Chapter 1

Snickers was padding through a silver moonlit meadow. A blue-gray cat whose pelt almost blended in with the grass of the meadow approached her. "A great future is in store for you Sagekit."

Sagekit? Was that her name? Well it was better than the name her twolegs named her. 'Snickers' was so blech. The blue cat began to fade. "Wait! Who are you!? What do you mean?" Snickers called. There was a loud rattle. Snickers blinked. When she opened her eyes, she glanced around. No meadow. She just saw a familiar twoleg pouring familiar bland food into a bowl surrounded by two familiar cats.

Snickers thought back to her dream. Who had the blue cat been? She had come in other dreams like this one, but Snickers had never seen her in waking hours. Snickers trotted to the bowl and waited as the bigger of the two large cats lumbered away to a flap in a door to the outside. Snickers reached into the bowl to find that what was left was rapidly being devoured by the second of the two cats.

When the cat finished, he smirked and meowed, "You had better go faster than that if you want to eat slow poke!" "Shut up Dusty!" Snickers retorted. "You're the one getting fat and slow from all that food!" She hated this! Dusty and Boots thought that they could push her around just because they were bigger, well a lot bigger, than her, and she was a kitten. Anyway, what Dusty said wasn't true. Snickers was actually unusually fast for her size (which was very small).

She ate the remains of breakfast and lapped up some water before trotting outside. The yard was fairly large, but it was nothing compared to the forest around. Snickers desperately wished she could go beyond the fence. Unfortunately that chain-link fence was too high to climb or jump over; she had seen Boots try and fail to perch on the fence many times.

Snickers wandered over to the fence that she usually sat by to avoid Dusty and Boots. In the corner of her eye, Snickers saw a flash of green, which was usual in cold weather like this. A few mouse lengths under the bush there was an herb of some sort. The smell of it made her kind of dizzy. Snickers's mind wasn't on the herb anymore though. She had just heard a rustle on the other side of the fence. She could smell a cat, possibly more than one, crouched on the other side. As Snickers examined further, a pair of bright green eyes stared back. Shocked, Snickers jumped and faced the other way to watch Dusty chase a butterfly. Snickers could still hear murmuring from the bushes. After she strained her ears, she could understand what they were saying.

"Littlecloud," a voice mewed, "it's no use unless we plan on fighting. There are cats in that yard."

"You mean the kit?" a second voice replied. "That kit's the smallest I've ever seen!" The first cat growled, "It's not the kit I'm worried about, it's the kittypets. I've fought them before, believe me, they're more vicious than they look."

There was a pause, then 'Littlecloud' spoke. "Tawnypelt, cats are going to die if we don't get some catnip. I'd rather claw a couple of kittypets than watch my clan die from a sickness that I didn't have the herbs to cure."

Clan? Snickers thought. Those must be forest cats! A that moment two lithe figures leapt down from the fence. Dusty and Boots were too bust attempting to catch fish from the garden pond to notice the intruders. Snickers stared in horror. These cats may not have been bigger than Dusty or Boots, but they were muscular and skilled. The only thing that Snickers could think of to say was "Please do not hurt me!"

"That depends on how much you are willing to tell us." The tawny colored cat spoke. "Tawny pelt! She's just a kit!" The second, smaller cat meowed, Though there was laughter in both their eyes.

The second cat (Littlecloud obviously) suddenly became very serious. "Tell us," He began, "do you have any catnip?" He sounded urgent. "Catnip..?" Snickers asked. Littlecloud thought. "It has a smell that might make you dizzy…" "Oh yes!" Snickers replied. "I saw some earlier." "Oh thank Starclan." Tawnypelt breathed. "Show us please." Snickers crawled under the bush that she had seen the green plant under. When she found the catnip, she bit off as much as she could. She spit the herbs out in front of Littlecloud and asked if she brought out enough. Littlecloud nodded and dipped his head to pick up the herbs. "All of Shadowclan thanks you." Tawnypelt acknowledged. "We must go now."

"No, wait!" Snickers called as the two cats got ready to jump over the fence. They looked at her expectantly. Snickers took a deep breath and squeaked, "I want to join your clan."

A/N ooh.. cliffy. Well I tried. spill it all in the reviews! If you read this chapter please review it!