Sandra waved goodbye to Kyoya as he walked off. She then headed into the building and up to her room. Alex was inside watching TV. She looked up and smiled when Sandra walked in. "So, how was your day?" she asked.
"Great! Spent it with Kyoya," Sandra answered, laying down on her bed and pulling up her book.
"I'm never going to get used to that," Alex said.
"You said that already," Sandra pointed out.
"Well I'm not," Alex countered. "You're still reading that?"
"I'm reading it over," Sandra corrected.
"How many of those books have you read?" Alex questioned.
"Every one that's out," Sandra replied. She was reading the Warriors: The Darkest Hour book. She loved the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. She couldn't stop reading them.
"I think you're going a little overboard on the reading," Alex said. "Don't you want to bey battle?"
"I do, but there's more to life than just bey battles," Sandra pointed out.
"Yeah, bey battles and Kyoya," Alex said. Sandra looked up and gave her a hard look which just made Alex laugh.
"See this is why we didn't want to tell you guys," Sandra said.
"Come on! Let me have a little fun," Alex pleaded.
"You're fun is affecting my fun," Sandra retorted. Alex just sighed and continued to go through the channels. Sandra read her book. It was awhile before she fell asleep with the book still in her hands. She was asleep the rest of the day.
When Sandra woke up she yawned, but the bolted upright when she realized she was not in her apartment anymore. She was in a forest. She tasted the air, but then stopped. Why would she insicntively do that? That's what a cat would do! She lashed her tail in confusion. Wait a minute! I have a tail! Sandra examined herself before realizing she has been turned into a cat! She was a brown cat with dark brown tabby stripes and blue eyes.
Sandra looked around again. She was alone, or at least so she thought. In an instant four cats leaped out at her. In the lead was a flame-colored tom with green eyes. He was followed by a beautiful white she-cat with blue eyes, a pale tabby tom with dark black stripes, and a dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes. "What are you doing here? This is our territory!" snarled the pale tabby.
"I'm so sorry! I really don't know how I got here," Sandra meowed taking a step back, thinking the pale tabby might pounce.
The flame-colored tom studied her for a moment before nodding. "She's telling the truth," he meowed. "Just like all the others we found were."
"But Firestar they were..." the pale tabby began to protested.
"No buts," Firestar cut him off. "I'll take her back to camp. Continue the patrol. Frostfur, you're in charge." The white she-cat nodded and took the lead as she led the patrol off. Firestar then turned to Sandra. "What's your name?"
"Sandra, and you're Firestar?" Sandra asked.
Firestar nodded. "Come. I will take you back to our camp." He began to walk through the trees and Sandra followed. Firestar was the ThunderClan leader's name in her book! How could she be in the book though? It didn't make much sense.
Sandra followed him into his camp and it looked just like what was described in her book. Firestar led her to a group of cats sitting away from the others. There was a muscular tom with a pelt the color of a lion's and blue eyes. Under those blue eyes were cross shaped scars. There was a red pelted tom with brown eyes, a light gray tom with amber eyes, a black tom with white patches and dark brown eyes, a brown she-cat with light blue eyes, a darker brown she-cat with hazel eyes, a pale tom with brown eyes, a light orange furred tom with green eyes, and a pale furred, well-fed looking tom with brown eyes.
"Sandra, these are the other cats we found that had no idea how they got here," Firestar meowed.
"Sandra?" the muscular tom echoed. Sandra blinked and tilted her head as the muscular tom approached her. "Is that really you Sandra?"
"Uh, yeah. Who are you?" Sandra asked. Could this possibly be one of her friends.
"It's me. Kyoya," the tom replied. Sandra smiled and licked his cheek.
"That's Sandra?" the red tom asked.
Kyoya nodded. "Thats..." he began.
"Let me guess; Gingka," Sandra cut him off.
"Yep," the red tom confirmed. "The light gray tom is Tsubasa. The black tom with white patches is Masemune. The brown she-cat with blue eyes is Madoka. The darker brown she cat with hazel eyes is Alex. The pale tom is Kenta. The light orange tom is Yu, and the well-fed looking tom is Benkei."
Sandra nodded. "Can someone please explain where we are and how we got here?" Masemune asked, looking impatient. Kyoya rolled his eyes.
"I'll explain," Firestar meowed. "You're in ThunderClan's camp. ThunderClan is a group of cats that live in the forest along with three other Clans; ShadowClan, RiverClan and WindClan. We each have our fair share of the forest. As of how you got here is beyond me. I'd love to help, but you've come a bad time."
"How bad?" Tsubasa ventured.
"We just lost our previous leader, Bluestar," Firestar answered. "I'm just getting used to my new responsibilities as leader and I also have someone in ShadowClan that's out to get me."
"Who?" Sandra asked, even though she already knew the answer.
"Their leader Tigerstar. He used to be ThunderClan's deputy until he tried to kill Bluestar and force his way to power," Firestar answered grimly. "I must go and talk with my deputy now." Firestar padded away.
"I still need more information on this place," Masemune complained.
"I know everything about this place," Sandra meowed.
"How?" Kenta asked.
"I've read the books and they're exactly like this," Sandra replied. "Just ask me what you want to know."
"For starters why is this Tigerstar out to get Firestar?" Yu asked.
"Well, Firestar wasn't Clanborn," Sandra began. "He was what the Clan called a kittypet. He lived with humans but the Clans call them Twolegs. Tigerstar, or at the time Tigerclaw, didn't like the idea of a kittypet coming and living in the Clan, but he couldn't do anything about it because it was Bluestar's decision. Bluestar held Firestar in high esteem ever since he came into the Clan, and Tigerclaw was jealous."
"Ok, how about why Tigerstar is the leader of ShadowClan instead of ThunderClan? Firestar said he was ThunderClan's deputy, right?" Kenta questioned.
"He was their deputy, but you forget that Firestar said Tigerstar tried to murder Bluestar and force his way to power," Sandra reminded them. "But that wasn't the only thing he did. Tigerclaw was an ambitious warrior. He wanted nothing more than to lead his Clan, but he went about it the wrong way. The day Firestar came into the Clan as Firepaw, there was a battle with RiverClan. In the battle, ThunderClan's deputy Redtail was killed. Tigerclaw carried the dead deputy back to camp and said that Oakheart, RiverClan's deputy at the time, had killed him and Tigerclaw had killed Oakheart in revenge. It was true that both ThunderClan and RiverClan had lost their deputies in that battle, but Tigerclaw's story was a complete lie. What had really happened was that Oakheart had been killed in a rockfall and Tigerclaw had murdered Redtail in hopes that Bluestar would make him deputy. But she chose Lionheart instead. When Lionheart was killed in a battle with ShadowClan exhiles, that's when Tigerclaw finally got his wish. He then proceeded to lead the exhiles into the camp when barely any warriors were there to defend it. He was planning to kill Bluestar and blame it on one of the rogues, but Firestar, at the time Fireheart, stopped him just in time. That's when he got exhiled and Fireheart became the new deputy of ThunderClan."
"So I'm guessing the deputy becomes the leader when their leader dies," Tsubasa presumed.
"This is still confusing," Benkei meowed.
Sandra glanced in the direction of Firestar's den. He was outside talking to a large white tom. Whitestorm.
"What do we do now? We can't really get home," Madoka pointed out.
"We could help ThunderClan," Sandra suggested. "We are here and Firestar has been very kind. I don't see why we couldn't help him. He's going to need it anyway."
Kyoya stared at her for a moment before nodding. "Alright we'll help," he growled.
Just then Whitestorm padded up to them. "I'm Firestar's deputy Whitestorm. He sent me to tell you that you may stay here until you can find your way back home."
Sandra dipped her head in gratitude. "We're very grateful, and would like to repay ThunderClan for your generosity," she meowed. "We hear that you're having problems with a tyrant named Tigerstar. We would like to do anything we can to help stop him, if you'll have us."
Whitestorm blinked at the offer. "I'll go ask Firestar," he meowed before dashing back to his leader. They talked for a little bit before Whitestorm returned. "Firestar said any help is welcome. He said when the apprentices return he;s going to divide all of you into groups and the apprentices are going to show you the territory and how to hunt and fight."
Sandra dipped her head. "Thank you Whitestorm," she meowed as the deputy padded away.
Kyoya sighed. Sandra looked at him in confusion. "What's wrong?" she asked.
"We're being trained by apprentices," Kyoya answered. "The cats that are in training are training us."
Sandra laughed with amusement. "Just deal with it, furball," she teased.
