood that flew into the air stuck and became the glittering stars known as the Leo constellation.

The brothers clashed and the Night and Day shared the sky, neither yielding as the brothers fought, the animals themselves clashing trying to aide their Creator in the battle, however, neither one could overpower the other. However a kit born from Solis's brother and Lumens sister was born at this time, the kits name was Occasus, the kit grew, and with the blessings of the sun and moon, ended the battle by sealing the brothers away in the spirit realm, where they became the first two cats of both Light and Dark clans, thus creating the home for dead Warrior ancestors."

Ice flicked his tail looking up at the stars in awe. "So every single star?" He asked and Stormheart nodded. "Represents each drop of blood spilled by Warriors in battle, and the shooting stars represent a Lightclan warrior leaving Lightclan." "Where do they go?" Ice asked and Stormheart flicked his tail. "I don't know yet. Perhaps when I go to Lightclan I'll find out." "So what..Streamclans..." Stormheart mrrowed. "Is the Clan that Lux made. We work all day and rest all night." Ice nodded. "Nox?" He asked and Stormheart quickly answered. "Created Caveclan. A group of cats who live underground and only hunt at night." Stormhearts ears flicked forward as distant yowling could be heard. "I must go, but Ice please be careful, you know a story only told among Clan Cats. Don't share it with anyone." He said quickly before leaping over the fence and vanishing into the forest.

Ice ran back inside eager to share the story with his littermates before he remembered his promise. Does this make me a Clan Cat? He wondered since he knew a secret clan story. But then he shook his head. Of course not! Why would a Clan take me in of all cats? Raven would be a much better choice. Or Stone! He's bigger than me, and Petals faster than me! They'd be better off. Ice glumly returned to his nest and curled up beside his littermates. His eyes closed as he drifted off to sleep dreaming of hunting and epic battles.

The next day he awoke to his littermates and mother gone. He raced from room to room before he found his mother by the big two-legs den entrance. "Momma?" He whispered as she turned around. "Ice!" She purred nuzzling him. "You're awake!" "Wheres Raven and Stone?" He asked looking around for his siblings. "They're being introduced to their new denmates." Ice tilted his head. "New...denmates?" His mother nodded. "Our two-legs can only have one cat, so the three of you must go to new dens and love new two-legs." She said and Ice whimpered. "But momma! I want to stay with you! I like our den and our two-legs! What if my new two-legs are mean and kick and spit at me?" His mother sighed and licked her sons head. "Rest assured our denmates won't allow it." Ice stepped back, shaking his head, whimpering, before turning tail and running outside, back to the fence, before finding a way to wriggle through it heading towards the forest. The cries of his mother and two-legs echoing in her ears as he ran.

He huffed as he found a clearing and laid down, whimpering as he heard a familiar voice. "Ice?" Ice looked up and saw a familiar tom. "Stormheart!" He said jumping to his paws. Stormheart purred. "You're a long ways from home young one." He noted and Ice nodded. "Momma was going to give me away. I couldn't..." Stormheart nodded. "Its alright young one, come with me, my clans camp isn't too far. Leafstrike can look you over before Ashfalls return tomorrow from the Starridge." Stormheart mewed leading the way. Ice burning with questions but too sad to speak fully. "Thank you." He managed to squeak out.