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Allegiances

THUNDERCLAN

LEADER-

Firestar- ginger tom with a flame coloured pelt and green eyes

DEPUTY-

Blackstripe- tall gray tom with a black stripe down his back and amber eyes

MEDICINE CAT-

Dewbreeze- tortoiseshell and white she-cat

WARRIORS-

Lionfang- huge golden tom

Adderheart- gray tabby tom with white tail tip

APPRENTICE- Mousepaw

Whitefern- white she cat with gray paws

Stormclaw- brown tabby tom with darker ears.

APPRENTICE- Grasspaw

Flamepelt- dark ginger tabby tom

Larkshine- light brown tabby she-cat with a white underbelly and chest

APPRENTICE- Stonepaw

Birdwing- Pale brown tabby she-cat with green eyes

Oakclaw- dark brown tabby with white paws and green eyes

Darkfire- Dark gray tabby tom

Rainclaw- gray and white tabby tom

Mistfall- black and white she-cat with green eyes

Bramblefoot- golden brown tom with brown stripes and tail tip and blue-gray eyes

APPRENTICE- Shrewpaw

Thrushtail- Gray tom with ginger patches

Iceclaw- white tom with blue eyes

Drizzlefur- Black she-cat with pale brown chest and underbelly

Pebblepelt- pale yellow tabby tom

APPRENTICES

Shrewpaw- Brown tabby tom

Stonepaw- Dark gray tom

Grasspaw- Gray tabby she-cat with green eyes

Mousepaw- Black tom with white patches

QUEENS

Sunfur- ginger and white she-cat with green eyes (mother to Firestar's kit, Pinekit- a ginger tabby tom)

Dawncloud- silver and white tabby with amber eyes (mother to Oakclaw's kits, Sparrowkit- dark brown tabby tom with white chest and paws and green eyes, Snowkit- white she-kit with dark gray paws and tail and amber eyes, Squirrelkit- dark brown tabby she-kit with green eyes, Silverkit- silver and white she-kit with green eyes.)

Brightsong- tortoiseshell and white she-cat (mother to Adderheart's kits, Cherrykit- tortoiseshell and white she-kit, Petalkit- gray tabby she-kit with a white patch on her nose)

ELDERS

Poppyshine- brown she-cat with white patches

Redpelt- Reddish-brown tom with a long tail

Tallnight- Tall black tom

SHADOWCLAN

LEADER

Owlstar- Huge brown tom with red eyes

DEPUTY

Nightshadow- Lithe black she-cat with yellow eyes

MEDICINE CAT

Smokefrost- Small smoky gray tom

RIVERCLAN

LEADER

Pikestar- Blue-gray tom with a long tail

DEPUTY

Grayclaw- Light gray tabby tom with very long claws

MEDICINE CAT

Ashfern- White she-cat with one gray paw

WINDCLAN

LEADER

Cinderstar- Silvery gray she-cat

DEPUTY

Mudear- wiry light tabby tom with a darker brown ear

MEDICINE CAT

Hawkstream- brown tabby tom

Prologue

"Spottedtail!"

"Greetings, Firestar."

The ThunderClan leader's eyes was filled with joy when he saw his former mentor, now with StarClan.

"I have an important message for you," Spottedtail announced.

"What is it?" Firestar felt a cold dread in his belly when he looked at his former mentor's dark eyes.

"When the sky grows dark, and stars fall, three will rise to save the Clans. They will be the reason for the destruction as well as the survival of all the Clans. Place your paws wisely."

Firestar's eyes grew wide when he heard this prophecy. It was echoed by the other StarClan cats, sitting in rows for as far as he could see.

"Three will rise to save the Clans"

"Place your paws wisely"

"They will destroy and save the Clans"

Chapter 1

Squirrelkit ran out of the nursery, her denmates on her tail.

"Can't catch me!" she taunted, speeding up, out of reach.

"That's not fair!" Her brother, Sparrowkit, pouted. "Not everyone has long legs like you!"

"Yeah, but some do," Petalkit, their older denmate, said, chasing after Squirrelkit. The older kit caught up to the feisty little she-cat, and threw her to the ground. Squirrelkit pushed her attacker off and dashed away, only to dash into her father, Oakclaw.

"Oops! Sorry, Oakclaw!" Squirrelkit squeaked.

"Go back to the nursery, little one. I'll play with you at sunhigh," her father promised. Squirrelkit glanced up at the sky. It was still barely after sunrise.

"Okay!" Squirrelkit gave an excited little bounce and rushed back to the nursery on long legs. She and her littermates Snowkit, Silverkit and Sparrowkit were a little over two moons old. Squirrelkit couldn't wait to be an apprentice! She knew that she would be the best one ThunderClan had ever seen!

As she was thinking of being an apprentice, she didn't see her sister Silverkit coming out of the nursery. She tripped right over her smaller littermate and ended up in a tangle of legs and tail. A mrrow of amusement caused her to glare upwards, which turned to horror and embarrassment when she realized that it was Firestar laughing at her. The leader had just seen how clumsy she was!

Flattening her ears in shame, she quickly untangled herself and helped her sister up. A flash of gray warned her to move aside, just in time to miss another attack from Petalkit.

"Come on, let's beat her together," A voice whispered in her ear. Turning around, she saw Pinekit, son of Firestar, behind her. Nodding excitedly, the two circled around Petalkit. As soon as Squirrelkit gave the signal, they both jumped on the startled gray kit, who gave up almost immediately. Both the attackers lifted their head in triumph.

"We win!"

"Petalkit, you could try to be better than that! We're going to be apprentices in another moon," Cherrykit, Petalkit's sister, said smugly. The gray kit shot her sister a glare, but the tortoiseshell-and white kit took no notice. Instead, Cherrykit bounded over to Squirrelkit.

"Let's go to the fresh-kill pile and see what's there," she suggested. Squirrelkit nodded and hared away, Cherrykit running after her.

"There's a mouse here. Do you want it?" Squirrelkit asked her best friend.

"No, I want a shrew. Are there any?"

"Yes. Here you go." Squirrelkit flung a shrew from the top of the pile, but the weight of the shrew unbalanced her, and she just managed to recover. She grabbed a squirrel for herself, and jumped down.

"Why don't you two take some fresh-kill for the queens? They must be hungry," Whitefern, a white warrior, suggested.

"Sure," Squirrelkit said, grabbing a blackbird in her jaws. Struggling to hold the two pieces of prey in her mouth, she followed Cherrykit, who had taken a mouse as well as a vole with her shrew, and seemed to not be struggling at all.

"Here!" Squirrelkit proudly deposited the blackbird at her mother's paws. Dawncloud blinked warmly at her kit.

"Thank you, little one. Do you want to share?" Her mother asked her.

"No, I've got my own prey!" she showed her squirrel. Whiskers twitching, Birdsong asked, "Did you catch that on your own now?"

Before Squirrelkit could reply, Cherrykit cut in. "Yeah, she caught it on the fresh-kill pile. With a mighty leap, she landed on the squirrel and fell of the fresh-kill pile!"

Squirrelkit bristled, but she wasn't actually annoyed. She sprang at her denmate, only to be pushed off by Dawncloud.

"Eat your squirrel first, Squirrelkit. StarClan doesn't give you prey to waste." Dawncloud chided. Squirrelkit obediently sat down to gulp down her food. She sat up to clean her whiskers, only to be bowled over by a white kit.

"Snowkit!" Squirrelkit hissed, rolling over to throw Snowkit off. Her sister jumped out of the way, and sprang again, but Squirrelkit was quicker. She jumped out of the way, and shoved Snowkit into Pinekit's face, who was just entering. The ginger kit, taken by surprise, let himself be carried of his paws, but recovered quickly.

Snarling, he leaped at Squirrelkit, but was knocked aside by Sparrowkit. By now all the kits had joined the fight. Shoving each other, half the kits fell on Sunfur. Hissing with impatience, the ginger and white she-cat left the nursery, tail-tip twitching.

Suddenly, a cat shrieked.

"Invaders! ShadowClan is attacking!" Squirrelkit heard Blackstripe's yowl.

"Get behind me," Dawncloud hissed, pushing all the kits behind her. Brightsong jumped up and stood beside the silver queen.

A mottled brown head poked into the nursery, snarling.

"Get out of here!" Birdsong hissed, delivering a flurry of blows to the tom's face. He pulled back and disappeared.

"What's happening?" Silverkit whimpered.

"It's okay," Squirrelkit tried to comfort her sister. Inside, Squirrelkit could feel the blood pounding. How she wished she could be an apprentice! She would tear those fleapelts' fur off, claw their ears, and leave them begging for her mercy!

"Let us fight! We'll teach them a lesson they'll never forget," Sparrowkit growled.

"What? No! You're not even six moons yet," Dawncloud mewed.

Before she could say anything else, another head poked in through the nursery entrance. It was a huge black and white tom. He thrust his shoulders into the nursery, glaring at the two spitting queens. Dawncloud lunged forward, but the tom merely swiped her away with one paw which sent her flying across the nursery. She fell limp, her head bleeding.

The tom entered the nursery completely. Birdsong still stood defiantly in front of the kits, but Squirrelkit could see that the tortoiseshell queen was trembling slightly. Squirrelkit looked around. Snowkit was sniffing tentatively at their mother.

"Dawncloud?" Squirrelkit whispered, edging closer to her mother. Sparrowkit was right behind her.

Behind them, Birdsong shrieked. "Help me!" she cried. Squirrelkit turned around to see the black and white tom fastening his teeth around Birdsong's throat. The ShadowClan tom fixed his gaze on Squirrelkit and Sparrowkit, who were creeping up on the tom. Bending down, he grasped Sparrowkit's scruff and tried to leave.

"Leave my brother alone!" Squirrelkit screeched, biting down on the tom's back paw. Caught by surprise, he dropped the dark tabby kit, and whirled around to face the little kit.

"You think you can beat me?" he growled. But it turned to a screech as Adderheart bit down hard on the tom's tail.

"Get out of the nursery," Adderheart growled. Adderheart was bigger than the black and white tom, and fluffing out his fur, the gray ThunderClan warrior looked twice as big as the ShadowClan warrior. The black and white tom's gaze seemed to have a flicker of fear in them, and he shot out of the nursery, Adderheart on his tail.

Squirrelkit peeped out. Everywhere, ThunderClan warriors were chasing the intruders out of the camp.

"You'll pay for this Owlstar! This fight was unprovoked and cost many innocent lives." Firestar yowled, anger and sorrow for his dead Clanmates sharp in his gaze.

As the last of the invaders ran out, Blackstripe and Firestar checked the wounded. Oakclaw ran into the nursery, fear in his wide eyes. He pushed inside the nursery, looking around. He trembled when he saw his mate's dead body.

"No," he whispered, collapsing next to his mate. "Why did you do this, StarClan?" he wailed. He touched her head with a paw. When he withdrew it, his paw was soaked in blood.

Birdsong stood up shakily, her eyes glazed with sadness though her neck was oozing blood. Sunfur entered the nursery, covered in scratches.

"You had better see Dewbreeze." She suggested softly to Birdsong. Dipping her head, Birdsong padded out, her tail drooping.

Squirrelkit pressed against her father, her littermates doing the same. Oakclaw swept his tail around his kits. He pressed his muzzle into his mate's fur, murmuring softly. Squirrelkit and her littermates copied him.

"Who will take care of us now?" Snowkit whispered softly.

"Will we have to leave the Clan?" Sparrowkit asked, fluffing out his dark fur.

His words seemed to have jolted Oakclaw awake. "Never!" he hissed, springing up. "No cat will ever lay a whisker on my kits, or they will have to face me." He swept his tail around his kits.

"I will take care of you. I am still your father. Nothing can ever change that."