Welcome to the sequel of Elements Together!

"StarClan! Attention StarClan!" Wavestrike yowled. The assembled cats settled into a semicircle around the large tree that held the three ancestors of the Clan below. "As you know, there is a new threat to the Clans."

A brown she-cat with green eyes stepped forwards. She easily walked along the highest branches of the tree. "We must send our new prophecy to the Clan's medicine cats!"

"What is the prophecy Forestlight?" a cat cried from the crowd.

Forestlight sighed. "Darkness rises from the light, only a stranger's help can stop this plight."

"But what does 'a stranger' mean? A cat not in the Clan?" another cat asked.

"I'm… not sure." Forestlight admitted. "The seeing pool keeps showing me a twoleg, and then a cat together. I think they are the stranger the prophecy mentioned."

"A twoleg!" The clearing broke into chaos. "Is that safe?"

"Yes, I am confident it will be perfectly safe." Forestlight said. "She is the savior of the Clan anyway."

"She is coming." A rust colored cat with white on his chest and muzzle spoke. "We should prepare."

"Yes." Agreed Wavestrike. The three cats hopped down from the tree and walked over to a small pool near the base. In the pool, there was a small image of a car driving down a road…

"Mom, when are we getting there?" I complained. We'd been riding in the car for hours!

"We'll get there when we get there! Stop complaining!" Mom snapped. She was very frustrated, both because of the heavy traffic and because of my nonstop whining. I rolled my eyes and sunk into the uncomfortable seat of the car. All of a sudden…

"Mom! Look out!" A car suddenly tore out of a U-turn and careened crazily right into the passenger side of the car, straight into me! All I could feel was horrible, crushing, tearing, screaming agony that seemed to last eons. Then it left me and I was floating in blackness.

"…seems to be waking up." The voice came from a distance and was slightly echoy, as if someone was talking from the far end of a tunnel. There was a small dot of bright light that was zooming towards me (or was I zooming towards it?) and suddenly my eyes were opening in a meadow. I blinked a few times and slowly sat up. I expected to feel sharp pains all over, but I felt fine, if a little confused.

"Hello." A voice said to me. I glanced down and my eyes widened in shock. There were three cats sitting near my legs.

"Did… you just talk?" I asked them, feeling exceedingly stupid.

"Yes, I did." The cat that spoke was a rusty red cat with white patches. I thought it was probably a male, from its voice. "This is Wavestrike and this is Forestlight," he continued, gesturing to a blue-grey cat and a brown cat in turn, "and I am Heatblaze. The place where we are is StarClan, a place for deceased warriors."

"Deceased?" I asked. "Does that mean I'm dead?"

"In a way, yes," Heatblaze said. "You died when those monsters crashed into each other. But you wouldn't go here anyway. You came here because you have a destiny in this clan. If you choose this path, you will be born into a Clan as a warrior cat. It is a difficult path, but worth the rewards."

"So I have a choice?" I asked. "Does that mean that I don't have to do this?"

"Well, no." Heatblaze admitted. "But if you do not want this fate and decide against it, you will go wherever it is twolegs go when they die."

I considered both of the options. On one hand, if I selected being reborn, I would have to live out my life as a furry four legged animal. On the other hand, if I didn't select being reborn I would just die. I bit my lip. I didn't want to die!

"Okay," I agreed. "I'll be reborn."

"Very good," Heatblaze agreed. "We shall see each other again. Goodbye." The scene turned fuzzy, whited out and then I was falling backwards down, down, down.

I opened my eyes slowly, blinking in the bright light. I could see a few other kits and a mound of white and orange fur that smelled of milk. I guessed that that was probably our mother.

"You opened you eyes!" someone squealed. I almost fell over from shock as a large (well, larger) kit bounded over and stood next to me. I thought that she was a female because of her voice. She had silvery grey fur with darker tabby stripes and bright golden eyes. "Hey, Sandkit, Crowkit, she opened her eyes!"

Two kits about the same size walked over. They looked like toms to me, so they were probably her brothers. One was pitch black and his eyes were emerald green. The other tom was sand colored and had one white paw, his front right. His eyes were bright blue and he had a sleepy look about him, like his sister had just woken him up. It was easy to tell which kit was which.

"Hey, sis, next time, try to tell us without waking up the entire nursery next time. There are other ways to talk besides shrieking and screaming you know." Sandkit said. "So you're Lilykit." He continued, turning his head towards me. "You're small." He finally said.

My mouth dropped open in shock. "Of course I'm small!" I mewed. "I'm not as old as you are!"

"What's going on?" A sleepy voice interrupted. I turned around to see the orange and white cat (my new mom) staring at us. "Are you teasing Lilykit?" She asked.

"No Dewdrop." All three kits mumbled.

"Well, why don't you go outside?" Dewdrop suggested. "Take Snowkit with you and show them the camp."

All three of the kits nodded with excitement and rushed out of the den. I turned and saw Dewdrop nosing a tiny white ball of fluff to its feet. Snowkit blinked her eyes open and stumbled for a few seconds before getting her footing and racing towards me. She was white with silver markings on her tail and her ears and green eyes.

"Let's go!" she squeaked and raced outside with me. We met up with the other three outside of a den with a russet red she-cat.

"You almost got it Greykit, just keep your tail down!" the russet she-cat said. Greykit was practicing a move that looked like a hunting move while Sandkit and Crowkit stood nearby. "Hey, new kits!" the she-cat said, trotting over to us.

"Those are Lilykit and Snowkit." Greykit said. "Snowkit, Lilykit, this is Pinepaw. She's almost a warrior!"

"If I pass my assessment, I'll be a warrior before sunset!" Pinepaw said proudly. "Hmmm, I don't like the look of that," she added, looking towards a large tree in the center of the camp. Five cats were standing around the base of it and all of the cats looked worried.

"Who are those cats?" I asked.

"Those are Blazestar, Fernstar, Pebblestar, Aquashimmer and Ebonysong. The first three are our leaders and the last two are two of our medicine cats. Morningspirit is treating a cat with Greencough I think." Pinepaw replied.

"How come you have three leaders?" Snowkit asked.

"It's a long story." Pinepaw said. "You should go to the elders if you want the whole thing."

"I'm up for a story." Said Sandkit. Greykit and I both nodded. "Okay then, let's go!"

We all charged off towards the Elder's den, led by Greykit and Sandkit, except for Crowkit, who ran off after the black cat who was leaving the group of leaders.

"Where's Crowkit going?" I asked Greykit.

"Oh, he's just going to see Ebonysong. Either he's going to be a medicine cat or he's got a crush on her!" Greykit laughed.

We slipped into the Elder's den and saw two cats lying down in there. Ne was sleeping, but the other was wide awake.

"Hey Tigerfang!" Greykit whispered. "We were hoping you could tell these two new kits a little about ElementsClan!"

"New kits… that'd be Lilykit and Snowkit, right?" Tigerfang said. "Of course I'll tell the story. Now, let me see. Should I start from the very beginning, all the way back?" He asked. When the older kits nodded, he began. "Well a many, many, many, seasons ago, there were four brave cats…"

And that is the end of Chapter One of A Saving Lily!