Hello everyone! This is my second story for Warriors XD. I know it is probably similar to some other body-switch stories I have read, but I was really inspired by the idea so I decided to make my own. So please read on and enjoy the story! x

Disclaimer: All characters in this story belong to Erin Hunter - I am merely experimenting with them XD.

Three Moons As You

Chapter One ~ The Prophecy

Angry voices could be heard in the clearing outside the medicine cats' den as Jaypaw sorted herbs for his mentor, Leafpool, and he instantly recognised who they belonged to.

"I'm not doing anything wrong! Why can't you just leave me alone?"

"Because I know what you're up to and if you don't stop I'm going to tell Firestar!"

"Is that a threat?"

It was Lionpaw and Hollypaw. Jaypaw sighed. His brother and sister were constantly at each others' throats these days, and it seemed like he was the only one who didn't understand why. Neither of them would talk to him much, and whenever he asked what the problem was they would become mysteriously deaf until the subject was changed, or make up ridiculous excuses to get away. Jaypaw was sick and tired of it.

"Yes, it is," warned Hollypaw's voice.

"Fine then! Go and run to Firestar, if that's what you really want!"

Jaypaw looked up at the entrance to the den just in time to see Lionpaw stalk past, his amber eyes blazing with anger. Abandoning his herbs, Jaypaw stuck his head out of the entrance and spotted Hollypaw, glaring after Lionpaw with her black pelt bristling.

Deciding it would be unwise to question his sister while she was in this mood, the grey tabby apprentice returned to his pile of herbs, a sinking feeling in his stomach. Would Lionpaw and Hollypaw ever make up?

*

Some time later, Leafpool trotted into the medicine den, a bundle of leaves in her mouth. She deposited them beside the herbs Jaypaw had been carefully sorting and purred.

"Good job, Jaypaw," she praised her apprentice, sniffing the pile to check that all the herbs were there. When she was satisfied, she straightened up and looked down at Jaypaw, who had been feeling miserable ever since Lionpaw's and Hollypaw's row earlier that day. Leafpool seemed to realise this, for she asked with concern, "What's the matter?"

Jaypaw didn't feel like answering. He turned his back on the medicine cat and started placing the herbs in their right order against the back wall of the den. As he worked, he could feel Leafpool's gaze boring into him. Eventually, the she-cat broke the silence that had fallen between them.

"Jaypaw, you don't have to keep everything bottled up, you know."

The apprentice spun round, anger making his fur start to bristle. "I'll do what I like, thank you," he growled coldly.

Leafpool sighed. "Well, you know where I am – just in case." With that, she turned around and made her way out of the den, leaving Jaypaw alone with his thoughts.

*

That night, Jaypaw had a very strange dream. He had fallen asleep thinking about his littermates' fury towards one another, and the way they seemed to be excluding Jaypaw from whatever was happening. Now the apprentice was in a deep slumber, twitching every now and then as he dreamed.

He was standing in a lush, sunlit forest; one he knew very well. The scents and sounds of prey reached him through the warm air, but then, suddenly, he caught a new smell. Jaypaw whirled around and came face to face with a familiar tortoiseshell she-cat. Her tail was wrapped neatly around her small white paws, and her amber eyes were glowing with amusement. Confused, Jaypaw took a step towards the other cat, expecting her to explain why she had brought him here.

But instead she meowed, in a mysterious, melancholy voice, "When light and dark clash, they see only despair and betrayal. For three moons both will know what it is to be the other, for balance can be restored only when each sees the truth."

Was that... a prophecy? Jaypaw stared at the she-cat incredulously, unable to make heads or tails of it. Why had she shared this with him?

"I don't understand what you mean, Spottedleaf," he mewed uncertainly.

Spottedleaf blinked down at him. Then she said softly, "It may not be obvious to you – but it will be clear to others."

Jaypaw was even more bewildered by that. What 'others' was Spottedleaf talking about? However, before he could say anymore, the she-cat was walking away from him.

"Hey!" he called out impatiently. "Tell me what you mean!"

But Spottedleaf did not answer. Soon, the tip of her dappled tail had been swallowed by the undergrowth.

*

Meanwhile, across the camp from where Jaypaw was struggling to wake, a shudder ran through Hollypaw's body as she rested in the apprentices' den. She clenched her teeth and struggled for a moment without waking, while on the opposite side of the den, Lionpaw trembled in his sleep.

Outside in the clearing, unnoticed by the slumbering cats, a shooting star blazed over ThunderClan.