Beware: this story is riddled with social taboos and the darker side of human and animal nature alike.

Summary: Pre-series, set in the old forest before Bluestar's time. Forbidden acts threaten to weaken the clans until they inadvertently bring about the end of their home. Two will be born to hate...

Before the old forest is threatened and destroyed, there were prophesies received that predicted the horrors to come. This story details the events following the first prophesy and the cats who lived caught in its snare.

Willowkit, a ThunderClan kit, is born just before her world is thrown into shadow, already having to cope with her mother's irrational scorn and a burning need to prove her equality. Then, when a lost and malnourished kit arrives at ThunderClan thirsting to avenge the death of a loved one, Willowkit's life begins its slow spiral downwards into a pit of despair and hate. The clans are faced with an enemy that lives both within and out.

Rating: 'T' for the theme: taboos, which includes: same-sex love, polygamy, incest, serial murders, abortion, and gore, among others. Not sexually explicit.

Disclaimer: Any content in this story belongs to either Erin Hunter or myself. The world in which it is set is theirs, all else: mine. I prefer that the names of my characters are not used, though I am aware that I cannot claim them for my use alone.

Further information: I fully intend for this to reach a full-length Warriors novel size. It will be serialized weekly, with each new chapter published hopefully by Sunday night. I cannot guarantee that I will always be able to balance updating this with my schooling, though I will make an effort to. This whole story is already planned out with two sequential stories following it.

Note: Please correct me if you spot any inconsistencies, errors, or anything that contradicts canon information. I am very willing to tweak this until it reaches the closest to perfection possible. I have hopefully managed to create genetically possible cats whose coloring and names fit their clans, but if there are any errors in that then please point them out. Critique is also very much appreciated. The writing style of this will be mine, not the Erins'.

This page will be updated as needed, so don't be surprised.

Two will be born to hate,
one to love,
and from their union
will rise the seeds of the end

Allegiances (at the beginning):

-T H U N D E R C L A N

Leader–

Foxstar – Orange tabby tom with a white-tipped tail and feet, has yellow eyes

Deputy–

Dawnheart – Pale tortoiseshell she-cat with yellow eyes

Medicine Cat–

Sedgeberry – Long-haired dark grey tabby tom with green eyes

(Apprentice, Larkpaw – Ginger and brown tortoiseshell-and-white she-cat with blue eyes)

Warriors– (Toms and she-cats without kits)

Berryshrew – Light brown tom with yellow eyes

Elmfur – Ginger tom with white feet and yellow eyes

Grasstail – Golden brown tom with a kinked tail and amber eyes

Rowanwhisker – Orange tabby tom with amber eyes

Badgerstep – Large, long-haired black she-cat with a white chest and yellow eyes

Dustflower – Long-haired grey she-cat with green eyes

Goldeneye – Golden tabby she-cat with amber eyes

Apprentices– (More than six moons old, in training to become warriors)

Fawnpaw – Light brown she-cat with a darker face, legs and tail, has green eyes

Queens– (She-cats expecting or nursing kits)

Nettlefang – Ginger she-cat with dark spots and yellow eyes

Morninglight – Pale she-cat with a light grey and cream dappled coat, has a white face, legs, chest and tail and blue eyes, mother of Rowanwhisker's kits: Brightkit (Cream tabby she-cat with green eyes), Wrenkit (Long-haired dark brown tabby tom with green eyes), Mosskit (Dark grey long-haired she-cat with yellow-green eyes), and Willowkit (Tortoiseshell she-cat with white on her legs, neck, belly and on the bottom half of her face just reaching her blue eyes)

Elders– (Former warriors and queens, now retired)

Brokentooth – Dark brown tabby tom with a broken tooth and yellow eyes

Spottednose – Small brown she-cat with a spotted pelt and brown eyes

-R I V E R C L A N

Leader–

Reedstar – Tall, dark brown tabby tom with green eyes

Deputy–

Raintail – Grey tom with a white tail and back, has green eyes

Medicine Cat– None

Warriors–

Greycloud – Fluffy long-haired light grey tom with yellow eyes

Frostheart – White she-cat with blue eyes

Mudstripe – Striped brown tom with green eyes

Silverwing – White she-cat with light grey feet and two patches of color on her back, has blue eyes

Apprentices–

Swiftpaw – Dark grey tabby tom with green eyes

Queens–

Lilyfur – Dappled ginger and grey she-cat with a white face and blue eyes, mother of Minnowkit (Small grey spotted she-cat with dark green eyes)

Elders–

Pebbletail – Brown tabby tom with mottled fur and a striped tail, has yellow eyes

-S H A D O W C L A N

Leader–

Thornstar – Light brown tabby tom with yellow eyes

Deputy–

Marshfoot – Dark brown tom with one white paw and copper eyes

Medicine Cat–

Hazelnose – Brown long-haired she-cat with a dark face and yellow eyes

Warriors–

Oakshade – Very dark striped brown tom with green eyes

Russetclaw – Dark ginger tom with yellow eyes

-W I N D C L A N

Leader–

Dovestar – Long-haired white she-cat with one blue eye and one brown

Deputy–

Swanfeather – White she-cat with striped grey legs and blue eyes

Medicine Cat–

Ashpetal – Cream and grey dappled she-cat with yellow eyes

Warriors–

Spiderwhisker – Wiry black she-cat with long whiskers

Thistletail – Light brown tom with a bushy white-tipped tail and green eyes

Elders–

Swalloweye – Dark brown tabby tom with a single yellow eye

-C A T S ~O U T S I D E ~ O F ~ C L A N S

Blazehollow – Orange tabby she-cat with amber eyes, formerly of ThunderClan

Riverfall – Long-haired dark grey tabby she-cat with a white streak across her face, has one blue eye and one green, deaf in one ear, a rogue

Storm – Tortoiseshell tomcat with yellow-green eyes, once Stormwhisper of ThunderClan

Nightingale – Black she-cat with amber eyes and a melodious voice, a rogue

Flood – Light grey tabby tomcat with deep green eyes, a rogue

Rose – Cream she-cat

Prophet – Golden brown tom with white feet

Grouse – Brown tabby tom, a kittypet