The sounds of battling cats filled the ears of a yellow tabby cat, he widen his eyes in shock and awe as he saw faceless cats defeat a torrent of rogues. He knew it was just a dream, but it felt so real as if he was really there.
''Help us!'' He thought he heard someone cry, the cry came from behind him and there was a kit with pleading eyes.
"Please help us!" The kit cried and when the yellow tabby followed her, she and the battling cats disappeared into smoke.
He swung his head around and found himself in a dim void, there was a presence and he whirled around. In front of him was a ginger tomcat, his flame-colored pelt speckled with stars that were dimming and his body transparent. Only his green eyes were bright and lively.
"Hiro, my kin, help us. We are fading as the memories of us fade." The ginger tomcat said and one by one cats appeared with the same results. Star-speckled and transparent, with only their eyes unaffected, still burning brightly.
"Who are you?" Hiro asked as he stepped toward the assembled cats before him. He felt that he recognized them, but barely. "How can I help you?"
The pale, small she-cat step forward and spoke, "We are former warriors of the four clans, ThunderClan, ShadowClan, RiverClan, and WindClan, now we are StarClan warriors. The clans were driven out by twolegs from our home, the Lake territories, long ago and they all separated, hopeless and faithless of StarClan. Most of them turned to be kittypets but the ones who wanted to reestablish the clans failed." She shook her head sadly and suddenly stopped talking.
"The warriors who became kittypets passed on their stories and beliefs of the clans, trying to keep it alive but that too came to an end after a very long time. They could not keep it up for some were doubting with no proof of our existence but the words of their elders." A silver tabby finished.
The StarClan warriors looked pleadingly at Hiro, their eyes full of hope and faith that most of their fellow warriors did not have during that time when all was lost. Hiro felt sorry for them and wanted to help, but how? He was merely a kittypet who had a love and yearning for the wild and hunting. He could not help them at all.
"Hiro, you can help us by finding the other three cats and the four of you shall rebuild the clans when others could not when the twolegs drove them out." The dark brown tomcat stared him down with amber eyes, as if reading his mind. "You can and you must, StarClan counts on you and the others to restore what was lost to us and the faith that kept us and the Clan alive."
The flame-colored cat looked at Hiro and held his gaze, green against green, "You and the other three must rise the fallen clans or all is lost."
Hiro woke up with a start, the dream had ended when all the StarClan warriors echoed what the ginger tomcat had said. "You and the others must rise the fallen clans or all is lost..." Endless chants of it that might have driven Hiro to madness if he hadn't woken up.
He remembered every detail of the dream but he didn't know what to do next. How was he suppose to find the other three? And then recreate the four clans? It seemed impossible to the kittypet.
"Follow the stars..." A voice whispered. Hiro looked around him wildly but no one was there to have said those words. "Follow the stars and you shall find them and they shall find you."
"The four of you shall restore what was lost and rise what has fallen," The same voice whispered again, slightly ruffling Hiro's standing fur.
The yellow tomcat looked around his home, memorizing every detail, every scent, and every memory he had in there. He went to all the rooms of the twoleg nest to see the memories he created there and rubbed his body on the sleeping face of his twoleg kit. He purred as his twoleg kit petted his fur lazily, he would miss his owner dearly for he had taken and loved Hiro since he was a kit.
"Good-bye, I will miss you and cherish you forever," Hiro mewed softly as he nuzzled his owner and purred loudly for the last time.
He waited for his owner to open his eyes and get a good look at Hiro and when he did, Hiro meowed one last time and ran out of the room and bolted out of the cat door. Hiro was going to rise the fallen clans. And nothing would stop him.