Prologue

Squirrelflight pranced around the lakeside as Ashfur slept. She jumped to a halt and looked around for her close friend. She saw him sleeping and she rolled her eyes.

Her eyes brightened at a thought. She quickly through herself into a pouncing position and crawled towards Ashfur. She stopped a couple mouse lengths away. She looked at him closely ad than in a sudden movement, jumped on top of the dark tabby.

"AHHH!" cried Ashfur. Squirrelflight pinned him to the ground. "Squirrelflight you great furball! Don't you know it's bad luck to wake a warrior while he's sleeping?" Squirrelflight meowed with laughter.

"It is also bad luck if you are asleep and a dog or a twoleg come and grabs you." Meowed Squirrelflight.

Ashfur stood up, stretched and yawned while Squirrelflight flicked her tail impatiently.

"Come on Ashfur," she meowed. "Firestar said we were to hunt. Not sleep." Ashfur sneered at her and than looked up at the sun.

"It's a bit after sun high so we should take back what we've caught." Said Ashfur. Squirrelflight nodded her agreement.

The two cats walked away towards camp. As they came towards the trees, an unfamiliar scent caught Squirrelflight's nose. She slowed her pace down to a stop. Brambleclaw stopped as well.

"That's not any clan smell is it?" asked Ashfur sounding puzzled. Squirrelflight shook her head. A worried thought entered her mind. The scent drifted in the Thunderclan camp's direction!

Ashfur seemed to realize this as well because they both doubled they're pace towards the camp. As they neared the entrance, a terrible screech filled the air. Squirrelflight flattened her ears at the screech. She quickly crawled forward, closer to the entrance.

She looked through the bushes and into the camp. Sandstorm was herding the kits into the nursery, the queens followed.

All the warriors were fighting strange, large cat. The cats were so huge that it took three ThunderClan warriors per enemy.

Ashfur was already helping Firestar and Brambleclaw fight. Squirrelflight went to Sandstorm who was exiting the Nursery.

"Sandstorm!" she cried over the screeching cats. "Is anyone badly hurt? Where's Leafpool?" Sandstorm growled as if to say I don't have time for this. She pulled Squirrelflight into a near by bush.

"Squirrelflight I need you to go find Leafpool," gasped Sandstorm. "She said she needed to go to WindClan. Go find her quickly!" And before Squirrelflight could say anything else she went and guarded the nursery.

Squirrelflight nodded to herself and raced towards the WindClan border. She reached the camp after about five minutes.

Squirrelflight stopped at the entrance and than raced into the camp. All the WindClan warriors stopped and looked at her. No one bothered to attack because they knew their leader Onestar would tell them to leave the ThunderClan warrior alone.

Squirrelflight looked around and spotted Leafpool speaking to Crowfeather. Squirrelflight glared at them than her eyes shot open. No! Was that a giggle? Was Leafpool giggling to Crowfeather's words? The question hit her than. Did Leafpool have feelings for that… that… Crow! Squirrelflight shook herself back to her senses.

"Leafpool!" she cried. Lots of the WindClan cats glared at her. "Leafpool! You need to come back to camp! We're being attacked!" Onestar came out of some bushes.

"Leafpool be on your way!" he ordered. "Your clan needs you." Leafpool glanced at Crowfeather. He whispered something to her. Leafpool nodded and than ran to Squirrelflight. The two cats ran back to the camp.

"Why did you have to come to WindClan." Asked Squirrelflight suspiciously.

"Ah… Just medicine cat stuff." Answered Leafpool. Squirrelflight's heart sank. Her sister was lying to her.

"I don't remember Crowfeather being a medicine cat." Meowed Squirrelflight. Leafpool rolled her eyes and raced ahead to the entrance of the camp. Squirrelflight ran after her.

"What happened?" asked Leafpool hurrying over to an injured warrior and examining the wound. Firestar limped over to her.

"We were attacked by some large cats," he answered her question. "Where were you?"

"I was in WindClan… medicine cat stuff." She mumbled. Firestar glanced at her suspiciously but walked away all the same.

Squirrelflight passed her.

"You medicine cats sure do have a lot to talk about…at least since you've become medicine cat." She said over her shoulder and walked away. Leaving Leafpool to stare at the ground.