Prologue

"Come, on let's go," called Mandy. Mandy, a pretty, tall 13 year old with sparkling sky blue eyes and short dirty blond hair,raced down the stairs at school, her best friend Ashley, also 13 with beautiful bleach blonde hair, amber brown eyes and pale skin, but much shorter than Mandy raced down beside her. Both girls flew into the office and dropped their bags on the ground and turned to the lady at the desk.

"Can I use the phone," Mandy said half panting.
" Sure, make sure you press 9 before you dial," she said politely. As Mandy dialed her house.
" Hello," her mother answered.
" Hi, mom, are the bikes locked up at 7/11," Mandy said quickly everyone was waiting outside for them and they all wanted to get out of here. It was the last day of school and them and all their friends were all walking to 7/11 to celebrate then biking home. Then Ashley's going to go over to Mandy's house for a sleepover.
"Yep, I'll see you guys in a bit," she said.
" Bye Mom," Mandy said and hung up.
" Are our bikes there," Ashley said anxiously.
" Yes they're there we can go now," Mandy said happily. They ran outside to catch up with their friends who had already started to walk. they finally caught up and started to walk with the rest of them.
" What took you so long," retorted Nicole a short, 13 year old with short brown hair and dark tan skin with brown eyes. Everyone started to talk and laugh, about well everything, but mainly about no more school. Next to Mandy and Ashley was Martha a tall, 13 year old, with blond hair the same as Ashley's,and one blue eye and one eye half blue and half green, and pale skin. In front of them talking to Nicole was Chloe, a short, 13 year old, with thick brown hair, tan skin and blue eyes. In front of them were the boys, all 4 talking over top of each other at once about completely different things. Andy, a short 13 year old with blond hair and blue eyes was talking to Blaine, a short 13 year old with brown hair, brown eyes and dark tan skin. Beside them was Luke a short 13 year old with brown hair, brown eyes and freckles. Luke was talking to Nick a 13 year old with blond hair and blue eyes who was not tall or short but kind of in between. They all walked down the street and talked about different things what they're doing this summer, they made plans to hang out and complained about how now that they're home more often they get more chores, but mainly about warriors. Mandy,Ashley,Nicole,Chloe, and Martha had all been best friends since the beginning of middle school and were practically addicted to warriors. Nick had started to read warriors at the beginning of middle school and was now also obsessed with them but was never friends with the girls. Andy and Blaine had always been best friends but had always despised the warriors. Then Luke ( who by the way loved warriors at this point) moved to their class last year and was friends with Mandy already and then became friends with Andy and Nic which brought them all together. They finally convinced Andy and Blaine to read warriors and they are now happily addicted. So now they're all friends and all love warriors.

" Hey, Ashley and Mandy are you coming skating tomorrow night," asked Chloe. All the girls had planned to meet up at the skating rink tomorrow night. To just hang out for the evening.

" Yep, We'll just be a couple minutes late cause we are helping repaint the local food bank with youth, but that's in the afternoon so we'll only be a few minute's late." Mandy answered. She couldn't wait for tomorrow she loved to paint.

" Hey we're going skating tomorrow night after painting too I guess we'll see you there," said Luke.

They finally get to 7/11 and walk in to the store and bought neon,overloaded slurpees. They all hung out and talked for an hour or so. They were all so excited about going to high school next year they talked about that quite a bit, but also about warriors, they never stopped talking about warriors. Slowly one by one people left Martha first cause she had to go the furthest, then the boys cause they were going swimming and didn't want to be late. Then at the end Auguston crew left. Auguston is the housing department Mandy, Chloe, Ashley, and Nicole live in, but to get there from 7/11 was about a fifteen minute bike ride completely uphill.

When they finally got home one by one the girls went up to their houses first Chloe then Nicole till only Ashely and Mandy were left. They rode up to Mandy's house, Ashley was sleeping over so she came home with Mandy. They dropped their bikes in the garage and ran into the house.

" Hi Mom." Mandy called. They ran round the corner to where Mandy's mom was making dinner.

" Hi ," Ashley said politely. She heard screaming upstairs, obviously heard it too cause she turned around and started to walk towards the stairs.

" Mandy can you stir the pudding, I'll be back in a minute," she said over her shoulder. Mandy stepped up and stirred it, " Brody, Skylar." Mandy's Mom called.

" Are the Twins always this noisy?" Ashley asked Mandy.

" Yeah, pretty much, it gets even noisier when Owen's around but he's at a friends.," The twins were Hannah's 8 year old siblings, Sklyar and Brody, Owen was her 11 year old brother. Just then Mandy's Mom came around and took back over making dinner.

" Hey sorry about that," she said mainly at Ashley.

" No that's fine it happens at my house all time," answered Ashley.

" Dinner's almost ready so you can just sit down and everyone will join us in a minute." said Mandy's Mom.

"Come on, it'll be fun," Mandy said with a slightly sly tone. Mandy was sitting on her pink, silk bed Ashley stretched out beside her. Ashley was staying the night over at Mandy's. "I'm not sure, we don't know anything about this game." Ashley hesitated, her large, amber brown eyes troubled. "Well, I'll show you then", Mandy answered with confidence in her voice. She slowly wandered over to her desk and sat down in front of her laptop, and started typing in "Warriors Adventure Game". Soon a colorful screen popped up with a whole lot of words on it. "See, all you have to do is create a cat, choose what it looks like, its characteristics, personality, and skills. Then you play the adventures in the back of the Omen of the Stars books, which I happen to have right here." Mandy said, quickly scanning the screen and pointing to the books on her shelf. She had all the warriors books every single one so did Martha, Ashley, and Nic. She had been collecting for about 2 years.

"Ok", said Ashley, slowly.

" I'll be a silver tabby named Crystalkit. I'm confident and tricky, a great opponent in battle. Always wanting to help my clan. My skills are Sneak, Focus, and Wrestle." She said, glancing at the screen.

"Cool", Mandy replied. "I'm a grey tabby with piercing blue eyes named Skykit. I'm confident, wise, a smart, sweet, easy going cat easily capable of becoming leader. My skills are Listen, Focus, and Ponder." Mandy answered quickly like she had been thinking about this her whole life.

"Girls, time for bed, it's almost midnight and please don't talk so loud, the twins and Owen are asleep." Mandy's mom called in.

"Sorry mom we'll go to bed right away." Mandy whisperedas she closed her laptop. Mandy and Ashley crawled into bed and shut off the light.

" So Ashley, what's with you and Andy, you two seem sort of detached." Mandy inquired.

" I guess it's just his parents getting divorced. He's kind of sad about all that." Ashley answered a little unsure. She suddenly perked up. "So what's with you and Luke everyone knows he likes you, but has he asked you out yet." she asked with a sly voice.

" No he hasn't asked me out yet. I was hoping he would do it on the last day of school. He's really nice and just like me, and think about it; we known eachother since we were, like, two and he's so kind and he loves kids and animals like me." Mandy answered sadly.

" Trust me, he has to ask you sooner or later, he really likes you, he's not going to give up that easy. Well he's nice and kind, I guess you have a good reason to like him. He's also cute." she said, putting a hand on Hannah's shoulder. Then there was a moment of silence between the two girls, but things like silence didn't bug them they were too good of friends for that.

"Can you believe Blaine asked Nicole out to a movie tonight! They are so cute together." Mandy said in a screechy, excited voice.

" I know!" Ashley answered in an equally screechy voice. "Nick should ask Martha out. They'd be so cute together."

"I know! They're both so alike, it's amazing." Mandy answered in disbelief. All was silent for a couple minute's while Hannah daydreamed of marrying Luke, and Ashley imagined making out with Andy.

" Night," Mandy said, with a happier tone in her voice. Thinking about Luke usually did that.
" Goodnight," answered Ashley as they slowly drifted off to sleep.