Prologue

Darkfall opened his eyes into a star-lit clearing. He saw a light grey pelted she-cat sitting in the middle of it, watching him. Darkfall leaped to his paws, suddenly alert.

"Who are you?" he demanded. "Where have you taken me?"

She looked back at him calmly, and replied, "I knew you once, long ago."

Darkfall suddenly stiffened. He recognized the flowing grey fur, the white markings on her face and chest, and her sorrowful yellow eyes. "Paleface?" he asked meekly.

The she-cat looked at him lovingly, and he stumbled forwards, collapsing near the she-cats paws. "I've missed you so much, mother," he cried. She licked his ear soothingly. "Oh darling. I wish I could have stayed longer with you and cared for you. But that was not my fate."

Darkfall sat up, remembering the terrible day when he found out his mother had died in a battle with ShadowClan when he was still an apprentice. He shook the memories away and looked at her expectantly instead. "Why am I here? Paleface… I'm not dead am I?" he asked fearfully.

Paleface shook her head. "No, Darkfall. You are still in your nest in ThunderClan. But I have a message for you," she replied. Darkfall's eyes widened in disbelief. "A message from StarClan? For me? But why?"

Paleface just shook her head again and said, "You are to go to the Moonpool two nights from now, when the moon is no more than a claw-scratch in the sky."

Darkfall blinked in confusion. "But why? Paleface, I don't understand! You must tell me more," he said.

But the long-furred she-cat was already beginning to fade. She looked at him sadly as her fur was paling further. "You must go, my son. May StarClan light your path,"

"No!" he yowled, trying to spring at her and hold her down so that she would tell him more. But he instead jolted awake in his nest in the warrior's den.

First A/N of the book! Yaayyy! Sorry the Prologue was very short, but this beginning needed to be somewhat vague-ish... Anyways, I will try to get more in very soon, maybe today or tomorrow, so we'll see. Read on spectacular BookWormies!

~Creek